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Yeah. It’s more a matter of me wanting to include representation outside of the love interests themselves.
(And you’ll furthermore find that he’s happily married. To two guys, but they’re exclusive.)

You’ll find there’s other challenges involved :innocent:
And they won’t be from exactly the same background, either.

Yeah, that’s really not what these characters are like. I mean, they’re not necessarily specifically ambitious—some people would be content without trying to rise—but they’re not people who’d argue that upward mobility itself is wrong or that lowly status is your just lot in life.

There might be other dealbreakers, though.

I don’t want to be too extremely specific since I’m reserving the right to change my mind on who’s actually romantically available. I mean, if any of you fall head-over-heals for someone, I’ll at the very least give you the option to pine for them :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Well you know me (and @ParrotWatcher). :wink:

Have you seen the rags our poor mc is forced to wear? Mine could never possibly be content with that ragged, barefoot “lifestyle”, nor would he ever be content with having everything he might accomplish exist solely at the whims of an absolute “king” and his heirs. :worried:
There may be a level where my mc could be content, but I think it would probably at least be lower-upper class. :wink:

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Sounds like you know your own mind :smiley: the romances would vary in ambition but I don’t think any of them would be likely to begrudge you for having ambition, though their opinions might vary on your means to that ambition or suchlike. You’ll see what they’re like once I get a bit further along. Not everybody appears right away, sadly.

What? No, I’ve never heard of you or Tom in my life. I mean ParrotWatcher. I don’t know Tom’s name. Who are you people? :confused:

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It’s okay, Ben has promised me at least two boyfriends. :grin: I mean @TSSL. Who is this Ben? There is no Ben.

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I think that’s the younger brother of one of your characters :confused:

So I’ve added some tags to Uprising, which of course won’t actually accomplish much until I make the game front page visible, which I’m not planning on doing until I finish the first chapter, but it’s nice to think ahead.

It helps that a bunch of the available tags are ones that I specifically requested :grin:

Anyway, I’ve got Fantasy (not conventionally speaking, but it still fits), PC Can Be Nonbinary (well, once you actually pick your gender and sex), Politics, Romance (I mean, not for a while, but yeah), PC Can Be Transgender, War (the uprising will not be fought by tickling), PC Can Be Female, PC Can Be Male, Grim (war-devastated setting coming up), Lore Rich World, Detailed World-Building, Non-Western Culture (I mean, it’s not based on a specific one, but I’m aiming to break away from land-owner based feudalism, patrilineage-based dynasticism, Catholic-style religious hierarchy, etc.), and Warm-Hearted (because there will be a lot of this with the character interactions).

Grim and Warm-Hearted as a duo is one of my main driving forces for this work’s tone, though I realize it could be a thin line to walk.

Trigger Warnings was an interesting thing included in the tags, because I hadn’t really thought about ways of putting this up front. Partly because I’m not 100% sure which potentially triggering topics I might cover. But, uh… I’m pretty sure there will be some, probably not too front-and-center, but at least in the background and some people’s past. I wonder if I should be doing something here?

Edit: Oh yeah, and I wasn’t sure if I should check Asexual Romance, since I was thinking romance would be available for asexual characters, but none of the planned romance options are actually specifically asexual themselves :confused:

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A note from @TSSL:

Hello, and thanks for the interest. Uprising against the Verdant Lords is currently on hiatus. I do have a bit more written, and plenty of background material and plans, but the project is large and complex enough that I need to work up to it a bit more before returning to it. I plan to put out something a bit simpler in the meantime, but not until I have something more substantial to show. I do eventually plan to return to this project as well, but don’t expect it anytime soon. I hope it shall be worth the wait. (And if you have any further inquiries, you can send me a private message.) :slight_smile:

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