Lyra is supposed to be this perfect warrior princess, right? Stoic, noble, all that heroic cosplay you see on Insta but with way less clothing and way more sweat. Except her head is completely fucked with cravings she is not allowed to have. The island is full of sharp women, hard bodies, ritual bruises, polished armor, and then behind all that there is this constant low buzz of want. Skin against skin in the baths, eyes lingering too long during drills, the way someone’s mouth curves when they lose a spar and drop to one knee. The whole place pretends it is discipline and honor, but it is horny as hell under the surface, and Lyra is the one who knows it too well because her own pulse keeps betraying her.

When Thebe shows up, this stubborn tomboy recruit with too much attitude and not enough respect, it is like the island hands Lyra a living toy and says: here, fix this. You, as Lyra, decide what "fixing" means. Sometimes that is a wooden sword across her thighs until her legs shake, sometimes it is fingers on her jaw, forcing her to hold eye contact while you tell her what a useless little slut of a warrior she is, and sometimes it is just making her kneel silently and breathe while you trace circles over the inside of her thigh without giving her what she is begging for. The game never rushes when it is cruel. There are these scenes where you control everything: what she can say, when she is allowed to come, if she is allowed to come at all. You can praise her as your good girl or grind her right down into filthy nothing, making her repeat what she is, what she is for. That whole orgasm control thing hits stupidly hard here, because you are not pushing a generic meter, you are playing with her conditioning, layering orders over affection until she worships you for the privilege of being used. One time I had her pinned against a training pillar, hands bound above her head, her mouth stuffed so she can only moan around it, and the only way she can show obedience is how still she holds her hips while Lyra teases her clit with just the edge of a glove. It is awful and perfect and you kinda hate yourself while clicking the "not yet" option again.

What surprised me is how soft it can switch without warning. Lyra is not some cartoon domme robot. She is horny, yes, and a little broken, and she screws up. There is this bathhouse scene after a rough punishment where you sit with Thebe between your legs, washing her hair, and the steam is thick and your thighs are wrapped around her hips. You still control her, she still calls you princess, but suddenly you are kissing the bruises you put on her, licking water off her shoulder like it is an apology. The camera (not literally, chill, just how it feels) lingers on mouths and fingers, and a lot of the heat is in kissing and cunnilingus, tongue and breath and needy little sounds. It is very lesbian, very yuri, but with that twisted power thing where romance and ownership tangle together until you forget where one ends. At one point I caught myself whispering "good girl" at my screen like a complete idiot, which is extra funny because the game also kicks you in the teeth sometimes with humiliation. You can have her sell herself on your command, you can push her into roles that look like prostitution wrapped in "duty to the island", and Lyra has to watch and decide if she is doing it for Themiscyra or for her own sick thrill. Honestly the only thing that annoyed me was this one UI click in the menu that feels like it is hiding the choice you actually want, and I kept hitting the wrong thing on my phone while half naked in bed, which is not the mood you want killed by a tiny button. Anyway. It is messy, horny, mean, weirdly romantic, and every time you think you are the one in control, the story pulls back and reminds you that Lyra might be the one getting possessed by her own need, not just her little warrior toy.