Summary: Aiden waits for his pregnancy test results.
A/N: My first Aiden/Aidevie mpreg fic holy shit! 🥺 Also, for the sake of clarity: Aiden and Evie in my headcanons are both cisgender perisex who conceive with Aiden getting pregnant due to an operation to fully transplant genitalia+reproductive anatomy to anyone, which I headcanon becomes possible by 2030 in my Choices universes.
PS: Happy (early) Birthday to Evie! I know it’s not about Evie’s birthday let alone even really about Evie, but it is kind of a big special fic about something that is important for Evie too. So I count it!
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Aiden Zhou remained fixed on the steady ticking beat of the clock across from him. The dull, flavorless, droning beat. “Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick”. That was the only damn thing going on in the doctor’s office.
Perhaps, when played as the backing beat for a harmony of other instruments, he might have cared for it more. But on its own, it had about as much appeal as that one kid who spends long car rides kicking the back of the seat while chanting “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” over and over and over and over and over.
Funnily enough, though… the matter of having kids was the reason he was here waiting in the first place.
Aiden gazed down at his lower stomach, and his hand drew towards it— but then paused, his heart now pounding like a rock. What if… there wasn’t a baby… in there…? Oh God, what if there wasn’t? What if the results said negative?
He took a deep breath. It’s okay, one part of him thought. Even if there isn’t, we can try again. This isn’t some one-and-only chance.
But what if it isn’t as easy to just keep trying again? thought the other part of him. What if there were actually some complications for him or Evie with the reproductive transplant operations? What if it would never be possible for him to become pregnant?
His throat and stomach stirred with nausea, the bile of the past five years seeming to rise up. The recurring woeful spirals of processing that pregnancy was (at that time) completely impossible for him. The agonizing wait for full genitalia and reproductive transplants to be made feasible. The fact that he and Evie had to go through this entire arduous wait and elaborate process before pregnancy could be possible for him.
Aiden’s stomach turned, and he frowned. God, how he’d much rather this nausea was coming from morning sickness.
Well, who knows? Maybe morning sickness was contributing too. He just wished it was the only contributor…
Um, not that he actually wanted to experience morning sickness, just that—
Aiden felt his cheeks searing slightly, face turning from green to red. Most people would think he was completely batshit if he were ever to say something like that, never mind think it. Not even just about morning sickness— just declaring his desire to become pregnant would’ve been more than enough to yield that exact outcome.
And the reactions would only be worse once he was pregnant for real. Sure, just about everyone important and trustworthy to him and Evie were more than supportive of their conception preferences. But the possibility of getting strange stares from strangers when he was soon showing was no less uncomfortable to think about. Not to mention the… less progressive-minded of their (mostly Aiden’s) relevant family members that they may or may not inevitably have to tell. He just barely managed a “Why would you want to get pregnant?” talk from his own mother… she was nowhere near as bad as some of his other relatives, but why in the ever loving hell did he need to be interrogated on what he wants???
Though sometimes, even he would question himself on that matter. It was hard not to… what with all that was going against him.
Yet, Aiden still knew that he wanted it. And he knew why he wanted it. He had his reasons, and they were pretty damn good reasons in his opinion.
Maybe it was just hard to believe for himself sometimes. Most of his life, he barely even entertained the idea of pregnancy for himself— why waste time thinking about something that wasn’t even possible? And even if he’d considered a hypothetical situation, he probably would’ve thought himself lacking in the mental fortitude necessary for it. Only about nine years ago did Aiden start entertaining and liking the idea of being pregnant… and for the past five years, he’s known he really and firmly did want to bear his and Evie’s children.
And with him finally on the verge of achieving that now, what he certainly couldn’t bear was the possibility of having gone through all that past anxiety and frustration and waiting, only for pregnancy to still be unsuccessful for him. For all this effort to just be a trivial, shallow, idealistic waste of time—
He felt a stabbing pang in his heart, and his face started to harden. No, he told himself. Don’t let that mindset get to you again. Especially not now. You’re not wasting your time over this. You are not stupid, shallow, immature, or “sick” to want this. It’s not a useless or selfish or trivial thing to want.
Okay, true. But if this conception did turn out to be unsuccessful… what if that was his fault? What if he (and Evie) rushed into this? Yes, the reproductive transplant process had been deemed feasible, but what if it could’ve been improved? What if he should’ve waited a bit longer until it was? Or, even that aside, what if he should’ve waited until these transplants had been around for longer, and maybe more normalized and accepted by the general public?
But how much longer would he have to wait then, in either of those cases? Thirty-one is a pretty standard age to become pregnant, but what if he was in his forties or older by the time it was “better”? And thus it might’ve been more difficult or risky for him to try and become pregnant? If it turned out he had to wait until reproductive transplants were around for a bit longer, only for his chance for pregnancy to go right out the window—
Ugh. Waiting, waiting, waiting. Ninety percent of this process was just fucking waiting. Waiting for the reproductive transplant process to be made feasible. Waiting to fully heal from their operations. Waiting to know if they actually conceived. He was so sick of having to wait so fucking much. The goddamn ticks of the clock may as well have been just droning “Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait.” at him, as if to deliberately tick him off further.
