Here's a post I made about Johann's scrappiness and why it's a great match for Mathilde.
This is why there was a round of sorta-romantic-but-not-really interactions with everybody - BoneyM deliberately wrote those to try and avoid inducing mono-focus in the quester base, and was also one of the main reasons people lobbied to give every romantic option a try before getting to a point of route-locking.
He doesn't need to - Cython just has to let Mathilde ride him, at which point not only does Cython have a hat (Mathilde) but he'd also have a case of hatception because his hat (Mathilde) would also have a hat (Abel's Witch Hunter hat). Clearly this is the superior option.
Cython just keeps being a better and better pick the longer the conversation goes on.
That's not what you'd call "matching" our hat game, now is it?
Vlad sired a Vampire and the book calls him a Von Carstein for convenience?
Maybe it was Ribauld's Retroactive Revenant?
I don't think we know when Vlad came back? He died during the battle with Nehekhara, then was alive some time later. He was alive not long after the fall of Strygos.
I'm not sure we even know what gender the dragon is.
On an in-fiction level, I sympathize. On a meta level, I am okay enough with most of the possibilities that I don't think it's worth it to try to date around before picking a partner; extending the period of time before we're locked in to someone's route just seems stressful for the thread and really unpleasant for the people who don't want romance. So unless Pan's date goes really badly, I'll be advocating to lock her in so we can get the exploratory phase of romance over with.
Romance without sexuality is a thing; a lot of people have written about how their votes for the dragon are rooted in attraction for a being of power, intelligence, and experience, and a strong wish for that being's special regard as well. It isn't my thing at all, but I get it.
People have pointed out the difference between romance and reproduction and all that, but completely aside from anything to do with Cython I should note that I would really like to find and hatch a dragon egg at some point, because baby dragon sounds really cool. Also I'm curious whether we could end up with an Ulgu dragon by raising it and teaching it magic eventually, but that's a bit too mad sciency to be a real argument without coming off weird.
I'm totally onboard with adopting a baby dragon egg.
"Voices in mathilde's head can't ever agree on a thing so nothing is ever resolved" is no better.
Hence why I said completely aside from anything to do with Cython. And it would probably be mist or shadow breathing, if we raised it Ulgu. Although... hmm. I should note that there's a representative from six of the eight winds—seven if you count Cython and eight if we get lucky and bring home an Amber from the expedition—in Eight Peaks, and Mathilde might in the future have access to elven Archmages. Has there ever been a High Magic dragon?I'm totally onboard with adopting a baby dragon egg.
Don't need Cython for that btw, i bet Pan would be open for raising a giant firebreathing baby.
At minimum, the lack of diapers should be a major bonus.
