Serenia hits that weird nostalgic nerve for me, like those sketchy Flash RPGs I found on Newgrounds and Armor Games when I was way too young for that stuff, just with way more tits and way less shame. You’re playing this slightly awkward but powerful court wizard, Anno, who is supposed to save a whole kingdom from some dark lord prophecy, but let’s be honest, half the time it feels like he’s mostly “saving” his cum for the next monster girl he runs into. It’s this mix of dungeon crawling and horny sandbox where you poke at everything just to see what you can fuck or corrupt or mindbreak. One room you’re trying to figure out a puzzle, next room you’re balls deep in some smug monster girl with a tail wrapped around your throat, doing that stupid ahegao face that somehow still works on me after all these years. The game lets you walk around town like a proper adventure, talk to milfs who absolutely should know better, tease virgins who clearly don’t, then go back into a maze full of traps, groping, and humiliating outcomes when you mess up. And you will mess up, because half the time you’re thinking with your dick, not your brain. Feels very authentic.

The porn here is loud, in your face, not shy at all. You got big tits that look like they were generated by an AI that masturbates, asses that take up half the screen, lots of dripping, bukkake all over faces and hair, creampies that stay in the story instead of vanishing like magic, even pregnancy stuff sneaking in when you’re not watching your shots. Some scenes are just “ok cool blowjob”, others turn into full gangbang group sex with multiple penetration and the poor girl mind controlled into begging for more even while she’s clearly being used like a slave. It leans hard into male domination and humiliation, sometimes in a funny way, sometimes in a way that’s just mean, but that’s kind of the point of these games, no? One second you’re laughing because a proud monster girl with huge horns is getting reduced to a drooling cumdump, next second you’re actually enjoying the small bit of story where Anno talks about protecting the city and you sort of forget you were just watching him shove it up some furry girl’s ass. Combat is turn based, classic stuff, with status effects that conveniently strip clothes or leave someone open for “extra actions”. I like that enemies have personality, even if the dialogue is sometimes cheesy in that ESL-trying-its-best way that reminds me of those old RPGMaker porn projects on F95. Also, there is this one tiny UI button that is like two pixels to the left of where my brain thinks it should be and it pisses me off every single time I click the wrong thing. The art is a mix of AI CG with hand animated loops, so sometimes you get a face that looks too smooth then a nice little hip motion that feels very human. No music yet, which made me put on some random Spotify fantasy playlist while fucking a big titty spider girl, and honestly my brain will probably connect those songs to this game forever now. It’s dirty, clumsy, sometimes hilarious, sometimes actually hot enough I had to alt tab from work and pretend I’m answering emails instead of breeding pixel monster girls, which is kind of all I wanted anyway.

Heavenly Vows, Hellish Temptations looks almost too clean when you first load it up, like some soft romantic VN that belongs on a Pinterest board, and then ten minutes later your stomach is in a knot watching your freshly married self-protag smile while his wife accidentally-on-purpose lets another guy’s hand stay on her waist a bit too long. That slow burn is what got me. The game doesn’t rush to the fucking; it pokes at you. You’re clicking through these cute couple moments, “honeymoon phase” stuff, and then some random “friendly” neighbor shows up, or the boss, or that smug dude with the monster bloodline, and the camera lingers on where his eyes go. The dev is clearly into actual NTR tension. The scenes drip-feed corruption. First it’s a “harmless” grope on her ass in a crowded tavern while your character looks away for one second. Then she doesn’t slap his hand away right away. Then she blushes. Then she tells you it was “no big deal” and you get that awful choice: press her about it and feel like a jealous loser, or pretend you’re cool while your brain screams. The game loves that headspace, and I kinda hate how much I liked it.

