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Hey author, how are you? 💕

I'm curious to know what kind of music the RO's like. Who are their idols? Any artists/genres that are a guilty pleasure for them?

Any kind of music they pretend to like just 'cos it's popular? *discreetly looks at Kinsley*

Hello nonie~ I'm doing good thank you!

this kind of question is hard for me, personally, to think about because of my own relationship with music and music artists (which is why this took so fucking long) which is to say I love music and don't really pay attention much to artists beyond the fact they make the music I love (lmao I really don't care about celebrities, I find it quite concerning that so many people idolise them so much... like your(general) fave is just a guy at the end of the day lmao) (that being said I can understand having an influence and following the *work* of an artist you really connect to) and I find it hard to make hard line distinctions between genres, aha 🤭

That being said, let's have a look at some music! (This is an excuse to show off my extensive and exhaustive music reach and taste, so thank you!)

Dylan──they're open to all types of music but they only really purchase R&B albums! Artists like Stevie Wonder, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, Prince, Alicia Keys, Frank Ocean, SZA, Kehlani and Miguel are all artists Dyl owns albums (and vinyls!!) for! Dyl introduced Kin to R&B and they usually listen to the artists she likes more when they're together (Beyoncé, Victoria Monét, Lionel Ritchie etc) They like ‘Foreign Language’ R&B too, artists like BIBI, DEAN, Cherrie, Girl Ultra, Adi Oasis, ØZI, Yseult and Lous And The Yakuza.

Shay──the real eclectic listener! He likes next to every genre of music, Rap, Hip Hop, R&B, Pop, K-pop, J-rock, Folk, Funk, Phonk, EDM, Heavy Metal, Grunge, House, Synth, Soul... even Country... Country Fusion! Shay likes artists that kind of... don't have a genre? Like Sleep Token, Twenty One Pilots, Pink Floyd, Oingo Boingo, Lene Lovich, David Bowie, Gorillaz, Poppy, Bring Me The Horizon, Afterlife, Seventeen, Red Velvet and Hannah Wicklund. He definitely love finding new music as well as sharing new music! (Watch the YouTube/Twitch channel that's got a segment dedicated to reacting to new music!! Like HTHAZE!)

Kinsley──lmao she doesn't mind Popular music but, like, the last Taylor Swift album she actively sought out was 1989 (she's partial to This Love) and Kin would rather die than be subjected to Trap music. She's very into genres like Alternative Indie, Indie Rock, Neo Soul, and R&B artists like Hozier, Florence + The Machine, Lorde, Phoebe Bridgers, Lizzy McAlpine, Searows, Reneé Rapp, Ethel Cain and Noah Kahan. Her R&B influence is mainly from being Dylan's friend but she does love artists like Beyoncé (she really loved her self titled album and especially Virgo's Groove off of Renaissance), Victoria Monét (particularly the Jaguar II album) and Khalid as well as older artists like Mary J. Blige, Marvin Gaye or Lionel Ritchie!

J──they tend to listen to music for the beat, the bass, the instrumentals more than lyrics. They like heavier genres like Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative Rock, Punk Rock, Nu Metal, Grunge and other genres like EDM, Synth, Techno and Trance. They also listen to Italian artists quite a lot, mainly because J wants to keep up with the language (because their father refuses to speak it or teach them) so artists like Måneskin, Jovanotti, Lacuna Coil, Max Gazzé, Vanerus, and even Vivaldi. J also listens to anything their sister recommends them, even if it's the most bubblegum pink pop shit they've ever heard─if Bells likes it they're listening. Shay will also introduce them to the wonders of J-rock and K-pop which bend genre all the time!

Theo──a Pop lover! Or rather, Theo tends to stick to listening to the radio or the Popular Playlist on Spotify! They tend to like more instrumental artists like or soundtrack artists like Hans Zimmer, Hiroyuki Sawano, Danny Elfman, Vangelis, Rachel Portman (who was the first female composer to win an academy award for best original score!) and Michael Giacchino over anything else and they 'broaden their horizons' by being dragged to Jazz bars and open house cafés by C (and MC) so it's not like they're stuck in one/two genre's!!

Bonus! Some Modern/Nu Jazz artists C likes: Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia, Masego, Cherise, Camille Munn, Blue Lab Beats, Kasami Washington, Esperanza Spalding, Snarky Puppy, GoGo Penguin, Mathilde Widding and Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah!

#piece of the pie if #all ros #dylan quinn #shay walker #kinsley grace-cameron #j montgomery #theo wesley #let me feed you the good good music #pls dont ask for my Spotify its a nightmare #lmao ask me how long my liked songs playlist is i dare you

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i've been reading asks about mc's family and cats and please tell me nothing will happen to the cats (especially since charles is old)

hello! Nothing will happen to MCs cats in the duration of this story!!!

