My main one is crushing on Qiu and best friends with Tamarack, but I think I want to have her crush on Qiu later on, maybe in step 2? All I know is that I don't want her to immediately fall in love with Qiu.
Shù is crushing on both Qiu and Tamarack the first time they saw them, but at first the crush was more puppy love since they admired how confident the two were, later it became the real thing.
Cran is crushing on Tamarack and, at first, didn't like Qiu because he thought Qiu was trying too hard to be mature, but in step 2, Qiu and him are best friends.
Fran Silva is friends with both of them, but I think later on in step 2 that it's a situation where they're really close friends with Qiu and Tamarack to the point that others get confused that they're 'together'.
Ari doesn't like either Qiu or Tamarack, he's a bit more stubborn. He vehemently and openly dislikes both Qiu and Tamarack in step 1, but I'm planning on him being more passive aggressively 'friendly' in step 2.
Hee-Jin is also crushing on Qiu and best friends with Tamarack, but she has a clear favoritism with Tamarack. To be fair, I'm not sure if she's going to actually end up with Qiu at the end? Hee-Jin's still a work in progress. I don't want to make her route and my main's too similar.
Phya is friends with them and is crushing on Renee. If there was the DLC for Renee, then I think it would end up as a slow burn for the both of them, finally crushing at step 3 and getting together in 4.