I really love your comment! Comments like these are what motivates me! Not gonna lie, I really felt disheartened by one of the critics I got. Aside from saying that Louhi is a weak character, they didn't like how the choices didn't have immediate impact on the story except which ending you get. The thing is that it's a conscious choice. When you're stuck with Louhi, you're in a hopeless situation so you have to feel helpless and like your choices don't matter because he can't take NO for an answer. That's the entire point of his character. He wants to have full control and access to you and how would I be able to convey his controlling and entitled nature if he listens to you when you tell him NO?
Now I see that you're right that each yandere story and universe has its own niche. At first I thought that the yandere fandom was a whole single niche so I thought that everyone who likes yandere characters would enjoy my story as long as it was a story with a yandere character. But after releasing my game, I found out that I was wrong. Even inside the yandere fandom there are different niches, people with different tastes in different types of yanderes. So even if someone likes the yandere trope, that doesn't necessarily mean they'll like a yandere character like Louhi. They won't feel bad for him at all, more likely they'll think he deserves everything he gets because of his insufferable narcissism and victim complex.
One of the reasons I created Louhi is because I find most yandere characters in the fandom too tame and harmless for me. I wanted to create a really messed up yandere who violates all personal boundaries and poses serious danger to the mc's life. I don't know many yandere characters that are worse than Louhi, but there are some I personally can't stand, but most people love them.
I'm very glad that I could get Louhi's struggles and feelings through to you, even if it's just one person. Louhi would really appreciate you trying to help him. I haven't thought about that yet, but maybe there could be a cure or something that could put his disease-spreading powers under control. Maybe with love and patience you would be able to fix him lol
Again I'm really happy that you think I wrote him well! It means the world to me to receive comments like these! I'd really like to continue Louhi's story, but I also want enough engagement to do it. Even if it's fun writing Louhi, it feels bad to put love and effort into something just for my work to be ignored to oblivion. One of my plans for Louhi is for him to seek redemption for his crimes. Louhi is actually part of an universe I created where the upir and the sith(aos si, a type of fairy from celtic folklore) are in constant competition to see which race has more power and influence in the human world. I decided to create a short visual novel just about Louhi because he's my favorite character and to test my storytelling skills.
Desperation. Louhi is the kind of guy who proposes to you on your first date and invites himself to house to live with you. He just skips all proper steps to form a natural intimate relationship and go straight to marriage and having kids. Louhi's worst fear is being alone so he's always desperate for intimacy. That's why he's so invasive and pushy. He's not able to wait until he naturally develops intimacy step by step with someone. He wants intimacy RIGHT NOW to immediately heal his unbearable loneliness. He feels entitled to immediate intimacy with random strangers to heal his loneliness and will get irrationality furious at the slighest sign of resistence. That's how he works.
Yes, it's very hard to be Louhi. He wants someone to be always there for him, but everyone who gets close to him dies too soon. His family didn't want to risk having him around and killing more patients. They think it'd take too long to come up with a solution to Louhi's situation(if a solution really does exist) and too many humans would die in the process if they kept Louhi around for much longer. Notice another reference to his victim complex and never thinking he's wrong is when he implies that his family disowned him and kicked him out of the house because they're mean and didn't believe in his potential to follow their tradition, but he leaves out the important detail that they did this because he kills people around him.
Yes, I tried to write him in a way that people could understand his point of view, but at the same time trying to make sure that his actions are unforgivable and unjustified. It's his defence mechanism, if he viewed himself for who he is, as a monster who kills people to satisfy his selfish desires, then he wouldn't be able to keep on living. He's always in a state of denial. He really doesn't want to look at himself in the mirror or he would end up commiting suicide. But he doesn't want to die yet because he thinks the world owes him the things he couldn't get in the past so he won't give up until he's satisfied(which will never happen) and gets everything he wants and also because if he did commit suicide, he'd just prove the world that he's worthless and that his existence is meaningless. To counter the latter he tries to prove his usefulness and worth by continue living to take care of his patients. I think I at least managed to show people he has a very disturbed mind. Thank you so very much for your support and for liking Louhi! It means the world to me when people are able to connect with my creation! Thank you very much for believing in me and being interested in my works! Let's see what the future has in store for Louhi ☺️