Your Character (Murder at Homecoming)

Your Character in Murder at Homecoming is the main protagonist of the Murder at Homecoming book.

Her/his/their full name is Valentine "Blake" Stone, but the player can choose her/his/their middle name as they wish.

Appearance
The appearance is up to the player.

Personality
Although most specific traits can be determined by the player, in general, you are considered by most as cold, aloof, and antisocial. You are a workaholic, even though you’re still in high school, and have the reputation of being Beachwood's amateur kid detective.

Background
At one point, you were on the school swim team with Gabbie when you were younger and people called you Val. You were once best friends with Stevie Sun and she gave you a photograph as a gift which you kept in your wallet. Your middle name is the name you request others call you by. Your sister, Perdita, went missing four years before the events of the main story, though it is unknown if she is alive given that the police gave up on her case and didn't come close to finding her.

Murder at Homecoming

 * Chapter 1: Blood in the Water
 * Chapter 2: Keep Your Enemies Close
 * Chapter 3: Not Alone
 * Chapter 4: You've Changed
 * Chapter 5: Bad Boys
 * Chapter 6: Behind Closed Doors
 * Chapter 7: Party Crasher
 * Chapter 8: I Don't Want to Believe
 * Chapter 9: Case Closed?
 * Chapter 10: Prisoner's Dilemma
 * Chapter 11: Run, Rabbit, Run
 * Chapter 12: To Tug at Tangled Threads
 * Chapter 13: Pick Your Poisoner
 * Chapter 14: Dance with Death
 * Chapter 15: Prey For Me
 * Chapter 16: Surviving High School

Rowan
You had a crush on this character about 6 years before the time of Chapter 8. Chapter 10 can reveal that you wrote poems about this character when you were 12.

Perdita Stone
Perdita is your sister, and the two of you were close before her disappearance four years ago. In a flashback to the day of her funeral, you are shown to be angry that people assume she's dead while you believe that she could still be alive.

Donovan Navarro
He is one of your love interests, and he snaps a photo of you for the yearbook. He thanks you for coming to Gabbie's funeral and says it would mean a lot to her that you came. In chapter three, when you and Tyler go over to his house to question him about Gabbie's death, he snaps at you and believes you are offering fake sympathies and do not have the right to grieve given you weren't close with Gabbie. You have the option of staying behind and helping the Navarro's with dinner with the begrudging assistance of Donovan. If you choose to understand he's grief over Gabbie and his anger towards Tyler, he warms to you slightly. Just as you leave the Navarro's, Donovan warns you to be careful around Tyler as he has secrets before returning inside.

Tyler Woods
At one point, Tyler thought Gabbie was secretly dating you because she had invited you to Homecoming with them, though she reassures him that your just a friend. Tyler is one of your initial suspects in Gabbie's murder after you find his bloody pocket square at the scene of the crime. At one point, you break into his car and find his phone. While looking through his phone, you discover that the last text he sent her read "U are so dead", which you interpret as a death threat. Before you get the chance to investigate further, Tyler enters his car, and drives off, unbeknownst that you are in the car with him. You manage to jump from the car and run off through the woods, alerting Tyler to your presence. He chases you through the forest, warning you that you could get hurt but you ignore him and end up at the edge of the cliff were you are forced to confront him. When he learns why you were in his car and that you suspect him of murdering Gabbie, he admits that he and Gabbie were in a fake relationship and gives you the option of looking through his phone were its revealed Gabbie had blackmailed him and was acting suspiciously. You also learn Tyler was not the one behind Gabbie's murder, but too suspected her death was no accident. The two of you agree to team up and find out who killed Gabbie and head over to the Navarro's house were you question Donovan about Gabbie's death, though this causes the two boys to fight and Donovan accusing Tyler of never caring about his sister. Donovan warns you that Tyler is hiding something and you and Tyler head over to Stevie Sun's house to question her about a threating note you had found in Gabbie's pencil case.

