#180 Files MC

[interact-if]

Are there any works where an RO intended to woo MC for personal/ulterior motives but ends up falling for real?

Hi Anon!

There are a handful of games that fit what you are looking for:

180 Files: The Aegis Project by @scribble-games

Andromeda Six by Wanderlust Games

Body Count by @bodycountgame

Hollowed Minds by @shai-manahan

Project Hadea by @nyehilismwriting

Reaper's Bay by @reapersbayif

The Eight Years Revolution by @eight-years-revolution

[hummingbird-games]

hi Gemini! do you play IFs and do you have an recommendations?

I do play IFs! Not as many as I want, and definitely not half as many as I do VNs. But. I have a few recs 👀 also I apologize in advance, I'm not very original so maybe you've already heard of one or all of these:

Golden by @milaswriting

@ataleofcrowns which I think had an update today!! which means I need to get back to my D romance!!!!

180 Files: The Aegis Project by scribble-games (alsoooo I think there's a sequel on the way??? but spy and espionage media has me in an utter chokehold so yeah. check this one out!)

@collegetennisoriginstory (this one I'm alllllmost caught up on and I'm already plotting another MC for another playthrough)

@infamous-if (bruhh I know EVERYBODY AND THEY MAMA LOVES THIS GAME well guess what, me too. basic bitch™️ at your service or whatever. Also, I'm team Orion/August/Blake/make Seven Fall in Love Again Just So I Can Not Pick Them In the End 🫶🏽*but if I had to choose just one, it's Orion. It's always been Orion 😂)

anything @jaunefleurwrites creates, though I'm rather attached to DoW lol

Blood Moon by @barbwritesstuff (another I need to finish BUT it has werewolves!!! I LOVE werewolves!!! i think they're soooo much better than silly vamps 🤪)

Wayfarer by @idrellegames (yeah yet another I need to finish, sue me, BUT it's another banger so I will finish it and these others before I die.)

[scribble-games]

Hi! I was wondering what specific events you'd need to trigger in the 180 Files: The Aegis Project to get Angel to sarcastically call the mc their hero in the crocodile tub scene?

You get it for two of the mini-endings. One is if you go to confront the guy who is creeping around and you end up fighting him and knocking him out (which happens if you fail the stat checks). The other is if you get to the 'damsel in distress' situation with Angel and Petrovich. For that you need to have gone to talk to the suspicious man but ending up talking to him and figuring out that he's a cop. (which happens if you pass the stat checks)

[mamacat1409]

☆ My Art Commission ☆

Painted by IG @/r.voh.k

My MC: Raquel

Book: 180 Files: The Aegis Project

Author: @scribble-games

Publisher: @choiceofgames

[daydreamxsimmer]

"So how about this? You let me go. Nothing explodes. And I'll send your regards to Angel when I catch up with her."

Isabella Reyes - Kapoor (she/her) - a straight A student turned master thief and now secret agent. She wears many faces, does she even know who she really is anymore?

[my mc from @scribble-games 's 180 Files: The Aegis Project ]

[anxietytwist]

Agent 180 / Erin Lee

29 | 5'7" | Agender | Biromantic Asexual | ♥︎Angel

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[Book 1]

HA, I just realized Suave is at 69% 🥴

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Pronouns-> They/Them

Previous occupation-> Professional thief

▪︎ They experience chronic phantom pain in their left arm

▪︎ They've had top surgery

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Picrew used:

Book 1:

[kdelarenta]

meet my mc’s

name : ava d’antonio (coleman)

li: angel 

story: 180 files: the aegis project by  @scribble-games

[chchanging]

It’s been so long since they’ve met anyone who thinks like them.

[pearlcscent]

lovely name selection i must say

[blues824]

This idea came to my head so im requesting this if you don't mind, but like what if mc was a demon and had a evil cycle since in welcome to demon school iruma the demons there have it changing their personality 180

Used the Wiki again cuz I’ve never even heard of this anime before. It looks awesome, though. Also, with the use of ‘mc’ in the request, imma guess it was a request for Obey Me! and I will be doing the Dateables because I love them :) If I got the request wrong, feel free to submit another request. It is my only exception to my Requests Closed Rule.

Diavolo

First off, he is curious about the differences between you and him. You are a different type of demon than what you usually see in the Devildom, so he wants to know all about you. He’s read you student file front to back but it doesn’t tell him nearly enough.

