#it's one of those headcanons where it's like idk how feasible it is but the imagery of it all is alluring right

[faebriel]

the death note is why schlatt had a heart attack on the dsmp

SO true anon. i've always had a soft spot for the headcanon/au/what have you that quackity was quietly poisoning schlatt throughout manberg as one of the only ways to get back at him and that contributed to schlatt's heart attack. would make a good test of a death note

[qyburn]

Does Ole know how to fight? He looks like someone physically trained in the sense of combat, the jump in the gas station scene is very well choreographed (congratulations to Sam for the performance, even considering his height) - I'm a jiu-jitsu fighter and a ballerina, he did a jump very acrobatic in that scene, and I also imagine that he wasn't the type of hitman who kills you with a sniper, but the type who, if necessary, will go into brute force combat.

There's also the scene of him rescuing Dot from the well, Munch literally arrived with everything at Roy's henchman, unarmed and with only a knife (considering he had the knife that blinded Gator), I wanted to see the combat scenes with him, like we saw Malvo, Numbers, Wrench and so on. He seems very well trained to me.

(he seems to follow more of a stealthy style of combat)

ooo yes I love this question >:333

yes I do believe munch knew how to fight, though not formally. again, this is a situation where time is on his side; his own personal form of self defense that he's used for so long it almost resembles a discipline of martial arts were it not for how bestial & instinctive it is. at least with martial arts you can tell there was a before and after while the skills were honed, but munch has always needed to lash back at predators. its likeness to formal combat comes with his eventual incorporation of firearms combined with the pseudo-psychic knowledge he has of human behavior.

munch seems to prefer firearms as a last resort, though & doesn't appear to like relying on them. idk he seemed exasperated when he had to pull out the assault rifle in ep1, & when defending himself against gator in ep2, the scene clearly reads that he is the weapon, and not the pistol. age has not withered him but made him unnaturally strong and fast. thats more my headcanon since its feasible for a grown man to snap another grown man's wrist but learning of munch's supernatural origins adds that different flavor to his physical prowess.

im of the mind that munch's path to becoming a hitman was a complicated one rather than something he just picked up to survive. "a man is paid to soldier" but then he lays down his arms to go live with a community that welcomes him, until "the cannon & the musket" pull him back into solitude. i think thats when he starts using firearms as an extension of himself, to seek revenge. he probably had his own formal hunting skills, sure, but now that the significance behind those skills has been ripped from him, he wants to feed that cruelty back. bows & arrows become guns, and when he cant pick off his enemies from afar, he uses his hands and teeth. it might also be a form of punishment, like attaching a gangrenous limb to a stump. it provides you with temporary reach at the cost of poisoning you.

I thought it was interesting that he knew he was going to be ambushed the second he saw those men through the bushes & yet still followed gator to the shed (?) instead of incapacitating him before they turned the corner. I think he wanted to humiliate him, and, in turn, roy, by proving he's just as useless being supported by others as he is alone. kinda pretentious here so bear with me, but I also thought it was great that munch subdued gator by yanking his groin. a very good blink-and-you'll-miss-it instance of munch using the tillmans' masculinity against them.

the whole thing with dot's rescue will always be fascinating to me no matter what bc of all the unspoken layers leading up to it. munch went to the ranch with the intent of hurting gator, but somewhere along the way he sensed dot's presence, like he could smell her fear, and he followed it. from the way that one henchman was pulled, we can infer munch snuck up from behind, maybe from low ground, which would explain why the others didn't readily see him from their peripherals. that combined with his ferocity threw them off guard just enough that he could disarm them. instead of approaching them as another henchman, which he temporarily was, he rips them apart. instead of leaving dot to use the ladder, he checks up on her, remarks about the unfairness of her situation, and extends a hand. there is a clear thought process here, not entirely governed by animal instincts. he does sense the caged animal in dot, but the residual human in him desires contact and reassurance and the need to help, especially someone who's so like him that it haunts him. I've waxed on about it before but its so "stray animal learns to respect the human that feeds it" except he & dot weren't on that level yet. it was just a spiritual connection, one that was unequivocally necessary to act on. humans are social animals, but animals all the same, & that dormant part of his brain that yearned for love all those centuries was poked at, ironically, after being beaten in battle by this woman who was at her most animalistic. a prey animal turned predator.

