please stop asking about a tabitha romance option

[Dmabster]

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

[Megiddo]

I want to see "The Fall of the House of Usher" type madness. Just replace Usher with Scarlet

[Oonai]

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

You see, my friend, almost no one wich want her as a romace option wants her because she is our cousin, but because she is an interesting character. Like Stella says, "is interesting and challenging peel off all the capes of her personality". Its not about wanting a Alabama romance, but about having a interesting romance with a sad, pessimist but good character.
Also,the game lets you date 2 actual monster, and one of them you can witness how devour their own family. Also you can date a dad with a teen daughter when the game clarifys that you are in you 20 aprox and dont have children. Dating a cousin that you never knew before, and that you dont have any kind of family relationship until now doesnt sound so weird when you think about it that way.

[MarkFranz]

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

Umm, and what about it?

[LabyrinthBabe]

Agreed. At this point, it's honestly kinda creepy how much people won't shut up about this. Like, Jesus Christ, take a hint, it's not happening.

[Kurozora Konoi]

Since I've always lived in places where that's fine, I'm not bothered at all by the idea itself, even if I personally wouldn't want to romance her anyway. But with that being said, I just think it's rude towards the devs since they stated more than once it won't be happening. So it's more of a matter of letting that stuff go and accepting the actual author's answer.

Edit: though, to give some people the benefit of doubt, I assume not everyone looks at previous posts. I guess?

[MekaDovah]

Originally posted by Oonai:

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

You see, my friend, almost no one wich want her as a romace option wants her because she is our cousin, but because she is an interesting character. Like Stella says, "is interesting and challenging peel off all the capes of her personality". Its not about wanting a Alabama romance, but about having a interesting romance with a sad, pessimist but good character.
Also,the game lets you date 2 actual monster, and one of them you can witness how devour their own family. Also you can date a dad with a teen daughter when the game clarifys that you are in you 20 aprox and dont have children. Dating a cousin that you never knew before, and that you dont have any kind of family relationship until now doesnt sound so weird when you think about it that way.

Platonic familial love can accomplish all of those same things in regards to character and storytelling.

What does romantic love offer that familial love can't in this regard?

[Oonai]

Originally posted by MekaDovah:

Originally posted by Oonai:

You see, my friend, almost no one wich want her as a romace option wants her because she is our cousin, but because she is an interesting character. Like Stella says, "is interesting and challenging peel off all the capes of her personality". Its not about wanting a Alabama romance, but about having a interesting romance with a sad, pessimist but good character.
Also,the game lets you date 2 actual monster, and one of them you can witness how devour their own family. Also you can date a dad with a teen daughter when the game clarifys that you are in you 20 aprox and dont have children. Dating a cousin that you never knew before, and that you dont have any kind of family relationship until now doesnt sound so weird when you think about it that way.

Platonic familial love can accomplish all of those same things in regards to character and storytelling.

What does romantic love offer that familial love can't in this regard?

Man, You are asking how filial and romantic love are different? I don't have to tell You that You don't love your family like You love your gf. It's not better or worse, it's different. Also You don't know the person the same way and they don't act the same way. The same way You don't act the same with your Friends, or your workbuddies. And just to make clear:
1- i'm not one of the guys asking again and again for tabhita romance. I know the devs said no and ot their Game so i accept it.
2- to make a example, if tabhita and Stella change places (one being your cosuin and the other a girl of the Town) without changes in their personalities, I would still want to romance tabhita. It's not about her being our cousin, like I said before.

[MekaDovah]

Originally posted by Oonai:

Originally posted by MekaDovah:

Platonic familial love can accomplish all of those same things in regards to character and storytelling.

What does romantic love offer that familial love can't in this regard?

Man, You are asking how filial and romantic love are different? I don't have to tell You that You don't love your family like You love your gf. It's not better or worse, it's different. Also You don't know the person the same way and they don't act the same way. The same way You don't act the same with your Friends, or your workbuddies. And just to make clear:
1- i'm not one of the guys asking again and again for tabhita romance. I know the devs said no and ot their Game so i accept it.
2- to make a example, if tabhita and Stella change places (one being your cosuin and the other a girl of the Town) without changes in their personalities, I would still want to romance tabhita. It's not about her being our cousin, like I said before.

Oh I'm not saying they're the same. I can think of at least one pretty big difference between platonic and romantic love that appears to be the only relevant one. However, you are suggesting a second one and I'm unconvinced.

