#hector 3ot

[cyberaxolotl]

stylizing 3ot characters part 3, parents of children

i don’t have much to say. parnets

notes: Ittetsu’s vitiligo passed to Tatsumi, as did Miranda’s freckles to Noel.

up next THE ELDERLY

[regallibellbright]

[ID: A screenshot of Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, during an event. The models of the Player Character, Brad, Wayne, and Hector are sitting at a table together at the town restaurant in the center, while the portrait sprites of Wayne and Hector are overtop of them.

Hector, the previous speaker, has a face of resigned dismay. Wayne, smiling and winking, says cheerfully, “Today’s also the day that I file a complaint with the god who was cruel enough to let this happen.” End ID]

This is my favorite event in the whole game, not gonna lie. The snark levels are off the charts, start to finish.

[seasoning-my-story]

🐷 What non Marriage Candidate do you wish was marriageable?

ooooo, I answered this one, but I actually have more thoughts lol, so thankkk youuu!

I think Hector(3oT) should be marriageable, he's such a shy sweetheard who loves his son and deserves to find love again omggg, also you'd get to adopt Colin as a son which is an instant win for me lol!

I desperately wish that the ds cute marriage candidates(flora, leah, Kira, wp, hg, skye, griffin, carter, etc) were marriageable or even existed in the awl remake, would have loved to see a dlc for them!

[thebeckster]

Kiss prompt 48 with Henry/Miranda?

Thank you so much for the prompt, Nonny!

As much as I love writing Holly/Hector, I've never given much though to the other Perfectly eligible Single Parent who should be romanceable! in Westown!

Henry/Miranda has so much potential to be a ton of fun. And I hope you like this little peak at what their relationship might be like.

And with this prompt, that's the last of them for my Trio of Towns Weekend. Thank you all so much for indulging me and giving me an excuse to flex my Trio of Towns muscles again! (Hopefully this will tempt my muses for my 3oT WIPs back)

Enjoy!

💋💋💋💋

Miranda had never thought she was the kind of woman to go for a younger man.

In all her past dating attempts, she’d always gravitated towards older men, men who were experienced and ready for a committed relationship that young men her own age weren’t looking for. It hadn’t always worked in her favor, more often than not it bit her in the butt, particularly since men tended to look at her and see a pretty young thing to play with. (Didn’t help that she topped out at five-foot-nothing and had the kind of youthful face that often had people mistaking her out on a date with a father and daughter.) And her favoring of mature gentlemen really came back to bit her in the form of divorce papers when she decided she’d rather not be a professional singer anymore and would rather focus on raising her daughter.

After that she’d sort of sworn off men of any age for a while.

Moving to Westown had helped. There weren’t many single men in town when she first moved in to take over the general store. Noel was still in diapers, and that was a deterrent enough for most men looking to pick up the newest woman in town. Doctor Ford was certainly not her type and too young for her. And when Wayne moved in, Miranda wasn’t shy about gossiping about the handsome postman, but again, he was too young for her. Frank was maybe the closest she got to a relationship. A quiet farmer but with his own brand of charm, he was a little older than her, but not so much it would have been scandalous. They’d quickly formed a friendship on the virtue that a farmer needed to make frequent trips to the general store for seed and supplies, and that friendship deepened when they bonded over their shared love of music.

Frank was nice, but Miranda never felt any romantic stirrings for him. He was safe and comfortable, and if she lived in a world where a woman absolutely needed a spouse to do anything in the world, she might have considered marrying him. They could have had a secure and happy, if primarily platonic, marriage.

But she hadn’t needed to, and Frank hadn’t ever brought up the idea of a romantic partnership between the two of them. So their friendship stayed. And Miranda began to make peace with the idea that she might not find herself in a whirlwind romance again – certainly for a woman her age, such things were unheard of.

And then Frank’s nephew moved into town. Built tall, like his uncle, but built of lean muscle, and a jawline sharp enough to cut glass, and the brightest blue eyes she’d ever seen. She developed a crush on Henry so quickly, she would have thought she was a woman decades younger. It was embarrassing, ogling the young farmer every time he entered her store, or she caught him running through town. Oh, if any of the other girls found out, she’d never live it down.

