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Seir- Witch <3

🥺🥺 omfg

Everytime I try and even think about romancing someone else I get guilt tripped back into Seir 😭😭

Seir is the cutiest patootiest that is in the process of gnawing on ur soul forever. what a doll

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As much as I AM LOVING the OLL development I am SO EXCITED for more rotwood hehe…. You keep feeding us so good

cant let yall go too hungry. But its so nice having a game to switch to whenever I feel like I've worked on one too long, honestly

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Does that mean E can be cured?? Can E be normal?????

:}

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Wait E is sick with something?? I thought they were just my mentally unstable little puppy 😅

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Wait is there a Sasha/Dasha poly ? I wanted to see if I read an ask correctly.

Nope, but there is an EVENT on the dasha's route if you have a MoC but getting cuddled up to Sasha. That and i u romance sasha and immediately go and be with the aide

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ro/ro anon here again (sorry if i'm a bother btw) so if i never flirt with Dasha at the same time i flirt with Sasha and i never screw things up with Sasha that means Dasha/Sasha never happens? because if that happens no matter what (even if i disable it at the begining) i'll have to chose another ro (sorry it's just that i really don't like ro/ro and Sasha is right up my alley as a ro and a trope i wanted for so long) but you're the author and i respect whatever you write so don't worry about anything i don't want you to be mad or whatever i'm just weird about ro/ro and i have a personal reason to not like sharing and to being unconfortable about it, so it's really a me thing, sorry.. anyway i really like your writing so even with wathever is hapening between ros i'll try it again until i feel i need to stop (if i'll ever need to) also, i guess if i don't see it it's not happening in my eyes lol thank you for answering my stupid questions btw, you're a nice person :)

Yes, doing all that makes sure it never happens Hmh hmh

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you wrote for obey me ???????????

I MEAN A LITTLE BIT??? LEGIT ONE OF MY FRIENDS IS WAY MORE FAMOUS OBEY ME WRITER THAN ME, THEY'RE INSANE WITH IT, BUT I DID SCRIBS HERE AND THERE, BUT I DID MOSTLY DOL AND RED DEAD AND FIRE EMBLEM AND BALDURS GATE AND LOVE AND DEEPSPACE-

but i fell out of love with the game a little bit as time went on, so I stopped accepting stuff for it, but i always like seeing art for obey me on my dash

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Wait, stop, I KNOW YOU-

Holy shit tatar representaion in my brainrot IF???? Take my life, my loyalty and the food of my people(chack chack)

ZOOMING IN TO EAT!!!! holy shit that looks GOOD.

SADJIOOSADJSDOJIIJO Representation in MY porn game is IMPORTANT!

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Holy shit tatar representaion in my brainrot IF???? Take my life, my loyalty and the food of my people(chack chack)

ZOOMING IN TO EAT!!!! holy shit that looks GOOD.

SADJIOOSADJSDOJIIJO Representation in MY porn game is IMPORTANT!

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Wait, is it fair to say that Dasha is from one of colonized (ugh, I assume the country will prefer to say 'assimilated' but we know the truth here...) nations? If so, would they be like... equivalent of Tatar/Kazakh, or like Chechen/Lezgin or Evenki/Mansi ppl?

Good Christ, what a good catch! So, to put it in IRL terms, Dasha is half Mongolian and half Tatar and grew up in "assimilated" Kazakhstan. Varan counts the country as "theirs" while no one else does.

So there is a big difference to what Varan counts and Varanian, versus the places they deep and distant Varan. It's kinda like... How the British Empire counted India as "theirs" while everyone else with any thoughts was like "Yeah, that's fucked".

Still, INSANE catch, holy moly, wasn't expecting that this early in the game.

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I think I've played every prologue for all three of the games at least a dozen times through each but since OLL was the recent release, I have to scream about how much I love it. I'm sorry that this is so long, just ignore me if it gets too boring.

OLL was spectacular, I felt so immersed the whole time. The way you describe the scenery alone is magnificent. The attention to detail is incredible, I went through the hobby section obsessively just to get every possible answer. I adore the depth and nuance that you give to every character, including the MCs. I love them both so much.

We have Royal MC being a sheltered lamb between their illness and their upbringing but you did in such a way that it felt like a subtle background that can be woven in with however you choose to customise them from the prologue onwards in their character or decision making. It's great that you know they aren't this way out of spite but because they have been deliberately kept ignorant and you might be able to change that if you want to. They haven't tried to grow and broaden their horizons much of their own volition but they've never been encouraged to try or given reason to either.

