#fictif howie route

[synergysilhouette]

I miss Fictif, but it was far from flawless

I actually got into this series because of "The Arcana" (plus romance games don't often let you play as anything other than a female lead), but I found that even though I liked it's potential, it fell short a lot of the time, either romantically or story-wise. I'm obviously disappointed that I can't customize my character's appearence, but I think I'm in the minority with that one. Allow me to list my grievances and nit-picks with the app.

In general--Female routes are short and underdeveloped. I don't even romance women IRL, but this was just sad. Anika, Tess, Valentina, and Celia are the only female love interests to have solo routes while the rest are in one-route stories--and Valentina didn't even get a route before Dorian took over and effectively stopped updating the app!

"Two Against the World"--As much as I love Nicky, this story turned me off as a gay male player. The writing feels female-coded, and no acknowledgement of the stigma of two men being in a relationship in 1920s New York is ever mentioned. It'd make more sense if the setting was INSPIRED by 1920s New York, but in reality was a completely different location--but that wasn't the case. It felt like a big mifire in storytelling.

"Heir to Love & Lies"--I cannot overstate how much of a disappointment this story was. In both Sergio and Chava's route, Chava starts off very friendly and sweet before becoming aggressive and secretive. This doesn't really make any sense since he's your childhood best friend and (spoiler) he doesn't kill La Dama Rosa in either route. Plus in Chava's route, Aurora becomes very cruel and blames us for getting her family (re)involved with the cartel, even though in actuality she involved us--a point Chava tells us to let go, and then we apologize. For what?! And the end of Sergio's route is confusing, as you go through a dream sequence where he either kills you and takes your money or you get him arrested for killing La Dama Rosa. I think it's supposed to represent your fears and mistrust of him and symbolize how you need to let your concerns go if you wanna marry him, but it feels uncomfortable since it's not explained well at all. It felt like we just saw the future and we said "I don't care." Plus he asks us stuff about kids, our wedding, and where we'd live, and he took NONE of my decisions into account for the final chapter.

"Roadkill"--I was SO confused on what was the result of the wish and what wasn't. Did Douglas' wish create werewolves, vampires, and witches along with zombies? Or did they already exist before the zombie wish? If it's the latter, there's no need to involve zombies. Plus Howie's amnesia arc in the last chapter was rushed and unnecessary, while Poe came off as judgmental and snarky and Tess' route was short and rushed.

"Catch Me in Miami"--I couldn't get into Miguel because he was so obviously a bad boy and I don't do bad boys. Maybe if he was more coy about it like Nicky than being obvious about it, I'd be into him.

"For the Love of Gods"--Great potential, but rushed and I DESPISE how we're forced to romance everyone. Why can't I just choose how many people I'm interested in?

"Ghosted"--Probably my least favorite story. Jesse's ghost story does sound interesting, but his personality and how rushed it was ruined it for me.

"Hollywoodland"--Rushed, but it had great potential.

"Snow Falling in Love"--It felt like a waste not to tie this with "Roadkill" due to Sawyer's involvement, and Elise was CRAZY obsessed with us.

"Courting the Crown"--Beautiful Potential, but again, rushed, rushed, rushed.

"The Last Legacy"--Probably the best plot of them all, but Felix and Sage weren't my type physically or personality-wise; I'd rather go for Felix's dads.

I didn't include other stories because they either weren't finished or I didn't complete them.

[wayvessel]

Mixtape - Howie Yan <3

I made a playlist on spotify based on our buff teddy bear/golden retriever, vampire, theater kid Howie from Roadkill on Fictif! It has songs that relate to him, songs he would listen to, or songs he would sing with MC and the gang, whether it’s during the road trip or in your life together. If you don’t know Fictif you should definitely play it and definitely play Roadkill! it’s a great story and his route is very sweet.

[anonymous-eggy]

here's my hot take: Howie is more himbo than Lucio and Sage will ever be, even combined.

[oceanatydes]

HE’S SO SEXY 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😳😳😳😳😳😳🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

[hatsune-yeetku]

The second half of Howie’s route was paced like ass??? Like we do not need 2-3 chapters at that campsite (the chapters were also so friggin short) only to rush through the endings.

[elysianbohemian]

I have like 4 chapters left of Howie's route in Roadkill and then I'll be done with every single (free) story on the fictif app lmaoo. I might do a ranking of all the stories idk I'm feeling the urge to judge all the internal choices made by nix hydra while publishing these stories lol

[tallblondasian]

So Luca has been a werewolf his whole life? Poe cares about this rivalry for some reason now just because he’s been a werewolf for a few days?

[roguerambles]

I swear if Howie’s Route has a sad ending I will cry absolutely everywhere. 

[dawnsbreaking]

howie yan is my babygirl

[peculiarh3xapod]

Bout to lose it over these beefy men. I’m tortured that Miguel doesn’t have a route yet...Then i will sit here consumed with lust for the rest of the evening/however long it takes.

[boardboxes]

last legacy pulling through damn

[anonymous-eggy]

By the time the creepy murderers start showing up, I hope it has gotten to the point where the MC is tired of this bullshit and just. chases the fucking murderer with a knife screaming "THIS IS A TWO WAY STREET, BITCH. YOU DON'T WANNA GET STABBED?! DON'T APPROACH ME AND MY (WO)MAN MENACINGLY! HIGH SCHOOL REJECT LOOKIN ASS-"

And Poe/Howie/Tess is just watching like "I'm going to marry that person. KICK HIS ASS BABY I GOT YO FLOWER!"

[aldyoli]

✨ Missing Howie hours ✨

[mrglubb]

howie’s route better have a happy ending because i cannot deal with the pain of poe’s route again, i stg

[oceanatydes]

HE’S SO 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

[hatsune-yeetku]

You know, if Dev was somehow able to write the last few chapters of Sage and Felix before they left (since they have two and three chapters respectively), I wouldn’t even be mad if they released them all at once.