Anonymous asked:

Since you think Tendou‘s backstory was handled poorly (and frankly I agree), how would you have incorporated it in the story without changing the backstory itself?

It just needs to be placed better in the story. It's thrown in there as an afterthought, right before he dies and the game ends, which means that it goes nowhere and has no room to breathe. It would be more interesting if they revealed the information about a quarter or third of the way through the game, and played into it. He's fairly generic and forgettable as just some guy who happens to be the one training her, but he would be stronger and more interesting as a duplicitous anti-villain who the audience knows is working against the people he's allied with. You could also incorporate that into the general corruption angle for Kurenai, because not only is she fighting the mind control that's telling her to be in love with him, but now he's revealed as the enemy side's parallel to her—someone who's a semi-outsider, part of a circle but not totally in line with them, and working against evildoers out of disgust and loathing of their practices.