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Hello, everyone. I won't make this into a response to one person in particular, please consider this a general one for the discussion around Asterion being a bottom/submissive.

Truth is, whenever I answer to people in the forum and Q&As I always have to balance sharing information to clarify/answer things with not saying so much that it goes into spoiler territory. I like to think that we get the right balance more often than not. This means, however, that I almost never put all the cards on the table, and when someone is coming from outside it's possible to indicate things and raise points and inconsistencies in what I said when, again, I'm not saying everything because that would just spoil the story. As long as I'm in this position I don't think I can give the full explanation people might want.

Another way to put this is that when I say "Asterion is a bottom" I'm summarizing to you the result of, let's say, a character arc. We have a story in mind already, we know where we are going, and the fact that we don't explain every plot beat in advance doesn't mean we haven't thought things through.

We have crafted the whole story so far with a lot of love and attention to detail. We get a lot of people saying they trust us to do what's best for the story, and I'm really thankful for that. I know this may not feel satisfactory but the best thing I can say right now is: trust us. Asterion's sexuality will receive just as much attention to detail (if not more) as the rest of his story.

In the whole development of the game we have rarely compromised on our creative vision, and so far we've only been told that this approach has been successful. We think our original plan is the right way to go. In the end all I can ask is that you have faith on our writing, in our plan and in our vision.

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If i may, i'm afraid this issue is outside of the narrative. There are a lot of self insert MCs in this medium, and pickier readers may expect to have their preferences represented. I find this saturation has become detrimental, since most protagonists end up having a mute personality, and there's a lack of incentive for people to experience stories from "not their own perspective". 

On the matter of Asterion's preferences, i fully support wathever you decide to do with it, and would ask that readers respect his sexuality much like they would a real person. Because, i believe, your story is bringing actual characters to life, as opposed to some form of virtual-adult-toy.

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I think this was more than a satisfying response, actually. I think the problem might have been oversharing, sometimes the less shared the better. This time, it lead to speculation, and worries because we tend to imagine the "worst". But in the end I never put into doubt that you take great care into writing this story, nor did I doubt the attention to detail that's already the standard of the story so far would continue as it is. Keep up the amazing job! 

We're about 600,000 words in if the pre-release update is to be believed and we've only just had our first kiss in Chapter 18 right at the end. I get worrying over something you like, but if anyone should get the benefit of the doubt it's this team. Like this thread only exists because the amount of work and attention to detail being put into this has come at the expense of whatever shorthand you'd usually use to get to the sex. I watched someone stream the game thinking the armband and consequence of breaking that promise was going to be sex lmao. It's just not that type of story. 

(Holding my tongue a bit about a story that definitely set up those expectations because it does work for that story but it was also undeniably a quick way to escalate things.)