You can assume that Royal MC forgot about their little Servant MC friend who saved them because they're too self-absorbed to think about them outside of how lonely they get, you can equally assume it's due to their illness and that they put it down to the amount of people allowed around them was restricted because of how fragile their health became (hence why they were eventually sent off to that resort which was well-guarded and with a specific clientele) or someone just made up a little story about Servant MC having to leave to placate Royal MC when they noticed their playmate never came back and they were told to try not to think about it, just like every other thing in their life that might emotionally unbalance them and risk their health.

Then all those years later, it's not too surprising that Royal MC only thinks about them vaguely like any other childhood memory. I imagine it wouldn't be too different on the Servant MC's end since they have a 100 things to do in a day and 99 problems accompanying (Arkasha sounds needy enough to occupy a large source of energy regardless on how Servant MC sees them) and don't really have the time or energy to think about the little Royal they used to look after and saved with their magic, however much that altered the trajectory of both their lives.

Servant MC in the same boat, as far as being ultimately powerless to control their life, but I love how you bring attention to their less privileged status without us having to tell them from something as simple as their hair even before they're being hauled in front of the spymaster in the prologue or that punishing walk back to the castle after the funeral later on.

I find it fascinating in how both of them are so utterly powerless. They've had their lives defined by forces stronger than them for as long as they've lived. Even Royal MC, with all their privilege and protection, can't simply do as they please even if that's something so simple as their first kiss, and they too have had their life ruled by the Tsarina and their illness. It was so gut-wrenching when they were forced apart - it felt like one of those clichés on separating twins, they're soulmates! I need a route where they can reunite, it's just too sad to think they'll be haunting one another in the narrative.

The Tsarina is superb. Truly, she encapsulates everything you can imagine a ruler to be. A woman full of contradictions, prejudices, hypocrisies, secrets, love and hatred and quite the work ethic. The contrast to how she behaves around her children and around servant MC fleshes her out as a person and we don't even have a POV from her. How I can see they way she can be a bystander/ally/antagonist in your route just from the prologue alone while not feeling like I'm being force-fed about the kind of role she might have in a route based on choices, is sublime.

I've got so many theories on Servant MC and why she hates them so much. I am burning with curiosity. Is the funeral Servant MC was invited to a red herring and the dead man isn't their father? Is the Tsarina pissy because her sister had her husband's illegitimate child or did her Sis have a lover on the side and still have an affair with Tatsiana's husband anyway. Was Sis planning to legitimise her baby and that would have somehow been a threat/insult to the Tsarina and her family? Some old, irrational fear about her children being supplanted or endangered by her nibling? Does it simply come down to an old inferiority complex and pride, that her sister, the favoured and talented magic user managed to produce a child with strong magic potential and said child used it to save their helpless cousin who was born without magic? Some posthumous victory over her? That even after disposing of her sister and husband, Tatsiana has her own ghosts haunting her narrative? What are you hiding?! Oh, and I really need to know, what the sister's name was. Surely that's not a spoiler? (I can't tell if the DAO elements are really there or if I've just been binging it too much)

The Tsarina was one of the highlights but I was positively bouncing at the RO POVs (RIP post boy, I hope you at least got a reach around to go with the knot before the end.). I am so torn now about whether I want Dasha's love or to be the bestie. But I am all there for seeing what they're like on Servant MC route, having to see and interact with someone that is essentially living how they fear might become of them at the Royal Court if they don't please the right people; MC is from nothing but like them, has magic. This should have uplifted them, but they are still treated like dirt because the Tsarina, and by proxy everyone else at court, refused to accept this and Servant MC actually ends up more downtrodden because of it. I don't imagine finding out that Servant MC is a bastard royal would do anything to calm them down. On a lesser note, I want to pet and cuddle Sabnock but I also want to keep my extremities intact, it's a struggle.

Sasha looking balanced and cool but you can definitely see the hints of obsession than can develop just from knowing they researched their special incest interest. Given that you said Sasha would get unstable after Royal MC's disappearance, latch on to Servant MC as a substitute and get protective over them, I would love to spectate the dumpster fire of Sasha developing class consciousness when they realise the kind of life Servant MC is living and that Mama would rather have Servant MC thrown from a window than be allowed to live the good life as Sasha's kept lover. The drama!