[fma03envy]

envy!!!! and also winryy for the ask game :]

Favorite thing about them: Gender :) Also the whole desire for revenge brainrot thing

Least favorite thing about them: Off the top of my head how cruel they can be to Wrath. Like I wouldn't change it it's fair characterization but :/ Also I feel like he's a bit underwritten sometimes (this is an opinion I am. Extremely undecided on)

Favorite line: His "I'm really more of a pacifist" bit to Ed at Lab 5 in the dub

brOTP: Envy and Lust! I feel like there are a lot of parallels between the two esp wrt their dynamics with Dante, but this scene does a great job highlighting their differences (I have watched it a normal # of times). After Lust realizes Dante has been misleading her, I would have loved to see her+Envy have a conversation about it for characterization reasons (my bet would be that Envy's sunk coast fallacy would come out so strong)

OTP: N/A, do not put him in a relationship

nOTP: Most things but pairing him with Ed or Kimblee are the shitty ones I see most commonly

Random headcanon: I think Envy would probably like using neopronouns if they knew those were a thing

Unpopular opinion: I feel like people overestimate Envy's fighting ability, kind of? Like he's good, but a lot of other characters are really more creative - Envy is technically capable with shapeshifting of mimicking Lust's ultimate spear or Greed's ultimate spear or most of Wrath's more shapeshift-y alchemy things but he just never does that. Not complaining though their silly little random flips amuse me

Song i associate with them: I have a whole playlist

Favorite picture of them: Oh there are tons but here's one

Ik it's an animation error but I like how their fingerless gloves' design looks a bit different here

Winry:

Favorite thing about them: She's so blatantly autistic it rules

Least favorite thing about them: the hitting Ed with a wrench thing (ik it's slapstick not serious characterization but it's unfunny)

Favorite line: Can't directly quote from memory but the bit just before they meet Izumi where she confesses to Ed that she blames herself/her own mechanical abilities for him getting into dangerous situations

brOTP: Ed or Sheska! Also maybe Wrath and Rose during the timeskip

OTP: Idk I'm not too big on shipping.... She's cute with Paninya

nOTP: Her with Sheska romantically kind of makes me uncomfortable bc I'd always assumed Sheska to be an adult (seems to own her own apartment + was already working at Central Library when Ed was 12 and came there). Like ik Sheska + Winry interact like peers so Sheska could just be her age and have gotten a job really young like Ed but we dk that so

Random headcanon: When trying to make automail for Wrath in the timeskip (since he's a creature made from alchemy not a human) she did a bit of research on alchemy. She's now fairly fluent with general theoretical concepts of the practice (though doesn't have the knack for actually transmuting)

Unpopular opinion: IDK if this is unpopular but it's not canon..... I would've liked if she ended up on the same side of the gate as Ed + Al (preferably Amestris side but yk). Idk if it's feasible from a plot and themes aspect but it would make ME happy

Song i associate with them: None really

Favorite picture of them:

Just off the top of my head this. Autistic girl moments

[randomstarmuffin]

My @runefactorysecretsanta​ gift for ya_boi_nye is finally done!! Hope I did your favorite characters justice!! :)

Happy holidays!!!! I don’t want to take up too much room so I’m going to throw some rambling and extras under the cut lol

So I don’t think nye has a tumblr, but on their twitter i saw that they were into VTube and youtaite and i wanted to incorporate that in their gift somehow. Unfortunately.... the characters are kind of all already anime??? So drawing-wise, i figured it would be more fun to go with a more general YouTuber AU so I could put in some variety rather than just stills of singing or badly rendered 3D models (by which i am throwing shade on myself alone, VTube rigs are sick but i regrettably have no 3D skills lol)

I’ve actually,,, never played Frontier at all, so I apologize if anyone is wildly out of character!! The wiki is extremely sparse and I didn’t have time to watch too too much of the let’s play i found, so if they’re not right just chalk it up to the YouTuber ~performance~ aspect of this AU lmao.

