Spellcoats is just. So much younger than I remember it. But it has given me at least two of my major story kinks, and I didn’t know until this reread where they came from.
One is white-haired protagonists, and I’ve been wondering for years why I like them when they’re always such horrid anime boys.
The other is two characters who absolutely idolize each other and get through everything the plot requires them to get through by thinking, “What would B do here?” Hern and Kars Adon do that, despite meeting just the once and briefly, and it sank into my conscious.