#Keyframes spring mc

[chouchoutrains]

My Keyframes Spring MC!!!!

Introducing to you all, Rani Dewan!

I wanted to get this done a lot quicker but I have work sadly 😔 I tried making the ‘official’ page for Rani similar to the actual art style of the game

This is my lovely spring MC Rani UGHHH I love her. When I first played Keyframes, I played as a spring mc and let me tell you spring resonated with me so much spring is literally me

ANYWAYS yes I worked hard on her and I hope you guys love her too :’] She is a silly diva who tries to pretend she has it all under control but behind her eccentricity she secretly wants a little loving (not that she would ever tell anyone LMAO she has too much pride) She’s currently platonic with everyone but I do want her to have a romantic relationship…. Just…. Who though…. They’re all such good choices….

Here’s a little bonus scene for Rani (scenes with the rest of the cast are gonna be uploaded in the next few days)

Note: Rani is BRITISHHHHHHH RAHHHHHHH 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

(P.S if there are any mistakes no there’s not what do you mean 🤨🤨🤨 also pls I’m British idk anything about the American school system I hope the major/minor thing is fine)

ONE MORE THING: try guessing her height please I need to know how you guys perceive her

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Rainy day 🌧️

This image has been on my brain since I was playing this omg..... Maybe they need more paint on each other ermmm..my

[rui-drawsbox]

keyframes stuff

deja one chance just one pleasepleasepleaseplease 🙏

+another redesign of ruri's clothes bc the summer one felt out of character agdfdfg

[phonyroni]

OKAY- I will admit I started just with Cameron since Ponyo is my favorite Ghibli movie too, but it devolved into me entering a crazed state of focus and now here's all the Keyframes characters and me in their favorite Ghibli movies. Anyway, Ponyo my beloved... ♥️

Context:

[mistyscenter]

Playing a Fall MC vs Spring MC is so fucking funny

Fall MC: aw I'm sorry, is there anything I can do to help :(?

Spring MC: you'll be fineeeeeeeeeee, let's go

[blank-house]

Hey so I was wondering how you’d describe each of the seasonal personalities. I’ve played a bit with each of them and I was wondering what would be the key traits that define them.

+ I was also wondering which seasons you’d assign to each cast member.

Oooooh okay before I get into the specifics, it's important to note that the seasonal personalities are how we easily define behaviors and track attribute changes in the game-- attributes being the 4C's which I can expand on if someone's curious about it (SURPRISE Keyframes is actually a bit of a stat raiser haha).

Like it's a cute touch for personalization, but in the backend scheme of things it's more for the dev's sake. That way we can give players an immersive experience while not shooting ourselves in the foot trying to account for everything ^^,

So by no means is any of this meant to be accurate to every individual player, it's just how we chose to define a thought process for the immersion.

With that out of the way, let's get down to it!

Spring

We considered them to be more charming. Joking, teasing, is how they tend to act. It's almost like theatre- they perform for others, and rope them in to join the show. Witty and quick on their feet, it takes a bit of dancing to catch them off guard. But if you happen to do so, they'd graciously applaud your efforts.

Point is, Spring people we defined to be the ones who are playful. They've got an ideology that is somewhat imposed on others but it's always indirect. With their flowery words, you might just end up being persuaded to go with their flow!

To add on to the stage references, they think of themselves as the playwright. The stage is theirs to command.

Summer

These types are more confident. Like the sun, they're bold and expressive. They're sort of similar to Spring, in that they also have their own ideologies that are being imposed, but they are way more direct with it. So before you know it, people are going with their flow not because they've been persuaded, but because Summer has already gone and done it!

If this is what they believe, then they're not easily swayed. If this is is what they want, then by heaven or hell they'll do it. Summers are sincere because there is simply nothing to hide with them. You'll know if you made them upset or if they're not 100% sold on an idea.

To continue with the stage references, they think they're the main lead! The story, their fate is their own.

Fall

People of this type are compassionate. They're supporters and observers. You might hear them ask, "What do you think" or "is there something on your mind". It's more important to them that the company they're with is comfortable even if it might be at the cost of their own.

