#priest mc

[jcollinswrites]

just finished my priest mc route twice over because i got curious…….how the hell did this silly thing die twice omg that whole sequence was crazy. also the little swamp spirit made me emotional like unironically i felt so bad i wanted to hold the poor boy

"how the hell did this silly thing die twice omg" - Petmes, 1550 BC.

Haha

[jcollinswrites]

Which background mc do you ship with what ros? 👀 im curious 👉🏻👈🏻

I don't have any specific ships like that 😅 During playtests, I usually mix them up. When I write, I also try to make it so that every single character feels special and appreciated, and not specifically fitting for this or that.

But I have lots of favorite scenes that are MC-specific!

Noble soaking Narmer in wine (might be my all-time favorite)

Priest crying when Qenna threatens them with execution

Captain screaming like a little girl when Zaia pops up in their room

Captain trying very hard to ignore Zaia in the pub

Zaia being horrified when thief flirts boldly right after they chased you down as a lion

Tabiry confirming her crush to non-veteran captain while throwing up

Tabiry trying to drag priest away from Bean the elephant

Priest being horrified by Ahmose's magical experiments at home

Thief's family meeting any of the ROs

Noble trying to do the dishes with Ahmose and failing spectacularly

Any other MC trying to teach Ahmose how to do the dishes and failing spectacularly

Tabiry and captain's visit to the Memphis Guard's office

Veteran captain's talk with Ahmose when you learn about the scar on their back

Nedjemut giving Qenna the shovel talk

Any time Pihu and Qenna interact

ROs reaction every time thief says 'asking for a friend'

[jcollinswrites]

Running through your IF for the first time, while playing as a priest MC, and I accidentally killed my MC at the ceremony (can’t remember what choice I made, either to alert security right away or turned around too late) and honestly didn’t even click with me that they’d died? Saw the result went “oh cool near death experience?” And then focused so much on the fact my MC killed Tia and others that I sort of forgot about it. Didn’t actually get any of the results from that choice because my saves got eaten (yay technology) and when I restarted I couldn’t remember the choice I made and wound up turning around early enough that nobody died. But! Since seeing that MC very much does die, and also that there’s different scenes as a result I’m sort of sitting here going “wait do I go back and resume a play through where MC died? But Tia? And her apprentices?” Genuinely I have never felt so torn between a choice so early on in an IF.

This was a very long winded way of me saying I’m not even done my first play through and I want to start about four more this is such a good story! I’d seen it a couple times on my feed before but I’d always been mid-playthrough of something else and decided to wait. Very much wishing I hadn’t done that now I’m so in love with this story, and your writing is phenomenal!

I guess we’ve all been here at one point. I certainly love adding difficult choices :))) Thank you so much for the nice message!

[jcollinswrites]

is MC canonically attractive?

It depends who you find attractive. Many people are into the captain in Thebes because of their firm stance and character, but captain is attractive in a rugged, overworked, tired kind of way. Noble is more sophisticated, and they resemble their father Harkhuf, who is considered to be an attractive man. These are, I believe, mentioned in the game somewhere.

Priest and thief are more up to your headcanon. I imagine, if your priest has a charismatic personality, then many of their colleagues may have a crush on them. And thief is absolutely a wild card.

Regardless, every RO is physically attracted to MC if you are on their romance route 🤗

[jcollinswrites]

The way I didn't even question the fact that the ceremony could be a success... I was so sure Priest!MC was just bound to fuck the ceremony up 😦 My Priest!Failure lmfao I'm crying

Insane amount of work you're putting on this OF with the different backgrounds for MC, thank you for writing !

The ceremony will always be fucked up, but the level of fuck-up is determined by player choice.

There is an option where MC ends up blowing up an entire party tent with everyone inside. You may or may not kill your MC here.

There is an option where some people get blown up but outside. MC and Tia both die. <- This is what happens when you aren't playing with priest MC

There is an option that leaves Tia badly burned but alive.

And there is an option where Tia is mostly fine and nobody dies.

The last one is the best outcome that you can achieve, but if you want to see extra content for your MC later, you should go for the double-kill instead 👀

[jcollinswrites]

I love that my priest mc's first interaction with Qenna was him threatening to torture him and my mc was seemingly swooned by that.

Priest MC went through a rollercoaster of emotions that day 😂

[jcollinswrites]

"At least you still have skin, unlike Tia." I know this is old stuff from chapter 2, but this does not stop me from being absolutely flabbergasted 😭😭

Yes. And hair too. And eyebrows. And great prospects at life. Unlike Tia ❤️

It's okay to write to me about previous chapters, it's not old stuff, the entire game is only 1 year old 🥲

[jcollinswrites]

It just occurred to me that for MC to be chosen for the mission, Narmer and al. would have to pick MC over the MCs with other backgrounds.

Does anything influence their different decisions in each route? Was there disagreement over which MC to take?

Wishing you good health, wealth, happiness and strong WiFi.

What a great question! :D

Qenna was generally in favor of noble or thief. A bit more leaning to noble because Qenna already knows a lot about them and the thief, being a stranger, was a bit more of a liability.

Narmer was more in favor of captain.

The priest is a wild card. They only come into the picture after you survive the ceremony in the palace garden, so ONLY when you play that origin. In that case, everyone will start favoring the priest because the priest suddenly has a massive reason to help them.

The thing that eventually tips the scale in a specific MC's direction, in noble's case, is the fact that you get attacked by the high priest and Qenna convinces Narmer to take you along because there is something clearly going on in the background. If you're not playing the noble, the attack won't happen. (or at least not at that time)

For the captain, it's the fact that you are removed from your position as captain, no matter what you do. Which makes the captain a good candidate because 1) you suddenly have a lot of free time and 2) are in need of urgent employment. If you don't play the captain, he will only get demoted by the governor later, once you all are already out of town.

If you are playing the thief, then none of the above things happen to tip the scales in another MC's favor, so Qenna will take a gamble on you to honor MC's grandfather's memory.

Thank you for the blessings, I wish the same to you 🙂‍↕️