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I sent your question to the rest of the writing team. For now I'll respond only for myself and then complement it later:

1. I'd say my favorite combinations are... 

• Pedro, Oscar, Themba, because there's a lot of story and dynamics I want to explore there.
• Themba and Asterion because they have so much history.
• Luke and Pedro, and Luke + an upcoming character, because they both can draw out a different and more heartfelt side out of Luke.

2. I want to write a story about some figures of Brazilian folklore, including but not limited to the pink porpoise, and I really want to write a story in Minoan Crete set a few decades after Asterion's death, focusing on a cast of mythical beings we see represented in some archeological sites -- specifically gryphons, daemons, cyclops (mammoth-flavored cyclops) and more.

3. Yes. This was always the goal. Some specifics changed over time but that aspect was always there.

4. It's a climax, but it's one of the first steps in rising action for Act 3. We're going big. (Mind you, while there'll be other sex scenes, they may even be more intense, but none will be as long as this one.)

1: Writing dialogue for Asterion is always something that I feel right doing, and putting some more poetic voice on him. Additionally, there is a couple who is not yet a couple in game who are kind of compelling just for how as we write them, they just seem to uncontrollably trip into eachother. It is just sort of cute.

2: Framing it as a "Sexy redemption arc" specifically gives me pause. There are a lot of mythological creatures the world over that could be interesting to include: kushtaka, shen, faoladh, Jambavan, selkies, and aleximenos-graffito-donkeys-extrapolated-to-mythicals, etc... But I am not sure if any of them need sexual redemption specifically. Haha

3: Something to the effect of "a VN that feels like how Dark Souls safe-area-music feels (and gay)" was always some kind of goal, at some scale or another.