Soul Sister IF

Welcome to the first ever sapphic dating show!

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Soul Sister IF

Tired of dating show games where you feel like you don't actually get to know your fellow contestants? Sick of wlw routes being treated as an afterthought? Done with interchangable characters that share ultimately the same storyline? Do you think it's ridiculous that your choices don't get acknowledged? Do you cringe at motherf*cking adults behaving like 12-year-olds?

Then this self-indulgent game may be just what you were looking for!

Welcome to Soul Sister, the IF game where you'll participate in the first ever exclusively sapphic dating show!

DEMO: 31st of August 2025

You can't say you've ever been all that lucky in love but after your best friend's insistence that you give this a try maybe the time has come for that to change. Whether your intention is to just be a good wingwoman for her or get yourself a new partner you'll have to make the most of it.

Day after day and week after week, you'll spend your time with other women actively trying to find a partner while facing the surprises the show will throw your way. First seasons always keep contestants on their toes!

This light-hearted but romance heavy story focuses on the relationships you can stablish with your fellow contestants. Have fun trying the different choices that allow you to shape your own journey through the ups and downs of human interaction.

Features:

•Customize your MC, including name, appearance, interests and age.

•Bond with your potential matches over shared interests or experience the joy of learning new things.

•Enjoy the different approaches to dating. Commit to one person or keep your options open.

•Deal with all the curveballs, courtesy of the showrunners. What did you expect? This is show biz!

♥ Abbie ♥

Monolid blue eyes. Long straight black hair, the top strands often clipped back while she leaves it hang freely on the sides. Square jaw. Pale skin with a few moles scattered here and there. As tall as you.

She's in love with you but you don't know that (you moron). She's been your best friend for years. She's known you for such a long time that she can read you like an open book. Bookstore owner.

Not particularly athletic, she enjoys reading. Novels, essays, comic books, poems. You name it. She's goofy and has a blast bantering with you, though she always keeps an eye out as not to overwhelm you and promptly backtracks when she thinks she's making you uncomfortable. She's (not really) subtly touchy with you, always resting a hand on your back or patting your leg. The other contestants see through her from the start.

*What she wants in a partner: familiarity, trust, everyday romance. *Goods you get: feels like home, understanding, warm-hearted, protective. *Bads you get: a bit possessive, scared of change.

Route: friends to lovers, everyone can see it but you.

Says: "I've wanted a relationship for a long time. This might be the only way to push myself out there." But means: "I already love someone who doesn't seem to love me back so I'd rather push both of us to date other people so that I can move on."

♥ Irene ♥

Round green eyes. Shoulder-length, wavy blonde hair left as is, pointy ears peeking through the strands. Tallest of the bunch. Wears more than a few rings, and fiddles with them a lot. Fair, rosy skin that gets easily sunburnt. Smells of sunscreen more often than not when she's outside.

Sweet and shy, her tall and strong frame doesn't look like it suits her. She seems to be eager to make conversation, but ignores how to keep it going. Very into sports and nature. Botanist.

She gets crushes easily, and just as easily she forgets one to focus on the next if her attention isn't instantly reciprocated. Can be stiff in a conversation with someone she's not familiar with, and is often much more relaxed when she can move while she talks, which is why dinner like first dates are certainly not for her.

*What she wants in a partner: kindness, support, life companion. *Goods you get: gentleness, non-judgemental, good listener. *Bads you get: clingy, needs reassurance, naive.

Route: puppy love to actual love.

Says: "I just want to find someone who loves me." But means: "I'm insecure and finding someone who wants to be with me may change the way I see myself."

♥ Joanna ♥

Upturned brown eyes. Curly apparent shoulder-length brown hair that's actually much longer when wet. Golden brown skin with more than a few tan lines. High cheekbones. Average height, wide hips and small waist, epitome of classic femininity.

Energetic, language lover. Flirty and confident, it takes a while to know whether she has a genuine romantic interest on someone or is just being her coquettish self. Translator.