Cue inviting you over as much as he can so he can so he can know more about you. He will walk with you through the gardens to talk to you and ask you questions. Hell, he’d invite you over for dinner every night if he could. But, he understands that you are in the dinner rotation at HoL.

Now, the work at RAD is hard. He’s not going to lie, it’s very difficult. Especially the History and Math courses. However, he doesn’t seem to notice how it seems to be taking a toll on your mental health. If he does, he just writes it off as something else.

So, imagine his surprise when you can’t take it anymore and you snap. You start behaving differently, losing your usual kind and selfless disposition. Diavolo tries to get you under control, but it proves useless. Eventually, he got the brothers, Barbatos, and the Exchange Students to help set up a trap.

Since a lot of your stress also comes from the Residents of the House of Lamentation, the plan was for you to chase Mammon. When it worked, you were in a cage that had a pillow and a blanket. You started screaming at them to let you out, and the young Lord was about to give in when he was pulled away by the others.

The next day, Diavolo walked to the room that held your cage, and gently woke you up. You seemed to have recovered a bit, and he let out a tiny sigh of relief. He opened the door, hugged you, and told you to tell him if you are pushed to that breaking point again.

You then tell him that you had a safeword that could break you out of your Wicked Phase. He felt honored that you trusted him with something so important, so he made sure that he stored it deep into his memory. 

Barbatos

He probably would have read your student bio and every file he could reach on you so that he could gain a deeper understanding about you. He asked for your permission before reading it, and wouldn’t read it if you told him no.

The one file you told him ‘no’ contained some crucial information. You thought he didn’t need to know considering you weren’t stressed at the point he asked about it. You would come to regret that decision later. 

Your stress levels were at an all-time high. You had homework, as well as balancing your social life, getting the brothers out of trouble from Lucifer, helping out at the Castle, your regular chores… it was just getting to be way too much for one demon.

You eventually snapped and started having the guts to tell people ‘no’. Like when Mammon decided he was going to hide in your room, you outed him right to Lucifer. When Leviathan tried to gaslight you into hanging out with you, you told him bluntly that you wouldn’t fall for his usual trick and told him you were busy.

It was getting out of hand when you called Diavolo ignorant for trying to make light of a heavy situation. That’s when the butler knew there was something wrong. You got along with everyone… Why were you suddenly acting like this?

Going against your words and his better judgment, he read the file. He discovered that you went through Evil Cycles, where you would act sadistically and could possibly become violent. He read on and on, and it held your safeword. He rushed out of the room to the HoL, hoping that you didn’t murder one of the Brothers yet.

When he arrived, he saw that you were very close to either killing or being killed by Lucifer. He noticed that Mammon had a black eye that he tried to hide under his glasses. There was a verbal altercation happening between you and the (unfortunately much stronger) eldest demon brother.

He yelled out your safeword and you immediately snapped out of it. You turned and saw Barbatos had a file in his hand. He apologized for going against what you said, but he was concerned that you could have been sick or you could have been poisoned or something like that. You told him that it was fine and then you turned and apologized for the physical injuries, but not for their hurt egos.

Simeon

He gets to know you during your visits to Purgatory Hall. Luke has come to actually like your company, much like he does Barbatos’. You spend a lot of time baking treats and learning recipes from each other. 

You tell him why you are different from most demons in the Devildom. You tell him about how you got here from your dimension and what it was like back where you’re from (not that it was too much different seeing as it had different ‘areas’, much like the Devildom). You even tell him about your evil cycle and your safeword.

One day, you find yourself over-exerted. Whenever you try to relax, someone has a problem that you need to deal with for peace to be restored. Plus, whenever you weren’t doing that, you were either doing your mountains of homework or your chores. Free time? Don’t know her.

As a result, you reach your breaking point. After Mammon told you that you wouldn’t be as great as him, you slapped him and called him a self-entitled jerk. You then went off on Beelzebub (who was just standing there) for eating the food that you had spent hours making for yourself. You shoved Asmo off of you when he went in for a squeeze, hard enough that he was pushed to the ground.

When it reached Simeon’s ears that you seemingly went haywire out of nowhere, he knew there was more to the story. You had even told him about how your stress had been building upon itself to new heights, it was just that no one beside him bothered to actually see what was in front of their eyes. He remembered the word that could snap you out of it and rushed to HoL.

