#ah yes. the consequences of having nine ros is starting to catch up to me dskljghsghk

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Please I need more facts about the new ROs dear author 🙏

I’ve been slowly chipping away this ask, so I hope this answers it well enough! This is everything so far confirmed either through the blog or the public Discord, and a few extra little tidbits for fun, too. :)

Finley ‘Fin’ Ramsey || 19 || They/Them || Human

Description: Average height (5’7”) and lean build. Short dark curls that brush the top of their collar. Olive-toned skin. Round face with soft, chubby cheeks. Kind dark brown eyes.  Wears oversized, casual clothing with many layers: graphic t-shirts, jackets/sweaters, sweatpants, and black platform boots with two-inch soles.

Born and raised in Melchior, Oregon, Fin is the only child of a single mother and works in a cafe when the events of the game start.

The Naturalist is their best friend since the age of five :)

Ambrose Solomon || 21 || He/Him || Light Manipulator

Description: Tall (6’3”) and muscular build. Carefully trimmed pale blond curls. Bronze skin with sun-freckles. Sharp jaw and cheekbones. Wary dark eyes. Wears professional, practical clothing: dark button-down shirt, black sports jacket and trousers, black boots.

As a child, he worked in traveling circuses with his twin sister, Pandora. There is a short story (maybe two?) circulating out there about this. He was tutored and raised by the acrobats that helped him with his performance.

He has a tempestuous relationship with espresso and the baristas that have served him, but he still tips them a few bucks every time though.

He already has a cameo in the original Dashingdon demo in Chapter Four.

Luna Morales || 20 || She/Her || Shapeshifter

Description: Short (5’2”) and athletic, buff build. Shoulder-length light brown kinky hair with blonde highlights. Light brown skin. Defined jawline and round cheeks. Piercing dark hazel eyes. Wears sleek, nondescript clothing: plain black tank-top, long black leggings, and black sneakers.

She has three sisters (two older and one younger).

She is a phoenix.

Jules Pearce || Unknown || He/They || Vampire

Description: Tall (6’6”) and broad build. Thick, wavy dark brown hair that falls just past their shoulders, usually pulled back from his face. Dark brown skin freckled with beauty marks. A notable circular burn scar the size of a quarter on his right temple. Soft jawline and hollowed cheeks. Dark eyes with a vampiric red ring around the irises. Wears unremarkable clothing that blends into their environment well, but prefers bright colors.

He had two older brothers and a younger sister before his transition into vampirism.

They’re fairly clumsy despite being considered a ‘dangerous predator’ and he tries to play it off, but his inner circle knows better

They also have a cameo in Chapter Four of the Dashingdon demo alongside Ambrose

Hazel Hudson || 19 || She/Her || Shapeshifter

Description: Tall (6’0”) and muscular, broad build. Curly, short cropped dark hair styled back from her face. Sun-freckled light skin. A defined jawline and high cheekbones. Piercing green eyes. Wears soft, comfortable clothing: colorful t-shirts and sweaters, cargo pants with home-sewn patches, and worn sneakers.

Technically an only child but she was raised with other shifter kids her age and has a friend she considers to be a brother.

Identifies as a lesbian, and is only a romance option for MCs that identify with she/her pronouns.

She is a werewolf, and is sponsored by her Alpha as a potential candidate to take over leadership of the Pacific Western Pack.

Faye Cathal || 20 || She/Her || Banshee

Description: Short (5’0”) and stocky build. Long black hair braided back into a bun. Clear, light skin. A soft, heart-shaped face and high cheekbones. Bright, lively black eyes. Wears bright, fashionable clothing: jumpsuits and rompers, crop tops and high-rise ripped jeans, chunky-heeled boots.

As clumsy as Jules is, especially when it comes to hand-eye coordination like catching things, except she likes to joke about it. (“If I was drowning in the sea, I would miss the lifesaver thrown in to help me by a mile.”)

She has a very sly smile that always throws off the people around her. Looks are deceiving, and she loves defying expectations.

#ask #finley #ambrose #luna #jules #hazel #faye #ah yes. the consequences of having nine ros is starting to catch up to me dskljghsghk #consider this a mini masterpost until i get my twine build finished 😌

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Jane the Virgin Recap: Pulling Out

Jane the Virgin

Chapter Sixty-Nine Season 4 Episode 5

Editor's Rating 4 stars

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It’s amazing for a show in the midst of its fourth season to still surprise you. Especially a show that operates with a traditional season length rather than an abbreviated ten-episode run. We’ve now lived with Jane the Virgin for sixty-nine episodes (nice) and still, it manages to catch me off-guard.

This week, I was unsurprised by the Luisa-related twist at the end. Carl was real, and then he wasn’t, and then he actually was?! C’mon, that’s just some solid telenovela nonsense. I was also unsurprised that Lina came back for an episode, although I was certainly pleased. Jane the Virgin has always focused on Jane’s many roles, and I absolutely expected that “Jane the best friend” was still in the mix. I wasn’t even surprised by Rogelio and Xiomara’s vasectomy plot, although Xiomara’s frankness about how much Rogelio likes to use the pull-out method is a touch escandaloso, if you will.

I was, however, legitimately surprised by the news that Adam is bisexual. I should be clear, I was surprised and pleased: It’s an unexpected layer for that character, and one that’s fascinating to watch Jane the Virgin weave into Adam and Jane’s relationship. It’s also long overdue for Jane the Virgin to introduce a queer character who isn’t also an enormous mess. Although Luisa’s become pretty sympathetic in the recent episodes, the show has a dearth of gay characters with stable, happy lives. It’s long since time for more queer representation on the show, and I’m thrilled that it’s happening with such proximity to the protagonist. It’s easy enough to have gay best friends and gay villains — that’s a marginalized narrative position for a marginalized character. It’s a different thing for our heroine’s current love interest to announce that he’s also dated men.

