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The Wayhaven Chronicles—Update 10/Jan/2025

Just a quick one this week as I wasn’t going to be on social media but just wanted to check in with everyone!

So this week we spent planning out the year for social media things, and I also read through the whole of Book Four’s plan again to refresh myself with where I’m at and where I’m going :D

As I said, I want to finish Book Four this year even with it being more, but I know I can do it!

In order to do that though, I’m planning to get a lot of social media content done this month for the year ahead, meaning that’ll open up the rest of the year so I can almost solely focus on Book Four. I’m really hoping that getting as much of that completed as I can will help with just being able to slam ahead on the writing instead of stopping and starting.

So it’ll a bit of a different routine than past years, but hopefully will make a ton of difference! And I’ve already got some scenarios finished which I am loving, including one that fits nicely between Book Three and Four that I couldn’t stop thinking about over Christmas break, hehe! :D

The demo update will also be happening—looking at getting the early access on Patreon up the end of next week, with public access late the week after.

Hope you all had a great start to the new year! It’s so good to be back in the embrace of Wayhaven, hehe! <3

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**b4 demo spoilers** will we get any explanation as to A's sudden shift in attitude at the beginning of b4? like them being super casual and stuff. i know you said you didn't wanna make it too heavy for /reasons/ but i was just wondering it A themselves has a reason for this switchup between end of b3/start of b4. hope ur having a nice day !!

It was the ending of Book Three when A realised they love the MC.

And they already knew they loved the MC, but now they really, really know it, and they told the MC as much…well, they sort of admitted they feel something, or that they can't deny there is something—but that's what they meant, lol!

And that admission is hard to cram back down inside of them for the moment. They'll get there…but for now they can't help let those feelings stay.

Plus, I really wanted a break for the A-mancers and give them some of the nice romance too for now, especially considering what's coming in Book Five…

Hope that helps!

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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When I'm not romancing Adam I like the hc as the detective older brother figure (even if he doesn’t know if he acts like it)

Adam: you are not good enough for the detective and I don't want to around them. END. OF. STORY.

Villain:...So why don't you give me one chance-

Adam: slams door in their face

The BFFs wlll definitely have something to say to the MC on the villain romances, that's for sure!

At this point, the BFFs feel deeply connected to the MC, and they worry about the MC and are the first to pick up on the stirring feelings that are happening (I actually have already written these tiny moments where you can see the BFF starting to catch onto it if you read closely in the next demo chapters to come, hehe!)

But A's reaction to the villain when the MC is romancing them might not be quite so calm as that...hehe! ;D

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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It's quite alarming how fast I go through all the wayhaven books, lol. Sometimes I wonder what I'll do with my life once this series is wrapped up. Do you ever consider your plans for after this series ends, such as a spinoff or a different universe altogether?

Oh wow, you should see the mountain of paper I have with ideas written all over them, hehe!

Wayhaven is a world I want to explore in SO many different stories and mediums! There's much, much more to come :D

Though it will all be romanced based and likely interactive, because I write what I would enjoy, and romance interactive games are my addiction, hehe!

But the main series is definitely my focus! There's plenty more to come that I am desperate to write for these vampires and the MC!

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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VILLAIN ROMANCE? SINCE WHEN? please do they have a tag I can't find anything on them 🥹🫶

If you use the tag '#twc villain romance' you should be able to find out more!

But yes, in Book Four, you will be able to romance the villain if you're not already romancing one of the vampires.

And boy...what a romance it'll be, lol! :D

Hope that helps! Thank you so much for the ask :)

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youre telling me a hasnt said ily in 900+ years? not even once to their best friend forever n?

Lol! I had so many asks on this :D

A doesn't tend to say things and is much more a fan of showing them.

Even if people (such as F and N!) would enjoy to hear it expressed to, hehe!

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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The Wayhaven Chronicles—Update 20/Dec/2024

This week was a realisation of just how close Christmas break is, lol!

So then it was making sure to get everything checked off!

That was a bit more of a squeeze this year as the Winter scenario specials have all ended up waaaaay longer than I meant them to by thousands of words… :D

So that’s been nearly 20,000 words extra this month on top of making sure to hit my chapter 6 goals!

Though writing the scenarios and chapter six meant I got to write multiple Adam/Ava kisses this week: for the scenario and the main game. So it’s been a busy week for A ;D

I will be working this weekend and likely next week, but I will be starting my break from social media, etc, from tomorrow. In the same vein, we will be back on January 6th but won’t be back on social media, etc until 13th January.