Aiden sighed. He was partly starting to regret the whole insist-on-going-to-the-appointments-alone-so-he-can-hear-the-results-first-and-then-plan-a-big-event-to-surprise-Evie-and-Luna-with-the-big-news scheme he’d been planning. Or hell, if he really wanted to get quick test results but still do a big surprise set-up announcement, he could’ve just done an at-home pregnancy test.
But perhaps, he supposed, this was the price to pay for wanting the more accurate test results. This agonizing wait in the doctor’s office, that was much less bearable without his wife and daughter.
Of course… he wasn’t necessarily alone right now. At least, there was a possibility he wasn’t alone.
Aiden glanced down at his stomach again, freezing in place momentarily... and then he slipped his hand under his shirt, under the waistband of his jeans, and pressed his palm against his bare lower abdomen. Almost immediately, he felt his heartbeat relax.
Sure, he thought, there might not be a kid… in there… But there also might be. And… he preferred to imagine there was. It soothed his heart from its former frantic pounding to a more gentle, steady beat.
Gently caressing his stomach, Aiden closed his eyes and began softly humming a tune— Mozart’s 16th Sonata in C, one of his favorites. The first song he played to a concert audience, the first song he played for Evie, the first song he played for Luna… and now, perhaps, the first song he plays for this yet-to-be-born child growing inside him.
And, oh, how there were so many more songs he’s been wanting to share with the baby, just as he did with Evie and Luna and his many other audiences. Aiden felt his heart flutter in tune with his singing, feeling both a rush of excitement and an air of peacefulness...
And then right at that moment, his song was cut off by the swing of the opening door, as Dr. Perry finally returned to the room. Aiden felt a spark of extra hope at the sight of the warm grin she was wearing.
“Alright, Mr. Zhou, I have your results…”
Aiden sat up straight and tense, his heartbeat accelerating again. “What do they say?”
Dr. Perry beamed at him. And spoke but three little words. And needed not continue further.
The way I made 3 major Aidevie mpreg creations in March last year and then dipped from it for 10 months 😭 I have been working on this since about May-ish, it’s just been taking me a while. Especially with me having been very lacking in art drive lately. But nevertheless I’m so glad this is finally done :DDD
Also trying fully digital. If I ever find my Apple Pencil again I may do that more often. Though I definitely don’t wanna abandon the trad-digital hybrid style.
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Uncropped under cut! Once again, nothing mature or explicit, just, y'know, ✨ anxiety ✨
The kid in the blue pajamas is 8-year-old adopted daughter Luna Ayana-Zhou.
The kid in the pink pajamas is 6-year-old birth son (also from mpreg ofc) Daniyal Ayana-Zhou.
Aiden is currently carrying twin daughters Aisha Ayana-Zhou and Ella Ayana-Zhou.
The orange cat is a boy cat named Buttercup.
The void cat is a girl cat named Jenny.
The grey kitten is a girl kitten named Pebble.
The kids’ birthdates are all still pending; as are the cats’ ages, birthdates, and adoption dates. I will go into more detail in their own intro posts.
I have yet to decide when exactly Aiden and Evie start having kids, but at the very least I know it would be sometime in their 30s. So they’re about in their late 30s/early 40s in this picture.
Getting back into art and drawing yay!!! To start it off, I drew a lil scene from the lovely godsend of a fic that @aria-ashryver wrote for my birthday this year (TYSFM again Aria for writing it for me), and that you neeeeed to read if you haven’t already!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💓💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈
A seven-months-pregnant Aiden is trying to play classical music for the baby with his pregnancy headphones, but a curious doofy little orange kitten wants to chew the cable (and cuddle next to Aiden too!) hehe. Buttercup is a total lil doofus :3 (don’t worry though, Aiden will notice quickly!)
POV: You’re Evie, it’s your 37th birthday, and your 7-months-pregnant-with-twins husband Aiden is in one of those very good moods, and thus wants to treat you to a special birthday dance (among countless other things). Edit by me!
(With 2 different hair versions because I like both)
Though honestly, this can be applicable to literally any scenario where a pregnant Aiden is in one of those really good moods and thus turns on some music and offers Evie a dance.
And yes the recent birthday was Evie’s 25th birthday, not her 37th. But it’s about Evie’s birthday, so it still counts.
I used the Tyler Woods CG from MAH for this. Which is kinda funny because I also headcanon Tyler gets pregnant by my MAH MC Peggy in the future. But the pose was perfect for my “exceptionally happy pregnant Aiden initiating slow dance” headcanons, so I used it for Aidevie.
Also, happy 1 year anniversary to my first ever serious Aidevie mpreg creation! It’s usually been— and sometimes still is— difficult for me to talk about this sort of topic, so I’m incredibly grateful the fandom has been nothing but supportive/appreciative of it. And there’s still kind of a long way to go regarding my anxieties over it, but I’ve been feeling leagues more comfortable with talking about it ever since I started posting about it more. So thank you all dearly for that 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂
Vivaan Anand, Alan Parke, Kimmy Thornton (& Elyse Thornton)
Finally completed a new MC set! These headcanons are of course gonna be much less extensive than the main universe ones, as Alan is less developed than Evie and Vivaan and Kimmy and Elyse are very newly made.