What I'm asking is when it comes to developing emotional bonds, delving into the layers of an interesting character, getting to know someone you never knew before, what exactly does writing it as a romance do that can't be accomplished with getting to know estranged family or just meeting a stranger who becomes a best friend?

What more could we get out of Tabitha as a character that we aren't already getting as is?

[Saint Nik]

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

dont be a bigot. its legal in so many countries you cant even imagine. people just following their culture here.

[MiqoRems]

Complain all you like, folks. Charactername Scarlet is not a completely blank slate character, and one of their defined traits is they're not into cousincest. Move on.

[Sevrin]

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

Why would you ever care about something entirely optional being added which is not for you. Consider that if something doesn't affect you personally you shouldn't complain about it. Should straight people come in and complain about the gay romance options because they don't like it? "that's a man yall, what are we doing"

[Oonai]

Originally posted by 飞天大帅:

Wait, I'm curious if Wayne is the ancestor of the protagonist (I don't know English, so I used AI translation:STPWitchNya:

Wrong post buddy. Here we are not talking about Wayne. There are a Lot of theories of him, but what is know is that he used to be a miner working for tabhita. I don't know how much You played, so i Will stop at that

[domsait]

Originally posted by Oonai:

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

You see, my friend, almost no one wich want her as a romace option wants her because she is our cousin, but because she is an interesting character. Like Stella says, "is interesting and challenging peel off all the capes of her personality". Its not about wanting a Alabama romance, but about having a interesting romance with a sad, pessimist but good character.
Also,the game lets you date 2 actual monster, and one of them you can witness how devour their own family. Also you can date a dad with a teen daughter when the game clarifys that you are in you 20 aprox and dont have children. Dating a cousin that you never knew before, and that you dont have any kind of family relationship until now doesnt sound so weird when you think about it that way.

Completely agree with you, besides, people that doesn't want to romance Tabitha can choose just not to do it and that's it, that's part of having choices, you are not forced to do one thing

[Kurozora Konoi]

I think you guys are missing the point though?
I said it already, but this is not about what any player would want or no and about being able to skip stuff we don't like - it's about what makes the actual authors - the very people who created the characters - comfortable or not. Players are not the ones who should dictate what authors do in their story or what makes sense or not for their own characters.
Even if we have enough freedom of choice to make our MC exactly as we want them to be, Tabby is a set character and if she's written in a way that makes it so she isn't interested in the MC, well... that's it?

It's a moot point to discuss the fact if she was a romance option people not interested in seeing that sort of content could just skip it since she isn't one.

Originally posted by Sevrin:

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

Why would you ever care about something entirely optional being added which is not for you. Consider that if something doesn't affect you personally you shouldn't complain about it. Should straight people come in and complain about the gay romance options because they don't like it? "that's a man yall, what are we doing"

It's like this... Following this very example the other way around, the presence of facultative gay romances is the devs' choice, and indeed it's rude when people come and complain about it because they don't like it. Well Tabby not being a romance option is just the same - the devs' choice. So coming to complain about it due to preferring it the other way around is actually equally rude.

Would I personally have complained if Tabby WAS a love interest? Nah, it's legal where I live and I don't care. But am I complaining because she isn't one? Nope, not at all.

I understand it's frustrating when your favorite character is not an option - been there so many times, believe me. But this game offers people the possibility to really build a relationship with her, which is a lot more than most games would offer with non-romanceable characters.

I could argue that way more than Tabby not being a love interest for people who would actually be into that, an unfair thing is that both "monster" romances are men, which is restrictive towards people who are into that and prefer women. I lucked out here because I like that sort of stuff and I prefer male characters, but quite often I got the short straw and it was the other way around. And yeah, it's frustrating. And there is nothing wrong in asking the devs once if an alternative could be created. But once the creators tells you no, you have to just accept it.
Being pestered about something that makes you uncomfortable is very disheartening as an author, and I've seen projects abandonned because of stuff like that.
Now, I don't believe it will happen here, but it must still be unpleasant for them to witness and to bear on a regular basis.

[MiqoRems]

Originally posted by Sevrin:

Originally posted by Dmabster:

that's our first cousin yall what are we doing

Why would you ever care about something entirely optional being added which is not for you. Consider that if something doesn't affect you personally you shouldn't complain about it. Should straight people come in and complain about the gay romance options because they don't like it? "that's a man yall, what are we doing"

wanting to ♥♥♥♥ your cousin is not a sexual orientation