#relationship rates
Season 6 Relationship Rates
Zeus Brundle
I didn’t like him.
To throw Solmare a bone, I do think they tried to give him a character. Keyword here is tried. For pretty much the whole route, Zeus was domineering and insulting to Liz and pretty much everyone. Even in their actual relationship, he continues to be this way toward her. What makes me even madder about this is that when I was first introduced to Zeus in one of the event stories, he felt like a fun and flamboyant character. I wish that had been his character. Hell, he could still even be arrogant or boastful, but like… he could have not repeatedly insulted Liz for the hell of it, and he could have not done that thing where he forcibly made her go with him to the Night Class.
Here’s the thing: He could still do the betrayal thing though. I think it would have had more of an impact if Zeus had actually treated Liz better. I think it could have set up a good conflict. People aren’t perfect and characters should be allowed to make mistakes. And in the route, Liz gets to call him out and in happy ending at least, Zeus seems genuinely remorseful about his role in betraying Liz. It would have been a good character arc.
Rate:F in the chat for what could have been.
Klaus Goldstein
Okay can we all agree that “The Absolute Perfection” was a stupid title? Right, now that I’ve got that out of my system, let’s talk about the actual route. It was regrettably okay. The regret part is just a joke; I much prefer this route to his first route. Even though there’s the fact that Klaus is a college graduate now and Liz is still in college, they feel more like equals this route. Klaus seems to respect Liz more as a wizard and a person instead of constantly degrading her for the slightest mistake like a more boring version of Christian Gray. Honestly the worst I could really say about this route in regards to Klaus himself is how over the top the Happy Ending is, but like… it’s funny. It’s not Bad bad, it’s funny bad. It was absolute HILARIOUS to me how over the top that ending was. Idk, maybe I’ve just finally hit the brainrot stage of running this blog because this heavy-emotional-romantic-climax is just so goddamn funny to me.
I feel like the actual romantic route is pretty mediocre? Which I feel really worked this time, since there was a lot of focus on the plot, so the romantic subplot was more of “he loves me, he loves me not” and ¾ (?) of the way through, they get together without any dumb miscommunications or misunderstandings. I appreciate a story that doesn’t engineer miscommunications that make me want to scream.
Rate: Mediocre, but the brainrot makes it good.
Hiro Tachibana
He’s okay. That’s all I can really say about this route. There’s not a lot of groundbreaking stuff. He’s just kind of a normal guy by Gedonelune standards.
Although since the game is now going with HP parallels and Hiro was possessed by a bad guy whose soul was trapped in an object and forced to write giant letters on walls and was obsessed with the guy who had the most main character energy….. #HiroIsGinnyWeasely
Rate: Normal Guy. So, bare minimum.
Ah, can you tell I wrote these three rates at two very different stages of my life?
Also, there was a departure in the usual format of the stories. Instead of telling the same story three different ways, each route had a different plot. I found this to be more fun for me personally. The same story got boring around the third time.
