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Please, author, don't reconsider anything. Just listen what your instincts and inspiration are telling you. Art under external pressure is no longer art. It will sound trite, but create what your heart tells you, and don't break under pressure from people who have different views, especially if they can't distinguish fiction from real life. Games like yours should be our safe space, where artists can express themselves and we, the readers, cam indulge our fetishes, and not be lectured.

tldr; just wanted to pop in to say i agree with @/sweethurt. i wanted to add that by nature, this type of kinky/fetishy content is going to disturb people with certain traumas / who are more vanilla. that's fine, you're not catering to them. it's on them to not engage with media that upsets them. 

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there's nothing wrong with the way you've depicted anything -- this is a dark fantasy and it's by definition going to be unrealistic. of course the mc isn't going to behave like an irl victim. it wouldnt be fetish content if they did, it'd be horror. 

fetish content is a safe way for people to indulge in the fantasies that they have. for many people, these fantasies are born from trauma -- hence why it's harmful to generalise by saying this content harms victims. no group of people is a monolith. although this content can be triggering to some victims, there are equally valid victims who actually consume it to help reclaim their power and to process their trauma.  the reader has the choice to not read if they know it has the potential to harm them. as a writer, your only responsibility is to provide ample warning, which you do.

REAL ABUSERS harm victims, not fiction. just like real murderers harm people, not slasher horror movies. are you a psychopath if you enjoy slasher movies? no, of course not. it's interesting how people understand there's a difference between fantasy/fiction and reality in most things, but not when it comes to sexual fantasies.

fantasies are fantasy for a reason. the reader understands it isn't real, they understand it's just fiction and an unrealistic/fetishised depiction of events. they know they're safe, they consented by choosing to read (and they can stop at any time). they know it would be immoral for these things to happen irl (and they dont want to engage in these things irl), and that the victim wouldn't behave the way depicted. 

if they don't understand these things, then that's not your fault. they have a personal responsibility of not consuming media that they arent capable of handling, especially when they read the trigger warnings and chose to ignore them apparently. you cant babysit people on the internet. just focus on making the content that you want to make, and that you know your target audience (the people who like darker content) actually like. 

when you get criticism from anyone who isnt a part of your target audience, it's important to consider if it's actually valid criticism. it's like watching a horror movie, knowing its genre, and then rating it a 0/10 because you hate horror, lmao... 

sorry for the rant, it's just that i personally enjoy this content, but there's so little of it, and it's extra discouraging when authors constantly get these comments from people virtue-signaling after CHOOSING to ignore the warnings. btw, you rarely see these people virtue-signaling under dark content made for straight men,  which makes me wonder if some misogyny is at play here (people being less accepting of women being sexual and being into taboo things). 

with that being said, i wanted to say that your vn is honestly one of my favourite yandere vns i've ever read (and i think i've read all of them lol). this sort of content is sorely needed. it's well written, and impressively varied in how many niches it fills. it seems you're just one person, and the amount of effort and work you've put into this is genuinely amazing. you've done double the work that most devs do in years. well done. i really mean it. you're doing great, and evidently a lot of people are very happy with your work too. so don't be discouraged! keep up the good work.