#thinking about her....

[efverse]

to burn

[fireache]

kitten in a frog suit pattern by claire garland

[zelvuska]

a cog has to keep on turning

[thelonelyshore-if]

Wait there is a trait called Lake Beloved?

Nah, not the same way there's fog-touched. Just starting the game going to the lake, I think!!

Though it's funny that Nonnie described it like that, because when I was first conceptualizing the game I was considering having unlockable character traits that would add flavor text or alternative scenes, and one of them was basically lake beloved!!

Sometimes I still think about unlockable traits because I think the idea is Neat, but I a) didn't think of enough traits on the front end to justify it and b) need to at least try to avoid feature creep, haha.

Still a cool idea though...

[happybunnykat]

Xion Kingdom Hearts

[quantumshade]

[no-psi-nan]

You know what? The fact that Saiki trusts Aiura to follow along with his fake dating plan even though he knows she's in love with him, speaks a lot about how much she has respected his boundaries.

For someone who is NOT shy around guys and tends to be pretty physical (see: her introduction to Kuboyasu), Aiura adapts pretty quickly to Saiki's hands-off preferences.

Yeah she'll ask for a kiss, but that's just it: she asks, and she never gets mad or punishes him for saying no. Even when he's completely unreasonable about things like not ever talking to him at school, she tries to respect that.

No wonder he willingly goes on dessert dates with her (in his tsundere way). She knows about his powers but treats him like another human being, not glorifying him for his powers or trying to get favors out of him. She doesn't try to coerce him into romance either, just hanging out with him and helping him where she can.

And that's the kind of connection Saiki hasn't had since the Asumi days...