Merry Crisis—Developer's log
Romance-focused x Slice-of-life x Queer x Non-Euro-centric x Character-based
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Prologue (24 Dec '21): The Departure ~19k words
Rush home to grab your things and head to JFK airport (why exactly are you so late for your flight?)
Bump into Nat, who offers to give you a ride to the airport, because they’re... just that kind of ride-or-die (literally) friend...?
Charm, beg, or name-drop your way into getting on that plane despite your horrifying tardiness. Or: miss your flight despite your best efforts (or maybe you weren’t trying that hard?) - and spend one more night in New York.
Chapter One (10 Jun '22): The Arrival | 24 Dec
~51k words
Have your lift hijacked by Shay, your neighbour’s new tenant
Eat your favorite Singaporean food
Participate in your family’s unique Christmas tradition [Paint some ugly santa figurines, or bake and karaoke to your heart’s content or play mahjong]
Call your old friend Joony, and get lost in memories of your junior-college* days... Qiu (no surprise here) features heavily in those memories.
Have a ‘midnight heart-to-heart’ with your brother. (or not!)
Chapter Two (28 Jan '23): Christmas Day | 25 Dec
!~48k words
Attend Christmas dinner with the extended family. Get embroiled in some true soap opera-style drama.
Ride off from the family dinner with Shay on their motorbike (to your mother’s horror), to a live music venue. Meet their bandmates, dance with Shay or perform on stage with the band
Call Nat, reminisce about the first and last time Nat had come to visit Singapore, and fight for a possible future together.
Sit in the park and stare out into the ocean—and have a flashback about your 18th birthday spent with your high school first love / soulmate.
End Christmas with a bang (quite literally) in Shay’s apartment.
Chapter Four (01 Jul '23): Boxing Day | 26 Dec
~55k words
“Morning after” scene with Shay if you chose to stay over
Mountain bike ride with Shay
Flashback of The Incident with Qiu
Meet Qiu again for the first time in years—either at the reunion dinner with your high school classmates, or at the coffeeshop below your block (if you chose not to go to the dinner)
