[bliss stage] [could someone help me make an icon btw] girl-identified people, lend me your wisdom on what you want to see from a VN about a teen girl mecha pilot
they are trained to visualize functional armor and weapons when they call it up. tit armor is not good armor, therefore they are trained not to think up tit armor
(admittedly this can be harder in some ways than doing a romantic route for reasons based on the original tabletop game's mechanics, but it also makes it easier in other ways mechanically)
and if one (or two) of the potential love interests is the type who does need another person to be better, have the MC be able to help them find love with someone else!
idk if you know the Dragon Age canon, but there's a whole mission in DA2 that's about helping your one party member sucessfully ask out an NPC and it's pretty friggin' great
but if it's a "hey, we broke up because we weren't good but we both still know we have feelings for one another but have been apart for a while and have changed so let's test waters again" it's.... a different vibe?
(meanwhile her wing commander Anna gets something a lot more sexless and more like a Veritech/Valkyrie because Anna's self-image isn't as wrapped up in being girly)
I was about to say "lesbians" but I'm a lesbian and therefore biased.