Even the little glimpses where we don't get a POV or just a brief view like Spymaster Rune were so intriguing. I did love the Spymaster cameo and can't wait to see what role they have on each route and I am in awe that you managed to give the Aide so much character without once having them speak. The Aide is super cute with the Royal MC. Treats them like a little pet and gets sour and puts angrily under the mask when they pay more attention to other people. Methinks they've grown more attached than they'd ever admit. BTW, I have to know, is the Aide our Servant MC's ex/former hookup? Like, can that be a thing with them?

How would life with Pasha actually work? They wouldn't want to bring either MC with them to the frontlines with his regiment so what's the plan there when he has to return?

The breakfast scene was adorable and informative, you glean so much about the family and their dynamics just from watching them all interact in that scene. How Stas' girls are treated feels especially poignant when you have the comparison to Servant MC (and to a lesser extent, the Mad Heir). You've spun such an intricate web and it leaves me in awe.

Bottom line, I think you're amazing, I adore your work and I can't wait to see what you have in store for us.

Fun fact, this message was too long to send in discord. I had to send it in three parts to show the ducks. And I'm a schmuck that pays for Nitro.

This was so fuckin cool to read, holy hell. The amount of times I love to be as subtle as possible, I always pull back and wonder if it goes into just... Not even leaving a mark, like too quiet? And then I have insane people coming into my askbox and pointing out all the things they've noticed!!! And, yeah, I go fucking insane. This was so excellent, I love this so so so much.

I hate outright stating an MC is THIS- when you can have a different outlook. I don't ever want to say the Royal is ignorant because they don't care, because they could! Or they're ignorant because they haven't been given a chance, because what if you want to play a little asshole that doesn't care? What if you only want them to get the class conscious arc when with Arkasha or Pavel or The Aide? Or fuck that, and you skip through life with Sasha!

Again, with the Servant MC- I don't think i'll ever cover why they slide to a hazy memory. Perhaps just the natural progression of childhood? Do they even remember that horrible day they nearly choked on their own lung? Perhaps the Servant didn't matter that much. A friend you liked but when they left your sight, that was it? Or maybe they did wail for their friend, even when the Tsarina said they weren't allowed near anymore.

I genuinely hate any media that has a character outright bemoan their place in life. Esp when it's ingrained into society. Like why are you wasting time letting them whine about their state in life when you can do something better? Quietly infer while also showing they're used to it. The best characters I like to see are the ones who have gotten used to their shit ass life, but still fighting to do more, try to have a better time by JUST A SMIDGE. It's like the Irene Adler story from the Sherlock Holmes books. She isn't bemoaning the state of women in Victorian times- Instead she fucking gets to business. She one ups Sherlock, then runs off to marry for love. For love. FOR LOVE. Girl, you had a love affair with a king, have blackmail on that loser, and used it to be happier, rather than being used and left powerless. Genuinely, an insane ick for me is shit ass writing that forgoes everything just to have some person whine out loud. Like shut up. Do something.

Also, I do love the Tsarina. I don't think we're ever going to get a POV from her, or at least an indepth POV. Just something seen from her eyes. I want people to see what they want to see, an unrepentant villain, or just a deeply hurt woman willing to do anything for her own children. Keep in mind, if you pick adopted, she still counts you as her child. She loves the Royal so much, in a way, even adopted, she couldn't extend to her nibling. At all. And it's not because one time her sister didn't share her doll or something.

Also can't wait to get started on the Servant Route of the demo. I promise things are going to get disgustingly fucky on that side of things. The sudden dad-funeral is on purpose, I promise. There's going to be more time spent on that, because what? You just learned the Servant is the nibling of the Tsarina, a bastard, and bam, funeral time? DW, many thoughts are going to be about that. That shit AINT the last of it.

BUT YES! The plan is, that you can pick how you view the aide. A titan of terror, a former lover when you both were young (they're the same age, or I think the Aide is a year older), a replacement for them that they can feel good or bad about. You can't not have an opinion of the Royal's guard.

Also not to spoil, but Pavel keeps his own modest home, so would rather the MC stay there, instead of being at the front lines. MORE ON THAT ON THE 9 O CLOCK NEWS.

I'm glad that was caught. So much. Now to feel a lot about Stas' daughters and their acceptance into the family.

