Love And Leases
Love and Leases is a slice-of-life interactive novel. Where drama, romance, and betrayal intertwine to create your story. With a focus on relationships, drama, healing and found family. Rated 18+ for language, optional sexual content, drug/alcohol use and more.
Synopsis
With everything seemingly falling into place, life decides to throw you for a loop. After losing your fiancé, sister, perfect apartment, and beloved dog in rapid succession, you're left shattered and directionless.
Caught between the past and present, you grapple with the choices ahead: to rebuild your life or forge a new one, to reclaim what was lost, or to let it go. As you navigate the unfamiliar terrain of your new surroundings, you're faced with opportunities for love, friendship, and self-discovery.
As the year unfolds, you must decide whether to cling to the past or embrace the future. Each decision you make shapes not only your immediate future but the trajectory of your life moving forward, and those around you. Will you seek revenge or reconcile with your past?
Are you ready to sign your lease?
✦Warning✦ This WIP is rated 18+ for language, sexual content, drug/alcohol use and more.
Features
❥ Customize your MC, gender, appearance, personality, and history with some of the characters.
❥ Start your new career, choose to work with one of the six RO's of your choice.
❥ Romance one or more character, will you find comfort in familiar gaze of a friend, pick up the pieces of a relationship of your past? Or do you just think the landlord is hot?
❥ Fix not only your relationships but those of the people around you.
❥ Get back your dog!?
Characters
This list only cover's characters you can develop further relationships with. Romantic or platonic. All character's are romanceable. There is one poly romance, and two of the character's are gender selectable. These are not the only character's you will become familiar with in the story.
❥ The Best Friend: Cameron “Cam” Clarke [M] – Cam has always been by your side; you have known each other since you were in diapers. His "impulsiveness" is part of his charm. One look in your direction is all it takes to soften him up. Cam is confident, sarcastic, and some would say rude. Yet never to you. You can’t help noticing how he looks at you, has it always been this adoringly? Link to character profile.
❥ The Rival: Gage/Garnet Kim [M or F] – G was one of your closest friends/rival in college, now just a sore reminder of the bad choices you’ve made. Getting close to one another was inevitable. Your chemistry undeniable. That was until a fight one night at the dorms. Now G barely looks your way. No witty comment, no stolen glances when they thought you weren't looking. Can you fix the fracture in your relationship? Link to character profile.
❥ The follower: Kara Clarke [F] - Kara is the younger sister of Cam and Chris. She knows what she wants and how to get it. She got the best attributes of her siblings, loyalty and undeniable charm. She is spunky yet sweet, outspoken, confident, and mainly competitive. Always willing to lend you a shoulder, and maybe even more. Link to character profile.
❥ The Writer: Markus | Melody Wilkens [M or F]– M is the ideal type to bring home to your parents, or to your friends, or anywhere. M is sweet, considerate, and extremely overworking. Always lacking sleep, that doesn’t dampen their smile. Yet from time to time you notice a sadness that doesn’t belong to their kind face. Not to mention that glimmer of mischief in their eyes. golden retriever cinnamon roll. Link to character profile.
❥ The Delivery person [redacted] : Isaac Allen [M or NB] - Isaac is the resident flirt/jokester. Are you having a bad day? Well, you better believe they have a well timed comment/joke ready to make you blush or laugh. Though you've never met prior, you can swear you've seen them before. Will you be the one who finally gets Isaac to give love a chance? Link to character profile.
❥ The Landlord: Ardent Pine [M] - You know the last person on Earth you would ever want to be stuck with, yeah that’s Ardent. He is rude, inconsiderate, self-entitled. Everyone has a bad word to say about Ardent. Even his cat (who is the cause of the scars on his arms). Surely, he can’t be that bad right? There must be a good bone in him somewhere, are you willing to find it, and find what has hardened his heart? Resident dilf. Link to character profile.
Credits
- WRITING AND CODING: By me.
- TEMPLATE. Used Vahnya's Twine Template II.
- MACROS. Chapel for several macros, (notify, live update, etc.) Link to their macros here. Thanks so much to Misty for dynamic stat bar macro, you can find Misty's amazing IF here.
Development log
- Lil update~8 days ago
- Demo released.13 days ago
Comments
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Finished the demo last night and I am coming out of this as a Cammie lover. I am also a Jade and Chris hater and I have a theory about Kara and I think my MC will N O T like it🧍🏾♀️
I like this alot, the demo is great. The ros are writen quite well seeing how im stuck between the follower, rival and the writer. Not exactly sure who I will go with for the first play through. Also really wanting to throw hands with jade and the family. Not sure if you plan on adding something like that but definitely would fight jade given the choice.
It's great people to be stuck between!
So the MC will be able to break their relationships with certain characters for good or mend them, and also effect relationships of some of the other characters. If you want to throw down with Jade it's not off the table!
I like it, was a pretty thorough demo. Looking forward to the next update.
ok but the MC is soooo oblivious are u not seeing how awkward Cam is? he obviously likes u cause no if that was me i would overthink every single thing he did. and the side story? MC rly is blind maybe i should've given them some glasses...
Not Cam's side story I can't lmao!!!!!! He's such a waffle I love him <3
Oooh I'm sooo giddy about Marcus's interaction with us! Love the story! Gonna follow this🤧
Yay M has another fan! Glad you enjoyed them and the story :D
oih my gosh, that was so so amazingly good, so well-written, fun and bittersweet. I hope we can have a chance to get revenge on our sister and ex-fiance. I wish you the best for writing and have a great time with it <3 I'm looking forward to more <3
Thank you! There will be ways to mess with Jade/Chris/ even MC's parents. It's possible to repair relationships of MC's and other characters or just completely wreck them. :D I'll take the wishes!
