Hello, sorry for commenting so much but I've got a question that's been bugging me for a while
Has Theodore ever prayed to Acoite? Within the 10.5 months Acoite was there
I've only gotten 3 endings (including the true ending! It was super cute!!) so I'm not sure if it was explicitly said in one of the routes
Thank you again! ^-^
hey! well, that's massive spoilers (also, death of the author applies if anyone wishes to interpret it differently) but what our writer meant by this is:
spoilers below
Yes, Theo never explicitly prayed to Acoite. The reason Theo summoned Acoite in the first place was his own trial by the Divine Order: as a candidate for the god of clarity, he needed to prove that he's not... influenced by cognitive biases. So, he never acts on the desire of keeping desiring and on the yearning for something that was never real in the first place; that's why the player can fail his ascension requirements by explicitly using Acoite's powers on his mind and mess up with his mind and perception.
A small detail but you can notice Theo's not influenced by nostalgia when Acoite asks him what he'd like to do or what are his favorite places - even though he loves France, his home country, and old videogames, he wants to travel to East Asia and he quickly finds new favorite places across town, too.
That's why the True End is this: their relationship properly works if they like each other as individuals, and can't influence each other using divine powers (because otherwise..... there's some unspoken power imbalance, y'know!).
(fun fact, it's never said in-text but I thought the events of the game happen... in some fictional version of Seattle).
hope that satisfies your curiousity!
OMG THANK U SO MUCH FOR THIS !!!
(i never knew theo was aware that he was a god candidate...that raises so many questions in my head but I gotta keep playing if I want answers....)
Also,another question, are u guys planning to do a certain qna typa stuff about the game? or set up a discord one day (u don't have to answer, my curiosity is getting ahead of me)
As always, thank you for your hard work!!!! i am enjoying the game and developing an unknowing attachment to theodore...help
mhm, that's the thing - he wasn't aware of it but because of the way he is, he acted in accordance to the requirements (well, he acted like he is, sort of in a blind test way - the doylist reason for that is because I wanted him to).
and we... never thought about running a Discord server, to be honest because we never expected people to be interested much? but if there's an interest, we can certainly try to!
