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The Official “Ask the lead writer of SS2 anything” Thread!

Jake's age is 34, and Laura is a vague early tweens (due to character model limitations, got to leave some wiggle room).

As for his eyebrow scar, that's a memento from his first attempt to liberate the Comm Hub from Satellite Station Olivia!
I feel silly for not noticing the eyebrow scar get added then again didn't love him that early on. Nice attention to detail, Always get pleasantly surprised with this mod.

I was almost on the money for Jake's age though I had assumed 35 with over 29 as a minimum, and Laura around 10.
 
Not really a question, more of an observation: I was assuming Laura would get the "child" NPC model based on her 'photo' in Jake's Upgraded Bedroom in HQ. It honestly kind of bugs me that everyone keeps describing Lupe as "small" and "young" despite her looking like she's 20 to me. (And to be honest, a character named "Lupe" being repeatedly described as "Little" brings back memories that if you don't get the reference I'm making, I'm not explaining it to you)
I figured it’s a limitation with the character model. I think that while she looks like she’s 20, she’s coded as 17? Like, old enough to have her own shop, but young enough that people still see her as a kid. You know how it be in the Wasteland. Preston joined the Minutemen at 17. Mac left Little Lamplight at…16 or 17? So older teenagers are stepping into adult roles earlier. But, still young, especially in comparison to the other main cast.
 
Not really a question, more of an observation: I was assuming Laura would get the "child" NPC model based on her 'photo' in Jake's Upgraded Bedroom in HQ. It honestly kind of bugs me that everyone keeps describing Lupe as "small" and "young" despite her looking like she's 20 to me. (And to be honest, a character named "Lupe" being repeatedly described as "Little" brings back memories that if you don't get the reference I'm making, I'm not explaining it to you)
I think "little" Lupe was on purpose given they look quite similar and have almost the same last name. Lets just hope Jake's name was an accident or based on the hockey player (๏ _ ๏)
 
I figured it’s a limitation with the character model. I think that while she looks like she’s 20, she’s coded as 17? Like, old enough to have her own shop, but young enough that people still see her as a kid. You know how it be in the Wasteland. Preston joined the Minutemen at 17. Mac left Little Lamplight at…16 or 17? So older teenagers are stepping into adult roles earlier. But, still young, especially in comparison to the other main cast.
True enough. Considering how chaotic everyone describes The Commonwealth as, it's frankly a miracle that anyone makes it past about 40 anyway. (Mama Murphy is an exception because she punches Death in the face every time He tries to take her)
 
Okay, now I gotta know. How old is everyone else at HQ?
I tend to not give characters a solid age. Jake was in his "late twenties" to start with, but it was decided to age and scurf him up bit. So he gained more facial hair and was bumped up to "early thirties".

So the following ages are roughly what the HQ characters are, but take it with a gain of salt.

Jake: 34
Aiden: 34-36
Lupe: 18-20*
Theresa: 26-28
Mansfield: 24-28
Cassandra: 55-65

(And a small lore extra, Old Paul was over 100!)
 
(And a small lore extra, Old Paul was over 100!)
Was gonna say, based on some of the things he says (particularly, mentioning being a secondary character in the "Broken Mask Incident" in the base game backstory) he had to be at least 70.
 
Sir. Sir. You CANNOT put an asterisk here and NOT EXPLAIN IT. Where's the FOOTNOTE? p l s.
Well, it's nothing to do with "Little Lupe", that's for sure!

Lupe's age is one of those that's a question mark. As it's been pointed out, for character models you have full adult or 10 year old child. Nothing in-between! So with Lupe it was always "Do I make her older? Do I make her younger? Shrug!"
 
May I ask if there will be more romance content than the vanilla game (like the romance/friendship in Dragon Age or Mass Effect) at least with Jake?
Like at least a simple kiss animation or just having a date/conversation while eating at Takahashi's or romance spot plot?
 
May I ask if there will be more romance content than the vanilla game (like the romance/friendship in Dragon Age or Mass Effect) at least with Jake?
Like at least a simple kiss animation or just having a date/conversation while eating at Takahashi's or romance spot plot?
Yes to more romance, yes to friendship. Jake for sure, perhaps others too.

Unsure about dates, but never say never.
 
Speaking of HQ’s main cast…
How tall is everyone? :3
 
Speaking of HQ’s main cast…
How tall is everyone? :3
I actually have a chart for this...

The idea here was to use a real world heights to slightly scale some of the characters. But how much we can scale a character tends to be fairly limited for animation reasons. But at least you can see what characters WOULD be if we had complete control over such things.

(I cut off any character you don't need to know about yet)
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I actually have a chart for this...

The idea here was to use a real world heights to slightly scale some of the characters. But how much we can scale a character tends to be fairly limited for animation reasons. But at least you can see what characters WOULD be if we had complete control over such things.

(I cut off any character you don't need to know about yet)
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There are three names in particular I am interested in and I am very pleased. :blum
 
Huh, Galister as recurring? Sounds like he'll have a bit bigger a role than a single dialogue set in Chapter 3.
 
Yes to more romance, yes to friendship. Jake for sure, perhaps others too.
Happy to hear that :) as I'm personally more interested in your characters (story-wise, VA performance, etc), although I still plan to choose which one has larger content

May I ask when will be your recommended time, story-pacing-wise, to start Chapter 3? (before which of the vanilla main quest?)
as I heard the vanilla main factions will get involved.
 
@Sirick
What kind of tag is Knights of Spamalot?
Also, what happened to Sir Notappearinginthisgame? ;)
 
Happy to hear that :) as I'm personally more interested in your characters (story-wise, VA performance, etc), although I still plan to choose which one has larger content

May I ask when will be your recommended time, story-pacing-wise, to start Chapter 3? (before which of the vanilla main quest?)
as I heard the vanilla main factions will get involved.
Now and again the SS2 story will prompt you to do something from the vanilla game, so that tends to be good time to do such things. And if you were so inclined, you could complete the vanilla game before starting Chapter 3. But that's up to you!

@Sirick
What kind of tag is Knights of Spamalot?
Also, what happened to Sir Notappearinginthisgame? ;)
That's just a tag that means I can delete spam from the forums.

As for Sir Notappearinginthisgame, he's like in his 50's now and has retired from acting.
 
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