Charles is based on one of my previous cats, Tiger, and I wish for her memory to live on blissfully──essentially these cats are immortal during the canon of my story. (The angst potential will stay to scenarios and reactions)

(I do have a storyline about a lost dog during they Jayne poly storyline but that dog is not MCs nor Shay's, I promise)

#piece of the pie if #general #charles king of the cafe #princess destroyer of mugs

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Tbh these group RO’s asks keep making me imagining the RO’s + C becoming one big friend group by the end of the school year for some reason

That was honestly my intention from the start of my planning!! The route choices for an un─redeemed Kinsley or an indifferent Dylan are afterthoughts that I'm still not 100% set on making them 'real' routes...

(as in they'll still go through their arcs just in the background without MC...)

((I think my love of a found family ending is the endgame goal tbh))

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dunno if you've already answered this but they're about to graduate, so what are the ros plans and dreams? do they all want to go to college? if so, which ones are they aiming for? what subjects? or jump straight into a job? travel around a bit? i'm just curious about these characters, i love them lol

i love questions that make me think ! this one's a bit long, and I gave you a lil bonus at the end, but thank you for your interest in my babies <3 I twirl them around in my head like a microwave !

Dylan──artist! artist! artist!! mainly sculpture work but also trad painting and murals!

Dyl has quite a hard time in school to begin with so the thought of going on to do more school literally seems like torture to them. They already have a small commission based business with their art (mainly portraits but they've had some murals and two sculptures!) so all they'd really need would be a boost in outreach. Dylan might be persuaded to take community college classes for specific types of art if only for the experience and the qualifications but scholarly college/university? nuh uh no way!

Shay──head empty, no thoughts??? he's struggling to see sense in American colleges or universities... Not that English ones were any better... He keeps pushing the thought of it off but he knows in his heart that it won't be for him... but what else is there?

What is he... good at? He's good at maths, he guesses... Video games??... Making his friends laugh, helping strangers smile... Quite honestly I can see Shay stumbling is way into YouTube or TikTok stardom just by being himself! He's naturally charming (in a heartwarming way not a flirty way) and very entertaining. Lmao if C ropes him in to their gap year travel plans he'd be down for it─he doesn't really have a yearning for travel but spending time with his friends on what is essentially an extended vacation (which turns into a learning and helping experience he really enjoys) he's so down for it! Our boy's just a bit lost and clueless right now </3

Kinsley──her mother demands university classes in law... but her mama would've told her to follow her heart, right?

Kinsley has... Expectations... placed upon her. For her to go to university and double major in law and business so she has a choice in which avenue of the family she wants to continue with... And she might take on the business classes but not for law or accounting... She remembers when she was younger, when her mama was still alive (when her mother still cared) and they attended a fashion show─a runway─and she was... mesmerised. Kinsley doesn't know if she wants to design clothes or rooms or what but she does know that following her mother's path is slowly killing her... she just doesn't know if she had the strength to disobey.

J──if J could never work a day in their life they'd be just fine! Certainly not in law or politics, just to spite their mother they'd be a stripper!! (In reality J is very good with engineering and would do well with cars and motorbikes! The dream of all dreams is to actually design one under their name!)

J is very good at school, they simultaneously put the work in and are also an information sponge that doesn't need to work that hard at all... That doesn't mean they want to be in school more than they legally have to be! They're stuck in a limbo situation currently, between wanting to spite their mother (who wants them to clean their act up and follow her into politics) and setting a good example for their sister, Arabella, and not completely wasting away their education... They're not going anywhere until Bells is safe for their father's eye (and wrath) and no longer under their mother's thumb but they wouldn't mind travelling (especially going back to Italy to visit family!) J might go to university for a more in depth education in motor engineering─which is what they're both good at and really into, but most of all it's something that would just kill their mother's plans and spirits so... that might be the plan after all!

Theo──something to do with music... or! Yes, the environment! Theo knows that while their parents have cast dark shadows, they would support Theo with anything they want to do─so much that they feel like they could do it all!

The thing is, most of Theo's long term dreams all need some sort of further education and they can't do them all at the same time (that and they're still kind of scared of failure and their dyslexia only adds to their anxiety) but! becoming a Horticulturist or a Conservation Scientist or a Tree Surgeon may just be worth it! And hey, if C can convince them and MC into going on a gap year to travel the world then Theo gets to help the environment and participate in different music scenes!! (A plan seems to be formulating in their brain)

bonus!

C wants to take a gap year to travel (they will rope Theo, MC and Shay into it!) and when they come back they want to use their journalistic skills for good use and either become a travel writer or something like it but local!

MC has the option of taking over the family business but their family supports them in anything they want to do!

V has the wits to become a very good bio─physicist, it's only a matter of what they're willing to do to get there that's the problem!

