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Bridge Ices Before Road!

Links: DEMO-PATREON-FORUM

Updated 10/29/24

~Summary~

Was there anything that could get between you and a gold medal?

Well, yes. A lot of things. There’s your family, including your annoying younger sibling. Moving back home with them will be tough, but it allows you to focus on your gains. There are competitions to win, and you have to stay in peak condition all the while. You also have your mother breathing down your neck to make sure nothing jeopardizes your chances at success. Your father is more hands-off. He almost always has half of his mind on work, even when he’s at home.

Your coach will guide you through the ups and downs of skating, as they’ve never let you down before. They remind you of your father a bit, never able to fully turn off part of their brain that thinks about work. You hope they remember to relax, and let you do the same.

Your childhood friend-turned-rival is always one step ahead of you these days. They beat you out as part of the top couple in the pairs free skate last year, and since then you haven’t been able to top their performances. You used to be friends, but now there was a fire in their eyes when they looked at you. Will you be able to mend this friendship?

Even worse, you run into an old bully of yours (that you might secretly have had a crush on since forever ago) who has just been appointed the captain of the local hockey team. He plays at your local rink now, and that means you’ll be seeing each other more than you’d like.

You find a friend in a fellow skater who becomes something of a pen-pal to you. They reach out over social media, and there’s an instant connection. They’re a total sweetheart, and you can’t wait to meet them at the first event.

 Finding your place again in your old hometown might sound tough, but nothing is tougher than being an Olympic athlete. You have to juggle training along with all that, but you try not to let it get you down. After all, skating is your passion!

Don't let the creepy figure outside your bedroom at night get you down. If you ignore it, it will be fine. It was just your imagination... right? Draw the curtains, drink some warm milk, and put on some music to drown out the haunting song whistled into the gaps in your windows. Tonight, you escape into your dreams knowing all the exits are locked up tight and there's no way in. It's all in your head.

But remember, escaping isn’t always an option.

~Features~

Customize your MC! Name, sexuality, appearance, hair, eyes, clothing, and more! (MC is genderlocked female)

Find friendship or romance in the least likely places! Each route has its own ups and downs with tailored story-telling.

Get stalked by a really big fan. No, I mean like a REALLY big fan. They know things about you that no one else does! Will you get away? Or will you be unable to stop their villainous plot?

Win (or lose) against the best skaters in the country– and the world!

~Romance Options~

Dallas Doverman

 male/6’0/20yo

 The hockey team captain. He bullied you in elementary and middle school. You can select whether or not you had a crush on him. They certainly had one on you, and that’s why they picked on you so much, not that you knew. Nowadays, instead of helping his dad around at the skate rental and pulling your pigtails, he plays ice hockey with the big boys. He was the youngest on the team, but still made captain in such a short time.

Dallas is tall and broad. His straight black hair is longer on top and rests above his ears, trimmed short on the sides. He’s grown a lot and lost that old baby fat that clung to his cheeks. A dark beard forms on his face, but doesn’t fully block out his skin.

Vincenzo/Valentina Ciolfi

 selectable m or f/5’8 or 5’5/18yo

 They were once your friend. Then, you went to Boxcroft and they didn’t. It was a shock to everyone, V included.  They swore to get better and become your superior someday. You hadn’t expected it to affect your relationship, but it did. You drifted apart, their hostility ever-growing and there was nothing you could do about it. 

With dewy, caramel skin and shoulder-length golden brown and almost blonde locs kept in a low ponytail, V just screams “over it.” They did not care enough to do anything to their hair or pick out a nice outfit. They do that for competitions, and that’s enough.

Argo/Allegra Papandreou

 Selectable m or f/5’10 or 5’6/28yo

 Your coach. They were just like you, hailed as a prodigy until they graduated school, then they stopped being a rising star and became a plateauing one. You followed their career almost religiously, and always wondered what changed. They only started coaching for you. Before that, they worked in accounting, the business for which they got their degree. You couldn’t believe that was what happened to the Starchild of Skating in the 2010’s. They saw real talent in you at a young age and changed career paths. You hope you weren’t a mistake.

Dark brown hair falls in waves over Argo’s ears. Anita wears hers long, down to her waist. They are leanly muscled, but toned all over. Even after years of being out of the game, they had not let their body grow flabby or let it fall out of use. They look as ripped as they did in their teens when they stole the show at Nationals when they were your age.

Bernhard Wagner

 male/6’5/20yo

 Someone that will eventually face you at the Olympics, you think. He’s friendlier than a competitor has any right to be and reached out to you in your private messages on Blipsta. He always speaks in a really cute way, with all kinds of emojis. He complimented your technique and you got to talking. He made it so easy to open up to him.

You don’t know what Bernhard looks like, not really. He did tell you that he’s tall and has blonde hair, but you kind of expected that. You guess you just have to wait to meet him.

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RO Facts

No theme here. Just some things about people.

Bernhard was very heavy as a boy, but skating so much helped him build muscle. His parents were proud but ensured he knew their love for him was unconditional.

Dallas ties his shoes really tightly. It's a habit because of how tightly he ties his skates.

V has a pet dander allergy and an Axolotl named Mephistopheles.

A is restless and it can be hard for them to relax. They like to sleep with a weighted blanket.

<3

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Small Update

The prologue is almost finished! I added a bit of story and fleshed out your mom's character! You make it home and have one foot in the bed!

DEMO

This update includes:

Customize! Choose your hair length, hair color, and eye color!

Stats! There's a stats page now!

Hidden variables! You can't see them! :D

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Hey author! Who's YOUR 🫵 favourite RO? And which RO did you create first?

Hmmm I like Dallas ^^ I based him off someone I knew as a kid, and he shares the name of a friend of mine! I came up with him first, too, mostly just an idea about a guy who's last name was Doverman but always gets called Doberman?

When I took skating lessons, I grew to be friendly with a girl my age who figure skated and played hockey with the boys. We would always pass by each other, as her hockey session began right after the private skate. It got me into thinking that hockey and figure skaters use the same ice and have a lot of times that they pass by or bump into each other. Can't wait to introduce him to y'all!

And for those A-mancers out there, they are also inspired by real life and were the second RO I created. My old skating coach was named Anita, which was what inspired the name to begin with A. <3

Thanks so much for the ask! I cannot wait to read the demo of Iced when it's realesed!!

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Prologue Update!

Admittedly another small one, but I just uploaded the finished prologue! Here is a demo link for ease of access.

You can now talk to A and Bernhard for the first time! But no seeing them, not yet! Also, you can go to sleep! Amazing!

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No one has asked this yet, and the story isn't long enough to show this yet, but I would like to volunteer that this takes place in a modern-day AU. The only difference in this world is that covid never happened. I wish I could make the real world that way ;v;

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I actually made some progress writing tonight. Glad that I can finally say I feel it's less of a slog through multiple choices. Now finally some *exposition* and then we can get into the *flashbacks* and meet the rest of the ROs ooooh :o

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hiii are you thinking of implementing saves in your game?

Yes, actually! I did add them, but I forgot to turn on the save menu! XD Sorry about that! It's fixed now.