Most well-travelled of the bunch, Joanna is in love with language and shows love through it. She can smooth-talk you and flirt with you relentlessly, and she's the one out of all the contestants who will want to try it out with all of the others. When she feels like things are getting serious for her, though, she'll won't keep it to herself.

*What she wants in a partner: open-minded, curious, willing to learn. *Goods you get: fun facts galore, passionate, straightforward. *Bads you get: dismissive, a little self-centred, commitment issues.

Route: no strings attached (…but she'll get jealous).

Says: "I'm looking for love, not a shackle." But means: "I like the feeling and closeness of a romantic relationship but I'm terrified of how vulnerable that leaves me."

♥ Vega ♥

Hooded black eyes. Short, black hair, long enough at the top so that she can style it a little with wax. Could easily become an afro if given time. Dark skin, tats on her arms highlighted in white ink. Average height, a little on the slim side, but has a toned build.

Laidback and calm. Really enjoys movies and series, has a thing for animation and dubbing. Very good at drawing and impersonations. Voice actress / Music producer

Always humming or whistling, she's content to spend her time looking for shapes in the clouds. She's more sentimental than she cares to admit and often struggles with her feelings when she knows that they don't respond to a logical behaviour, which often leads her to close off and avoid important conversations.

*What she wants in a partner: chill, no over-the-top romance, no pretence. *Goods you get: honest, creative, independent, loyal. *Bads you get: trust issues, reluctant to talk, ignores problems.

Route: let's wing it.

Says: "No need to dress up or hold back a guffaw. I want to truly see you for who you are from the start." But means: "I think every little change in other's behaviour conceals a lie or intent to cheat me. Please don't lie to me."

♥ Margot ♥

Almond-shaped hazel eyes. Long, strawberry blond hair always up in a tight French twist, or a low ponytail if she's going to bed. It's uncommon to see her with her hair down. Tan, freckled skin and hazel eyes. Curvy, doesn't look that short, but reality hits when she allows herself to climb down her high heels.

Gruffiness born out of social anxiety. Surprisingly family oriented. High salary at an important firm. Stiff but compassionate, she's a bitter realist. Lawyer.

A little rough and forceful, she'll make you feel as if you're applying for a girlfriend position instead of organically getting to know her. She's so concentrated in discovering if she's compatible with the other contestants that she overlooks the fact that she has to open up and allow them to get to know her, too.

*What she wants in a partner: family oriented, mature, understanding. *Goods you get: family oriented, devoted, nurturing, tough love. *Bads you get: impatient, approaches dating as an interview, not willing to compromise. …Tough love.

Route: romance bureaucrat turned softie

Says: "I want a wife but the girlfriend stage is such a hassle" But means: "I don't want to waste my time in shallow relationships when all I want is someone to share my whole self and life with."

♥Dawn♥

Deep set brown eyes, dyed blond hair in a wavy pixie cut, but it's naturally a soft chestnut brown in colour. Sharp features, thin nose and lips. Dimpled cheeks.

Confident, master of the innuendo. Loves good (and bad) wordplays and puns. She'd be the intersection in a Venn diagram between Witticism and Self Awareness. Her ability to both fill silences and end discussions in an entertaining manner make her an invaluable asset for any TV show.

Her bold nature lead many to mistake her openness for invitations to go further, which can end badly if anyone dares put a hand on her without her explicit permission.

Openly queer, Dawn is a big fish in the little pond of reality dating shows. Her newcomer label didn't stop her from making a splash from her very first episode. Now a coveted host in the reality world, she turned now the chance to renew her contract with the show that saw her become famous in favour of the upcoming Soul Sister.

*What she wants in a partner: respect, communication, commitment. *Goods you get: intelligent, dependable, romantic, sensible. *Bads you get: paranoid, obdurate, overly perfectionist. …Married.

Route: trying to stay in love while falling for someone else

Says:

"People would be better off if they listened to their brain more often than their hearts. Or loins." But means:

"I consider my actions so thoroughly that them proving to be a mistake makes me feel like a worthless idiot."

