(WIP Cover Art)
What will you do when you discover that rewriting your mother’s unfinished story creates a plot hole in the real world?
Grab your plot armor and join your twin sibling and friends in a meta-fictional adventure! Explore different story worlds—from fantasy and sci-fi, to mythology and mystery. Will you discover your mother’s secrets? Or will villains, plot twists, and character development prevent you from getting your happily ever after?
Features:
Summary
- Go on a meta-fictional adventure together with your twin sibling and friends, and explore different story worlds!
- Choose from 8 different bedtime story genres!
- Fantasy, Fairytales, Sci-Fi, Mythology, Horror, Mystery, Superheroes, and Adventure)
- Meaningful personality stats, customization, and lots and lots of unique flavor text!
- Your choices will be continuously referenced and mentioned throughout the story, and your character will have different vocabulary, reactions, and dialogue according to your traits and personality stats.
- Two-variable personality points system!
- This system allows for more accurate personality tracking. If all you’ve picked so far are silly choices, your Silly Meter will be at 100% as early as the prologue!
- Keep track of your choices and relationships with the dynamic stats screen, inventory, and a comprehensive personal diary.
- Collect trinkets and magical items, and fight legendary creatures such as the Big Bad Wolf and the Lernaean Hydra!
- Encounter weird and adorable companions along the way!
- Piglets, dragons, and everything mice! Rescue a baby who fell from a stork!
- Complete side-quests!
- Help out dwarves and halflings in a civil war, join a pirate gang in a post-apocalyptic spaceship graveyard, and solve the mystery of your mother’s secrets!
- Puppy love!
- Have crushes on your classmates (or those you meet in your adventures), or stay oblivious and just be friends with everyone.
- Musical scenes and unique character art!
Link to the Demo:
Mommy, We Created a Plot Hole!
Current word count including code: 96,000+
Average words per playthrough: 32,000~
Latest Update (Feb 8, 2021)
Ver. 2.14 Highlights
- First half of Chapter Two is completed!
- Survey Results have been updated with new data.
- Pronoun pin is now optional.
- Removed Generous and Selfish traits.
- Slightly reduced frequency of Tagalog words/phrases.
- Fixed more bugs and typos, including the looping locker scene.
A complete update log can be found in the demo.
Here’s what you can expect on the next update!
- Second half of Chapter Two!
- MC will now be 12 years old!
- Find out what everyone wrote in their short story, and see a glimpse of the main plot!
- You will be able to: choose a bestfriend, have a crush on Lily and JM, and finally meet Paddy!
- New Sidequests: [Mommy, We Uncovered a Mystery!] and [Sleepover Undercover]
- Two new songs, a new phobia [Arachnophobe], a new trait [Cryptolingual], and a second [Genre Lover] Trait.
- Fully accessible diary!
- Updated art!
I will also be implementing this change, and improve the bad/complicated relationship route with the Twin.
Hi hi hello hiii!
It’s been a while, and along with countless plot and backstory revisions and me being a snail writer, the rewrite of MWCAPH! is here!
I wrote this story as a love letter to all the kids-at-heart out there, who’d like to revisit their childhood and reimagine it as one big fantasy adventure. It’s light-hearted, it’s whimsical, but I also want to explore the more serious tropes and themes on what it means to be a character in a story (such as the abundance of orphan protagonists).
MWCAPH! was originally written as a traditional novel for NaNoWriMo 2015, and is the amalgamation of all the plot bunnies I had together. If I ever get a new idea for a story, I will find a way to include it here. The story is planned to be a trilogy, but Book 1 is a standalone story in its own right. The story more or less has a complete outline, so now I have a clear idea of what’s going to happen next unlike my first attempt.
Characters
Your Family
Your Twin: Your 11-year-old opposite-sex twin sibling. Your twin has a customizable appearance and personality depending on several variables, but they will always have a different opinion about your mother. You and your twin will be 12 years old by the end of the story.
Mommy Maggie: Your mother. She’s the reason you and your twin love bedtime stories so much. She started writing her own bedtime story where you are the two main characters, but she never finished it. She left you and your twin when you turned 4 years old to work abroad, or at least, that’s what she said. She promised to return when you turned 8, but she never did.
Your Father: You’ve only seen your father through pictures, and your mother seems reluctant to tell you the truth about where he is. But she seems to be very sure of one thing: that he loves both of you.
Auntie Julie and Uncle Robert: Your mother’s estranged sister and your auntie’s husband. Your mother left you with them before she went abroad. They were reluctant at first, but eventually they grew to love you as their own children.
Kuya Patrick: Your 17-year-old cousin. He may be a little irresponsible at times, but he treats you and your twin as his own siblings, mostly because he grew up as an only child. Ever since your mother left, he’s been the one telling you bedtime stories, although he has been busy with school work recently.