Stevie Sun
Stevie used to be your best friend, but the two of you are still friendly with each other. She is also one of your love interests.

Gabbie Navarro
Gabbie hired you to investigate ballot fraud against her boyfriend, Tyler, for Homecoming. Despite inviting you to the dance under investigation work, she spends the first half of the night making sure your having fun and bans you from detective talk for the ride to the Homecoming dance. At one point you find her sitting on the ground in the science hallway looking miserable and you have the option of finding out what's bothering her. She tells you she doesn't feel like she's leaving any kind of mark on Beachwood High and worry's people will only look back at her as nothing more then a pretty face. She reveals she's never told anyone about this, not even her closest friends. You comfort her and tell her that people like her because she's a good person and is always taking care of others, yourself included. She appreciates your kind words and wishes the two of you had been closer before the two of you agree to be friends. She leaves the hallway and it is only after she's left you discover someone had written her a threatening note and given her a razor blade. You planned to ask her about it later but never got the chance.

Later, when Homecoming King and Queen is announced, Gabbie is found missing and you go searching for her, only to find her deceased body in the school pool. You attempt to save her but she's already dead and you are later found with her body and questioned by the police. You are haunted by Gabbie's murder and when the police announce they closed the case, believing her death to be an accident, you become determined to find out who killed her.

Body Type 1

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Body Type 2

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Other Looks

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Trivia

 * A version of your character appears on the cover.
 * This is the first Main Character where only the middle name is customizable, and also the first with a customizable middle name; and the first who is referred to by her/his/their middle name.
 * This character reuses three male faces of Your Character and Twin Sibling from High School Story: Class Act and three female faces from Your Character from Ride or Die: A Bad Boy Romance, Book 1.
 * Two of the younger female versions resemble two young faces of Main Character from My Two First Loves.
 * Your hairstyles are named after popular teen detectives from different franchises such as Nancy from Nancy Drew; Fred, Shaggy, Velma, Daphne, all from Scooby-Doo; Veronica from Veronica Mars; Hardy from The Hardy Boys; and Young Sherlock and Enola from Sherlock Holmes.
 * On August 3, 2022, PB updated the first chapters and renamed several outfits:
 * Chapter 1 Body 1 outfit: from "Roaring 20's" to "Roaring Twenties"
 * Chapter 2 Body 1 outfit: from "Girl Detective" to "Kid Detective"
 * Chapter 2 Body 2 outfit: from "Gentleman Sleuth" to "Genius Sleuth"
 * It is mentioned in Chapter 1 that you're still a minor, but also a Junior in high school.
 * In a premium scene in Chapter 3, it is confirmed that you just turned 17 earlier this month.
 * In the same scene, you claim that your parents named you "Valentine" after The Two Gentlemen of Verona instead of after the holiday. The Two Gentlemen of Verona is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, potentially his first.
 * In the mentioned Chapter 3 scene, Tyler asks what does this character do for fun and we can choose podcasts, tabletop games, or skateboarding.
 * If podcasts is chosen, this character says "I actually listen to all sorts. My favorites are ones that explain why everything you thought you knew was wrong."
 * If tabletop games is chosen, this character tells Settlers of Catan and Dungeons & Dragons.
 * If skateboarding is chosen, Tyler tells that he could see it and guesses that it is the attitude.
 * Other potential reveals in the mentioned Chapter 3 scene::
 * This character can write well with both hands, but uses right hand because elbows would be bumped if left was used.
 * This character got 3rd place in the regional in a 6th grade Spelling Bee.
 * This character can speak Portuguese; picked it from a couple from Brazil that used to babysit this character.
 * Her/His/Their crimes include breaking & entering, false impersonation (potentially told in a Chapter 7 premium scene), vandalism (if Chapter 9's premium scene is taken), trespassing (potentially told in the Stevie path of Chapter 9's scene).