After swearing up and down that younger men were not for her, here was the handsome exception to the rule.

Coming into her store every day. Smiling at her, making small talk, entertaining Noel. Making it damned difficult to get over her little crush.

It did not get any easier when Henry started bringing gifts for her on his daily stops in the store. Little things he picked up here and there, wildflowers to brighten up the shop, fresh produce from his fields, bouquets from Lisette’s when he could afford them. Once he’d even brought her a hot dish of eggs benedict for her birthday. She hadn’t told him that was her favorite dish, but somehow he’d found out.

When Henry started flirting with her, Miranda knew she was in trouble. And when she started flirting back, she knew she was done for. No stopping this train now, not until it reached whatever station this whirlwind romance with a young farmer was destined to end at.

It might not last forever. At Henry’s age, Miranda hadn’t wanted to get married, or commit to a long-term relationship. But while they were together, they were going to have fun.

Henry swung by for dinner most nights. It was easier for him to come to Miranda’s house than it was for her and Noel to get down to his farm. They’d eat together, almost like a real family. Noel would talk about her day and what mischief she and Colin got up to. Henry would dutifully tell her all about his animals on the farm. Miranda would talk about the gossip she’d heard in the shop that day.

After Noel went to bed, the two of them would linger over cups of tea, or in front of the fire if the weather was cool enough, or out on the porch to beat the summer heat. And then when the hour got late enough, eventually Henry would have to give his apologies, don his hat, and head for home. It was a long walk back to his farm.

Tonight though, when Miranda saw Henry to the door, he stopped before stepping outside, fidgeting with something in his pocket. “I’ve uh… got a question for you, Miranda.”

“What is it?”

“Well, we’ve been doing this for a while now, and I really like it. I love spending my time with you and Noel. And it doesn’t feel like what we’ve got going on is going to fizzle out ever, so I was wondering if maybe you’d…”

He drew something from his pocket. A silver pendant on a silver chain gleamed in the low light. Miranda clapped her hands over her mouth.

Henry shrugged and flashed his crooked smile. “Most everyone already assumes we’re an item, should we make it official?”

It took Miranda a moment to find her words, but when they returned, she nodded and said, “Yes. I think I would like that very much!”

Relief beamed out from Henry’s face as he secured the necklace around Miranda’s neck. It settled just above her heart and she touched it for a moment, looking up at her boyfriend (goodness, that would take some getting used to saying).

“I’d very much like to kiss you,” she said. Henry obliged, stepping closer to her, and bending down to meet her. Miranda had to stand on her tiptoes, but their lips met, and sparks flew. The first kiss of many in their new relationship.

[wishvalley]

HHEECTORRRRR

[dancing-with-dichotomies]

ASF,JANFKJDF,ASND FUCKING SERIOUSLY TRIO OF TOWNS!!

HOW CAN U JUST--??

HAVE HIM FREAKING SAY SOMETHING LIKE THIS??

AND EXPECT ME -NOT-???

TO FALL IN LOVE AND WANNA MARRY HIM?? T_T

[agentchimendez]

Hector and his childhood friends

[qualityturnips]

okay i didn’t sign up for this pain when i started to befriend the side characters

[tinseltina]

wish i could marry hector in trio of towns. i think he’s swell. he’s pretty sweet even if he is a little stand-off-ish and quiet. I still admire how hard he works to make his family happy. The man embroiders, bakes cookies, and knows ham radio. like he’s quirky and nice! And when he smiles, aww I get so happy!

I wouldn’t mind marrying him and adopting Colin. I’m not big on the idea of children, but I really enjoy Colin’s interactions. He’s a quiet child and loves art and animals. He’s so sweet.

[farmingbeans]

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[beck-a-leck]

For the Farming Sim Ask game:

🥒🍇 🍍🥔

This game is so much fun!

Farm Sim Asks!

Cucumber 🥒 - Favorite non-human character/mythical being?

I think that might be Inari. I was not expecting to love them as much as I did when I first saw them in 3oT. For the most part I've been neutrally positive about the mythical characters in the games, but Inari really wormed their way into my heart. Something about their dialogue and the friendship they form with the farmer really endeared them to me. Also, they're cute a heck!