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Vivaan’s little brother Jai is 6 years younger, so he would be in the same class as Kimmy and Elyse. But he wouldn’t get to know them until they go to Berry together and share Phys Ed class together— after which they would become closer friends and eventually get a chance to meet Vivaan.
Similarly with Jordan, Vivaan would definitely be showing up at the following Berry graduation ceremonies and get onstage as a keynote speaker.
Alan and Vivaan would definitely become besties at some point. They’d be great leaders together.
Alan and Kimmy would absolutely be besties. Alan wouldn’t mind that much that Kimmy was also trying for the prince(ss) role— it’s not a case where he would think the role is rightfully his, plus the solidarity with a fellow GNC guy is more important hehe.
HSS Prime: Vivaan Anand
Birthday: October 9, 1998
Classmate Type: Prep
Gender: GNC Cis Man, He/Him pronouns. Into “feminine professional” styles.
Sexuality: Bi.
HetGNC Labels: Identifies as Mollis, but prefers the GNC label.
Ethnicity: Indian
Family: Mira Anand, mother. Adhiraj Anand, father. Jai Anand, little brother.
Pets: A Great Dane named Tiger
Love Interest: Koh Sunya, most likely. Most people voted for her lol. They would continue to build their relationship long-distance after he graduates.
Background: Kepler was his dream prep school ever since he was little— even though he lived in Portland, Oregon, he heard it was one of the best high schools in the country and loved the idea of going there. And when he and his family moved from Portland to Cedar Cove before he started 8th grade, it was his dream come true. He applied and got accepted to Kepler, and attended during his freshman year… but soon he’d come across the school that would eventually become Berry High. Disturbed by how it wasn’t doing so well, he would eventually leave Kepler to attend, found, and build up Berry.
Graduation: Is a grade above his friends, but wasn’t looking forward to university, even though Stanford University has been his dream university since he was young— his hangup being that it would be selfish for him to “abandon” Berry to pursue his own interests. Although him sacrificing his dream school to work on Berry High was considered admirable by his friends, they convinced him it wasn’t as necessary as when the school was newer, and that it wouldn’t be selfish for him to focus on college.
Jai was in 4th grade when Vivaan started building up Berry. He looks up to his older brother a lot and always gets excited when he tells him about his adventures in building up the school. Jai was extremely elated when he started high school and would finally get to attend Berry.
He and his family are rather wealthy, and are the types to use that wealth to help the less wealthy. So he developed a strong tendency to put others/community before his own needs, even when it’s not necessary. Happily engages in stuff like revenge pranks as a form of defense.
In the earlier days of the HSS Prime timeline, Vivaan was a lot more closeted about his GNCNess. But over time he would gradually become more open and comfortable in expressing his preferred style.
His relationship with Koh would probably last after high school. Whether they marry and/or have kids is still pending.
OG HSS Trilogy: Alan Parke
Birthday: May 20, 2001
Extracurricular: Cheerleader in all 3 books. Also proficient in gymnastics and dance.
Gender: GNC Cis Man, He/Him pronouns, and very very VERY proud of it.
Sexuality: Sexually Heteroflexible, Hetero-Romantic. His attraction is pretty much exclusively towards women, but he does enjoy acknowledging attractive guys and bonding with his guy friends via sex.
HetGNC Labels: Definitely identifies as Mollis/Calico.
Ethnicity: Half Chinese, Half White.
Family: Scott Parke, father. Arielle Rin, birth mother who went missing shortly after his birth and has yet to be found.
Pets: A male Persian-Ragdoll cat named Princess.
Love Interest: Still deciding between Emma, Maria, or both. He’ll definitely flirt with both, but who he dates in HSS canon and who he marries is still being decided. Originally it was gonna be Maria, but then I realized him and Emma would be such a great fem4fem cheer couple— and they absolutely are, but I kinda feel like he’d have more chemistry with Maria though. He also has attraction to Payton.
Background: Originally lived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, before moving to Cedar Cove.
A very pompous and cheerful diva with zero sense of shame or modesty or self-loathing. This is partly a defense mechanism against potential alenation/maligning/etc for being a feminine guy. He doesn’t take kindly to being mistreated and will kick and scream when unfairly prevented from doing something he wants.
Insanely flirty, though he always keeps it friendly, tries not to overstep boundaries, and knows when to back off.
He becomes extra close friends with Aiden, Michael, and Caleb- initiating a Cunt Era for all of them and rallying them into being an absolute cunt-serving squad together.
His lip print becomes recognizable by everyone in school, because of how often he leaves lipstick marks (often multiple at once) on the people he kisses.
He definitely would be interested in acting in CA. Both he and Kimmy try out for Prince role but would wear a dress for costume. The theatre cube leg breaking incident would happen the same in canon, and Alan would just almost completely shut down after it.
