Thank you so much for commenting! It means a lot to me! So, about Louhi, it's both at the same time. He's very sincere about his feelings and struggles. He really is suffering and is very moved when the protagonist accepts him. But he's also a big manipulator. Although he's not lying when he says that he suffers a lot, he also wants the mc to feel bad for him and get their sympathy. It fuels him when someone validates what he's feeling. He's very needy and really craves attention, affection, appreciation and being coddled. And he thinks he'll get all that by making people feel sorry for him. Not gonna lie though, he became a closet narcissist due to the treatment he received from his family so he's always playing victim and is unable to ever see himself in the wrong. Deep down he knows that his existence is hurting people and if he really cared abour their wellbeing, he'd just isolate himself somewhere far away from human civilization. But he can't stand to be alone so he copes by believing that he's a benevolent doctor with the mission of taking care of humans and denying that he's a selfish creature that hurts people.
I also feel very feel sorry about him. Although I wrote him to be a pitiful character with a tragic existence, I'm honestly surprised that I managed to make you feel sorry for him. I think you're the second person to say that you feel sorry for him. The reactions to him I mostly got from people were that he's terrifying, a creep, different of other yandere guys, not the yandere they were expecting or not the player's favorite type of yandere for different reasons. One of the players who posted a playthrough on youtube absolutely despised him. They thought he's extremely annoying/aggravating, totally unlikable, narcissistic garbage/weak character. Not gonna lie, I didn't write him to be that unlikable, instead to some extent I wrote him to make people pity him and feel conflicted about him. I guess my writing failed to make people feel that way about him.
Louhi is one unlucky guy. His gift is the exact opposite of his family's. Sometimes, but it's rare, an upir child will get superpowers that are the opposite of their parents's. Louhi was just extremely unlucky. It's very sad that his family got rid of him because of his defect. In their point of view, Louhi is a burden that would get in the way of their missionary work and ruin their business/mission/tradition. They were thinking about the wellbeing of their patients so their priority was to protect the humans they cure and exile Louhi as far away as possible to minimize the damage his destructive powers caused.
Yes, he definitely tries to get approval and positive feelings from his patients because he didn't get it from his family. Actually he tries to get everything from his patients that he didn't get from his parents. His patients are his reason to live, his source of survival, his emotinal supply, the preys he leeches on. His life turned him into an emotinal vampire that will suck the soul out of everyone in his path until there's nothing left. He's frequently told by his patients to kill himself once they find out about his true nature, that he's the cause of their pain and sickness. He still hasn't gotten used to it though and always has an emotional meltdown when it happens.
Same. Louhi is a serious danger to human society and should be exterminated for the sake of humanity's safety. But I also feel very comflicted about his actions. I too wish he could have a happy ending, but that's impossible. He's as doomed as his victims/patients.