My Fitzie went by he/him. Is their gender random?
No, you choose it at the beginning when you call up the agency to hire someone.
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Sometimes it’s not the most in - character choice, especially for some of my MCs. It doesn’t mean I hate Fitzie and want them to suffer per say.
Let me illuminate you an example:
I have two MCs and is probably going to make a 3rd one. Out of the two MCs I have, the only one I could see being a candidate to being Fitzie’s beloved is my extremely shy MC who is utterly horrified in the idea of breaking the law. She has no backbone whatsoever, sure but she’s so meek I can’t see her confidently talking to anyone, much less be bold enough to say something remotely romantic. Plus, I can only see this romance happening in book 2. ………And, Fitzie probably needs to compete with Starling.
Actually it CAN be random if in the beginning @Kelly_Seastar chose “surprise me”
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I THINK you can’t romance Fitzie that way? I’m under the impression that if you’re not forthright in your affection for them, Fitzie won’t fall for you.
It’s still book 1. Book 2 is when the relationship is going to develop wink wink 
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Ok, but you need to corrupt Fitzie’s “innocent servant sensibilities” (also, goddamn you, Pilcrow).
EDIT: I VAGUELY recall reading somewhere that, because Fitzie got burned on previous relationships with their employer, they won’t consider you if you waffle about it. Assholes, ruining it for the rest of us. 
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Well, my MC is a HUGE pushover so it would happen sooner or later lol 
(plus, Fitzie is already quite informal around her so it wouldn’t take long)
I think Fitzie’s point is that they’re not going to risk a relationship with you if they can’t trust you to stand up for the relationship when basically the entirety of society (not to mention your family) is going to condemn you for it, instead of caving in to societal pressure and getting rid of them as both an RO AND an employee. Being a “pushover”, as you put it, seems to run in the opposite direction?
Remember, while Fitzie is your last chance at a valet, you’re also THEIR last chance at an employee, and being involved with an employer is going to get Fitzie kicked out of the valet org, so you probably can’t leave any room for doubt that you’ll stick with them through hell and high water, even if the high water is so high it washes over the (haha) peer pressure.
It does. Which is exactly why I think it might be hard to do a Fitzie romance with an MC who is one: nearly everyone is going to push you to NOT be in a romance with them, and Fitzie already got burned in that exact way in an employer romance.
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Wait, doesn’t pushover mean caving in into everyone’s request or me being a non-native speaker mistook the meaning of the words pushover???
Ah…… I knew I should have elaborated more
It’s true that my MC is a pushover however, I should have said in the beginning that while yes, my MC is a pushover she’s not going to be a pushover for the rest of the series. She just starts as a pushover and book 1 is just an introduction to her initial character. The series is here to see how she’ll grow from that initial state.However, if things go to plan I can see her maturing and realizing that she won’t please everyone and how she can’t stay passive if she wants to make changes (this becomes even more relevant now that at the end of book 1 she became president of the club!).
I’m sorry for the misunderstanding and I hope you weren’t offended by all of this. I’m an extremely dense person when it comes to social interactions and I should have explain further. (And, I’m very sorry for ranting like this lol 
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But, on a somewhat unrelated level I’m glad that Fitzie has you on their fanclub!
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I’d like to wait to “officially” kick off the Fitzie romance until they’re no longer our employee, because the power dynamic makes me a bit uncomfortable; whether that’ll actually be possible in this game, I’ll have to wait and see (I already had to cheat a bit to keep the crushmance going - it was too much fun to lose).
I feel like if Fitzie ever becomes your non-employee it’d be at the end of the series.
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It’s going to - potentially - happen at the end of this game (Tea and Scones), unless Gower’s plans have changed. We don’t know the circumstances yet, though.
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Yes, that’s still my current notion–of course, we’ll see how things go, as Chapter 8 is far up ahead. But right now, my plan is to have there be a path that leads to Fitzie no longer being in the employ of the MC.
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Thanks! We’ll see how things go indeed. I’ll be sad if it ultimately doesn’t work out with Fitzie, but Vyv is also lots of fun, and with Gilberto and a mystery candidate lurking around as well, I don’t think I’ll ever be at a loss for a LI. 
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I’m surprised I haven’t tried to romance Fritzie. BossXEmployee is one of my favorite dynamics.
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Is this going to be like the Valentine thing or a wholly different thing?
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When/if Starling shows up, I’d imagine they would be all sarcastic with the MC. Like “Oh, my apologies, Sir/Madam. I did not recognize you without a glass of alcohol in your hand!”
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According to the Official Cadbury Club Guide to Service, the proper way to get that point across is a slight tightening of the brow and an imperceptible downward tilt (no more than 1.5 degrees) to the lips.
You are likely thinking of the somewhat looser “guidelines” of the lesser societies for servants such as Gillyflowers Ltd. sniff
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Wait, what happened to the glass of alcohol in my MC’s hand?? That thing was supposed to be surgically attached!
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That is true, though as of now Fitzie is my favourite and my headcanon RO for my main mc, Leo. I do have two others and Vyv is fairly close as a runner-up.
Fortunately my Vyv mc is the one who loves skullduggery so he can probably make Fitzie see they need each other as partners in crime, even if they are not lovers.
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