[soulsisterif]

Pride Month Sotlight is an event organized by the interact-if account to give visibility to LGBTQ+ authors and games. You can give an interview as well!

Aaaah, okay, okay. Honestly, I don't think the game is at a point where it has much to offer so I won't submit it. And I don't think I'd make a good interviewee at all LOL

Thanks for letting me know, though!

[soulsisterif]

I read your games for the first time today and I enjoyed both so much! The writing is funny and I love the Twitter thing and the emoji changes in the Chasing Star stats. Honestly I feel like the only reason why they're not more popular is because they're sapphic. Not a complaint, give me the ladies

Thank you! I have a blast with little shit like the trillers and the emojis (even though I often have to go back while editing to change them because I keep forgetting to). The sillier the better.

LOL Maybe I'm too much of a pessimist but they're already more popular than I thought possible (I'm very inconsistent at updating) but it's obvious a sapphic game has usually a smaller fanbase than a straight or bi one. Simple maths. I get it, too, I hardly ever read romance if it's not to my personal taste.

The good thing about not earning a cent with the games is that I don't really care that much about popularity, hahaha.

[soulsisterif]

Reading how Margot is one of the worst fighters among the ROsalong with Abbie, I can imagine her being worse at it if her glasses get knocked off by her opponent, though then again that might make her so angry that she just attacks in a berserk rage and may give her a slightly better chance of winning

Nah, she would have her eyes closed anyway, hahaha. Margot is either shocked or afraid in a fight. She sees stuff at work and feels more sad and powerless about violence than angry.

The only ones I see getting mad are Joanna and Dawn because "how dare you touch me???". Abbie could get pissy too, but only if she was hit for something unreasonable like "you parked in my spot, you bitch".

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I hope this doesn't come across as rude but how come Chasing Stars already has 2 published chapters and Soul Sister is still the same as last year?

I'm genuinely curious, I really don't mean this as criticism or a complaint

Not rude :)

Short answer is: Soul is more complex.

The Soul Sister demo as of now is 40k, roughly the same as Chasing Stars Chapter One (42k).

Chasing Stars Ch 1 has 27 flavour text instances in the whole chapter, and fewer different scenes than Soul Sister. And by flavour text I'm not even counting *if statements or divergence in scenes, just the kind that looks like this:

To compare, the Soul Sister public demo reaches 50 flavour text bits before you even get to the question about MC's background. There are very few pages in the game that don't have flavour text or are in themselves some kind of branching.

Add in the time I (very willingly) spend on the trillers and the exclusive reactions and dialogue according to the MC's personality traits, height, age, background... And you've got your answer.

Then there's the fact that Soul touches delicate themes, too, like being abused or neglected or simply not accepted for who you are so I try to be careful and take my time when I handle those scenes (you'll see some in the second part of Chapter One).

The only real thing I have to worry about in Chasing Stars as of now is how I write sex/romatic scenes and if they turn out bad then they just seem ridiculous, not offensive. Readers at least would get a laugh, so it's not a tragedy.

I also went a very long time without writing anything because, well, life. That didn't help. I've had a rough year

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[soulsisterif]

Hiiii I just wanted to say I love your stories and to ask if you're going to submit your games to the pride month spoghlight. Sapphic ifs are very rare so I think they would be a great addition

I won't lie to you, Anon, I have no idea what you're talking about. Glad you like the games, though.

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How would the ROs fare in a fight from best to worst?

I'll rank them from best to worst but to be honest most of them are cooked LOL

Irene > Joanna > Dawn > Vega > Margot/Abbie

• Abbie doesn't stand a chance, has no good response when physically threatened. Too soft for fight, too pulmonary-challenged for flight. Tries to talk it out and crosses her fingers and hopes for the best when diplomacy fails.

