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Today, March 21st, is my character Adiel's birthday. He is a love interest (LI) from my game Romance The Backrooms. All the LIs are based on an emotion, and he is based around surprise!

Leader of the Backrooms Brotherhood, Adiel is on a mission to escape the backrooms with the guys he cares about. Then, you come along, putting a detour in his plans--he can't ignore when a person needs help, so he's determined to get you back to Earth in no time. As he does so, your feelings become entangled, and a friendship blossoms--could it be something more?

I mentioned it's also Glarence's day! He's the LI based on anger, a grump who at first doesn't want to help you get home, but grows to love you over time. His birthday is on February 29th, so it only occurs every Leap Year. On non-Leap Years (like this one), Adiel shares his birthday with Glarence so Mr. Grumpy can have a special day. Glarence pretends he doesn't care, but really, he's very grateful. 💚

If you want to check out Romance The Backrooms, you can play it here! There's even a special game for Glarence & Adiel called "The Backrooms Is In The Eye Of The Beholder". For more of their interactions, check out the "gladiel" tag. I have over 100 pages of side stories under the "romancethebackrooms" tag too!

Thanks for celebrating my boys' birthdays with me! We're currently working on revamping the Romance The Backrooms demo, so please look forward to the new version later this year!

P.S. I was determined to actually draw this whole thing myself, and not use stock images. I think the roses in the background turned out ok. It's roses because Adiel's birthday is on National Flower Day (the date suggestion was made by his VA, Khai Troung, for that reason!). Glarence gets black roses, and Adiel gets white ones.

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Saw all of the Miiverse "Yeah" art going around (since Twitter disabled public likes), and decided to do some versions with the Romance The Backrooms characters!

Which one is your favorite? Let me know!

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Decided to make my friend @just-a-carrot my first Artfight attack this year! :3 I knew I was gonna do that the SECOND they posted a link to their artfight and said they were joining! So when Artfight started, I got right to work!

I decided to draw our two asexual characters together--their Iggy from Our Wonderland, and my Glarence from Romance The Backrooms. Features a rare smile from Glarence, because he found someone like him and he's happy! C:

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70th day of the 365 Days Of Character Development writing game!  Basically how it works is that each day, we use (with permission, of course) a question from my friend's book on character development to get our creative juices flowing!  If you like this game, I recommend buying the book to support an independent creator!

Also, I apologize for not posting prompts consistently—it’s been difficult for me to post a prompt every day.  I can’t promise daily prompts, but I will try to do at least 1 per week from now on.  I hope that’s understandable.

Here's today's question:

I'll be answering for the main characters of my liminal space otome game Romance The Backrooms.  I’d love to hear the answer to the prompt for your characters—reply, reblog, and/or make your own post (and give me the link, because I’d love to see it!).

Carla (the main character) bursts into tears and sobs.  She isolates herself from others, not answering calls or texts from people concerned about her.  She spends most of her time in the “depression” phase of grief.

Kalcal becomes angry and sad.  He laughs in response to intense emotions, including sadness, so he’ll laugh a lot and go looking for ways to relieve his stress and let out his energy.  Once his energy is drained, he’ll curl up into a ball and cry.  Poor guy. . . He spends most of his time in the “anger” & “depression” phases of grief.

Glarence buries his feelings and tries to move forward as normal.  Unfortunately, this results in him releasing those emotions when he doesn’t mean to, lashing out towards people he cares about.  It’s very rare for him to cry in front of people—not many have seen him do so.  He spends the most time in the “anger” phase of grief.

Uri feels numb & sad, and blames himself.  Even if he logically knows nothing he could’ve done would’ve changed things, emotionally, he feels at fault and like he should have done more.  He spends the most time in the “depression” phase of grief.

Zenobos becomes in denial, then tries to figure out a way to undo what’s happened, find a way to fix it.  Once it becomes clear it can’t be fixed, he breaks down.  He spends the most time in the “denial” & “bargaining” phases of grief.

Adiel becomes sad, but knows that death is to be expected in the backrooms—it was bound to happen eventually.  He spends most of his time in the “acceptance” phase of grief, but that doesn’t mean he’s not mad, sad, or depressed.

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I'm making a dating sim that takes place in the backrooms!

The demo comes out next month for the Otome Jam, and I'm so excited to share this passion project of mine with the world. I've been hyperfixated on it since October of last year lol.

You play as this lovely lady right here:

More on Carla

And here's more information on the 5 love interests!

More on Kalcal

More on Glarence

More on Uri

More on Zenobos

More on Adiel

I tag everything related to the game with #romancethebackrooms , and I've made a few posts on Twitter if you want to check that out! Most recently, our talented voice cast was announced--I'm so humbled to be working with such talented people!

