Masculine Route

The short version

There is no new stat. The masculine/feminine split is just Femininity (Masculinity is 100 - Femininity), so “staying a man” means keeping Femininity low against the game’s core feminization pull. The route gives you the tools to do that, a dedicated ending for getting there, and a way back if you slipped first.

You pick it in the Character Creator from a “how do you see yourself?” card (the masc path), and a separate “who are you drawn to?” card that sets only suggestion order, never access. Nothing is ever removed on this route. Things are resisted, not deleted.

Choosing it

In the character creator the masc card is one of the picks. Choosing it seeds a low starting Femininity and marks the run as masculine. The orientation card (women / men / both) is independent of that, so a masculine man can date men and a feminizing PC can date women. “Women” is the explicit hetero entry, but it’s one flavor of a masculine life, not the spine.

Picking “Stay your own man” automatically sets your Relationship type to Independent (no Master) and greys out Roommate, Landlord, and Owner, with a short in-creator note explaining why. The masculine path and a Master are mutually exclusive in Phase 1, you cannot hold the line against feminization and be someone’s kept sissy at the same time. As of 0.2.9 this coupling is shown to you up front instead of being applied as a silent override after the fact.

You do not have to pick it at the start. The route has mid-run on-ramps (see Reclaim below).

Holding the line against feminization

The Femininity pull is still there. Above Femininity 50 the default arc still gravitates toward the feminine and Owner-route content. On the masc path you out-pace it with:

• The Gentle fem-gain reduction. While you’re on the route and presenting masculine, feminizing scenes give roughly half the Femininity they normally would. It stacks with the Gym Bro and Military backgrounds’ own resistance, but a floor keeps the combined reduction from ever zeroing fem-gain out, so the route is gentle, not trivial.
• A suit job. The office suit route burns a little Femininity every shift instead of adding it, and skips the boss-NSFW arc entirely.
• The gym. Lifting and boxing both shed Femininity and double as masculine social content.
• Decline branches. Feminizing and male-advance beats surface a refusal when you’re on the route. Declining reinforces it.

A clothing detail to know: above Femininity 50 the game normally retires masculine clothes overnight and locks them. On the masc path that lock relaxes instead. Your masculine wardrobe stays equippable above 50 so the route can hold its own presentation. (On a normal run, the lock behaves the old way.)

Dating on your own terms

Set the orientation card to women and the route’s three free partners surface first: Rachel (the office coworker), Mara (a woman from the gym, reachable on the Independent path), and Cole (a bi twink you top, available only while uncaged). You’re the top in these arcs, with a few switch scenes, and dating women does not feminize you.

Bi is fully supported. A masculine man can sleep with men as a man, with no chastity cage and no feminine clothes. That masc-on-masc content is distinct from the existing feminizing male dates, which stay reachable for anyone who wants them. The orientation card only biases who gets suggested first, it never restricts who you can pursue.

The construction job track

The Construction Site is a second masculine job track, free for everyone as of 0.2.9. You interview and pick a track (general labour, or the site office once your Femininity is high enough for it), then work shifts with their own economics and a run of masculine NSFW arcs. It’s the “more job tracks” half of the route’s work pillar, alongside the free suit job.

Reclaiming it after you slipped

If you started feminine, you can still fight back, but not from the deep end. The masculine on-ramps (accepting the suit job, or an apartment “reclaim your edge” beat) are offered up to roughly Femininity 80. Above that you’re too far in and the pivot is no longer on the table. Once you’re on the route, the same Femininity-down tools above bring you back down toward the ending.

The payoff: the Masculine ending

The route has its own ending, “On My Own Terms, As a Man,” which fires at Femininity under 30. Because the three existing endings all need high Femininity, the masc ending can never collide with them, and it fills a real gap (a low-Femininity run otherwise gets no ending at all). It’s orientation-agnostic at the gate, so straight, single, and bi masculine players all reach the same recognition. See Endings for the full ending list.