AAAAAH I’M SORRY (but if it can help you feel better, I cried too during the denial/realisation scene??)
Yes, you really get the whole ace experience with Katekyo, haha, even, I had to include AVEN (but historically, the ace community built itself online though, so it really was important!). I’m part of the luck ones who knew what asexuality was before realising my own asexuality, and those tools are important because, in the end, it was way easier to me to accept it (well, that didn’t spare me the “coming-out”, the doubts etc. but I had a much easier time! Although the question of the partner is still a HUGE one for me, haha)
I told everyone, I HATE LARA!!!!! If it were me, I would have left the date way earlier than Katekyo, but to each their own, right, haha! Of course, she embodies to an extreme point all these intrusive questions we get asked, or all these intrusive people who think us being ace grants us a pass to ask us all sorts of personal questions (I got the famous “are you sure it’s not testosterone?”). So, long story short: SHE’S A VILLAIN and you can’t even imagine how happy I was writing the part when Katekyo talks back to her!
Thanks!! Believe it or not, I actually had a very hard time figuring out the direction I wanted this scene to have, let it be about the ending (in the first version, it ended with WonderMiss’s post), the assets (at first, I wanted to use a CG with Katekyo curling up, but in the end, I thought it would be more intense that way)! I also put a lot of thoughts in the music haha: I really wanted it to hit hard I think? And in the end, when I troubleshot it, I was SHAKING and CRYING and the rollercoaster of emotions got me!!
I’m happy this game helped you think of your feelings and your experience, and that the title screen helped you calm down, T.M. Bach’s music is really soothing haha, I love it! And I’m so excited to show more about Katekyo (and his brothers of course)!! He’s a really selfless character and sensitive, and I hope it shows in the main game, haha!