This story broadly fits some themes that I struggle with a lot, like getting too frustrated and can't read stories with it, the whole weak link protagonist thing. It's very triggering for my irl problems. Had read on tumblr in an ask that it's not so perpetual, but even if it was this does such a good job of not making that the MC's personality. Like, how forward you can be about flirting, being honestly very dominant in some of those scenes; normally the protagonists in the stories I mean are only allowed to be stammering blushing messes. And, besides that, there's continuously choices that let me as the MC express the frustration and guilt and everything. Being able to acknowledge how bullshit and unfair the hand that was dealt is in the story itself is huge for making it feel like it actually matters, for resolving some of the tension as like proof that the author and the characters all care. None of that is the case in the other stories I reference, and it does so much.
I really really enjoy this, much as I still experience the frustration like a comment further down also talks about, and I never would've thought I could for something that would hit some triggers like that.
Also want to mention how much I love a lot of the flirting, for reasons already mentioned but also just how mature they feel. Don't know how else to describe it but I like it a lot. I know there's no poly but I'm looking forward to doing whatever thing I can manage with Duri and Zahn (which again goes with the maturity and variety the flirting and romance and sex has here).
Poor Oswin getting so big brother-y from watching first some random pilgrim and then an actual wolf fucking tripping over themselves to smooch the MC, it's very very funny