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What If Choices' Race-customizable LIs Had Surnames Reflective Of Their Ethnicity?: An Experiment Just For FUn (Part 1/3)
As we're probably all aware, Choices has been going ham on their formula of "one LI whose appearance is choosable" for the past few years (ever since they started drawing criticism for narratively favoring white male LIs, i.e., when the Ramsey bubble finally burst; draw your own conclusions), and these LIs almost always have canon names or default names associated with white Anglo Americans. This is one of several reasons these LIs are described by players as "white-coded", or written as if they are white men with any changes reduced to a one-line afterthought, which kind of nullifies the point of romancing an LI of color.
Getaway Girls impressed me with branching that gave two of the six Jordan appearance options (the ones described in the asset files as "Indian") the surname Paudwal, as opposed to the other options that had the surname Parker. And then they NEVER DID IT AGAIN (ingnoring Kiss of Death cause it was a weird case I don't know how to categorize)!!
So here's me assigning surnames to race-custom LIs of other books because it's fun for me:
DISCLAIMER: The Choices single LI formula has for the most part consisted of a white LI, a Black LI, and one or occasionally two other option(s) of varying races. Framing it as white, Black, and "wildcard" raises a lot of questions about racial dynamics and percieved binaries in the United States which are NOT the point of this post but I didn't want to not address it. Also have to address that I will not be assigning new surnames to the Black LI options since most of them are American and a lot of Black Americans have Anglo surnames due to the community's history with enslavement and enslavers, and Choices has simply not given us enough lore to determine if each of the custom race LI Black options are African (or another background) and which languages are a part of their heritages. Would really appreciate if they started writing more African LIs though. Also, similar reasoning applies to face options described as "Native American" in the files re: American colonization.
ALPHA
Channing Luna
These face options are described in the files as "Hispanic". Luna was a Spanish-language surname sound match for Lowe, and plus it also means "moon"!! Yippee werewolf theme!!!!!
Channing Liu
These face options are described in the files as "Asian". The Chinese surname Liu was just the closest sound match to "Lowe" tbh.
BABY BUMP
Clint Kao
This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". He reminds me a little of the Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao (rip) so in my head he's Taiwanese like meeee!!! Which sucks cause I didn't like this LI that much lmao. Anyway Kao is the Taiwanese spelling of the surname that is Anglicized as Gao in Chinese Pinyin so I gave it to him cause he reminds me of Godfrey Gao (rip). Not a spelling match but then again there aren't any Chinese surnames that start with the same letter and sound as Covington (e.g., Chang and Cai both start with the letter C but start with the sounds "ch" and "ts" respectively.).
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS
Charles Quiñones / Charlotte Quiñones
These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Went with sound matches since there aren't many (any?) Spanish-language surnames that start with K like King.
Charles Kim / Charlotte Kim
These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I thought Kim was a pretty good sound and spelling match for King. But it did make me realize that although Kim is the most common surname in Korea by a lot, a Choices Wiki search revealed to me that there's only one character in the entire Choicesverse with that surname and it's the FBI guy from Veil of Secrets?
DISTANT SHORES
Edward Mao
This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". I originally chose the Japanese surname Morishima because it was an initial spelling match, multisyllabic, and had the ending "ma/mer" sound, but I wanted to honor the great Ming Dynasty Chinese tradition of piracy and its far-reaching legacy. So I went with the Chinese Mao.
Also I know he's canonically from like England which would explain why he's an 18th-century Asian man with an English first name but just for fun if he was from China I think he would be called Mao Aiwei. Or Morishima Eiji if he was from Japan.
Edward Montoya
This face option is described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Montoya was a relatively close Spanish-language sound match.
And if he had a Spanish first name too he would be Eduardo Montoya ovb.
THE DUCHESS AFFAIR
Nathaniel Pandit / Natalie Pandit
These face options are described in the asset files as "Indian". Not a lot of sound matches for Pippin but the Sanskrit surname Pandit has the intial "P" and the ending "i" sound, plus it means "scholar" and fun fact, this word is also the origin of the English term "pundit".
