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Tales of Androgyny

A game about birds, bees, flowers and trees. · By Majalis

"Neutral" Purity Path for Bottoms?

A topic by Renara created Dec 15, 2019 Views: 2,580 Replies: 1
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Okay, so I want to say first of all I love the game, love the art, and while not every fetish is for me, it's exposed me to some I never thought I'd be into either, and that's great.

But one thing that kind of bugs me a bit in the game is that there seems to be this kind of implication that taking dicks is bad; a lot of scenes play out from a perspective of humiliation rather than being mutual, when really I'd love to be able to play as a fun-loving bottom who just wants to have a good time (and sometimes that's with hot monster chicks with dicks).

Now obviously there are scenes where humiliation is fine, i.e- defeat/surrender, working in the brothel*, and quite a few scenes where you take a dick simply because you're just that much of a slut.

What I'd really like to see are some variations on scenes so that they can play out differently (even if it's just the dialogue) depending upon how you enter into them or what options you pick.


To give a few examples of what I mean:

When encountering the Brigand, if you pass some checks (stealth and agility iirc) you get various extra options, one of which is to just talk to her, from which you can let her top you, or use charisma for a 69, but in either case the following dialogue makes it feel a lot like you've done that purely for her, rather than it being what you/Hiro wanted too. I'd really love it if there were some way to control this a bit, e.g- additional options (maybe charisma based?) that change how Hiro makes the offer, affecting how the scene then plays out. The action would be largely the same, but with the endings being less unpleasant/humiliating and more mutual (Hiro got what he wanted), maybe even affecting future encounters (i.e- Brigand recognises Hiro and is friendly rather than demanding).

Likewise with Urka; while I don't expect her to ever be romantic, it would be nice to have some alternative to Hiro essentially becoming an Orc-cock hungry fucktoy and actually just him having fun being with an athletic Orc, because really, is anyone pretending they wouldn't want to (if they thought their ass could take it at least)?

The Dullahan, Minotauress and Fire Elemental are interesting characters for this as well, as a lot of dialogue options involve Hiro choosing what he wants to do, so I don't feel like they should play out the same as for encounters where Hiro is given no choice at all. Some of them already sort of do, except for how the gameplay sees them:


In gameplay terms, I'm thinking that approaching scenes in this way, while they should still reduce purity if it's above neutral (as you're not exactly being chaste), they shouldn't take you below neutral, and should have no impact upon dignity (as there's nothing shameful about being a bottom if that's your preference).

The basic idea is that if all the sex Hiro has is consensual, rather than forced or slutty (taking a cock just because one was there), then it should be considered more of a neutral act in terms of purity, so you can still make it to the Dark Knight without being instantly enslaved for being impure.


Related to this, it might also be nice if there were a similar but not identical perk to Catamite, best name I can think of offhand is "Make Love Not War"; basically if you have this perk and avoid or end combat by initiating sex then it is considered to be consensual as above (no impact on dignity, won't take you below neutral purity). This should be mutually exclusive with Catamite (can't take both), but could still allow access to some (but not all) Catamite options, for example the "Open Wide" option with a Harpy, as Hiro willingly does it to get by safely.

*Another possible thing to consider is whether there could be a consensual path within the brothel; obviously starting out should be undignified and impure as normal, but once you've earned a higher rank, maybe Hiro could have an option where he chooses clients so it's more mutual than transactional? Just a though.


Anyway, again, love the game, just feel like it would be nice if being a bottom weren't conflated a lot of the time with being a slut; bottoms have needs too, and there's nothing wrong with satisfying them.

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