They tend to pick up on other people's wavelengths and will curate their words and actions in response. In a sense, they're thoughtful and will consider all scenarios before making a decision.

Again with the stage references, they might see themselves as an arbitrary member of the play. Whether that member is the crew, or on the stage as a supporting character or even the main lead- it doesn't matter. They are helping the play unfold regardless.

Winter

Lasty, Winters are composed. They're more realistic from the rest and are largely unflappable because of it. You can count on them to respond to things objectively. Furthermore, they refrain from making things complicated or inflating them to an unnecessary degree because they've already thought everything through.

Winters are convicted in the same way that Summer people are but they keep that conviction to themself. From their perspective, if they know what they want, then that's good enough. Others will have to ask if they want to know. Because of this, they are seen as assured.

To wrap it up with the stage references, Winter types might see themselves in the audience. They take in the entire story and respond accordingly.

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As for which cast member is what, the obvious line up would be:

Percy and Reynah for Spring

Elio in Summer

Cameron as Fall

And Deja and Jamie for Winter

To be honest, cast members are a bit more difficult to group into seasons because we defined them more with the player in mind. Like, Reynah could slot into Summer easily, Elio into Fall, and Jamie into Summer, and so on and so on. But that's because we gave the cast members depth and reasons for their behaviors.

Since we don't know anything about MC, but we're also attempting to give you a solid foundation into the world of Keyframes, the personalities allow us to insert you in with a framework in mind.

That way, your friends can be like "Yeah, that's how they've always been" at the start of the game and the rest of it can be us exploring your change as a person.

So don't sweat it if the game assigned you as a Summer type and it doesn't resonate with you. It's just meant to act as a nice starting point. As you play through the game, we'll clock what choices you've made and if you end up being more composed, charming, or compassionate then the cast will see that change as well. That's the cool thing about life, you don't have to stay the same-- and we'll do our best to reflect these natural changes in the two year setting we've planned!

Thank you for the ask! Hope that gives you a better idea of each season. ^^

[lhavibid]

If I made a poll on which season mc I would make a Percy meet-cute comic on first, would y'all vote or...👀👀

[brainrotclown]

just finished my first play through of the keyframes spring semester update and i absolutely loved it!! the variety in choices was wild and being able to completely sway a scene based on your own choices was a lot of fun ^^

eventually i will create other seasonal mcs, but i got a fall mc for my first play through 🧡 i wasn’t sure who i wanted them to be with, so i kinda just let the narrative flow on its own ^^

[crowdeerdire]

I have a lot of thoughts about Percy Tozaki (from Keyframes VN) and I just... I wanna write them down but I need to go through the game again (I never trust my own memory lmfao). wait nvm I started and I can't stop my thought train elp Like on the surface he acts very charsmatic and charming, but you can see SO often in the game that he often steps back and let's others shine over himself? And like... He's always looking out for the other two guys? Like he'll make sure Jamie gets something he likes to eat/willing to eat? He grabed a ton of lemonade for Elio to reward him for being nice (despite saying that's not what he's doing). He makes sure everyone is seen while he just... steps back?? LIKE. I SEE YOU PERCY. I SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING Also I haven't played everything out there yet of Keyframes, but I noticed he never really talks much about himself/family? He always ends up talking about Elio's family and it sounds like once they became friends in highschool he was always there? So I'm like??? hello is there angst there?? AND THEN I did the event where they go to halfway point and he says he got into his school career path because he's just kind of good at it? Like that might not sound like much, but before I got that scene I was thinking for my MC that she just became a lawyer because she was told 'it's either that or you're worthless' (better phrased but I'm sleep deprived). And when that scene came up you had the option of saying your family was a line of lawyers and that just lined up with her so well? So I'm not thinking that Percy is the same since each answer seems to line up with each li (Family is in that career <- Elio, Wants to help people <- Cameron, Jamie [not sure because I haven't done his route but he reacts to this line], In it for the money <- Not sure because I forgot to check the reactions for this line), but I'm thinking maybe he was pressured to go that career path from family?? PROBABLY reading too much into it but it is interesting that he never mentions his own family... MAN even at the Spring Festival he says he wants to play games but the other derail him/get to do what they want? And when you hang out as a group (I havn't done the indivdual hang outs yet) you just never end up doing the games?? Well, the ones where you can win a cheap toy prize. You do some fun challenges together, but I don't think that's what he was aiming for when he said what he wanted to do. (Spoilers from asks from Blank House after this) Also I saw through Blank House asks that one of the li routes is gonna include a breakup? And my first thought is: Jamie, of course. He's international so he might break up with you because he's going back to Sweden? but what if it's one of the other lis... AND I can't see it being Elio... (if it was that would come from left field LOL) (ok done about the BH ask) ANYWAYS PERCY I SEE YOU. I SEE YOUR PAIN AND I CAN'T WAIT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YOU

