i remember that its good but i always forget its also emotionally devastating. great update.
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I understand contrasting his closed off half healed version with the more open confident healed form, and I love assertions chest as much as the next gay furry, but there comes a point where you have to wonder if Asterion has ANY button-up shirts that fit him properly. 3 buttons undone is a lot in any context but especially on the vest like and all I can think is how I just went through this with storm and assertion can literally solve his problems with magic. Can we get the man a nice shirt that fits?
relating to nini's quest i have tried
completing memorial/library/anthill/cemetary
completing memorial/storms house/p's house/cemetary
completing memorial/back to colonols/library/cemetary
I've tried unlocking and visiting the cemetary first both ways and then doing the memorial and returning
all of which yield sea slug
this has been done from 3 different save files (speedrunner art and humanities) most of which i played through till the end to see if its obtained in the final chapter somehow.
artist, Themba and Khenbish (no robert no wolf), I did get pool and bar but i didn't get the gym finished or even translate Argos's diary (this is my second play-through I stopped trying to optimize this after that). and if we trust the options on the survey then the ranks after grootslang will be: tapir hydra bull, it would make sense for these to be implemented even if we cant get the number to be high enough to reach them in this build.
while it certainly helps that the MC is humanity at its best, I think for me the most interesting concept here is queer time. While Asterion has lived for ~3000 years he has spent almost all of this time seeing being treated and believing himself to be less than human, with absolutely no opportunity for a romantic relationship. When interrogated by Jean MC understands his relationship with Asterion well he is on the ball considerate and its clear he understands how to have a romantic relationship. Asterion on the other hand is just learning to admit that he does have feelings for the MC the blunt "he wants" being the description of how he feels in a game that does not shy away from long metaphorical descriptions is the same as that used to describe how Khenbish feels near the end of his growth which is literally a story about coming out. so we help Asterion come out from the closet a little bit and he is now following the ideas of queer time he is like a child everything is new to him, and so there relationship progresses at his pace where he is the young one and so their relationship forms the pattern of young love with stupid nicknames and blushing while holding hands at the movies. MC is ready to F*ck at chapter 15, the first kiss doesn't happen until chapter 18.