#Wayhaven apartment

[wildmelon]

enter the...

hiiiii 👉👈 i got a tumblr community approved without a plan... but i want it to be for interactive fiction fans !!

most discords are if-specific, so i think it'd be fun to have a place on tumblr to discuss all our favorite ifs! a cozy spot for casual posting, theories, mc development, and random thoughts <3

invite link

tagging some favorite IFs but all are welcome!

[wayhavenmemes]

[straightuppotato-art]

Man, these vampires sure are crazy!!

[weakzen]

so, has rebecca ever actually apologized to the detective?? said the words 'i'm sorry' or anything to that effect without justification or excuse?

[nerdierholler]

While driving around today I had some big Adam and Ethan feelings again.

Ethan realizing that he doesn’t have it all together like he thought he did. That life is messy and complicated and he’s had it good for a really long time and now he has to figure out what to do and how to get by now that it isn’t. Because initial coping mechanisms are not good.

And Adam finally seeing below Ethan’s confident bluster, realizing how vulnerable Ethan is with him at times and that’s the closest Ethan gets to asking for help and admitting things are wrong. I just want Adam to be the support the Ethan needs and wants and for Adam to realize that pushing him away is pretty much the worst thing he could do if cares for Ethan.

Give me Adam saying, “I’m sorry I hurt you. I’m sorry I wasn’t there when I should have been, but I’m here now and I see you for who you are.”

[dumortains]

just finished A route

[fancifulflora]

A Moodboard for Detective/Unit Bravo Field Agent, Ines Santiago

“I don’t care! My job is to save lives, not to wait around until someone says it’s okay to do so.”

[vox-off]

one of my old monster of the week ttrpg characters has decided to get in on this wayhaven chronicles shit and though her creation predates the publication of gideon the ninth by at LEAST five years, i inadvertently made her a butch lesbian palamedes sextus and i truly love that for her

i've been drifting listlessly around my apartment this entire weekend trying to figure out if she'd find nat hotter or ava hotter and i finally had my galaxy brain moment like three minutes ago, before i had my coffee even: i believe it is time for The Love Triangle

[msommers]

remembering i gave maeve a cat in twc making certain book 3 scenes much better

[fellhellion]

felt sad about emma wayhaven, 3 dead 7 injured

[seraphinitegames]

The Wayhaven Chronicles—Update 13/Sept/2024

Well, my internet was mostly back this week! :D

I always take even half-working internet as a bonus these days, lol. But having it mostly back did mean I could finally finish up the social media this week!

But apart from that, my full focus was Chapter Four. It’s a more linear chapter—waaay more than the doozy of a variable chapter that was the previous one, lol!—so I really want to get ahead on this one.

Which I have been doing even better than I was pushing for! The big opening scene is already finished! It includes quite a bit of exposition about Li-Sar and what they’ve been up to, and that was fun to start sowing all the seeds of foreshadowing, hehe! ;D

I do sometimes get asked about advice on how to avoid telling instead of showing, so to that I say—don’t worry! For a start, it’s your story, and you can write it how you want, always remember that! All these writing ‘rules’ are guidelines, advice. You don’t have to choose to follow them if it doesn’t suit your style. I’ve read plenty of stories where I’ve been told a character is scared and not shown it through a paragraph of description—it reads just fantastic either way!

I do try and not to do big exposition dumps, but I don’t worry about it when the story genuinely needs it. Just write it in a fun and digestible way, and your reader will be more informed without it being too bogged down in the scene!

Having multiple characters to bounce off each other and react to the information is always a great way to break up the wealth of information, as well as having the MC react to it too with choices in Wayhaven’s case! This is also where having Unit Bravo in for meetings when this kind of things happens is perfect, even better when the LI can have some kind of emotional moment to it all too, hehe! ;D

I’m already part way through the next scene, which is another much more linear one where it’s only two characters, which makes things A LOT smoother to write!

I do love my branching scenes and variation, but it’s nice to have a more straight-forward chapter as a break too, lol!

