I pretty much agree although I think there are more variables in them in certain scenes and corruption has never been a very consistent mechanic. Etheryn can become just as much of a slut as Cait. Kiyoko is a mega freak she just hides it. Basically what does "corruption" even mean? Does it mean being evil, slutty, or just being tainted by demon magic or whatever? |Etheryn has a soul chastity cage on for most of the game. |bound to a demon btw and she was toyed with by Kas before you find her||
Interesting theory. I can see why you think that possibly. Would like to hear some specifics and expansions on your thoughts for that. She did seem to be fine with not seeing you for like a decade plus time skip between the last time you visit her in the astral plane to when Keros brings her out of it. Not exactly sure how that works since from my perspective I visited her every single night for about an in game year before fixing the amulet and then all of sudden Kinu says they have not seen you in many years. Yandere typically would have a huge problem with that.
Yeah I did not care for the time skip either. I quit my playthrough shortly after that and have not had a playthrough get so far again yet. This time I plan to try to get 32 kits before fixing the amulet but that is a hell of a lot of grinding. This game has way too much grinding imo and after awhile I just start skipping text and miss shit. My furthest playthrough I quit because there were like 3 events that were large lore dumps and text heavy all in a row that I could not save easily between and could not be fucked to read. I had the Winter City event, then the catacombs in the Winter City where you meet Etheryn's ancestors, then the ball event with Etheryn all in a row and I just quit the game instead. Now it has been like a year so I am starting over. Etheryn is my favorite character but it is too much in a row. I have ADHD please have mercy like damn.
That's why I say low key, she still has a lot of her faculties unlike the typical yandere trope. She's absolutely obsessed with you and tends to care very little for anyone else other than you and her own family you made with her. She gets incredibly upset if you haven't knocked her up in a while and you even do have a full yandere dream about her as well which I feels like it is implied that some of the tendencies are there. Your point regarding the time skip though is easily explained - Kiyoko knows how time fluctuates between within the Dream and the real world, the ratio is in flux and you nor her can control it. She just accepts that. Which is why she wouldn't flip, plus if you think about it - she always has little pieces of you to keep her company - your children.
So she is basically a yandere with none of the drawbacks of being a yandere and is super reasonable?
Well it goes back to what does "corruption" even mean? In the first game I took it to mean demonic taint. If that is the case then most companions would be basically 0. Etheryn would actually be one of the highest tbh. You can pretty easily be a huge slut while having 0 corruption in game. I am like the biggest man whore ever and always rocking 0 corruption.
Well for the player it is different. You have direct contact with demons from the beginning of the game and a powerful demon tempting you constantly in dreams trying to corrupt you. So in that situation any choice you make that leads closer to becoming a demon would corrupt you. However someone like Kiyoko is not even close to the same situation so her doing the same exact things I do not think would lead to corruption in the same way.
Yeah I never bothered reading anything Ivris says . I pick and choose my battles with reading in this game. Maybe I will this time. Like there is way more text in this game compared to the first game. I just get overwhelmed after a while tbh.
