Harlot Spotlight - Amoura D'Coeur (Patreon)

I'm weirdly busy this week for some reason. This might have to be a shorter spotlight than normal. This week it's the lovely Amoura D'Coeur.

I think the idea for her was a more straightforward implementation of the gimmicks used by Osculia Suffocati and the Boob Fairies. Rather than their repeat visits be slightly tweaked versions of their regular scenarios, the repeat visit concept is incorporated into their mechanics. Amoura D'Coeur is a very straightforward implementation of that. She's completely harmless and won't kill the player at all on the first visit, but will almost certainly Bad End him if he sees her a second time.

It's a nice simple mechanic. Fairly easy to figure out, but might catch the player out the first time if they mistakenly think she's a 'safe' choice. Even after the player figures out, she's a nice 'narrower' – similar to Morticia Rose. Her showing up for a second visit limits the options for that round, increasing the tension. The mulligan token is a safety valve to allow the player to escape certain-death combinations such as Morticia, Sgriosar and repeat-visit Amoura.

Amoura is a good fit for the 4th faction. She's a regular succubus and the harlots in that faction tend to have slightly more obscure conditions for determining good or bad end.

Onto the in-universe lore.

Amoura is also a good fit for that group in lore. They are kind of The Madam's 'gals' – the core succubus prostitutes working in the House. Like Succuba, Amoura has a good understanding of The Madam's 'eccentricities' when it comes to 'fair play'. She is quite a powerful succubus, with a range of charm and restraint magic that would make most men completely helpless against her if she decided to go all out. Instead she chooses to give herself one of the strictest handicaps. She won't kill a guest on the first visit at all, even in situations where The Madam allows it. As a reward for this, she is bumped up The Madam's list and gets to see more men and earlier than her power level would normally allow.

As a rough rule of thumb, I have her power level as above average for a standard succubus. If the harlots were ranked purely on power rather than their willingness to play along with The Madam, with Tier 1 the weakest and Tier 3 the most powerful, Amoura would be somewhere around high Tier 2/low Tier 3.

I love the marwmellow art for her. Classic sexy succubus. There is a minor discrepancy in eye colour. I like how they are in the art, so I'll update the text to match.

Let me know what you think below.