• Irene would be the best at fighting if only she didn't feel completely appalled at the idea of hurting someone. She's strong and imposing so few people would dare actually start a fight. She's knocking the attacker out by accident if they catch her off-guard and make her throw hands instinctively. If she sees them coming she'll just evade and block until the other person is tired. Like Homer Simpson when he became a boxer.

• Joanna's in shape and can win a fight if the other person is equally as inexperienced as her. Or if they're very noble. She's not above dirty tricks. She'll scratch, bite and throw dirt in your face if that's what it takes. This is war.

• Vega is losing a fight unless she has something to defend herself with. In hand to hand combat she's screwed, smol and light as she is. Any punch she receives hits bone, poor thing. If she were fighting someone her weight though... At least she wouldn't freeze, so there's that.

• Margot would be absolutely obliterated. Her only fighting move is the embarrassing hair-pulling and tugging. Also likely to have insulted the other person without noticing and being caught unawares when the enraged fighting starts. In need of saving, stat.

• Dawn would be 100% responsible for escalating the situation that ends up in a fight. Like, the other person has been sassed, insulted and made fun of for sure so either they're so angry that it works in her favour or so furious that they go berserk and destroy her. I do see her throwing punches and not going down easily, though.

[soulsisterif]

Can we see the deleted thrillers?

Sure! But just some of the ones I'm 99% sure I'm not going to ever use. I'm also not giving you any context and some of these are from discarded scenes LOL

[soulsisterif]

What do the ROs’ bedrooms look like, whether at home or in the Soul Sister house?

They won't spend enough time in their SoulSister room to truly make it their own, so not much to say about that. At home, however...

• Abbie: Bright colours, lots of light so she doesn't strain her eyes in her many long reading sessions. No rugs or carpets, they're a dust trap. Too many books in one of the bedside tables. The other one is empty but she considers it MC's so she's not using that one. If the books have to stay on the floor, so be it. It's clean anyway.

• Irene: Piles and piles of pillows, takes ages to make the bed "properly". Plants on the windowsill, a small cactus on the shelf, clothes everywhere because she considers her outfits very seriously and by the time she makes up her mind she doesn't have the energy to put them all back in the closet. Lots of jewelry littering her dresser, no wonder she often misplaces at least one half of her sets of earrings.

• Joanna: She moves a lot so I wouldn't say she has "a room" anywhere. The closest thing to it is the one she used back when she lived with her parents and that one is like frozen in time because her mother refuses to touch it in the hopes that Jo will return someday. Posters of pop singers on the walls, dictionaries she used back when she started to learn Spanish, clothes that don't even fit her anymore. A blast from the past.

• Vega: Tidy, clean and small. She doesn't want for much but she indulges her inner child by keeping in the ceiling those cheap glow-in-the-dark stars she put there as a kid. Otherwise, quite barren. The only thing that truly stands out is the nice and clearly expensive professional mic she uses for her projects. She stores most of her clothes under her canape bed. The closet she uses to record herself and the clothes there are mostly so they absorb unwanted noise.

• Margot: huge bedroom, also huge walk-in closet. A section for skirts, a section for blouses, a section for shoes, a section for bags... You get the picture. Everything is black and white and looks like a modern movie set, very impersonal in spite of being full of stuff. She has a very expensive, very flat and very wide TV on the wall in front of her bed because she can't sleep without some background noise.

• Dawn: shared bedroom, her stuff is mixed with her wife's; lots of pictures of the two of them on the wall. She moved in with Mel when they got serious so the decor and style is more to her wife's taste but she's all right with that. The only thing that she can't stand are the stupid curtains. Here's one little fun fact about Spanish people: we were blessed with a life with persianas so any other mechanism that doesn't completely block light and grant you an immediate artificial night is crap. They block sound and even the heat, too.

[fir-fireweed]

Cantata Chapter 6 Public Update Is Live! 🥳

This chapter adds another 45k words of content, bringing the grand total to 230k words.

