Faythe [She/Her] || Other Story: @midnightsun-if || Devblog for Unscripted, an IF set within Hollywood— focused mainly on romance, drama, and potential healing. 18+ // Minors DNI
Those three words, along with the flashing of cameras and screaming of thousands of people, had made up your life for over a decade. Following your rising star into the stratosphere where you could look at where you’ve been upon your lofty perch in the sky. You were the ruler of your universe and there was nothing that’d bring you down…
… Until, of course, there was…
Suddenly in a free fall, without any chance of catching yourself in sight, you’re hurtling back to the ground with only one thought, one goal, in your mind: Find your way back up.
When a new project comes your way, new opportunities arrive with it, but nothing is ever cut and dry within Hollywood. You’ll have to put your all into this movie if you want any chance at salvaging your career.
Try to stay on script…
Unscripted is a slice-of-life interactive fiction where romance, drama, and the trivialities of life intertwine to create your story. Rated 18+ for explicit language, optional sexual content, drug/alcohol use, and violence.
Features
✰ Customizable MC: Name, gender (male, female, non-binary), sexuality, appearance, some of your past projects, and history with a few of the characters.
✰ Maintain your fan base and make sure that they haven’t forgotten about you. Will you earn more as your journey progresses?
✰ Be interviewed from sidewalk reporters to one of the biggest Late Night Shows within America. Just make sure that you make a good impression— there is such a thing as bad publicity after all.
✰ Romance one of the characters that’ll either have the crowd roaring or scratching their heads. Will you find common ground with your sworn rival? Take a chance at love with someone from your past? Give your hot-and-cold manager a shot? Time will tell…
✰ Adopt a new friend that will hopefully make your lonely nights less so.
✰ Rise back to the ranks of Super Stardom and take back your throne.
Romances
The Rival: Angel Sinclair [M/F] — Ever since you arrived in Hollywood, Angel Sinclair has been there. You’re not quite sure when, or where, your rivalry even began, only that it’s made a ton of tabloids rich with the stories they’d print due to it, and you’re even less sure why you keep running into them on the same lot you’re shooting your newest movie. Is it another twisted form of punishment? With an icy exterior that puts the Arctic to shame, you don’t think you’ve ever seen them smile— at least when they’re not in front of the camera or interacting with fans. Will you uncover more as your random run-ins start losing some of their randomness?
Route: Rivals to Lovers.
The Manager: Kieran/Kiera Walker [M/F] — Probably one of the few reasons you’re still where you are. With a keen mind, a sharp eye for detail, and an even sharper tongue, K has never taken it easy on you, and they’re definitely not doing so now. While pragmatic about their approach, they’re not afraid to tell you what they think, when the time calls for it, which is something that’s definitely caused some tension in the past. Still, you don’t know what you’d do without them; as they’ve stayed steadily by your side through it all. And you don’t think they’re going anywhere anytime soon.
Route: Slow Burn.
The Director: Spencer Hale [M/F] — Last Laugh, the title of the movie you’re now part of, is the passion project that Spencer has been working on for years; trying tirelessly to get it to the silver screen. You would know— after all you were there when they began to write it back in college. Despite not having seen them in years, the gentle look in their eyes hasn’t shifted in the slightest; even if it is a bit more wary now, they don’t hesitate in offering you the same level of kindness as before. Though, even that, still feels different, wrong somehow. Can you recover what’s been lost between you? Or will you forever be two ships passing in the night?
Route: Ex-Best Friend/Lover (can choose if they were your lover or not) || Second Chances
The Newcomer: Cameron/Carmen Rivera [M/F] — An up-and-coming star within Hollywood from the music scene. Having wanted to take a shot at the silver screen for years it’s only with this project that they’ve finally been given the chance— cast as your love interest, no less. You’re not too sure what to make of them. From everything you’ve read they’re sunshine incarnate, with a beaming smile always on their lips, that completely contradicts the darker colors that they typically wear. Something tells you, an almost bone deep intuition, that they’re an array of contradictions all rolled up into one package. Will you ever be able to uncover any of them?
Route: First Love (to them) || Age Gap
The Bodyguard: Roman Locke [M/F] — With a penchant to wear nothing but black, sometimes with muted tones of gray thrown in, you don’t know much about the individual that’s been guarding you with their life for the last five years. Only their stellar history in the Navy, coupled with a possible connection to being a CIA Agent, though that’s never been confirmed, and the other rudimentary facets of their past that any employer needs to know. However, even if they rarely speak, you know that you’re in more than capable hands and that they take their job seriously. But what happens when that professional facade begins to crack?
Route: Bodyguard Romance.
The Assistant: Harley Park [M/F] — Someone who’s very good at their job while also being everywhere and nowhere all at once. You don’t know if they’ll ever get over the embarrassment of your first meeting— with them being in a fandom shirt from a project you had done a couple of years before, with you at center stage on it. With an undeniable charm, if a bit awkward in their approach, Harley is definitely someone that’d you miss interacting with once you got the chance to do so. You just have to get them to actually interact with you first.
Nice to see a game where MC is not a novice like in most celebrity IFs
Felt like it’d be a fun shift from the usual dynamic— not that I haven’t enjoyed it in the long run!
Thought it’d be an enjoyable to see one where the MC is already at the top and at the precipice of falling instead of at the bottom and needing to climb up.
So there won't be a demo in February? I saw the date earlier
I wanted there to be, but due to my mother being diagnosed with a tumor— we don’t know yet if it’s cancerous or not— I’ve sort put that writing on pause as I’ve been there for her.
I’m so sorry for the delay, as I feel awful about it, but I hope to get something out within the next month or two!
You do! I’m not sure if it’ll be canon or not if you have siblings, but for right now you can HC it! As nothing will be set in stone until I implement it.
