Summary - Liam and Riley have planned a family trip to New York City on Christmas as the city brings special memories for the couple. They want to share with their little ones the magic of the season and their first Christmas together as a family of four.

Main pairing - Liam x Mc

Rating - General

Category - Fluff

No of words - 960

Warning - none

*Most of the characters belong to pixelberry

First, before I get into this, I will be honest and say that mc is one of my favorite choices characters, so there is some bias. The way I view the story, the characters, and the various events that happen throughout are completely my own. I personally kind of add to the stories as I play through them. I'm definitely going to try to give valid reasoning here, but it's totally understandable if you disagree or dismiss this. I don't want to start any arguments. I personally greatly enjoy her and have played through the entire series multiple times now (I'm currently in book 2 as we speak). The main thing I've noticed throughout these replays, the thing I'm going to be using as my main driving point, is that mc is doing her best in strange situations that do not let up for even more than a moment.

At the very start, mc is just a regular person living in New York, working as a waitress/bartender, and probably isn't living the best of lives, again just trying to work with what she's got. Along comes this guy and his friends. She'll probably just thinking that their her last customers before she can go home and crash into bed, but then the guy comes up to HER and asks her to accompany them for the night. Her reaction is sort just like, "You know what, sure. Why not? I ain't got anything going on." If you do the diamond scene, she arranges an impromptu boat tour for Liam mostly just because she noticed how down he was, and then pretty much just shrugged her shoulders and gave Maxwell a thumbs up when he asked her to go with him to Cordnia.

Right from the start, it's shown that mc is impulsive and tends to just go with the flow and do without thinking too much about it. Now, if you're like me and like to mentally fill in the (many) gaps that the writers have left, you probably came up with your own reasons and background stories that explain why she's like that. Most likely on purpose, as even though mc is her own character, she is still supposed to be a representation of you. Her impulsiveness is simply an outline of who she is, and you, as the reader, color her in.

That's not to say that she can't stand on her own at all, though. One thing I find that I notice in all the books, at least in my perspective, is that mc is incredibly observant and clever. It may not come across that way all the time, and those two things definitely don't always mean smart, as mc has more than enough fumbles to show for it, but by no means is she at all stupid. Even in her sillier moments, she seems to knowingly like messing around, both for her own entertainment and to be petty and get under people's skins. Like with her whole "fwieeeends" bit with Olivia, for example. She is definitely well aware of the fact that it's annoying and seems to take great enjoyment out of it.

But that is to say, in circling back around to my earlier statement, she's just trying to work with what she's got. From the very beginning, when she arrived in Cordnia, she has people looking down on her, namely the royals, Madeline, Olivia, Bertrand, and even Drake in the beginning. I'm not sure if Pixelberry ever gave them official ages, but I'd say she's around 24 or 25, maybe. She also clearly didn't have a whole lot of people close to her in New York. So all and all, she's a young girl brought to a foreign country to compete in a competition to marry a prince, but now also has the entire weight of the Beaumont legacy suddenly thrown on her back, is sorting through complicated feelings that she might be developing for other people, and has been all but shoved front and center into the national (and global) spotlight. Despite all of that craziness, she is STILL able to navigate through it all until the end when forces outside of her control send it all crashing down.

Evangeline Lakandula my beloved 💖

God its been forever since I did this style it looks a bit wonky so I gotta get used to it again 😭

Sent by @cadybear420

‘No because I absolutely adore MCs where there's no singular canon version of their character. MCs where I can restart the book and make a new MC with all different choices for them and it actually feels like I'm playing a brand new character with a different experience from my first MC rather than just the same character with a different appearance. TRR, OG HSS, ILW, LOA (and possibly more) MCs my beloveds.’

Sent by @lover-also-fighter-also

‘We already see the vaa imperii organization pattern in the royal heir book 3 when MC and co break Olivia out when she gets captured, even before it was mentioned. MC = The Empress. Liam = The Face. Drake= The Fist. Hana = The Voice. Maxwell = The Eye’

TRR MC, OG HSS MC, BOLAS MC, maybe AME MC and ES MC and LOA too. ILW MC too, even though they're from a fangame. And also MCs like ACOR and ILITW that are kinda more hybrid.

Probably unpopular opinion, but I tend to be a little more put off by MCs that are very pre-set characters. Of course, sometimes this can work in the story's favor and you get a MC that has a very enjoyable personality to play as and/or is also appropriate to the story such as COP MC, MOTY MC, and MAH MC. Or maybe one that is more of a hybrid like ACOR MC, where her backstory is already written out for you but you get to choose her methods, motives, and goals. But other times you get stuck with a really frustrating personality like the incredibly wishy-washy MTFL MC, or a really bland and passive personality that's ultimately just a failed lazy attempt to make a self-insertable character like TNA MC, where they basically spoonfeed all their character and feelings to you and they'll say or do shit that doesn't sit right with you.

I love MCs where you have choices in who they are because instead of being forced to be this one character where the only things you can choose are the name, appearance, sometimes gender, and sometimes love interest and you either love or hate their character, you kind of get options throughout the story to build their character into one that you like the most. Maybe you self-insert and make them more like you, or maybe you make them their own character. Is your TRR MC very serious and focused on helping Cordonia, or is she a totally messy person with a fetish for big hats? What activities will your HSS MC do, will they be good at said activity or complete utter shite at it, will they be more flirty or more chill or more pompous, will they be kind to the Hearst kids or not, will they be more forgiving towards others or not?

And sometimes it is nice when there's a little bit of ambiguity to their backstory, leaving it up to interpretation. What was TRR MC's life like before they met Liam and co? What were TRR MC's parents like and what happened to them? Did HSS MC's mom get divorced, is she deceased, is she missing, or something else? What was HSS MC's life like before they moved to Berry? How did LOA MC first gain interest in law and how did they come up to be the lawyer they are today? It's up to you, and I don't see why it shouldn't be.