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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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pridebicons · 26 days

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choices pride icons

decided to make bi icons of my fav love interests from various choices books. in order: ethan ramsey (open heart), michael harrison (high school story), beckett harrington (the elementalists), trystan thorne (crimes of passion), kieran (the cursed heart), channing lowe (alpha), garrett (dirty little secrets), chris (america’s most eligible), & james (hot shot)

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distraughtlesbian · 1 month

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literally the best part of this whole stupid book iwlove weird obsessed horndogs thee villain archetype of all time. he’s so silly. “we could’ve had a life together”, he says to his lesbian ex-neighbour who he’s just shot with a crossbow bolt meanwhile her girlfriend who he’s also just shot is half dead across the room. god i love it here he said me and the bad bitch im going to fumble

#WHAT A FUCKING FREAK IJBOL!!!!!!#MORE PSYCHOSEXUALLY OBSESSED WEIRDO VILLAINS PIXELBERRY I KNOW YOU HAVE IT IN U.#their villains are usually so cringe and one note at least this one is memorable #mind you this could have used more buildup. up until like chapter 19 he still had the benefit of the doubt #his ass was NOT beating the twist villain allegations but the fucking freak allegations were a whole separate beast #and he could be presumed innocent in those. like sure i guess these are just average fanatic werewolf hunter antics.#like EYE had my suspicions. him sending that frat bro to sexually harass mc was a fucking freak move #but like in general he was coming off as someone who was just a normal amount of concerned about a friend of theirs falling in w a cult #like girl why am i following my cringe fwb into the pool house to be all ‘babe this isnt u :(’#i dont CARE i wanna go engage with the twist antagonist who at this point my mc still thinks is kind of normal/their friend!!!#but alas that’s just pb for you. we WILL NOT stick a landing ever. they make all the new writers swear to never write a villain that makes #sense or is well foreshadowed. ONLY side characters who you would never suspect bc they have like 5 lines in the whole book.#like you’ll never be duffy veilofsecrets you’ll never recapture that magic.#anyway. markus choicesalpha the fucking weirdo cringefail stalker incel loser you could have been…kermit looking out rainy window dot png #maeve speaks #playchoices #choices #pixelberry #choices alpha #channing lowe #markus barnes #side note this whole thing probably has a Much different vibe with a male mc #but as it is it’s like ijbol. channing is cringe and emotionally unavailable but how could you POSSIBLY compare to a buff werewolf bitch #he is so completely not a contender that its comedic to me. you think WE could have had a LIFE TOGETHER?#even if my mc had never ever met channing SHE IS A LESBIAN!!!! SHES GAY DUDE STOP IT LOL #and with a female mc and male channing its like yeah whatever average incel number 10 billion. wow youre going to kill me bc some other guy #is hotter than you? eyeroll. at least channing canonically gives great head.

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jmojellybae · 7 months

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Bark!

#choices stories you play #choices #playchoices #alpha #Channing Lowe

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playchoicesconfessions · 5 months

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Sent by anonymous

‘So... am I the only one who thinks Channing is absolutely ridiculous? Like, in every way.’

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

#choices alpha #alpha #channing lowe #playchoices #choices #choices stories you play #confessions #mod bruffle

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korgbelmont · 6 months

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It's nice to see that both versions main outfit at least is colour co-ordinated. I think this is the first time in a while that it has been the case.

#playchoices #choices alpha #channing lowe

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vivalgi · 5 months

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PB, as always, giving us amazing artwork...

...and me naturally ruining making them even better 😎

#playchoices #choices #pixelberry #choices stories you play #alpha #channing lowe #werewolf #pug life

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tyrilstarfury · 2 months

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A little 'Aplha' trivia...

Channing meaning : Young Wolf. English Names the meaning of the name Channing is: Church official; wise; young wolf

Lowe meaning : Young Wolf: French name. Lowe means "young wolf" and is an alternative form of Lowell. (Cal Lowell 🐺)

#playchoices #Alpha #channing lowe #Lol pb are so creative #I'm Googling because I'm writing a story and a warewolf is one the main characters... So I googled warewolf names #Channing and Lowe mean young wolf #Choices trivia

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dragonknightofsummerset · 2 months

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Hm, torn with this confession

#playchoices alpha #channing lowe #channing x mc #on the 1 hand. i love confessions like this #on the other. i do somewhat agree with others that the book tries really hard to make them seem super in love #when theyve mostly been hooking up #with the addition of the soulmate thing. it seems to be the explanation for the intense feelings outside of hooking up #which hm seems like a cop-out but at least the choice to tell channing you love them is optional #& the mc actually tells channing that them going through with the ritual has nothing to do with them so thats a plus #posting in the dead of night. cause choices? idk her

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nightprincekieran · 4 months

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so annoying because they could have made an amazing supernatural fantasy slow burn ! they could have easily made channing extremely hesitant and afraid to explore genuine romance with mc but nope! instead they force sex scenes that are really just awkward. like there's a LOT of potential here !!!! and they just !!!!! threw it OUT!!!!!!!

#playchoices #choices alpha #channing lowe #im just mad like #everyone in this book is cute even mc!!!! but its just written SOOOO BAD LIKE ???#rambles

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livelaughlovecassie · 6 months

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Channing fucking Lowe the alpha of all time

#she’s the leader of a pack #sex with tal stunned her into silence #she’s broody and private #she can’t resist tal’s puppy dog eyes #she’s smiling watching baby foxes and just wants her wife to stop taking the kids (the pack) out for pizza when she already cooked #she’s a simp and a protector and a lover and a bit of a dork #she’s everything #playchoices #choices alpha #alpha #choices alpha spoilers #alpha spoilers #channing lowe

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lilmeowmeowsagelesath · 7 months

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