no way i forgot about the oph reread schedule after looking for it last weekend… i should write it down somewhere. anyways reading the first chapters today.
hey, this is my girl. her name is: catherine mantle (she/her, 27, lesbian).
disclaimer: she's from a different medical verse where she's a surgeon but ☝️🤓 she is adapted for open heart here even though her background lore comes from there. however, i will say that if any of this/her lore contradicts anything in oph canon i honestly dgaf because i have a love/hate relationship with oph.
catherine aka cat is from seattle. her family, the mantles, made their name in the medical field, being leading doctors for generations. she's born on january 31, 1992 and she's twenty-seven at the beginning of residency. she the second of four siblings and she has a non-identical twin. she went to med school at john hopkins (😭).
she's a whole thing with her mother in which she's very similar to her and she constantly compares herself to her mother but also she doesn't really know her mum just "the surgeon" and she perceives herself as her mother's disappointment but she constantly tries to prove herself to her and gain her approval <- a dynamic that she keeps simulating with her mentors. #mytheme
this is how she actually looks in game:
personality-wise she’s instinctive and ambitious but she's mostly driven by a need to prove that her success belongs to her alone. she knows lots of people who are «her friends» but none who are very close to her as she's taught that most people wanted to get something from her so her friendships are somewhat superficial and she doesn't "do relationships". cat is someone who struggles to openly communicate vulnerability and she tends to hide pain behind sarcasm or recklessnes (i.e., she literally copes through partying and drinking). anyways most of what she does is done to hide her desperate desire for recognition, especially from her mother. she will romance jackie!
was trying to find my old revamp of cat for when i put her in oph and couldn't find a single thing other than this scr of when i changed her last name just to get this joke, even though her actual surname would've been an equally funny joke to me 😭
time to share your mcs!! feel free to reblog this post or your mc profiles (if you have them) with the event tag. i will generally be differentiating between 'mcs' and 'established mcs' to include those of you new to the books and those of us who are uh. not so new. :)
otherwise here are some questions!
what does your mc sprite look like? (i encourage you to start the first book and share a screenshot OR if you have art you could share that too 👉👈)
any appearance changes you want to make off the bat? (and if this changes feel free to update at any time!)
are you romancing a LI? if yes, please share! (or if you're unsure you can share any thoughts/debates you have)
for those of you playing with established mcs, do you have any caveats? are they part of a different specialty? are they romancing a non-romancable LI?
any other info: pronouns, personality type, best friend in the group, etc
tag list: @veryrealistic @aces-and-angels @julesskriver @hsslilly-blog @gutsfics
this is a fun yet evil conception in which i torture you all by reading the trilogy open heart by pixelberry studios. for the record i am not an oph expert nor claim to be but ☝️ i am really annoying about it. let's go!
OVERVIEW + PARTICIPATION:
this is going to be a discussion-based readthrough
i will be 'hosting' from THIS BLOG with a weekly wrap-up post including some highlights and questions. these will be posted on thursdays.
with that said, you can participate through these posts in reblogs or comments (i will keep a close eye on both and would appreciate it if everyone else would too!)
OR feel free to prompt discussion about something you found significant with your own question! you can either post it yourself (using the event tag and dm it to me) OR dm me the idea during the week and i will add it in the wrap up (w credit)
the week before the event starts, i will post a quick mc questionnaire to get everyone thinking about it (especially if you have multiple mcs to decide between OR are making a new one/playing for the first time)
i will NOT be highlighting small/yes-or-no questions or musings or hcs. use the event tag for these. (please post them !!! but again my intention is discussion! ofc it may spark discussion regardless but i will primarily be focusing on questions, comparisons, and analyses for the bigger highlights)
SUPER LOWKEY COMMITMENT:
feel free to skip around! esp if you've read it before and you're busy for a couple weeks and miss the end of a book, nbd! you can hop into the next one
though i will tag participants in weekly wraps, you DO NOT have to answer every single question or engage with every single one
participate at a capacity that works for you! this goes w the last point ofc but also you're under no obligation to start a discussion or create long analysis posts. just hanging out in comments is perfectly fine!
while i DO want you to use the tag for this event, you don't need to use it if you're making a longstanding change (such as mc or hc alterations) that you dont want tied to the event
ACTUAL THINGS YOU HAVE TO DO:
dm me if you're participating (by May 23rd) so i can make a tag list. you will only be tagged in my weekly posts and the pre-event mc post! im not going to bar you from the event if you dont. it would just be nice :)
please use the tag 'mjs oph replay event' for all your posts. that way we can find them :3
please check the tag :) plsplspls check the tag and interact with others :)
TIMELINE/PACING:
generally will be 4 chapters a week every week from june through august. heres a calendar view
and thats all for now! if anything is confusing lmk!
disclaimers: i was not around in the "prime" of oph so sorry if any questions or discourses are redundant. please keep discussions relevant to the chapters we are reading for that week. this is event is not affiliated with the book club.
tagging those who expressed interested in the initial poll: @peonyblossom @hsslilly-blog @gutsfics
the way it’d have been better if they had skipped the insiders email for a second month instead of sending out that nothingburger with 3 mini releases and no schedule past may lol. lmao even.
ctfu i joined the official choices discord yesterday out of curiosity, then when i checked it today i saw the news of hero being adapted but as an ai animated show and then the admin adds this:
I like how the top (justified) complaint about PlayChoices is that all their stories are AI slop now, so people are moving to Candlelight Games' Spellfyre app. Completely ignoring that everything about Spellfyre art is made with AI. Backgrounds, character art, animations all are so painfully obviously AI generated. Not to mention the diabolical scenes model where you play one minute scenes with keys and spend more time watching ads than playing the actual story. This... Isn't it.
it’s been so long since the last time i played any games + was here that i really do not remember shit from most my ocs/mcs… girl fell down or whatever
unfortunately that’s actually fucking funny “you guys have been abusing the reward system by collecting 15 diamonds for replaying your favourites so we removed it to give you zero encouragement to keep engaging with our app” followed by a straight up lie
if you had told me when i first downloaded rc years ago that there’d be a point down the line when i would genuinely be enjoying a handful of rc stories to the point of loving the mcs/characters/plots, i’d have never believed you but the fact that there’s 4 ongoing stories i actually look forward to nowadays is insane bc before it’s just heavens secret, homophobia, sbtr claire and me against the entire app lmaooo
lmaooo lauritzen and blom getting this response to them both saying they aren’t sharing a room is never not gonna be funny to me bc that woman took a good look at them, went GAY and literally gagged lauritzen
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