#weh mateo

[playchoicesconfessions]

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‘Am I the only one who wishes we could romance Mateo in WEH?’

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[the-icarustoyourcertainty]

More weh stuff part 2

Beautiful huh, Dakota?

God , I love their relationship SO much

*Basketball player style* @timetravellingkitty this one's for you babe

Wonderful advice for an EATING contest Dakota, thank you so much

Why, do you wish it were you Adhira was dating, Lennox? *Eyebrow wiggle*

That's my type, that's my type (I wanted to ss the Mateo scene as well and then Forgot

Part 3 on its way

[oceanatydes]

smth that I’m noticing immediately in WEH is the difference in character relationships compared to other recent books

so much of their issues with other single LI books is the LI has no real personality or relationships outside of MC. all of their affection and attention is solely focused on MC, and makes for an extremely flat and repetitive character and romance.

however, in WEH, that’s not the case. dakota has important and long-standing relationships with characters like mateo, lennox, and gracie. we get to know these characters too, and build our own relationships with them on top of them already having connections with one another.

I find mateo very sweet—he doesn’t feel like a filler character as many other side characters in so many recent books do. we care about what happens to mateo—we’re invested.

and that is what I think makes this book so heart-wrenching. you’re genuinely invested in all the characters, not just the love interest and MC in their own little bubble. mateo has genuinely been kind and welcoming to MC, which offers a sharp contrast to diamond scenes in other books where MC placates random characters who they have no meaningful relationship with.

those random characters are flat and one dimensional—their purpose is to get the player to spend diamonds. that is not the case with characters like mateo, who sincerely engages with MC whether or not the player spends diamonds.

endless summer functioned in a similar way—the sole purpose of the plot wasn’t just to earn points with a love interest with no real build up. your relationships mattered, and you cared about the characters. they could function without MC—MC was not a necessity, but an important addition to the group. diamonds were not required to have basic and meaningful interactions with characters, but instead enhanced the current moment or situation.

I miss this way of writing a lot, because I think this was such a huge part of why their most well-loved books did as well as they did.

I’m looking forward to seeing how the rest of WEH goes.

[pixelsbichoice]

DANNY

[ratanslily]

Mateo and Lennox at their graduation (s)

i remember them saying they'd invite mc to their respective graduations next year so..

[cartoonish0geek]

I love this book so damn much. Present tense.

I'll be watching over you. Rooting for you, cheering for you, loving you. Present tense. Until we find each other agian. So go live a life worth watching

- Dakota Winchester

Song I was listening to this when he died and it will forever remind me of him for some odd reason: Doubt - Twenty One Pilots

[noheadthoughtsemptyig]

You know WEH was well-written when you think back to Rising Tides and realise that it was meant to make you research about how to protect the environment more but in the end it mostly bored you to death while WEH wasn’t meant to make you educate yourself a bit more about cancer but it did and you’re glad for it.

[maxwellsbrokeass]

with every heartbeat but it’s just screens of mateo being adorable; chap 5