Developer Update: Week of May 14th, 2021
Added 2021-05-14 16:46:05 +0000 UTCI completed Prudence's route for MC2, this week (including a romantic interaction with her)! I'm currently working on the route where MC2 stays with MC1 (willingly or otherwise). Obviously, there's a lot of tricky subject matter involved if MC1 forced MC2 into labor for their family. It might get intense, but I want to reiterate that, while the player can participate in the harmful perpetuation of racism, sexism, and classism, the ultimate consequence of these actions will always be negative. It may not be directly negative to the MC if they have positioned themselves to have the right allies or otherwise avoid backlash, but in cases like that there will still be negative net/societal consequences.
For example, you can't spend the entire game with a racist MC1 that goes on and on about how they think everyone other than them is sub-human and then expect the people you've surrounded yourself with to be perfectly fine with suddenly dismantling the state-sponsored slavery mandate. Similarly, the constant "survival of the fittest" "might makes right" culture of the Sovereignty has led to a society of people willing to do whatever they can in order to fulfill their religious/societal expectation of one-upping everyone else. If you spend the entire game brandishing a knife at everyone, don't be surprised when someone takes it and stabs you in the back.
Chapter 2 will end in Sovereign's Refuge, and something very drastic will either round out the chapter or else start chapter 3 with a "bang". (;
