Hi, Espoir! Sorry for the late reply. I was just so moved when I first saw your comment that I just didn't know what to write 😳ðŸ¤
I've been your fan for a while and I'm always watching your videos so it was a huge honor when I found out you played my game! I never expected my little game to get your attention! I'm so happy right now! It really means the world to me that you played and enjoyed my game! I'm completely ecstatic! It means so much that you of all people said my game is amazing since I'm such a fan and you have so much experience with these kinds of game so you really know what you're talking about!
I was so worried my game wouldn't scare anyone so it makes so happy that I managed to be successful at that! I'm also ecstatic that you liked Louhi! He's a very special oc to me! Surprisingly he's kind of my comfort oc character. I wanted to make him seductive/alluring, but unsettling and scary at the same time, but somewhat repulsive and unconventionally attractive in his upir form. And I'm so happy/overjoyed that I was able to achieve what I envisioned his character, both appearance wise and personality wise, to be!
Yes, Louhi is like a predator who feels entitled to do whatever he wants with his preys. Boundaries and personal space are foreign concepts to him so he gets furious when you don't let him do what he wants with you. He sees his patients as his possessions, and as his possessions he thinks he can manhandle/do whatever he wants with them, and he becomes enraged when they show the slightest sign of disobedience/defiance/unwillingness. He's the type that straight up kills you or even tortures you if you don't do every little thing what he wants, but he prefers to imagine/think of himself as a benevolent doctor to satisfy his ego because deep down he's a huge narcissist(but he doesn't want to admit it). And I wanted to convey that disregard for seeing people as individuals with free will and agency.
I found the voice actor on castingcallclub. Voice acting wasn't the most important thing on my list, but I thought it'd be so cool to give Louhi a voice since he's such an important creation to me! I wasn't expecting much, but I was so impressed with the submissions! The first time I heard Louhi's voice actor auction, I knew he was the one! I just had to get him to dub Louhi! But at the same time, I was so worried that his price would be out of my budget. I live in a country where the us dollar is extremely expensive, 1 us dollar equals 5 reais, so I became disheartened. But miraculously, he charged an amount I'd be able to pay! I was overjoyed! And he was also so kind and patient with me! Even if it wasn't a great amount, he still did an amazing performance! I was so moved to see my most special oc getting such a beautiful voice full of emotional! I'll let the voice actor know that you enjoyed his performance! I'm sure he's gonna be happy to know!
Yes, I wanted people to believe Louhi was really an infectious disease doctor so I tried my best to add accurate science facts among the supernatural part. I wanted to mix both elements in harmony so I searched a lot about all kinds of infectious diseases like COVID, ebola, tuberculosis, HIV, spanish flu, etc. I read many articles and watched lots of documentaries. I'm relieved that I succeeded in making the player believe that Louhi is actually well versed in infectious diseases and pathogens.
Anyway, sorry if I spoke too much. But I'm just so freaking happy that you played and enjoyed my game! Never in my entire life I'd imagined that you'd give any of my projects a chance! It's such a honor to be featured on your channel! Keep up your amazing work of making people happy with your videos and giving small creators a chance to shine!
Just to finish my reply, I'll let here some fun facts about Louhi's creation:
Louhi's name is based on an evil deity from finnish mythology that spreads diseases. It might be a girl name, but I found it so beautiful and it fits him to a T.
Louhi is an upir/upior/upier/upyr(there are many way to spell that), a ghoulish/vampiric creature from slavic mythology that explodes into lots of maggots when you destroy them. This is one of the reasons why Louhi has maggots and other parasites living inside his body. I also wanted to make the player think of him as a repulsive walking copse filled with maggots, smelling like rotting flesh and with a deathly corpse parlor as if he was already dead.