[mojo-is-rising]

FINALLY got this done, i've been so tired lately sorry! Anyways, here is my Keyframes vn mc! I don't usually like to baby my mcs because they always have some crazy flaws, but Yu is my baby Keyframes is a visual novel centered on college life and building/maintaining relationships, both platonic and romantic, currently being developed by @blank-house . A kickstarter for the summer season is going up in a few days so make sure to check them out! I was very finnicky about the 4 personality types at the beginning of the game as i was not sure if they'd fit any of my ocs, but surprisingly spring-type fits yuanjun a lot as he leans a lot into sweet-turns-cold gimnick! though i wish i could even be more mean sometimes LOL (also he's DEFINETELY dropping out, bro has negative studying)

Yuanjun's Relationships: -With Elio, Yu was very cautious at first - as that was the type of guy to make his life a living hell before. However, after Elio started acting kind and welcoming to him, Yu immediately turned a full 180: a guy exactly his type treating him like a human being? Instant crush. Hoping Elio won't break Yuanjun's heart, as if he does there will be no more chances. -With Percy, yuanjun automatically took a mean and defensive take against him - as he mistok the initial flirting with making fun of. However, through the moments they shared they were able to build up a tentative friendship based on jokes and silliness. If things don't go well with Elio, Percy is my backup plan LOL -With Jamie things were more complicated. Yuanjun related to him at the beginning, in how Jamie could be anxious and unsure of strangers. However, throughout the moments their interests didn't match up and Yuanjun disliked a lot of the things Jamie would say (such as his shaming of food or his rudeness masked as teasing) so they never built any type of amiability As for Deja and Cameron, they still stand as the pillars that keep Yu afloat. Deja looks after him, in her own ways, and Cam matches up in both humour and shyness. They have a neat little thing, and despite first impressions, Yuanjun can be the more chaotic of the trio at times!

[fiadraws]

keyframes mc / sona 🧡

ohhh I am absolutely OBSESSED with this game !! and why yes, I very much did pledge to its kickstarter 🙂‍↕️

SOOO of course I’m gonna do what I always do with new interests of mine! make a character :P

fia is definitely who I played as throughout my first playthrough of the spring semester and I’m sorry, but I have to say that as a fellow scandinavian… I fell for the other scandinavian (jamie)… I couldn’t help it…

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also here, just for you ;P

the un-templated versions of fia! and no don’t ever ask me to draw the bottom half of her I physically and mentally cannot do it.

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Larissa's spring outfits !!!

Choosing what I wanted to wear in every event was so hard... I have so many outfits saved for her omg...

[meistwentyinchheels]

THE may lore post

Hello everyone, it is time. TIME to share a bunch of my Keyframes winter MC, May's, lore!!! This isn't gonna be all of it (gotta keep up the air of mystery somehow), but just as a heads up I will be touching upon some more sensitive topics (toxic relationships, slight familial issues etc.) incase y'all don't wanna read that.

And if you're unfamiliar with May then here is the link to her introduction post!! Please do read that before you read this as I will not be heavily repeating stuff I've already said...although if you're in the KF fan server then there's a chance you already know some of this stuff, because it's always Mercy angst hours there (TRUST 🙏) and I just love to ramble abt her.

To start off this experience I am sharing May's angst playlist!!! (it's not the only one actually uh) and the lore rambles will be under the cut. Note: this post is really fucking long by the way so be prepared to be reading for a WHILE.

