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Hiya, how are things going? Glad to hear from you again.

What’s available so far in the game is indeed food for thought, and some interesting ideas like yours can arise. I like your definition of Dave as an unlikely hero; it strikes me as a pretty accurate one, and things are certainly starting to point in such a direction. Whether that will take the form of a Monster Girl army of sorts under his leadership, ready to fight in some open battle… well, that’s still unclear. We’ll have to wait and see; and not only because of Dave’s prejudice. Many factors are bound to come into play here, and most of them will be rather subtle. Maybe that’s the direction we’re heading into, maybe not so much… but I can’t deny that your vision is an amusing and plausible idea.

Spider Girls, as I recall them from Monster Girl Quest (my main source of inspiration), are indeed fearsome beings, first and foremost. But as seen in other media, like certain anime with Monmusu themes, they can be managed like somewhat tamable creatures that become more or less fond of the MC, just as other Monster Girls (and admittedly, I don’t dislike those scenarios at all). Originally, I didn’t have in mind any Arachne becoming close to Dave in such a sense, since my idea was closer to the one depicted in MGQ. But as the script is in the process of being written, and like I often say, there’s always room for new and interesting developments in the plot.

Although it’s in no way an easy task to gather Monster Girls around a human being, even less making them work together as a team towards a goal higher than “feeding and reproduce”, Dave is certainly managing to achieve something, at least, very vaguely related… and he’s not even fully aware of it yet. A group of Monster Girls can easily and rapidly destabilize, because, as you say, they have a fundamental weakness: their instincts. And it’s difficult enough doing so with a few Monster Girls… but, why not, someone with an unsuspected charisma like Dave could end up achieving something of the sort, in the short or long run. Maybe, he’s not even the first one in this world to succeed in such an endeavor…

Currently, I’m quite busy writing the first endings of the Spanish version of “And now, time to study”, so I’m afraid I have to say that the development of “Monster Girls: the Advent” is halted as of now. Version 0.5 has been out in Spanish for some time, and it certainly could answer at least some of your questions, but I’m still not ready to do its English translation. Eventually, it will be done, of course; but we’ll have to be patient. I’m a solo dev and things are bound to move little by little; but I enjoy this very much as a hobby, and I’m always pleased to talk with people like you, exchanging feelings and inspiring ideas about my stories.

Regards!