Brief 1: Post I

It’s no secret a lot of us will spend our spare time reading the day away but what older generations don’t realise (if they believe we read at all) is a lot of us count fanfiction as a viable alternative to full-length novels. So I wish to share with you three of my favourites from the Mystic Messenger fandom.

A little background for those who don’t know what that is, it’s a dating sim phone game where you play as a girl roped into joining a charity organisation where you help them invite guests to a their annual fundraising party.

There are weirder stories you can play on this earth.

If you'd like to you can read them here:

Escape Velocity by Dulcidyne

The Hours in Between by AilisCeana

Home by Kaiielle

To start this review off let’s begin with the writer’s portrayal of our main character. The main character, otherwise known as MC by the fandom, is supposed to be you. She is designed as a silent protagonist, somebody’s whose personality is yours to choose, whether you put yourself in her shoes or created somebody else entirely; everyone has free reign on what they do with her character. That being said the three authors seem to have the same idea of how she would play, how the MC would be someone sentimental, someone empathetic to their troubles; with the minor trait differences you’d expect from three entirely different writers. Dulcidyne writes hers with a particular timidness, AilisCeana likes to write her character as someone with more spunk, far more outspoken than the other two, and Kaiielle, even though it’s hard to get a very thorough read since their character is going through emotional distress during, you can tell she’s a very loving, very caring girl. Even though the authors portray this character very similarly it’s the little nuances that I love to discover through their writing.

“Home can be a person,” is the theme these collective authors share and I will say that I think the reason all these writers somehow miraculously share the same theme is because of the fictional character Saeyoung Choi. Now Saeyoung [pictured: second from the right] is an utterly complex character, more complex than most dating sims will write their characters, and I’m not going to go into his entire history for the sake of time but what you need to know is that he is an abuse survivor. His mother resented both himself and his younger brother for existing; there was never a point in time where she even remotely cared for them, Saeyoung grew up in this abusive household striving to protect his one and only family until he inevitably lost him. Home means so little to him because he’s never had a stable one. So when he finds someone whose patient enough to wait for him, kind enough to help him and mental enough to stay with him. He orbits around them.

I had more to talk about until I realised I was going a little overboard with this so in conclusion; I hope to bring Saeyoung’s complex nature to life in my writing.