That first week back will be used for planning out the year ahead and getting a head start on a lot of very fun stuff to come!

Hope you all have the most amazing and magical holiday season if you celebrate! If not, then I hope you have a fantastic December and New Year!

Talk to you all then! <3

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Hi! I wanted to ask a question you already answered but in reverse: will the villain be jealous of the LIs after finding out MC is already taken? 👀🤞 Also, such a nice touch to have the villain call MC the same exact word the LI called them back in... book 1 right? I played M's route first and immediately recognized it when the villain said MC was 'enticing'! I hope I'm not mistaken and actually caught that right... otherwise that'd be embarrassing for me to say that so confidently 😳

The villain definitely will not be happy at all when finding out the MC's interests lay elsewhere. But no worries, it's easy enough to remove the competition, right? ;D

Yes, you are completely right! I'm so glad you caught that, hehe! :D

I do love a throwback, and it seemed too perfect of a moment not to have it. The interest of the LI saying it compared to the shudder of revulsion when Li-Sar says it was too much fun :D

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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Hello, wonderful being(s) who operate this blog. Wayhaven has become a sort of home for me and I thank you so much for making and sharing it with all of us. It’s amazing to watch the world and fandom grow and following the process with you!? Incredibly generous and dedicated of you! It’s so clear that this is a labor of love and I hope that after all your hard work you are impressed or at the very least satisfied with the incredible amount of work you put into every aspect of this. It doesn’t go unnoticed.

Feel free to ignore this, but it’s a question I think about often while reading Wayhaven. We all know that N doesn’t like technology and believes (perhaps rightly so) that nowadays we rely on electronics too much. I happen to be legally blind and rely heavily on technology to get around that. Such as using my phone camera to zoom in on something I can’t see or read. Or having to need a voiceover to ‘read’ my books for me. N is my favorite and I wonder how they (and perhaps A, since they’re so old and seem to be rather wary of tech too) would feel about this aspect of technology or if the MC had to depend on such workarounds for their own limitations. I love how independent and capable the MC is and that there is no pressure or plans for the MC to become a vampire. But this particular ‘what if” comes to me often if I happen to be thinking of Wayhaven while I go about my day with my little tricks and such to do what I need to in order to see and get about.

So sorry for the long winded message. >.< Thank you so much again.

Aah, what a wonderful and kind message! Thank you so, so much! I'm so happy to hear Wayhaven is a home for you. I truly wanted it to be a space people can fall into and just lose themselves in.

As for your question, Nate/Nat probably would never have thought of the benefits of technology in this way. When they can fall back on magically-infused aids to help in things, that's where they would go to!

Adam/Ava is at least more open to uses of technology, but doesn't tend to use tech outside of what the Agency offers too.

N and N came from ages where tech just wasn't a thing, and even after all these centuries, they haven't come to rely on it yet, lol! :D

Thank you so much for the ask and again for the amazing message! <3

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i think you've ruined my life by writing N. they're literally my dream person i don't think i'll ever be able to date anyone anymore (not that i had much of a love life to begin with lol)

I've ruined any chances at romance myself for writing these vampires, so we can make a club about it, lol! :D

Thank you so much for the fun message! :)

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The Wayhaven Chronicles— 13/Dec/2024

I can’t believe it’s been a week already, and what a difference a week makes! This time last week we were battening down the hatches for a major storm, and my internet was giving out under the weather!

This week, all is calm with the weather, and I’ve been powering through the chapter, as well as pushing on with the next Winter Special Scenario! F was really bringing their full game for the scenario this week—that's for sure!

Something interesting this week too—I got my ‘Wrapped’ Spotify update thing!

Unsurprisingly, topping the list was a lot of Book Four songs, lol! :D

I’ll give you a little hint at the Top 3…the ones after that get rather spoilery in theme!

(If you’re wondering, yes, that last song is very much one I have on while writing Li-Sar’s scenes, hehe! ;D)

There’s some specific goals I want to meet before Christmas break, so I won’t be taking quite as long a one as I usually do because I need to check them off to be able to relax! Book Four is seriously intensive and taking a longer time than I’d like to write, but I also love what Book Four is becoming and how reactive it is to the character the player has made and what they’ve gone through so far!

Plus writing an extra love interest route is quite a bit of work, but SO worth it! Especially because it’s such a different theme to write than the others!

So, I want to say the most MASSIVE thank you for being so patient! With the way this book is coming together, I really think it’ll be worth it! <3

As you can probably guess, I’m planning on next year being the Book Four year! *fingers crossed*

Can’t wait for you all to play the next demo though and chat with you all about it, hehe! ;D There will also be another demo to come after that one too!