They're a more mature deity than Witchie and Dessie in the games, but they're also not petty/negligent like some iterations of the HG and WP are in other games. They hit that perfect middle ground for me.

Not sure if I would ever marry them, but I did enjoy befriending them.

Second runner up would be the Harvest Goddess from Save the Homeland. I love her design and her whole vibe. And she's genuinely nice to the protagonist.

Grape 🍇 - Which game would you like to see a remake of?

It's hard to pick just one, because there are a lot of games that I missed playing entirely because they were on consoles I didn't own at the time they came out and/or I wasn't paying attention to HM games. So like, any of those.

But for a game that I have played and would like to see a complete remake of, Island of Happiness. PLEASE. It had a great cast of characters and a fun setting but a lot of the game mechanics make the whole thing frustratingly unplayable. But it would need a lot of changes for me to be happy with it. Get rid of the gd water/sun point system for one. And the hunger bar! Nothing makes it harder to earn money in the game than having a farming system that does not guarantee crops, aka wasting hundreds of g, no source of actual food from the get go, and also having your available energy for doing things dependent upon whether you can find something to eat. which you cant. and I low key hated the Wonderfuls system for tool upgrades, but I can work around that.

So like. I don't want a completely faithful remake of IoH, like they did with FoMT. I want the whole game rebuilt from the ground up so it behaves like other HM/SoS games.

Pineapple 🍍 - What is your favorite art style of the games?

I did already answer that one. Short answer, (M)FoMT, SoS1, and 3oT.

But in general there's something I like in all the games. I'm not very picky about art styles and design lmao, so long as things are cohesive within the game I don't mind the changes between them.

Potato 🥔 - Favorite non-romanceable character?

Hector. My favorite sad, single dad, who I think deserves to find love and happiness again. Let me romance him gdi

That being said, I genuinely enjoy a lot of the non-romancable characters in the games. They are, imo, more important to making the towns feel like real communities than the marriage candidates. And it's kinda nice to have characters that bring life and depth to a town without their story/relation to the character revolving around romance.

[cyberaxolotl]

stylizing 3ot characters part 4, old people

can someone explain the design choice of old people with their eyes closed hwy does one of them from every area do it

design notes: Megan’s family all had naturally rosy cheeks until Hector’s complexion suddenly paled, Haulani’s birthmark runs in the family and passed from him to his daughter to Tigre

[regallibellbright]

[Image ID: A screenshot from Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns, showing a Fall Harvest Festival. The player is talking to Hector, who is shown with his neutral expression saying “Sorry for staring. I was just wondering how you could grow all those fruit trees with such thin arms.” End ID]

[love-bokumono-fics]

Tag Tuesday - Completed Fics

With well over 100 fics written for Trio of Towns, and WIP Wednesday tomorrow, I thought today would be a good day to highlight some of the Completed fics written for the game.

Of course, sorting by Completion status narrows the fic count down to a mere 96, some of them have already been featured, so here's a look at some of the ones I haven't been able to shine the spotlight on yet. (and of course, those smutty nsfw fics will have their own feature on Friday 😉)

Have you completed a 3oT fanfic? We'd love to see it! Drop a link to it in the Submission box.

A Moment Most Unprofessional - by Measured; Complete, 1/1, 1.4k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M

Fandom: Trio of Towns

Relationship: Farmer/Ford; Characters: Ford, Female Farmer

Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Pre-Relationship, Awkwardness, Fluff, Missing Scene

Summary: Holly comes in to have a wound bandaged and Ford fights for composure.

flower crowns - by pansy_picnics; Complete, 1/1, 3k

Rating: General Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/F

Fandom: Trio of Towns

Relationship: Siluka/Lisette; Characters: Siluka, Lisette

Additional Tags: Romance, Friendship, Language of Flowers, Mutual Pining, Rival Pairings, Flower Crowns, Idiots in Love, Fluff

Summary: while gathering herbs, siluka finds lisette near the spring, and lisette decides to teach her how to make flower crowns.

festival of plenty - by pansy_picnics; Complete, 1/1, 1.8k

Rating: General Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M

Fandom: Trio of Towns

Relationship: Hinata/Yuzuki; Characters: Hinata, Yuzuki, Komari

Additional Tags: Romance, Dating, Fluff, Dancing, hinata being an idiot, Established Relationship