I’m mostly a roguelike nerd, I like runs, resets, weird builds. Here there is no RNG combat or loot, but the choices feel like building a sick kind of “relationship build.” I tried a run where I played the loyal but insecure husband, another where I leaned into swinger vibes, like “ok fine, I’m into watching, let’s see where this goes,” and the script actually reacts. Not in a “multi-route happy ending” way, more in a “you thought you had control but you actually just tuned the flavor of your own humiliation” way. The best moment for me was a scene where you agree to some “light flirting” at a party. You think it’ll be just dirty talk. Then this huge, dark-skinned mercenary with a cocky smile keeps filling her wine, casually resting his hand on her thigh. There’s this one CG where his fingers dig into the soft part of her big ass while she leans back against him, and your own dialogue option is literally to rationalize it, like “it’s part of the game, we talked about this.” Horrible, 10/10 anxiety. She looks half guilty, half turned on, and the next morning she tells you she “barely remembers anything.” Yeah right. And I love that the game doesn’t slam you with a big “NTR EVENT” popup; it just quietly lets you stew. I was alt-tabbing to Discord to rant to a friend about how this fictional woman is gaslighting me, then coming back for more scenes like an idiot. There is some light fantasy/monster stuff mixed in too, and when those non-human bastards show up, the size difference and the way she reacts hits that extra corruption nerve. One thing that annoyed me: the auto-forward speed slider keeps resetting for me in Chrome for some reason and I will die mad about that. Also the MC facial expressions are sometimes way too calm while his wife is getting groped in front of him, which weirdly makes it even hotter. I wish there was a path where he actually walks away and leaves it all behind, but let’s be real, this is not that kind of story and it never will be. Anyway, I opened it to “just see the art” and ended up chasing every scene where she crosses another line, watching my own avatar get emotionally kicked in the balls, clicking “next” like a clown.

Ben should be dead, honestly. Plane falls out of the sky, fire everywhere, metal screaming, you expect a game over screen. Instead he crawls out the other side with this weird mix of island magic in his veins and a brain full of holes. Or not really holes. More like someone wrapped his memories in plastic and hid them at the back of the fridge. He comes back home, everyone thinks he’s this broken boy with amnesia, and he just lets them. He smiles, nods, says “I don’t remember” while knowing damn well how to blow up a monster’s spine with elemental shit if he wants. And now he’s back under one roof with an adoptive mom who looks way too good in a tank top, and a stepsis who walks around the house like clothes are a suggestion. It feels wrong. Then it feels less wrong. Then you are suddenly very aware how many cameras you can put in a house without anyone noticing. The game kind of leans into that uncomfortable space where you tell yourself “I’m just checking on them” while you’re obviously not just checking. You peek, you watch, you keep watching. The tension is like those long Tinder chats that never become a date, except here things actually go somewhere. Slowly. Awkward. Hot. Messy.

The magic stuff sneaks in on the edges at first. A small spell to fix a bruise. A charm to nudge a mood. Then the line slides. You tell yourself you’re “helping” Rachel relax after a rough day and next thing you’re tweaking her thoughts so she forgets to pull her hand away from your thigh. With Jessica it’s worse. She’s moody, horny, bored, always on her phone, like someone who has three different dating apps and still complains nobody texts. You watch her from the hallway as she plays with herself, then later you act like you don’t know. Or you push just a little inside her head so her eyes linger too long on your chest, your hands, that scar. The game loves this grind between guilt and arousal. You feel like a piece of shit then you click “continue”. The blackmail routes hit hard too. Someone almost catches you during one of your little voyeur trips and suddenly you are using every dirty secret you found to shut them up. Or own them. Sometimes both. The supernatural stuff makes it easier, which is kind of the scary part. When you can tilt a person’s mind a few degrees with a spell, “no” stops feeling like a hard wall and more like a locked door you’re sure you can pick. There are monsters on the island, yeah, but the really messed up thing is realizing the creepiest monster might be the guy you’re controlling. And still you lean into it, because the writing pokes that lonely place in your chest where you wish someone would just look at you the way Rachel does when the spell is humming behind her eyes, or the way Jessica bites her lip when she trusts you a little too much. It’s not nice. It’s not healthy. It is very, very hard to stop clicking.