Beginning with her background, there isn't really that much to say? But I will say that she was born in Incheon, South Korea although she moved to Los Angeles, California, US at the age of 7. Her immediate family consists of her, her father, mother and younger sister. May's younger sister, April (legal name is Haeyoon), is younger by 4 years meaning that she is a high school junior at the time the first spring semester demo takes place. Her father is a surgeon and her mother is a baker.

Soooo...some of you might be wondering why May and her family moved to the US, right? Well, the answer to that question would have something to do with May's father's side of the family. I've mentioned in her introduction post that her family is wealthy and that is where a large portion of their wealth comes from. And you guessed it! That entire side of the family are extremely bigoted (to put it lightly...if that says anything). Her father's family also did not approve of her mother which would add another reason as to why they would want to get away from them. Technically they could have moved to Jeju Island, which is where May's mother is from, but due to certain reasons that wasn't an option and so they opted to move to the US in hope of a better life.

Despite physically moving farther away from them, they are still in low contact. This does occasionally cause issues, but May's parents make an attempt (emphasis on the attempt) to keep her and her sister out of it all. The occasional visits back to Incheon also don't really help their situation. But that is as much as I'm willing to share about her family situation :3 Also guys don't worry, May's mother's side of the family are actually normal (thank god). Her cousins on that side love to make random shitposts with her on TikTok (so real of them frfr).

Oh also, speaking of moving. May did move back to South Korea by herself when she was like 13. Then she returned to the States the year she turned 16. Will I explain why she moved back? Nope! Although I will say that her 3 year stay in SK affected her decision to stay as an indie musician instead of trying to go mainstream. If you're catching onto what I mean then no the fuck you don't.

Then moving onto May's horribly messy love life (and if my predictions regarding the Percy route are correct then...my condolences)! There is uhm, a lot. to unpack here. I think I've mentioned in an ask that May has been in 2 relationships and 1 situationship before. None of which ended well actually I MEAN WHO SAID THATTTTTT. So if I attempt to shortly summarize those it would be something along the lines of...

Her love life beginning with a situationship with a girl called Lucia in like sophomore year of high school. See the thing that makes this thing so complicated is that Lucia's parents were homophobic as fuck. This influenced Lucia, obviously, which caused her to go into denial and whatever was between her and May fizzled out. Wanna know why? Because she ghosted May!!! Yeah. Then she got a boyfriend like 2 weeks after that. So safe to say that May's first experience with romance was not that great. She also gained a fear of abandonment so uh. do with that information what you will.

Then we move onto her first actual relationship which began merely 4 months after the ordeal with Lucia. This is where the real shitshow begins by the way!!!! Anyways so, she got together with this guy called Chris who she was introduced to by a friend of hers called Jenn. This relationship was also May's longest one so it lasted like BARELY over 2 years. Honestly their breakup was kind of(?) expected considering everything kinda...went to shit after the Sacramento Incident. Which took place like a year before their breakup (so during HS senior year).

Will I be elaborating what I mean by the Sacramento Incident? Hmmmm nah, although I will say it's smth smth smth the beginning of the downfall of May's entire HS friend group smth smth smth Chris and Jenn (?) smth smth smth people got into a lot of shit after it. Also for context: Sacramento is like...a 7hr-ish drive away from LA. How did a bunch of high school seniors get there? Who knows. I do! But am I gonna tell y'all? NOPE. Also May didn't return home for like 4 days after it then got grounded for like 3 weeks with her only communication method with her friends being her fucking school email.

Oops I derailed for a sec there, ANYWAYS! The reason why Chris and May broke up? That would be because Chris cheated on May with Jenn. Lovely isn't it!! I will not explain any further. And so since it was her first ever relationship (and a long-term one at that) the breakup kinda. fucked her up mentally like...permanently. Girlie is NOT okay. Then like a month after the breakup, May started college at Wryn Mayer. So she was still very much recovering from that heartbreak.

Then we get to May's 2nd relationship...oh boy. This one was CRAZYYYYYY. Like actually. I'm not joking btw. So, like around November of that same year she got together with this guy called Tavon (who was like a 3rd year at Wryn Mayer when they got together). However, guess what...Tavon is the ex of one of May's college friends, Sienna. And because she got with him like only 2 months after Tavon and Sienna ended things uhhhh safe to say that the two girls were no longer friends (yikes).

