What it is: A series of visual novels by Pixelberry, released in the Choices: Stories You Play app. The novels are free, though you can only play a certain number of free chapters per day; certain choices within the games cost diamonds, which can be bought with actual money or earned by playing through other games and watching ads. The characters I've nominated are featured in several series of novels by now (The Royal Romance, The Royal Heir, The Royal Ending), but you only really have to play The Royal Romance Book 1 to know the characters and their relationships!
What it's about: You play as a struggling New York waitress who happens to meet a visiting bachelor party, hit it off with the bachelor, and then learn that he's a prince who has a bunch of ladies competing to win his hand... and you're invited to join in! In far-off, beautiful Madeuplandia Cordonia, you must find allies and friends, navigate court customs and intrigue, and dodge scandal and sabotage to win the prince's heart (or somebody else's...)
What I love about it: It's very silly and dramatic and full of romance-with-royalty tropes (fancy balls and gowns and costume changes, jetsetting to gorgeous destinations, silly traditions and etiquette, backstabbing court ladies, avoiding the overbearing press, etc), and it's got a bunch of really great characters who are super shippable. I'm all about the NPC ships for this one!
What I'm likely to request: • Liam Rys/Maxwell Beaumont: Liam is the Crown Prince of Cordonia, who is earnest and duty-bound and just trying to do what's right for his family and his country while also trying to follow his own heart; Maxwell is his longtime party!friend and a member of another noble family who's the MC's guide and confidant throughout the story. though he's kind of an adorable failboat at this sometimes. The Beaumonts sponsor the MC in the marriage contest because each noble family is allowed to present one lady as a suitor and Maxwell doesn't have any sisters. I think that's unfairly heteronormative (especially considering that the prequel book set hundreds of years earlier allowed gay pairings!) and Maxwell should totally be allowed to be the suitor. Liam likes Maxwell more than most of the ladies anyway, and he always makes him laugh and makes sure he doesn't take himself too seriously! They would be so sweet together! • Liam Rys/Maxwell Beaumont/Drake Walker: Drake is the prince's commoner best friend who's fiercely protective and suspicious and pessimistic, and Liam/Drake is one of the fandom's bigger ships. I am stupidly into the idea of Liam/Drake secretly being an established couple who don't plan on letting Liam's eventual mandatory marriage to a noblewoman (...or nobleman) split them up. Maxwell is so optimistic and bright and kinda flaily! Drake is kind of an asshole on the outside, but he has that shiny heart of gold! They balance each other out really well and they're both so good for Liam.
Other resources: The wiki has a list of characters. The TV Tropes page is here! And you can find various playthroughs of different routes on YouTube, such as this one here.
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The Royal Romance (Visual Novel)
What it is: A series of visual novels by Pixelberry, released in the Choices: Stories You Play app. The novels are free, though you can only play a certain number of free chapters per day; certain choices within the games cost diamonds, which can be bought with actual money or earned by playing through other games and watching ads. The characters I've nominated are featured in several series of novels by now (The Royal Romance, The Royal Heir, The Royal Ending), but you only really have to play The Royal Romance Book 1 to know the characters and their relationships!
What it's about: You play as a struggling New York waitress who happens to meet a visiting bachelor party, hit it off with the bachelor, and then learn that he's a prince who has a bunch of ladies competing to win his hand... and you're invited to join in! In far-off, beautiful
MadeuplandiaCordonia, you must find allies and friends, navigate court customs and intrigue, and dodge scandal and sabotage to win the prince's heart (or somebody else's...)What I love about it: It's very silly and dramatic and full of romance-with-royalty tropes (fancy balls and gowns and costume changes, jetsetting to gorgeous destinations, silly traditions and etiquette, backstabbing court ladies, avoiding the overbearing press, etc), and it's got a bunch of really great characters who are super shippable. I'm all about the NPC ships for this one!
What I'm likely to request:
• Liam Rys/Maxwell Beaumont: Liam is the Crown Prince of Cordonia, who is earnest and duty-bound and just trying to do what's right for his family and his country while also trying to follow his own heart; Maxwell is his longtime party!friend and a member of another noble family who's the MC's guide and confidant throughout the story. though he's kind of an adorable failboat at this sometimes. The Beaumonts sponsor the MC in the marriage contest because each noble family is allowed to present one lady as a suitor and Maxwell doesn't have any sisters. I think that's unfairly heteronormative (especially considering that the prequel book set hundreds of years earlier allowed gay pairings!) and Maxwell should totally be allowed to be the suitor. Liam likes Maxwell more than most of the ladies anyway, and he always makes him laugh and makes sure he doesn't take himself too seriously! They would be so sweet together!
• Liam Rys/Maxwell Beaumont/Drake Walker: Drake is the prince's commoner best friend who's fiercely protective and suspicious and pessimistic, and Liam/Drake is one of the fandom's bigger ships. I am stupidly into the idea of Liam/Drake secretly being an established couple who don't plan on letting Liam's eventual mandatory marriage to a noblewoman (...or nobleman) split them up. Maxwell is so optimistic and bright and kinda flaily! Drake is kind of an asshole on the outside, but he has that shiny heart of gold! They balance each other out really well and they're both so good for Liam.
Other resources: The wiki has a list of characters. The TV Tropes page is here! And you can find various playthroughs of different routes on YouTube, such as this one here.