What happens if you throw MC into a high school AU as the new scholarship student? …Well, let’s just say I was relieved that she wasn’t paired with Robert the homeroom teacher, haha. Anyway, here was my personal ranking, from least to most favorite!
#4: Nico
Boy is a freshman exchange student from Stein, and a full two years MC’s junior. This doesn’t stop all the girls from cooing over him, though! He has a bit of a reputation for being an opportunist and a faker (surprise!), but he’s nice to MC (although he does con her into making him lunch once, haha). MC comes to his defense at an unneeded moment and he confesses his love in a garden. Overall, I thought this story was very blah, but it might be my personal anti-Nico bias talking. Route highlight: “Does this mean you see me as a man?”
#3 Giles
Giles the senior/student body class president tricks MC into helping the student council collate data, after she accidentally stumbles into the forbidden student council room. Already, the guy has a reputation for being “strict,” but he’s fairly chill with MC. He confesses his love after the data stuff has long finished, when MC mistakenly assumes he has a girlfriend. So much second hand embarrassment, lmfao. Route highlight: smooth motherfucker kissing MC’s hand after she gets a paper cut. ^_^
#2 Alyn
Alyn the resident horse boy gets closer to MC after he convinces her to tutor him (they’re in the same homeroom). They share a mutual and growing respect, and despite being uninterested in dating in lieu of pursuing his knighthood, Alyn does in the end change his mind, just for MC! While it was a little harder to get a sense of Nico and Giles’ characters in their routes, it was very easy (and awesome) to see traces of grown-up Alyn in this ES 🙂 Route highlight: “I promise I’ll become a knight, and I’ll come back to you.” Worst/funniest moment: “Junior class president? What’s that?” MC PLEASE. Lmfao.
#1 Albert
I don’t know much about Albert except that he’s a massive asshole in pretty much everyone else’s route. …But not in this story!! High school Albert is a super shy nerd who’s finishing up his exchange program at MC’s school. He and MC “randomly” run into each other a lot over several days, and he helps MC quite a lot: with finding her way, catching a falling book, etc. And when they get accidentally locked in the library overnight, he comforts MC by hugging her all night! Ahhhhh 💕Just goes to show, you can’t write off a character based only on their cameos. I’m looking forward to tackling his main story soon 🙂
…Ngl, I thought I was going to completely hate this event, since the school thing didn’t really appeal to me. But I thought it was surprisingly good, and captured the awkwardness of teenage romance pretty well! Definitely one of MidCin’s stronger events, imho. What did y’all think? 🙂
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