Love Interests: Cassius Harlow and Gabriel Adalhard
Lara is the daughter of Czech immigrants Maxim and Tereza “Terri” Kopic. She grew up in Tampa, Florida. Her grandparents live in Czechia and the family would visit them occasionally. She can speak Czech. Her father was killed in a car accident the year before she and her mother moved to Crimson Beech.
She enjoys dancing and moves very gracefully. She studied ballet and tap dancing as a child. She participated in a gymnastics club when she was in high school, and she was on the swim team. When she lived in Florida, she liked to go to the beach.
Moving to Crimson Beech was an adjustment in terms of climate, but she loves being able to wear her favorite black leather jacket more often.
Thanks for sharing! It's great to meet Lara! I love that she's into dancing and gymnastics. That's such a great detail. Will she try to keep up with them in Crimson Beech?
But Florida to New England! I huge climate shift! Is she excited for snow?
She does want to continue dancing and gymnastics. It’s definitely a huge climate shift! She’s looking forward to snow, and she’s prepared to bundle up.
Love Interests: Cassius Harlow and Gabriel Adalhard
Lara is the daughter of Czech immigrants Maxim and Tereza “Terri” Kopic. She grew up in Tampa, Florida. Her grandparents live in Czechia and the family would visit them occasionally. She can speak Czech. Her father was killed in a car accident the year before she and her mother moved to Crimson Beech.
She enjoys dancing and moves very gracefully. She studied ballet and tap dancing as a child. She participated in a gymnastics club when she was in high school, and she was on the swim team. When she lived in Florida, she liked to go to the beach.
Moving to Crimson Beech was an adjustment in terms of climate, but she loves being able to wear her favorite black leather jacket more often.
I’m answering for my It Lives in the Woods MC, Vanessa Rios.
It used to be cabin in the woods simply because she moved in with Connor and that’s where he was already living, but the place was already decorated. She was too busy to think about making major changes. At the end of It Lives Within, after Connor proposed to her, they bought a house in town, which she decorated. She displayed many of Connor’s sculptures. She also hung up a painting of a storm that she did in high school art class. She has a large cat tree for Onyx, and cat toys for Onyx and dog toys for Nugget are scattered around.
Every form of creative work can be submitted: fan fiction, drabbles, moodboards, edits, drawings, poems, songs, sketches, and more.
Work from any book and story from the Choices (and Pixelberry) universe are welcome.
You can participate as many times as you like.
Clearly list the prompt your work is based on.
Please add a cut to avoid long posts and exposing other fans to triggering/disturbing content.
NS*W work must be labeled as such, and appropriate warnings must be used. Adult content should be hidden under the page break. You must be at least 18 years of age to submit and interact with adult content.
No AI-generated content, please.
Please tag @choicesjulychallenge2026. You can also tag @endlessflame.
June 29: Relationships & Dynamics : Who matters most to your MC? Friends, rivals, family, mentors, love interests, enemies, explore the dynamics that shaped them. This can also include pets!
I’m answering for my It Lives in the Woods MC, Vanessa Rios.
Connor means the world to Vanessa. They have been through so much together. He has stood by her while she and her friends fought against the Power, and he helped them. He ended up becoming part of their monster-fighting group. She wants to spend her life with him, and someday raise a family with him.
She cares about all of the It Lives in the Woods friend group. She was still somewhat friendly with Lily even before the group reconnected, so they became especially close. She also became closer to Stacy since she and Connor often spend time with her. She and Dan have related career aspirations; Dan wants to be a counselor, and Vanessa wants to be an animal-assisted therapist. They have talked about the possibility of working together, maybe in their own clinic.
Her feelings about Noah are complicated. She still hasn’t completely gotten over his betrayal of the group. But she still worked with him to try to bring him back, and she has made her peace with him.
She and Milla Vance (ILB MC) became friends after the events of It Lives Beneath and they stay in touch regularly. She has gotten to know Milla’s boyfriend Tom Sato better. She is friendly with their other friends too.
Although they moved away, she stays in touch with Chandra Wood (It Lives Within MC) and her boyfriend Abel. She is friendly with Lincoln and Amalia. She’s not sure she would consider Jocelyn a friend, but they have put the past behind them and she realizes that Jocelyn has changed for the better.
Abby Mortenson was her best friend before the events of It Lives In the Woods. She was a year older, graduated, and moved away. Vanessa still keeps in touch with her regularly.