ANYWAY, NO YOU'RE AMAZING, AND THIS WAS THE BEST ASK EVER, I JUST COULDN'T STOP SMILING THROUGHOUT IT ALL, IT MADE ME SO HAPPY, I LOVE LONG ASKS LIKE THIS!!!

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ok so, in one word (or more), what does love mean to all the ROs

ALL THE RO???

L Rawlins- Healing

S Della Rovere- Fun forever

Z Chambers- Forsaken

V De Winters- Overlooking flaws

Seir- Witch <3

Starling- Unexplored

A Lancaster- Safety

Saleos- Submission

Quincy- Defenseless

D Woolf- Forgiveness

E Rawlins- Being Seen

Riley Lynch- Shouldering burden

Arkasha- Claiming

Dasha- Embracing

Sasha- Loyalty

Priest J- Understanding

Pavel- Protection

The Aide- Acceptance

Clem- Softness

A von Mejer- Spar

J Braithwaite- Attentive

Bryn Heron- Owned

H Angelov- Unnecessary

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Hi, i just found your ifs and i'm in love, but i have some questions (and sorry if you already answered but i can't check at the moment) if i chose the Aide as ro do i really need to share him with Pasha or can i have a monogamous relashionship with them? Also Sasha/Dasha only happens if we screw up first with Sasha right? And in the rot can we avoid reading when the ro get together? I'm just asking because i hate ro/ro (it always takes me out of trying their route in the future) and poly relashionships/sharing makes me really unconfortable (for personal reasons)

You're good!

Anyway, no, no sharing is required. There isn't a RO that you HAVE to share, and you don't have to enter a poly at any point.

And Sasha/Dasha happens when you do fuck up in Sasha's eyes, but also if they have an equal amount of flirt points, they have a weird thing going on if you don't disable the trigger for their relationship. TBF, it still circles around the player anyway.

And yes, you can disable other RO/RO relationships. They'll still happen but you won't see it.

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So the plan,

is to work a bit more on Rotwood, try and get us to the cottage after the questioning, upload Alpha Build, and the previews before the end of this week. Then lock in, and try to get the Witch back to town at least before start of next month. WE ARE GETTING TO THE END OF CHAPTER 1, I PROMISE.

Then, when we do- it's time for the left overs. Finish the E game after so long, jesus, then the Servant Route, and then let OLL gently sit there and look pretty as we go ham on Rotwood. Inbetween that, I want to make a "proper" demo for Mad Heir, so you can deal with the repercussions of broken legs.

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the room decor and the hobby choices are so fun, im glad you spent an ungodly amount of time on them lol. personally im an astrology hoe so i thought i’d go with that and then pick the pasha or sasha hobbies but i made my mc into such a daddy’s boy. i love how he calls him little sprout and they bond over gardening, and the description of the rooms were beautiful. im honestly scared for what im gonna put my mc thru cause hes just this adorable oblivious little guy (who’s actually rly horny and that’ll be the death of him). anyway love the game so far, looking forward to making my guy suffer.

I honestly think, despite the angry huffing when doing the over 1k words on the hobby page, I think it's so worth it. I'm really enjoying getting to go super customisable for both hobbies and the room. Also I respect ANYONE who makes their MC a daddy's boy. FULLY attached to papa's hip.

RIP tiny oblivious guy, doesn't know the storm about to rip him in horny twain

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Hm. Marriage of convince with Dasha as a royal Mc... Think they'd care if mine kept Pasha and also maybe the aide as a kept lover/lovers? Would Pasha mind?

Dasha would legit not care. They love fake playing house. You two have to figure out if you want to take Dasha's last name or yours (powerful witch versus royalty, oh the choices) and then he'll just be fucking... Calling them by that last name too. Finds it hilarious. Genuinely, you can get Dasha as a close personal friend during a MoC.

The Aide doesn't care but Pavel would need some convincing. He's more traditional, and it does... Remind him on how his parents' marriage ended. A bit. Would rather you just leave behind the world of taking and luxuries to be with him.

Also it doesn't mean he'll stay. He still gotta go back to his regiment. But yknow, he'll try and talk the Spymaster to not read his letters. Which will fail, and so he'll send them with a more discrete set of instructions.

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How far along in the IF will the Mad Heir be able to snitch on Ivarsson to dear ol Grandpa and the rest of the court ?

Well, it would be VERY far in the game :}