#wes hss

[hsslilly-blog]

wesposting

[cadybear420]

Is it just me or could this sprite totally pass as little kid Aiden?

[oakwolves]

Ace has a proposition

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[aidenzhouappreciationweek]

Welcome! To Aiden Zhou Appreciation Week!

This is the official blog for the appreciation week for the amazing Aiden Zhou, from the High School Story trilogy on Choices: Stories You Play!

This year's event will be taking place over October 9, 2024 - October 15, 2024. But we will continue accepting submissions for the 2024 Prompts until August 1, 2025, which is when the new prompts will be announced.

Aiden Zhou Appreication Week 2024: Prompts List

Day 1 (October 9): Music Man Aiden

Day 2 (October 10): Fashion/Design + Beauty + Flowers

Day 3 (October 11): Relationships: Romance, Friendships, Family

Day 4 (October 12): Free Prompt! (also the day I headcanon as Aiden’s birthday)

Day 5 (October 13): Cunty Aiden + Cutie Aiden + Weather/Seasons

Day 6 (October 14): AU + Crossover

Day 7 (October 15): Pride + Culture/Ethnicity/Heritage + Colors

Feel free to suggest your own possible prompt ideas for future years’ events, btw!

See below for the submission guidelines and (eventually) previous years' masterlists!

General Guidelines for Submission:

We’ll reblog pretty much any posts that are Aiden-centric and Aiden-appreciative/positive, whether or not it’s made for this event. But if you want your post to be considered a submission and listed on the masterlist, you must A) mention this blog and B) specify which prompt or prompts you’re submitting for.

The tags #AidenZhouAppreciationWeek, #AZAW, #AZAW2024, are highly recommended, but not necessary.

If your post is very long in length (eg. if it’s a long fic, has images that take up a lot of length), we highly recommend putting a “Read More” button in your post.

Any submissions that lean into NSFW or suggestive territory, and/or feature sensitive topics should be tagged accordingly.

You don’t have to create for each prompt or each day. Create for as many prompts and days as you like.

You don’t have to create for a prompt on its respective assigned day. Eg. You can create for a Day 1 prompt on Day 4.

You don’t have to create only one piece per prompt. If you have multiple pieces you want to create for a certain prompt, then by all means, go for it.

You don’t have to use only a specific day’s prompts together Eg. You can have a piece that uses a Day 1 prompt and a Day 4 prompt together.

We will still accept submissions even after the event dates have passed. You will have until the next year’s August 1 to submit posts/creations for the current prompts! Eg. For the AZAW 2024 prompts, you will be able to submit for them until August 1, 2025.

What IS welcome:

Any medium of human creation. Art, fanfic, poetry, edits, animation, picrews/meikers* moodboards/stimboards/gifboards, icons, memes/shitposts, gifs, AMVs, playlists, headcanons, character recreation in another game (eg. The Sims), etc!

Meta posts. Eg. screenshots of favorite scenes/moments from the Choices game itself, essay/analytical writing, even just simply gushing/rambling over Aiden nonstop!

Pieces or posts that you made prior to this event and/or initially not for this event, but you've decided you want to submit them!

WIP/unfinished pieces.

Submissions can be works that you have made yourself, or works that you have commissioned from someone else.

*If you’re submitting a picrew or meiker piece or anything similar, please link to the template in your post!

What is NOT welcome:

Bigotry of any kind. Posts of a nature that is sexist, racist (especially Sinophobic), queerphobic, ableist, xenophobic, etc. are obviously not allowed.

AI-generated material of any kind. This includes images or writing made by genAI, ChatGPT/character.AI screenshots, etc. Feel free to let us know if we accidentally promote AI generated material. We support human creators here!

Just don’t be a dick, tbh.

Previous Years’ Masterlists

[Will be linked here]

[lover-also-fighter-also]

I know this has been done before but still 🤣🤣🤣.

[bri1234]

YALL WHAT IS THIS?!?

[highschoolstoryliveson]

OC- Chloe Smith-McMannon

This is Chloe, my MC. She's 16-17 at the start of the game. Calling her a prep is an UNDERSTATEMENT. She adores being social and surrounded by the people she loves and cares about.

Backstory under the cut

When she and her twin brother, Chase, were four, they were taken out of their home and placed into the foster care system because their mother was NOT fit to raise a child, let alone two. For around two years, the two bounced around the foster system. While none of the families were bad, the twins learned that the only person that they could get attached to was each other.

When they turned six, they went to live with the McMannons. Before the first week was over, it became clear that this was their family. Stacy and Jill are both extremely loving and supportive- giving an overwhelming amount of kindness and support to Chloe when she got the courage to come out as trans to them.

They lived in South Carolina for a long time, things going smoothly. Chloe and Chase still clung to each other, but they learned how to branch out and create lives of their own as well. Until the end of their sophomore year. Chloe had been out to her best friend of three years, but when her friend's crush seemed more into Chloe- she outed her. Suddenly the entire school turned on her, and it got bad enough that the entire family agreed that it would be best to move somewhere more supportive for a fresh start. Within the next three months, with Chloe being homeschooled in the meantime, they found a new house and new jobs near a newly opened high school.

