@Link Hehe, Iâm surprised you decided to check out Dear Diary first before IAC. Iâm still planning to make updates to it in the future to add more branches, improve the UI, and update some of the backstory/worldbuilding, but Iâm curious to know what you think of it!
You can discover it if you pick Rosie as your bestfriend! (Although you can also discover it later in the Chapter 5 Sleepover Branch.)
Yup! Even if you have a distant relationship with your twin, theyâll still have that password. The password is different if youâre bestfriends though!
@charger Iâm glad you decided to leave a comment then!
DDWCaPH! originally wasnât a slice-of-life, although funnily enough, when I realized that, I decided to cut a whole chapter of just the kids going to school the next day before the fieldtrip. Iâm excited to write all the fun adventure stuff too.
And hehe, donât encourage Wayne
I was gonna say the same thing too! Although I think it applies to Rosie and Wayne (and maybe the twins) more than Lily/Jm/B? The latter three were not really present in the early drafts.
Though I gotta say that the earliest idea of Rosie I had, I think she was five. And in the first draft, she and Wayne were seven and celebrated their eighth during the story. If you think Rosie is childish now, wait until you see those earlier drafts and all the roleplaying I did with 8 year old Rosie. She has actually matured quite a bit since then.
By the way, Iâm still working on a small update to include some new diary entries for everyoneâs parents in F6E!
I honestly love Rosie even her naivety, sheâs adorable Itâs a tragedy you canât be besties if not fond of hugs but its ok Wayne is good too I guess lol I canât pick a favorite between them
One thing I wonder is how far Rosie can be influenced later on (ie dealing with the bullies) or was it an unusual situation? Either way the flavor text for it was gold
It contains the new diary entries for the parents of F6E members, an option to give your pet a nickname, additional choices, and some new crush/gender-related flavor text!
If you have a previous Chapter 3 save, you can just load them up to read the new diary entries! Iâm interested to know what you think of them! (And please do let me know if you spot any bugs or weird stuff!)
v2.1.3.6 Update
GENERAL
⢠The Bonus EXP event has ended.
⢠Added new diary entries for the parents of F6E members!
~ Contains extra information depending on your chosen bestfriend.
~ Updated Maggieâs entry to now acknowledge MCâs thoughts on their gender.
~ Minor edits to a few other entries.
CHARACTERS
⢠Tita Josephineâs nickname is now Josie, and she now wears hearing aids.
⢠Mary now has bright blue hair.
⢠Various minor characterization tweaks.
CHOICES
⢠You can now give a nickname to your pet cat or dog!
⢠Added a âI need to think about it firstâ option when first deciding to go to the sleepover.
⢠Added a new choice to give Roselyna flowers for her birthday.
⢠Added two new outfit options.
~ No additional outfit options will be added (for now) if theyâre too similar to the existing options.
⢠The choices when choosing your MCâs body confidence trait now acknowledges non-cis MCs.
⢠Added a new showerthought for questioning and non-cis MCs, as well as a special choice and variation when responding to Paddyâs 4th secret.
⢠Changed flavor text for the reserved flirt options if you have a negative starting relationship with the respective crush option. These options now also trigger a new âin-denialâ variable.
~ Added new flavor text when talking to Paddy or your twin about your crush if you have a negative starting relationship with the respective crush option.
CHANGES AND FIXES
⢠Choosing Wayne, Roselyna, or Heart Twin as your bestfriend now increases your Charm slightly, and choosing Lily, JM, or Star Twin now increases your Knowledge slightly.
⢠Your relationship with Julie will now automatically decrease after fully discovering Paddyâs first secret.
⢠Removed relationship penalties when skipping a song.
⢠Removed the relationship penalty for the last two options when responding to Paddyâs 4th secret.
⢠The option to have no fashion sense now takes your chosen clothing type into consideration, and added a new variable for future use.
⢠Added âsuperâ to MCâs childish vocabulary (if Naive Stat is at least 70%) to replace âveryâ occasionally.
~ âBestieâ now only appears on the childish vocabulary set.
⢠Slightly reduced time cost of several events in Chapter 3.
⢠Fixed bug where the room customization loops if you snoop around your twinâs belongings first.
⢠Several minor edits, stat adjustments and fixes.
⢠Roselyna is now more huggable than ever!
@dawn Hehe, sometimes I canât pick a favorite between Wayne and Rosie as well!
Iâm not sure how much you can influence Roselyna yet, but I definitely have plans for how you can affect her personality arc later. In fact, some choices in Chapter 1 and 2 affect the variable for it already!