When he got there, he saw the damage you’d already dealt: not much on the physical level, but bruised pride was definitely present. You were currently yelling at Satan, provoking him and making him angry as well. However, upon further inspection, the anger he was feeling was more out of emotional hurt rather than the they-have-the-audacity-to-yell-at-me anger.

He said the safeword in the loudest and clearest voice he could muster, and that made you immediately stop yelling. You looked around and saw everyone with shocked looks on their faces (aside from Satan, who was trying to calm himself down). You apologized profusely to those who stood hurt.

He was glad no one was seriously hurt, but he was concerned about you. From then on, he vows that he would never let you get to that stage of stress or exhaustion. He would invite you over to Purgatory Hall so that you could have some moments of peace and quiet. 

Solomon

He would also get to know more about you through your visits at Purgatory Hall, as well as being able to travel through dimensions via magic. He has visited your dimension before and therefore knows a lot about you.

However, he has never witnessed an Evil Cycle. When you tell him about it one day, he asks a bunch of questions while taking notes in case something happens. Mans prolly has a notebook dedicated to things from your dimension.

After a while, it just gets to be too much. You get to the point where you can’t take 5 minutes away from everything without 1) someone needing help, 2) feeling the anxiety that something remains undone, 3) finding yourself taking on extra chores to fill up any extra time.

Obviously, with all that you are doing to yourself as well as the tasks given to you from the brothers, the other exchange students, and the residents of the Castle, you snap at someone. That someone just so happened to be Lucifer.

You told him no after he asked you to go shopping for food for HoL. You told him that he had already given you too many tasks and that you had your own to do as well. He did the whole lecture about how “you were now a Resident in the house and as such you would do as he asked” when you used the pact to make him shut up, sit down, and listen for once. You went off on him and the other brothers weren’t safe from your wrath either. The rage in your eyes rivaled Satan’s, and that scared even him.

After one of them texted him, Simeon, Barbatos, and Diavolo an SOS message, they all arrived as quickly as they could. They looked around and saw that Lucifer had a handprint on his face, most likely the result of you slapping him. The others didn’t look better either, Belphie even had a black eye.

Solomon used his magic to keep you trapped within an invisible box so that you couldn’t go anywhere. They searched for anything that could help you when he remembered that he had a whole notebook dedicated to you and your dimension. After he whipped it out of thin air, he flipped through the pages and saw the page he had on Evil Cycles.

He said the safeword that you mentioned in a clear tone and you seemingly snapped out of whatever was going on. You looked around and saw the brothers in their current state. Like the baddie you are, you didn’t apologize and told them that you just got the guts to teach them how they treated you and gave them what they deserved: bruised faces and egos.

[romaniangothic]

Sketch/Snippet Sunday ✨

@liamwynric tagged me in this and i haven't done this in a while so uhm hi 🧍

here's uhhhh hhh steel and argent mean gay ppl, my gender 180 files mc and this jax thing im too unwell to finish 🤸

tagging @bosspigeon @forystr @veeples @masonsfangs @natesquill

[interact-if]

goodday! I was curious if there are any IF that features a disabled mc? this might be odd but as a physically disabled person, its always nice to see some representation :)

[ID: Anonymous ask that reads: “Hello! Thank you all so much for taking time to run this page. Can I ask if you have any IF recommendations that has representation for people with disabilities? Can be ROs or customizable MCs. Thank you! :)” /end ID]

[ID: Anonymous ask that reads: “any if with a disabled mc?” /end ID]

Hi! since the definition of disability is rather broad, we decided to take this opportunity to turn this into a master post encompassing both physical, mental, and neurological disabilities. We will divide everything into subcategories so it’s easier to find what you’re looking for!

and remember, if you find that any work of interactive fiction is missing from this list, please, let us know :)

[ID: Anonymous ask that reads: “Hey, do you know any IF where you can romance a deaf character or where the MC can be deaf? I’m craving the representation but I can’t find any :/” /end ID]

[ID: Anonymous ask that reads: “Are there any IFs that you can think of that let you play as Deaf/HoH or have a Deaf/HoH RO? Thanks so much!” /end ID]

[ID: An ask by user p-e-a-r that reads: “Hello. Do you know if there’s any IFs where the MC is mute and/or deaf? Or just uses sign language?