I will make roman and kieran fights for MC because MC been sending them mixed signals (bcs my MC can't decide between two Greek deities) and now the tensions are high.
I'll leave it at that and see what happens.
Roman wouldn’t pay attention to it and wouldn’t engage with a dynamic like that— their route can be drama filled but not in that way. 😂
Kieran, on the other hand, feels like he’s much too old to deal with that specific brand of bullshit— that Hollywood tends to love cultivate— and would actively disengage from the MC if that were to occur. Plus the whole slow burn thing would combust into flames and turn to ash after a bit.
Listless in life, Harley has finally settled on a job, and potentially a career, that they actually enjoy doing— something that their parents never expected from them. It may not be medical or law school like their siblings went to, but it’s something that makes them happy and is wholly their own. Even if family dinners have become a bit awkward ever since they decided to make the plunge into Hollywood.
It’s even more awkward for them now after meeting you. A celebrity that they’ve been a fan of ever since your first movie all those years ago, someone they would have never thought they’d meet… Let alone meeting you while they’re wearing a shirt with you at the very center… It may take them a bit to come out of their shell after that, but they’re as genuine as one can be when it comes to a world like Hollywood— even if they’re a bit awkward in their approach at times.
Can you both discover more about the other?
Physical Appearance: They have a wiry slender build. Harley stands at 5’6” (167.64 cm). A warm porcelain complexion complements the ever changing quality of their hazel eyes— warm gold melting into shimmering green with a gentle brown undertone. Their typically dark brown hair is dyed silvery white— M!Harley has his falling haphazardly over his forehead, an almost shaggy quality to it. While F!Harley has hers just barely brushing her shoulders.
Other Defining Characteristics: Has a rose tattoo sleeve on their right arm.
Not much is known about their early life— talking about their past isn’t something Roman is all that fond of— but they have an exemplary record within the Navy before moving into the more private sector for security.
You don’t think you’ve ever seen them in anything except black— with a smattering of neutral gray and white thrown in— which isn’t too surprising; given the fact that they take their job so seriously. Having Roman on your side means that your life is in perfectly capable hands; even if seeing them crack a smile is rarer than a blue moon at times.
What happens when the facade between the two of you, the lines between professional and personal, begin to deteriorate and blur?
Physical Appearance: They have a muscular build. Roman stands at 5’8” (172.72 cm)— the perfect height to blend into their surroundings. Bronze skin, with a warm undertone, brings out the gold flecks within their light brown eyes. Ebony black hair completes the look— M!Roman keeps his cut short, hints of curls showcasing. While F!Roman keeps hers to just beneath her jawline.
Other Defining Characteristics: They have a thin scar through their right eyebrow— as well as a scar on their mid-left side.
I want my MC to be French 😂 A reference to the long history of rivalry between Brits and French, and the stereotype they don't like each other.
Angel has always enjoyed visiting France whenever they had to film there— they’re fluent in the language too. It’d be quite amusing for the MC to be talking shit in French only for Angel to reply after a bit. 😂
Honestly that’d be entirely something they’d do. Or letting you do it for years and then letting you know once in a relationship with them.
Loves the ocean, fake scar - did our manager survive a shark attack? Because that's the sort of sexy, badass quality I'd want on my side in an argument over royalties.
K wouldn’t really quantify it as an attack, more like a nip from a juvenile that they were very lucky wasn’t worse than it ended up being.
Went right back in the water the first chance that they were allowed to do so.
Getting their start on a network aimed towards kids in their early teenage years, C quickly came into their own within the music world— rising to the ranks of super stardom by the time they were 16. Due to this they surrounded themself with the wrong sort of people— the type that only saw their status and not them— and fell into some rough times with partying. Something they weren’t able to break free from until they were 22.
Despite all of this, however, C maintains a positive outlook with their fans, signing CDs and albums with a flourish every time, genuinely enjoying interacting with them, and it’s due to their fan base that they’re finally trying to push back into the acting sphere (the place where it all began)— only this time trying to be part of the movie scene. Will you be able to show them the ropes of a world they’re distantly familiar with? Will they teach you a thing or two along the way?
And will something more grow during it all?
Physical Appearance: They have a slender build. C stands at 5’4” (162.56 cm). A tan complexion allows for the dark brown of their gaze to stand out beautifully. Dark brown locks, with faint highlights of gold, is typically tousled— Cameron keeps his to just over his ears. While Carmen has hers to just beneath her shoulders, bangs falling messily across her forehead.
Other Defining Characteristics: Has a music note tattooed behind their right ear.
Cinematography has been the lifeblood of their creative process for as long as they could remember— directing, producing, and writing, has called to them in a way nothing else ever has. Of course, this may be due to the fact that their grandfather is a famous director in his own right. Something that Spencer has never allowed to help them— they wanted their accomplishments to be their own, which is why it’s taken them so long to get Last Laugh going.
With a calming presence, a gentle heart, and seemingly endless compassion, it’s quite interesting to see the way they can command the set when it’s time for action. Even if it’s been a while since you’ve last seen them— since dorm sleepovers, frantic study sessions for finals, and endless laughter in the quad— Spencer hasn’t seemed to change that much. Still regarding you with a warm, albeit wary, familiarity that comes from knowing one another.
Will you end up rekindling what had once been lost? Or will you be two ships passing in the night?
Physical Appearance: They have an elegantly lithe build, somewhat like a dancers. Spencer stands at 5’10” (177.8 cm) with a warm beige complexion. Emerald eyes complement the light blonde color of their hair— M!Spencer having his fall in boyish curls across his forehead. While F!Spencer keeps her to just over her shoulders.
Other Defining Characteristics: Has a small camera tattoo on their left wrist from losing a bet to you back in college— something that’d typically covered by the sweaters/cardigans they wear.
