I don’t think that’s nessesary. I mean even if they started dating in the first part they didn’t have a lot of time to get to know each other since they had to worry about classes, secret identities, and crazy women. Plus it would only be a few months into the relationship so it would be a natural time for them to get to know each other.
Maybe if you romanced them in the first one there can be a bit more intimate, let them do little kisses or somethig, but can keep the scenes pretty much the same?
Hmm…okay my sandwich didn’t have a chance. My Ouch is decreased…because we know all food has healing properties.
So reading comments from @lutece and @Sammysam only reaffirms how complicated this is. I need to determine the specific path forward before devoting time to actually writing these scenes. Hmmm.
One idea that comes to mind is a “cute” sort of “romance re-set”, where if you are carrying over your RO into Part 2, you have that first lunch together in Issue 5, talk about how crazy fall was, how having a few weeks away from everything (and everyone) was super helpful, and agree to sort of “restart things,” perhaps even with a little, “Hi I’m Penelope,” “Hi, I’m David Hasselhoff” with a little handshake and all of that. It might let me more seamlessly use romance scenes for both those “new” and “carryover” romances alike.
Plus, the more I think about it, there’s not THAT much history to consider. Most readers only had about two special scenes per RO. Mob had the pig farm and the roll in the hay. Tress had the minigolf and what else? Hmmm. Stunner had his apartment “date.” Now the reader was allowed to reach “love” stage a few ways, but that can be (and is!) tracked with a boolean so I can use the “love” boolean to provide a bit more extra content/dialogue as a tiny reward for those readers who are sticking with their man/woman.
Let me think more about this to see if this is a possible fix.
EDITED TO ADD: So that might fix the situation for people who dump old RO option and seek a new one, and those who wanted (but didn’t get) a RO in Part 1 but we still have the problem of…
People who dump their RO in the yet-unwritten Issue 5 lunch scene and then realize that their relationship % with their targeted new RO is not sufficient enough. It seems like you’d need at LEAST 50% for the NPC to even consider a romantic overture, and probably even higher, maybe 60% or 70%, for the NPC to initiate something themselves. So the reader could end up in romantic limbo.
And then I WOULD lock readers in with their RO for all of Part 2. No more getting on/off the tracks constantly.
Said it once and will say it again. Hedonist is lucky my version of the MC doesn’t have superhuman strength and flight, or he’d find out the hard way whether his durability could withstand a terminal velocity trip from the stratosphere.
Even if your character could fly, I doubt you would have the strenght to lift him, and even if you had, your character would be arrested for trying to commit murder.
None of this means the Hedonist isn’t the Worst. Instead, I’d recommend using flight to be the bird to his statue, and dump manure on him whenever he goes outside
Yup! Just email me at eric at communitycollegehero dot com. It might be a few days before I send it. I generally wait for 10 or so requests to leak in so I can just send a batch, and I just sent the newest batch this morning.
Not gonna lie, I didn’t expect much love for DownFall. I mean she broke Tress’s arm just to make a point and i’m sure Tress is a favorite of a lot of people here
At least she had somewhat of a reason to break her arm.It was a wake up call to show how cruel the world can be.
And Tress definitely isn’t my favorite.She was okay at best.And seeing how she disrespected my orders at the Dr Hover event and hijacked the meeting at the library,it looks like she’s gonna get really under my skin.
Well,on the bright side,we do have the option of giving her the death stare.
And,fun fact,that action actually decreases your relationship with her substantially.I guess now is a better time than ever to develop a mini persona if I want a high relationship with everyone.
Yeah, i got this feeling Eric is gonna start making us choose sides soon. That girl we gave a ride to seemed to be the first flag, which i like. Good foreshadowing(imo) is a key component in stories like this.