Even though I’ve never played before and don’t know the characters Super well though, I still had a lot of fun thinking about this AU! If you want to know the specifics of everyone’s content:

Anette does parkour (fun facts, this particular move i drew is called a speed vault!) and a little bit of vlogging, and she’s friends with Erik (as in canon, if I did my research correctly lmao). She sometimes appears on his channel and vice versa, and he helps her film and edit and stuff sometimes. She lives and works with Mist and Rosetta and helps out with their online boutique. Mist is the idea woman who comes up with crazy stuff, Rosetta is the realist and bookkeeper who pulls those ideas together into something feasible and profitable, and Anette handles all the packaging and shipments and stuff! There’s always something weird going on in their apartment and everyone ends up there a lot, so some of Anette’s vlogs get really popular just because of how out there they are lmao. Oh, almost forgot, but her channel is “DeliveryIsFreestyle” bc... get it... free delivery... freestyle parkour / freerunning... Lol actually it was almost going to be “RunTheMail” because i couldn’t think of anything at first so i think this was the right move in the end :P

Erik has a gaming channel where he mostly plays farming and dating sims / otome, and we don’t read too far into whether or not RF exists in this universe for him to play even though I put the posters for frontier on his wall xD. The reason I picked Stardew for this thumbnail specifically is because A) I have it and could easily take screenshots and B) i read that he has a crush on Lara? And she’s like, kind of a nurse? And Maru is kind of a nurse? It’s a silly joke but I thought it would be funny to cockblock him from dating a nurse he has his eyes on even in video gaming with his friends lol. His channel is pretty self-explanatory (I was really hoping his farm would have a fun name when i was looking it up but it’s really just “Erik’s Farm” huh? ...but I probably shouldn’t judge, my dnd character’s wolf is named Wolf xD)

Lute paints!! I think he does a lot of speedpaints and mostly does traditional art, but I think he would have some digital skills hidden up his sleeve as well. And also I don’t know why at all bc I know the least about him out of all 4 of them, but I feel like he has done / does some of those like “how to draw anime” videos because I just think that’s funny. He has a bunch of really popular ones about overly complicated fantasy outfits. No this is not a callout for any series in particular why do you ask? Anyway, I’m not sure exactly how the line goes because I couldn’t find it, but the wiki mentions that he’ll say he’s not doing anything suspicious when he’s painting at the lake, so i thought it would be funny if there’s some kind of running gag with his subscribers where they point out suspicious things he does and he responds in the next video or whatever. The thumbnail I made definitely does just have a screenshot of rff that’s color-corrected and blurred, because I ran out of time but also wanted to differentiate the bg from the canvas ^^;  His channel was originally just “lute” in all lowercase but then i got to the part of the let’s play where he was introduced and he calls himself a “fledgling painter” so i thought this was more fun.

And Eunice has a cooking channel!! She specializes in baking, but she also has a whole playlist along the lines of “Nutritious Food Can Still Taste Good!” where she talks about healthy eating habits but doesn’t buy into diet culture bc I personally HATE diet culture lmao. I think when that gets popular, she also maybe does a side thing about easily accessible workouts for all sorts of people who want to get into shape? But with a focus on getting stronger / being active and Not a focus on Losing Weight necessarily. Promoter of healthy and happy living! I know how her events / dialogue can go in the game, i just happen to have Opinions About Things, so, that’s how she is in my version. Also, unrelated, but she’s very cute. Even though her braids were a bitch to draw hahaha. And i did end up drawing her just in her actual outfit even though i gave everyone else different clothes bc idk it just felt like it fit the aesthetic of a cooking vlog well?? And it’s not a super complicated one unlike others i could mention. Her channel is “Charming Sweets” and her cooking series is “My Cooking” because those are the titles of the books she has on her bookshelf at the start of the game :)

But that’s just all of *my* headcanons for the AU! If anyone else who knows them all better has their own ideas, please be my guest and imagine it however you like!!

