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I was going through my Choices folder and found this meme I once made:
I've never read FCL but I think I created it as reflection to how the fandom reacted to the story 😁
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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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PB don't understand the marriage pact trope AT ALL, you don't make one with someone you have feelings for and they obviously have feelings for you too when you're 20 and marry at 30.
You make that pact when you're a moody, broody little teenager with your equally moody, broody best friend you don't have feelings for/don't realise you have feelings for and AT LEAST 20 years later realise/develop feelings and fall in love. Or keep it platonic and reap the benefits of getting married.
It'd not that hard.
#playchoices#choices stories you play#choices: stories you play#choices first comes love#first comes love#choices fcl
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It is 2023.
PB, I beg you, please STOP with the whole pitting the female MC and a random female side character against one another over the walking red flag of a love interest in your stories.
Im not sure who ended up hurt by this same exact scenario in real life to keep repeating this same scenario every single year, but please...you can think of literally any other conflict besides this...
#choices#playchoices#choices surrender#choices first comes love#choices the nanny affair#surrender#first comes love#the nanny affair
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There is something so insanely off putting of a story centered around an almost 30 year old woman wanting to sabotage a guys relationship because she never once bothered to express her feelings to the guy
It’s not a great look. Are the majority of choices players against women who like makeup and hate the outdoors?
(I don’t know why I’m strangely angry about it but I hate that narrative)
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Sent by anonymous
‘Rebecca has every right to hate the MC for trying to steal Blake away. Heck, even if Blake is obviously in love with MC it's not Rebecca's fault!’
POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!
#choices first comes love#first comes love#choices fcl#fcl#rebecca alvarez#fcl mc#playchoices#choices#choices stories you play#confessions#mod bruffle
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Playchoices MCs - Part 11
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Niobe Chase (TPA) | She puts James Bond to shame. I gave her a different stealth outfit because I'm tired of PB drowning female MCs in crop tops. There are other shirt types, thank you very much. Also scars and ✨muscles✨ because MCs deserve to be shredded too.
Gwyneira (GUIN) | If PB gives me a historical book, I will look up historical outfits and throw out every outfit PB gave me. It is a fact of life. Gwyneira's gown is a combination of Eleanor of Aquitaine's tomb effigy and some inspiration from 12th c. English queens. I went with 12th century fashion because that's when Guinevere is first mentioned in literature.
Fumie Ueno (KOD) | I cannot tell you the annoyance I felt after having lightly researched the Yakuza because I wanted to use the new Asian face in the book, given my MC a well though out Japanese name, only for me to open the book and see that her father's name is Beckham and her brother's name is Clyde. Her default name is Diamond. Make it make sense. I changed the gold to silver in her outfit because if goes better with her skin tone. I also gave her F!Trystan's snake earrings.
Maxine "Max" Thompson (GG) | Listen, I did the math. I'm declaring that Max's parents named her after Maxine Shaw (Attorney at Law) from Living Single. Max takes Type A personality to a whole new level and I love her for it.
Amika Fuller (RWB) | I was contractually obligated to put a red solo cup somewhere in Amika's portrait. I clearly decided to I wanted to practice rendering patterns for this set of MCs because I just noticed that 5/6 have a pattern somewhere on their clothes.
Cheyney Latimore (FCL) | Miss Steal-Your-Girl herself. Listen, she's messy, but she's my mess. The pins on her hiking bag are as follows: the flag for the state of Georgia (because I headcanon that the characters when to Clark Atlanta University instead of just Clark University), a pressed penny, the symbol of Uranus (it's a Sailor Moon reference), the lesbian pride flag, and the pin for Arches National Park.
#playchoices#the phantom agent#choices guinevere#kiss of death#getaway girls#roommates with benefits#first comes love#cassiopeiacorvus draws#cassi originals
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Just some name day in choices in two weeks again.
