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.