Ahahah, there's nothing to be forgiven. If anything, I'm going to take that as a compliment to my writing! I'm very flattered to hear that this is the first game for you where so many characters turned out so complelling you can't pick one above the rest.
I'm scared to imply there's even more characters coming in the future. I hope they're going to turn out as good or even exceed the expectations set up by Chapter 1!
Yes! I spent a good while deciding on Valeriana's design. I had a general idea in my head: white hair, white dress. But following from that and making her into how she looks now genuinely took me a while.
I'm very happy to hear you liked the approach I took with Liora. I think it's a fun challenge where the correct choice requires you to understand her and isn't always obvious "give more food". Where her own needs and preferences strongly matter in order to break her defences and develop a relationship that allows some chub to appear. And as to the slim Liora's future... I'll have to think about it. Because you saw the resolution of the slim route. It's a very different note from the chubby route.
Right! I'm working on multiple projects now so I forgot to mention it first time but now I remember. Prologue was focused on Selena's weight gain stuff and different problems whereas my goal with the Chapter 1 for her was to show a different side - caring, helping, teasing, badass, her warmer approach to the protagonist. I hope I succeeded with those!