Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-36170150-20191013235720

The other day I was thinking about how the entire harem is very single-mindedly attracted to only Simon, occasionally to each other and to some women outside the harem, but even then very often it feels like it is by proxy. Either way the matter of fact is that Simon is the only masculine attraction the entire harem has, and occasionally that makes them feel pretty out of character, i.e Yarra and Nalili being super dissapointed and turned off the moment they found out the Givini Twins were men instead of women.

I can understand there are all kinds of practical meta reasons to write the game like that, such as keeping the game more heteronormative and making sure no player is dissapointed that their favourite isn't as wholly devoted to the MC as they would have wanted, but considering Simon's personality and how many different women have joined the harem at this point, it starts feeling a bit suspicious that the issue never came up.

I give Sierra credit for her writting in the sense that no individual character really feels so out of place with Simon being the only man they are attracted to, even the succubi, after all most succubi societies lived under an Incubus King, so it makes sense to an extent for them to be used to having a single masculine idol. Most of the individual stories also hold up on their own, the issue is that after 20+ different women in the harem, it becomes a bit glaring that almost every single one of them is:

a) Coming from a bad/abusive relationship.

b) Were lone wolves before meeting Simon.

c) For one reason or another were fundamentally distanced from sex.

d) Some mix of the above reasons.

I considered asking Sierra about this, and if it was a concession she made in the game's writing out of her own preference or due to popular demand, but then I realized she might already have something planned for it: The "destiny" plotline. Simon has been concerned all this time that his shard might have been subtly manipulating the women around him, but Alonon showed us that beyond the shards a person's destiny itself is a bigger factor, I had been thinking for a while that maybe this meant someone manipulated Simon's destiny so he would eventually get the shard and from there things would follow their course.

But what if it is something even bigger and even more insidious? What if it wasn't just Simon's destiny being manipulated, but also the destiny of every single woman in the harem? What if all these exceptional women had their destinies cursed so that they would be unfortunate in their love-lives, keeping them available and ready to devote themselves entirely to Simon the moment he was ready to take them?

I have my suspicions on who this destiny manipulator would be, and I'm definitely interested in how such a confrontation with them would go down.