Then the whole world outside the house keeps trying to crawl in. This other woman shows up, Zara, with that “I know more than I say” smile, and she is trouble in a tight dress. She wants what’s hidden in your head. The island. The power. She flirts like a pro, touches your arm, leans in too close, talks about rifts and ancient things while her hand is sliding down your chest. If you let her, she uses you, but you also kind of use her back, like two snakes wrapping around each other. The game tosses you into fights that feel like someone mixed horny fanfic with a light RPG: one moment you are burning some freaky shadow beast, next you are getting pinned to a wall by a milf with an agenda. There are group scenes that start almost accidental. You nudge a few emotions in the wrong place, drink flows, inhibitions drop, and suddenly you realize you crossed the line from watching to orchestrating. Watching your “family” share you, touch each other because you planted that idea, is the kind of thing that sticks in your brain after you close the tab. It’s hot. It’s fucked. It made me think about how I ghosted that girl from Bumble because I was scared of real feelings, then spent hours in this house making fake ones with magic and blackmail. This story doesn’t pretend to fix anyone’s mental health. Ben is messed up from the crash and the island, everyone around him has their own cracks, and the game just lets those cracks widen while you poke them. Sometimes the romance almost feels real, like when Rachel opens up about losing you the first time and you see this raw hurt in her, and for a second you feel bad using a spell to turn that pain into desire. Then the scene keeps going, clothes come off, she says your name in this soft way, and that guilt gets drowned under everything else. It’s not a pretty fantasy of perfect love, it’s a mess of hunger, lies, control, and a weird kind of comfort that comes from being needed, even if you had to bend a few minds to get there. And yeah, I closed the browser once, told myself I was done with this shit, then came back the next day to see how far I could push them all before something finally breaks.

I started this one on my phone in the laundry room, leaning on the washing machine like some horny teenager who also has back pain. The main woman, Mrs. Moore, hits a bit too close to home: tired face, nice body, that “I used to fuck like crazy before life happened” vibe. She’s this proper housewife on the outside, but the way the game looks at her, you feel the horny under the skin right away. You don’t get thrown into chaos immediately; it kind of pokes you with these small teasing scenes. A bend over here, her tits pressed against a table there, camera sliding behind her when she walks, that soft jiggle on her ass when she sits down. There’s a lot of focus on her body, not in a subtle way, more like the game is constantly saying: “Yes, she’s somebody’s wife, now watch what we’re going to do to her.” And I did. Repeatedly. Even while my pasta boiled over in the kitchen because I forgot it again.

The fun is how slow it turns dirty and then suddenly it’s not slow at all. One minute she’s just bored and lonely, doing the same chores, talking like a good girl, then you click one different choice and boom, she’s getting her panties wet watching someone through a half open door. There is voyeur stuff pretty early, like you’re watching her watch other people fuck. Sometimes straight, sometimes girl on girl, sometimes you notice something extra between the legs and go “oh, ok, that’s a cock too.” And it’s not shy about it. The tits are big, the asses are big, the camera loves close ups, and when it gets to actual sex, you see everything: pussy spreading around a cock, shiny spit on a dick during a blowjob, slow anal scenes where you see her tight hole opening and then that full, warm creampie shot that looks a bit too real for comfort. There’s a few animated loops where her huge boobs bounce while she rides, and I literally had to put my phone face down because a notification from the school app popped up over this woman choking on cum. Perfect timing, as usual. Sometimes there are little minigame moments that pop up, like “touch here” or “hit this” to get better reactions, and I’ll be honest, I failed one because my thumb was sweaty. Also the text sound is slightly annoying and I keep meaning to turn it off, but then someone starts stripping out of a cosplay maid outfit or some weird fantasy monster scene shows up with tentacles near her ass and I forget again. The whole thing is like watching a tired MILF remember she likes being used, by men, by women, by something in between, by several at once, and the game never acts like that’s a big moral crisis, just another option on the menu while dinner burns quietly in the background of your real life.

Nobody here remembers shit, but everybody wants to fuck. That’s basically the vibe of this game, in a good way and also in a kind of fucked up way that sticks in your head when you’re trying to answer an email on Gmail and suddenly you remember that scene with the slime girl choking on a dick made of tentacles. You wake up in this weird world with a bunch of strangers, no names, no past, just horny bodies and monsters that look like they came from a hentai subreddit and a fever dream at same time. I liked how it doesn’t even pretend to be “normal fantasy” for long. One second you’re talking about how to survive, next second you’re on your knees in front of some smug demon guy, mouth full, while text box is describing how your throat is learning a new religion. And it works. Too well, actually.