If you know any if a mute of deaf IL that’s also good” /end ID]

Deaf/HoH

MCs:

180 Files: The Aegis Project (optional) by Karelia Hall

Remembered: The Past (optional) by Kristin Jahu

The Eight Years Revolution (option for hearing aids) by @eight-years-revolution

Varðir (option for hearing aids and option for communicating through sign language will be included in the next update) by @vardir (discontinued)

When It Hungers (upcoming option to be HoH in rewrite) by @roast-ifs

ROs:

Fields of Asphodel (Alekto) by @asphodelgame

Hollowed Minds (Alonzo - not specified in the demo yet) by @shai-manahan

Powered (Simon) by @powered-if (no demo)

Project Hadea (Ki-Ha) by @nyehilismwriting 

Twin Coves (Lir ) by @twincovesgame​

When It Hungers (Nico) by @roast-ifs

You Live And Fern (Char) by @beetlebethwrites

Other characters:

The Brighter the Dawn (MC’s father) by @dawning-games

The Northern Passage (Branwen) by @northern-passage​ 

[ID: Anonymous ask that reads: “Hi :) I was wondering if youse know of any stories where the MC can be non-verbal/silent? If not all then time then partially? If this is too niche of a request please don’t feel pressured to answer. Thank you for all the hard work youse do for the IF community, it’s so awesome <3” /end ID]

[ID: Anonymous ask that reads: “Hi! I know this is sort of a niche request, but do you know of any IFs with a mute (any kind) MC? Or IFs where there are options to make the MC respond non-verbally and it’s something the game keeps track of? I’m not sure if I’m describing the second option well, but basically, if we’re regularly choosing ‘silent’ options, it actually makes a difference” /end ID]

Non-verbal/silent

MCs:

Hollowmoon Valley (option available to be silent) by @hollowmoonvalley

Legend of a Savior (One of the planned routes is an MC without a tongue) by @legend-of-a-savior-if (no demo)

The King’s Hound by @the-kingshound (18+)

Varðir (option for communicating through sign language will be included in the next update) by @vardir (discontinued)

ROs:

The Twilight Order (Désiré) by @exn0bisstudios (18+, no demo)

Wolfwater (Lux) by @carrs-universe

Other characters:

All Paths Lead to the Underground (mute secondary character) by @pol-writes​

Crimson Rose & White Lily (mute secondary character) by @manonamora-if​

Lost Birds (Ghost) by @if-lostbirds

The Brighter the Dawn (Ranada is selectively mute) by @dawning-games​

Other physical disabilities

MCs:

Event Horizon (MC experiences psychosis) by @if-eventhorizon​

Greenwarden (Options of giving the MC albinism and astigmatism, and making them diabetic or celiac) by @fiddles-ifs

Hollowed Minds (MC will have more frequent migraines over time) by @shai-manahan​

Lost Birds (Prosthetic arm and leg) by @if-lostbirds

Remember, You Will Die (Prosthetic options for MC) by @vapolis 

The Ballad of Devil’s Creek (Option for MC to be missing an eye) by @devilscreekballad

The Brighter the Dawn (Malcolm is missing an arm) by @dawning-games​

The Eight Years Revolution (prosthetic option for MC) by @eight-years-revolution

The Floating City (MC has prosthetic legs) by Felicity Banks

The Twilight Order (MC can have prosthetics and/or be blind in 1 eye) by @exn0bisstudios (no demo)

Twin Coves (Lir deals with chronic pain, Eli is an amputee with a prosthetic, Azriel has very poor eyesight ) by @twincovesgame​

Until the Colors Bleed Gray (blind MC) by @until-the-colors-bleed-gray

Varðir (MC can chose to wear glasses, use a walking cane or have a prosthetic) by @vardir ​

WALL (MC can have a prosthetic hand or leg) by @notesfromwall

ROs:

All Paths Lead to the Underground (Balzac, blind in one eye) by @pol-writes

Body Count (Ellis has EDS) by @bodycountgame (+18)

Digital Drive (Isa has a prosthetic arm, Vic has an artificial eye) by @pol-writes (no demo)

Event Horizon (Eris has one arm) by @if-eventhorizon​ 

Herotome (Griffin uses a wheelchair) by @herotome

Magician’s Voyage (Luc has prosthetic limbs) by @magiciansvoyage

Nevermoore (Sterling is blind) by @asteristories  

Perfumare 2 (Alan has glaucoma) by @pdrrook​ (no demo)

