Rose

Ayakashibito is awesome. I might participate depending on the titles, btw.

Depending on how many members are there, would it be possible to make like, two or three different groups? Don't know, maybe it could help avoiding this problem.

Welcome to the forums, Vic Boss. By the way, nice intro. You're pretty good.

Okay, I just noticed that I put a "sign up" for this for whatever reason... I'm removing it right now. It was really late and I hadn't slept yet, not sure what passed through my mind.

You don't really need to create a dialogue. There are marvelous one-shots out there who focus simply on the character memories for example.

Welcome! I'm interested in knowing what was your first game, could you tell us about it?

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Don't worry, it'll be. But since you're using one the characters, I gotta know her to judge your work.

For both characters and routes, I'll go with Rin > Emi > Lily > Hanako > Shizune. Rin route was amazing and her character is really one of my all-time favorites. She's so hard to understand and that fits her so well, it fits her being a natural born artists perfectly. Emi is a hard-worker. She does what she loves despite her disability, and she's freaking good at it. I have a similar problem in the sense that I want to do a certain thing but my health condition won't allow me to work as hard as I wish I could, and yet I want to reach my objective despite the fact that I can't work hard. Hisao actually does something about his problem in her route, that is a huge plus. Lily is sweet and an extremely easily likable character. She's mature, she got a serene aura surrounding her and she makes their relationship look more like one than the other girls do. While her route wasn't the strongest, her dilemma was something that probably already happened or will happen to almost everyone. Also, the blind sex scene to make Hisao understand how it is for her was incredible, I just love that h-scene so much. Hanako while being loved by so many people, is someone I can't like that much. I was someone like her, who failed to approach people even if I wanted to because I had no confidence and was previously bullied, thing is, she's one of those people who just don't get it. I know surpassing a trauma is extremely hard, but things won't change as long as you don't open your heart. She is weak and she doesn't try to change that until someone actually comes to her, that kind of attitude pisses me off the most. I know that later things are a bit different as for her good ending, but that wasn't enough to make me like this route that much. Shizune had easily the worst route and I didn't liked her as a character that much, but honestly, her bad ending and Misha made her pretty close to taking Hanako's stop in my favorite order. I mean, Misha is charismatic and when you know about her true feelings, you know how much that girl suffered so far and that's intended to make you inclined towards comforting her later on. Seeing Shizune all alone on those stairs was really hard, in the end, you're the bad guy. You're the one who you'd be swearing at after watching a movie where a douche ruins a girls life.

No problem. Rest assured, even if I don't know much about her right now, I'll do my research so I'll know enough about the character to properly judge your one-shot.

How come you don't remember if you did finish Lily's route or not? Lily is like <3<3<3<3.

I gotta ask you to use the system imposed in the first post. Get your one shot and put in a spoiler together with this same reply of yours that I'm quoting. If you don't know how to do it, just press the edit button, then add the spoilers by pressing the black board with "SP" written inside it on the options above the reply options, and just copy-paste the fanfic inside the spoilers brackets. As long as it is within Katawa Shoujo, you're allowed to do anything. Personally, I'd prefer for people to use the characters that are present in the novel routes, as I do have knowledge about Suzu for example, but it's pretty limited. However, if you choose to do so, I'm willing to go and make a in-deep research about the side-character of your choice, so I can judge your one-shot properly.

Reading Fate/Stay Night, currently in Unlimited Blade Works.

Awesome work, Nohman and everyone else who helped him! There are actually some really interesting ones, I'll be sure to check them out eventually.

Well, I guess I did watch a bit of the Kokoro Function stream once, but I'm not really into watching VN videos/streams. Personally, I'd rather wait and read it since I can get more into the story following my own pace.