He gets estrogen treatment and vaginoplasty when he’s older. Either senior year, or some time during his college years.
Many of his Berry friends have said that Alan would be great as a lawyer or attorney due to his tenacity. Alan will definitely remain dedicated to cheer (and gymnastics and dance), but at the very least he would consider a career in law.
Alan would definitely apply to Hollywood U and be admitted, though I haven’t decided yet if it would be his alma mater.
He’d be very conflicted on having kids— he likes the idea in theory, but for a long time he’s very unsure if he’s ready for the level of responsibility.
HSS Class Act: Kimmy Thornton (& Elyse Thornton)
Birthday: July 15, 2004
Theatre Activity: Actor in all books. Maintains the canon-given roles of Princess and Miranda/Milo, but would wear the f!MC dresses as his costume in both plays.
Family: Rita Thornton and Greg Thornton, adoptive parents. Faith Park and Alan Park, deceased birth parents. Wendy Park, bio Aunt.
Twin: Elyse Thornton, Transfem Non-Binary, She/They pronouns, Sapphic. Elyse was formerly named Elias at birth prior to her transition. At age 6 she would start going by the name Eli, and then at age 12 they officially came out and started going by Elyse. Sometimes she still likes the name Eli, but generally prefers Elyse.
Pets: The in-game dog, which they name Paris.
Love Interest: Still deciding between Rory and Skye. It’s most likely gonna be Rory, but it really depends on which route is more HetGNC friendly lol (to which most votes answered Rory). He would crush on both of them either way though.
Rory: Black Female. Kimmy will be crushing pretty hard on her in the story, whether or not they end up together.
Personality and storyline is much more true to canon HSSCA than my other HSSCA MCs will be (with some limitations. He’s not going to be super sympathetic to Danielle for instance). Kimmy is a very shy awkward dork dedicated to theatre but occasionally prone to stage fright, and gets very fixated on the prospect of him and Rory playing love interests. Except I think a lot of his stage freight came from fear about how others would react to wanting a more feminine costume for the role— but luckily Berry High will be a better environment for him.
Kimmy and Rory’s relationship may last, with a temporary amicable breakup maybe somewhere in between. Marriage and/or kids is a possibility, Kimmy does like the idea of it but wants to take time before being sure of it.
Evie would interact a few times with Jordan during her Berry years, but they would become closer in the future. Michael references her vaguely when pointing out her quote on the Tiger statue as per canon; and in headcanon she would also hear quite a bit about her from the other Prime characters, especially from Julian.
I haven’t decided if Jordan would show up at homecoming in the original trilogy, but she’d definitely show up at the Prom, with her freshman year at SJSU having finished prior. She and Evie would get to see each other at the very least.
Jordan definitely attends all the Berry High graduation ceremonies after he own, especially being always invited as a keynote speaker. And especially for her Prime friends’ graduations, of course. In the ceremony that would be in the OG HSS timeline, she and Evie would get a chance to chat. The same can be said for any of the graduations Evie attends, possibly as well as for Cher and Bear.
I’m still deciding how the events of my HSSCA rewrite would go, hence whether Evie would get to participate in theatre or get her leg broken. But either way, she and Cher would definitely become close friends during the HSS:CA timeline (though of course their dynamic would be vastly different from how it was written in canon CA)
HSS Prime: Jordan Price
Birthday: April 21, 1999
Classmate Type: Nerd
Gender: Genderqueer Cis Woman, She/Her pronouns. She loves both masc styles and fem styles, but wouldn't really consider herself either masculine or feminine.
Sexuality: Straight, but “not incapable of having a bi awakening”.
HetGNC labels: Does identify as Virago, having a genderqueer allinity and preference for more role-reversal in relationships, but it’s not her primary label. She feels more aligned with the term Genderqueer.
Ethnicity: Half Black, Half Indian.
Family: 2 moms, Toni Price and Siddhi Ray. They conceived Jordan via sperm donor, with Toni carrying.
Pets: TBD. I think she would adopt a pet of her own after that one quest about Payton’s passion with the animal shelter, but IDK what yet.
Love Interest: Julian Castillo. Jordan does not like Julian all that much as a person when they first meet, but she still sympathizes with how he's treated by his father, Max, and the Hearst football coach. Especially with Jordan's own background, she would definitely want to provide Julian an environment where he isn't treated like how he was at Hearst. Prior to him, during the HSS Prime timeline, she dated a prep boy named Daniel for a while. But early into her junior year at high school, he moved away, and they decided to end the relationship because they were not ready for a distance relationship. But she has been coming to respect Julian more as he’s been growing out of his “macho meatheaded jock” attitude, and later on in the year she would start to develop a crush on him. She remains unsure about herself and nervous about confessing for a long time though, especially with him dating/pining after Autumn, but manages to ask him to prom in the OG HSS timeline.
