I made an account just to comment on this. First of all I wanna say thank you for this gift. I thought I was gonna get dating sim that I play for max I about 1 hour but ended up being engrossed in this fantasy/surreal story in an underground wrestling world for about 6+ hours straight. I could not stop playing and wanted to constantly know more of the story,
(SPOILERS BELOW)
Highlight for me:
Redline started as a character I thought was just nice and cute but a bit of a people pleaser, then I found him annoying and what I thought was arrogance, and then I thought literally ”you are my only light in this world”.
It felt realistic how this really talketive fella who gave the more stoic Zander attention would annoy him at first, but after being treated by everyone else like crap he would long for the positive attention and even feel apologetic towards Red. I got emotional and felt guilty when learning about the source of Redlines people pleasing nature and I thought it was described beautifly (how he just wanted to be good to someone, through sex etc). How Zander felt protective over Reds positvity. Like I FELT that Zander loved him, I felt he wanted to protect him. I felt how isolated and abused they both were as gay men, and how Redline described ”not feeling like they belonged in the world”. That scene when they sat at the beach was 10/10. So much love, so much pain. The inner diolouge with Zander and him describing his feelings (with the head pats and sleeping next to him in the hospital) felt so pure and gentle. Not overly done, just enough to understand his protectivness and affection for Redline. And it was a slow beautiful build up! Zander I did not feel felt a romantic pull towards Red until later on when he started longing for his attention and positvity, it felt real. It felt pure.
Maybe there are things that I would change in the story, but the Redliner and Zander relationship really carried it for me. There are a lot more things I could say but I just wanted to let you or yall know that I really appriciate this work. Thank you so much. I hope you take your time with the rest and finish it.