Oh, also, fun facts, this is partially a screenshot of my actual web browser, lol, so if y’all want to know what all I have saved on my bookmarks bar and what my google profile pic is, now you know. However, i would like to not downplay how long i spent editing this in what was possibly the least efficient way to put it together how i wanted, rip, which is entirely the reason i am posting this so late LOL. Apologies for the delay, but technically it’s still the 27th here, so! Victory!

(speaking of the layout, did anyone catch the url? I’m disproportionately proud of the url. though i won’t lie part of me really wanted to put the rick roll url there just for my own amusement hahaha)

And, yeah! That’s the end of my spiel. Happy end-of-2020 to all, and an extra helping of that sentiment to nye!!!

[johnlockficclub]

Discussion Recap - Author Q&A!

Well, JFC crew, we’ve reached the end of another fabulous fic! Thank you so much to everyone who read along and participated in the weekly discussions - you all are the best.

And of course, a huge thank you to @swissmissing for writing The Baker Street Nativity in the first place and for coming along to our Author Q&A to share some insight into her writing process and background to this fic. Questions and answers are below the cut as this got quite long!

And finally, thanks once again to @frodosweetstuff for allowing us to use her artwork for these update posts!

Happy holidays everyone - may you and your loved ones be safe and happy this festive season! xx

1: Why this AU? What got you started on it? @ewebie 

 I saw the movie and with MF in it, of course I immediately started thinking of how it could be a Johnlock AU.  I do that frequently anyway: imagine Johnlock versions of stuff. I just watched a few Netflix Xmas movies recently and I am still thinking of how to turn them into Johnlock AU's. I see the world through Johnlock-coloured glasses. Is that healthy or normal? IDK.

2. Would you ever consider publishing your fanfic? @norburylibrary 

No. First off, the story is obviously cadged from a copyrighted screenplay. To publish it for real, as an original work, I'd have to scrub the names and characters so that they don't interfere with BBC copyright. That part should be feasible, but the story itself is too close to the Nativity screenplay. As for any of my other fics, the non-fusion ones, I don't think I've written anything that could stand on its own without the Sherlock association. One of the huge assets of fan fiction is there is a built-in character background and setting. I'm not up to rewriting to the extent of creating something that could be published as an original work.

3.  What do you enjoy writing most, humor or angst and why? @elwinglyre

I can do both, but I guess I'm more drawn to angst. I think humor is harder to pull off, for me at least. I'm not a naturally funny person. I have to think hard to come up with funny situations and lines. Confession: In some of my fics, there are certain punch lines that were actually written by my beta readers. I think Sherlock and John - in fact all of the Sherlock BBc universe - lends itself more naturally to angst anyway. although there are humorour parts in the eps, I find them more geared towards angst.

4.  Was it confusing at all having seen the movie to then switch the roles?  When writing it. @sherlock-nanowrimo

Yes, totally confusing at first! I started out with the "natural" roles, with John as the teacher and Sherlock as the assistant, but it wasn't working for me so somehow I just got the idea to try it the other way round. Once I started down that path though, it wasn't confusing for me. I was worried throughout that it would be confusing for readers. But everyone who commented and said they had seen the movie, also said the switch wasn't hard for them to deal with.

5.  When you write is it because you get a fic idea or for some other reason? Like stress reliever or for doing something fun? @tildathings 

Good question. I always want to write. I get a great feeling of satisfaction when I write something. Especially when I finish a piece. It's a big shot of dopamine for me. It carries me for a long time, sometimes days. BUT I can't force myself to write. I tried that one year with nanowrimo and it was not a good thing. So I can really only write when "the muse" grabs me. When I get an idea that sticks with me for days and weeks. And with this fic, it really came alive and almost wrote itself, once I was on the right track.

