What Is The Rosebush?

8 Different Types of Love

Eros- sexual passion and desire, generally considered as a loss of control, i.e., Cupid’s arrow with Troy and Helen causing the Trojan war. It’s an intense kind of love that is romantic and passionate, but not necessarily stable. In mature individuals as describe by Socrates it recalls youth, but when misguided it can be abused and indulged in. This love is centered around the body and our more selfish desires, and needs one of the other types of love to survive.

Philia- affectionate love, friendship, Plato felt love didn’t always need physical affection to be felt, hence the word platonic. Philia is what you feel between that friend you’ve had through hardships. It’s about the mind and loyalty rather than physical pleasure like eros.

Storge- familiar love, generally used to describe kinship, a love you feel for family, or those you view as family. It’s bound in our memories, and though storge is generally considering good, it can hold you back if members of you family have views that differ from yours in harmful ways.

Ludus- playful love. It’s what you feel in the honeymoon stage, or when you first start dating someone. The flirting, teasing, fun banter, and giddiness of love. It’s the emotional side of love that is unfortunately often neglected later in life.

Mania- this is when one lover becomes obsessive with the other, either due to insecurity or possessiveness. People who go through mania need love and are desperate to keep it and become jealous and controlling. This leads to unhealthy relationship with codependency issues.

Pragma-this love is enduring. It’s in couples who have been together for decades or friendships that have lasted just as long. Pragma is not the result of a search for love, but rather the effort of maintaining it. Pragma is for partners who have put in effort for each other, found resolutions that are best for each other, have invested in one another.

Philautia - loving yourself, the greeks defined this one under two categories a positive and a negative. It’s fantastic to love yourself to be confident in who you are, to have compassion for your being. This is not the self love described by narcissus which is vanity obsessed and greedy. This is a love for the person you are and who you will become.

Agape- this is love in its purest form, a kind of love that accepts and forgives and hopes for our success. It’s the kind of person you meet who has a never ending supply of empathy and compassion, and your always comfortable around. They are  agape with love.

Hello everyone! I've been made aware that the personality calc isn't currently working in the demo. I'll fix it when I can in the next day or so, but until then, I'll repost this disclaimer from the forum!

If we take the 'burn Plaithus route' even if it isn't literal, will that lock us out of from romancing Sabir or Syfyn?

It depends on how you "Burn Plaithus Down" but as a generalized statement, kinda for Sabir, maybe for Syfyn.

It's hard to explain b/c choosing to burn down Plaithus isn't automatically going to make MC a villain, and they don't automatically have to be a dick/manipulative/evil to everyone around them just b/c they chose that as their goal. There's still a lot of choices to be made within that choice.

If you literally plan to destroy the entirety of Plaithus, that's not something you'll get to act on until later in the game. Because of that, you can romance Sabir normally and then, once you reach that point for MC to have that dark turning point, Sabir will leave MC. However, that's not just the end of everything-- the game doesn't abruptly cut off the relationship and then act like you and Sabir were never a thing except for a few throwaway lines here and there. You'll still be on Sabir's route, but it'll be about Sabir struggling with his feelings and trying to convince MC to not do what they're going to do.

As for Syfyn, you'll me able to manipulate her into agreeing with what you do and following your lead unless you've encouraged her to be more independent and think for herself-- and then there's a chance she'll fight back against you and end things, and then it'll follow a similar path as Sabir's romance.

However, it's not just Sabir or Syfyn who will dislike MC's desire to destroy Plaithus. The only ones who might actually be okay with it are Freedom, Jost, and Amilia depending on how you've manipulated their stats-- otherwise Vethna and Nikke will always disapprove of MC destroying Plaithus.

surprise? i know it’s been a while but chapter seven of When Twilight Strikes will (finally) go live publicly june 3rd at 1pm EST. the password is already up for those of you in the midnight tier on patreon, and will be released for the twilight tier this sunday.

(if you’re thinking of pledging for the demo, i’d suggest doing so and cancelling once you get the password unless you plan on sticking around for june, as my patreon charges every 1st of the month).

in this chapter…

meet Mirai, who, honestly, is a pain in the ass

learn more about the ros’ backgrounds and struggles

enter some dangerous situations, including one where you can be in close proximity to your chosen ro

use those fight or flight instincts

make some crucial choices…

thanks for sticking by me everyone <3

Book Three Sneak Peek Snippet #1...

I ease myself up, grunting as pain ricochets down my spine. “Why…why did you come back for me?”

Farah/Felix leans closer, brushing her/his thumb across my dirt-marred cheek, and holds my eye. “Because you’re always my priority, babe. You always will be.”

Libraries with a sense of humour.

Apollo.

Photo by studioreinhold.

this whole situation is very funny

credit to @cryptvokeeper for the idea!