1 - As long as it is originally yours, you can use it to participate. 2 - Thanks for mentioning this, I forgot to give a word limit. Although one-shots don't really have one, I'd like to keep this at 2000 words maximum. 3 - Nope. The only thing you have to do is write something around Katawa Shoujo. It's your fiction so you can even have yuri romance between any of the girls, or even create a completely new character to write about, although that's inadvisable to go for this kind of approach when doing a one-shot. A one-shot just as the name suggest, is basically a one chapter story, but there is no real consensus about their size. I've read some with 500 words and I once found myself trying to read a 20.000 word one. As for content, you're free to use anything as long as in the end, it's a romance around katawa shoujo.

Welcome to Fuwanovel's Fanfic Competition! Greetings and salutations! I am Rose and I'm here to announce that I'll be making a fanfic competition. This is a kind of test run for this project as I wish to know how well it'll go, if people will be interested in participating or not. Depending on the results, I might do more editions with different novels, prizes and rules. Since it's a test, I decided to make it in a pretty simple format. Even then, I'm aiming to be as fair as possible with everyone so we'll be using the same visual novel, genre, chapters and time limit for all the participants. The visual novel used for the fanfics will be Katawa Shoujo, the genre will be romance and they must be one-shots (One chapter limit) with a maximum of 2000 words, they also have to be originally yours. Breaking any of the previous rules will result in an instant disqualification. To participate all you have to do is post a reply here with your one-shot in it, but to keep the thread cleaner, do it in spoilers regardless of it's size. After that, everyone will have until 11/02 to post their one-shots, otherwise the participant will be disqualified. The time limit for the fics to be judged will highly depend on how many participants we get and the size of their works, but a minimum of 10 days deadline is to be expected. And as I'm talking about the judgement, I'll be asking now: I need help with this. Even if I'm pretty confident when it comes to this kind of stuff, I feel like it'd be fairer with everyone if there were 3 judges. So, if anyone is interested in helping, please send me a PM so we can talk more about it. Now, a competition gotta have a prize. The winner will be awarded with a steam copy of any visual novel up to U$10. I know it's not much, but with this you can get your hands in a novel such as Planetarian or the infamous Hatoful Boyfriend by simply writing a good fanfic. I'll be answering any doubts as soon as possible, so feel free to ask anything and also comment on what you think about the competition.

Is there a limit of how many covers we can make?

I don't think it's a plot-hole. Decisions are there to change the outcome of the game, consider it the decision of the writers to add some more "misfortune" to the girl. He mentions that even if Kiyoka isn't worthy being called a mother, she still is one. He fails to kill her, but it wasn't because Makina was her daughter, it was because he remembered that he couldn't kill anymore. They can. It's not like there'll be literally no feelings left, but hiding and suppressing them are within human capacity. She could have had a line in the bad end regarding Yuuji's death, it wasn't something that would have a big impact on the story focus itself, so saying she should have is a bit too much. It would have been nice, I agree with that, but I also enjoyed the absence of that. If you find it, please tell me where that's said. It is dangerous, but her life was something that already should have been taken at that point, even if she's doing something bad that risks her life, she's still alive. This wasn't a story where you could expect a forever-happy ending, shit was fated to happen given the situation, this was actually pretty nice compared to what I expected. Snipers are not positioned somewhere people can easily access, actually, they're positioned in places people shouldn't even be able to notice until it's too late. Besides, she managed to almost take down two armed agents by herself even with her physic and with only a brief training on self-defense, she wouldn't be in the best situation facing someone hand-to-hand but she'd still probably do better than some trained agents. Hell, she even had her sliding dash that surprised Yuuji himself. I'll probably do Sachi last, it's my favorite route so I feel like finishing this with it. Thanks! I'll be waiting to read your thoughts about it.

I started playing EX songs yesterday, now hard songs became so slow that it's kinda boring to play them. Not like I can get good combos in EX yet, but I'll get there eventually.

Happy birthday, Nohman!

