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I'm sorry, but you speak of a lack intentional writing for what the writer implies, and later in the post claim that there was an unspoken promise between you and Mizz. You cannot have your cake and eat it, too. Mizz and Bromm have had time to develop a relationship like that since before you joined the crew, and you cannot expect him to suddenly go monogamous with someone who just showed up and is *starting* to develop feelings for. That is a selfish and short-sighted reading.

TL;DR: No.


Let's drop the passive-aggressive, shall we? It's exhausting, and there's only so long I can respond politely to someone behaving in a rude manner (as you'll see momentarily), and I intend to drop this matter after this response.

I am not responsible for how satisfying you find my answers, only for the provision of those answers. You raised a concern, I explained how you'd misread the text and admitted it could be my fault as the author, and polled other readers to see more opinions. I determined the fault was in your reading, not my text, based on that polling. You have clearly held on to this discontent for an entire year, which is unhealthy at best.

What you seem incapable of realizing is that no one else in the community is reading this the way you are. The implication that not only the author is wrong, but also the entire rest of the readership save for you and you alone, is arrogant and self-entitled. The irony that your tone implies that I'm the arrogant one for failing to recognize your superior literary analysis is not lost on me.

I am not going to address the problem because there is no problem here to address. I have made many mistakes and cocked up many things, both in this project and in many others over the decades, but casting my net for a wider source of critique of the scene in question sees you standing alone. The problem is not the text. The problem is your reading, and that is not something I have the power to fix.

You are not my editor and you are not my co-writer. You are a reader, immensely valued and very appreciated, but a reader nonetheless. You can like my work, or you can leave it. I know I can't please everyone and I don't even try. Some people will enjoy what I do. Some won't. I'm going to do everything in my power to create something wonderful that means the former outnumbers the latter by orders of magnitude, but I will not compromise my characters or my creative and narrative vision for any single reader, especially not one with such a jumped-up sense of self-importance that he feels the need to hold a grudge against a single scene for a year and vent that grudge in this public space.

I appreciate and respect that you care enough to be this up in arms about one scene in a VN that you otherwise seem to enjoy. You have not, however, presented an attitude worthy of consideration, a critique backed by common opinion, or any special insight or discovery that requires me to alter my approach to my work. Certainly the implication that you and you alone have the narrative literacy and literary wisdom to fix what's broken in my work is a feat of ego worthy of legend.

So to your issues with the scene in question, as I said at the top: No. 

This matter, from my perspective, is closed. I've spent far too much time that I could have used to work on the project on this instead, and I am very glad to put it behind me. I suggest that you do the same.