Shepherds of Haven (WIP) (DEMO UPDATE: 3 Aug 2021)

I was procrastinating on studying for the LSAT (and I’m still sick…) so I faffed around and made a ShoH character generator for anyone who wants to make a random MC. :slight_smile: I will… probably make more of these the more I procrastinate, haha! Enjoy!

Character Generator

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I wish you the best on this. May it open the door to the law school you desire to attend :slight_smile:

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Thank you! This is a new development in my life so I hope I’ll be prepared by the time the test comes around! :sweat_smile: I’m great at the word problems but awful at logic games (math-y questions), as expected… Thank you for your well wishes! :sparkling_heart:

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@rinari noticed this on your Tumblr:

As someone who often tends to go for the exciting bad boys in his fictional adventures this trope where the boring guys always win is well…completely boring to me. If I want boring I can just live my life, fiction should be exciting. It is even worse when the other guy’s only fault is not so much being a bad boy but being a rich guy.
While in real-life as a potential would-be socialist politician I have my fair share of issues with the wealthy they are not all the same and I’d like to believe love can transcend lots of boundaries. In fiction, again this is a complete non-issue.

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I wrote a short story based around a fictional relationship between Blade and MC! There was a vote on Tumblr about who the story should focus on, and Blade won. I will hold another vote in the future for a female RO and a story with similar (but not identical) themes!

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I love this. Alize romance when? (I’m kidding of course, her thoughts are occupied too. “rabbit-chased-by-pale-fox” indeed)

I ended up both liking and being incredibly frustrated by Hinori. Jealousy is a bad, but oh so relatable, look.

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Tallys and male MC with elf background. Please. I need sustenance.

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Thank you! Honestly I might just give those two a cameo in the game—I can’t resist them Easter eggs—but it would be really funny if Alize became a full-blown romance option. She’s like a slightly meaner, tsundere version of Lavinet!

I felt the same way, poor girl. It was weird, I wanted to reach through the screen and tell her “HE’S NOT INTO YOU, MOVE ON” as I was writing the story lol. I think we all get frustrated by someone who won’t give up when the universe (and all her friends) is so clearly sending her signs! :stuck_out_tongue:

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If they will make an appearance, does this mean Hinori’s crush with Commander Blade will be canon? Now, I really feel bad. D;

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No, in the game she won’t have a crush on Blade (since that story’s canon assumes MC is female and likes Blade too)! She’ll just be a recruit alongside some others. MC might hear a passing conversation between her and Alize?

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Have Alize and Hinori get together.

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:wink:

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Oh yes… I didn’t factor in the MC gender. That is a relief.

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Best ending :nerd_face:

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Who’s hinori and Alize? I’m missing something aren’t I?

They are the characters from the short that rinari have wrote.

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Same. It was hard to root for Hinori when…you were essentially her oblivious nemesis in this story. Also, my MC is a strong, grown ass woman and Hinori seemed more like a naive teenager w a crush? I am sure it was meant that way, the writing was beautiful (and it was cool to see the MC through other perspectives…we don’t get that enough! So good!) but she was def annoying. Her bestie ruled, tho :heart:

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I hope Hinori will not be the receiving end of bullying for her non-canon crush with Blade. Some fans tend to be too protective of their fictional husbands/wives that their characterizations in their fanworks, most notably fanfiction make the other character out of character (e.g. HP fanfics). If you play Harvest Moon/BokuMono series, the rival system was taken out due to this reason as well but that’s from rumors though or it’s a pain to code additional scenes. :joy:

Sometimes it’s sad to see characters being treated unfairly or attack wit such vehemence. D;

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@rinari
Hey hey, played the game past the city gates for the first time, dat was fun.
The combat segment was fun as hell too.
Seriously my MC apparently fucking hates eyes because he shot one in the brain through its eye then punched one in the eye and crushed their brain.
Metal as fuck dude.

Also I like the cast we have so far, and the race problems the group and city has in general are quite cool.

My one suggestion is the ability to maybe get the cute racist elf girl to come back and help out, since I know she and trouble had a big fuck off argument but still, that kid needed some help and she seemingly just fucked off and when I went to try and talk with her we ended up just walking off then going to the pub. I can appreciate a condolence scene don’t get me wrong but I feel like that’s a “Ok maybe we should mope AFTER this issue?” kinda situation.

Bringing her back shouldn’t be easy though their should be a skill check or a good bit of dialogue options you have to select and actually convince her, or even better both! Smart reasonable options require lower charisma while more strange or dumb ones like just yelling at her require high charisma but get better results maybe.

And if you fuck this check I feel an option to leave her awkwardly and help out that kid should be an option since once I picked to follow her I was just dragged along for the ride.

And if you do manage to bring her back I feel like they should probably almost immediately start arguing again or just be really fucking awkward and barely do anything and if the MC manages to make them stop fucking around they could get a tasty relation ship bonus to both.

This would be quite nice.

If their is a way to do this and I somehow missed it I apologise.

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I don’t think she will be: everyone is always so nice! :slight_smile: My greater concern is that people feel so bad for her they feel guilty for stealing Blade! :laughing: (jk) And nooo I love rival systems, it’s too bad they’re no longer in Harvest Moon!

Thanks so much for the great feedback! I’ll have to think on it for a while: originally the plan was to convince Tallys to go back and help out with the Equalists, but I think their divergent story arcs are important to the characters and the world (and presents a harder choice for the readers)! You’ll have to see what all happens in Tallys’ route (which has been changed since posting the demo) and whether it holds water in comparison to Trouble’s! But thank you for the great comments! :grin:

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