#heir to love and lies

[adventures-in-re]

its definitely a work in progress but im gonna go ahead and share the link to the folder of love letters/postcards/official digital merch i've collected for the arcana/fictif so far for preservation. some folders are empty right now but i'll update it as i collect more stuff.

shoutsout to rubinaitoart for the arcana love letters and mothacabra for scans of the postcards and sage's love letter!

[bastart13]

Thanks to everyone who filled out my fictif survey a while ago :D The results were very interesting to consider alongside different timelines and demographics of the game.

All in all, people vastly prefered the longer series which focused on individual characters, though art style and character design were also important factors.

A lot of people were interested in a wider variety of female and non-binary LIs, and the most common traits for desired love interests were: more body type variety, older LIs, and GNC LIs.

[mhintallyill]

I wish Franny could've been a love interest, her design is so cute and I loved her personality sm.

[blanketorghost]

Now that FictIf and The Arcana have been bought out by Dorian, I feel the need to remind y'all as the only person who's spoken out about this but;

Heir To Love And Lies is an extremely racist story to its core.

The love inrerests are either harmful stereotypes or key players on the violence and corruption here in Colombia.

Even if Nathalie has a Colombian father, she has failed to accurately represent the country, the spanglish abhorrent and the treatment of rural Colombia is one of the worst I've seen.

The MC is a white saviour stereotype and is such an awful character whom barely cares about the town; especially when their decisions will affect the livelihoods of workers.

Chava and his whole family are a huge stereotype of low income workers and farmers in the perifery. Their relationship with the drug cartel was unnecessary and insulting— especially when Colombian people already struggle with discrimination about being poor coca and marijuana farmers.

Sergio is literally the epitome of everything wrong with Colombia and shouldn't be romantisized as a love interest— especially as he is related to an assasination which happen in Colombia on the daily .

Val is part of the most corrupt, homophobic and racist institutions and attempting to make her a love interest makes me want to barf as an lgbt Colombian. Especially when I receive news on the daily of lgbt people getting abused by police. I'm glad her route never got released.

The whole story glorifies the foreign colonization of Colombia's economy; which have affected our country gravely— even leaving entire regions of ours in extreme poverty.

'La Dama Roja' is such an awfully constructed character; both character design and story-wise. Her dress is mexican right out of the bat. Her whole character crumbles apart once you actually learn about Colombian politics and culture.

The whole story is a complete regression for Colombian representation and a slap on the face for me, and many other latino users whom have shared their concerns privately to me. It perpetrates so many harmful stereotypes and completely misunderstands the intricacies of Colombia and its people. It ignores our pleas for positive rep after being thrown and dragged through the mud as a druggie country for upwards of fourty years and refuses to acknowledge that Colombia is more than just drugs and coffee.

If you want 'good' Colombian representation, you are much better off watching Encanto in spite of its issues.

If you want Colombian rep that is more mature leaning I would recommend;

Los Viajes Del Viento for a culturally accurate depiction of the north of Colombia

Señorita María: La Falda De La Montaña for a documentary about being lgbtq+ trans in rural Colombia

Los Colores De La Montaña for a depiction of how the drug war has affected innocent farmers in rural Colombia

These are all critically acclaimed movies that all tackle living in the small towns that HTLAL is supposed to be based upon and do a much better job at it.

Also, I've said this many times but I think it's worth mentioning that if you want a more in-depth representation of all the issues HTLAL fails to tackle respectfully, y'all should read The Rebellion of The Rats by Fernando Soto Aparicio

[asra-nicky-miguel-wife]

"I can fix him"

Also him:

[fictifgames]

Have you met Uncle Sam in Heir To Love And Lies?

[sweet-milky-tea705]

I would like to pay tribute to all these beautiful channel captions i made before we condense these(nobody uses them lol)

[normalbitch]

ink Sergio portrait

i miss em 😢

[choleraciemna]

Hmmmm

No Last Legacy, no Dama Roja... How is it called? Uh!

"Thank you I hate it"

😒😒😒

[adventures-in-re]

the part of me that wants to collect all the arcana/fictif love letter pdfs for preservation purposes vs the part of me that doesnt want to give dorian any money: FIGHT

[pikkitte]

Listen, Julian and Sage are still very much my comfort characters, but i am doonnneee with the Arcana and Fictif teams.

Every damn day i hear or see something about them pullin some dumb shit n i am over it. Whatever updates i get from here on out are from other fans. I wont be following either official blogs anymore and quite frankly the only reason i keep either game installed is to play old routes that were actually worth the time and money to play.

@thearcanagame @fictifgames please for the love of FUCK can yall get your shit together? You used to make such quality stories and content and now its like youre struggling to remain relevant. 5-chapter, rushed af stories with paid endings are not what i came for. I dont think thats what ANYONE came for. We played these games to enjoy the in-depth stories and well thought-out characters with not only amazing backstories, but engaging routes. And since the separation of Nicky, Celia and Miguel's routes, its like you guys stopped giving a shit about your fanbase.

Like, i get it. Its a company. Its about money. But you DO realize... If you alienate your fans... If you repeatedly disappoint them (Like you HAVE been) You're gonna lose money. And spitting out quantity over quality is gonna bite you in the ass. Hard. Every time. Just something to keep in mind.

[bastart13]

It'd be a great help to my curiousity to know what people thought of the ~12 stories and their ~29 love interests

[plutorisingposts]

Hey, since we can't have nice things without some random making it about their personal experiences, have ANY of you asked your fellow NH Latino fans/followers their opinion about Heir to Love & Lies??? :))))

Because I can assure you, Latino followers make up almost a FOURTH of the fandom and they are NOT happy with this story :)))

If you have payed a sliver of attention to the Internet lately, you don't even need them to tell you why they dislike it so much and why they have an actual problem with it, but oh well let's instead focus on how the poor, poor little necromancer who wears the fucking bones of his dead pet raven around his neck is 'mocked' by the fucking villain of his story for his style. Cool.

[gwenene]

Hey fictif/arcana fans, I made a survey that I plan on showing the Dorian team. All I’m doing is getting the fandom’s opinions on the Dorian situation/the idea of new content being strictly on Dorian. Also dw because everything’s anonymous and optional, so no names will be shown or anything. If you decide to make a comment and don’t want me to show it, please say so in your answer.

[lordiavolo]

Ok

[fictifgames]

A look behind the scenes: an early sketch of your kickass grandma from Heir To Love And Lies 🌹 Have you solved her murder yet?