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Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm repurposing this thread to talk about Twine games I liked, which include Siren For Hire:

https://maddymyers.itch.io/siren-for-hire

Which is about a burnt-out magical girl team that's also a metaphor for activism. I liked the complicated relationships in this game, though I still wish the main character had hooked up with her cool boss instead of her actual love interest.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I originally thought this would be a rec/discussion thread too, and was going to talk about Choice of Broadsides! Player/Villeneuve is a great ship.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

OP

Sorry for the misleading title! ... and I also love Player/Villeneuve.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

Player/Villeneuve has produced some very good fic but this is my fave:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/606641

Did they ever patch in an ending where you could just run away with her? I remember trying and failing to get a romance with her several times.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

It's been a little while since I played, but IIRC you can definitely romance her, it's just not possible to make it endgame. My headcanon is that they both survive the end of the war and then get, like, a nice cottage in Brittany or something.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

Yes! And they squabble and probably spar sometimes and get competitive over, idk, who had the better boat. Probably they raise goats or something.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

I love that one too! And IDK, as much as I enjoy fix-it fics and headcanons, I kind of like that there's no happy ending for them in canon. Part of the appeal of their dynamic to me is that no matter how much they may love each other, they both have strong loyalties that neither is willing to compromise for the other even though that puts them in conflict.

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

That's why postwar fic for them is so great! :D

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

We are owed a grievous debt. Some of us more than others. We cannot repay what is owed to one another, but we have nowhere else to turn. And so we trade the same sick blame from hand to hand. We look upon our own mates with hungry eyes as our ship floats, abandoned, in a wasteland of roiling water.

Well damn if that isn't a powerful, poetic summary of a lot of shit I've been mulling over lately. And the way the women who have been through that whole dance and know the steps too well approach each other in the get-together at the end sure rings familiar. Thank you for sharing!

Re: free games (with lesbians)

[(Anonymous)]

It's so good. I love how the game portrays burnout and the like.... cycle of trauma so many groups find themselves in. Everyone keeps hurting each other but they're hurt the most by the miasma of society and hatred around them.