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princepotatosack · 3 months

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What If Choices' Race-customizable LIs Had Surnames Reflective Of Their Ethnicity?: An Experiment Just For FUn (Part 1/3)

As we're probably all aware, Choices has been going ham on their formula of "one LI whose appearance is choosable" for the past few years (ever since they started drawing criticism for narratively favoring white male LIs, i.e., when the Ramsey bubble finally burst; draw your own conclusions), and these LIs almost always have canon names or default names associated with white Anglo Americans. This is one of several reasons these LIs are described by players as "white-coded", or written as if they are white men with any changes reduced to a one-line afterthought, which kind of nullifies the point of romancing an LI of color.

Getaway Girls impressed me with branching that gave two of the six Jordan appearance options (the ones described in the asset files as "Indian") the surname Paudwal, as opposed to the other options that had the surname Parker. And then they NEVER DID IT AGAIN (ingnoring Kiss of Death cause it was a weird case I don't know how to categorize)!!

So here's me assigning surnames to race-custom LIs of other books because it's fun for me:

DISCLAIMER: The Choices single LI formula has for the most part consisted of a white LI, a Black LI, and one or occasionally two other option(s) of varying races. Framing it as white, Black, and "wildcard" raises a lot of questions about racial dynamics and percieved binaries in the United States which are NOT the point of this post but I didn't want to not address it. Also have to address that I will not be assigning new surnames to the Black LI options since most of them are American and a lot of Black Americans have Anglo surnames due to the community's history with enslavement and enslavers, and Choices has simply not given us enough lore to determine if each of the custom race LI Black options are African (or another background) and which languages are a part of their heritages. Would really appreciate if they started writing more African LIs though. Also, similar reasoning applies to face options described as "Native American" in the files re: American colonization.

ALPHA

Channing Luna

These face options are described in the files as "Hispanic". Luna was a Spanish-language surname sound match for Lowe, and plus it also means "moon"!! Yippee werewolf theme!!!!!

Channing Liu

These face options are described in the files as "Asian". The Chinese surname Liu was just the closest sound match to "Lowe" tbh.

BABY BUMP

Clint Kao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". He reminds me a little of the Taiwanese actor Godfrey Gao (rip) so in my head he's Taiwanese like meeee!!! Which sucks cause I didn't like this LI that much lmao. Anyway Kao is the Taiwanese spelling of the surname that is Anglicized as Gao in Chinese Pinyin so I gave it to him cause he reminds me of Godfrey Gao (rip). Not a spelling match but then again there aren't any Chinese surnames that start with the same letter and sound as Covington (e.g., Chang and Cai both start with the letter C but start with the sounds "ch" and "ts" respectively.).

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS

Charles Quiñones / Charlotte Quiñones

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Went with sound matches since there aren't many (any?) Spanish-language surnames that start with K like King.

Charles Kim / Charlotte Kim

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I thought Kim was a pretty good sound and spelling match for King. But it did make me realize that although Kim is the most common surname in Korea by a lot, a Choices Wiki search revealed to me that there's only one character in the entire Choicesverse with that surname and it's the FBI guy from Veil of Secrets?

DISTANT SHORES

Edward Mao

This face option is described in the asset files as "Asian". I originally chose the Japanese surname Morishima because it was an initial spelling match, multisyllabic, and had the ending "ma/mer" sound, but I wanted to honor the great Ming Dynasty Chinese tradition of piracy and its far-reaching legacy. So I went with the Chinese Mao.

Also I know he's canonically from like England which would explain why he's an 18th-century Asian man with an English first name but just for fun if he was from China I think he would be called Mao Aiwei. Or Morishima Eiji if he was from Japan.

Edward Montoya

This face option is described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Montoya was a relatively close Spanish-language sound match.

And if he had a Spanish first name too he would be Eduardo Montoya ovb.

THE DUCHESS AFFAIR

Nathaniel Pandit / Natalie Pandit

These face options are described in the asset files as "Indian". Not a lot of sound matches for Pippin but the Sanskrit surname Pandit has the intial "P" and the ending "i" sound, plus it means "scholar" and fun fact, this word is also the origin of the English term "pundit".