“Chapter Sixty-Nine” treats it seriously. Adam is hurt and bothered that Jane might be weird about this, and Jane is weird about it. The decision to cloak Jane’s discomfort in her ostensible concern that he’s hidden something from her is a good one: It’s exactly the sort of thing you could imagine yourself feeling in response to something you didn’t know about your new boyfriend. Even though, as Lina insists Jane admit to herself, it’s not really about Jane worrying that Adam hid this from her. It’s about Jane’s discomfort dating a man who’s also dated men. The show lets Jane talk her way through her response, her surprise, and her completely plausible dual reaction of wanting to feel accepting of bisexuality, while still finding it confusing in personal practice.

There are moments when Jane the Virgin is so pointed in its cultural and topical story lines that it feels almost didactic. There’s a version of this show that’s like a book of manners: Here’s how to behave nicely when someone lies to you, and here’s what happens when you don’t. This is what good parenting looks like. This is why immigration issues matter. Here’s a little story about work/life balance. This week? Here’s a short dialogue about some questions you might have on bisexuality. Is Adam just a gay man who hasn’t come out yet? No. Does this mean he’s not going to be monogamous to Jane? No. Does this automatically mean Jane won’t be satisfying for him? No. Would it have been better if Jane had asked these questions at the start, or if Adam had been able to tell her about himself in a less defensive way? Probably, but these things happen. Jane and Adam have figured it out in the end.

It’s easy to forget because Jane the Virgin pulls off these moments in such an effortless way, but storytelling like this — stories that are obviously aimed at expanding their audience’s understanding — are really, really hard to do without sounding patronizing. Consider how many Very Special Episodes of sitcoms you’ve seen where some character Learns an Important Lesson About Cancer/Gay People/Drugs/Etc. We have sensitive antenna for being lectured about stuff, and generally our response is not “Hooray, someone’s teaching me a lesson!” If you’re bi, or if you’ve dated someone who’s bi, or if you’ve had some of these discussions before, maybe this scene did come close to tipping over the line into didacticism. For me, it worked.

The Jane/Lina plot is another place where this episode almost verges on being too pointed. It’s not hard to see the “Jane is the same as Danny!” discovery coming, and Jane’s relationship with Lina is much more “Yay, best friends!” than the intense complexity we saw between them last season after Michael’s death. Again, though, it works. It feels right to find Jane and Lina on the bathroom floor one more time. It feels right that Lina would want Jane to help justify her decision, just as it makes sense that Lina would be marrying someone like Danny.

And look, if Jane the Virgin wants to take a page out of children’s educational programming and start teaching me important lessons about life, it could do worse than to devote an entire subplot to birth control options, the physical and emotional ramifications of a vasectomy, and the burdensome frustration of making birth control an entirely female responsibility. Even better when it involves Rogelio trying to find the emotional truth in a scene where he has to bid a devastated farewell to a giant kidney stone.

“Chapter Sixty-Nine” also continues the fallout of Bad Rafael. He weeps on the bedroom floor with Jane, who holds his hand and promises that they’re family and she’ll keep showing up. Rafael is even allowed a little redemption plot when he helps Luisa accept that she’s having a psychotic break. (She isn’t, but look, Raf’s intentions are good.) Even still, as Rafael’s breaking bad turn gets more emotional groundwork, this arc still feels more like a service to the rest of the show than a genuine interest in Rafael as a character. It’s hard not to watch his fall and his redemption and see it as being about reviving him as a love interest for Jane.

Honestly, the best thing Rafael has going for him right now? Alba is on his side. Rafael has so few friends, and that list is even shorter if you exclude friends who aren’t lovers or former lovers. Knowing that Alba is rooting for him goes a long way toward keeping Rafael in the mix, although at some point, he’s going to have to figure out that the only way to be attractive again is to ditch the power-hungry, toxic masculinity thing.

Let’s see, is there anything else of note in this episode? Ah yes: Luisa concludes Carl is actually fake, she departs for a “wellness center,” and she signs the Marbella shares back over to Rafael. There was about to be yet another trip down to the county clerk’s office to file new ownership paperwork, except, whoops! Luisa can’t legally make those decisions if she’s not of sound mental status. So now the primary owner of the Marbella is… Anezka? And Carl actually was real? To be continued!

From Our Narrator, With Love

• Very glad to see Rafael wasn’t seriously hurt in the car accident, even though the consequences for his behavior with Katherine were, as our Narrator points out, “fast and furious.”

• The entire story about Lina and Danny’s joint bachelor/ette party is fun, and it works well for the compatibility vs. similarity story the episode is trying to tell. But my favorite thing happens at the beginning, when Jane says she’d originally had her favorite stripper booked for Lina’s party. Narrator: “He’s my favorite too!”

• “It’s so nice to be investigating a fake murder at the Marbella for once.”

#Rogelio

• “I am not being neutered and that’s that!”

• Xiomara and Alba discuss Rogelio’s sense of masculinity, and Xo denies that Ro is overly obsessed with machismo. “He owns more makeup than I do! He’s campaigning to be the next Cover Girl!” #EasyBreezyRogelio

• It’s lovely that Jane the Virgin found a deeper note in Rogelio’s penis panic, to push past the immediate distaste for having a vasectomy. He’s worried about aging, which feels utterly, perfectly right for that character.

• “Stoney, only one of us can fit through the lady scientist’s urethra!”

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