Most of questions you're asking are in spoiler territory (which I too am guilty of asking Hopes every now and then
).
But ones which I think can get addressed;
4th Serpent:
he is still the Serpent who is completely in the veil. When I asked Hopes before one word which could describe the Fourth Serpent, he said "Evil." Now, this can be interpreted in a numerous ways, but it's interesting to say the least.
Who trained the Serpents:
Well, Cordia was trained by Wilfred (basically all the knowledge she learned was from him), & Wilfred is in fact proud of the fact that she's his best student.
So even if Cordia trained the new Serpents, that would still be Wilfred implicitly training these Serpents, no?
But I have a feeling it's Wilfred who trained them.
Cordia being a Donna, I'd say would have too much of other responsibilities, and burden of training Serpents I'd say would add to a lot of things she'd be juggling with.
Not to mention there's that Wilfred training Gildart flashback scene. Wilfred training the new Serpents I'd imagine would have come before even that.
MC cameras and Cordia and Wilfred never talk about anything important or relating to the mc:
I'm assuming that you played through the VN mode.
There are fair number of camera recordings, and at least decent number of them Cordia, Wilfred (and even Antonio at times) either explicitly mention or implicitly refer to MC in them.
But unlike Full Experience (and I'd assume same for Just Story, even though I never played that mode) which have all the recordings, I read from at least one person that a lot (if not all) of the recordings are missing in VN mode?
Hopes & I will be checking and see if we can try and restore them.
As for the rest, well enjoy the journey and what's to come, fellow DeLuca Soldier!!
Most likely because of what Hopes said previously back in July 2021.
He held a FAQ session on that day on his Patreon where people could ask them about the game (I've only quoted part of the full FAQ; you can go to the post link if ya wanna read the full FAQ).
Granted, this was back in 2021 and he could change his mind down the line.
Also, Hopes left his answer open-ended a bit with this one.
It can be interpreted as "Full-harem" might be a no-go due to the story, but that may not necessarily just limit it to only solo-exclusive LI paths.
"Partial-harem" could also be in the cards.
But I guess only time will tell how he decides to take it.
Sure.
I will ask, though I will wait until after Hopes gets back to me what Tokennugget suggested previously, cause what he asked is a big one.
Don't wanna bombard Hopes too much with whole bunch of different stuff all at once.
Once he answers Tokennugget's suggestion, I'll ask him your question.
As for me, from what we've seen on the game so far, I have the feeling Hopes' answer will be.... the latter?
Just think there is a fixed MC's personality already which drives how the story moves forward.
Otherwise, I'd imagine we'd have multiple paths/routes based on MC's personality already.
Though don't quote me on that, cause I could be wrong.
