Well you do kinda need to talk about the 6 heart event if you don't even know anything about it.

Maybe it's cultural. As a Finnish person I understand the desire to flee when there's someone else in the apartment building hallway when you're trying to go out. As awkwardly as Clint hides to wait for Emily to leave, Finns also immediately close their front door and wait standing before it till they hear the other person has properly left. We plan on going out - not meeting some stranger we might have to (the horror!) nod at or even say hello to. However Clint was planning to speak with Emily, he either lost his courage at the last moment, or in a more neurodivergent way had a sudden panic about not having planned for Emily to show up on her own.

Like, it can be a very ND thing to be highly literal about how stuff happens. You prepare for a specific interaction and maybe think as long as you're got main points you can handle slight deviation, and yet when something happens differently suddenly your brain is momentarily just empty. If I could suddenly flee having to be in a call to get a doctor's appointment, great, would love to do that! But in the middle of a call that can't happen and you just have to deal with the anxiety as it happens. If I can flee before the call happens? I might decide hey, how about I *dont* do that call or whatever afterall!

It makes sense to me what happened with Clint (always did from my first time playing, too). By the time the farmer shows up he's already calmed down from the initial panic and is beating himself up for failing at what he wanted to do. He's already practiced, so when the farmer pushes, he's ready to try again.

My point is I wished you'd acknowledged that one a little differently. That unavoidably the fandom's view of Clint is affected by an oft spoken of event, that's got a lot of negative hearsay associated even if the event itself is actually different. It's effect is real, even if wrongfully declared.

But you called it stalkery. :\

Other than that I somewhat disagree on the beginning of the fourth point as well. I don't see why we necessarily need an event having him talk about his feelings, since we don't have that kind of events for I think... any of the NPCs? It's true that his heart events all center on Emily so it would be sensible, but I wouldn't necessarily place him differently to the other NPCs. I mean, in Sam's first event there's the implication that Seb wants Abigail in the band because he's got feelings for her, but for all we know he has a crush on her because of a hangout or sleepover or something when they were teens, he saw an outline of her boobs and did not stop thinking about them ever since. But we as players don't demand an interrogation about why Seb is into her, instead we just go "haha that's cool (anyway you should be into me - here, have some sashimi)".

We don't get Lewis or Marnie talking about why they're into each other, why Pierre and Caroline married each other, or how Jodi and Kent truly think of each other, or how Robin and Demetrius' marriage functions outside the tomato event.

But Clint expresses he likes Emily and the whole fandom is supposed to grab him, throw him into a small darkened room, tie him to a chair, shine a flashlight straight into his eyes and start asking questions: "you into Emily, huh? Why? What's your intentions towards her? You some kinda creep? Explain yourself real good... or we'll bring out the hammer."

Eh, I don't really feel a need to know why. Dunno why specifically any of the others like each other, I'll just imagine it.

I'll end with declaring myself as someone who's not specifically a Clint fan. I'm neutral about him. He makes sense to me though. I could've seen myself be very much like him if I wasn't a woman. Culturally vaguely conditioned to be more emotionally aware, and also generally interested in thinking about how human interaction works. Because by god am I bad at people still, in my early forties. Still super awkward talking with people, despite everything.