;Also,(this is not going to have spoilers tag because it isn't a spoiler at all,but you have been warned in case)can you tell me why pulling the trigger has anything to do with Makina ending up pregnant?This is going to be gross,but did Makina ......(I'll stop using spoilers tags from now on because I already know that you read Makina's route,so spoiler tags aren't necesary to begin with) What's wrong with JB?It's like she never cared about Yuuji to begin with.This is true for the bad ending,since even after Yuuji's death she keeps working at her job like nothing happened. The whole 9029 situation....seriously?Makina barely had any sniper-training (it was mentioned at the start that she even had bad eyesight ,and she's not an athlete.I don't remember exactly where,but the game shows that Makina is not that good at sports). If I'm right,the Good ending takes 1 year after the events of Makina's route. Ok,let's say that she SOMEHOW trained and has good sniping-skills and is decent at sports. Even if that does makes sense (which doesn't),why does she have Yuuji's spot? From what we know,Yuuji had to go through several years of specialized training before he could become a "real" agent,so why does Makina get an important spot out of nowhere in a year? Deus Ex Machina detected.. The whole H-Scene with Makina was for nothing.In fact,the only thing it did is break the good Dad-daughter relationship Yuuji had with Makina.It just felt..........way too weird. At this point,let's be honest.Can you even call the Good ending a "Good ending" at all?She had to leave her Mihama Academy friends behind,she has to kill people to get money, she has to take care of Yuuji all by herself.... Oh wow,I never wrote a comment this long. I feel tired,meh. Anyway,I'll stop here,since pointing out plotholes is ruining even more my memories of Makina's route. Hey,how did we get here?This was supposed to be a Heroine route analyses,yet here I am trying to crush Makina's route so badly just to point out why I think it was bad.I hope this doesn't ends wrong. There was actually no reason to use spoilers from the beginning, this thread is made to be discussed with details from the whole novel, anyone here is warned of this fact since I wrote it in the introduction to the thread. I'm saying this but it's only theory, the only facts we have are that killing her will take you to the bad end and not killing her will take you to the good end. If you choose to kill her, you end up dying, since you simply charge against the enemies without proper planning, it's natural to expect bad things. Not killing her is indeed questionable, but if you think about it from Kiyoka's point of view, it's something scary enough to stop her from doing anything. She didn't knew if Yuuji survived in the end, but she was scared. The one who was protecting Makina was a man able to infiltrate into the Irisu's main building all by himself, and that same man was the first person to ever hit her, a woman who had never been beaten before, not even by her own parents. Kiyoka discarded people as if they were nothing, but for someone who grew up like her, considering the first man to ever touch her aggressively a "nothing" was not a possibility, therefore encouraging her not to chase Makina anymore. That is a plot thing. When you read a novel, consider the different endings as different universes. Also, doing it with a corpse won't make you pregnant, that's for sure. We are not given info about JB's thoughts during the bad end. If you think about it, she was even good enough to take Makina in and have her work as 9029, not only to give the girl income, but that would also allow her to monitor Makina's actions and protect her in a way. If you wanna extend it to the whole route, JB is a leader. Her duty was to follow the orders she was given and that is what she did, personal feelings are something they're taught to discard in that job - This was said during the common route as well. Makina indeed didn't had a good way with sports, but her sight was perfect, I re-read the whole novel not that long ago and there was no mention whatsoever to her eyesight. Yuuji himself noticed that the girl actually had talent for sniping and personally trained her. As for sports, there was probably no real need for her to develop that much in that area, since the identity of 9029 is actually something not revealed to the other workers of Ichigaya, so she could only do the job from the sniping position. And remember, Makina is a prodigy, she is someone who could have been on the same level as Kazuki is she worked hard for that. In their situation, that end was excellent. They were facing against the world, losses were expected from the beginning and thinking they could have a fairy tale "forever happy ending" is being extremely optimistic. They had to leave their friends behind, but in the end they still got each other, they had protection from Ichigaya and Makina had her bakery, something that she dreamed of having one day. This is not pointless! This is the whole point of analyzing stuff, to have a discussion about it. As I said in the introduction image, discussion is what I'm mostly aiming to generate here.