Also since in my research I learned that the vast majority of Indian immigrants to England in this time period adopted English language aliases for use in English society, I came up with some potential real names for these face options: Nathuram for Nathaniel and Nalini for Natalie.

FIRST COMES LOVE

Blake Mai

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". I decided on Mai since it could be Vietnamese or broadly Sinophone.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Blaine Juárez

These face options are described in the asset files as "Hispanic". Not any Spanish-language surnames that start with the letters "Ha" as far as I know so I went with a sound match.

GUARDED

Ash Harada

These face options are described in the asset files as "Asian". The Japanese surname Harada is a sound and spelling match and also one of the most common surnames in Japan! EASAYY!!! Though headcanoning them as Japanese brings the total number of Choicesverse Japanese-Americans Named Ash to three. Laugh out loud.......

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thedistantshoresproject · 8 months

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AHOY MATEY!

Welcome aboard to The Distant Shores Project! We are a group of fans of Pixelberry’s book Distant Shores who are working on their own nonprofit sequel. Our mission is to give our fellow fans a great sequel that was missed out on for free.

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#edward mortemer #thedistantshoresproject #choices distant shores #charlie smith #oliver cochrane

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raleigh-edward · 2 months

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I am once again missing my pirate captain

#edward come back #my pirate captain edward beloved #edward mortemer #captain edward #distant shores #choices distant shores #playchoices #it's been years #ive grown up so much #but somehow i'm still stuck there

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nightprincekieran · 3 months

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pb making us choose between one of them and then not even giving us a good, solid ending OR a sequel was the most devastating thing they have EVER done

#playchoices #distant shores #edward mortemer #charlie smith #oliver cochrane #rambles

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playchoicesconfessions · 4 months

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Sent by anonymous

‘I wish they had the rope and gag sprite used on Edward on other characters specifically on female lis’

POST/CONFESSIONS DO NOT REFLECT THE MOD’S PERSONAL OPINIONS!

#choices li #edward mortemer #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

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storyofmychoices · 9 months

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SpreadJoy #788: spreading positivity with quotes and @playchoices characters.

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#choices #choices game #playchoices #spreadjoy #choices spreadjoy #edward mortemer #distant shores #choices distant shores

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becca-davenqueer · 8 months

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Elizabeth Mortemer aka Distant Shores if Edward was GoC

#repost bc the other one got burried #choices #playchoices #choices stories you play #choices edit #choices edits #pixelberry #choices stories we play #bdq edits #edward mortemer #distant shores #choices ds #choices edward mortemer

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megas-choices · 3 months

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"You've taught me how to dream" 😭😭😭

#mega plays distant shores #playchoices #distant shores #edward mortemer #distant shores mc #mc: crystal bellamy #edward x mc #edward mortemer x mc #spoilers #distant shores spoilers

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thefirstcourtesan · 1 year

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I am pretty sure that I never caught the fact that Edward is from the same village as D&D MC (but several decades earlier).

#playchoices #distant shores #desire and decorum #edward mortemer

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korgbelmont · 3 months

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Style Swap - Edward Mortemer in Rainier's outfits

#playchoices #distant shores #edward mortemer #korg edits

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griffinsboyfriend · 11 months

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I'm replaying DS and it's literally homophobic that we only got to bottom for Edward once

I fuckin know, right?! Only 1 sex scene in the whole book? Edward deserved more than that.

I wish we had a book 2 to explore the main cast coming to the future and back perhaps. I would’ve loved to see them rocking modern clothing for a time, going between time periods to solve a pirate mystery or w/e.

#anon #ask #distant shores #edward mortemer

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thedistantshoresproject · 7 months

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WE HAVE A DEMO FOR ANDROID USERS!

We have been getting a lot of questions if we have one for Android, and our programmers were able to make one!

#thedistantshoresproject #choices distant shores #wordsfromthecaptain #charlie smith #oliver cochrane #edward mortemer

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mvalentine · 1 year

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