Lmk your thoughts on this idea. I'll be uploading more stuff about the game on this blog!

Thanks for reading!

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I found out that creativepromptsforwriting is doing another prompt week and it’s Valentine’s Day themed and HOW DID I MISS THIS???  Regardless, now I gotta write something for the prompts! C:

As usual, the stories are for the characters in my game Romance The Backrooms, a liminal space otome with 5 main love interests.

There were too many good prompts to choose form, so I ended up writing multiple stories.  They will be splt into 2 parts; I’ll link Part 2 when it’s up.  Enjoy!

These may or may not be canon.

Today’s Overall Prompt: Accidental Love Confessions

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Story 1’s Prompts: Confessing in the middle of a stupid fight; During a very stressful situation, one screams "I care about you, can't you see that I love you?"

Characters: Glarence & Carla (the main character)

Other Info: Inspired by my BPD.

“I push everyone I care about away,” Glarence snapped.  “I’m unstable—everyone around me can see that.  So why the FUCK don’t you?!”

“Because I care about you, and I’m not letting you just shove me into a corner like some forgotten toy!” Carla shouted, clenching her fists.

Glarence scoffed.  “You don’t care about me.”

“Of course I do!” Carla exclaimed.  Anger & passion ran through her in equal measure, and she shouted. “Can you see that I love you?!”

Glarence’s eyes widened in surprise.  “You do?” he asked, utterly dumbfounded for perhaps the first time in his life.

Carla looked into his eyes and nodde.  “I do,” she replied.  “I love you, Glarence.”

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Story 2’s Prompts: Saying "you're lucky I love you" and realizing too late what they said

Characters: Kalcal & Zenobos

Other Info: I write a lot of Kalcal x Zenobos stories, this is the latest one of the bunch.

Zenobos gave Kalcal a plate of food, looking embarrassed.  “I kind of burned the Hound meat,” the green entity said sadly.  “I’m sorry if it tastes bad. . .”

“Hey, your food always tastes amazing!” Kalcal replied, taking the food and ruffling Zenobos’ hair playfully.

Zenobos giggles.  “And if it does taste bad?” he asks.

Kalcal laughed.  “Then consider yourself lucky that I love you, buddy!”

Zenobos blinked, and stared at his friend.  “You. . . You love me?” he squeaked.

“Of course I do, buddy!” Kalcal exclaimed.  He leaned down and kissed Zenobos on the forehead.  “You’re the person I’m closest to in the world.  I love you more than anyone.” Zenobos blushed.  “Thank you, Kalcal.”

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24 Days of Gift-Giving: Eighteen Aches

Happy December, everyone!

So, @creativepromptsforwriting is doing a writing thing called “24 Days of Gift-Giving” where each day of December has a prompt, so I figured it would be fun to write something up for each prompt!  Feel free to participate too, if you’d like!  It could be a fun writing game!

Like usual, I will be doing these for the characters of my story Romance The Backrooms, a liminal space otome with 5 main love interests. 

Today’s Prompt: Eighteen Aches (hurt/comfort dialogue prompts); “Please believe me, I will not leave you alone.”; “I care about you! Do you hear me?”;

Characters: Glarence & Adiel

Other Info: n/a

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“I don’t know why you even travel with me,” Glarence muttered.  “The way I treat you, how angry I get sometimes—you must hate me.”

“I don’t hate you,” Adiel reassured him.  He squeezed Glarence’s hand and said, “You were the first real person I met in the backrooms, the one who confirmed to me that I wasn’t alone.  You won’t get rid of me that easily, Glarence.”

Glarence shook his head.  “Nah, that’s not true,” he insisted.  “You’re going to leave me alone someday.  I just know it.”

“I won’t leave you alone—I promise,” Adiel told him.  “Please, believe me, ok?”  He reached out and cupped Glarence’s cheek.  “I care about you.  Do you hear me?  I care about you.”

Glarence smiled and put his hand over Adiel’s.  “Thanks,” he muttered.  “I. . . I appreciate it.” Adiel smiled, and his hand retreated.  “I’m glad, buddy.  I’m glad.”

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[norbezjones]

The Backrooms Is In The Eye Of The Beholder by Norbez Jones (call me Bez)

Adiel asks Glarence a question.

I wrote a new Romance The Backrooms game for Velox Turbo 2!

Before RtB's' events, Glarence & Adiel traveled together, just the two of them. One night, before they rest, Adiel asks Glarence a curious question.

Link to play in case you don't wanna scroll up: https://norbez.itch.io/the-backrooms-is-in-the-eye-of-the-beholder