NPCs you wish you could romance, but can't

M.E
Wrex
Legion
D.A
Morrigan
Cole

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I have another one, because of course I do. Enoch from Heart of the House. Yes, I know he’s supposed to be a psycho, but whatever :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: — besides, I don’t think it’s fair that Reaves gets to have him and I don’t.

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Who’s Enoch?

You can meet him either when you are lost in the house (the vignettes seem mostly random there so I guess it’s a matter of luck) or else if you choose to stick with Dev the night of the banquet (or possibly having a conversation with Loren might also lead to this path?) and go free the prisoners. Enoch’s the one the other prisoners don’t want to see freed. Otherwise, he shows up at the ball as Fox Mask, but you won’t know it’s him unless you’ve met him before.

Wait Reeves gets with him, if your not with them?

No (in fact Reaves kills him, if I recall right?) but it turns out they had a history together… If you meet Enoch when you are lost in the house, you can ask him how he got there. He will at first tell you some story about being a peddler of wares, but if you have a high stat (don’t know which as I don’t play according to those, sorry) he will admit that he actually went there to spend the night with Reaves. Their relationship turned horribly sour after that, though.

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As i am working on my game, and randomly bumped into this topic…i learned one thing. Let people romance, else they will chew you and spit you out. :joy:

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I thought I’d start a thread for non-RO characters in choice games that you wish were romancable. Obviously, do not attempt to convince authors that they should actually make them so. And equally obviously, please don’t include like, child characters or close relatives.

I think it would be very fun to romance Detective Ambrose from Tally Ho and Jolly Good. He’s this ridiculous wannabe Sherlock Holmes who’s simultaneously smarter and stupider than he seems, and who’s always suspicious of your MC, and very memorable, considering he’s a relatively minor character.

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Douglas from Wayhaven. I want to corrupt his body and soul.

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the only one i remember is Tina from wayhaven

Tamara the socialist partisan leader from Cliffhanger is basically a lady scientist Tito you can have a fling with her and convince her to tell Stalin to fuck off but after that, she just disappears from the game.

Generally I like when characters have their own preferences but this ONE GIRL (whose name I cant remember) who had THE BEST chemistry with MC but her whole conflict revolved around the fact she couldnt date other guy and we supported her through it??? broke my heart. like, babe, have me instead why not. the game even had the audacity to hint he might have feeling for her too but we wouldnt know for sure because its in the epilogue. GET OUT

can we laso speak about when the “im not into you” scenes are made right? “Love, Simon” (the film) should be a handbook how to deal with it. It wasnt swept under the rug, it was acnowleged throughout the film and characters actually talked about it. chieff kiss

Currently at the top of my head are Gisela from The Keeper series, Karin from Magikiras and–as crazy as this might be–Thalia from AMR WIP.

To be honest, for me, a straight up “You can’t romance this character” is so much better than the Author teasing you could “romance” certain character with crushes, but you actually have no chance at all.

Karin from Magikiras sting my heart the most lol. I thought MC could make her forget about her crush for Morgan. But nope. Which is why i became quite wary for an RO with crushes to another character again.

Don’t wanna waste my time with that.

Elidor from Wayhaven. A studly fairy who can both tend wounds and inflict them. Love it.

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Pilcrow and Juniper from Cakes and Ale, Elery skinner from Choice of Rebels, and Maria from Relics of the Lost Age if you don’t count the fact that she’s gonna be one in the sequel.

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May I ask what AMR stands for? I’m always on the lookout for new wips to play

A mage reborn

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  • Douglas from Wayhaven with his little adorable crush. The MC is so turned off by it but I’d love to do more with him.
  • Saine in Mage Reborn. I didn’t even realize he wasn’t romanceable until way later since I was pursuing Leon.
  • Steel/Wei Chen from Fallen Hero. I so wish my female MC could romance him but he’s gay and non-romanceable for women which I respect but damn do I love him.
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I never wanted to romance Saine, but like you I romanced Leon and totally took it for granted that Saine was another option.

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Saine’s possibly ace, and most definitely aro.

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