What caught me was how the game lets you lean into different filth without doing a big tutorial voice. You just kind of realize, oh, if I pick this slightly pathetic answer, my character gets humiliated harder later, and suddenly the “I’ll do anything, just don’t leave me alone here” line becomes a whole gangbang in some ruined temple where you’re pinned between a futa priestess and a monster with too many cocks. Anal, vaginal, your ass used like it belongs to the group, cum dripping everywhere, that nice little text detail about feeling it leak out when you try to walk after. There’s this one scene where you’re supposed to “negotiate” with a monster girl tribe, except the negotiation is basically who you let fuck you first while the others watch. I thought it would be just generic porn dialogue, but they really lean into the humiliation: they call you a “lost little virgin toy” even when you’re already full of cum from earlier route. Consistency? No. But somehow that randomness makes it hotter, because the game acts like your holes are always ready for another round no matter what you did 5 minutes ago. I kinda hate that. I also replayed that part three times on Firefox because the timing for some choices actually changes the angle of who finishes where. That thing where you wake up half-asleep and someone’s already pushing inside you, and the text pretends you’re not sure if you’re dreaming, that messed with me more than the loud monster fights.

What’s funny is how it tries to be an “adventure” and a “mystery” while you’re also getting covered in cum every other conversation. You’ve got the whole “why are we here, what happened to our old world” questions, but I kept getting distracted by little details like the way the game describes teeth on a tentacle mouth right before it goes down on you, or how the lesbian route with the monster girl isn’t soft at all, she just grinds you into the ground and basically uses your face until you can’t see straight. There’s also a guy-on-guy tension that sneaks up on you: one of the “normal” dudes you meet turns into full-on gay route if you answer him with just slightly too much kindness, and suddenly your “thanks for saving me” scene becomes you sucking him off while a shadow thing watches, and you both pretend you don’t notice. Group scenes go pretty hard too, like proper multiple cocks in one hole, pussy and ass stuffed, bukkake on top, cumshot text taking more lines than the actual plot. But the game still tries to make you care about “restoring balance to the world” while you’re wiping jizz off your chest for the third time in one chapter. I kind of wish the UI buttons were less tiny, but yeah, that’s not going to change and I’m still going to keep clicking “yes” when some creepy tentacle offers to “show a different kind of welcome.” Just don’t expect the story to respect your choices as much as it respects your holes. It remembers exactly where to put the next cock, but forgets everything else. Honestly, same.

Game feels like somebody mashed up a messy cultivation webnovel, a horny cyberpunk VN and a monster girl harem fever dream, then forgot to hit the “polish” button. Which is exactly why I got hooked. You start as this “genius disciple” guy who is technically still a virgin but throws fire around and bends gravity like it’s nothing. The plot keeps yelling about destiny and cultivation realms and Cursed Gods, but half the time I’m just staring at a pair of huge tits bouncing in a training scene and missing half the exposition. One second your master is threatening to obliterate a planet, the next she is pinning you to a wall with her boots on your throat and a glowing cyber-whip wrapped around your dick, saying it’s “part of the lesson”. Sure, sensei, I totally believe that. Educational.

The multiverse stuff is actually fun when the game stops pretending to be serious and just goes full horny nonsense. You portal from a neon city with hologram billboards and chrome sex toys, straight into some floating wuxia sect where a fox-eared elder talks about immortal cultivation while eye-fucking you across the courtyard. I lost a full session hunting for a secret route with the twin sisters from the battle group. The trigger for their threesome isn’t obvious at all: you gotta pick the “wrong” dialogue choice during a mission, get your ass kicked by a tentacle monster girl, then comfort the shy twin while the loud one calls you useless. Only after that, in your room, they show up together with those stupid matching collars and just climb on top like “battle formation”. It ends with both of them creampied, glowing with spiritual power, arguing about who gets your “seed” next and I’m just sitting there thinking: yeah, this is definitely how cultivation works.

Sex variety is wild in a good “what the hell” way. You got straight-up vaginal scenes with big tit space amazons, slow lesbian training with your hacker girl and some noble sword princess, group sex in a gravity chamber where everybody is slowly spinning around naked, even a furry dog-girl who starts as a boss and ends up kneeling at your feet begging to be your “battle mount”. There is bondage everywhere: chains made of qi, cybernetic restraints, floating cuffs that lock your hands behind your back while a monster girl rides you and drains your life force. Some of the animated loops look a bit stiff, like the dev made them at 3 in the morning half-asleep, but then you get one where the camera just stays too long on the MC’s dick sliding in and out, with cum slowly leaking, and suddenly it hits way harder than anything I saw on Pornhub this month. The small annoyance is that the game sometimes hides lewd routes behind random side missions and never tells you. I spent ages trying to unlock the scene where your master actually lets you fuck her instead of just choking you and leaving you with blue balls, and I still have no idea what exactly triggered it. One run she just tossed me a box of glowing sex toys and said “prove your control” while putting my cock in a weird spiritual cock ring that vibrates with every qi pulse. I failed on purpose. Obviously.