Vanessa has a good relationship with her parents, Fernando and Sara Rios. She is close to her maternal grandparents, Manuel and Silvia Ayala, who live in San Diego, California. She is especially close to her cousin Maribel Cruz (Ride or Die MC), the daughter of her late aunt, who lives in Los Angeles, California. She also has a maternal uncle in San Francisco. Her father’s side of the family lives in São Paulo, Brazil. Her family visits them occasionally. Vanessa keeps up with her cousins on social media.
Vanessa adores her cat Onyx. She remains fond of Cid's dog Hilda and visits her often. She and Connor eventually get a dog, a golden retriever named Nugget.
Her father, Fernando Rios, is a Brazilian immigrant of mixed European (Portuguese and Italian), African, and indigenous descent. Her mother, Sara Ayala Rios, is Mexican-American and grew up in San Diego, California.
Her maternal grandparents, Manuel and Silvia Ayala, live in San Diego. They are devout Catholics. Manuel’s brother, Vanessa’s great-uncle Father Pedro Ayala, is a Catholic priest. He also lives in San Diego.
Her mother’s brother Tony Ayala lives in San Francisco, California with his much younger boyfriend Greg Sanders.
Her mother’s sister Maria Cruz was killed in an automobile accident. She is survived by her husband Jorge Cruz and their daughter Maribel (RoD MC). They live in Los Angeles, California.
Her paternal grandparents, Edmundo and Priscila Rios, live in São Paulo, Brazil. So do their three other children and their families: Emilio, his wife Rebeca, and their children Suzana and Claudio; Joana, her husband Filipe Costa, and their children Paolo, Donato, and Catarina; and Leonor, her husband Renato Alves, and their children Thiago and Matheus.
She also had a great-aunt from Brazil, her grandmother’s sister Luisa, who married a man from Portugal, Rodolfo Fonseca, and moved there to be with him. They had no children. She remained in Portugal after she was widowed, and when she died, Vanessa’s parents flew to Portugal to settle her estate (leaving her alone for the events of ILITW.)
After Jane died and her friend group broke apart, Vanessa struggled with depression, as well as with survivor’s guilt. She missed her friends, but she thought that they didn’t want to talk to her any more, so they remained distant. She kept to herself and pursued solitary pastimes such as reading. She also read books in Spanish and Portuguese, which she had learned at an early age because her parents felt that it was important that she be able to communicate with her relatives and that she know her heritage. When she got to high school she and Lily became somewhat friendly again; they weren’t close, but they would talk sometimes. She didn’t have any close friends until her junior year, when she ended up with Abby Mortenson as her chemistry lab partner. Abby was a year ahead of her but was taking the class again because she had failed it. After going to drug rehab over the summer, she had cut her old friends out of her life and was trying hard to make positive changes. For the first time in years, Vanessa had someone she could talk to, someone she could spend time with. But Abby had graduated and gone to live with her father out of state and had enrolled in community college there.
Vanessa loves animals. She welcomes the opportunity to petsit for her neighbor Cid’s dog Hilda. She adores her cat Onyx. She took care of a crow, Russell, and had a vine creature called Maxilla. Someday she and Connor will adopt a dog. After she enrolls in college, she decides that she wants to become an animal-assisted therapist.
Last year was an amazing success. We got to meet and learn more about so many incredible MCs and OCs in the fandom, and we hope this year will be just as wonderful!
Have fun, and happy creating!
💛 @lovealexhunt & @aallotarenunelma
The Prompts
June 26: MC Origins: Where did MC get their start? How did you come up with their name, design, personality?
June 27: Style & Aesthetic: What is MC’s fashion style like? Do they have a signature color, designer, style, or must have item?
June 28: A day in the life: What is your MCs “every day” life like? What do they do outside of the book?
June 29: Relationships & Dynamics : Who matters most to your MC? Friends, rivals, family, mentors, love interests, enemies, explore the dynamics that shaped them. This can also include pets!
June 30: Home & Safe Spaces What is MC’s home like? What is their design style? How has it changed over the years? Where is their safe place?
July 1: Future & Endings: Where does your MC end up? What do they want most, and do they achieve it? Could include happy endings, bad endings, or “what if” futures.
July 2: Alternate Universe Day Drop your MC into a different setting or genre. What is the AU? How do they fare?
July 3: Spellfyre MC day: Use any and all prompts from earlier in the event, or just share your favorite things about your MC or where they are in their current studies and adventures!
July 4: Wild Card Day: Go crazy, any MC, any book, any theme (includes Spellfyre)!
