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Context: There is an option to romance Cindy, the brothel owner, and during the scene, Cindy describes herself as having lived a life without love, neither giving nor receiving. Taken aback, she explains that loving her would prove extremely difficult; that she would essentially put the Hero through many tests to test his love for her:
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"You... love me? You understand who I am, yes? You love my body, perhaps... but you can't love me. I'm not offended by your words, but... that is the simple truth."
"No... I love -you.- I want to be with you. Whatever that means."
"Whatever that means, you say... so then... living as my chair, my ass slave, or as my cum receptacle for when other men and beasts have had their way with me? A semen toilet that I scarcely glance at? Or even... a perfectly chaste relationship, not even a teasing one, no denial, no physical intimacy of any kind. Would you accept that?"
"Yes... any of that."
"Chaste, then? You could never touch me below my shoulders, and I would have others out of your view and earshot. If I sense that you're still lusting after my body, I'll call the whole thing off. Perhaps... perhaps you will have to be castrated, to assure your chaste intentions. You would accept that?"
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She states that she will treat him as an object (chair, ass slave) and will even have sex with many others, all the while neglecting both his sexual needs or desires for intimacy. In fact, she seems to entirely disassociate lust with love here, likely to not mix them up given her lack of knowledge of the latter, and she seems to want to keep him entirely docile, at least sexually. She is claiming to throw impossible tests at the Hero, sabotaging the relationship before it even begins.
The point is, all of these immediate red flags would give any self-respecting person more than enough reasons to turn her down and keep her at an arm's length, which is why I like how Majalis made this an actual option. If the player declines, they can reattempt the conversation as if it did not happen, which is fine, since nothing really happened... yet.
After accepting, she gets rather hopeful, but it becomes clear she still has fairy-tale notions of 'unconditional love', where she expects the Hero to love her no matter what happens to her (sickness or health) or what she happens to do (cry or rage).
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But you understand that I am a very difficult woman to be with, yes? I have not lived a life full of love. I wouldn't know what to do with it if I had it. I have fun with so many... but you're not talking about just knocking boots. You want to see me in a white dress, yes? You want to wake up next to me every morning?"
It feels silly when she puts it like that, and you're red in the face. You expect at any moment she's going to burst into laughter, having gotten her fill of teasing you. "Y... yes."
"And when I'm sick, you'll care for me? When I'm old, you'll still love me? When the weight of the world is too much, and I cry, and I rage, you'll be there for me? And when... when I have take care of business, knives in the shadows, heels soaked with blood... you won't look away? You won't live in denial."
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The part where I strongly believe there should be another dialog option is what follows... reminder spoiler warning...
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"Let me... prove that to you. If you truly... accept me... then you will not look away."
She steps up onto the table, and her heels click as she approaches the man's sleeping face. She turns to face you, her feet straddling his head... and you think you know where this is going.
She maintains eye contact as she slowly squats down... slower than she needs to by any measure, but you understand in your gut that she's deliberately drawing this out, making sure you reckon entirely with what she's about to do. Your loins are throbbing like a straining heartbeat, a thunderous drumming that accompanies a lump in your throat. You know you shouldn't, but...
She hovers just above him, the difference between life and death. You hold your own breath... sympathetically, perhaps.
When she drops her weight down on him, the man does not react for a moment, until suddenly the lack of air wakes him up, and you hear him muffle something in a foreign tongue that it's inaudible due to Cindy's eating habits and genetics. Perhaps the last words he'll utter, and they're into her fat ass.
There's very little movement. The man has likely accepted the end, perhaps knowing how worse a fate awaits him on some distant shore... admittedly, there are certainly worse final sights and sensations.
She peers at you, judging... only, it's more like she's preemptively scouring you for your own looks of judgment, and admittedly, there is a creeping horror on your face, but also... a tacit acknowledgment. Perhaps your soul is not so light after all.
Finally, aside from her own breathing, all is still. She throws her legs off to the side, dangling off the table, pivoting and grinding on him one last time before putting her weight on her feet, and then rising up as if from a chair. She doesn't look back at him. It's done.
She approaches you, looking you in the eyes.
"Now... do you see? Can you really accept that?" she says, her gaze piercing.
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Cindy... literally suffocated a man with her ass! As comical as this is, it does demonstrate that Cindy has murdered a man in front of you, and later on she even gives you a choice...
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"Still... you see who I am. What I am. Perhaps, if you think with your heart and not with your dick... you'll have a change of heart? If definitely not a change of dick... I own a mirror, you know. I know you'll never stop thinking about me in your jerk-off fantasies."
"I'm... not sure. Seeing that... but... maybe I'm deluding myself, but..."
"Come back tomorrow. I want you to think about what you saw today. I want to search your heart for... for your hatred of me. Your fear of me. Your disgust with me. Your pity for me. I want you to bring all of that with you tomorrow, and I want you to look into my eyes... and with all of that heavy in your heart, weighing it down... if, even then..." she says, but she stops.
She leans forward, and plants a small kiss on your lips. A small one, but... a meaningful one.
"If you can do that, then... maybe I won't be so cold, anymore."
As you leave, you turn around to get a look at her. She's watching you with an unwavering expression, but her lip is trembling, and you can tell that her wet eyes are waiting for you to close the door behind you. Your eyes want to wander down to her gorgeous body, but you just smile at her, and turn away, giving her the privacy she desires.
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Despite this being phrased as a potential choice, no choice is actually given to the player. The player literally accepts her with a kiss, shattering the illusion of choice in the game. I believe that there should be a choice to turn her down, which would A) Lock you out of the romance option given that the game world has changed due to this scene, i.e. she can't roll back and murder someone again... well she can programmatically but it would be off-putting if so... and B) Set all Affection to 0 permanently, where everything becomes business-like. This would provide at least some semblance of choice here. I personally have no problem with her killing him, but I would have liked to try out and exhaust that dialog option,