#piece of the pie if #all ros #dylan quinn #shay walker #kinsley grace-cameron #j montgomery #theo wesley #c west #v williamson

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And evil takes human form in [REDACTED] Kinsley Grace-Cameron. Don’t be fooled, because she may seem like your typical selfish, back-stabbing, slut-faced, ho-bag. But in reality, she is so much more than that. She’s the queen bee. The star. The other two are just her little workers.

Gosh, I LOVE Mean Girls! And I love Kinsley too.

Let's hope our Kinsley doesn't need a bus 💀

I love mean girls too!! have you seen the new one? Renée Rapp is my lord and saviour!! Mhm!!!

Our Kins gets a well earned redemption arc i promise 💜 no busses needed 💜💜 none at all 💜💜💜

#piece of the pie if #kinsley grace-cameron #i laugh maniacally at the drafts for non-redeemed kinsley routes

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ok, super silly, but which taylor swift song best matches each ros vibes?

(i was just listening to ivy and it reminded me of green for obvious reasons, which kinda reminded me of kinsley (can you tell how much i love that story and i haven't even read it yet? lmao))

I'm going to be so disappointing right now... I don't really listen to Taylor Swift outside of her radio hits 🫣😬

I did look up the lyrics to Ivy though! I can say that I can see it fitting Kinsley both as a character and as part of her arc!

(thank you so much for your interest and support!!)

#piece of the pie if #kinsley grace-cameron

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I need to know who is the ROs + C’s mario party main. I’m asking to see if anyone picks the correct choice of Daisy

this is so fun!

Dylan──for them it switches between Shy Guy and Monty Mole in what they have dubbed "the cutest one match up" Dyl is pretending the two characters are vying for the title only Dylan cwn bestow upon them lmao

Shay──our lord and saviour, he b—lines it for Daisy every single time and usually wins out against Kin

Kinsley──like Shay, Kin's go to is usually Daisy but her secondary (and actually most used) is Rosalina!

J──J verbatim uses a randomiser, they "don't care" and "can beat you fucks with anyone"

Theo──Yoshi!

C──Waluigi "the superior luigi"

bonus! C's girlfriend, Julie, always picks Wario "the superior mario"

#piece of the pie if #all ros #dylan quinn #shay walker #kinsley grace-cameron #j montgomery #theo wesley #c west

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I feel bad for C who is gonna have to deal with Theo and a mc crushing on each other but both not really doing anything about it. Like hopefully it’s somewhat entertaining for C to watch

C is basically live tweeting to their girlfriend the entire time... They make bets!

#piece of the pie if #c west

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Dearest author, I am so excited to read your work. Seeing that you love the friends to lovers trope just makes me even more excited because that is my favorite trope of all time. Theo, I’m coming for you babe🤭🫶🏾

Hello!! It's such a good trope, isn't it! I hope what I have in mind does it justice! Thank you for being here 🧡

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Read through the theo tag and now I’m ready to romance them. I was tempted by the shayne and j poly but now I’m set on theo. I love friends to lovers too much

friends to lovers is my favourite trope of all time!!! i'm glad you like theo!

(the fun thing about if's is... replayability ;))

#piece of the pie if #theo wesley

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Does dylan have a crush on kinsley?

... not yet

#I'm being vague on purpose #piece of the pie if #dylan quinn

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Thanks to Mean Girls (2024) I just can picture Renée Rapp as Kinsley perfectly (maybe too perfectly, send help) and it's doing things to me!!!

Oh shit that's actually kinda perfect

#piece of the pie if #kinsley grace-cameron

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”ass or tits” the memory of a summer’s day when i was seven

#piece of the pie if #this is so dyl #dylan quinn

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I wonder does kinsleys and “friends” have a group name like the plastics and Heathers?

They probably do tbh! Currently I haven't got the brain capacity to think of one that sounds adequate enough, lmao. I imagine it'll come after I've written them more, or maybe I'll do a thing and let you guys name them?

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Aw, kinda sad Grandma won't live with MC and fam. She sounds like she would offer a lot of snarky commentary and stories lol I feel like she would have a lot to say about ROs and MC's relationships with them.

There's just not enough space above the bakery! She's definitely one of my favourite 'new' characters, that's for sure! I have plans to involve her in the story from around the end of the “first arc” which will be fun!

She's going to have opinions on everything everyone!!

#piece of the pie if #peach's pie #grandmama

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... four (4) partners???? Grandma Gets Around, huh!

Technically, Grandma has only been divorced three (3) times, but he last husband did make her a widow and she hasn't taken another partner again so yes, 4 previous partners!

Only the one child though, to her second partner (first husband), which is father dearest!

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Is grandmother maternal or paternal?? 'Cause I have to overhaul my previous family tree lol

Material Uncle, Paternal Grandmother!

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