Champion of I: Luxuria feels like someone mashed up a horny tabletop campaign with one of those old browser RPGs you used to sneak at school, then said, “ok, but what if literally everyone wanted to fuck or kill you, sometimes both in the same scene.” You’re this Guardian dropped into Eden, all big heroic title and zero safety net, and the game really likes to remind you that your dick is not separate from your decisions. One moment you’re picking a tactical skill in a tight turn based fight, counting mana and HP like a tryhard, next moment you’re staring at a futa monster girl asking if you want her cock in your mouth or your ass, and the dialogue box is like “this will have consequences” and you’re sitting there thinking, “yeah, that’s kind of the point.” It has that slow, text heavy pace, like a VN fucked an RPGMaker project, so if you expect quick swipes and done, nah, this wants you to sit with it, read it, and sometimes suffer because you said yes to the wrong pair of tits three scenes ago. The world is proper dark fantasy too, not just “ooh edgy,” like, you can feel that the gods are assholes, the land hates you, and half the cast has trauma kink without calling it that. There is actual combat, not just click-next porn, and it can smack you if you tunnel vision on the lewd path and forget to build your kit. I had one run where I went full horny diplomacy with a harem of monster girls and woke up hard and dead in the next dungeon, because I’d been giving anal instead of upgrading my skills. Deserved, honestly.

The sex itself is messy in a good way. Futanari, regular girls, monster girls with too many teeth in the right places, oral, anal, all the basic “I’m on an adult site” package, but plugged into the story so you can’t always treat it like a separate menu. Sometimes the “right” choice for survival means saying no, sometimes the most depraved option opens a hidden route, and sometimes it just turns a character into a clingy disaster who crawls into your camp later and rides you like a stress relief toy. There are bits of sandbox structure, like you can poke around Eden, check different hubs, talk to people, trigger side scenes if you’re patient, but it is not a pure free roam thing. The point and click bits are pretty lowkey, more about picking who you talk to, which door, which icon, rather than some puzzle game nonsense. Still, I spent a good chunk of time clicking the wrong area on the screen trying to talk to the slutty priestess, so that’s on me but I’m still annoyed. The app I had it open next to was fucking Discord, and I kept alt tabbing to yell “I just lost a fight because I chose the blowjob dialog” at a friend who didn’t even know what game I meant. The writing swings hard between surprisingly deep “what is good and evil” stuff and “get on your knees and swallow,” which I liked and also kinda hated, because sometimes I just wanted to nut and instead got a whole speech about chaos and souls. But then there’s that moment where a monster offers you a “blessing” that is obviously just her using your throat like a toy, and if you lean into it, the next battle you win in one filthy move and think, yeah ok, this is exactly the trash I signed up for. If you go in, save often, say yes to something you probably shouldn’t, and when the game asks “are you sure” before a sex scene, click yes and pretend you didn’t see the warning.

Matt comes back from war all fucked up in the head, walks into what’s left of “normal life,” and finds out everything turned into horny apocalypse soap opera. Whole town feels like it’s hanging by a thread, but every second person has huge tits, fat ass, or both, and everybody’s trauma seems to leak out as sex. You’re steering his choices, but it doesn’t feel like some clean, smart VN. It’s messy, horny, sometimes awkward, like catching your own thoughts in bad lighting. One moment you’re trying to be a decent guy to someone who clearly loves you, next moment you’re hovering over a dialog option that might send her straight into someone else’s bed. Or arms. Or tentacles. Whatever.

The New Year setting is actually nice in a fucked-up way. Fireworks outside, this weird fake hope in the air, while inside people drink, confess, lie, and fuck. There’s this scene where Matt is alone in a half-ruined living room, tree lights flickering, girl in some cheap glitter dress too tight for her tits, talking about “fresh start” with eyes that say she knows it’s bullshit. You can kiss her there or push her away and go chase some way darker route instead. I picked the horny option, obviously, but then later the game hits you with consequences and you catch yourself thinking “shit, maybe I shouldn’t have done that”… right before it shoves another thick ass in your face. And yeah, models are that specific porn-y style: gravity-defying boobs, asses that look like they’d clap on their own, but somehow still a bit human, with those weird little body imperfections you only notice when you’re staring too close. Which you will.

