#I think Astrid’s replay is going to hit me the hardest since I gave her the most developed supporting characters

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Whelp, guess it’s time to replay Book 1. Things I want to change this go-around:

Rowena is more scientific and ruled by logic instead of her emotions, which puts her completely out of sorts when this tall drink of water promptly sweeps her off her feet. Cue lots of “you’re having all these feelings because your life has taken a turn, if you were to meet Nate in a normal everyday type situation, you wouldn’t feel this way” attempts at talking herself out of starting a relationship.

Less plain barebones apartment decor, more antique store and estate sale hunting to create a cozy yet classic space. There’s a communal maker’s studio somewhere in Wayhaven that has tools people can borrow and space to do projects that Rowena takes advantage of to refinish furniture. One of the regular older carpenters took her under his wing and taught her everything he knows.

Absolutely nothing about Zoe. I adore my prickly daughter. Her best friend/ex-husband remarried, had a son who is currently 7 years old, and got (amicably) divorced (again.) His son visits on the weekends and summers and Zoe has a good relationship with her ex’s ex-wife to the point where she’s basically a third parent.

I’m telling myself that the reason I’m not seeing any mention of supporting characters I made up for Astrid’s run is because Sir Cashew von Noodlesworth III got sent to Germany to act as a therapy bicycle horn cat to Astrid’s best friend Markus, who is dealing with some Werewolf Issues back home and needs the emotional support. Her other best friend Tony isn’t in the picture due to some sort of fey situation, Marle and Bjorn and BB temporarily closed the tea shop to go on a long family vacation/shop restock of teas from sustainable sources, and Fiona got caught up in some Agency mission with her pack of pixies.

Astrid doesn’t believe any of it, she thinks that the people in her life saw the UST brewing between her and Adam and went

Also less empty and plain apartment decor. More color, more art on the walls, more pictures of the Trio on the walls, more well-worn and much loved books in Italian and German, more of her hobbies on display, and way more plants. So many plants. All the plants.

More of Lucas needing to be the hottest person in the grocery store at 6 am. Also more of seeing a little of himself in Douglas and attempting to be the person that he needed to have around when he was his age. He still doesn’t get enough sleep and the Local Retiree Gossip Squad have pretty much adopted him as their honorary grandson. Delores 10/10 approves of whatever he has going on with Morgan. She says Morgan “reminds me of myself when I was her age” and Gladys almost always counters with “but you were a hussy when you were her age.” Billie, the peacekeeper in the group, usually argues that Delores’ so called hussy ways is how Delores snagged Dear Husband Number Four, to which all of the gossip squad sighs dreamily and as one go “bless his soul.”

#I think Astrid’s replay is going to hit me the hardest since I gave her the most developed supporting characters #and none of them are canonically there #it’s like me playing Inquisition and running to the gardens to find Roz #only to remember that Roz isn’t in the game and is one of my friends’ OCs instead #I’m going to be looking for Cashie and then feeling sad that he’s not there for Adam to sneak treats and pets to when nobody’s looking #tbh I don’t remember anything much about Rowena’s run so it’ll be like playing for the first time with her #ngl I’ve missed the Gossip Squad