Also since in my research I learned that the vast majority of Indian immigrants to England in this time period adopted English language aliases for use in English society, I came up with some potential real names for these face options: Nathuram for Nathaniel and Nalini for Natalie.
FIRST COMES LOVE
Blake Mai
These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I decided on Mai since it could be Vietnamese or broadly Sinophone.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Blaine Juárez
These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Not any Spanish-language surnames that start with the letters "Ha" as far as I know so I went with a sound match.
GUARDED
Ash Harada
These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". The Japanese surname Harada is a sound and spelling match and also one of the most common surnames in Japan! EASAYY!!! Though headcanoning them as Japanese brings the total number of Choicesverse Japanese-Americans Named Ash to three. Laugh out loud.......
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Yes. Just yes. Chefs kiss. There is no way this scene can be improved.
Val is SUCH a tsundere. Like literally. You can’t change my mind. JUST LOOK AT HER.
#bachelorette party choices#a courtesan of rome choices#baby bump choices#choices#choices ame memes#imagine your otp#choices stories you play#i can see it#endless summer choices#choices pb#play choices#the crown and the flame choices#most wanted choices#choices memes#hero choices#choices high school story#bloodbound choices#choices stories you play memes
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Baby Bump 2 has some of the prettiest maternity outfits in Choices.
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y'all i just got the cutest Choices sticker on Etsy !! it's from DutDesigns shop and i love it so much !!!
I'd been wanting it for a bit, and I finally had to get a new computer so it's a blank slate for new stickers hehe (and yes I got a sparkly pink case). It also came with a free little PB sticker (I only ordered the romance books sticker, but there's a couple others too)!! It's so cute I'm so obsessed
#playchoices#choices#etsy review#dutdesigns#ride or die#the royal romance#a courtesan of rome#baby bump choices#big sky country#open heart#desire & decorum#perfect match#the nanny affair
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Why on earth are my babies wearing onesies at my WEDDING. They could’ve at least given me plain outfits for them as the free option so the flower girl and ring bearer aren’t in their pajamas good god 😭
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i am a child of divorce.
#okay but jacemond situationship where aemond still kills luke (whether accidentally or intentionally—dealer’s choice!)#jace being consumed by grief and betrayal throws himself into this war#gaining alliances and advising the war council with vicious and strategic tactics#he doesn’t realize something is amiss until they’re several months into the war#and he’s being hosted in winterfell for negotiations with a baby bump#rumors quickly begin to spread of the targaryen prince and the wolf in the north despite all of jace’s efforts to hide what he can no longer#purge himself of#he leaves the relam to their assumptions—too focused on war efforts to care what is said of him: the people of kingslanding already whisper#whisper speculations of illegitimacy but all that matters is he wins his mother her throne#that is until aemond comes to him one night—before the battle of the gullet with warnings of his grandfather’s plans…#oooo i’m cooking#mpreg#jacemond#jaemond#aemond x jacaerys#aemond targaryen#jacaerys velaryon#hotd#yuri rambles#something something dragon blood something something targ men can get pregnant something something
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Cadybear's Reviews- Baby Bump
Welcome to the twenty-first official Cadybear's Reviews! Today I'll be talking about Baby Bump, which I have ranked on the "Gold Tier" at 8 stars out of a possible 10.
WHY DO PEOPLE HATE THIS SERIES!? WHY!? It’s FINE!
Okay, I can maybe see why people may not like it because, let’s be real, accidental pregnancy is a very overdone trope. And apparently there were a lot of parts that were originally problematic when the story was released and had to be re-written, but I wasn’t around for that and I know next to nothing about the original lines, so I can’t say much about them. But even now, how does it get ranked as being among the worst so often? Even if you think it’s bad, it’s really not that bad.
Like… I found it decent? I don’t think it’s nearly as bad as a lot of people have said it is. And I’m saying this as a GNC cis woman who experiences major genital dysphoria and absolutely REVILES the idea of becoming pregnant. Like, I would rather die than ever experience being pregnant. And yet I still quite enjoyed this story.
