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► ...Um. Today's topic is Fictional Character You Would Have Dated In High School, which... I don't really know how to answer? Like, does this mean a fictional character I actively had a crush on while I was in high school, or does it mean a fictional character I think I would have been really into had I met him in high school?
Since I have no idea what the answer to the latter would be, I'm going to go with the former interpretation. The first character that pops to mind is, honestly, Selendrile from Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde. For all that he's technically a dragon, I had feelings, okay? Haha. There was also Sirius Black from Harry Potter, and Rikash Moonsword (who is also most definitely not human— I sense a pattern) from Tamora Pierce's Immortals books.
Oh, and, if we're talking Jane Austen, then I'd definitely would have gone for Henry Tilney, closely followed by Mr. Knightley. (And still would, if we're being perfectly honest.)
There are probably others— I was swooning over so many fictional characters in high school— but that's all I can think of on the top of my head.
► So, I have many, many feelings about otome games on the cell phone, many of them negative— not because I have anything in particular against cell phone games, but because I think that the monetary models they tend to work with really suck and are supremely unfriendly to consumers. That being said, near the end of October I did start playing some (free) otome games on the cell phone from the Shall We Date? series, and many mixed thoughts about them.
The tl;dr version is that I think some of them have genuinely great stories, characters, gameplay, and even world-building, but I do really, really dislike their monetary models. I'd much rather pay a single fee for an entire game than 1) paying per route, which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of, or 2) dealing with their blatant attempts to annoy you into spending money on their free games.
I beat Shall We Date? The Nilfheim today, which is probably the best example— that I've played— of the good and bad of cell phone otome games. I'm going to talk about the games I've been playing a bit more in-depth, but it'll have to be tomorrow at the earliest— have an exam I need to finish studying for and plans to bake gingerbread men with a friend after said exam, so I don't really have time to get into it now. So this'll just have to serve as an introduction for what I'll be getting into later / hopefully tomorrow. ♥
Since I have no idea what the answer to the latter would be, I'm going to go with the former interpretation. The first character that pops to mind is, honestly, Selendrile from Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde. For all that he's technically a dragon, I had feelings, okay? Haha. There was also Sirius Black from Harry Potter, and Rikash Moonsword (who is also most definitely not human— I sense a pattern) from Tamora Pierce's Immortals books.
Oh, and, if we're talking Jane Austen, then I'd definitely would have gone for Henry Tilney, closely followed by Mr. Knightley. (And still would, if we're being perfectly honest.)
There are probably others— I was swooning over so many fictional characters in high school— but that's all I can think of on the top of my head.
► So, I have many, many feelings about otome games on the cell phone, many of them negative— not because I have anything in particular against cell phone games, but because I think that the monetary models they tend to work with really suck and are supremely unfriendly to consumers. That being said, near the end of October I did start playing some (free) otome games on the cell phone from the Shall We Date? series, and many mixed thoughts about them.
The tl;dr version is that I think some of them have genuinely great stories, characters, gameplay, and even world-building, but I do really, really dislike their monetary models. I'd much rather pay a single fee for an entire game than 1) paying per route, which is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of, or 2) dealing with their blatant attempts to annoy you into spending money on their free games.
I beat Shall We Date? The Nilfheim today, which is probably the best example— that I've played— of the good and bad of cell phone otome games. I'm going to talk about the games I've been playing a bit more in-depth, but it'll have to be tomorrow at the earliest— have an exam I need to finish studying for and plans to bake gingerbread men with a friend after said exam, so I don't really have time to get into it now. So this'll just have to serve as an introduction for what I'll be getting into later / hopefully tomorrow. ♥