Weekly Update - 06.01.23

Hello and welcome back, everyone. This month is off to a moderate start, I'd say. The chapter is up to about 63,000 words, 8,000 more since I dropped the BIP on the 31st. I am also finally through the conversation with the RO/PO, and into the section afterwards. This features the PC at their workplace after the events of last chapter, or one of a few different places if they don't have a workplace. Soon they will be visited by Eurydice, and have at least a bit of a conversation with her before the events concerning her are really propelled forwards. 

This is sort of interesting, because up until this point, most interactions with Eurydice are very missable. That's not necessarily a bad thing, of course, but it does make some of the heavier stuff that happens in this conversation a little difficult to work in for those situations where the PC has missed her often, or largely been dismissive of her. Fortunately, I think she still has motive to talk to the PC, as she sees them as similar to herself in a certain sense and will ask them something on the basis of that alone. 

Still, I've been thinking lately that I haven't made her characterization as strong as I might like, and so I have been considering adding an unmissable scene with her in an earlier chapter. I'm not sure exactly where I'll put that yet, but I think it's something I need to seriously consider once I reach the editing phase. 

I am of course very worried about doing this story justice, but also keeping it very in-keeping with FoA's style and themes, and I think one of the ways I'm going to do that is by keeping the focus a little more on her side of things, rather than Orpheus's. He usually gets the emphasis in the story, because in the way it's usually told, he really drives the action of it, and in the end, the result comes about because of his actions and not hers. So I'm also going to try and give Eurydice some agency in how things turn out—and of course the player as well. 

Hopefully I'll be able to figure out how to do that, haha.

Anyway, that's all for this week's update. There will be a questionnaire out on Wednesday, this time featuring Hades. I hope you're all having a good month, and I'll see you in this slot next week.