What really stuck with me is how it keeps teasing you between romance and pure filth. One girl talks to Matt like he’s her whole world, like some anime heroine who actually lived through hell, and for a second it feels kind of sweet. Then there’s a choice sitting there that can twist her path into some nasty jealous shit or straight-up netorare bait. And it doesn’t scream “NTR route” or anything fancy, it just quietly lets you pick the wrong line and watch her slip away into some paranormal crap that might not even be entirely human anymore. There’s this one monster scene where you’re never quite sure if it’s all in Matt’s head or actually real, but the game doesn’t care and just keeps going with it, mixing fear and arousal in a way that kinda pissed me off but I still clicked through every render. Some routes lean into that taboo family angle too, and it’s not coy about it at all: close bodies on a couch, a hand left too long, eyes that say “we both know this is fucked” while the dialogue pretends it’s still innocent. I wish the facial expressions on some characters didn’t look like they’re halfway through sneezing at the hottest moments, but whatever, you get used to it and then your brain just goes “big tits, big ass, bad decisions, keep going.” By the time the countdown hits midnight and everyone’s kissing the wrong person for the wrong reason, it feels less like a special and more like watching a car crash covered in tinsel and cum. In a good way. Mostly.

War here doesn’t feel like some clean fantasy story. The first scene that really stuck with me is just you walking through Veskar after another attack, and there are these small quiet details that make it feel wrong in a good way. A toy half buried in ash. A vendor stall burned out but the tits on the wanted posters still staring back at you like nothing happened. The game keeps doing that rhythm, mixing brutal shit with horny stuff, and it kind of messes with your head. You play as Nathan, but I honestly forgot his name half the time because I kept renaming him to stupid things. He’s supposed to be one of the last of this powerful family, PTSD as hell, and the story actually takes that seriously at times. Then two minutes later you’re pressed up against a wall by a milf officer with armor that somehow has room for those huge curves but no space for a normal neckline. I liked that whiplash. I also hated it. It made some scenes feel extra dirty, like you’re getting off in between air raids.

The supernatural stuff takes over slowly. At first it’s just talk about elves and magic and this Empress who’s basically committing genocide, pretty standard. Then you start noticing that the monsters you fight are not just enemies, they’re potential lovers, or at least potential “shove your cock in this terrifying thing” moments. There’s this one monster girl with a body that looks soft and thick in all the right places, but her eyes are wrong and she moves like something out of a horror game on Steam that people speedrun on Twitch. You think you’re about to get a big heroic boss fight. Instead it turns into this weird trancey seduction where she’s half trying to eat you and half trying to ride you. I was kind of disturbed and also very into it. On Discord I told a friend “this game is fucked” and then I immediately loaded the quicksave just to see if the other dialogue choice changed how she moaned. It didn’t, which annoyed me way more than it should have, and I kept thinking about that single reused sound for like ten minutes while everything else was happening on screen, like the city falling apart and these mystical conspiracies piling up in the background.

Sex scenes are mostly slow burn at first. Lots of talking, sometimes too much talking, like a horny VN that wanted to be a mystery novel but got distracted by its own boobs. There’s a scene with a big ass elf woman interrogating you, and the camera keeps lingering on the way she crosses her legs, and it’s honestly hotter than some of the full nudity later. When the clothes finally come off, the bodies are thick, heavy, exaggerated in that way that makes you want to zoom in, which of course you can’t, and I kept trying to lean closer to the screen like that would help. The urban fantasy side keeps leaking in: fucking in half destroyed apartments, magical symbols glowing across pale skin while you’re pounding into her, monster claws digging into your back when you climax. It’s not “nice” sex, more like desperate and messy, like everyone knows they might get wiped out by a spell in the morning so they fuck like animals at night. I kind of wish the horror had more actual scares, but maybe it’s better this way, just this constant quiet dread under all the moaning. If you play, don’t rush through the scenes. Let the dialogue drag sometimes, stare at the background, read the way characters shift from soldier to slut and back. The hottest stuff happens in those tiny moments where you realize they’re as scared as you are and still spreading their legs anyway.