Prettypink_knight
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I'm pretty sure GB said she hasn't decided yet! She hasn't even finished writing step 2 yet so I don't think we'll be getting step 3 info until a little later in the year
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Oh okie tyy! I figured as much but its been on mind for awhile, kinda hoping for senior year cuz I really want see my mc experience it
ClockworkGnome
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I've generally been assuming that the jumps will all be 4 years (so 10-14-18-22).
Since the story always seems to start in/focus on fall, I'm going to assume Step 3 would be the start of college, because most people are 17 at the start of high school senior year and 18 at the start of college freshman year. And having Step 3 be a massive shake-up because you're now going to a completely different school (and Qiu and Tamarack wouldn't necessarily come with you) could make for some interesting conflict dynamics.
Of course, that's all just pure supposition on my part. And I could easily see the argument that Step 3 should be senior year of high school for exactly the same reason - because shifting the focus to college throws a massive monkey wrench into tons of things, and sort of requires a reset of most of the cast. Whereas a story set in senior year means you can keep all your existing cast, and make the anxiety about planning to go to college/everyone splitting up the core of the drama.
Since the story always seems to start in/focus on fall, I'm going to assume Step 3 would be the start of college, because most people are 17 at the start of high school senior year and 18 at the start of college freshman year. And having Step 3 be a massive shake-up because you're now going to a completely different school (and Qiu and Tamarack wouldn't necessarily come with you) could make for some interesting conflict dynamics.
Of course, that's all just pure supposition on my part. And I could easily see the argument that Step 3 should be senior year of high school for exactly the same reason - because shifting the focus to college throws a massive monkey wrench into tons of things, and sort of requires a reset of most of the cast. Whereas a story set in senior year means you can keep all your existing cast, and make the anxiety about planning to go to college/everyone splitting up the core of the drama.
If the last game is any indicator, it'll probably be graduating/graduated and trying to figure out colleges to go to
So far, it seems to be retreading ground from the last game in the series of "things changing" especially given what's said within the game by characters about the future.
Personally, I'm more than ok with that given that the cast is nothing like that of Always & Forever so the reactions and such are lot different.
So far, it seems to be retreading ground from the last game in the series of "things changing" especially given what's said within the game by characters about the future.
Personally, I'm more than ok with that given that the cast is nothing like that of Always & Forever so the reactions and such are lot different.
If we're going to use the first game as an example probably recently graduated but take that with a whole lot of salt