And speaking of break, I will be away next week, trying to recharge my batteries and rest my brain! But I will be back on the 23rd September and diving straight back into it…especially considering the scene I’m currently working on. Things are getting…electric ;)

Hope you all have the most fantastic week ahead! I’ll update you all again after I get back! <3

[oneknightstand-if]

If the ROs were IF readers what would be their favorite titles?

Man, have I played enough IF for this question? Okay, discarding visual novels and going with only text-based IF... Also, some of these are lies.

Merlin: A Kiss From Death - Avoid the fated apocalypse! Also horny.

Adrian: World's Apart - Yes, he's a hipster. Parser-based text adventure from the 1990s! It would've been Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy but he forgot to bring his towel and ragequit.

Arthur: Save the Date - Look, his mind is blown by any of these games, but perhaps try and let him splash around in the shallow end with a relatively easy one that doesn't depend too much on stats. Also, you did your best. Move on.

Percy: One Knight Stand

Merlin: (ভ_ ভ) ރ ／/ ┊ \＼ I swear no more desserts for you if you don't stop breaking the fourth wall, Percy! Percy: 👎

4̶0̸4̸ ̶E̴r̸r̶o̷r̷ ̷N̴o̴t̵ ̸F̵o̴u̷n̸d̵: Damn I said no visual novels, so no Doki Doki Literature Club I guess the new Restore, Reflect, Retry

Cassandra: Evertree Saga

Gwen: Wayhaven Chronicles

Vivian: Someone's phone/tablet/computer is getting short-circuited if she tries to play an IF. If you tried to play a paper Choose Your Own Adventure or other gamebook with her... you're gonna get a very creepy experience there! Otherwise, she'd obviously favor one of the all completely unfinished stories about the rusalka or something such floating around like Abysm's Veil.

Lorelei: Infinity Saga

Broderick: What the hell is an 'IF'?

[ladiemars]

on being the one to pull away.

mishka jenkins, the wayhaven chronicles | natalie diaz, when my brother was an aztec | a primer for the small weird loves, richard silken | mishka jenkins, the wayhaven chronicles | cj hauster, the crane wife | dylan thomas, from a letter to caitlyn thomas | anonymous | mishka jenkins, the wayhaven chronicles | gabrielle bates and jennifer s. cheng, so we must meet apart | richard silken, war of the foxes

[crownleys]

Hey ^^ For Kira, from the emoji asks, 🥀(wilted flower),🐞(ladybug), 🎒(backpack)?

I'm finally catching up on these! Thank you for the ask!

🥀 (wilted flower) - How does your character deal with stressful situations? Is their fear response fight, flight, freeze or fawn?

I think she tends to go into fight - split with fawn. Depending on the stressful situation, she's typically in a position where she's a figure in charge, so she'll get involved and try to help or figure out what's going on, and resolve the situation. I think the fawn fear response would primarily come into play when she was still in a relationship with Bobby & trying to make it work

🐞 (ladybug) - What does a perfect day look like for your oc? What do they do? Who do they see?

Honestly, I think a perfect day for Kira is a quiet day spent on her own. Something where she just gets to go to the gym or the gymnastics center and train, take a nice long shower at home and do some hair/face masks, putter and clean her apartment, cook a nice meal, and settle in with her sewing and her favorite TV. She's really come to savor her alone time by the time Wayhaven starts

🎒 (backpack) - What items does your oc usually carry? Do they have a bag or just keep everything in their pockets? Do they carry a lot or a little?

