A lot of romance VNs are the same stories, with small differences. The same events, but with a fantasy backdrop, or a musical theme, or a school drama.
A lot of people get suckered in by caring for family because they are family, but love doesn’t happen without a reason.
My mother wasn’t good enough, so I moved. Love is, to put it harshly, convenience.
Love is generally all about your own ego. You love a person because they are fun to be around. Or because they make you feel happy. They might compliment you lots, or take care of you. They make you feel like you are needed.
There’s nothing wrong with that, despite what some may say. Doing what’s best for yourself is fine and natural, as long as you aren’t fixated on it or obsessed with it.
People don’t continue to talk to each other if they don’t enjoy talking to each other. There’s a reason.
You might view love as this mysterious poetic thing, but at it’s essence, it’s the exact same. You might not see the reason, but your subconscious, and the people around you, both see the reasons. It’s nothing fantastical… It’s human.
There’s a common phrase, that love blinds. That’s not always a negative thing though.
Love blinds you from reason, because love is the process of becoming reliant on everything about a person. If you are clearly aware of a reason, you will fixate, and that love will never become anything more.
The emotion only succeeds when it can grow, and replace reason. It masks reason, so that it can become.
Eventually, if it is successful, you can see reason again. Hundreds of little reasons, or a bunch of big ones. All the reasons that amass to “everything.”
I don’t love my family, but I have no reason for it. I simply have no reason.
Upon gaining one reason to love, you have affection.
Once that reason becomes more grounded in reality, you get friendship.
When the reasons multiply, and those become grounded in reality, you get love.
Naturally, you might have multiple reasons instantly. “Love at first sight.”
When those reasons appear in a person, and your mind becomes certain that those reasons exist, then you get love.
Love isn’t random. That is an insult to anyone in love. Perspective may make it hard to see, but reason is there somewhere.
If you are ever asked by your partner why you love them, you should never say “just because.” If you don’t have a reason, you don’t have a resolve.
Aaanyway, on the Mutsu route focus thing, there is an important aspect to Litbus that needs to be taken into consideration.
Riki.
This route would need to be about Mutsu AND Riki growing, otherwise it wouldn’t happen.
Mutsu has her problems. She’s shy. She’s in a group of bullies. She confessed to someone she has never spoken with.
Riki is shy (in a different way.) He’s protected by his group of friends. He is juxtaposing his current situation with what happened to Rin. Will he just let Kyousuke turn her down? Can he turn her down guilt free without Rin being there to confess instantly? Are those the things Riki would do?
Riki needs to learn courage in this route. He needs to be willing to try something new. To gain focus on what it is he wants. Up until now he has never really made his own decisions.
Mutsu has already built up her courage. She needs reassurance. There is charadev as Mutsu goes from confessing to, to actually spending time with, Riki
They both need to deal with being parts of conflicting groups.
They both may need to deal with the secret of the world.
I was writing something for Valentines, but got lazy and didn’t finish the synopsis. The brief idea is over on the appreciation topic.