Background: Growing up a genderqueer Black-Indian girl with lesbian Black and Indian moms that had to pretend they were roommates for years, Jordan quickly picked up on the amounts of bias, discrimination, and injustice in the world, and was very disturbed by it to put it frankly. However, her moms had given her a heavy education in stuff like business, socialization, and financial skills— as they wanted her to be extra-prepared for any potential independent adult life as well as encouraging her to have a life with lesser restrictions. So after graduating 8th grade, she soon found herself motivated to use her skills to found and create Oliver M. Berry High School, on the foundation of being a school that was accepting to everyone no matter who they were.
Graduation: Is in the same grade as her Prime friends (sans Mia and Katherine, who are in the grade below), but gets offered by to graduate early, due to her academic records and efforts with Berry being insanely impressive to many college administrations. Some of the group encourages her to go for it, because they know she would do well. Jordan is tempted, but also hesitant, because she is insanely dedicated to this school. And even after her normal graduation date, she doesn’t have college plans and instead wants to keep working on the school. Some friends see nothing wrong with this; but others think she’s giving up her own opportunities to broaden her horizons. While they do find it admirable how dedicated she is to the school, they also believe she should be allowed time off, opportunity to broaden her horizons, and should be able to count on her fellow classmates to handle the school. But Julian manages to talk with her, and she confesses she’s become very settled in her role at Berry to the point of fear that things would fall apart for both herself and for the school if she were to graduate. Julian, having always admired Jordan for her normally free-thinking mindset, is then able to get through to her and encourage her to broaden her horizons; he tells her that going to college could only be good for her as it would only strengthen her already exceptional skillset. Hence she ends up skipping a grade, graduating, and attends her dream school San Jose State University. Of course, things do fall apart at Berry when she leaves— because not only was their most standout integral group member gone now, thus changing the group dynamic significantly; but it’s also possible some of the ones in favor of Jordan staying were mildly upset with the ones who encouraged her to go.
Generally very kind, helpful, a responsible leader, happy-go-lucky, serious, and determined.
Something notable to many of her friends and classmates is how heavily she refuses to stoop to the level of her enemies. She’s not opposed to breaking into school for the sake of investigating a corrupt principal, but it takes a lot of work to convince her to carry out something like a revenge prank. And even when she is convinced, she’ll go with the most harmless prank possible— so between something like vandalizing Kara’s car with either sour milk on the seats, wrapping it in plastic wrap, or dumping snakes into it… she’d choose the plastic wrap.
She’s a staunch believer in “punishment must fit the crime”, hence she would allow Ace to transfer to Berry because even though what he did was unforgivable, she believes he doesn’t deserve how his parents treat him.
She values her academics, but she knows how to make time to work out. Many love to comment how she’s “ridiculously jacked for a nerd”, much to her pleasure. Julian especially is very stunned by it.
Many initially wanted to name Berry High after her, but while she did not mind being acknowledged as the founder of the school, she did also want to be remembered as just a normal student like the rest, and did not want to be put on that high of a pedestal. So the school was instead named after its first principal, Oliver M. Berry.
Loves wearing purple contacts.
She and Julian do eventually get married, but whether or not they have kids is still TBD. Maybe when they’re much older.
OG HSS Trilogy: Evie Ayana
Birthday: March 8, 2001
Extracurricular: Jock in all 3 books. Has had football experience since middle school, basketball experience since preschool, and Berry is her first time doing baseball. Also has experience in cross country and track-and-field.
Gender: GNC Cis Woman, She/Her pronouns, and very very VERY proud of it. She does enjoy some feminine or fem-associated things and is proud of those too, but she really hates it when people try to define her womanhood exclusively with her femininity or act like certain things are intrinsic to womanhood. She also has major bottom dysphoria, but gets nervous talking about it because the kind of sexual acts she does prefer are too commonly misunderstood as a femdom kink thing.
Sexuality: Bi w/ huge male preference.
HetGNC Labels: Proudly identifies as Virago and uses it as her main label when she learns of the term in 2025.
Ethnicity: 3/4 Indian, 1/4 White Scottish, with possible Turkish ancestry somewhere down the line.
Family: Scott Ayana. Her birth mother Rani is amicably divorced from Scott takes on more of a distant Auntie role.
Pets: She gets the in-game hamster and names him "Cheese Nugget", or "Cheesy" for short. Prior to that, she also has a white-and-orange cat named Daisy. When she and Aiden get married, they’ll adopt an orange cat named Buttercup, a void car named Jenny, and a grey kitten whose name is TBD.
Love Interest: Aiden Zhou, of course. But she has also felt attraction for Michael, Caleb, Maria, Julian, Kieran, and Ajay. After she and Aiden get married, they do eventually open their marriage and swing with Michael and Maria and a few others.
Background: Grew up in a town called Rosemouth, just outside of San Francisco and a few hours’ drive from Cedar Cove. She always struggled to make friends back in her old schools, being picked on quite often (often over the stupidest smallest unnecessary things) and dealing with a lot of social anxiety. Scott moved them to Cedar Cove and Berry High after getting a job promotion and hearing high reviews of Berry high, seeing it as a better environment for her. It was a drastic and upsetting change for her, especially after going through a major school change the year prior due to graduating from her K-8 school… but it would soon prove to be major opportunity for self-improvement and pushing herself out of her comfort zone. She eventually adapts fairly well to a more confident, outspoken, and helpful version of herself, but it's still often very difficult for her to maintain it.