I think she generally tries to carry very little - but she'd have caches of supplies in her car, in her office desk, etc - but for the most part sticks to a small-ish bag or purse that can fit her phone, wallet, and maybe a spare tampon

[thee-morrigan]

a haunted house with a picket fence

attachment theory, chapter 8 The Wayhaven Chronicles Nate Sewell/Holland Townsend rated M

Excerpt:

It wouldn't be forever, though. Didn't have to be, any more than her apartment in Boston had been. She could just — she would just reset here, maybe. Do whatever the fuck it meant to get her "affairs in order," and then go...well, wherever, she supposed. See some shit. Meet some people. Move on. She wasn't sure if it was healthy or not — this irrepressible restlessness. (Was very sure she didn't feel like analyzing it.) Holland felt a sudden, unexpected tug in her chest as she walked through the house — something like nostalgia, like homesickness, even though she hadn't lived here in years. She'd left this house, left this town, left her mother and their dysfunctional relationship behind without so much as a backward glance. She didn't even know what she was feeling nostalgic about. She hadn't had an unhappy childhood, really, and she'd been taken care of — well taken care of, actually. It would be incorrect to say she'd been, for instance, neglected or unloved. She'd always known she was loved. At a distance, maybe, and certainly imperfectly. Not always in a way she understood. But still: whatever sense of sentimentality she might have possessed, she hadn't felt much of anything tugging at her with any real insistence when she’d left ten years ago. Her life had been less complicated since then — lonelier, sometimes, but in a way she preferred: a way that was at least easier to understand, and, thus, easier to control. At least, she’d thought of it as being — of feeling less complicated. But perhaps, she reflected now, that hadn’t really been more than wishful thinking.

read the rest on ao3

(also: I made a story playlist, because I am nothing if not hyperfixated.)

[carriehobbs]

tags by @agentnatesewell

alina wanted to go to medical school and become a doctor! i picture her having been in her 4th year of a premed program when the plagiarism incident with bobby happened. we don't know enough about what really happened with the plagiarism incident, or its repercussions (was the plagiarism ever discovered by the university? if it was, who was punished for it, bobby or alina? was this kind of incident severe enough to go on her academic record in some way? would it have been enough to prevent her from being admitted to graduate schools?), to use it as a basis for any of alina's return to wayhaven, so i tend to base her return more on the dissolution of her relationship with bobby.

at least for alina, i picture her relationship with bobby having been a long-term one. i picture them having been together for multiple years, sharing mutual friends, living together even. i think alina genuinely used to be in love with him (or, at least, with the attention he gave her), but that feeling gradually slipped away over time (i certainly don't picture bobby being the sort of person to invest his time and energy in maintaining his relationships, and i don't see alina as having been the kind of person to expect more from a partner). there's a sort of stability in a long-term relationship - a consistency or a dependability. and bobby possessed a kind of reliable unreliability that alina could anticipate as she became accustomed to the monotony of their daily lives together. they weren't unhappy, but they weren't happy either. and, before the plagiarism incident, alina likely would have stayed with him forever: nothing was bad enough to make her feel like she had to leave, and secretly she was afraid that, if she left bobby, no one else would ever want her.

so when bobby plagiarized her work, it was a massive betrayal. alina broke off their relationship and left and, in one fell swoop, lost her partner, all of her friends, and her home. she went back to wayhaven because she had nowhere else to go and she stayed in her childhood home until she was together enough to find her own apartment. but in the wake of that kind of emotional devastation, you're not thinking about grad school applications or tuition fees. all of her academic goals suddenly became subordinated to the more immediate goals of "find housing" and "remember to stop crying long enough to get out of bed and eat".

it was in this emotionally low state that she ended up deciding to join the police force. for years her plans had been to get out of wayhaven, become a doctor, and build this life together with bobby, and now she had none of these things. she had to start from the bottom and build a new plan for her life. i think it makes sense for someone like alina, who had always loved wayhaven as much as she wanted to get away from it and who had always privately desperately wanted a connection to rook, that, at this point in her life, she would latch on to the idea that she could follow in her father's footsteps and find meaning in a life in wayhaven, doing the kind of work he did. if she wanted to become a doctor to use her scientific interests to help people, then maybe she could help people in a different way as an officer while following her father's path (and, just maybe, she could use the excuse that there was no one else with any medical or scientific expertise in wayhaven to poach verda's position before he came along to fill it). from there, it was a simple case of having remade her life in wayhaven and having started to work to pay her expenses, which pushed that dream of grad school farther and farther away until it stopped feeling feasible. tale as old as time