Spoilers - Being Fiona: Character Growth or Drama (Patreon)

We'll start off with a minor spoiler of a costume test for Felix back as Fiona for a VR fighting game Felix tries out with a certain someone while Jess is busy with another someone.

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Anyhow... Potential Big spoilers ahead, but I could easily changes directions again.

So, that outline for the new story direction I wrote back in June is already proving itself to be a bit obsolete for the next few weeks in-story. I've replaced the Star-League convention with Jess and Lisa inviting the boys to go out dancing instead and Hugo's AR demonstration might get moved to later in the story with Felix and Hugo only hanging out in VR at this part of the story.

I've been running through various plot line options for how Craig and Lisa hook up, and had settled on a drama-filled idea that Jess 'bribes' Craig into going along with the lie by telling him that Lisa has invited him to a night out dancing later that week, and that they are going to prepare for it by Jess speed-running a relationship with him. After a few days of 'practice,' Jess convinces herself that this fake relationship has become a real one, while Craig still believes that the relationship is just pretend for fun and he mistakenly misinterprets the plan to be that Felix and Jess are trying to help him hook up with Lisa when they meet in person later that week. Craig and Lisa meet, wires get crossed when Lisa asks Jess if its okay if she dates Craig, Lisa goes home with Craig and Jess is devastated.

Lisa then either finds out that Craig screwed up and dumps him, or Lisa and Craig discover that they only have Star League in common and break up after two weeks.

After Christmas break Jess discovers that her summer internship has been cancelled, Felix finds out after he is offered the internship in Jess' place, when Felix tries to get in touch with Jess, Lisa tells him to hurry to Jess' place because Jess is preparing to drop out of school and packing up to go back to Canada because her summer internship, school, and Craig were all a bust.

Felix offers to let Jess take his place as Felix for the summer internship (and the Neurolink Researcher offering that summer internship is suspiciously open to the idea, for reasons) and Lisa who was just in the other room hears the offer, figures out that Felix was Fiona, and gets super pissed at Felix (but forgives Jess?).

But as much as it will make for good drama, I'm not entirely happy with that plot-line, so I wondered, what if Craig actually clues in on the fact that Jess likes him?

So, in this version, after speed-running a fake relationship for a few days, Craig and Jess become a thing, and then tell Lisa that they have gotten "back together."

Lisa meets Felix at the dance club, finds him cute, and then go home together.

Felix, seeing where things are heading, slams on the brakes and tells Lisa the truth. Lisa is well, a mess of emotions: hurt, confused, shocked, angry, and curious? Lisa tells Felix that he's lucky he's cute and decides to hear Felix out and they hang out on the couch as Felix explains the entire story.

Felix and Lisa don't date, possibly stay friends, not sure yet. Maybe Felix discovers that playing as a male character is boring, and Lisa gets annoyed that she can't make out with Felix in VR? Craig and Jess' relationship also fizzles (the sex was great, but they couldn't 'click'). Lisa lets Felix convince her to give Jess another chance.

When I originally came up with the body-swap for the internship idea, it was Jess asking Felix to help her out, I might go back to Jess asking for a favor rather than it being Felix's idea.

There's less drama here than my current version, but I do like that Felix steps up and chooses to bring an end to the lie rather than Lisa finding out because Felix slips up or is forced to admit the truth.

Anyhow, I still have some time to figure this all out, so I might end up with an entirely different idea.