Her full name is Evelyn. Her dad would call her this name at birth, but eventually he would use the nickname "Evie-bear" as a term of endearment (because Evelyn-bear doesn't sound very fun to say), and eventually the name "Evie" stuck instead.
At this point do I even need to write out Evie’s personality lol. Blah blah blah Evie is very anxious about everything she says or does, worrying about accidentally doing something hurtful (especially if it ruins an otherwise positive relationship) and also very horny and impulsive but as well as very determined and hard working she is both a teddy bear and completely terrifying.
Evie is actually unsure about keeping up an interest in professional competitions after graduating, but at the very least she does maintain her sports as a casual hobby.
Besides Aiden, the person in her friend group she considers herself closest to is Emma. Emma's kindness to her on her first day of school amidst being a shy awkward wallflower is something Evie is very appreciative of, and it motivated her to push herself to make new friends and extend her kindness and help to them too.
Evie won homecoming crown, guest of honor, and prom crown in the OG timeline. But they're merely bonus things to her.
Evie would have a casual interest in acting and would autition for the plays in HSSCA, but she’d be going for the Knight role rather than Princess in Book 1. She could still get her leg broken if Mr. Olson decides to try out Evie in the Princess role first, but I could very well end up changing that and have Rory in the Princess role first.
I still haven't figured out where Evie goes when she graduates, but it's definitely somewhere local because that girl is not ready to stay in a dorm, or at least she’s definitely not ready to live away from her home and family. There is a possibility I could have her to Terman U with Aiden, but it’s still being decided. She of course stays close with her Berry friends whatever the case.
Evie and Aiden love to do duets and dance performances together, and even might enter some dance competitions occasionally. Of course, their partner dances are always role-reversed, but I don't think that should matter to the competitions.
She and Aiden have kids in the future. They adopt the TBB baby named Luna Ayana-Zhou, then 2 years after that Aiden gives birth to a baby boy named Daniyal Ayana-Zhou, and then 6 years after that Aiden gives birth to twin girls Aisha and Ella Ayana-Zhou.
Ok, ngl, at this point how much do I even need to “introduce” Evie anymore lol.
HSS Class Act: Cher Lee (& Bear Lee)
Birthday: January 12, 2004 (IIRC this was confirmed in her and twin's birth parents' journals. But I may change it for the other HSSCA MCs because I can)
Theatre Activity: Actor in all books. But she’d have her heart set on the Witch role for the Book 1 play. Whether or not she actually gets that role in my eventual rewrite of HSSCA is TBD. She would also get the Ferdinand role in Book 3, with Rory as Miranda (unless I decide to change the Book 3 play into Mamma Mia).
Gender: Gendercreative Drag Cis Woman, She/Her pronouns. Embraces masculinity, femininity, androgyny, all of it.
Sexuality: Male-leaning bicurious.
HetGNC Labels: Identifies as Virago, but it’s not her primary label.
Ethnicity: White English.
Family: Rita Lee and Greg Lee, adoptive parents. Faith Park and Alan Park, deceased birth parents. Wendy Park, bio Aunt.
Twin: Bear Lee, Masc Trans Man, He/Him pronouns, Heteroromantic Greysexual. Has known he was trans since he was about 3. I might set him up with Erin.
Pets: She gets the in-game dog and names him “Cat”. Cher has always been more of a cat person while Bear is more of a dog person; they’d each beg their parents for the pets they’d wanted for years, and for years their parents would refuse to get them any pets because they kept arguing over which one it should be. But eventually they came to a compromise, and their idea of a compromise is that: if they end up adopting a dog, Cher gets to name it “Cat” and occasionally as appropriate treat it like a cat; and likewise, if they end up adopting a cat, Bear gets to name it “Dog” and occasionally as appropriate treat it like a dog. When Cher and Ajay get married, they’d probably adopt up to 2 cats, one of which is a white cat.
Love Interest: Ajay Bhandari. During HSS:CA 1, she had a major puppy crush on Erin Ward and was elated to go to homecoming with her— and they did, but unfortunately, she learned during the dance that Erin only liked her as a friend. HSS:CA 2 is when she'd start developing feelings for Ajay.
Rory: White Male. She has a huge crush on him when they’re in middle school together, but she gets over it during 8th grade and has zero attraction him following that.
Cher has a very deep interest and knowledge in fashion and clothing styles. Especially when it comes to stuff like drag and crosdressing. Although she wasn't specifically named after her, Cher adores Cher Horowitz from "Clueless" and greatly looks up to her sense of fashion (and she has been told she sometimes even looks like the character face-and-hair wise). She also greatly admires Cher the singer and her various performances and outfits as well. CA Cher’s reason for joining theatre in the first place in fact is because she loved to dress up in costume and act out the roles in said costumes.
In general, Cher loves to wear outfits that stand out (though she does have her limitations- midriff tops, short shorts, and thigh highs are the biggest no-nos for her).
