#logan (og hss mc)

[cadybear420]

Into the OG HSS MC-verse!

AKA Spiderverse Picrews of my OG HSS MCs!

Evie Ayana | Alan Parke | Samara Al Hakim

Violet Jones | Katie MacFarlan | Josie Medina

Logan | Kylie | Giovanna Huang

I see all my OG HSS MCs and their playthroughs as parallel universes from each other similar to Spiderverse. Each one has neccesary Canon Events, but they're all also different characters from each other with their own identities, stories, decisions, backgrounds, outcomes, etc.

That's what I love about OG HSS MC, they're wildcard as fuck and you can actually replay the story differently. As Principal Hughs says, "That's the wonderful thing about a fresh start. You can become anybody you want to be".

So far I've only done playthroughs for Evie, Alan, and Samara. The rest I only have base details figured out and they need a lot more fleshing out, especially Josie, Logan, and Kylie (ffs I don't even have last names for Logan and Kylie yet) lol.

Submitting for HSS Appreciation Week 2025 Day 1: Meet Our MCs (and OCs) @hss-appreciation-events

Picrew here!

[cadybear420]

My OG HSS Trilogy MCs:

Evie Ayana (my crown and glory). LI: Aiden

Alan Parke. LI: Either Emma or Maria

Samara Al Hakim. LI: Caleb

Violet Jones (coming soon). LI: Michael

Katie Macfarlan, a total failthrough MC (coming soon). LI: Aiden

Logan, a Masc/Butch Cheerleader f!MC (coming soon). LI: Caleb

A Fem "muscle mommy" Jock m!MC (coming soon). LI: Emma

Josie, a raging sapphic Cheerleader f!MC (coming soon). LI: Emma

Giovanna Huang, a semi-failthrough Band f!MC that doesn't get along so well with Aiden (coming soon). LI: Aiden

Probably 50 million more, I'm gonna make so many fuckin OG HSS MCs because I quite literally can

[cadybear420]

My Top 3 Worst Choices LIs (this list is subject to later change or expansion)

🏅Honorable Mentions:

Nick from HFTH: He got on my nerves for the first part of the book, but at least he became more tolerable later.

Everett/Yvette from SB: Copy-paste emotionally closed off LI with copy-paste backstory of being betrayed by a shitty ex. But I didn't completely hate them or find them terrible.

Julian/Julia from SB: I liked them but they clearly just existed to be a "backup" for just in case we don't like Everett/Yvette. You could have removed them from the story and nothing would change.

Will from TCATF: I liked him as a character, but him being into Dom was completely out of nowhere and they clearly only added it in to have a token mlm romance in the trilogy.

Rory from HSS:CA: I liked them well enough, but they felt very lackluster as a character compared to Ajay and Skye, and to OG HSS's LIs. The other LIs in these trilogies all have some form of personal growth arc, but Rory just seemed to fall short of that. There was also really no need for the entirety of Book 1's conflict to revolve around MC's forced crush on Rory.

Logan from ROD: Of all the LIs they could have made the "main LI", why him? Why not Colt? Cause I remember a hell of a lot more about Colt's relevance to the Mercy Park Crew than I do that of Logan's. But to be fair it has been a long time since I last played.

🥉Third Place:

Reagan from Surrender.

Reagan acting predatory to MC, texting her a photo of a riding crop and "Have you been a good girl or do I need to punish you" within 10 minutes after first meeting her sours the story and the character.

That plus the fact that MC suddenly wanting to be a sub is completely out of nowhere (and also hypocritical on behalf of the writers who claim it wouldn't make sense for MC to want to dom right away), making a scene that can be read as Reagan coercing MC into BDSM and being a sub. Which just goes against the whole point of MC's story revolving around escaping a toxic spouse.

🥈Second Place:

Kit from Untameable.

I'm in the unpopular opinion in that I don't find most customizable LIs to be completely devoid of personality. But Kit is the literal textbook definition of "personality devoid customizable LI". The childhood backstory for MC, Kit, and Austin is incredibly weak and I have no idea why MC would be so into Kit.

And the story does a terrible job of trying to convince me that Kit is a player too. There are like two scenes ever where Kit gets swarmed by gals/guys but from what I can tell, Kit doesn't really care much about hooking up with any of them. People call the story wlm-coded but honestly the "high stakes" and "forbidden romance" is just so forced, it doesn't even matter how gender-coded the story is cause it will be nonsensical even if you play as wlm.

🥇First Place:

Bastien from Wolf Bride.

It's not so much for possessiveness and kidnapper behavior and him being all "herp derp MC and I are magically bonded we must do breeding". I mean, don't get me wrong, I fucking hate seeing these kinds of LIs pushed on us so much, but it's kinda what I expected from this kind of book (I mean, look at that cover). So I could just give it an eyeroll and a "Ugh this is such a cliche Twilight/romance YA novel trope", and not dwell on it so much.

But what really made me hate him was accusing Morgan of betraying the pack to help Sayre, despite being witness to Morgan calling out Sayre's abuse of her. And they try to excuse it with "Oh this is just how wolves get when they're both fighting over the same mate" ok sure, Bastien's still an asshole tho. And sure Morgan did shitty stuff too but at least it was addressed and she got a redemption/atonement.