Hope you all have the most fantastic weekend! We’ll be offline as usual, so I'll update you all again next week! <3

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do you have access to some stats such as which romance routes are most popular amongst the readers? i'm curious :D i feel like M has gotten very popular

I don't, unfortunately! It would be SUPER interesting to see how it shifts between books, hehe!

Though from the vibe I get, I agree, M is far more popular now than they were in earlier books! :D

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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hi! im playing the b4 demo (the LT route) and i was wondering why is N among our choices for best friend for UB but A isn't? 🫶🏻

That was a weird error, lol!

Thank you for catching that and letting me know! That should be fixed with the next demo update! :)

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Released from magic prison and the first thing the villain did was first with the detective idc anyone says that some level of simp

They really started as they mean to keep going, lol! ;D

Thank you so much for the fun message! :)

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Hello! I've got a question about Rebecca I've been dying to ask for ages! I've thought about this on and off for a long time while playing through the books, especially when deciding how my MC should feel towards their relationship. Did Rebecca purposefully drown herself in her career to avoid being a mother to the detective (choose to neglect the MC), or was Rebecca really unable to escape work? (Sorry this is long, I've had lots of thoughts brewing) The first seems the obvious answer to me. Considering that the MC is at least in their mid 20s, it's been over twenty years since Rook's death. And it is clear in the books that to this day just the mention of Rook weakens her to her knees. It seems to me that his death was so overwhelming, she didn't have the energy to be a mother to the MC, and overworked herself to avoid processing and thinking about her pain, abandoning her child (to a nanny)... and then did that into the MC's adulthood. It was stated sometime in the books, maybe book two or three I don't remember, that working with Unit Bravo, and simultaneously Rebecca, has been the most time the detective has ever spent with their mother. And that speaks volumes! Now, it was never mentioned that Rebecca was forced to be a handler and work away from home all the time. She had the power to step down from the council. So, she could have chosen some sort of stable job within the agency that allowed her to still be an active mother. But she didn't. She didn't even take a single holiday off to spend time with the MC (mentioned in the holiday book) and left them to the neighbors for Christmas! And this fact hasn't been mentioned explicitly, which is why I wonder. (Excluding the holiday book stuff obvi since its not in the main canon technically) The MC can express being upset because Rebecca was absent many times, but the main issue the story focused on, at least in book one (which makes sense for that point of the story) was how the MC felt about Rebecca lying to them about the nature of her job. Which I feel is a reasonable lie. I feel my MC would care more about why she was absent rather than that she kept her career a secret, though. Or, to make myself more clear, I feel the issue of Rebecca keeping secrets and lying about her career was discussed more in depth in the books rather than why Rebecca was absent, and whether it was a choice, and I wish I could express that in the story and be angry about it. And have Rebecca own up to it and apologize for being absent. But maybe we'll get to that later in the story, idk. If this is the exact reason for Rebecca's absence, that is. Thanks for listening to my ted talk. And for your response, if you end up doing so. And thank you so much for writing the Wayhaven Chronicles! I've enjoyed it so much, and I look forward to book 4 and the following future books! (I wanna marry Morgan so bad T_T)

This is such a good question, as well as reasonings!

You've actually hit it all on the head pretty perfectly! :D

Rebecca's reason for being absent is grief, for sure, and this is coming into play in a MAJOR way sooner than you might expect, and something you can tackle.

Rebecca would prefer the focus on the MC's upset or annoyance (if their is any for the MC, depending on how you're playing them) than on the fact that she lied to them about the Agency than even touch on the reason for why she threw herself into her work. But that can't last…

I hope this makes sense, but it certainly will as we go deeper into the books!

Thank you so much for the ask and the amazing message! <3

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In N's past relationships, did they or their partner usually initiate the breakup?

Usually their partner, recognising that there was a distance with N all the time, as though N wasn't fully there with them, as much as N was trying.

Thank you so much for the ask! :)

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F says that M was smiling all morning the day after they hooked up with the detective in the car? why 👀 what made that time different from all the others for them 👀

Things are getting more emotionally involved for M with the MC, though they don't recognise that just yet.

Sleeping with the MC isn't just becoming about the pleasure of sex, but something much deeper and bonding.

When M realises this, it's going to be an AWESOME scene to write, and I am shaking with excitement to write it when it comes, hehe! :D

Thank you so much for the ask! :)