Peripety: At Its Essence (Dominik is fully blind) by @gamingperipety​ (18+, no demo)

Sentinel (Amari has a prosthetic arm) by @nyehilismwriting

Serpentine (blind RO) by @serpentineif

Snakeroot (Mal has a prosthetic leg) by @cerberus-writes  

The Ballad of Devil’s Creek (Charlie is missing an eye) by @devilscreekballad​

The Everheart Thief (A is paraplegic, uses a wheelchair) by @everheart-if (discontinued)

The King’s Physician (Lisandro uses a cane, Tesias has chronic pain & nerve damage) by @fiddles-ifs

The Nameless (Magesmith has a prosthetic arm) by @parkerlyn

The Northern Passage (Merry is blind in one eye) by @northern-passage​ 

Tournament of Souls (D is blind in one eye) by @maxdes

Varðir (Vígríðr has a prosthetic arm) by @vardir​

Wayfarer (Calla has a prosthetic arm) by @idrellegames 

Witches of Ferngrove (W has a prosthetic arm) by @witchesofferngrove

Other characters:

All Paths Lead to the Underground (the bishop is blind) by @pol-writes

Attollo (Deadlock has migraines) by @attollogame​

[ID: Anonymous ask that reads: “Hey! I was wondering if you knew of any IFs with neurodivergent (preferably autistic or ADHD) MCs or characters, other than When Twilight Strikers. Thanks in advance!!” /end ID]

Mental disabilties and neurodivergencies

MCs:

Greenwarden (the MC has C-PTSD, and experiences panic attacks, paranoia, dissociative episodes, and suicidal ideation) by @fiddles-ifs

Our Life (option for MC to be on the spectrum) by @gb-patch​

Peripety: At Its Essence (MC has migraine) by @gamingperipety (18+, no demo)

The Twilight Order (MC can have dyslexia and/or dyscalculia) by @exn0bisstudios (18+, no demo)

Twin Coves (MC has PTSD) by @twincovesgame​

When it Hungers (MC has migraines, insomnia, and PTSD) by @roast-ifs

ROs:

Ace of Spades (A is on the spectrum) by @steph-writing

Advenio (Sifra has ADHD) by @adveniogame

An Angel’s Song (Saori is autistic) by @melkstudio

Diaspora (Sangarinus) by @diasporatheblog

Fields of asphodel (MC and other important characters) by @asphodelgame

Greater Than Gods (Evan has ADHD and Wyatt is autistic) by @technicangels​

Greenwarden (Bautista, Nazeri and Devin have C-PTSD, the later has also depression) by @fiddles-ifs

Hollowed Minds (Alonzo has PTSD) by @shai-manahan 

Our Life (Cove is autistic) by @gb-patch 

Perfumare 2 (Flavio has insomnia) by @pdrrook (no demo)

Powered (Daniel has ADD, Ilide is autistic and Jake has ADHD) by @powered-if (no demo)

The Brighter the Dawn (Lichtenberg and Twelve are autistic) by @dawning-games

The Golden Harp (Gray is autistic) by @thegoldenharp​

The Hunt: Demon Eyes ( Theo (Depressions) and Lupita (ADHD) by @thehunt-if

The King’s Physician (Sibir is autistic and Tesias has PTSD) by @fiddles-ifs​ (no demo)

The Northern Passage (Clem has ADHD) by @northern-passage

The Starless Throne (Quill is autistic) by @illonius-if (no demo)

Twin Coves (Cass has ADHD) by @twincovesgame

When it Hungers (Nico has ADHD, Isla has PTSD) by @roast-ifs

When Twilight Strikes (A has ADHD) by @evertidings

Witches of Ferngrove (Jules has PTSD, C is neurodivergent) by @witchesofferngrove

Other characters:

Hollowed Minds (Raine-ADHD; Vincent-OCD) by @shai-manahan

Fantasy/sci-fi disabilities

MCs:

Hollowed Minds (recurring hallucinations that may worsen over time depending on decisions—partly involves science) by @shai-manahan

ROs:

Project Hadea (Imxa has missing limbs) by @nyehilismwriting 

The Chosen One [Italian demo] (Rascia is completely colorblind) by @kal-writesif

When it Hungers (Danny) by @roast-ifs

[angeloncewas]

Does the fact that CCs can now get away with a lot by pointing fingers at mcyttwt concern you as well? I keep thinking about that part specifically regarding the party thing. I don't think these responses would be tolerated if they came from other content creators. This is one side effect of the toxic behavior on twitter I feared.

