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[peonyblossom]

HSS MCs in Nightbound

Jamie // Ryan // Celeste

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[peonyblossom]

Meet My OC - Olivia Zimmerman

Book: High School Story: Class Act Name: Olivia Alexis Zimmerman Pronouns: she/her Birthday: January 12, 2005 Zodiac: Capricorn Height: 5’10” Gender: Trans woman Sexuality: Panromantic asexual  Hometown: Cedar Cove, California Hobbies: football, baseball, crafting HSS Type: Jock HWU Type: Celeb Athlete

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[peonyblossom]

Meet My MC - Christine Zimmerman

Book: High School Story: Class Act Name: Christine Aria Zimmerman Pronouns: she/her Birthday: January 12, 2005 Zodiac: Capricorn Height: 5’3” Gender: Cis woman Sexuality: Bisexual Love Interest: nb!Rory  Hometown: Cedar Cove, California Hobbies: opera singing, acting, dancing HSS Type: Actor HWU Type: Broadway

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[storyofmychoices]

Meet my HSS:CA MC: Molly Quinn

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I don't have as much fleshed out for Molly as I do my HSS mc Riley

Birthday: tbd

Twin: James

Appearance:

brown eyes and hair

mostly pairs skirts and dresses with leather faux leather jackets

with dresses, sometimes she wears jeans underneath, with skirts it's usually leggings

typically she wears chunky heels (3-5") to feel taller (she is 5'1" and feels self conscious about it)

Personality:

quiet and shy

avoids conflict at all costs

enjoys alone time (or alone time with her twin)

prefers quiet spaces where she can read or just think

Love Interest(s):

Skye Crandall (flirts and kisses but they decide they're better best friends)

Aiden Zhou (she has a little crush on him)

Ajay Bhandari (slow burn)

Extra Curricular Activities:

Drama: she gets the role of the princess but decides she'd rather direct than be front and center [Thomas Hunt is obviously her favorite director...even if he does films and this is drama. It works, okay?]

Band: plays clarinet but wants to learn the violin

Photography Club

[cadybear420]

This feels guilt trippy AF I'm sorry. This one scene in HSS:CA here makes me feel like I'm batshit crazy for calling the entirety of MTFL emotionally manipulative (I still think HSS:CA is leagues better than MTFL don't get me wrong, but you get my point).

The problem is that I just don't feel like Danielle goes through enough hell for what she did. We're just expected to suddenly feel bad for her because it took Rory's mom's life being on the line to get her to back down?

I guess I don't mind the characters hearing her out, but moreso in the sense of "I'll give her one chance to see if she actually feels bad". Instead, though, the narrative tries so hard to push that Danielle feels actual remorse for what she did, like she didn't intentionally cause legitimate harm to other people.

Like... when we had to hear out Brian and Zoe, the story didn't expect us to be kind to them. We could if we wanted to. But we could be more cold and unforgiving if we wanted to as well. We could call Brian's apology weak if we wanted. We could continue being cold towards Zoe. There wasn't only one "right" way we could respond. (Not to mention, we actually see Zoe put in her own effort to change. She doesn't just list the bad things she did and say that they're bad and then go "We cool?", we see her actually move on from Caleb and Brian and then stand up against Brian for the sake of someone she doesn't even care about.)

But in CA it seems like they really really really want us to feel for her and think being kind to her is "the better option". Sure, we do have an option to be more unsure about being cool with Danielle in the end of the scene, but the option to be more forgiving is emotionally charged enthusiastic ("If it's up to me, yeah we're cool!") while the option to be less forgiving is very softcore and unsure ("I don't know..."). No option to be more pissed at Danielle?

Also the fact that Danielle only changes if we do that premium scene. Otherwise, when she reappears for a Book 2 cameo, she suggests sabotaging Lorenzo's campaign. It's so gross to me that it's entirely on the CA MC to get her to change, and that she otherwise learns nothing. I get human connection is important to personal change/growth but Danielle needs to go through more hell before I can feel sympathetic towards her.

Im going to stop here before I either A) make this into an essay rant because I do want to make an essay for it just at a different time, B) go completely batshit, or C) both of those things. But I swear to god the way CA handles Danielle is just so confused.

[cadybear420]

How Cher would respond to this if we were allowed:

[cadybear420]

In honor of me finally replaying HSS:CA, have this Unhinged HSS:CA Ad that I found on the Choices Reddit months back.

NGL I'm starting to feel like this would have been a much better "fighting over a love interest" plot than whatever tf the actual story tried to do with Danielle and Rory in Book 1 lmfao

[cadybear420]

Also Evie would prefer to be the knight and would be trying out for the role of the knight. Make Evie the knight, Cher the witch, and Rory the princess.