Your Friends
(Work in Progress)
Wayne Dela Cruz
(Male, 11-12 years old)
Preferred Personality: Silly and Stubborn
The group baby. Wayne is an attention seeker who loves teasing his friends. He is the type of friend who will do the stupidest things just because it’s stupid, but he can also be very stubborn when being told what to do. He lives with his single father, after his mother broke up with him. While silly and very playful, he is also secretly a mama’s boy, who wishes to build spaceships, time machines and flying ice cream trucks with his mother.
Wayne is the shortest boy in class, and he says it’s because he’s a leap day baby. He got his nickname when he was little, when he couldn’t pronounce the ‘r’ in rainbow properly. He is a romantic at heart and loves teasing Roselyna. His favorite story genre is fantasy.
Roselyna Del Rosario
(Female, 11-12 years old)
Preferred Personality: Emotional, Reliant, and Precocious
The group mommy. Roselyna’s motto in life is, “Eat, Pray, Hug!”. She loves eating sweets and is a total cuddle bug. Roselyna is emotionally sensitive, and although she likes to please people due to her insecurities, she can be spoiled and manipulative at times. She lives with her religious parents who adopted her since she was a baby.
Roselyna is the shortest girl in class, and likes to describe herself as “huggable and fluffy”. She’s been bestfriends with Wayne since preschool, and wishes she had a brother like him. Her favorite story genre is fairytales.
John Michael Magbantay Jr.
(Male, 10 years old)
Preferred Personality: Disciplined and Sensible
The group daddy and youngest member of the group. Proud class president, grade rep and future valedictorian. JM is an overachiever, hoping to earn his father’s love and trust, who sees him as an unwanted child from his now missing mother. He also lives with his step-mother, and his naughty and nice step-siblings, Brandon and Beatrice.
While he doesn’t like enforcing the rules, he is very strict, and he only tolerates Wayne and Lily’s antics because they’re friends. His favorite story genre is mythology.
Lilyanne Punzalan
(Female, 13 years old)
Preferred Personality: Manipulative and Independent
The de facto leader and the tallest and oldest member of the group, much to JM’s chagrin. She is the class secretary, and acts as the group’s secret-keeper. Lily likes to play detective, and tries to spend as much time as possible away from her adoptive mothers, who don’t want her to find out what happened to her birth parents.
Lily is a bit of an introvert, but she prefers the term, “selectively social”. She has dimples when she smiles, which Wayne likes to make fun of. Her favorite story genres are sci-fi and mystery.
Brandon/Beatrice Gardner
(Male/Female, 11 years old)
Preferred Personality: Honest and Emotional
The group’s nemesis and JM’s step-sibling. A former member of the group, B wants to take revenge on the friends who betrayed them. Brandon and Beatrice are two different characters, but who is which depends on your choice. The other one you don’t pick will be JM’s supportive little step-sibling.
Crush Options
Currently you can have a crush on Wayne, Roselyna, JM, Lily, and Brandon/Beatrice. At least four more will be introduced later.
If puppy love is not your thing, each character has a friendship route too which has similar scenes, so you won’t miss out on anything.
This section will be updated once Chapter Two is complete!
Supporting Characters
Ma’am Bianes: Your adviser and favorite English teacher. Although she is a little corny and cheesy sometimes, you wish all the teachers would be like her.
Randelle: Your section’s resident gossiper, and one of your seatmates. They’re one of those people who never runs out of stories.
Francesca: The class treasurer, and one of your seatmates. She is usually pretty quiet, but she seems more comfortable when talking to you.
(This section will be updated as more characters are introduced.)
Playthrough Codes
When you finish the demo, you will see a code that you can submit to a survey. I’ll be sharing the data collected at the end of the demo, where you’ll see the percentage of people who picked the same choices as you. It’s not necessary to submit a code, but you can submit as many codes as you want!
Here’s the link again if you missed it!
Feedback
If you enjoyed it (or hated it), I’d really appreciate it if you drop me a like and some feedback (here or through PM). It encourages me to keep doing what I’m doing. 
Please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts, I’ll try to consider each feedback. I can’t solve what I’m not aware of, after all!
Feedback I'm looking for (You don't have to answer each one, of course):
- How did you find the writing style?
- Did you find the non-English dialogue confusing?
- Was there any point in the story where you felt bored?
- Was there a choice that gave you a different personality stat increase from what you thought?
- Was there a scene where your MC acts inconsistently, or out of character? (For example, a cold MC acting friendly towards someone they don’t like?)
- Are the characters’ voices (Wayne, Roselyna, Lily, JM, B) distinct from each other?
- If you dislike or hate any of the characters, it would be helpful to tell me why!
- Do you have any theories about what happened to B, or why the twins’ mother really left?
- Do you have any headcanons about your twins? I’d love to hear about them! I’m always looking for more banter and interactions to put into the story.
