hi, I’m wondering what you view alva and luca’s relationship as, since you mentioned before that you don’t ship them romantically? It feels to me like your view of them has something past typical mentorship but also not quite romantic/paternal. ~~~~🐈⬛
Hello and thank you for your question! As a big fan of horror who eventually came to the genre of interactive films(like The Dark Pictures), I no longer see the relationships between characters as fixed, but as a plotting tool, so for me the matter itself is already flexible!
If we're talking about my vision and ArcFlash specifically...Hmm...Why not try to schematize it? I'm bad at explaining, maybe visualizing would work? =D
I think it all started out rather awkwardly. Two geniuses, pushing the boundaries of physics and capable of creating groundbreaking inventions, but completely clueless about relationships? I think that could have been a big part of what led to the incident despite coincidence.
I designed the events in the Manor less canon-like for various reasons, and they ended up in a pattern that seemed too interesting to change much, haha! Perhaps this will become canon in ArcFlash, but for now, this is more like a draft route.
At the end of the day, I can say it's all relative. Sometimes their relationship borders on being too formal to ever become closer; sometimes it becomes a complete ruin of broken trust and imposed hatred; sometimes it's simply quiet moments in which two minds bound by a common passion can begin to resonate.
Relationships are generally fickle and unstable, unpredictable, and sometimes too dependent on the choices the "player" makes. Whether they're a cynical pragmatist or a hopeless romantic(it may be both on the inside👋), this is what creates completely different types of stories.