Guidelines & Rules
This is a Pixelberry/Choices event. Any MCs and OCs within those universes including the original Hollywood U and High School Story, as well as fan spinoff projects like It Lives Within are accepted. Spellfyre MCs and OCs are welcome to join on the last two days (July 3 and 4).
This event is MC-OC centric. While mentions of LIs and other characters are welcome, please keep the focus on the MCs and OCs. The prompts are only guidelines, and any MC- or OC-centric content will be accepted.
Everything is welcome! From a screenshot of your MC and fun facts, to art and fanfiction (and everything in between).
However, no AI generated content will be accepted
Older/previously posted submissions are accepted but are limited to up to 5 entries per day per user.
You aren't obligated to post for every day! You can post any day you feel like.
The MC doesn't have to be yours. Posting about your friend/mutual's MCs is counted as an entry and highly encouraged!
Be kind and respectful to one another. MCs and OCs. This is a positive event, all are welcome, but bashing others or posting negatively about their characters will not be tolerated.
Tag your work with @choicesmcappreciationweek and/or #cmcaw26
*make sure it is the correct url for this blog (ours ends in "week" and NOT [at]choicesmcappreciation which is no longer active)
Welcome to the Choices Book Club! We are currently reading Perfect Match
This Week’s Chapter: Chapter 13: On Track and Chapter 14: Thin Ice
Question(s) of the Week:
Discussion Questions: (polls below the cut)
If given the choice to spend time with more than one date in Chapter 13, who would MC have chosen and why?
What Never Have I Ever questions do you wish you could have asked?
What are your thoughts on Rowan?
What does MC think of Harley?
What is MC thinking when they see Steve with Nadia?
Who does MC trust the most? The least? (out of their friends)
What are you looking forward to most in the final two chapters?
Chapter 13:
Who did you choose as your date on the train? [Vote Here]
What did you ask Alana? [Vote Here]
What does MC want when this is all over? [Vote Here]
How does MC feel about Sloane? [Vote Here]
Did MC play Never Have I Ever? If so, has MC been handcuffed? [Vote Here]
Did MC spend the night with their date in their suite? [Vote Here]
How would you rate chapter 13 of Perfect Match? [Vote Here]
Chapter 14:
How is MC feeling at the start of the chapter? [Vote Here]
Did MC fight Rowan? What did MC ask/say? [Vote Here]
Did you purchase the guard uniform? [Vote Here]
How would you rate Chapter 14? [Vote Here]
How else to Participate:
Share your MC profile with us to add to our MC directory
Post reactions, screenshots, videos, ramblings, theories,… whatever comes to you while playing
Create drawings, edits, moodboards, fics, headcanons, songs, poems, etc based on the chapters and/or characters
Catch up on any of the previous week's questions/prompts
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[Please read the full guide to the book club here]
Jade wants to be exclusive with Damien, so she wouldn't have chosen anyone else. Besides, she feels differently about Hayden now that she knows he is a Match, and she only sees Sloane as a friend.
Never Have I Ever cheated on someone.
Rowan craves power, even going so far as to give his own body mechanical upgrades. He seems like a dangerous person.
Jade doesn't trust Harley after he tricked her. She feels manipulated by him. She does like his fashion sense, though.
Jade trusts Damien the most. She has known him a long time and she thinks he has good judgment. She trusts Sloane the least because she hasn't known her that long and she lied to the group once before. She does trust her, though.
Aiden Zhou requested by @cadybear420 ! It has been a while since I played High School Story, the first act(?), I replayed the Class Act one more than that one, but I still love it! Aiden is cool, I don't have a big opinion on him, but he was fun to draw! :)
If you want to request a character, check this post!
Some of you may have already heard of Choices' recent takeover by a rather questionable company that produces AI-generated TV shows, following over a year of using AI-generated content in all of its recent stories.
Unfortunately, it's quite apparent that Choices is following the footsteps of Lovestruck in its final days, where bad content is resulting in consumer boycott and a dwindling fanbase, which means that its shutdown is also now highly possible. Some people over at r/Choices and r/ChoicesPreservation have expressed an interest to archive the game, just like our community did almost half a decade ago.
They have no solid team or blue plan in the works yet, but some of our experienced members from LS Salvation Squad are already over there helping them get on track, using their prior experience with archiving Lovestruck.
If you are also a fan of Choices, and have interest, time and energy to help out, please consider joining them on discord.
