No problem!! Sorry for my late response!! I hope your studies went well!
Oh it was pretty clear haha - between him saying that the major was more attractive to women than himself, his desperate avoidance of the romantic interest of the French woman, and the way he talks about Celliers's hair and his smile (and your mentions of Maurice and Brideshead Revisited as inspiration certainly didn't hurt). It made me very happy to see! It's always surprising to me that not many WWI pieces have queer characters, considering that some of the best-known figures of the war (Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Lawrence) were, well. Not exactly known to be heterosexual. So every new instance I find is a delight.
I was indeed able to solve it! And the ending was very sweet... The game told me that I could potentially get a better ending if I played again, but I'm not sure if that was a choice-dependent thing, or a "new game+" sort of thing. If it's the former, is it entirely dependent on which jam you ask for from O'Neal after helping him, or is there something else that I missed? (I was so sure I'd befriended everyone rip)
If there's any other feedback you'd like, let me know! I wrote up some thoughts as I was replaying it, and had some notes and/or questions about things, but I don't want to make your comments section one million miles long without knowing if you cared to hear it all lmao.
Overall, this was a very charming game, that achieves very likable characters even in such a short length, and I'm grateful to have played it!