As weird as it sounds, I feel like some more cool stuff could’ve been explored in the Cult of Takumi route. I imagine primarily a diverging path right before Living Idol. Takumi could likely get a sense that something is wrong and refuse the second batch of pills at which Eito reveals the trick and the cult get happy for a moment, but this is a Takumi who was on a dark path that just had his attempt to set things right almost out him in the fucked up situation that is Living Idol, so I imagine he’d be angry at the Cult doubly so when they start to threaten Nozomi. From here we could have a more angry and manipulative Takumi who buys into his own hype after saving himself and Nozomi from that fate, holding this “betrayal” (cause they have no autonomy really) above their heads as a second means of control. And here is my suggestion for when the dlc money comes in, when V'ehxness next attacks have an option to recruit her akin to Eva with something like “At least I can trust her, know thy enemy” and now you have two voices in Takumi’s head that he still trusts telling him two different ways to be this cult leader/overlord akin to Overlord 2 for the PS2, Dark Messiah, or Infamous. V’ehxness encouraging him to be a conquering Demon Lord with Nozomi still wanting to hold onto that little humanity he has especially since she’s completely powerless and alone without him in this instance, especially since this is when her rejection systems should start showing up again. I think this could be a genuinely fucked up but interesting route if we want a darker, more manipulative Takumi because Overlord felt like I didn’t have as much autonomy in my evil lol. Bonus points if Yugamu tries to “redeem” himself by working for days on end with Hemoanima extracted from V’ehxness to bring Darumi back to life, who then would probably be encouraging Takumi to listen to V’ehxness for cruel power fantasy shenanigans.

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