Talk:Wishful Thinking Choices/@comment-38548154-20190415203246/@comment-3452092-20190415214423

Beckett actually is not the forced love interest in The Elementalists. It's just that enough people liked him enough that he actually overpowered the forced love interest so that it's not as obvious that Griffin is the forced love interest. If you look at the beginning of the book, before they realized how popular Beckett was, you can see that everything was about Griffin for the first several chapters just about. Beckett was hardly even in the book until the chapter where we have "detention" with him. We are on the thief team with Griffin. He's the first one to welcome us to school, to offer to show us around, to ask for our help in finding something. He's the "awe-inspiring" upperclassman. He's the one people (in game) have obsessions over. As best I can tell based off comments the creative team have made it went something like this:

Pixelberry Employee #1: Everybody's going to love Griffin. He's great. We'll put the MC on a sports team with him, so he/she can spend plenty of time around him.

Four Chapters In

Pixelberry Employee #2: Did you see the results of the diamond choice for Beckett?

PE#1: Do we need to lower their cost to get people to buy them? He doesn't seem like the kind of character people will like.

PE#2: We had twice as many people buy his diamond choice as bought Griffin's in the first chapter.

PE#1: What? But it cost more*. Really? Twice as much?

PE#2: That's what I'm reading here.

PE#1: Well, do something about it. We need to make more scenes with him. We have to capitalize on this. If people want scenes with him that much, we need to do something.


 * One diamond

I've looked at the different chapters and I can identify three diamond scenes with Beckett that I think we not originally planned and I believe were added in a panic when they realized how popular he was (and they more or less admit to the panic of realizing how popular he was and scrambling to make more scenes for him).

I like Jaime, too. I'm probably having Aubrey as my love interest for this playthrough and if I like it enough, I'll probably have Jaime for my love interest the second time around, but we'll see how things progress, if I continue to like both of them as the story continues. I haven't met the other love interests yet, because I haven't read chapter two yet, so I'll withhold judgement until later.