I guess it kind of helps that the book is very clearly a pregnancy book from the beginning, so I kind of went in knowing what to expect and thus not self-inserting as the MC at all. Unlike something like TRH, which is a continuation that suddenly introduces a “MC gets pregnant” plot to a non-pregnancy series… but that’s a subject for a different day.
I’ll be honest though, this story has a pretty awful start. In the flashback in B1 Ch1 where MC meets Mr. Covington, they try waaaayyyyy too hard to make the player swoon at the idea of having his babies. Like, did the guy they wanted to be MC’s baby daddy HAVE to be a celebrity company salesman, who is also the keynote speaker at MC’s graduation?
And don’t even get me started on the Clint fangirls, who feel like they were written by someone who’s only ever been surrounded by the “Facebook Mom” stereotype and has never met (and probably never will meet) a real horny woman in their entire life.
Literally, the scene is just all like “OMG LOOK!!! BIG FAMOUS CELEBRITY SALESMAN!!! OMG HE HAS *GASP* ABS!!! OH WOW, A MALE LI IN CHOICES WITH ABS AND BIG MUSCLES! THAT’S SO UNIQUE AND SPECIAL AND TOTALLY NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!!! OMG ALL THE OTHER WOMEN ARE CHANTING OVER HIS ABS AND WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES TOO!!! DON’T *YOU* WANT TO HAVE HIS BABIES TOO!?!?!?! AREN’T YOU SOOOOOO LUCKY THAT YOU’RE GOING TO BE HAVING HIS BABIES?!?!?!?!?!?!?”. Like, how much intelligence do you think your wlm audience has PB? Really trying to pander to the “Facebook Karen Mom” stereotype here, huh?
With that in mind, I guess I can understand why people may have gotten a bad impression of the book at first, because the story for how MC got pregnant in the first place (and her conflict with Cassandra in Book 1) feels straight out of one of those weird Instagram and Facebook ads.
But besides that, it was an okay series! I found it mostly cute and wholesome. Literally everything else was fine! There were even a few moments in Book 2 that made me cry, like when MC can record a sweet message for the babies with a plush bunny she can get from the Baby Baskets.
Besides maybe Book 1 Dr. Mariana Castillo who is just way too unserious (at least she gets better in Book 2), I honestly really liked the main cast. Even though MC is technically an outsider to the town, she still gets to be very driven and gets shit done rather than being the typical doe-eyed newbie who needs to be shown the ropes. Clint is a sweetheart and does get to be more than just “har dee har muscular celebrity salesman who knocks you up aren’t you soooo lucky” that they wanted him to be in the first chapter. Mayor Dixon is a nice mix of goofy and tsundere, and the female version Myra contributed to my bi awakening. Luisa is just a queen all around. MC’s sister… initially she could sometimes be a bit of a stereotypical “OMG girly girl talk best friend to talk exclusively about LI and diamond outfits” but she does become more than that too, and I really like her subplot with Bao. Speaking of, Bao is just the most absolute precious ever (and shame on PB for making him the sister’s LI and not one for MC /jk).
The antagonist characters were… kind of a mixed bag, I will admit. They were memorable, but also kind of stupid. Like I said before, Cassandra’s storyline in Book 1 just felt petty and cheap, plus I’m tired of straw loser villain female antagonists who exist solely to compete with the MC over the LI. It never got too overbearing, but it was still stupid. Book 2 Cassandra is great though.
Then there’s Craig, who wants to destroy everything MC and friends accomplish and take over Gracetown because… potatoes. I guess he’s alright as he is actually a threat in Book 2, but the townspeople can be pretty damn meek to him which is a little weird. But he was still a strong antagonist in that book. Book 1 Craig feels a lot more like he just exists to be an annoyance for the sake of being an annoyance, though.