6. How much do you base your writing on the show and how much on your headcanon? @travelingwithoutthedoctor 

This is a problem too, as I haven't gone back and watched the episodes in a really long time. Many of the eps I only saw once in the first place. I have the feeling that the fandom circles you travel in tend to create a fancanon that pretty much replaces the actual canon. So that's something I struggle with. I actually try when I write to imagine and hear the TV characters speaking and acting things out, in the hopes that it makes it closer to how they might actually be in those situations. I suppose that's unavoidable. I'm sure I do have an image of the characters in my mind, and I write from that. I just hope they are pretty aligned with the original characters from the show.

7.  I thought you did an incredible job making Sherlock a teacher for young children credible. That wasn't something we'd think of Sherlock doing, and you made it work. What did you take into consideration when doing this? @elwinglyre

Woo boy, that's a thing! He is so completely unsuited for this position. I had to justify him being in that position, however, so I kind of hand-waved something. Honestly, it wasn't my priority. I was just trying to create Johnlock moments. I mean, I think he's actually quite good with children. We've seen that on the show with Archie. I think it would depend on the kids.

8.  I’m curious about the speed of writing. How quickly do you get a chapter done? @vitruvianwatson

Once I get going, I can usually do about a chapter a week. My chapters tend to be 2-5K. 

9.  The UST, miscommunication and angst of this fic was deliciously frustrating, and a lot of us were yelling at them to just sort themselves out. If that was the hardest part about reading it, I'm wondering about what was difficult to write in this fic?  Were there certain sections or characters that you found challenging? @lediona25

I was honestly following the pacing of the movie, pretty much. I did need to add some scenes. I tried to pace it so that there was a romantic bit about at the halfway point, and another one for the big payoff at the end. One challenging bit was the dog. I wasn't sure whether to include him, but once I did, I kept forgetting about him. I kept having to go back and remember where the dog was and who was taking care of him. I don't have a dog so I was just doing what I've seen other people doing with their dogs. They leave them tied up outside of shops and restaurants all the time so I figured it was okay. Again, it wasn't really a priority. A lot of people commented that they liked the dog in there though, so I'm glad I left him in.

10. It was perfect casting!  We were talking about it during the movie - like with Greg as the headmistress. @sherlock-nanowrimo

That's one of the best parts of doing a fusion, for me anyway, is the casting.  I love discovering how characters map onto each other. Sometimes it's astonishing.  I HAD SO MUCH FUN WITH JIM!!  I didn't want to make him actually evil or a real threat. It always gives me massive anxiety when Moriarty shows up in a fic because often truly awful things happen then. But I wanted to keep this in line with it being a kids' movie. And to be fair, I didn't really need to change all that much from the movie bad guy anyway. That nativity play he put on was insane! And I actually was just teaching one of my classes last year about universal story plots such as the hero's journey.  (Yes, I'm an English teacher.) 11.  One of your ficlets suggests some pretty unpleasant stuff re: Jim's backstory. @bluebellofbakerstreet

Jim's backstory. I kind of imagined he and Sherlock had been rivals at the conservatory and Jim had tried to derail Sherlock with drugs. Perhaps somewhat successfully.

12.  What the hell is the story with Sherlock and whatever he did to Seb Wilkes?! @ewebie

I don't know either! LOL that is actually something I like doing in fics because, again, I like it when fics do that: hint at something but not elaborate and leave it up to you to decide what was actually going on.  I guess maybe that's frustrating to some people but for me, it gives fics depth and realism.  It's like in some fics where you just hear about a case in passing but the details are never fleshed out. I was using it to show that Sherlock had made poor decisions with kids in the past, so this thing he did with taking the kids to the studio wasn't out of character.

13. John... as a classroom assistant. How did you see him ending up there? Our conclusion was that... lost people just sometimes end up places @ewebie

I don't recall if it's explained in the fic or not, but I actually had something in mind for that. He was invalided out of the army and bumming around with nothing to do, feeling useless. His good friend Mike, who was also a teacher, recommended him to Greg as a classroom assistant. No idea if that would be allowed in the UK but here in Switzerland it's frequently done. Usually a retired person will be brought in as a classroom assistant. This keeps them active and engaged, and is a big help to the teachers.

