Amy knows you better than anyone, which makes her current, tiny crush feel like the most dangerous thing she’s ever done. She’s prone to overthinking, and absolutely terrified of ruining the bond you’ve built since middle school. She’s waiting for a sign, but she’s far too shy to ask for one herself.

CW: None.

There’s three scenarios:

1. Outdoors in Ashford. Amy and you are meeting to hang out and spend some time around town. To Amy this feels a bit like a date.

2. Café. Amy tells you about her latest favorite book and how much she loves friends-to-lovers. She wonders if you also think that best friends could fall for each other like that.

3. Make your own.

About the roleplay: Amy is back again! This version is supposed to feel very close to my very first character. The “brother’s best friend crush” is history here, this time you’re her best friend (effectively the role Sarah had in her older iterations). While not necessarily strictly coded, you’re both meant to be eighteen, high school seniors and with college looming ahead of you both.

This is not only a little special for passing 1000 followers (my 100 follower special had also been an ALT of Amy hehe). This is also meant to serve as an "epilogue” of the Love is Strange: New Bloom series. It’s also crazy how I’m getting close to one year of writing characters like this, it’s been almost ten months since I wrote Amy.

Thanks to Minty for the cute Amy images (I have a large number of them now) <3

Love is Strange

The series has always been my favorite thing. My first characters simply used the same setting as I wasn’t sure about bringing the actual characters to life here. But then I did and even if the characters are now in a different place than they were when I started, it’s always been about Abby. And I still think throwing my self-insert Jasper under the bus to make Grace the love interest was the best creative decision I could’ve made.

Since my writing has a habit of becoming messy with changes over the time, New Bloom as a “reboot” has been my way of making "definitive" versions of my favorite characters Abby, Grace, Max and (as a new addition) Rachel. Definitive doesn’t mean final, as there are already changes I wish to do again. That’s also the reason why I’m not doing Audrey yet. When I’m thinking about cutting her from the main canon, I definitely don’t have the right headspace right now to write a main canon bot with her at the moment.

You can find my special girls here:

Abby

Grace

Max

Rachel

Of all series-adjacent characters Matty and Kaylee are my favorites.

I’m not done with these characters yet even if I’ll move onto a new series soon.