rockyroadster

I finally got a new chapter out on my Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life fic.

-Obviously, spoilers for the fic below-
This one was just an idea for a while, and it was a bit of a drag to write. It's one of those chapters where you kinda want something big to happen, but it's hard to make it feel big. Either way, now Aya's been forced to recon with the bad side of a chaotic goofball. Sometimes guys like that take it too far, and it's usually up to their followup actions to show whether they're just as aware of their flaws or double down and make it worse.

Navigating Aya's mental state can be tough. She is a lot harder on herself than is reasonable, and definitely has a history of giving up if things can't be perfect. She always tends to run through the catastrophic potentially bad outcomes of every choice. The games only give a bit of a glimpse into your farmer's mind, which is definitely so you can fill in the gaps with yourself, but the farmer in this one always seemed a bit timid and stressed, especially from the game's ending and how she rarely has dialogue beyond nodding or emoting. Clearly that's just for game mechanic purposes, but I like to interpret it as being a person who doesn't have much to say (which is why I liked the Gustafa heart cutscenes so much - fading to black gave us a lot to work with and at least implied she was carrying a conversation).

Also I'm pretty sure it's getting obvious what the Final Pairing is going to be. I wanted to give Rock a shot, at least, especially since the game itself is so good at forcing him on you (I think I gave him one gift the whole year and still had to be fighting his heart scenes off!)

I want to do more chapters featuring more villagers, but it's a bit of a challenge to work them in. Slice-of-life is not a usual genre for me.