14.  We loved the whole scene with Moriarty at the end when Mycroft pops out and saves the day.  You did a bang-up job with that.  When you're finishing a story, are you one those "I've planned it all out" writers or stream of consciousness writers. Let's go with the flow? @elwinglyre

In this case, the ending was written for me. I just followed the plot of the movie. Usually, though, I do have the ending in mind from the start. It's usually pretty much a sex scene, lol. The whole point of the fic is usually, how do I get these two together? 

15.  Oh! The sex! Is that easy for you to write. I have the hardest time with that. Is something your really get into? @elwinglyre 

True story (which I also told on one of my guest slots on the TPP): I didn't use to be able to write sex scenes. But I wanted to. So I literally would copy sex scenes from fics I liked. Just like, typing them out word for word. This got me used to writing those words and those acts on my screen. Then I tried writing my own. I think I sort of have a reputation for writing awkward-realistic sex scenes. I'm not aiming for that, it's just how they come out. It's a mix of, again, imagining how the characters would appear and act and speak in those situations, and also I guess how I would feel and want things to be.

16. We have a lot of people in this group who are just starting out writing fic or are thinking about writing something, do you have any advice to new writers? @lediona25

I'll just say what we started out talking about: Write for yourself. Write what you want to read. You will always have an appreciative audience. I see so many writers get discouraged because they don't have massive hits and kudos, and they just give up. I think most of the popular writers in fandom have been around for years. This may be their third or fourth fandom. They've been writing in real life. Experience takes a long time to build up.So write for yourself. The rest will come. And... at the moment, it feels a bit like there's less readers than 2 years ago, so really really don't be discouraged.

Thanks to all those who asked questions and to @swissmissing for her thoughtful answers! :)

[weedle-testaburger]

Do you have any Pokémon world building headcanon?

I have a few:

After the end of the players’ stories in the various regions, tourism to places like Ecruteak City, Sootopolis City and Celestic Town goes up a lot because of the local legends gaining them a lot of attention, which the elders are kinda cynical about but it drives up revenue for them so they can only complain so much

Despite Silph Co. being most famous for their Pokemon-related products, they’re also a significant producer of electrical goods to both Kanto and Johto, and not only helped fund construction of the Magnet Train from Goldenrod to Saffron but have many commuters from smaller towns in Johto who use it since the journeys are surprisingly short

Quite often, Trainers in towns with Gyms will take their Gym Leaders on, although most of the time they’re unfazed by the challengers. When a local does manage to beat a Gym Leader, it’s often big local news

While most people get their first Pokemon at the age of 10, that’s more of an average than a rule, and 10 is merely the age where one can train Pokemon without adult supervision. That’s why you often see kids younger than Ash or the game protagonists training fairly weak Pokemon

Everstones are commercially mined and sold to farmers who raise Pokemon like Mareep or Tepig which are more useful in their unevolved states and may battle and risk evolving in the process when kept in herds

The Pokemon League Champion is also a sort of presidential authority, ruling with the help of the Elite Four and delegating community leadership to the Gym Leaders. One exception to this is Kanto in the Gen I/Gen III era, where Lance remained the highest authority and Blue’s role as Champion was ceremonial besides his authority as a Trainer. (Idk how feasible that one is but I find it intriguing why no region has a political capital of any kind so that’s my explanation)

Off the back of that last hc, the Hall of Fame is used as part of the succession process. When an existing Champion dies or stands down, members of the Hall of Fame stand for election to replace them

 Pokemon Centers also carry supplies for human healthcare as well as Pokemon healthcare, but they are mostly reserved for emergencies and kept away from the entrance, since Pokemon are hurt more frequently than humans

Hope some of those are interesting! :3

[mj-spooks]

Elevator, Lab Partner, McDonalds. Killian Jones, Faith Lehane, Frank Castle? I'm going for the vague line between anti-hero and anti-villain. And cause I think you'll enjoy it, Slow Burn, Enemies to Lovers, and Fake Dating it too.