I can’t express how excited I am to be releasing this chapter! Not only does it feel like the culmination of my original concept, but also a brand new beginning. ❤️

As previously mentioned, there’s going to be a longer period between this and chapter 7. The next two months will be a struggle for me, and I’m happy to be able to share this chapter with you now. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

I can finally release all the asks I’ve been holding onto, lol. I won’t discuss big spoilers for a few days, but some of the asks may give hints. Be sure to mute the tag #chapter 6 spoilers if you want absolutely no hints.

Without further ado…

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*sigh* I can't believe this happened when I have papers to write and exams to prepare... I'll play as a reward when I'm done with a couple of them mwahahaha

Those of you who have the time, make sure you don't miss Cantata's new chapter!

[soulsisterif]

Sorry one last glasses related question from me . I saw someone say in comments for a previous answer that they had a partner who would take their glasses off for them during the act and it made me wonder how open Margot is to having an MC do that with her (given her poor vision, probably not until she fully trusts them and maybe not even then). On the flip side, would she or any other RO be particularly into doing that for a bespectacled MC or not really that bothered? (For with practicality or they find the act itself hot, rather than because they think MC looked better without them)

I accept no apologies! I like answering asks. It helps me develop the characters further and give them depth.

Under the cut because just in case it's considered NSFW.

• Margot is not one for casual sex so if you're at that stage you have her trust already. With an MC with glasses at least one has to take them off if they're going for more than a peck. Margot's got chunky glasses and thick lenses, so there's no chance whatsoever they're not knocking against each other.

I think I mentioned this a long time ago, but Margot is all about the build-up when it comes to sex. She's perfectly fine with her SO taking off her glasses. At that point she's already seen all she needed to see ;)

If she's the one taking the lead then MC has to take them off. No way around it. She can't see a damn thing without them. She's leading you nowhere if she's completely blind LOL

She'll gladly be the one to take them off, though.

As for the rest:

• If you want your glasses off, you bet your arse Abbie is taking them off herself. If you can't see her clearly during, then she's making sure she's the last thing you see clearly right before. Besides, if MC wears glasses all the time and she's the only one she gets to see her without them? Total turn on.

• Irene is way too timid to take MC's glasses off. You can be in the middle of the roughest, nimblest, kinkiest sexual marathon ever and she'll still think "maybe that's going too far" XDDDD

• Joanna will not hesitate to take MC's glasses off if they are getting in the way of getting her off. Things that get in the way need to be removed. That goes for unwanted company, clothes and it sure as hell applies to MC's glasses, too.

• Vega will try to find a way for MC to keep them on and still be comfortable. She likes being watched as much as she enjoys watching so if your MC really wants to take her glasses off you can expect the last thing she sees to be a pouting Vega.

• Dawn's very careful when it comes to anything that can be read as sexual. A relationship with her means a relationship with no sex so she won't make any moves that can be mistaken for sexual advances. At the beginning she's not taking a single thing off you. With time and a conversation about boundaries that might change.

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I did think, given Margot’s emphasis on family, that she was either going to have a really close relationship with her parents or a distant one (which would probably make her crave what she never had previously)

Yeah, it's usually one or the other, isn't it?

In Margot's case, she loves her parents and her parents love her, but they don't mix well. I think it happens more often than people like to admit with family.

Friends you get to know first and if you don't like them you don't get to the caring about them part. With family love comes first, and by the time you realise you don't like spending time with them you can't really distance yourself without hurting someone.

[soulsisterif]

Played the game and enjoyed it especially since I died laughing at the social media posts. When MC is fully oblivious when it comes to her feelings for Abbie and vice versa, then proceeds to say that she went on the show to support Abbie.

"She's so oblivious that it's sad. Doesn't realize she loves her bestie or her bestie loves her."

Honestly I feel bad for what my MC is and has put Abbie through but she'll eventually learn(maybe).

Boy, you have no idea of how many Triller posts I've made. Most of them never make it in-game because it would actually hinder the reading to have so many pop up so often. But I'm really happy that you like them.