Jebediah is a lot more compelling as an antagonist character, and I did expect the Covington family conflict to be incredibly boring but it turned out otherwise. He’s a jerk at first, but it’s nice to see how he does genuinely try to change throughout the storyline of Book 2.
Also, props to this for being one of only three Choices series ever (the others being OG HSS and ILITW) where the collectible system has some items that aren’t diamond-walled. The baby blanket collectibles are really cute, and it’s really refreshing to have a collectible system that isn’t “the first one is free and then the rest you have to pay for”. Like HSS, there are even some pieces that are determinant on your success in certain events. Why can’t more series do their collectibles like this??? (Oh right, because it requires actual effort).
Would I say it’s a good or accurate portrayal of pregnancy? IDK, I’m not an expert. But it’s fine if you just want a lighthearted pregnancy story to chill out to.
#choices stories you play#choices#choices game#choices stories we play fandom#choices stories we play#choices baby bump#baby bump#choices babu#babu#cadybear's reviews
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Sent by anonymous
‘I'm okay with GOC LIs but I would prefer if PB did them like how they did Avery and Raleigh from PT as well as Dixon from BaBu and Jualia(n) from SB where the race is canonically set. A book with multiple LIs like that is something I would be ok with.’
POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!
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29 Choices series I could've done without
Because Tumblr only allows 30 pictures. If you have any questions about my choices, feel free to ask! I was gonna put down explanations for each one, but it was a lot of work. It pretty much boils down to being boring plot and genderlocked, frustrating for another reason (ie set decisions/personality regardless of choices) or just boring plot in general. Going in alphabetical order.
#choices#choices stories you play#play choices#pixelberry studios#pixelberry#wolf bride#witness#surrender#sunkissed#ship of dreams#save the date#roommates with benefits#rising tides#ride or die#the princess swap#the nanny affair#my two first loves#ms match#mother of the year#kindred#home for the holidays#guinevere#guarded#getaway girls#first comes love#the duchess affair#a courtesan of rome#bachelorette party#baby bump#a very scandalous proposal
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Can you make transparents of Myra Dixon in her underwear, for all emotions please?
Hiya! Sorry for taking so long to get to this. She's been added to the Transparents folder
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Idk what PB’s plans are for The Billionaire’s Baby but I swear to fucking god if we get a repeat of BaBu and I have to read the words “mustard mess” one more goddamn fucking time I will Cask of Amontillado myself and never come out again
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here is my character sheet for my baby bump mc!!
notes below :-)
can't explain it but this mc gives me EXTREMELY target supermarket vibes. don't ask
female mayor dixon ough.hhh........ a shame that sprite was wasted on whatever the hell was going on in this book
yeah i don't paritcularly like the name myra for a hot young girlboss it just doesnt fit. and the name heather is very flannel shirt with jeans vibes to me
did i give her practically nonexistent dad the name "leslie" after leslie cheung, the only other chinese man named leslie that i am aware of?? i dont remember. i just make decisions and then delete all evidence of the process of thinking from my brain. girls its bad in here im gonna be real with you.
also no reasoning recovered for the names of the babies. i guess i just like alliteration. Amie and Anna are allerative also :-) so i guess theres precedent in this family
also fuck clint. actually i take that back he didnt really have any discernable personality traits for me to either like or dislike he doesnt deserve this im sorry clint.
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PB I'm BEGGING you to explain to me HOW THE HELL ON EARTH IS
THIS SUPPOSED TO BE WARMER AND MORE PRACTICAL THAN THIS:
If I'm in Russia of all places, you sure as hell will not find me flashing my tits in a crop top IN WINTER.
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
What the hell man.
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I haven’t read Baby Bump for so long. Time for Alana Cassidy to romance my Sweet Southern Gentleman 😍
Yep. A night that neither of them will forget. 🤭
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Luisa! And here we thought pb was just reusing her sprite. Wth is she doing as a talent booker now?
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Six Week-Old Embryo - Expectation:
Reality:
#choices#choices baby bump#It's the size of a pea and still at the weird alien-shrimp looking stage up close
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