Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-39332473-20190808194309/@comment-27713488-20191014084037

The Scoutman wrote: I don't really buy the "loyalty" aspect, since when it comes to sleeping with women outside the harem it becomes a simple matter of just asking if Simon is okay with it (i.e Galvia and the halfling herbalist), Well, sleeping with other men is more of a problem than sleeping with women, men and women not being interchangeable for the purpose. That's why I specified men. TheEndingOfTheWords wrote: something she wants to address more (like that bit of dialogue that Aka had about feeling slightly neglected).

For my two cents, I just find the logistics of the harem strange (no, not those logistics, har har). How does he find time to give everyone personal attention? These things are related. I believe that Aka conversation and his efforts with Trin represent a credible effort by SL to address the logistical concerns of the harem fantasy in a way other harem games and stories do not. We see Simon's efforts begin to bear fruit later as Simon successfully controls multiple bodies in the Simon/Varia/Uyae scene and even begins to handle serious matters in two places at once while building the teleport circle in Stenai. It's early days yet, but Simon's mind and soul are growing beyond what a single mere human can do. Already he can probably pat his head while rubbing his stomach.

As Simon says to Aka, it's been on his mind for a while. He's just only recently been able to do anything for it outside the bedroom. Inside the bedroom we've seen him doing what he can with copies and tentacles and that one particularly creative sensation-sharing arrangement from the Chapter 2 reunion orgy.

Before Simon masters being in two places at once and other such measures, we can only assume slack is taken up by the fact that some (most?) of the women are into each other and not just into Simon. Multiple conversations make the point that "harem" is an inadequate term for what the group is, implying more laser focus on Simon's relationship to each woman than may be appropriate. Mostly they are united by love for Simon (Trin notwithstanding) but it's not necessarily critical to each of them that they spend hours of quality time with Simon every day. Is that fulfilling? Probably not if you're a monogamous sort, so it's fortunate most of them aren't to some degree.

In the end, some suspension of disbelief is probably going to be necessary regardless. The harem is large, perhaps larger than SL would have made it if she'd anticipated people caring this much about the characters as people rather than as cuties to collect. If it ends up seeming like an inadequate attempt to address the logistics, I feel it's worth remembering that SL didn't have to bother justifying the genre convention at all, any more than the four-person headcount limit in combat.