Summary: im not good at descriptions, just fluff of hinata and yuzuki dancing together bc we need more hinazuki content

Drinking In The New Year - by Measured; Complete, 1/1, 3k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M

Fandom: Trio of Towns

Relationship: Farmer/Ford; Characters: Ford, Ensemble, Female Farmer

Additional Tags: Drunken Kissing, Drinking, New Year's Eve, New Year's Kiss, New Year's Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Alcohol

Summary: Holly brought homemade fruit wine for the New Year's celebration. Ford isn't usually one to imbibe, but for once, he takes a chance. The wine makes Holly quite flirtatious as he helps her back home.

Manna's New Beginning - by pinkbowbunny; Complete, 1/1, 7k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence; Categories: F/M, Gen

Fandoms: Trio of Towns, Friends of Mineral Town

Relationship: hints at future Hector/Manna; Characters: Hector, Manna, Duke, Colin, Carter the Pastor

Additional Tags: Cute, Friendship, Romance, more friendship than romance rn but maybe I might add more to the plot if I ever feel like it lol...

Summary: I know I'm not the only one who always thought Manna deserved way better than her jerk of a husband, Duke... And then I started to think, who else could use a loving cheerful lady in his life who isn't being appreciated enough in her own? Why only our favorite Westown Widower of course! So I wrote a fic where Hector and Manna could meet and become friends and help Manna get the heck away from that jerk! If that's something you ever wanted to see happen too, please enjoy and leave a comment or kudo~ If you guys liked it so far let me know, I might maybe add a more romantic chapter later~

The Cyan Ribbon - by durotos; Complete, 1/1, 1.9k

Rating: General Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M

Fandoms: Trio of Towns

Relationship: Male Farmer/Yuzuki; Characters: Male Farmer, Yuzuki, Hinata

Additional Tags: Sweet Fluff, Romance, Valentine's Day, Fluff, Words of Affirmation, hair action

Summary: Yuzuki's heart is ready to reveal what he feels for his friend, but can his brain catch up? Yuzuki x Satoshi (Male Farmer)

Third Time's the Charm - by TheBeckster; Complete, 1/1, 4k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M

Fandoms: Trio of Towns

Relationship: Female Farmer/Wayne; Characters: Wayne, Holly

Additional Tags: Gift Exchange, Gift Fic, Alternate Universe - College/University, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Pre-Canon

Summary: Holly and Wayne keep running into each other in the most unexpected places, forgetting they've met, and meeting each other again. Sometimes it takes a few tries for that spark to really connect. OR The three times Holly and Wayne were introduced to each other.

Blind Dating - by here_have_a_sedative; Complete, 1/1, 3k

Rating: General Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: M/M

Fandom: Trio of Towns

Relationship: Wayne/Original Male Character; Characters: Wayne, Original Male Character

Additional Tags: Blind Character

Summary: Happy Valentine's Day! Just a small Wayne/Male OC oneshot, and yes, the male oc isn't the farmer. Enjoy!

Lighting Up the Darkness - by durotos; Complete, 1/1, 2k

Rating: General Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M

Fandoms: Trio of Towns

Characters: Ludus, Iluka, Siluka

Additional Tags: Sealight Night, Festival, Friendship, Romance, Jealousy

Summary: In which Ludus invites his friend to Sealight Night and is surprised he doesn’t get the relaxing evening he was hoping for.

Wellspring - by Lexsssu; Complete, 1/1, <1k

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences; Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply; Category: F/M

Fandoms: Trio of Towns

Relationships: Farmer/Yuzuki; Characters: Reader, Female Farmer

Additional Tags: Reader-Insert, Oneshot, Drabble, Flash Fic, Introspection, Fluff

Summary: Wellspring: an original and bountiful source of something.

[bokujo-monogatari]

[bellefarm-blog]

This event LITERALLY made me cry. Hector is officially the best dad in the universe. He tries so hard to keep his wife’s memory alive, while still being there for his son and giving him everything he possibly can to make up for the loss of his mom.

And sweet, precious, innocent, pure Colin really appreciates everything his dad does for him- finding comfort and company with his remaining family and friends- I just... UGH I’M SOBBING...