Naisu~ Glad you're digging it!
I had a lot of fun with the church scenes, the priest and Metatron were both a lot of fun to write, as were the events. The bridge between faith and fanaticism is something I've tried to reflect in her character, felt a bit more interesting than blind zealotry.
Sam can be surprisingly mature... at times. Mostly I just want each romance to feel genuinely different, and true to the character, rather than just have the MC always go in and fix their problems.
Ina art was my bad, a victim of poor planning and a stressful release week. In retrospect I should have ensured she got more last update, but she definitely will this update. She has a ridiculous number of expressions.
Good to hear the portraits are working out too, I completely agree with that last line and have generally gotten very positive feedback on the change. Glad those hours spent fucking with images wasn't wasted haha.