Ugh, Garnet my love! I absolutely cannot wait for more of this!
I love the story already
may I ask, who is apart of the poly route?
Kara and Isaac
Loving this, for some reason I like playing on difficult mode so going for Mr. Grumpy for my first main play, but Cam is so adorable, I already playing the alt version 1 and 2, because my shy and need to tease will battle each other, so need they their own saves. Favorite character is Aunt Emma all the way. I'm super excited to see where this goes and getting MC the best life and getting her dog back .
Well just played the Demo and enjoyed. I am also interested in how the story would develop. Currently Kim and Wilkens have my interest as ROs but that may change. Kim because of their past history with the MC and Wiklens because they are cute and I want to see where a relationship with them would end up.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yeah I know it's hard to decide currently because you're still getting to know the RO's. It's going to be a journey thats for sure.
Yeah, I have that, too with the switch of pronouns. If you choose a female dog it was one time referred as a "he". Chris is referred to as "they" several times.
I really love Cam and everything feels really fluid and over all satisfyingly balanced!
I have an issue though with the ex. I decided to make them an ex-friend and I don't get their reasoning. How can a simple friend feel such deep betrayal for the MC getting together with Chris? I get why we got no direct reasoning in the demo for the suspense alone but sadly with the choice for them to be no ex whom MC had a relationship with it kinda....irks. After the confrontation I was seriously thinking "wtf is their problem with MC and why ist it automatically narrated through MCs thought process that we feel guilt??" The last bit regarding the guilt felt forced upon the reader... No friend would turn to such extremes on a friendship simply cause they hate the partner? I believe there is a good explanation for it. Still. With what limited information WE currently got with the demo that whole affair feels...i dunno how to describe it. Before I was so throughouly invested in the story and then I was kinda kicked Out of this trance, If you get what I mean. It was a tad bit confusing.
Sorry that I needed so much words to deliver what I meant, hope it conveys what I meant to say.
And don't get me wrong, I was one of the first lurkers to your Tumblr account, I anticipated this demo for a long time and I truly love everything about it to pieces. The described situation above irritated me cause Im autistic af and have a hard time not knowing why someone hates me/ has a problem with sth I did - it deeply concerns me and that results to overthinking -and it kinda always bleeds through my reading experience in interactive fictions 😅 As one can guess I tried several times to reach a sliver of understanding...to no avail.
I love how strong Cams character was portrayed, If I had to choose what I enjoyed the most in your story it would be that. He just feels so complex and...well, real. Simply amazing work!
I loved the route of Cam even before the demo, you delivered this expectation and more. Repect. Not many interactive fictions can do that and captivate their readers like that.
To add to this if you select the flirt options with the "ex friend" choice prior it is worded as though you were in a relationship previously and I think that is how the ex friend without the flirting comes off as well, it reads like there was an invested romantic relationship that the MC potentially cheated on as opposed to friends. That being said I did enjoy the game so far but I agree with the OP that this particular thing feels off. As does the shirt with Cam even if you are his size lol
This story is amazing! just wanted to add that there might be a bug with pronouns. When choosing Chris and the dogs pronouns the game kept referring to them as they.
Thanks for the heads up I'll give it a look and fix it.
A total blast. Want more Cam please and thank you
:D Noted!
I thought for sure I’d want to go for the ex. I’m a sucker for that trope. But Cam!!!
Lol Cam won another one eh!
Amazing amazing amazing!!!!
Amazing x infinity!!!!!
Aaahh, 🤭 thank you so much.
I haven't finished the full demo yet but i just have to say holy shit i love this sooo much. Just absolutely fabulous, i need more
😊 Thank you for the kind words. Glad you're enjoying it so far.
Was waiting for this one! Loved the demo and am super excited for more!
I'm glad you enjoyed it!!
Holy sh*t that betrayal wtf. They are so evil, is there any chance we can have revenge or get to see our jerk ex fiancee and his side piece get their karma? 😟
Yup, both are possible.
Just finished the demo, and it was a delight! Things flowed well, and though sentences did run on a bit at times, I was enjoying myself too much to notice more often than not XD
I'm including a list of minor typos I noticed as I went through, just to hopefully help out!
The phrase is 'cultivating your image', so I'm assuming this is a typo that got autocorrected or something similar.
This whole paragraph takes place before M tells you their name, so it was a bit early for that.
This is the first option when parting ways with M and they give you their book; there's a " when no dialogue has occurred.
I'm assuming this is meant to be 'climb' or 'clamber', and not 'a group of noisy people shouting'.
Much appreciated! I'll go through and fix, I may end up switching to twee just for imports so that things don't get autocorrected etc.
YAY!!
Congratulations on the release!!
I admit, it's one of the if's I was most excited to play. I can't wait to play! Kisses from Brazil.🇧🇷❤️
I hope it lives up to your expectation then! All the love!
congratulations on the release!!! i've been waiting for this since i saw some random ask of yours in august last year! thank you so much and i can't wait to play! <3
Thank you so much. I know I made everyone wait, which I feel bad for. But I hope it's worth it!
Don't feel bad for taking the time! I think everyone prefers the quality of time than something rushed
Ah thanks for saying that. I didn't want it to feel rushed, which is making me actually need to add extra chapters in the long haul!
just finished chapter 1! i'm absolutely in love with your writing, the characters (minus a few select people), and the entire premise of the story. everything flowed so well, and it's obvious how much love and time was put into this! it's everything i've been looking forward to and i can't wait for more!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Part of me was worried it was too long at one point. Yeah I had to have some bad apples in the story, I feel like it's essential to the type of story I want to tell. I look forward to how you feel about chapter 2!