I wanted to make a quick board where anyone with strong thoughts about a character can post them. Dunno. Seemed fun.

Fakers, Nobodies, and the Scent of Citrus · By
Leran: This dude jumps between cracking one liners and having no social skills. I hate it. 10/10.
Keito: He's pretty fun. Seems like a chill older brother kinda guy you'd smoke weed with behind the office. 8/10 (Because of the one weird guy in the comments).
Kaas: Goofy, might be severely mentally disturbed, adorable, 10/10
Sylvanna: I think this character's IQ is straight room temp. She stoopid but in the lovable way. 9/10. Subtracting 1 because of the brainrot at Juan's Keep.
Kaori: I really wish she got more screentime. She's got some. But still. She just isn't as strong as a personality as the others. She's just a girl that likes to punch things.
Aria: I'm gonna say ZAMN and leave it at that, if you've played the game you'll know what I mean. 10/10 Smash.
Ruby: Gave me a panic attack upon first meeting? Nah I can fix her.
Sapphire: She had like one scene and some cameos. Gonna skip the vote for her till she gets some more events.
Linne: LINNE MY QUEEN HOLY SHIT I LOVE HER. SHE'S SUCH A FAILURE AND IT'S THE BEST. SHE HAS THE BEST DESIGN THE BEST DIALOG, THE BEST QUIPS, EVEN WHEN SHE INSULTS ME IT'S AMAZING. THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH HER AND IF I CAN'T ROMANCE HER EVENTUALLY I AM GOING TO CRY..
"She orders black coffee to appear sophisticated, but she always ends up adding four to six sugar cubes and lots of cream because she can't handle bitterness well."
"When she first became immortal, she enjoyed pretending to be six different traveling sages. She enjoyed performing impossible feats in front of peasants, telling them that no one would ever believe them, and then disappearing to watch a few generations of that family's life fall apart or start a cult. This accidentally earned her more plausibility."
"She's a self-proclaimed sommelier (alcoholic), and she becomes loud and emotional when she drinks. This is made funnier by the fact that she has practically no tolerance for alcohol. Because of this, Ruby and Sapphire often swap her wine for grape juice."
Holy Girlfailure, I didn't think I could love her more. Linne is love Liinne is life.
That sounds great! I'm actually working on small talk with each character at the library right now! So, you beat me to it. But yes, if you're familiar with the Linne dialogue tree, you'll see that we're going to be making a party talk feature.
It's just to help us naturally chat with the characters and include audience questions and answers. We're also adding more small talk to the world map. So hopefully that helps!
Yes, development is going steadily. It's just not the usual lightning pace since I'm working on a more laid-back, wholesome RPG on the side. It's a remake of my first RPG. It's not a priority, but it might be a good palate cleanser when LOA's darker sections get out of hand, lol. It just gets tiring since a lot of the game's serious content draws from my real life.
The LOA is taking time since I have to do each character one by one. Having a side project is great for preventing burnout, so I'm looking forward to it!
It's fine take your time don't stress yourself out.
I'm glad you found something to take you mind off as a palate cleanser. I believe a happy dev is better than one that suffers for their art.
I know put your heart into this game and that's what so cool about the work so there's no need to push yourself.