How. Am I just now. Seeing this?

Also, fuck you?

Uuuuuuuh alright, Killian in the elevator, Faith would get antsy and I can't see Frank handling being trapped in a confined space that long without making it a big fuckin' problem. Killian meanwhile probably has his flask and we can pass the time idk singing sea shanties and flirting while we try to empty it. I always headcanoned that it was enchanted to never empty so we will be VERY drunk when we finally get out. Killian also gets the Fake Dating because that's my favorite Captain Swan Modern AU trope.

Faith as the lab partner because honestly I do not trust her even a little to be my training manager, hAH. But also she's actually high school age and therefore might feasibly remember something from the last time she glanced at a text book, unlike Killian "I grew up in the land of magic" Jones and Frank "I graduated years ago and joined the military immediately" Castle. Worst case scenario she lets me do all the work. Slow burn for Faith but like, the kind where you sleep together first thing and say it's a one-night stand, and then you keep sleeping together and are like "lol it's casual," and then eventually you're like "wait I'm jealous they're going on a date hELP"

Frank as the training manager. He's probably a total hardass don't get me wrong, but he'd make sure I'm properly trained up unlike some lazy assholes, and he's like, the scariest manager ever, can you imagine Frank fucking Castle staring a Karen down when she starts giving his employees shit for something outside their control? I live for this mental image. Frank is Enemies to Lovers but like, in the same way as Karen where she's SUPPOSEDLY a law abiding citizen who is firmly against his methods but all it takes is two seconds of digging to go "wow those people are totally fucked lol you know what maybe murder is okay"

[kenjkats]

A TRR opinion / suggestion no one asked for lol regarding the “But it’s the main plot MC likes Liam” vs “But I love Drake/Hana, can MC please stop saying she loves LIam” argument.

I don’t know how the dialogue goes for Drake and Hana romancers out there, so I don’t understand how jarring the “I love Liam” thing is that their MCs do lol, cause I’m going for Liam in this first pt heh.

But from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty out of character for some who are going for Hana / Drake all the way and they don’t want to be “cheating.” While yes, being there for Liam and liking him is the main plot, I think the better way of going about it if you’re falling for another LI is to introduce alternate dialogue where the MC responds differently depending on their romance score with the LIs. 

Like, if it’s higher with Drake/Hana, they could start to express doubt when Liam talks to them, show that they are changing their minds about the romance part of their relationship. Maybe in your headcanon your MC just wants to be queen or clear their name. The dialogue could hint that they’re there for someone else now. It doesn’t have to be clear cut already. It could be some romance arc/character development where the MC is slowly becoming unsure about Liam, she’s slowly pulling away, and she’s starting to show him these feelings???? idk what pb’s gameplan is with the story direction so I’ll leave that up in the air heh but those are ideas off the top of my head.

I get an outright statement of different purposes for the MC to be there may be iffy and complicated development wise, but dialogue that just shows reluctance or less “I love Liam” when they’re into someone else is feasible I think. We see in ES that you get a wide array of varying dialogue from the characters depending on your relationship with them. 

That’s like 13 characters (11 of the 12, minus MC, plus LIla and Iris) with, idk, about SIX levels of approval? That’s six different reactions and dialogue from 13 different characters towards you based on a relationship point thing. And it only happens in small snippets in the game (i.e. I saw a screens of dislike level Michelle being sassy about the skin products towards MC, while a friendly one puts some on you?) then the game goes on with the main dialogue that is the same for all players regardless of relationship levels. 

I think it would be manageable with just ONE character, your TRR MC and their romance relationship point system. This way, Liam-mancers get the “i love Liam dialogue” which makes sense for their route and to the plot, but also Drake/Hana-mancers still have a plot reason for being there, without being weirdly into Liam when they are trying not to be lol.