December Answer Post (NSFW)

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Do you see Max and Hartmann ever hooking up? The potential for electricity there, whew!

Oh man, this was a plot point that I originally considered but it ended up on the cutting room floor! In the original Creme de la Creme outline, I planned something where you could matchmake them during the Festival of the Birds (perhaps something where Max asked them out "as a prank" but then it turned into something real). But by the time I reached that point, I had started the Max/Delacroix and Max/Delacroix/MC romance plotlines, and the potential Hartmann/Auguste relationship, and it was just too complicated to implement, brain-wise and time-wise. Plus I didn't want to accidentally make a Max/Delacroix/Hartmann/Auguste love square, because that would have been OUTRAGEOUSLY complicated!

All of which to say: yes, I could totally see that. Maybe they had a charged moment back when they were friends, but nothing quite ended up happening??

Any particular bodily feature that certain ROs find most attractive/alluring?

This is really hard to answer - partly because the way the ROs interact with the player physically is not always described in detail due to generally not specifying lots about what the MCs body is like physically. You can assume that the allosexual characters are into the obvious areas.

But!

Freddie likes paying attention to the neck and collarbone area.

Delacroix likes paying attention to legs/thighs.

Florin pays particular attention to the chest area (regardless of whether the other person has breasts or not)

Dominique especially pays attention to the waist and hipbone area.

Hyacinthe admires hands in particular; so does Rys (from Noblesse Oblige, not yet appeared)

Trevelyan appreciates people's lips in particular, as does Pascha.

I'll have to think about this some more once I've written more steamy moments - at the moment I've only written sex scenes for two of the Royal Affairs romances so I'll get more of a feel for it as I go...

Since Javi is asexual, have they ever engaged in some sort of sexual  activity to define their preference, or have they always had an inkling  growing up?

I don't think they thought much about it when they were younger, but they would have noticed peers getting interested in sex (doing it or talking about it) and noted that they didn't feel any great draw to the whole idea. They did some kissing with a few different people back home, probably in their mid teens or so, and didn't find it to their taste. I could see them speaking with other ace people about it, or reading ace people writing about their experiences, and then it clicked for them - nowadays they feel very solid and certain about their orientation.