Roselyna will definitely take your advice to heart though! So that choice may not just be for dealing with bullies
I always choose the star. I like role playing a reserved mc who doesnât share their emotions most of the time. Itâs up to me to keep my fun loving twin out of trouble
I love that picking star doesnât keep you from being as or more emotional than the heart twin. Such a nice detail, that it actually acknowledges that, especially since irl I fit that so well.
So I was kinda busy these past few days working on this, but I finally finished drawing Cordelia and Cham!
I decided that Iâm no longer keeping them under spoilers since theyâre both crush options (and also because some people seem to think that you donât actually visit the story worlds later).
If youâve missed their introduction posts, Iâve updated the character page to include them both! (I also fixed the mobile link so it should show up properly now)
@Kelly_Seastar Yup, that is correct! The twins canât have the same type of locket! That is very important to the story.
@CustosMorum Hi, hello there! Thanks for reading! Iâll be happy to answer if you have any questions about the characters or the story!
@Christopher_Bull@ElliWoelfin Yup, the star/heart locket option only changes your initial personality stats, and doesnât affect any modifiers. Itâs meant to be more of a choice to select what MC is like when they were little, especially because after what happened, itâs totally reasonable for MC to grow up more/less emotional.
Yeah but it can have an impact how characters interact with us. Also those characters in the post look great. I canât wait to meet them later in the story
The [Musically Gifted] Trait has four different variations, depending on whether you choose your MC to be good at singing and/or playing musical instruments. Depending on the variation of the trait you have, certain flavor text will appear, whenever it is relevant (MC will sing and/or pretend to play a musical instrument during the shower scene in Chapter 3, for example).
The trait also unlocks special choices and interactions. For example, MC has the choice to practice playing their instrument in Chapter 3 if theyâre good at it.
Oh, and there is no mentally gifted trait. If you mean the [Top Student] and [Studious] Traits, then they increase your Knowledge stat by 20% and 10% respectively. And like most traits, they also affect some flavor text.
Hmm⌠right now I currently have six/seven new traits that youâll be able to get in Chapter 4: [Vegetarian], [Pescatarian], [Pollotarian], [Picky Eater], [Om-nom-nom-nivore], [Nyctophobe], and maybe [Religious], but Iâm on the fence about making that a trait.
None of the above traits will give any stat increases (attribute-wise or personality-wise), although [Nyctophobe] and [Om-nom-nom-nivore] will provide bonus EXP when MC confronts their fear of the dark, or eats some food, respectively.
Thereâs likely going to be more traits and buffs/debuffs later in the story (temporary status effects like [Adrenaline Rush!] that you can get during the school invasion in Chapter 6 and 7), but right now I have no other upcoming traits planned.
Other than that, if you donât have the [Country Child] Trait, you wonât be able to get the [Merfolk-Blooded] and [Denser Than Water] Traits (which increases or decreases your Grace Stat while swimming) until Volume 2.
I noticed Cordelia and Cham looked very much out of place in the character page, so I decided to give the F6E a few quick edits and redraw them in their fieldtrip outfits! (Bonus points if you can tell me what Rosieâs outfit is a reference to, hehe)
Paddy and B will have different outfits too of course, but Iâll have to do theirs some other time.
Yup! Same goes for Paddy too, and theyâd also have totally different outfits, so I decided not to include them for now (especially because Iâm not really that good with character design).
I was originally going to draw them in their party/sleepover outfits, but I thought the fieldtrip outfits make more sense to be on the character page.
If you liked the new drawings, everyone will have a different outfit for each story world, so you have those to look forward to as well!
Edit: Hello! I just uploaded a tiny update!
v2.1.3.61 Update
You can now choose what uniform MC and their twin wears.
Increased relationship with Maggie if MC has told everyone about their thoughts on their gender.
The ripped pages on Maggieâs diary entry now only appear if you replaced your locket picture.
Added a picture of the F6E wearing their fieldtrip outfits when the demo ends.
Roselyna is now more huggable than ever!
Anyway, Iâve thought about it some more, and now Iâm planning to have Aunt Julie and Uncle Robert (and maybe the pet too?) to appear one last time in Chapter 7 during the school invasion. I just canât have Chapter 3 (or Chapter 5 in the investigation branch) be their last appearance for a long while, you know?
Iâm excited to write all the fun adventure stuff too.
Itâs a tragedy you canât be besties if not fond of hugs but its ok Wayne is good too I guess lol I canât pick a favorite between them
v2.1.3.6 Update
