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straightforwardly) wrote2025-11-15 10:26 pm
straightforwardly) wrote2025-11-15 10:26 pm
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This evening, I replayed Bastien’s route in The Rose of Segunda. Some very brief thoughts before I go to bed: I’m still not a fan of this one—will never get over how Bastien pretty much instantly regrets choosing to be with Iolanthe in the ending scene??? after LITERALLY MARRYING HER???—but I think I disliked it less than the first time, not because the romance worked any better for me, but because I knew going into it that I wasn’t going to be the biggest fan, and so couldn’t be disappointed in it.
That being said, I’m glad I revisited it, because I was right: this route does have plenty of Iolanthe (and Parisi family) details that I’d completely forgotten about it. I took so many notes.
One thing that stood out to me is that we actually get a few more details about when their family starting strictly separating Frederique and Iolanthe! Mainly because that’s also when Bastien became estranged from them. Apparently, Iolanthe was ten years old at the time—Bastien was fourteen, and began an apprenticeship with his father, while her nurse was swapped out for a governess. She mentions that originally she thought Bastien’s sudden absence from her life was just ill luck, at first, for indeed, I was unable to play with Frederique much either (italicized bits a direct quote). Of course, Frederique’s route gives more details on that front, but it’s clearly the same time period when the incident with him being punished for being in her room happened.
It also sounds like Frederique is about two, no more than three, years older than Iolanthe, assuming I’m correctly interpreting Bastien’s commentary on how old Frederique was when they all went on the trip to the family's lodge together, which is pretty much exactly the age difference I assumed. Though I’ll need to keep an eye out to see if it’s stated more precisely elsewhere in the game.
That being said, I’m glad I revisited it, because I was right: this route does have plenty of Iolanthe (and Parisi family) details that I’d completely forgotten about it. I took so many notes.
One thing that stood out to me is that we actually get a few more details about when their family starting strictly separating Frederique and Iolanthe! Mainly because that’s also when Bastien became estranged from them. Apparently, Iolanthe was ten years old at the time—Bastien was fourteen, and began an apprenticeship with his father, while her nurse was swapped out for a governess. She mentions that originally she thought Bastien’s sudden absence from her life was just ill luck, at first, for indeed, I was unable to play with Frederique much either (italicized bits a direct quote). Of course, Frederique’s route gives more details on that front, but it’s clearly the same time period when the incident with him being punished for being in her room happened.
It also sounds like Frederique is about two, no more than three, years older than Iolanthe, assuming I’m correctly interpreting Bastien’s commentary on how old Frederique was when they all went on the trip to the family's lodge together, which is pretty much exactly the age difference I assumed. Though I’ll need to keep an eye out to see if it’s stated more precisely elsewhere in the game.