Tate Foster

**Tate Foster** is one of the main characters and of the four love interests in **Lust Shards**. He is a student at the Academy of Lakonia and is a part of the Sorcery Shard.

## Route

Tate's Route is the only one (so far) to actually have 4 endings (Good/Neutral/Bad/Worst) instead of the usual three (Good/Neutral/Bad).

### Good Ending

The good ending can be obtained when you do not betray Tate at all, and have 10+ Tate points, to which you do kiss him.

### Neutral Ending

The neutral ending can be obtained when you betray Tate 0-2 times, and have less than 10 Tate points, to which you do not kiss him.

### Bad Ending

The bad ending can be obtained when you betray Tate 3 times, and have sex with either Merina or Oliver (so you can obtain the blue stone).

The ending will have Tate teleporting away, leaving Cody to die by arrows. But instead of his death, like in the worst ending, Merina will come save him. The ending scene follows, presumably being narrated in the perspective of Tate:

```
The forest all around the lonely leopard turns to ice in an instant.

Every arrow shattered into a million pieces before they can reach their target, every Nightfallen's feet unmoving, stuck to the ground.

A graceful white fox with pink hair takes slow elegant steps towards the ex-sacrifice, her expression full of anger.

She creates a sharp icicle above each Wild Fur's head, but decides to stop her spell when her eyes meet the bloodied, full of arrows body of the once Chief, which turns to ash before her eyes.

The fox cuts the leopard's ropes with two clean swoops, holding him gently in her arms.

Nobody dares make a sound, for all they know, God herself descended to save their sacrifice, and damned be the ones that look her in the eyes with anything other than fear.

And if this *'God'* wasn't fearful of the law, no witnesses would've been spared, mark her words...

A wave of snow carries the leopard's clothes.

A blue light can be seen inside one of the pockets, matching the one the fox carries around her neck.

The stone proved useful sooner than expected.

Our leopard remembers nothing of what happened, and neither does the little voice inside his head.

He made a full recovery the following day, such are the miracles of healing magic.

He is even still determined to ace whatever test the Headmaster throws at him.

But no matter how much blissful ignorance he lives in, one thing he can not shake.

Why does the cat avoid him like the plague?

He might've been more concerned with finding out why, but he made friends in others, such as Merina, and Oliver, and Coal, Aiden, Dallan, Rose and more.

He needs not the cat, so he decides to let go of the few days of memories they shared.

Faint memories...

That night's sleep, although in the hospital room, it was peaceful and restful.

The following day he and the friends he gathered along the way, showed up in the town's square, where the Headmaster is about to give start to the test.

And who am I? So vested in the leopard's life?

Some might say I'm someone he loved.

Some might say I'm a nameless individual, looking for my place in the world.

Some might say I'm the devil.

Ironically, the leopard is the only one who would respond positively to all of the above.

And the only one who would respond positively to ANY of the above.

Everybody should hate me, yet nobody does, because the truth is kept by me and me alone.

Nobody knows what happened, but the fox's gaze is no longer soft when her eyes meet mine.

I'd lie if I said it doesn't eat me from the inside out, but it's not much different than how it was before we met, so I can cope.

In the end, I'm just a cat, a stupid, flawed, sad kitty-cat.

```

### Worst Ending

The worst ending can be obtained when you betray Tate four or more times, and when you do not have sex with either Merina or Oliver.

The ending will have Tate teleporting away, leaving Cody to die by arrows. The ending scenes follow:

```
Scribbles: ...Cody? You can't just leave me like this. It's dark...I-I can't breathe. Not again...

?: Ughhh, finally, that critter is out of the picture.

Scribbles: ! Who's there?

?: My magic investment in that Chief proved to not only be useless...but a hindrance.

Scribbles: Show yourself!

?: It is a pity, really. I had a lot of uses for this little white one, but if fate brought him death, so be it.

Scribbles: It's...it's you.

?: Can you believe it? After so long. At least now you'll stop playing your little games. Did you have fun, *'Scribbles'*?

Scribbles: I-

?: No no, you don't respond to rhetorical questions, silly. You look stupid when you do that. What is that? Are you crying?

Scribbles: My friend is no more...

?: Yes, well, it's not like it's the first time. Get over it already. Now come on, back to the crystal you go. We'll have to meet some other time, when the next idiot stumbles upon you.

Scribbles: Yes, sir...

```

*"Later that night."*

```
Eureka: Hey...aren't you going to give a speech?

Ragnar: What for?

Eureka: Your father is dead, and you'll be our next Chief, you should at least show up to the pyre.

Ragnar: *scuff*

Eureka: What's wrong? Isn't that what we wanted? He's finally gone, no more dangerous missions inside their cities, no more meaningless sacrifices for any lizard that comes by... we won. What...what are you doing?

Ragnar: I'm packing our things, what does it look like I'm doing?

Eureka: ...Look, I know this wasn't exactly the plan... Cody wasn't supposed to die, in the end, I feel pity, might say I miss him.

Ragnar: You were supposed to protect him...

Eureka: I didn't think Ku'sani would ever abandon him. The Chief used his last breath to change his mind.

Ragnar: I should've been there...instead of hiding like a coward... This is my fault.

Eureka: Don't say that...you didn't let the final arrow go.

Ragnar: But they can't be blamed for that, they were born and bred to follow his commands...even in death.

Eureka: At least he's no more. We got out from under his madness. We're finally free, Ragnar!

Ragnar: SHUT UP! Don't you get it?! We KILLED one of their own.

Eureka: That's not true, **we** didn't do anything the Chief was one-

Ragnar: Do you honestly think they'll march in our camp and ask us who did it? As early as tomorrow morning, our tribe will be massacred. My brother will tell the story, and we'll be punished for what we did.

Eureka: I thought their rules didn't let them kill our kind.

Ragnar: That is only if we stay out of their business... killing one of them is definitely a hole in the rules. That's what we've been trying to avoid the most, it was just a matter of time until he caught on that our missions to kill their kind were not just failures...but planned to fail.

Eureka: We will defend ourselves then, they can't just do that.

Ragnar: The reason we were powerless against our father was because he had very weak magic at his side, their kind make HIS magic look like a JOKE! Yes, we can kill some of them with some luck, but that would only make them angrier. So you're coming with me, to survive.

Eureka: We can't just leave our people behind, what about the children?

Ragnar: The more people know, the faster the panic sets. Should've made a higher effort of saving Cody, if we wanted to save everyone... So? Last call, love.

Eureka: ...All of a sudden, a dragon God sounds like a nice thing to have right now... I'm coming...

```

1. ↑ Tate: "Get this, apparently, my real name, or at least the name he gave me when they found me, is Ku'sani, which means something like 'The one that does it'."