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(Note: This is the last essay in my series on Hanaās diamond scenes for Book 1. I will be posting the Book 2 scenes shortly. Sorry for the deluge of essays, guys! I did this in such a hurry mainly to ensure I didnāt have too much backlog with her Book 2 essays. Like Liamās, Iād like to post Hanaās essays as soon as the chapter is done. If you have missed the other scenes, check out my masterlist and youāll find all of them there).
The group scenes are a lot of fun because they give you a good idea of the dynamics running between Liam, Maxwell, Hana, Drake and the MC, outside of their romantic interactions with her. In Book 1, Hana and the MC are still getting to know the three Cordonian men, whose bond goes way back and who already have developed a comfortable equation amongst themselves.
Cronut Run
The cronut run would be especially special to a Hana shipper, because itās the first time you see her expressing an interest in the MC that goes beyond friendship. Not only does Hana seem hopelessly attracted to the MC, she also looks extremely confused by her own reaction.
If you choose to walk back with her on the way to the palace, she tells you that she hasnāt been invited to parties or gatherings. This may have to do with her being new to Cordonia - since the MC hasnāt been invited either - or with the lingering effects of the scandal behind her engagement. In any case, it is interesting that we have this exchange so soon after the MCās last chat with her, where she talks about playing tea parties with imaginary friends.
The overall picture we get of Hana is that of a talented, beautiful, lonely, isolated woman, who hasnāt had many friends in her life.
Beach Bae
This really is a scene that unlocks if you wear the swimsuit at the beach party, and involves only Drake and Hana. The Beach Party chapter happens midway through the story, following Constantineās dramatic resignation announcement. It serves as a breather after a slew of chapters where a whirlwind of events take place, and just before the Applewood chapters, where the competition becomes even more frenzied. The announcement changes the pace and intensity of the competition itself, considering that Liamās wife-to-be will become Queen, not Crown Princess. It is essential therefore, to give the characters, and the reader, a much-needed break before the real drama happens.
If the MC buys the Beach Bae outfit, she gets to swim in the ocean with both Drake and Hana. Hana and the MC playfully attack Drake by throwing water at him, and Drake challenges her to a swimming race, which Hana volunteers to judge. If the MC wins, Hana dives to the bottom to give her her prize. (Correction: she gives the MC the shell even if the MC loses)
Drake, on the other hand, gets a sand dollar š
Thereās not much to this sequence, besides some good old-fashioned fun in the sun with two of the main LIs.
Drakeās Birthday
When it comes to Hana, the birthday party at the American bar is all about learning to be imperfect. She feels nervous about dancing in the club because itās not a choreographed dance routine that she knows the steps to, and she hesitated for a second in riding the mechanical bull because she doesnāt think she will be good at it. In both instances, it is her friends who convince her to loosen up and just enjoy herself, and not worry about what other people think. Drakeās birthday party is important for Hana because it teaches her the fun in being bad at something, for a change.
The Ruins
Each love interest has a different reaction to the ruins. Drake scoffs at them, Maxwell wonders what stories he could make up, Liam contemplates on the weight of his countryās history. Hana, on the other hand, looks at the mosaics and wonders at their hidden stories. She asks the MC whether she would have been an artist, or had a poem or work of art dedicated to her had she lived so long ago. Would she have a story that would survive the test of time? Would she be proud of the artist whose work she now admires, or be disgusted at them? Her questions seem similar to Liamās, with one subtle difference: Liam asks about the possible legacy he may leave behind, Hana wonders at what the common man on the ancient street would have thought of her.
Truth or Dare
The MC and her friends play this game after the Beaumont Bash is over, hoping to take a breather from the wildness of the festivities. There are three things Hana can (if chosen) play a part in while the game is on:
1. If the MC chooses ātruthā, Maxwell asks her who she would rather be stuck on an island with. Hanaās first reaction, if the MC picks her, is shock and nervousness. āWouldnāt you grow tired of me after a while?ā Part of this, I feel, stems from the fact that she has lived a mostly isolated life, surrounded by people who value her only for her usefulness in certain things. She also compares herself to Drake (āsarcasticā) and Maxwell (āfunnyā), and finds herself lacking. It is hard for her even now to believe that people want her for her, as a person.
2. When Maxwell asks her about her first kiss. Here we get a glimpse of exactly how lacking in chemistry Peter and Hana were, and how awkward the entire situation itself was. Also, it is interesting to note that her parents seemed more worried about her ruined dress than either Peterās condition or whether the couple even wanted to kiss in public in the first place. The MC, at this stage, has the option of ādoing overā Hanaās first kiss, and giving her an experience she deserves.
3. The MC also gets to choose whether Hana or Drake will streak in the ballroom, and whether they should join in. This is another experience Hana is not used to, which she finds strangely liberating.
