Hentai University Favorite Character Poll (Patreon)

Salutations everyone! 

I sat down the other day to hash out the status and outline of each character currently in university, and I thought I'd use the opportunity to do a character poll. I'll be going semi in-depth on each character currently in the game, vote for your favorite in the poll below. Characters that are grouped together like Lana and Andrea, Mary and Margaret, etc. Are counted as a single option. The winner will get some extra attention, some extra love for the most loved.

No promises about v6 since it's getting closer to release but I can certainly throw in a little something for the poll winner by v7 at the latest. I encourage you to vote with your heart! Lemme know what you hope to see in each character's future, I enjoy trying to work in fan preferences when I can,

So here we go:

--- Emily Smith

The first character implemented in the game, art by Enoshima Iki. I have a soft spot for her as the character I tested all of the game's systems with.

Overall though she's tough to write since she leans on the vanilla side of the spectrum, and most of her scenes are serious or even melodramatic. It's especially tough to write since I ended up with Tia having the same general vibe, so that's two characters I have a tough time writing competing for attention.

Still, as the first character I'll absolutely come back to give her a proper ending. Romance, Twoo wuv, the works. No earthly idea what to do for a B-route though. 

--- Mary & Margaret Williams

The first of what will probably be very many mother/daughter pairs, art by Oreteki18kin, their storyline is pretty straightforwards. Originally I had planned for you to be able to seduce the mom first as an alternate avenue to corruption, but I scrapped that idea for time as the v1 deadline was fast approaching. I consider them mostly finished, I think they just need a bit of tinkering to give them a "The End" screen.

I have a few more images I can use for the pair but I'm not really sure what I'll do for a B-route. Maybe I'll do something where you get bored of playing with them yourself, and you have them start filming mother/daughter porn at Andrea's studio?

--- Sam White

The first trap, art by Nagi Ichi. I'd actually expected that overall the game would be 1/3rd trap content, but things got a little lopsided. His route is a lot more direct than some other characters as he was already pretty weak willed from the start.

He's also the first character to get an ending, and will probably be the first character to get a B-route too. The plan is to hit him with the corruption ability Gou teaches you, demonizing him and getting a fun scene out of him before he flies off to go collect souls as a good little succubus (male).

--- Victoria Devons & Lisa Jones

The principal and her secretary, art by Oreteki18kin. Not a lot here at the moment, I have a ton to do and lots of scenes to write for them but they'll probably be implemented last after all the other batches of characters.

Victoria is a clean freak and Lisa is a klutz, but as their questline begins and you completely take over the school you'll have a chance to iron out these flaws and give them some real kinks. The reason Victoria needs to be done so late is because her corruption affects the entire school and many characters rely on her status as a no-nonsense principal. Once you start her path to corruption there's no more time to dilly dally around town, the entire university will be yours in less than a week or your gambit will fail and you'll get a bad end. 

--- Tia Sun

The neet, the gremlin who sleeps in the computer lab, art by Enoshima Iki. She ended up going a more serious and sincere direction than I expected. She became a cinnamon roll.

She has an A-route and a B-route already planned, I just need to get into the flow of writing her scenes. Her A-route uses hypnosis to bypass her insecurities and dislike of being touched at the cost of maybe messing with her head and showing off exactly how repressed her libido is. She's pretty smart though, don't think you can pull one over on her forever.

Her B-route involves actively not hypnotizing her, helping her overcome her issues bit by bit and being a generally sweet and kind boyfriend for some fun and fluffy vanilla, that just happens to involve regular sex at progressing levels of lewdness.

--- Cassandra & Emma Hamilton

A pair of fellow teachers, art by Enoshima Iki. They're tough to get done because the scope of what I have planned is maybe just a little too big. Cassandra, as a fellow hypnotist, will definitely be a toughie for you to overcome, but she doesn't mind if you have some fun with her sister along the way.

The paths seem pretty straightforward, if you're beaten in a contest of hypnosis you're her pet forever, whereas if you win you get to strip her of her pride, and probably of some other things too. 

Originally she and Tia were skill-check characters who only really existed to work with the hypnosis and hacking skills respectively. Tia kinda branched off in her own direction, but Cassandra remains very laser focused.

--- Lana & Andrea Cummings

A pair of pretty passionate pornstars, perfectly paired! Art by Oreteki18kin. They're super fun to write, and completely flipped my perspective on how enjoyable a character can be to work with. I was actually supposed to be working on Anomaly Vault v3 when I wrote her, but I was in such a creative frenzy I sat down and wrote almost everything from her introduction in a day. Jump forwards a bit and I end up not just adding to her, but finishing her route across 10k words in two more days and releasing it early for a v5.5 release.

And there's still more to do! Honestly though I'll need a break or everything will just feel samey. What I have is about 60 images of more porn, but I'll definitely be using her acting skills to make it feel at least a little fresh. Although I legit have no idea what I'll do for her B-route, honestly. With how popular her scene format is, I might just keep coming back to add more scenes to film. 

--- Gou

The trappy succubus (male) who serves as your familiar. Art by Gujira4Gou (you can probably guess where the name came from). 

Since crypto is introducing a new trap in the next version I sat down to write a scene for him rewarding you, and ended up writing 7k words spread across 7 more scenes. Whoops! Hope you like demon worldbuilding, because Gou fucked up and needs you to 'bargain' with one of his superiors otherwise he's in hot water.

Still, he's got a soft spot for you. As great as an eternity as a being of pure sex can be for some, he hasn't really enjoyed it until he met you. What could he have planned? He can't possibly be hoping to turn you into a demon too!