To add to the fucked up factor, Tavon was kind of a rebound for May? Like she hadn't fully moved on from Chris when she got together with Tavon. Also I'm not really gonna get into the nitty gritty details of May and Tavon's relationship, because there's some REALLY fucked up shit going on there 😭 But if I sum it up uhhh...let's just say that Tavon was manipulative and controlling as fuck. That's just barely scratching the surface of whatever went on there, but when she was with him it's like May's self-respect was non-existent (which is a huge contrast to her usual self).

Tavon also uhm. cheated on May like 3 times? And because the dude was too good at manipulating her she did forgive him each time. But by the end of her 1st year at college she was slowly coming to a realization that he's destroying her mental health and so she broke up with him like just a few weeks before summer vacation. Then they were also on and off for another 2 months after that. But her besties (Cam and Deja) managed to convince her to cut him off completely. May has been single after that shitshow and now has not only a fear of abandonment, but also trust and commitment issues!!

That whole ordeal was also the reason why May impulsively bleached her hair blonde during the summer before her 2nd year in college. Before that she had never bleached or dyed her hair before so she had virgin black hair for 20 years. She also stayed blonde for like half a year I'd say? She didn't dye her hair red until like a month before the BBQ where she met the boys. That red won't stick for long either because I'm planning on her to dye her hair black during the summer lol.

So yeah May's been through some shit, but at least she still has some of her high school friends and also Cam and Deja to help her heal <3 Let's hope all that healing doesn't go down the drain once she gets with Percy (devs if you're reading this then please spare us 🙏). Speaking of him actually!!! I have a Mercy (May and Percy's ship name btw, say ty to one of my friends for suggesting that name) playlist and it's actually what I've been listening to the whole time I've been writing this. So here's the link!

And yes May is very very very Ethel Cain coded (LISTEN TO THE PREACHER'S DAUGHTER ALBUM!!! GUYS TRUST!!!). There is honestly so much more lore I could elaborate on, but this is already long enough that I feel like speaking more on it will kill me internally. So I'm gonna leave this off here!! Ty for reading and I'm so sorry because this is like 1.6k words long...

[onelastskip]

Just out of curiosity, how many MCs did you make for Keyframes? Can you tell us a bit about them? I'm interested to know :D

OMGGG HAIII!!!

Technicallyyy 4? I played through the game on all seasons but my other MCs aren't as fleshed out (and I haven't drawn them...) — but I'll talk about what I have anyway!

So obviously Chi was my first baby girl, autumn, romancing Percy straight away, I yap about her a lot already but here's a fun fact I haven't mentioned yet, her full name is Chi Huệ Aubade, very cool!

My next mc was Mika (she's sort recycled from olba, sorta not because I hate the idea of being unfaithful to cove, idk if that makes sense just the way my brain works) she's a summer and... well I was supposed to romance Elio... but then the Percy summer meeting hit me like a truck and I went for him again... now she probably won't get fleshed out but I'm thinking of doing a male mc elio summer run (for real this time, no percy shenanigans)

And then I have my spring mc, Nari, and- I will admit I was very close to reromancing Percy but no! they are a Jamie romance (slowwburn tho) cause I found the cupcake confrontation was so good with a spring personality. So they're uh, well to describe them, in a word, they're self-assured (technically two but semantics). They're extremely competent and they know it, they have a big ego and tend to be overconfident, brash and competitive. Andd they also have a crippling fear of emotional connection and an avoidant attachment style. love my little guys who are so smart yet so very stupid. Anyway their dynamic with Jamie is sort of teasing? They were expecting to be annoyed by him bcos of his reputation but they ended up liking him more than they thought. They have a sort of "people disappoint me" expectation, a lot of the friends and relationships they've had in the past were shallow (not for lack of trying? but nari really didn't put any effort in) they only really mesh with deja and cam and don't even try to form deeper relationships with others, the boys are the first friends they've made in a while, and their first time besides with cam and deja actually trying to connect with people. They're an ISTJ and fun fact about them theyyy are very good at chess.