She takes theatre and acting very seriously. Not Ajay levels of hardass seriously, but seriously enough that she's very enthusiastic about it and always puts in her best effort to give the audience a show. Most especially through putting on a stellar costume and performance for her character. She loves putting in the effort to make the play and especially her part stand out (a big way she does this is with her costume). It's something Ajay admires a lot about her.
Although Cher can have her awkward and dorky moments, I picture her as significantly more confident, enthusiastic, and expressive than the canon MC is written. She hates when people treat her like a little kid and rolls her eyes at every "no PDA in front of the freshman". In fact, she might be a bit overconfident, but we'll see how that goes.
Cher desperately wanted to be the witch in the Book 1 play and was a little disappointed when she was picked to be the princess. I mean, she doesn't mind being the princess, but she'd have preferred to be the witch. And of course she doesn't give a fuck about wanting to kiss Rory on stage either. When seeing the casting results, Cher would have offered to switch roles with Danielle. If I have this be to no avail, then after Danielle gets kicked from the play, this would lead to a dilemma for Cher. Should she snap up the role she'd prefer and might be better suited for? Or should she stick with the role she's actually had practice in and also let Skye have a role that suits her?
Cher gets to be Ferdinand in the Tempest musical. I don't mind her being Miranda and I think Cher would enjoy that role too, I just like to mix things up.
IIRC there’s a canon childhood detail where Rita and Greg painted MC’s and Twin’s nails different colors in order to tell them apart— MC got red and Twin got blue. That’s funny to me because Cher and Bear’s favorite colors are actually the opposite: Cher’s is blue and Bear’s is red.
She and Bear, along with Rory, Skye, sometimes Erin, and very rarely Ajay are all recreational weed/cigarette smokers. IDK why but I feel like it suits the HSS:CA group to be recreational weed/cigarette users. IDK how well it would apply to my other HSSCA groups though.
She definitely goes to Hollywood U when she graduates, and studies mostly acting and fashion with a bit of Broadway/musical. Some of the CA gang may or may not be going there too.
Cher and Ajay will break up on amicable terms by the end of his senior year/her sophomore year. But they will come together again years later when they're older and wiser, perhaps after their college years.
Eventually, Cher and Ajay will get married and have a couple of kids. First they’ll adopt at least one kid, then a few years later Ajay will give birth to one or two kids.
Carmen Al Hakim, Samara Al Hakim, Zoe Barakat-Nguyen (& Zaid Barakat-Nguyen)
I actually got a second non-EvieUniverse set done! And for this one, I thought it’d be fun to make the MCs all relatives hehehe. And yes a family tree will be coming soon
Submitting for @hss-appreciation-events Day 1: Meet Our MCs (and OCs) + @choicesbookclub HSS Book Club
Scott Al Hakim and Lela Barakat are the divorced birth parents of Carmen and Samara, Carmen being older than Samara by three years.
Sahi “Faith” Barakat and Alan Nguyen are the deceased birth parents of Zoe and Zaid. Rita Park and Greg Park are the current adoptive parents of Zoe and Zaid. Their aunt Wendy Nguyen is Alan’s sister.
Lela and Sahi are sisters, Sahi being older by 2 years. Thereby making Carmen and Samara cousins to Zoe and Zaid.
Scott and Lela had a semi-amicable divorce when Samara was in preschool; they didn’t dislike each other, but marriage wasn’t working out for them. Carmen was always closer with her mom, while Samara was closer to dad, so they split respectively but they made sure to live close by to each other.
When Samara was 5, Scott would get a second wife, who treated him and Samara poorly and was emotionally/verbally abusive. She disapproved of him maintaining connections with his former wife and frequently accused him of unfaithfulness, not to mention eventually forcing him to move across the country to Florida. They finally divorced when Samara was about 7, and she and Scott have been on their own ever since. They weren’t able to move back to Cedar Cove after the divorce though, because money had become tight for them… and so it wouldn’t be until about 9 years later when they could move back to Cedar Cove.
Samara and Carmen generally get along well, though Samara’s move to Florida at age 7 would put a lot of distance between them. And even more distance between her and Zoe and Zaid, who were only 3 when she moved and weren’t as close with her yet. But she would get to become closer with them when she moved back, and especially during the HSS:CA timeline. Carmen however is traveling for college, but she and Samara would get to reconnect in-person after she graduated. And after Samara graduates her college too, depending on what I decide for her.
Carmen and Lela, and Rita and Greg and Zaid and Zoe, of course become very close. Rita and Greg have always been close friends with Lela and Sahi.
Zoe and Zaid were about 9 years old when Carmen first started founding Berry High. Carmen would always tell them about all the hijinks she and her new friends got up to. She would tell Samara about them too via email.
HSS Prime: Carmen Al Hakim
Birthday: April 24, 1998
Classmate Type: Jock. Interested in/does: track, soccer, swim, baseball, and water polo. Idk yet which of these is her favorite.
Gender: GNC Trans Woman, She/Her pronouns. Has been out ever since age 5.
Sexuality: wlm/Julietan
HetGNC Labels: Proudly identifies as (Trans) Virago.