Next up we have Captain Cryptogreek's characters. Here're his notes:

--- Steph Black

The first character I implemented, as well as the character with the most complicated texting-stuff. Art by Enoshima Iki.

I originally was only interested in writing for Steph because I have a powerful personal weakness towards gyarus, though I'm not too sure if she actually gives off that specific gyaru-esque feeling. She's been pretty well-received, though, so I'm happy about that.

She's been one of the easier characters in regards to figuring out how I want things to progress, but the actual act of writing her content is a bit tough - despite being based off of gyarus in general, I don't have exactly one author to crib the style of for Steph, which can make things difficult to write.

She's also not too far from being completed, and she might have her B-Route implemented sooner rather than later. Though, the B-Route is probably going to be netorase (not to be confused with netorare), which is... not really my thing, personally? I haven't written much of it, at least. Still, if that's your thing, you can look forward to it.

--- Reese Kieran

With art by Nagi Ichi, Reese was the second character I implemented, and he was my first attempt to make it so that player choices affect dialogue. That was... difficult to work with, sometimes, and it only really changed how submissive or bratty his dialogue tended to be.

I had trouble starting on Reese (character introductions are always the hardest for me), but it pretty quickly became fun when I reached the branching point. It definitely complicated keeping track of certain values in the code, but now we have a system where we can use flags (pretty sure it was added largely because of Reese) that helps out a lot when it comes to how I write.

I think Reese is probably my favorite character to write for. Having both a quiet-submissive and outspoken-brat version to write for keeps things fresh, even if it means writing a fair bit more dialogue than anyone will see in a single playthrough.

I cannot imagine him having a full B-Route. There will definitely be multiple endings, since he's rapidly approaching having a complete A-Route, but a full-on additional route with a bunch of different events just doesn't seem feasible based on what CGs are available for him.

He's probably going to have the option of being demonized by Gou, though, so there's that.

--- Anna Fletcher

Anna is an odd character to write for, with art by Oreteki18Kin. Originally, she was intended to be a hard-dom that would get mindbroken into your loyal follower, and who would offer her own 'pet' for you to have fun with (which would've been Lena), but... Well, that really isn't how things went.

Instead, she's never been with a man and, while she knows exactly what she wants, she doesn't really have the experience to firmly grasp it in her own two hands (eyyy). I kept her as an exhibitionist, and she ended up becoming a switch that absolutely doms Lena, but who subs for you.

She's pretty fun to write for, seeing as she's a very open and outspoken woman (which lets me crack jokes in her scenes), though the fact that her story is directly interwoven into Lena's can make things programmatically difficult sometimes. For example, if you meet with Lena in the cafe, you get a slightly different conversation depending on whether or not you've met Anna, and another variant if you've both met and fucked her. It's complicated stuff.

Despite seeming like a B-Route would be easy, seeing as there's two characters for you to interact with, there isn't a whole lot of room there. I can't be completely sure, but I might end up just weaving the two stories together to reach the same ending, and just have the scenes along the way change a bunch depending on who you progress with more.

--- Lena Rogers

Lena is pretty much the opposite of Anna, though her art is still by Oreteki18Kin. Unlike Anna, she pretty much stuck with the original idea - a submissive maid that's sex-friends with Anna, who gets hypno'd into loosening up a bit, and who secretly wants to watch you fuck her mistress into a drooling sex-coma.

Like I said with Anna, programming for her is... complicated. Being able to use flags and just check "Have they met?" makes things way easier, and it lets me do things that tie into other characters a lot more easily - if you checked out the waitress at the cafe, for example, then it saves that fact to Lena's data and I can use that for things in the future. It's pretty great.

I wouldn't say she's *fun* to write for, but I definitely enjoy it. Every other character I've written are pretty quick about getting into your pants with no regrets, whereas Lena does actually second-guess herself when it comes to this stuff, making her feel rather different from a writing standpoint. She has a more formal way of speaking outside of the bedroom, too.

I'm personally looking forward to pumping out more content for these two, seeing as they're very enjoyable to write. I do wish there was a CG where Lena is actually watching you and Anna get it on, but I'll have to make do with what I've got.

So, please feel free to let me know what you think! v6 will be releasing on schedule, I'm currently 17k words into it myself and I've just had a chance to get cryptogreek's new trap character working on the public test server. If you're interested in bug-proofing v6, I'd appreciate the help, but if you'd rather wait for the fully tested official release that's totally fine too. v6 will end up introducing three new characters, hopefully next time I do a character poll like this they'll take some high spots. Since this poll is patron-exclusive, I'll also use this opportunity to preview them.

Firstly is Justine Walton. She's the university's on-staff nurse. She's got an eye for you and can seem a bit off, but once she open's up she's quite eccentric and eager to put her chemistry/alchemy skills to good use.

Second is Meph. They're a much higher ranked demon than your familiar, Gou. He's got a domineering power-bottom streak a mile longer than Gou's though, and he's a lot more powerful. He'll only appear if you're progressing Gou's story by seducing lots of traps.

Third is Anri Ramona, this is Cryptogreek's new character, a maid (male)! You'll need to pay up to hire this housekeeper, but hopefully crypto's proven that his content is worth the $$$.

There's even more comign with two new cheat codes, but this post is getting so massive my text editor is lagging. more coming later!

What direction would you take any of the above characters? Any suggestions for individual scenes or whole alternate routes? Most importantly, what are some pitfalls you hope we'll be avoiding? Thanks for reading, and I appreciate you taking your time to lend your voice to the work, either through voting or leaving a comment.