Random Post #46 (Kiria Quest Planning) (Patreon)

First off, I'll be sending the info for this month's second suggestion poll for all patrons at or above the Farm Supervisor tier today! This time around, the suggestion will be for an in-game SCENE! (Everyone who joins before day 25 will also be able to participate)

Back to the main topic at hand, I'll start by giving a quick reminder of her character so you guys can understand how she came to be. If you care for spoilers, I recommend skipping this post.

Kiria, as a character, exists primarily to give the player a reason to venture into the caves that aren't just "I want to level up" or "I wanna fuck that slime girl," at least that was the plan when she was first implemented at… v0.3.5, 2 years ago.

Although Kiria is very similar to Lamir in terms of her relationship with the player character, with both being childhood friends, they couldn't be more different personality-wise. Right at the beginning of the game, you get a little glimpse of a cute and innocent Kiria, but that's not at all who she is by the time she's saved. She is arrogant, proud, and a bit rude, those being leftover traits of being the Goddess's puppet, but also kind, energetic, and strangely innocent, wanting nothing more than to make up for the time lost.

Her quest went through two iterations. The first one I had written all the way back to the end 2022. It was all about Kiria trying to understand the destructive powers of the Goddess left inside of her and dealing with the remains of the cultists who wanted their Goddess back. That was a very complex quest that would NOT have felt right being a one-part story, so after chatting with Zehmun about it back then, we agreed to rework the quest and focus on her relationship with the player and her feelings of being a stranger in her own hometown. So, the current iteration of Kiria's quest is way more about her and her feelings than anything else, culminating in a series of smaller scenes of her with other people where she will slowly understand her feelings of love. Luckily for Kiria, she has quite a few characters that can work as side characters for her quest, like her mom, Lamir, and even Peach and Bum-Bum! Always excited to have an excuse to add Bum-Bum to any content.

It'll play way more like Sophie and Eris's quest, with various smaller parts, rather than something like Illyana's third quest, which is almost 30 minutes of continuous text.

And finally, I wanna talk about Kiria's privileged status. Kiria is, in my dev heart, an honorary Main Girl, together with Peach, and in a lesser way, Nameless, those being the characters that fall in love with the player AND get will get a quest (Nihil not included even though she has a quest, because she does not fall in love with the player), and as such, Kiria will have some stuff that's exclusive to the main six. Like a bathhouse scene, a confession art, a large scale quest and a three option scene!

And that's all I have to say right now. If you have any questions, just ask, and I'll do my best to answer. Thank you for your support and for taking the time to read through this wall of text!