Ethnicity: 3/4 Lebanese, 1/4 White.
Pets: An orange-and-white lop-eared rabbit named Bugs
Love Interest: Ezra Mitchell. They’re still dating throughout the Choices HSS timeline, but she can’t make it to the prom because her Uni semester hasn’t ended yet and it’s a bit far from Berry. So Ezra and Bethany go to prom together in Choices HSS canon— in my headcanon/interpretation they are friends who do friendly flirting, and Carmen is chill with that. She’s been close with Ezra for years by this point, so she’d have already known about Bethany.
Background: Her former schools were not very good at dealing with bigotry and inequality. Joining sports teams especially was absolute hell for her. And the nail in the coffin was how often she was not taken seriously or ignored when she did try to push back against it. So she decided “Fuck it, I’ll make a new school where everyone is accepted no matter what. Fuck you all.”
Graduation: Is a grade above her friend group and graduates as such. There isn’t really any drama about whether or not she should pursue something else or whatever. She has been offered to graduate early, but rejected it.
Is a very chill, cool, confident type. Very good at being rational and remaining level-headed. Very good at diplomacy. She can kick your ass if she wanted to, but more often than not she doesn’t.
She is taaaalll. 6’0. So is Samara. Tallness runs on both sides of the family.
Relationship with Ezra Mitchell is long-lasting. They most likely do not have interest in getting married, but they do move in together. And Ezra will give birth to at least one or two kids.
OG HSS Trilogy: Samara Al Hakim
Birthday: September 1, 2001
Extracurricular: Jock in all 3 books. Also proficient in wrestling and sometimes swimming.
Gender: GNC/Genderqueer Cis Woman, She/Her pronouns. Her personal style can be fluid sometimes, but is mostly masculine. She also wears a packer, and also gets major bottom euphoria from wearing a wrestling cup with or without packer.
Sexuality: wlm. Most likely Bi. I remember headcanoning a girl-crush for her once but I forgot who it was.
HetGNC Labels: Identifies as Virago, but it’s not her primary label.
Ethnicity: 3/4 Lebanese, 1/4 White.
Pets: TBD
Love Interest: Caleb Mitchell, slow burn. They get along well from the start, but it takes a while for her attraction to develop.
Background: Even though she hated being forced to move away from her family by her step-mom, Samara ended up adapting to her new home and school pretty well. In middle school and 9th grade, she’d even become pretty much a wrestling champion. So although she was excited to finally be able to move back to Cedar Cove and attend the school that her big sister built up, it was also really frustrating because she had to leave her old wrestling team behind and start at a new school that was still forming it’s wrestling team. Still, Samara manages to take the opportunity to try a few new sports when she’s at Berry.
6’0 tall. Again, tallness runs in both sides of this family.
Samara is generally good at adapting to change, depending on the circumstances. She is very conflict averse but sometimes has impulsive and pedantic tendencies. Her learned instincts are generally to get herself out of bad situations. Despite normally being conflict averse, if she sees someone else in a bad situation she will get very very pedantic about telling them to get out of it— hence how she ends up getting particularly closer to Caleb. She is also fully capable of kicking your ass, but she generally will not want to unless she feels she absolutely has to.
Has a major affinity towards rainbows. She sees something rainbow colored, she instantly claims it.
She and Caleb probably have their first time on prom night.
Berry High manages to get a full fledged wrestling team in the CA timeline. It’s a winter season sport. Samara as well as Frank both switch from basketball to wrestling that year. Samara does wrestling in her senior year too.
Samara is not big on serious performing/stage arts. The occasional karaoke song or open mic night song is fine, but she would never do something like a serious theatre production or a serious concert. She might still join the theatre club in HSSCA but as part of the set designing crew. Hence, the “MC gets their leg broken in auditions” thing definitely won’t happen to her.
She and Caleb will get married in the future. Caleb will take her last name, becoming Caleb Al Hakim, and they may open their own family bakery together. Caleb will give birth to up to 3 kids at most, though it could be a while before they get to that point because Samara would be very unsure about being a mom at first due to trauma from her ex-stepmom.
HSS Class Act: Zoe Barakat-Nguyen (& Zaid Barakat-Nguyen)
Birthday: August 18, 2004
Theatre Activity: Actor in all books. Maintains the canon-given roles and outfits, but adds a nonconforming flair to them.
Twin: Zaid Barakat-Nguyen, Cis Demiboy, He/They Pronouns, Queer. Most likely gets with Erin.
Pets: 2 Geckos named Skippy and Zippy
Love Interest: Rory Silva, slow burn. She’d feel really awkward about the idea of him and Rory as a couple at first during Book 1. They’re neutral on kissing him for the play, having kind of a “showbusiness is showbusiness” attitude about it.
Rory: Hispanic Male.
Wears temporary tattoo sleeve (that she will substitute for an identical real tattoo equivalent when she’s older) and a nose ring. Likes to grow her hair out long normally, then will dye it fully pink and cut it before show.
Dates Rory in the HSSCA timeline, but whether or not it lasts into adulthood is unsure.
