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With how downright villainous the Seraphites act, they should be hemorrhaging cult members by the hundreds. We get the sense that people are escaping (see: Yara, Lev) but there are probably many more people fleeing the cult in droves. This type of oppression is just not sustainable, and this backwards cult should be no match for the militarized society they are warring with. It's silly to think this enclave of child-murdering, axe-wielding cultists would ever pick a fight with a giant gun-toting army like the WLF.
In the end, the trans plot point is handled extremely poorly. Lev shaved his head because he didn't want to become a child wife, he wanted to become "soldier" instead (even though female soldiers already exist). His gender disphoria is only suggested upon in the wiki, but I didn't see it mentioned in the game. In the actual game, Lev's "transness" seems to stop and end with him not wanting to be raped by an assigned husband. If the writers wanted the story to be relatable to real-life trans issues, maybe its implementation shouldn't have been clumsy with weird implications? As it stands, the game seems to be implying that one might become trans to avoid being raped and to be assigned a preferable occupation.
And since this cult is actively at war with a greater threat, shouldn't soldiers be in high demand? Shouldn't the Seraphites be totally down with Lev becoming a soldier? Shouldn't they be trying to muster as many soldiers as possible to defeat this militarized threat? If female soldiers already exist, why would they turn away Lev? Are child wives in even HIGHER demand? Is Lev the victim of a very important arranged marriage or something?