Ohhh boy. Yeah, it does.

(Sorry, I don't think you wanted an essay, but it happened.)

I am very happy that the problems with mcyttwt and the culture it has cultivated over the past few months (give or take) is being brought to light and directly addressed. It's some bullshit cliché rhetoric, but the first step really is recognizing that you have a problem and at first glance this speaks to good things.

We've seen it happening more often in a variety of cases. Remember that thing I always bring up about the twibbons? And how it's completely ridiculous to demand a mass-change of profile pictures on a public platform for the sake of your personal well-being? Well, a similar problem arose yesterday, and the responses were... really good. Some of them were rude - people always take stuff too far - but the top replies were a polite, but firm, "if the pfps are bothering you, maybe you should get off of Twitter." That's progress ! Very good progress as these people recognize and encourage the curation of ones' own environment and mental health. And that's just one example - I've seen plenty of others where I was pleasantly surprised by the way Twitter users pointed out the bad behavior in their midst.

The new problem (or one of them) is that people tend to think in a very black-and-white mentality. I'm not saying I don't - we're all in this together - but it first felt worrying to me in response to Jawsh's repost of his tweets. The ones that fiercely condemn what he refers to as "stan culture," seemingly generalized to twt communities.

People were agreeing with him. Not like a "he makes some good points" type of agreement; a wholehearted, all-in, fuck these people and this platform and everything that mcyttwt is attitude from the stans' own mouths (or, uh, keyboards). The discussion was no longer "here is what our community is now, here are the problems, here's how we fix them," it was about pointedly distancing themselves from that toxic - and frankly embarrassing - group they were just in.

And that's where we get to the content creators themselves.

The timing lines up nicely with that burner thread - the one showcasing mcyttwt in all of its horror and glory - but I'm more inclined to call that a coincidence than a catalyst. Regardless, the creators - after months of cc neg and twitlongers and DNI lists only growing - think that they're fully aware of the state of the "mc twitter" fandom. That it really is this hivemind of crazies who rag on everyone for every little thing. Jawsh was right, Schlatt was right, stans fucking suck and are idiotic little fatherless mentally ill children-

Do you get where I'm going with this?

I'm trying not to sound too slippery slope fallacy-y because I know that poking fun at the flaws of your fanbase (or ones adjacent to you, depending on who you are) doesn't mean you're about to go full Noah Hugbox on their asses. And, at the end of the day, this specific instance was just a legal party with some surrounding debate. A debate that they... didn't even stop to consider. Which is fair, I suppose, they don't owe us anything, but like I said that makes me worried about the precedent that's unwillingly being set.

The fact of the matter is that it's very, very easy to slip into one of two parties: for, or against. When it comes to content creators, this is usually the blind rage they go into when they see criticism and the automatic way their brain files it into the tidy folder up there labelled "hate mail." I feel like we've already seen Dream get close to becoming that kind of person (understandably, he gets a lot of shit) -but he managed to catch himself around his first contact with Hasan and things (I think ?) have been pretty decent since then. Great.

There's no telling how other creators will react to that kind of shift though. And I know it doesn't sound like a big deal because "we don't control their lives," but I'm thinking big-picture here. I'm not pulling arguments out of my ass when I say that seeing "mcyttwt" as a bullshit community full of keyboard warrior sjws who need to go out and touch some grass is a full 180 from the current state of the fandom and that's not inherently good. Mcyttwt is extremely hyper-critical, but their concern often stems from genuine fears as minorities and wants to do better and make sure that other people do the same. I don't think that people outside of the community see that and a lot of the people who criticize it don't want to because they're not actually invested in the community's well-being, they're just mad they can't be racist without getting ratioed anymore. Yes, it's just the internet and some things are pointless to get mad at, but the online space is still the real world and people's shitty-ness is still... shitty.

Do I think they can get away with anything? Not really, no, but I'm curious to see what the future holds. It's easy to be apathetic and say "I don't give a shit what creators do" - have a sort of relationship where criticisms are dismissed because their attitude in turn is "fuck those people" - but in my opinion that's not a healthy way to consume content. That's how all those awful fucking people slid on by for years and the community was dominated by "edgy" folk who'd sooner mock you for your pronouns than give a performative "trans rights." I hope for progress, but this feels a bit like regression.

