Cupid Calamity: Grayson's Route
Added 2021-05-10 00:32:35 +0000 UTCIt's finally here! Pick Gray's name to play through his route.
Link: https://dashingdon.com/play/wildelight/cupid-calamity/mygame/
Given that the average playthrough of Gray's route is only around 3,000 words, it may be hard to believe that this took me so long to finish 😅
The big issue is that Gray's route in Mind Blind is filled with these singular moments (the first time he hears Button's thoughts, the moment he finally admits to reciprocating their feelings, etc.). His route is dedicated to overcoming the barrier of that forced mental intimacy, so I didn't want to diminish those moments by having them happen somewhere other than the main story. Nor do I want to spoil certain details about their relationship by setting the story post-gettogether (plus, writing mid-relationship is always a tangle, since different Buttons want different things from their relationships).
It took some creativity to make a plot and cut things off at right moments, and I had to withhold a lot of the good stuff so that it's not anticlimactic when it finally occurs in Mind Blind proper. I thoroughly had fun despite the limitations, though!
The good news (for me, at least!) is that in writing Gray's Cupid Calamity route, I finished writing almost all the variations of Gray's future romance scenes for Mind Blind (a total of 26,000 words).
