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I love the Okita route, it's the one I started with and the one that convinced me that this game is Good Storytelling. I was *really* skeptical about Okita as a character to start and kind of resentful about him as a love interest, and worried that I was going to be expected to overlook a ton of jerkiness just because he is (undeniably) pretty. But, that wasn't how it worked at all. Instead we got this slow, painstaking process of growth in which he very convincingly and very slowly turns into someone capable of love. And it was wonderful!

Me: *remembers that in real life, Okita helped Sanan commit sepukku, and actually has a moment of sadness for them both*

But Okita just injures Sanan enough to knock him out.

I saw that as one of the very first moments of Okita's transformation. All this time he's been declaring his willingness to kill basically anyone, and here he's being asked to kill someone, and historically he did...but here he doesn't.

I wonder if Kondou is a replacement father figure/big brother, I vaguely remember hearing Okita was raised by his older sister.


The backstory we get in the prequel is that Okita's sister gave Okita to Kondo to raise when he was nine. It doesn't seem like Kondo did a particularly good job of it, Okita seems to barely know what a hug is. I was honestly furious at Kondo for his bad parenting through this entire route and it was this odd double vision since Okita thinks he's wonderful and this route's Chizuru has to as well. Well, I got to deal with my Kondo resentment in the Nagakura route.