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1. Why did Violet just disappear? I felt that she should have had more of a presence, but she never did.

2. Vivi's characterization seems a bit flat. It's almost as if she existed only as a foil to Maya, and so Laird could have a girlfriend before coming out.

3. I wasn't sold on Jayne's suicide at all. I get that he had a problematic relationship with his father, but it wasn't reinforced enough prior to the ending for it to be believable.

Man, that POV switching thing really could get hairy at times under the hood, I should have guessed there were pronoun errors I missed. I actually wrote and programmed each chapter at the same time, I'd typically write Maya's section first, then do Isaac. It made me cross eyed, especially nearing the end. x.X

1. Yeah, I think originally she was going to be a more prominent character, but a lot of her scenes ended up getting cut from the final product. She was supposed to show up and become plot relevant near the end of the game (as was Jayne's dad actually) but it ended up being not worth it to spend an extra month concepting their characters. She ended up being just sort of an ear for Isaac's insecurities...which wasn't bad , but wasn't really that good either. Given more time I would've liked to have had her in the story more.

2. Yeah I agree, she really didn't have much of a character arc, or really solid development. I ended up focusing more on the relationship between Maya, Isaac and Jayne then the other characters, which you probably noticed. I regret that actually, she's a cool character
, and probably one of the more fun to write of the lot. It didn't end up being her story for whatever reason. I might come back to her character in the future in some form or another, she has an interesting story I'd still like to tell.

3. This was the part of the story I felt the least strong about. It'd been roughly 8 or so months in the making, and I really wanted to finish the fucking thing. I knew the end well ahead of time, but I had a hard time with the build to the end. Depending on what path you play, I think it can and cannot be better or worse. All the Paths which have Chapter 7 end with Jayne crying in the park kind of set up the scene for his eventual not-so-happy ending, but if you get some of the other paths it becomes a bit less alluded to. (Especially the funnier ones, including the Noir-Scene with Maya and the bad movie scene with Laird). I think the car crash was meant as half-intent, half-accident, but it wasn't strongly communicated that way. I wasn't super happy with it, but I knew that had to be how it ended.