[scribble-games]

Routes, Relationships and the Asexual* Agenda

(*and/or aromantic)

Carrying on from the ask about platonic possibilities! I have thought a lot about how to do relationships in CF so I'll try to lay out my ideas.

Firstly, there aren't routes exactly, as in you have important scenes 1, 2 and 3 which feature character A, B or C depending on who you have the best relationship with. Each of the main cast get pivotal scenes, but these vary depending on your relationship with the character.

As for those possible relationship types, there's a combination of stats (because I love making life difficult for myself).

There's the 'relationship' stat, which basically shows how much the character values the MC. This can be raised by actions that the particular character favours.

Then there's an opposed stat that tracks how you generally interact with the character. Are you always sharing the same opinions and going with what they want to do, or are you more often butting heads and challenging them?

These stats combined give the overall relationship, which is interpreted a bit differently by each character. For example, with 313:

High relationship value + agreeable interactions = you're totally in sync.

High rel value + challenging = "you're a pain in the ass, but you're my pain in the ass" - basically you disagree on a lot, but 313 still likes and trusts you.

Low rel value + agreeable = you're seen as disingenuous and untrustworthy. 313 might work with you if they have to, but they'll keep you at a distance

Low rel value + challenging = 313 dislikes and possibly fears you and wants to stay away from you as much as possible

Then there is the 'romance' stat! The romance stat is basically the same as in 180 Files in that it's just used to track if the MC has expressed (inwardly or outwardly) attraction towards the character. This will change some flavour text and may open up new options or change the way the character responds to you. This stat is kind of independent of the other stats - you can flirt with someone who doesn't like you, (but don't count on them responding well), or be strongly attracted to someone you really don't like. And while it is called the 'romance' stat, it's a bit more complex then that as I'm hoping to allow for some broader ideas of attraction.

So, for allo MCs, this stat will be assumed to be sexual/romantic attraction and the flavour text and options will reflect that, maybe leaning a bit stronger one way or the other. However, for ace and aro MCs, it changes a bit! You might still get romantic and sexual options, but you can also have it that the stat represents an intense draw or interest that isn't romantic or sexual in nature. I'm not sure whether to term it 'platonic attraction' as I feel like that would mean 'I really want to be friends with you', whereas depending on the other factors this may mean more like 'I dislike you, but also you fascinate me and I wish to study you like a bug." This could then lead to an emotional relationship which is not the same as the regular friendship but is different from the romances.

That's it for now! Bear in mind this is all likely to be continually tweaked as I write, but let me know if you have any thoughts

[lilas]

top 5 romance routes in the IFs you play 👁

🧍‍♀️ WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS TO ME……

omg okay this is gonna be tough since a lot of the IFs I read are WIPs, so the romance isn’t complete or in a lot of cases haven’t even started. So this is like…. what’s been written + future expectations.

Honorable Mention: Cían from @/faithofgods

The amount of time and thought and effort I’ve devoted this man since October is…….embarrassing. He’s not even in the actual game yet so I can’t say his route is my fav but I know he’s gonna destroy me. Check back in a year. 🧍‍♀️

1. Angel from 180 Files

This is literally…. THE enemies to lovers plot-line for me, I don’t know why but something about their relationship with 180 scratched an itch and I’ve been chasing the high since.

Has inspired me to think about my own enemies to lovers story… 👁

2. A from @/ataleofcrowns

😭💕 A BELOVED…. Their route in ATOC is so good! Just (chefs kiss). It’s the slow building of trust and affection for me. Also they’re so funny and I love reading about every eye roll and snarky comment they make. 🥺

3. Blane from When Twilight Strikes

An enemies/rivals to lovers relationship with an ace character? How the fuck could I not? Very excited for more and to see the eventual pivot in their relationship with the Hunter.

4. Oisein and the Healer from The Nameless

Two for the price of one.🧍‍♀️THE DYNAMICS MC HAS WITH THEM ARE SO GOOD. The playful flirtiness with the Healer and the pining of Oisein’s route PLEASE…. Both kill me every time I read them.

5. Nash from Project Hadea

Listen, already the branching conversation in the infirmary in Chapter 2 slayed me. If the Operative gives Rohan their name? Ugh! UGH!! The many flavors of conversation from that choice alone had me by the throat. I don’t think I’ll survive them.

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