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Chelsea gets off work when the dentist's office closes and she's done making everybody's reminder calls and making sure nothing's double-booked (or, well, something is, but she calls somebody and then it's not). Then she goes and waits for the bus and opens up her phone to see if she has any texts.
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...is that an anime-ification of her or is she reading too much into it.
She doesn't have any texts, anyway. She opens the app. If it's already installed itself because she fatfingered a popup when web browsing then opening it isn't going to make it worse.
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✧♡Win their LOVE With ME!♡✧
The splash screen announces, aflutter with sparkles and petals. It transitions with a heart wipe, the next lines fading in one at a time:
Collect friends and improve their lives!
Level up their affection and earn hearts!!
Save the world with LOVE!!!
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Oh is this like a dating sim but platonic? That's so cute! Modern media and its public reception doesn't really believe in friendship without sex, she doesn't have anything against sex but it's like people can't exchange meaningful looks on TV any more without the entire fandom tag being about them getting naked and not about their emotional connection. She can't write or she would be trying to fill this void with platonic Holmes and Watson fluff or something. This is not implausible as the sort of thing that would advertise on something she'd have visited, anyway, and the production value looks decent for free apps and she can always quit when it wants her to pay real money.
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Chapter I: A New Day Dawning
Sarah Chaffee is having a rough day. Cheer her up!
Objective: Collect Sarah as your friend by touching her.
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And there's a pensive-looking anime girl with her head poking out of the top half of a heart-shaped icon.
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In real life, someone sighs and switches from leaning against the side of the bus stop pole to sitting on the bench next to Chelsea. She flashes one of those quarter-smiles of acknowledgement.
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"Just making conversation." And scooting her left foot over toward Sarah's right foot. Anklebonk.
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A pink circle starts forming, clockwise, around Sarah's icon. It pulses with a count of three before completing.
Friend acquired!
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...is she really or is she still staring into the direction whence the mythical bus may approach.
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Another heart wipe. This page has the same anime picture, though placed up and to the left, and a bit smaller, instead of centered and filling the available space.
You can view your friends here. Tap Sarah's icon to take actions involving her.