"Decidedly not my kink, no. Do these names suggest personality guidelines for the characters?"

"Yes, I can get further into that. The Prince Charming is exactly what he sounds like--honorable, noble, kind, and optimistic. The Dark Rival is his rival, in the most trope-appropriate way: he tends to start out better than the Prince Charming at whatever the two of them are rivals over, but by the end of the story the Prince Charming will have surpassed him. The Dark Rival isn't necessarily a bad person, but he'll have a more cynical outlook than the prince charming and a more sardonic wit, at the very least. The Noble Prodigy is a member of the lesser ranks of the nobility, but has ascended to a higher social role as a result of his own merit. Exactly what it was that he did to earn these accolades will vary depending on your setting choices, but the default is something military. He has a more formal and reserved character than the other two options, but is entering into the engagement in good faith and will slowly open up to the right person."

"I see, I see... there are, once again, a lot of directions I could go with this. Next?"

"If there weren't so many directions that could be gone with this, my bosses would have gotten bored with springing this specific scenario on people. Next is the heroine. Unlike your role and your fiance's role, by default the heroine you pick is the only one that exists in the setting." 

"By default?"

"There's a flaw that adds in one or both of the others as allies for your heroine."

"I might end up wanting my heroine to have allies. We shall see. What are the options?"

"The options are the Poor Princess, the Hero's Daughter, and the Extraordinary Commoner." 

"Hmm. Are there any mechanical differences, or is it all personality and approach? What are their personality notes?"

"There are mechanical differences--the Poor Princess is, in fact, royalty, but for whatever reason she doesn't have most of the advantages thereof--maybe she's the current king's bastard daughter, maybe she's the king's treacherous brother's daughter who wasn't guilty of his crimes but is still tarnished by association, maybe she's the last scion of a previous dynasty, maybe she's foreign royalty visiting to study. It's a very free-form option. The Hero's Daughter is the child of a dead parent who did such tremendous deeds to have been elevated to the ranks of the nobility posthumously, so she has noble status but not the criss-crossing familial connections that noble families tend to build up. The Extraordinary Commoner managed to earn her position at the Academy entirely on merit, in a society sufficiently stratified that this is a truly impressive achievement. She's the most competent of the available choices. Also, each heroine gets a different mini-minion, although we haven't gotten to the minion options yet." 

"Is it necessary that earning your position at the Academy on merit be an impressive achievement?"

"Unfortunately yes."

"I'll have to think about that... all right, what's next?"

"Next is the bad ending. The options are death--gives you an extra perk--being sent away to a nunnery, being bound to servitude to the heroine, poverty, exile to an inescapable arranged marriage to a much older foreign nobleman, and 'disgrace'--you lose face, but not anything more substantial, and you have to take an extra flaw."

"It is very unlikely that I will take anything other than being bound to servitude to the heroine, but we'll see. I don't want to commit just yet."

"People who are confident enough in being able to buck the narrative often take Death just for the extra perk."

"That seems reasonable but is not my vibe unless those perks are way more enticing than I expect them to be."

"You do seem like you might be in the target audience for Yuri Heroine..."

"I'm gonna level with you, even before you said that my scheme here was me, the love interest, and one or more heroines all ending up in the same large ostentatious bed."

"Yuri Heroine and Good ending," she nods. "It's a classic gambit."

"Oh, 'good' ending strictly optional, if I am bound in servitude to the heroine at the time that's also a win in my book."

"You'll have to work harder to also get the love interest in bed at the same time with that route than with Good Ending, but fair enough." 

"Right, so, what next?"

"Minions! I mentioned the Maid minion earlier, while we were doing hair. Even if you don't take any Maid minions, you'll still have maids, unless you do something to prevent that; the difference is that a Maid minion is extremely competent, highly loyal, and has a particular skill or skillset of your choice beyond what a maid would normally be expected to have."

"I don't really see myself as the minion-having type, but maybe I should broaden my horizons. What's the selection?"