And lastly my winter mc, Yumi (name pending.) they're my no romance route (or slowburn? it depends how it plays out I guess). They're... to describe them in one word. Chill (lol). They're an artist turned law student and they are very go with the flow. They are also doing a minor of sociology! They stopped painting in their last year of highschool because they were told they needed to start taking things seriously (they had pretty bad-average grades before). While they're generally patient and relaxed, when they do get angry, they are no holds barred, cussing out authority figures, not a single thought in that brain, they get very passionate when they're being confrontational. They're an INTP and fun fact about them they know how to skateboard.

WAIIIIT- I'M GONNA USE THIS ASK TO YAP ABOUT THE ENNEAGRAM (sorry anon my attention span is kinda fucked, ADHD ramble incoming)

Okay I've mentioned before Chi's a 2w3, little lore drop, she's got family issues (eldest daughter in an asian family /hj) but yeah there's a lot of pressure from that direction, that's part why she's doing a law degree (polisci? I forget how it is in america), she was rushed into picking a degree and just went with what she was best at. Anyway I should probably explain the enneagram oops, OKAY, so she has a type 2 fixation, which basically means, she's got a gaping hole where her self esteem is and she tries to patch that up by creating relationships (people pleaser...), that's why she tries to be as helpful as possible all the time, she's got a deep seated fear of abandonment and feels like she can only be loved if she's providing some sort of support (usually as an emotional dumping ground) to the other person.

Buttt, thankfully when she got to college she met Deja and Cam, who did NOT fuck with that kinda behaviour so she's slowly getting better, I imagine over the course of her time at college she gets better at loving herself and sets boundaries with her parents, fixes the relationship (the other drama is she has younger siblings who are still with them and yeah) idk I just like writing character arcs like this it helps me understand my ocs better I think

onto my other mcsss:

uhh Mika's a 7w8, but I'm gonna skip her since she'll probably get reworked into something else anywayyy

so Nari has a type 5 fixation, their whole deal is they need to feel competent, need to feel like they understand the world around them because it's a scary place and if something doesn't fit in with the way they understand things that means they understand nothing. Anyway, their little character arc would actually be centred on the relationship, it's a story about them accepting emotional vulnerability, letting down their walls, losing their rigid world view, and choosing to trust in another person and fall in love :3

Yumi (name pending) has a type 9 fixation, their problem is... well basically, on the surface, they're confident, calm, collected, composed (heh alliteration), they really seem like they've got it all together but internally they've resigned themself to being another cog in the machine. They've lost their passion in life and they're stuck in the pit of "it is what it is". Their character arc would probably involve them dropping out of college and pursuing something they actually care about, that being art.

[now-and-4ever]

Playing the new Keyframes content and one of the events gave me thoughts about my MC. Spoilers for new content below.

So I'm playing through with Pyra and all versions of Pyra have extreme hydrophobia. The Spring Festival Event features a part were your character can be put in a dunk tank. I did the WATO with Cameron and had Pyra set it to 10 to show how much she didn't want to do it. Then cruel fate caused her and Cam to both say 9. I imagine Pyra was answering questions quickly out of pure adrenaline. Luckily she didn't get dunked, but I imagine she had to release some tears into Elio's shoulder after getting out. Why Elio? He seems the best to cry into the shoulder of. I purposely had Pyra fail to answer questions when Elio was in the tank as a representation of her being unable to focus while calming down from her anxiety.

I'm going to headcanon it as Cam trying to help Pyra face her fears directly and the boys learning a weakness of Pyra's that day.

[blank-house]

Fall Poll Name - Keyframes

Alright guys-- we hafta change up MC's default name, anddddd the way we're doing it is giving each Season their own default name! Last names will be decided after we agree on a given name, so for now we need your help to decide, starting with Fall!

We're gonna leave the poll up for a week but you're welcome to pitch some names as well! In fact, we ask you to- some of these seasons are hard to think for haha

If there are any names that have caught our or the rest of the players' attention, then we'll hold another poll. The only thing about suggesting a name is that they need to be unisex and seasonally related to Fall. Otherwise, we'd love to hear your suggestions! And of course, language is no barrier! ^^