#derek dlc

[sunny-arts-blog]

PLS GIVE US UR OURLIFE KID DESIGNS!! Your art is SOOOO good to look at I'd fight five grown men to see more of your art

THE KIDDOS..!!!!

[sunbloomdew]

Listen. Listen. All of Step 4 versions could canonically take place during the same summer, right next to each other. Derek's Step 4 takes place first. Father's day in America is on the third Sunday in June, so in 2021 that would be June 20th.

Moms wedding anniversary is referenced multiple times in Derek's Step 4, as an event happening a few weeks later.

Then Cove's Step 4 takes place during the anniversary, a few days before and after the event. Taking the estimated time period, their party would be happening in June, i'd say around the middle of the month, maybe closer to the beginning.

Derek makes an appearance here too!

(i actually had to speed replay cove's step 4 cause i had no, and i mean no screeshots from it lmao. that was before i learned that you can make screeshots through steam and don't have to do it MANUALLY sigh)

Then we have the last Step 4 version, the events of Baxter DLC.

I'm assuming the Adams' wedding takes place sometime in August, probably also in the middle, but leaning towards the end of the month.

So hypothetically speaking, MC could canonically participate in all of these events.

All THAT to say: imagine meeting Xavier in Baxter's Step 4 after first meeting them in Derek's Step 4, and them being like "Oh, hi MC! Good to see you again :D" with Baxter looking so confused sdhfjkshfsjk

That's right, it was a Xavier post all along! You got tricked! Xavier DLC when 👀

Just kidding, but i'm living for this version of events. And just in general, it's nice to imagine everything happening, even if it's not possible in the game itself. I headcanon it all happening, it's so fun to think about <3

[ravenousgoblin]

Okay so this isn’t the first time I realized this but this is the first time it ever really hit me. Derek is the ONLY ONE you can’t be indifferent to when picking feelings in Steps.

You can only be fond of him or have a crush on him. GB Patch said no being mean to Derek 😂 ‘s not allowed 🚫 and they were so right for that Derek deserves the world(I mean all three of them do but still)

But like that’s so fucking funny to me 😂 like, yeah, be mean to the main baby boy all you want, be mean to mr monochrome, but don’t you ever, EVER SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT DEREK SUAREZ OR WE WILL KNOW AND WE WILL COME FOR YOU

[sapphoscorner]

replaying derek dlc and i decided to go with my mc (taliyah), cove and liz doing the "selling lemonade" thing ONLY BECAUSE TALIYAH IS PART OF A TRIPLET AND THE ODLER OF THE THREE CONVINCED THEM TO DO IT AND IM SO GLAD THAT I WENT WITH THIS OPTION

[a-linearis]

Still haven't played the Derek or Baxter dlcs cuz I'm too emotionally attached to Cove-

[where are my fellow demiromantics at HAHAHA 💀]

[mistyscenter]

I think what pisses me off about Baxter fans is that they'll go out of their way to shit of Derek's DLC and not even bring up the good points and the bad/weak points, just repeating over and over again we should have had more one on one time with him (something that we do in Baxter DLC) which is so interesting to me because so many writers/general public will tell you that the best love stories are the ones where the characters feel like people (aka have relationships outside of the LI), but I digress.

No see the point is that, as much as that could have been good criticism, when it becomes your only criticism that becomes a preference because I can exactly pin point to you what are Baxter DLC weakest points.

An example is that the nostalgia In his DLC feels forced, and while not everyone might feel that way about it, for some people it might feel that way and for good reasons. Let's take the mentions of the events in "Planning" when MC and Baxter had to bake cupcakes for Miranda's birthday right? Those events feel so heavily forced and out of place when mentioned because it's been 5 years. Realistically MC might remember doing something like that but not remember the full details because it's been 5 years, human memory is short and quite frankly, one is more prone to remember the anger and sadness a person of your past brought to you than the happy moments, which is also my next point. Nostalgia is an inherite happy emotion it can turn to sadness but when we use it we mean it in a positive way, there's nothing positive about what happened with Baxter. While yes, your MC might feel different about it due of the playthrough, it doesn't change the fact that someone living you as rudely as he did is something inherently shitty, you won't feel nostalgic to see Baxter you feel anger and/or sadness. And the nostalgia could have worked out as a mean to make things bittersweet but it doesn't, it fails to do that.

That is not to say that it always does that though, the scene when you bake the groom's cake is a good example of nostalgia and how it can be bittersweet. That works. It works as a good bittersweet moment and how the happy feeling of nostalgia is turned bittersweet.

Cuz here's the thing Baxter dlc does this a lot, is always so close to being something actually genuine and interesting but it fails to do so because you can feel the writer not thinking things through with his character/relationship, which is a pity because step 3 was a genuinely good set up that got thrown out the window with step 4.

I'm sad this is the fate the dlc has because Baxter was an interesting character to me, genuinely he is, he's a fucking mess but it feels like I'm the only one who sees him as the complex being that he is. He's messy, he has no idea what he wants in lifez he still needs to work on unlearning all the shit his parents thought him,he craves human connections, he's terrified of them and enters in this cycle of keeping himself at arm length whilest confirming his fears, he's a literal idiot, he tries to be charming but is only a façade. Baxter is a good character, his dlc could have been good, the execution was trash and left me, and others, dissatisfied

[fandomfiish]

Derek Suarez

Ten years we waited, and now we can finally love each other with all our hearts.

I am whipped for this man.

[sunny-salad-art]

Derek dlc make me go brrrrr

My mc is still the same Rei Kon as before, but the one for Derek's route is notably less confident/secure with himself. He feels very unaccomplished with his life. Thankfully he and Derek can bond over having sucky adult lives.