I have a bad feeling about how the endings of each or some of the character will be. Like, my gut is telling me to NOT get too attached to the characters (especially William & Nick) ...or else, but my freakin' reproductive system's telling me: NOPE! TOO LATE!
That's exactly why its been bothering me. I too feel like the potential romances won't die... hopefully. BUT! Given that the Echo series seem to have a knack to kill some of the characters, and the fact that Sam, William, and Nick could have died on that so called bridge on the mines (although Sam did died at some point), I'd say I won't get myself too comfortable yet
real quick dont read this if you havent done echo,
in the Leo route at the end when you get on the train without him you switch between two people. both cursing echo for hurting them and there friends, one being I'm pretty sure the mc of the smoke room the other obviously being chase. and on that same note, the reason i think its the mc of the smoke room is because he says "curse you for hurting Nikolai, William and Cynthia. (and more but I don't remember the rest because I'm kinda forgetful.) so I think maybe they get injured or someone they love will get injured. but no deaths because I don't think I saw the ???/mc of smoke room state anything about someone dying. i got a save directly on that moment so i might check just to be sure.
Theres quite a few reasons in my opinion to not get emotionally attached to the characters. Echo spoilers
Firstly, In Leo's route in Echo, the voice in Chase's head says something along the lines of "Fuck you for hurting William" and the rest of the characters. Pretty good evidence for pretty much all the routes having no "good" endings.
Echo gives some backstory as to what happened in 1915 mass hysteria (TSR). Echo pretty much went to shit as result of the events in this VN so there is definitely a canonically bad ending.
And of course, the same people who made this VN made Ad Astra and Echo sooo....
Yeah i know. I just recently finished Carl's & Leo's route like an hour ago, and my heart dropped at those lines.
I just can't help it to get attached to them. I mean, how can you just not love William and Nickolai (and Cyntia)? They're like... rare pokémons that needs to be treasured lol
The creators of the Echo series doesn't seem to have "good ending" in their vocabulary. I mean I guess they do, but their type of good ending leaves you questionably happy yet depressing. Its like The Conjuring but with romance and the credit song is WAP but sanged by Celine Dion lol