Dakota Winchester

Dakota Winchester, a character in the With Every Heartbeat series, is a student at your school. He/she is also one of your love interests. He/She is first seen in Chapter 1.

Appearance
Dakota's gender and look is determined by the player. Male Dakota wears a dark blue hoodie under an olive green jacket and black pants. Female Dakota wears a black shirt with gold buttons under a tricolored cardigan, light blue jeans, and a brown belt; she also wears a four-strand necklace with heart pendant.

Personality
Dakota appears to be an extroverted individual. Confident, charming, and flirty, if your character asks about his/her nosiness, Dakota admits to that too. Dakota hopes to do something extraordinary in life and says his/her biggest fear is that he/she will not achieve that hope.

With Every Heartbeat

 * Chapter 1: The New Kid

Mom
If you spend time with Dakota at the dog park, he/she tells you that his/her mom did not give him/her a middle name because she doesn't believe in them.

Your Character
Dakota meets you for the first time on your first day as a senior in Willow Creek High School. He/she is being videotaped by Heather for the morning announcements and decides to interview you instead. It takes you by surprise when the interview appears that morning and if you ask Amy about Dakota, she tells you that Dakota has many admirers but also has a lot of drama in his/her life. It is up to you to decide to take Amy's advice, but you run into Dakota again at lunch time and he/she invites you and Amy to the lunch booth he/she shares with Jayden and Heather. If you decide to go with Dakota to the dog park, you spend more time learning about him/her.

Because Dakota visits the hospital frequently, he/she volunteers to drive you on the days you volunteer there. During your first car ride with him/her, Dakota suggests a game of Plead The Fifth where you take turns asking each other agonizing questions. If you ask about his/her most embarrassing moment, Dakota tells you that a couple years ago, he/she tried sneaking into a girl's room but got his/her shirt caught in a nail which ripped it. When he/she tried to fix it, Dakota lost his/her grip and fell to the ground, gaining everyone's attention including her parents who called Dakota's parents who grounded him/her.

Other Looks

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Trivia

 * Dakota Winchester is the sixteenth love interest you can customize. However, he/she is the eighth love interest whose gender can be chosen by the player.
 * At the diner, the "Dakota Special" is soft serve ice cream with chocolate sauce and sprinkles over a bed of extra salty French fries.
 * Dakota confirms his/her age in Chapter 8.
 * Although the general age for seniors in high school ranges between 17 and 18 years old, it is possibly that due to Dakota's hospitalization (for acute lymphoblastic leukemia) when he/she was 6 years old, he/she skipped a year of school or started later.
 * Like Your Character (Home for the Holidays), Dylan Joy, Your Character (High School Story: Class Act), and Twin Sibling (High School Story: Class Act), Dakota is adopted.
 * He/she is one of the few love interests to die in a Choices story.