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Most likely, tomatoes will fly in my face for this opinion, but I will still speak out.It will be about Tate, or rather about his obsessive nature towards the main character and how much he himself is an asshole.

The main character, in order to help Tate, even takes a desperate step by giving a stranger a blowjob, and argues with the director of the academy, taking on the risks of being kicked out of school, and how does Tate thank him for this!? – He constantly whines and insults the snow leopard if he does not spend time with him. And so it will be the whole route, he will scold MC for deciding to spend time with others (for example, with Merina and Oliver), and not with him, he will constantly impose his thoughts on him and criticize him for walking with a mouse and a fox, and not with him. The MC has known him for only 1-2 days and is not obliged to give all his time only to him. There is no such obsession in the route of Dallan or Aiden, they do not treat the protagonist in such a way as if he owes them something.

While I was reading, I just want to tell Tate:
- You and I have known each other for three days, what kind of friends are we?! I don't have to give all my time just to you, fuck off from me and let me spend time with whoever I want!

However, this is a matter of taste, this can actually be forgiven by making a reference to a neutral route.

But Tate's most despicable act at the end of the update infuriated me even more.
This cat deliberately throws the MC to death, and he did not even try to do something to save him, at least to call for help after teleportation, for example. Even if Tate had lost almost all of his mana, he could have called for help by teleporting to the academy, or at least to the nearest payphone to call the academy. However, he did not do this and left the MC to certain death, because he was offended, like a small child who was not given enough attention. And how convenient that after that the protagonist forgets all the events and does not blame Tate for what he did.

I would also like to say about the demon, which was completely forgotten in this update. He spent an unknown amount of time in prison, but all he does is watch Netflix in the head of the MC - seriously!? At the end of the game, if you follow Tate, in order to save the MC from death, the demon teleports his clothes with an amulet, BUT previously he could not do this for some reason, - why?

I hope the author will not delete my comment. I don't think Tate is a bad and terrible character, I just expressed aspects I didn't like about him.

MindOfFur1 year ago(+11)(-1)

I respect your opinion BUT:

Counter arguments!

-In Dallan's and Aiden's routes, when choosing to go with the side routes, it does not affect the boys in the least, since with Haima, Aiden is the one that ditches you, and with Dallan it's kind of similar plus it's his best friend so yeah, he doesn't mind. With Tate you constantly tell him "Sorry, I wanna hang out with these guys instead, bye, you do you." In his own words from the bad route: "Why do you build me up just to break me down again?"
- If Tate saves you at the end, he's warned that he will die, which he does, technically, both in the good and neutral ending, but he's 'revived', meaning he cares enough for Cody to sacrifice himself. When he leaves him, he has just enough magic to collapse but not die. By the time he can reach help it's too late.
-As for Scribbles, he said he's just not too interested in the Wild Furs and would rather watch movies, if that's not good enough of a reason for someone that's okay, I get it. I will say that one of the reason I decided to push his comments back a little was to just...not ruin the moments, since most of the 3rd day is a bit more serious/emotional but still sexually charged enough for him to come out from time to time.
I definitely don't think Tate or Cody or Aiden or even Dallan are perfect characters morally, but I do want to defend my little traumatized cat boy.

Oh, as for the amulet, I don't remember every detail or plot point in the game, but remember that Scribbles can only cast spells if Cody allows him to, so since Cody never told him to save him or do anything like that, he couldn't, same with the pants and amulet, but maybe I'm missing something here idk :v

WrongKey1 year ago(+1)

I agree with you in many ways. Tate doesn't know how to behave with people, but it's not his fault. I think the bigger problem is the one-sidedness of the plot. What I mean is: you are literally told almost at the very beginning of your journey to choose the path of the character. And that's it, you chose it and you no longer have the opportunity to go to another route, only to a bad/ neutral / good ending, no more. I hope that there will be more choices in chapter 2.

furrynerd1 year ago

That's why the Ollie Route is best route. the fact that he can turn you down? and Tate asks you to turn him down?! amazing. 12/10

Whurlak1 year ago (2 edits) (+2)(-3)

Well I agree with the comment above. Tate surprised me. I've been waiting for him for so long, and he turned out to be a candy with a bitter filling.

He literally left Cody to die. The very act of not trying to do anything at all already says a lot about him.

At least he could have told someone about what happened after the incident, but he just decided to keep quiet. - Well, someone died, so what, little things, right? Or almost died.

Besides, he could teleport to the academy, even if he could not speak, but simply fell unconscious, this would already serve as a signal to others that something bad had happened.

Tate's route, trying to bring us closer to him, but I, on the contrary, felt myself moving further away from him. Eventually, I found solace in route with Oliver and cute lynx from the village, it's a shame that there will be no continuation of it.

Of course, respect from me to the author, for such a great big update with many arts.

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