As for that last part, depending on how you play your MC, Abbie is just as guilty if not more. I could understand her not saying anything to an MC who is very demonstrative and in tune with her feelings but she truly can't expect an emotionally dumb and restrained MC to figure this one out.

[soulsisterif]

Just read this the first time and absolutely obsessed already. Incredibly well written, very humorous banter, interesting sounding characters and all the flavour text makes it really feel like we're building a really unique character with each choice. Consider me an immediate fan!

Thank you for this message, I'm so glad! The MC feeling like an actual character and not just an avatar is one of my main concerns.

[soulsisterif]

If/when ROs introduce MC to their parents, what can MC excpect? (Maybe Abbie not included given her background is similar to MC’s in a lot of backgrounds and where she does have parents, MC has met them already)

It won't happen in-game but it'd go like

• You liked Abbie's dad. As for her mum, when you were a kid either you had a cordial relationship with her or she was a very present and caring mother figure. Depends on your background.

• Irene's parents are all sunshine and love, they'll welcome you with open arms. Hope your MC is tall and strong because they both are and any particularly tight hug (they're huggers, it'll happen) might send you to meet St. Peter.

• Joanna's parents, her mother most of all, will be super grateful that you got her to settle down so prepare to be constantly praised and pampered. That is, until they realise that her settling down doesn't mean she's coming back to live permanently in Brazil. They'll be devastated if she ends up living with you abroad. They won't be mean, but thet will try to sell Brazil to you since obviously Jo can't be swayed. You'll be pestered.

• Vega's parents will withhold judgement until they get to know you better. They're the kind of people that like to form their own opinions instead of relying on the, very flattering, accounts their daughter provides. As soon as they see Vega relaxed and happy you're in their good books, though.

• Margot isn't very close with her parents and even now she doesn't deal particularly well with it. Any time you meet for family events she's tense and stiff and her parents mirror that. It would be up to your MC to smooth things over but the first time? Definitely uncomfortable.

• Dawn's are a little uneasy because your relationship started dangerously soon after their daughter divorced Mel; and they loved Mel. They'll be cautious and want to talk to you over the phone or when they videocall their daughter (tricky if your MC doesn't speak Spanish). Might be a while before they invite you to come over but Dawn will double down. If she goes home to visit you're coming with. They may actually be the hardest to win over.

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Glasses and contacts user here. It really depends on just how bad the person’s eyesight is, just what activities they’re doing, position, etc. Some keep them on, some keep them off. I end up taking mine off somewhere in the process. If you’re leaning over someone? Chances are they’re falling off, possibly onto your partner, which is not generally considered the biggest turn on. You go down on someone and they grab your hair? They’re gonna end up sitting wonky on your face, if you don’t lose them entirely. Pausing sexy time to impersonate Velma looking for her glasses is not the role play experience you’re likely looking for. All this being said, I did have a high school teammate who had prescription goggles. I’m not saying having a character get prescription goggles just for kinky times is the answer to all your glasses welding RO-related sex problems, but you can’t deny the raw sex appeal

This one was truly enlightening and it also made me laugh embarrasingly hard.

BUT, how dare you write off the Velma roleplay when she's been so many people's gay awakening?! In any case, this and the other comments and asks settle it: glasses are inconvenient for this. But fear not, I shall strive to ensure a realistic experience!

I'm brainstorming already.

A doing-it-in-complete-darkness-to-even-the-field scene that focuses in describing touch!

Pillow Princess treatment so them glasses stay put!

Blindfolds! She sees about as much as without it but with her eyes covered at least Margot/Glasses!MC won't go

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Anon who asked about MC who had a thing for women with glasses: I have heard that people who wear glasses often take them off during sex as sometimes they can get broken or just generally get in the way (though I think depends on the type of sex they have)

Glasses-wearers please confirm or deny. I need to know if you keep them on or take them off.

I pray there's unanimity in your answers. A poll about this would be an uncleanable stain in my Tumblr feed.