Was looking though an old church cookbook with my grandparents, my grandfather insisted this tasted like apple pie, although I would think Ritz now are probably very different from the 1950s
What if Klara was supposed to be at Suchdol? Most of the evidence is circumstantial, but it is there.
It is a pretty common opinion that the Katherine romance is rushed and not very well written, it seems like it was added relatively late in development. Like, there was always meant to be a female romance option at Suchdol, just, not Katherine.
She was named after Zizka's wife, this is outright mentioned in the codex in game. She and Zizka share a bed. She reacts negatively to flirting with her practically the whole game, leaving a sense that multiple scenes are missing when she changes her tune.
So, thinking about it, I think the female romance in Suchdol was maybe meant to have been Klara.
You can sleep with Klara twice.
You get to know her and she is a real character on her own. One of the better developed fling options.
She is introduced as involved with Zizka and is a bit if a spy like Katherine, placed there to lead Henry away from investigating.
Katherine's words about "why men love war" sound weird from the mouth of a woman who supposedly wants vengeance and has killed people but sound completely in line with the things we hear Klara say:
"I'd rather not hear what happened next. Storming castles tends to be a bloody business…" or "Like what? Can you even do anything other than wave that stupid piece of steel around?" and treats enemy prisoners and feels passionate about not letting them suffer.
Katherine never acted as a medic, only a spy (except one idle dialog, I think), so her being a medic at Suchdol was pretty strange and jarring to me. But you know who is a medic? Klara.
it also explains how Katherine doesn’t show up at all in the opening Suchdol cutscenes despite supposedly being a major character
So my conspiracy as to part of why the Katherine romance is written how it is, is that the female main romance was originally meant to be Klara. But WH realized at some point it wouldn't make sense for Klara to survive Nebakov and gave Katherine her role as a medic and love interest and possibly some of her lines. Which resulted in endgame Katherine who is acting as two characters in one and not really feeling like the Katherine who had all the chemistry with Zizka and was all for vengeance earlier in the game (like in the Fifth Commandment).
I just posted a niche kink fic on anon and within 12 hours I got a comment from the author who got me into the kink years ago, saying they liked my writing! they last posted something in 2017, I had no idea they were still active on the sight
If I had known the author whose work inspired my fic would read it I probably would have spent more time punching it up in editing 🫣