Anna's Selfies
Added 2022-07-01 14:52:55 +0000 UTCA controversial moment happened during Tuesday when Anna sent a few hot selfies to Chris. The two most common complaints have been: 1) it's not realistic, and 2) the reader didn't have a choice to prevent it.
Let’s take a deeper dive into this.
About it not being realistic...
On the surface, a happily, faithfully married woman sending her husband's horny best friend some sexy selfies appears far-fetched. But as the story explains, there's nuance behind it.
Anna developed a friendship with Chris rather quickly once they agreed to start fresh. She's the type to always respond to texts... she's sweet like that, so Chris took advantage of it and texted her a lot, which led to a lot of conversations. They spent hours upon hours over the course of a year texting with each other and developing a friendship.
Anna was quite surprised that she enjoyed talking to Chris. Growing up with three older brothers and having a lot of guy friends, Anna is comfortable talking to men. This always irritated David, that she was able to connect well with other guys, as it made him self-conscious. But that's how she's always been. Sure, Chris could be ridiculous in things he said to Anna, but she was used to it being around boys her whole life. Her older brothers were no strangers to saying vulgar things, but she still loved them all the same.
Chris asking for pics is not surprising whatsoever to Anna. She knows he's a horny guy who thinks she's attractive. There's been countless times that Chris has made suggestive comments to her... Anna has become numb to it. At times it used to bother her, but now she just laughs it off.
The thing about Anna - she wants to see the good in people. She gives people the benefit of the doubt. She respects people for who they are.
She wanted to see the good Chris too. Maybe even a part of her felt sorry for him that he can't find a steady girlfriend. Nevermind his flaws… Anna wants to focus on the side of him that can be good. Chris uses this kindness to manipulate her, and it gives him a thrill to try to break through her guard. Every story has a villain, right?
When she sent the pics, part of her mindset was, “whatever, it’s just Chris. He’s a horny guy who hasn’t been laid in a long time… if he wants to get off looking at me in a nightgown, I can do that for him this one time, and I trust he won’t tell David.”
Does she secretly get a thrill from it though? Does it make her feel good to be admired? Does the fact that she's dealing with hormonal issues distort her judgement? That’s what we don’t really know and won’t know until we play her story :)
As for readers being disappointed that they didn’t have a choice in the matter…
The events in Part 1 and 2 are largely kinetic, as I’ve said before. I have no desire to create an interactive novel that’s going to consume all my time and take years to develop… therefore, there’s a main plot that is unfolding and you can’t change it. Anna is going to be Anna, and David is going to be David. You will have the ability to influence them and even make some decisions for them, but you can’t do that at every turn in the story, especially in Part 1 & 2… that would be a massive undertaking to have a lot of different storylines going (see Eva Kiss's excellent work).
But as I’ve said before, the decisions you make in Parts 1 and 2 will shape the outcome of this story, even if it doesn’t feel like it. You can’t make Anna and David do whatever you want them to do, but you can be the person whispering in their ear, and you will have some decision-making capabilities.
Comments
Just started playing I haven't got to part 2 yet but I think Another part of the reason Anna sends these to Chris is she's a closet 304 &; Attention from other men makes her feel very sexy even though she keeps denying she has a problem with Chris hitting on her
Ian Kinnell
2023-03-17 05:17:28 +0000 UTCIf I may get the idea, Chris could send the photos to his friends censoring her face, so he could enjoy the comments about her without jeopardizing this new relationship with Anna.
Bentxi
2022-07-06 21:40:32 +0000 UTCHello and thank you for the support. v0.3 will contain Anna, don't worry. You won't get to read her thoughts or make choices for her until Part 2 though. Most often there's two sides to every story. Part 1 and Part 2 are showing you each side. Both take place over the course of a week.
Mr. Palmer
2022-07-05 20:45:27 +0000 UTCThose who say that the story is not real simply have not been involved in this kind of story. A girl who is simply mired in the routine of family life. Sex with her husband is not the same as before. After giving birth, doubts arise about her body. Against the background of all this, the girl just wanted to fool around a little. Feel desired by another man. Not a lot of indecent communication, and hormones made themselves felt. Therefore, people calm down, this is one of the life situations of which there are many. Author, I fully support you. My only objection is to the division of the game into parts. With the participation of other characters. I would like to play more episodes with Chris and Anna. This is what made me subscribe to the page with the game. Can we still focus on Anna in 0.3?
Al' Is
2022-07-05 18:58:17 +0000 UTCGreat work, just stumbled upon this gem you're creating and I'm hooked!
Jess
2022-07-04 19:45:13 +0000 UTCLooking forward to it! Story is really promising so far!
Razard
2022-07-04 19:05:37 +0000 UTCMeiwow - don’t worry, I’m not changing course because of complainers. I just wanted to add some context to why Anna would send some selfies like that, since it is indeed out of character. Very out of character. Chris is quite shocked (and pleased)… he will be emboldened to do more. It’s less about Anna being attracted to Chris and more about her thinking it’s innocent in her mind, that she and Chris have a good relationship now and she trusts that he won’t tell David what she did. She looks at it more like a favor for Chris. But… how does it make her feel to do something that bold and naughty? That’s what we don’t know, and that’s what we’ll find out in her story. And yes, you’ll be able to influence how she feels about it in part 2.
Mr. Palmer
2022-07-02 13:36:53 +0000 UTCIt's similar to "Watching my wife", where there is before the husband POV, and later the wife POV of the same days... it's a interesting dynamic :)
Claudio83
2022-07-02 13:30:52 +0000 UTCI’m sure that if I could actually see the story on my iPad or iPhone, I would agree completely with miewow.
Benjamin Lerner
2022-07-02 02:27:46 +0000 UTCI am a strong believer that a good writer should just tell a good story the way he wants without compromising anything by giving the reader "choices". Like you said, it takes too much energy and time to start making all these branching paths. I'm so sick of all these games that give you all these unsatisfying "choices" for the sake of you having a choice... Then none of the paths are satisfying enough because the creator is trying to bite off more than he can chew with all kinds of variables and choices that more times than not aren't even satisfying. My impression of you is that you are a good writer. So stick to what you're doing. People are just like monkeys you know, monkey see monkey do. Everyone is making games where you make "choices" so therefor everyone have to start doing the same thing.... No! You do you, bro. And besides you went to a decent length to show that she was feeling horny anyway... why is it so unreasonable that she sent the friend of the family a selfie if she was feeling like having a little fun while horny and alone at home? Besides, do you really rather have the story go into 100k words before something fun starts to happen that those people would agree is "realistic". For the love of god. People always love finding things to complain about man, don't worry about that noise.
meiwow
2022-07-02 00:57:59 +0000 UTC
