User blog:Jacked Maverick/My Top Ten Favorite Love Interests. (Jacked Maverick)

You know what I love? People. Both real life and fictional. Fictional love interests are meant to be perfect. Characters that we can be obsessed with. For the past five years, some love interests have been on my mind 24/7. People who we all aspired to be like. So that we could be better ourselves.

Today I want to do another thing I love: writing! So kind of like a double whammy. Haha.

I want to rank my top 10 favorite love interests in Choices. Regardless of their gender or book. But the only restriction I have is a maximum of two love interests per book. Otherwise this list will be full of High School Story and Desire & Decorum love interests.

As I reminder, I am a cisgender male and am 100% heterosexual. But there are some men I put on the list because

1) like I said in the paragraph, they are meant to be “perfection”.

And 2) I… could not think of some other females to make it up to ten. Haha. Or at least not enough to give a detailed summary. You’ll see when we get to honorable mentions.

Just because some people are ranked lower on this list does not mean I love them less. They are all special individuals in their own way.

Also I’m not going to include “Not-Meant-To-Be” people, meaning characters that may begin as Love Interests for the Main Character / Your Character but do not remain so by the end of their stories. The player may be able to flirt (as long as it leads to a "romance point"), kiss, or spend diamonds to improve relationships and for intimate scenes up to a certain point with these characters. However, these characters will not be available as Love Interests for your characters' happy endings at the book or series' conclusions. No matter how much I love Priya Lacroix (Bloodbound), Kristin Jones (Nightbound), Teagan, Ivy Fisher, Eden Labelle, Yvette, Kiana and Lina (America’s Most Eligible), and Ellen Thompson (Wishful Thinking).

Special Honorable Mention
Addison Sinclair (Red Carpet Diaries). She used to be my number one of all fictional characters back on Hollywood U. She gets the special honorable mention as she is Not-Meant-To-Be on Choices. I really loved her back in the day. Back in 2014. Back before I got wrapped up in so much drama. Back when the world made sense.

=1. MARIA FLORES. (Overachiever, High School Story)=



To my friends, you already knew who number one would be before you clicked on this post.

Quinn may have been a better written character, but Maria is just oozing with character. At first I was going to go for Emma, but as more scenes went by with Maria, I realized how much her traits come off as attractive.

All of the classes she takes are more advanced and therefore yield more rewards. The classes are all of higher status and she is the head of a lot of clubs. All that work molds her to be a determined and ambitious person.

It’s because of all that that causes her to get stressed out. And you know what? If we weren’t there to console her, the anxiety would cause her to get overwhelmed. She had her life planned out to the last second. No room for improvisation or failures. She even says something like “For my whole life, I thought I knew where I was going. Plans change. You can’t plan for who you fall in love with.”

If we choose her, we teach her to slow down and breathe. We were the only one who comforted her when the Homecoming committee fell apart. After they all seemed down, Maria exclaims “Fine! I’ll… I’ll plan the whole thing myself!” as she stormed off. She didn’t let the low school spirit get to her. She decided to just move on and finish the task at hand. There are no half measures where she’s from. He is a hard working responsible young lady. Taking on every task like it poses no threat to her. Traits that make me want to comfort her. A type of person I would approach in real life.

She may plan a lot of parties, but she’s never had anyone to go with. Which was totally fine with her. She decides to at least make sure other people have the best maximum amount of time according to mathematics.

Her 17th birthday was my favorite part of book 2. Not because it was her party, but at that point, the school hated each other. A party like that was a chance for the story to take a break from much needed levity. We are the levity whenever Maria gets too stressy after her many official school jobs.

If I had any complaints, I feel a little uncomfortable she’s a minor. I mean, I was 16 when the first High School Story book came out, same age as her. But I’m 19 now and she’s 18. I know that isn’t a big age difference, but when I get older I will feel even more awkward. Since we were underage and can't hook up I know it's *real* love and not lust. 🙃

But her characteristics are timeless. We all know someone like Maria in real life. Someone who feels like they have the weight of the world on their shoulders. Tries her hardest so projects would go on without a hitch. Maria is the person I can say with absolute certainly that I love.

There have been a lot of revisions. People whom I haven’t even mentioned being on this list. Shane was at one point my number three and Bianca was once my number 5. But Quinn and Maria have always been my #2 & #1 in that order. Always.

Again, Quinn is a better written character that fits the story, but Maria’s characteristics make up for everything.

That was my top ten. It was not easy making this list. Agree with my choices? Did I miss anyone? Some of you are probably disappointed I didn’t mention Shreya Mistry or Nia Ellarious. I would love to hear your thoughts and your lists in the comments below!