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Did liev ever told his father about quinn? I mean he is the one that prescribe liev and monitoring his mental health

Nope. Point blank. Despite (or, more appropriately, because of) Pierre having been his psychiatrist, Liev does not have a good relationship with him, since the "medication" he prescribed him is one of the main reasons for Liev's current instability.

That, plus Pierre was a terribly neglectful father.

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Liev can kill the bullies if our aff less than zero. It is his first time or not 👀 ?

I wonder why he is not killed his parents (yet)

... I'll leave this one up to interpretation, hehe.

As for his parents... I'd say it's a combination of his fear, revulsion, and apathy towards them. He simply can't bring himself to care whether or not they're still alive - after all, they left him behind, alone, a long time ago.

I'll give you this though: you know how the fight can alternatively end in him breaking the main bully's arm?

This isn't the first time he's crippled someone before. In fact, the first time he did it, they ended up a paraplegic.

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Why liev don't want to confess first or approach them as friend? I mean its 100% guarantee quinn say yes

Firstly, a lack of self-confidence -- despite being the smartest, most popular guy at school, Liev (at least pre-game) saw himself as unworthy of Quinn's attention, no matter how flustered they would get around him. Liev basically needed the "push" from Quinn's love letter to become a lot more forward with his affection.

Related to this, his paranoia kept him from making the first move since, well aware of his own instability, Liev was terrified of saying or doing the wrong thing and scaring them away with the truth of his personality... and we all know how that turns out.

Sooooo for a yandere like him, the logical next best step would, of course, be to watch over them from a distance...

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I remember quinn ask liev why he bother to be a headboy in the first place and he said its all for quinn. What thats mean? What is his original plan ? I mean he can't predict quinn will be back to their town

TW: Implications of suicide

Liev isn't the most thorough planner, nor was he entirely sane when he made the decision to strive to become the perfect man, AKA what he thought Quinn would consider the perfect man. Before that, he didn't have any solid plan in life - he just drifted according to his parents' (very high) expectations.

Remember that his current life's purpose hinges on Quinn's promise to marry him in the future - he couldn't (wouldn't) imagine any other possibility. He was insanely lucky that Quinn did actually end up moving back - let's just say that if they never did, Liev would have succumbed to despair well before the end of Year 13.

His logical flow behind becoming head boy / becoming the perfect man for them can be summed as:

Build up a "well-rounded" identity -> Work hard to become a student leader -> Become incredibly successful, high-achieving, independent -> Ensure he is noticed by Quinn when they come back -> They eventually start a relationship with him, for which Liev is wholly prepared -> Now he can be the perfect boyfriend, and eventually, the perfect husband -> Their promise has been fulfilled.

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I am curious about in hindsight ending. I though liev simplely kidnapped mc after graduation buta after read the game code this:

( # While he’s gone, you can choose to either book it or stay.

# Booking it will lead straight to a non-standard bad ending where you go home and report

# him to the police, but they drop the case days later due to lack of evidence. You develop severe paranoia as a result, which isn't helped

# by the fact that Liev manipulates everyone at school into thinking the date never happened/that you were only hanging out as friends, and gaslights you into

# thinking you've gone insane. You graduate from school, more lonely and isolated and anxious than ever, and decide to take a gap year. One night, Liev breaks into

# your house and kidnaps you, thought this is implied to be one of your paranoia-fuelled nightmares. (IN HINDSIGHT))

It clearly state that liev gas lighting mc and never kidnap mc. So in this ending liev loses his love to mc and hating them?

No, he never falls out of love with them.

I kind of strayed from the game code's notes and left Ending 4 up to interpretation - does Liev actually kidnap them, or is Quinn/MC just having a nightmare, albeit one that shows that no matter what, they can never truly escape him?

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Some scans of my first few sketchbook pages, half of it is self insert x canon and the other half is me ALHSBDBD

Also shout out to the 3 Pulsatio Cordis fans on the internet I love you guys so much Liev art soon trust 🤞

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I really should have joined PuCo tumblr sooner coz AHHHHHH SO MANY PRETTY SKETCHESSSSS ILYY