#playchoices#choices stories you play#choicesgame#choices game#choicesstoriesyouplay#play choices#crimes of passion#crimes of passion ii#first comes love#the billionaire's baby#kindred#blades of light and shadow ii#blades of light and shadow#the duchess affair#dirty little secrets
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#choices stories you play#playchoices#choices stories we play#pixelberry#pixelberry studios#playchoices fandom#choices stories you play fandom#choices stories we play fandom#choices meme#choices memes#modern choices#getaway girls#roommates with benefits#first comes love#kiss of death
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The subreddit was just discussing how HSS MC was more mature than FCL MC amd I just had to make a meme about it
#choices stories you play#choices#choices game#choices stories we play#choices stories we play fandom#choices hss#hss#high school story#choices high school story#high school story julian#hss mc#fcl#choices fcl#first comes love#choices first comes love#blake marshall#fcl blake#anti first comes love#anti fcl
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not gonna lie I was hoping that could be a cute book for a change but here comes the imature and egoistic mc like girl be serious you are a grown ass woman in almost your 30s and are acting like a salty teenager
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#ts4#sims 4#samssims princess legacy#princess gen 2#ts4 legacy#ts4 gameplay#first comes love#then comes marriage#then comes...
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First Comes Love should end in a scene where we (the readers) and MC are expecting Blake to finally recognise their feelings and confess their love for MC. But in a huge plot twist, they actually give a heartfelt speech about how after years of unfulfilling romantic relationships, they finally realise they were aromantic all along. They've felt so pressured to date, but it never worked out because it was never something they were actually looking for in the first place. They thank MC for being such a great friend because it helped them finally realise that platonic relationships give them all of the fulfillment they need in life. They hug her and walk away. Everyone cheers.
#in the background eve and rebecca kiss and ride away into the sunset#playchoices#first comes love#bitch speaks
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First comes love is cute so far but why are we working to sabotage this girl when she did nothing wrong 😭😭😭 i really wanted to like the mc i made her so cute and everything .. what happened to girls support girls 😭😭 i would feel so unwelcome
#playchoices#first comes love#fcl#blake is super cute too i was really liking it until our internal dialogue about rebecca was shown#WHAT DID SHE DO??? LIKE??????
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There’s something that’s been bugging me for ages about Marcelino and I could never quite grasp it until right now in this chapter when he quoted Ursula’s “and don’t underestimate the importance of body language” line from poor unfortunate souls.
I fully believe that Marcelino was originally written as a Gay Best Friend™. I have never seen a single adult man not only quote Ursula but the body language line who wasn’t a dogged homosexual. And when you realise that, literally everything else about his character comes neatly into perspective as the GBF™ stereotype. My theory is that someone in PB offices took a look at his character and was like “isn’t that a little reductive? aren’t we past this?” so the writing team changed his sexuality and slapped in a pregnant wife character as their way of fixing the problem.
#yes I know this is conspiracy theory tin foil hat territory and there’s literally no way to prove it BUT HERE ME OUT#name ONE straight man who would quote the full trifecta of not only Ursula from The Little Mermaid but a line from Poor Unfortunate Souls#and the BODY LANGUAGE line at that!#he might has well have started speaking polari!!!#I’M ON TO YOU PB!!!!#playchoices#choices#first comes love#choices first comes love#choices fcl
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Sent by @love-all-choose-all
‘i personally think "first comes love" did an amazing job of reeling wlw in for chapter 1/the introduction only for the actual rest of the book to be a complete shit show. because of that first chapter and the flashbacks i genuinely thought it'd be a good book because of the accuracy in the representation - one glance at f!blake and i can just tell she's queer (also think her and m!blake look like completely different characters), the realistic "love/dating life as a wlw" talk and the same sex marriage discussion, having other explicitly queer characters in the form of felicia and lino, eve saying "useless sapphics" (yes i know this happens in ch 2)... god if there's one definition of absolute disappointment then this book is it. also Why?? is mc so not a girls girl despite being a Literal Lesbian???’
POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!
#choices first comes love#first comes love#choices fcl#fcl#fcl mc#blake marshall#playchoices#choices#choices stories you play#confessions#mod bruffle
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