I'm glad you enjoyed it! It's especially nice to hear about Aurels character design! I wanted to go with a design for him that painted him as the antagonist initially to add to some of the story angst later when you get to his route.
We did initially think about letting players choose their pronouns and having canon sexualities for the LIs, but between the game jam time constraints and the fact that we were worried people would get feel bad being soft locked out of routes, we decided against it in the end! But we will definitely keep this feedback in mind, since we are planning for a mini update in the future with some additional content!