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Title: Changeling Charade

Media: Interactive Fiction

Approx length: 450k words, but you won't see nearly all of it in a single playthrough

Where to find it: On Steam or Choice of Games. It's $8 in the US, so pretty inexpensive.

What is it, in summary?: Basically this is a playable historical fantasy romance novel set in an alternate Victorian England (though a lot of it feels so much like a Regency romance that I kept forgetting it was Victorian until some detail of the fashion reminded me) where magic and supernatural creatures like fairies, werewolves, and mermaids are known to exist. The Queen has made magic illegal and also forbidden magical creatures from working in most human professions, leading to dire poverty and desperation. The player character is a fairy who has resorted to being a changeling, taking on the guises of various humans for pay in order to survive and, more importantly, support her little sisters. (This is also very illegal.) This has worn away her magic, so she has to find an assignment for life and the one she takes is taking the place of the daughter of a Earl who is about to undertake her first Season and choose a suitor, while the real Lady Constance has moved to Australia and married her commoner lover.

Imagine something like a blend of Charles Dickens with Bridgerton and the Parasol Protectorate and you'll have the general idea.

The protagonist has to be a woman and one of the possible love interests is a cis man, but you can choose whether the others are men, women, or nonbinary (an individual choice for each). There's at least one polyamorous ending possible.

What do you love about it?: While there's definitely a lot of Dickensian themes of poverty and exploitation, it still manages to be very trope-y and fun. I also seriously love the characters and have a great deal of curiosity about them.

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd love to read background fic on basically any of the love interests. How did Rowan Forester become a revolutionary? What was their childhood like? How did Valentine met Rowan and become involved with the movement? How did Valentine become the society-defying person they are? How did Farrington and Valentine meet and become friends? How and when did they become more than friends? How did Farrington and Valentine become suitors of Lady Constance (this is already established when the game starts). Where did Larkin learn their artistic skills?

Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: not really

Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): there's a lot of racism against supernatural beings.

Edited 2024-09-21 09:31 (UTC)