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Hey there, everyone!

Is everyone having a good day? Hope so, if not, I hope this demo update will make it a little better, even if there's not much.

This update includes a heavy corrections after catching aaaaaaaall the typos. I wasn't aware there would be so many... but yeah, had to deal with them and fix some pronoun issues too in some routes, like the doc. If I didn't catch them all, please do tell me and I'll fix them. Most of the time the problem comes from how I wrote it. For example: Athiel uses she/her here and L uses he/his, and sometimes, I accidentally write $l_they/$l_them for Athiel when it should be $a_they/$a_them, same for the gender, etc.

But let's focus back to the rewrite. So this time there's not much added, as I mentioned before (I think?), that I wouldn't change much except for things that really need it so we can go back to chap 4 faster. V-poly choices have been added, some text removed or modified, but mostly, grammar corrections have been the biggest change here.

I wanted to cut the work problem scene in chap 2, but I really need to keep it there to build the plot. So I just removed the part where MC handles the crowd, which is, in a way, the most logical thing. I don't know much except what google and my close ones told me about anything to know about a company etc., but having the main person directing the company handling something that big makes more sense than an assistant. And it felt too charged and heavy with what MC already deal with. I think that was a good compromise, keeping the scene where Marla Paxton, the client, comes and complains about the cosmetics, plus the crowd, without overly making a big deal out of it for MC.

The demo update ends when the therapist shows up at MC's work.

Sorry, it's getting long, but one final thing I wanted to say is that I'm about ~8k words for chap 4! (So will probably be around 10k tomorrow if I write my usual 2k words tonight). I decided to split my time in two parts only recently: rewrite in the mornings and chap 4 during late afternoon/evenings. And I'm finally breathing, I really needed to find a way to get to chap 4 without neglecting the rewrite, which I feel is turning more into a big fat corrections than a rewrite at this point, but it's also needed for the vee-poly routes (especially for Ekissa/MC/T route), and it's also needed to remove some things which might be irrelevant, so I can't exactly stop the process.

That's it. I'm done haha. Have an extraordinary day/afternoon/evening, and please enjoy what little I have to offer for now!

Early Access demo link: here

Comments

Ilynna

I can’t wait 😭 I love Elias, my poor pookie bear. Recently, I imagined when Elias remembers and MC finds out everything. My heart is breaking. I hope in the end there is a route where MC and Elias come back together. Love your writing ❤️ you so funny, pls dont go bald (jk jk )

Kiki

Thank you!

Nek

This update couldn’t come at a better time. Was feeling tired with work and.. well, generally everything 🤣 But now I can decompress and enjoy the read. Thanks Echo for your hard work! 😊 Always looking forward to the story.

PUYOPUYO

don’t apologize for being long winded diva, i love reading actual breakdowns and seeing where the authors heads at with choices they make :-)

Thedoof

I don't know if this is reasonable to ask considering the rewrite is big undertaking/project, but I think there may be a grammar(?) issue throughout the game, specifically when MC's pronouns are they/them. I think when they're addressed by name, the name is still assumed to be plural so there will be sentences like "[Name] take a deep breath" and " "You're already here," [Name] say as they take a seat" instead of "[Name] takes a deep breath" and " "You're already here," [Name] says as they take a seat", etc. It doesn't happen consistently like that, I just remembered it in the scene in the park with Emily, but it is throughout the game. If this is not a problem and I'm misunderstanding, please forget this. If it is, it's making anything illegible or anything like that, I just kept noticing it and thought to point it out. I'm sorry for the paragraph, I didn't know where to put this.

Thedoof

The poly option is sustaining me, you don't know what this has done to my brain, it's so fun.

Jee

Came back to see the rewrite, and I like all the new additions. Still very much in love with Ellie, my ride or die at this point lol 🤣 Btw, will you be planning on adding more stoic or angry reactions? So far, Juliet makes me wanna throw a fist, and Luna got me wanting to duck tape her mouth. Like at the scene after the funeral, it felt kinda off that all the options were just us enjoying our friend’s company or smiling when we just got called on the cops by a smug Juliet. I was seething with pure rage 🪓