Right as they started to settle in and began to prepare for their new school, Chase got the opportunity to go on a year-long trip to Europe for an exchange program. Originally he didn't plan on going, but despite her fear of being alone- Chloe encouraged him to take the chance because she knew it was a dream of his.

Even though she was the one to tell him to go, she still had trouble letting go at the airport. Her moms showered her in love, but she still withdrew and kept to herself the week leading up to her first week.

Everything changed when she met Autumn. This girl was one of the kindest and most beautiful people Chloe had ever met, and the two clicked together quickly. It didn't take long for Autumn to become her best friend and favorite person in the entire universe. She's actually the first person Chloe comes out to at the school, telling her while they were getting ice cream on the boardwalk. Both of them cried tears of joy (Autumn because Chloe trusted her so much, and Chloe because she finally felt safe enough to do so after everything that happened at her old school.)

While she loves Payton from the beginning, it's not until Chloe finds out that she was also adopted that the two start to get really close. The more they talk, the more the girls find they have in common. Chloe is able to keep Payton focused and down to earth, and Payton is always able to get Chloe out of her head and back in the moment. Describing her as a friend feels wrong, because Payton is exactly the sister Chloe has always wanted.

Beckett was also a wonderful new experience for Chloe. She had dated in the past, but she had never felt so understood by someone else. For a few months the two dated, going on adventures and encouraging each others silliness. Sadly, Chloe's life starts to get too hectic and she doesn't have enough time to be the partner Beckett deserves. They part on good terms and are still best friends.

She dates Mia for like a week just to piss off Mia's parents. They went on a bunch of cute dates and took A TON of photos, but neither was actually romantically interested in the other. Now they just hang out and gossip without the pretense. Mia always pays, ESPECIALLY after Chloe sees how much money she has after Mia's quest.

And then she meets Hannah. Hannah who is so beautiful and who understands Chloe on a level that no one has before. Neither of them has the time to see the other as much as they want, but they make do. Though they eventually part on good terms, Hannah will always hold a very special place in Chloe's heart. She still gets a warm feeling in her chest every time she looks at the stars- remembering the nights they would go stargazing together. Fingers interlocked and the grass under them, those nights meant more to Chloe than anyone could imagine.

Wes is unlike anyone Chloe would expect herself to fall for. When he comes to her school, she can't trust him as far as she can throw him- but still makes it clear that she's willing to give him a chance. He starts to call her 'Sunshine' sarcastically, but the nickname sticks and the meaning changes. They start off as friends, since Wes gets back with Autumn pretty soon after he joins the school and Hannah and Chloe start seeing each other not long after. Still, the two start to bond on a level neither of them expected. Wes realizes there's a lot more to Chloe than he thought, and Chloe sees under Wes's harsh exterior and sees just how much he cares about those close to him. The more they hang out, the closer the two get. Eventually, Wes starts to realize that his feelings for his two favorite people (other than his brother) are starting to change. Or that they had already changed a long time ago. He and Autumn go to each other on the same day to have the same conversation- that they still love each other but that the love has changed into something more platonic and permanent. It's about a month after the breakup that the two get together.

[reallyhardy]

got enough HSS uploads now to make the videos tab look really nice and filled. now i understand how gaming youtbers can turn out so much video content. video games can just... take a long time to play. especially ones that are literally just about reading text.

[mydemonsdrivealimo]

guys does anyone wanna put our blorbos together 👉👈

[ih8harley]

[pulpitude]

i just got the urge to make a different hss m!mc romancing michael and make it so that he's giselle, the very same "girl" he shared his first kiss with. i'm already imagining them both telling their awkward first kiss story that turns out to be the exact same story and mc (who's in the middle of telling everyone and has just now realized) being like

wait. oh my god. michael harrison?

uh... yeah? that's me.

oh man, this is awkward. well, um. that giselle girl? she's me. i'm her. except i'm... well. not a "her" anymore.

[cue absolute ?! reaction]

nice seeing you again.

and since i've pretty much forgotten about sameera i'm thinking i can make him the mc of my hss au instead so he can lend his deadname to the other giselle + so darlene can live off the juicy gossip moment. the only problem is i still haven't decided on a name for him yet

[hsslilly-blog]

wes high school story

[cadybear420]

Aiden Zhou but he's been possessed by Redfield, edits by me

I still crave a HSS x ILITW crossover. Imagine Evie and the gang running into Aiden like this...

[oakwolves]

The long, scandalous story of Wes’s tux (he went on a date with Ace)

Based on this dialogue

[lover-also-fighter-also]

Bravo, you two. Remind me to buy you a 'congratulations' card.

Finally, last but not the least, our resident hacker not-so-slacker, sarcastic and Sauvé videographer, Michael Reginald Harrison!!