Arranged marriage? I wasn’t expecting this. I quite liked the old version of the demo.
Just my two cents, but if the main theme of the WIP is “finding one’s own place in the world”, being forced to marry someone kinda defeats the purpose, no? Instead the MC is being used as political pawn. I hope the MC won’t be forced to have babies too shudders
Of course the author should write whatever they want, the story being set in a fantasy setting gives the author the liberty to create a world completely different from ours.
I didn’t even know this scene existed… whatever choices I made don’t seem to trigger that scene. Seems a bit odd to have a sexuality choice locked behind other choices.
EDIT: Oh, it’s a coding error. (@SpokesWriter) If you’re nonbinary, the *if statement asks for gender being “nb” but the value assigned to nonbinary characters is “x,” not “nb”. So that scene just fails to come up.
That’s the point of political marriage. Your feelings don’t matter. You don’t get a say. @No_This_Is_Patrick you wanted to hurt Richard in SoR so much. You can by marring him off to not-Clara. But when the same is done to your character (tho in a different IF), you’re upset.
This story needs conflict. Hell, any story needs it. Even slice-of-life IFs have conflicts.
Sure, it’s not fair to our MC. But MCs that get pawned off as tools in political marriages are so few. I only know of two: Royal Affairs (if it can be counted) and Retribution: From the Ashes. Three if we count this story
I’m just surprised this is the direction the WIP is going, I really thought it would be a light-hearted, coming of age story. Arranged marriages aren’t my thing, but oh well, there are other WIP out there.
Bro wth are your talking about I didn’t like Richard in a totally different game so I deserve it is your argument? Even then I haven’t even played a route where I’m king so no I never did that to him anyway lol.
Yeah it needs conflict, but for other people the marriage can become something good since the Prince is a RO they might choose pursue if they want and they get something from it. Everyone else it’s just and annoyance forced with no choice on you where nothing positive is gotten out of it.
And anyway I not asking to remove the arranged marriage all I’ve said is make them gender selectable, there’s honestly nothing lost with that being added. You bringing up Richard doesn’t make sense at all lol.
I mean, I kind of like it? Arranged marriages aren’t really done with the person’s preference in mind. Men who preferred men and women who preferred women were forced into heterosexual matches all the time, I’m sure. View it as another obstacle for your MC, not an insurmountable wall to player choice.
Nope, that wasn’t my argument. I never said anything about you deserving the same treatment. But I should apologize for making assumption then.
If what you said is true then I resign my… offence, i suppose? Once again, my apologies.
Indeed, the most important thing in IF: the choice. It can become or it can not.
And, in my opinion, the prince should remain genger-locked for solidifying the point of political marriage(but maybe it’s my preference gender-locked ROs speaking). Because if this RO is gender-selectable, the player will get something out it: their preference. The heaviness of situation will be lost or, at least, lessened.
Can we get more options that are explicitly angry or the option to shut Crispin up when he has his whole speech at the end of Chapter 1. Also I feel like it would make more sense for the Prince to be the opposite gender of the MC.
Okay, i thought about it some more and I’m considering starting one–i don’t really understand what people post on them and stuff. What would go there that isn’t in this thread?
It’s used for a variety of things. You can use it to keep RO descriptions and story information pinned for easy access. It brings in more of an audience. You can also engage your audience with asks about the world, ROs (that’s usually what comes from asks), it’s also great for sharing fan work. It has it’s pros and cons. It also depends on how much time and effort you want to put into it.
If you’re already attracted to men than you already have your preference though anyway. I disagree with the heaviness of the situation will be lessened since again those fine with them being male will have a choice to romance them so they’ll be fine. If you don’t like them then you’re still being forced into a marriage you don’t want. This doesn’t really change at all with them being gender selectable.
Wow, I kind of love the arranged marriage with a prince for my male mc. It was quite a breath of fresh air that there are no mandatory for making a bloodline heir shit and the good ole male mc must paired with princess mandatory, I never liked those type and I have drop many IF/wip that has that type of story many times.
They do. It’s a popular thing amongst authors. It’s also a good way to spread your IF out. You can check how other authors have their setup, it’s nothing overly complicated (so you don’t have to be tech savvy to pull it off). It’s more time consuming than anything (answering asks).
Hi dear author, just went through your game and its good indeed. But it would be great if you just make the ro gender selectable and not fixed, since playing as a male mc, it feels disoriented to date a male prince ro
Well for my mc at least the arranged marriage is to another guy…so at least there is a chance it won’t turn out to be completely terrible…which would be pretty much assured if he had to marry a girl. So my mc is cautiously optimistic, he doesn’t need the dude to be perfect or even conventionally attractive, though of course that would help. My mc just needs him to be less terrible than his own parents and brothers and it will still be a win.
Sadly true and very often a guarantee for complete and utter misery. At least with another prince there is a chance. At least royalty tended to have separate bedrooms at least, otherwise it would be pure hell.
Yep, refreshing isn’t it? Just like with Javi in royal affairs although Javi is gender selectable but I just use the option to have all ro’s be male in Creme and Royal Affairs anyway.
Since the mc is a spare third son, I assume the other prince is at best the spare (second, but he could also be third or even fourth) to his kingdom as well. So under normal circumstances their children would get nowhere near the throne in any case once their brothers start having families…whether that is adopted or biological ones.
This is how I’m seeing it. Of course, that’s only the case if we actually have a way to effectively rebel against the marriage; otherwise it is an insurmountable wall.
