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Thanks so much for responding to my post! <3 <3 I really appreciate the clarification, and yes, overall I loved the game. I'm absolutely looking forward to more ace content from you in the future!! (Also I love that you've made romance and otome games because I'm actually a colossal romantic in my own ace way)

I was also not aware there was an asexual game tag, I played a few of the short ones and you were right, there are characters there I can totally relate to. Thank you for making me aware of this, I'm so used to ace people getting overlooked that I didn't realize there would actually be more than one or two games on the entire asexuality subject! Obviously I've got a lot of internalized aphobia I'm still wrestling with, but if I can see someone like me represented even in just one story, it's more meaningful than I can even explain.

Have a wonderful day or evening, whatever time you see this <3

I don't usually comment much, but here goes: As an ace person who wrestles with a sense of brokenness and inadequacy pretty frequently, I'm so happy to see people talking about this and making games about this! I relate to Seo-jun so much: dealing with the people who don't get it and don't want to get it,  the people who tell me I am obligated to "see a doctor" to get my aceness fixed, just all of it. 

Maybe this is just a me issue, but there was one thing that kind of threw me off into a direction I'm sure you didn't intend. Near the latter half of the conversation, where Iris mentions things like "communicating during sex, aftercare" ... so I guess the two of them are having sex after all? I was assuming they weren't because it sounded like Seo-jun was (like me) generally uncomfortable with actually having sexual intercourse, even with a loved and trusted partner. 

I know there are plenty of ace people out there who are fine with having sex, but for someone like me, it kind of threw off a lot of the validation leading up to it by suggesting that this healthy, supportive relationship for an asexual person ... still has to have sex in it. Maybe I'm just over-sensitive, but as someone who regularly struggles to feel worthy of having a romantic partner when no amount of encouragement is ever going to make penetration feel safe or loving, I kind of whipped right back around into feeling terrible and unlovable again. Again, I know not all ace people are like me, but it might have helped to clarify Seo-jun's feelings on the subject a bit. Then maybe I wouldn't have identified with him so much, and gotten such whiplash at the end.

Okay I went on a lot about my own personal issues there, but I don't want to take away from the fact that I'm really grateful you made this! Even in media that tries to include queer representation, ace people get treated as throwaways or just forgotten so often and actually having something centered on ace experiences is AMAZING. Thank you.

TL:DR I'm possibly still unlovably ace but this game definitely isn't, Seo-jun and Iris deserve all the happiness in the world