Book 1 presents the MC and her friends at a stage in their lives where things havenāt gotten too entirely serious yet, where amidst the frenzy of the social season there is time for laughter and fun and childlike things. Liam can climb out of his window to visit a cronut shop, Maxwell can teach Hana the sprinkler, Drake can show off on the mechanical bull, Hana can play Truth and Dare. In Book 2, the stakes are higher and their mission immersed in intrigue. Their reactions to situations are different. The way they handle people are different. They are different. With the end of Liamās coronation, and the beginning of the MCās difficult journey towards clearing her name - it is almost as if an era has ended.
Note: This is the last in my Liam: Diamond Scenes Seriesā¦well, at least for Book 1. This section focuses on the group scenes and talks briefly about the group dynamics but will concentrate mostly on what it tells us about King Liam.
The friend group in TRR is a pretty eclectic mix of people from high society (Liam, Maxwell, Hana) and commoners (Drake, the MC), most of whom make their plans at royal events in an attempt to take a breather, explore their surroundings, or just to have some good fun. The MC tends to act as the group mom (move over, Freshman MC!), encouraging all her friends separately to open up and let themselves a little loose, but in these diamond scenes sheās seen as the glue that holds it together. Liam, in being the Crown Prince, tends to have to jump through hoops to make it for their excursions (almost injuring himself on the bushes for the cronut run, for instance), but the experience itself makes it worth his while.
Cronut Run
I personally found the MCās dramatics over the fact that none of them have ever tasted Cronuts a little over the top š but itās a good diamond sequence nonetheless, with Maxwell breaking their on-three count in his eagerness to eat the cronuts, and two chances to spend time with each LI. The player can choose both who they want to sit next to and walk back home with, and each LI interacts with the MC in different ways. Given that Liam and the MC - by this time - could already be interacting romantically with each other by this point, it makes sense that they enjoy their company in the bakery in silence, savouring their connection. Liamās interaction outside the shop is particularly interesting, because it is here that it dawns on him how limited his life is (to the end of claiming he lives in a āstatesmanās bubbleā). This could be important for his future as a king later.
Drakeās Birthday
This particular sequence is rich in Drake interactions and is pretty important to the Drake/MC friendship/relationship, given that we get a glimpse of his childhood and have the MC show him how to view his unhappy history with his birthday differently. So it does make sense that the LI interactions are limited to who you get to dance with. Liam, who doesnāt get a lot of chances to do normal, non-ballroom dancing, has a chance to just enjoy himself here. Beyond this, the group encourages him to show āmovesā and he shocks them all with a backflip.
This sequence gives me the impression that if Liam and Hana had met under different circumstances, they would have made excellent friends. Both of them know how burdensome parental and societal pressure is, picked up skills they didnāt necessarily want, grapple with their fear of disappointing the people who matter to them, tell the MC that being around her makes them feel alive. Probably, if it werenāt for the competition - and both Liam and Hanaās apparant lack of interest in it - I believe they would have bonded more over their shared experiences than they have in the story.
Ruins
The ruins group interaction is different from the other two, because this is the last time all of them get to have an interaction together (considering Liam does not feature in the Truth or Dare game), and is split four ways, with the four friends exploring different ruin sites and voicing different views, and the MC acting (as I said earlier) as the glue. Drake is disarmingly irreverent about the importance of the ruins, Hana wonders at how someone one day might write her own story, Maxwell tells the MC that he saw hope for Cordonia the moment she entered their lives, and Liam speaks of the weight of history and tries to imagine what mark he will leave on it.
In my opinion, the Ruins chapter is the moment it all comes together for Liam: he realises that he cannot live without the MC, that she will make an excellent queen for Cordonia, that people will - already do - love her.
The above panel also strikes a parallel to the Statue of Liberty scene, where after seeing the statue up close, he tells the MC that he feels capable of anything.
He also asks her what kind of king she thinks he will make (also where we got our title for him - King Liam the Sexy - from šš), hints at how his fatherās own mortality makes him wonder how history will view their rule.
Truth or Dare
Liam is conspicuous by his absence in this scene, and I think thatās important because it highlights his changing role. As a Prince he may not have had a lot of freedom but he was able to grab hold of whatever he got. Now that he is going to be king in less than a few days, his time gets even more restricted, and he ends up concentrating on the one person he wants as queen.
However, I do think that Maxwellās story about the carousel says a lot about how children in the nobility are brought up, and it does reflect both on Maxwell himself as a person who looks fun but is an emotional mess inside, and on Liam (as we learn later, the court and the royalty havenāt been very kind to him either). As an insight into what many of these children have to go through, it raises some very interesting points.
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With this, we have come to the end of the Liam: Diamond Scene series for Book 1. Book 2 will, Iām sure, have a range of pretty interesting scenes that will provide a lot of background, character development and fun for our characters.
