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.
Chapters[]
Murder at Homecoming[]
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
Relationships[]
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. Throughout the book, you can remember conversations you had with her that can help you with your current investigation and also otherwise, as you learnt tricks from her such as how to sneak out of your house without being noticed. Perdita started to involve you in her investigations about six years before the main story and you know she worked on a case shortly before her disappearance but she refused to tell you who or what exactly she was investigating at the time. You can tell Donovan in Chapter 10 that either you have never reached point where you could say that it's over or that you all have to move on eventually. You say that Perdita didn't want you to fully follow in her footsteps as detective but wanted for you to be able to get out of danger. In the final chapter, you visit her grave for the first time in a long while. You can choose to accept to never find her or promise to keep on searching. If you have gained enough clues, her ex Jeremy will give you her diary that you get to read which will lead to a scene where you talk to her inside your head. The story ends with you saying goodbye to her grave.
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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 his 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.
If you've romanced Donovan enough and aren't already in an exclusive relationship, you can decide to be in a exclusive relationship, an open relationship, or just be friends.
Tyler Woods[]
Tyler is introduced as Gabbie's boyfriend of six months and becomes one of your initial suspects in her murder case after you find his bloody pocket square at the scene of the crime. Therefore, you break into his car and scroll through his phone to discover that the last text he sent her reads "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 after you, 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 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 again where it's revealed Gabbie had blackmailed him and was acting suspiciously. You also learn Tyler was not the one behind Gabbie's murder, but also suspected her death was no accident.
The two of you agree to team up to 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 threatening note you had found in Gabbie's pencil case.
If you've romanced Tyler enough and aren't already in an exclusive relationship, you can decide to be in a exclusive relationship, an open relationship, or just be friends.
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.
If you've romanced Stevie enough and aren't already in an exclusive relationship, you can decide to be in a exclusive relationship, an open relationship, or just be friends.
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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 that night, 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 in a premium scene. If the scene is taken, she will tell 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. Gabbie 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. Gabbie 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.
Millie Pereira[]
You and Millie are best friends. According to you, if she wasn't out of town during Homecoming, she'd be your excuse to not go to the dance. When she returns in Chapter 2, you tell her that you believe that Gabbie was murdered. At first she doesn't let you enter the pool to look for clues and doesn't approve of your investigation, but eventually she gives up and tells you to be careful. In Chapter 4 however, she still insists that the cops might be right, and wants to hang out with you and tell you something. Later when she tries to discourage you from investigating further, you two get in an argument. You soon reconcile and she occasionally helps with your investigation.
Gallery[]
Character Customization[]
Outfit Choices[]
Body Type 1[]
Body Type 2[]
Other Looks[]
Miscellaneous[]
Trivia[]
- A version of your character appears on the cover.
- Body Type 1 reuses three faces from Ride or Die: A Bad Boy Romance, while Body Type 2 reuses three faces from High School Story: Class Act.
- Two child models for Body Type 1 resemble young versions of the main character from My Two First Loves.
- This is the first protagonist where only the middle name is customizable, the first with a customizable middle name, and the first who is referred to by her/his/their middle name.
- You and your family share the same surname as the default surname of Billionaire from The Billionaire's Baby.
- 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:
- The Body Type 1 outfit "Roaring 20's" was changed to "Roaring Twenties."
- The Body Type 1 outfit "Girl Detective" was changed to "Kid Detective."
- The Body Type 2 outfit "Gentleman Sleuth" was changed to "Genius Sleuth."
- It is mentioned in Chapter 1 that you're a minor and a high school junior. A premium scene in Chapter 3 confirms that you recently turned 17.
- The Chapter 3 scene reveals 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.
- The same scene allows players to choose whether you enjoy listening to podcasts, playing tabletop games, or skateboarding. You can also choose to reveal that you are ambidextrous but usually use your right hand, that you once got third place in a regional 6th grade spelling bee, or that you learned to speak Portuguese from a Brazilian couple who used to babysit for you.
- You had a crush on a character named Rowan about 6 years ago, and wrote poetry about them when you were 12.
- If you do not give evidence to Mr. Lewis in Chapter 15, your confrontation with Gabbie's killer results in you sustaining three broken ribs and a busted knee. You require physical therapy and will still need to occasionally use crutches three months later.