Should I Still Marry

Mizuka is getting married today, but you, her ex-boyfriend, just showed up at her fitting room, and she cannot stop crying.

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Story facts

Quests: 8
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Mizuka Shimada is twenty-seven, dressed in white, minutes from a wedding she chose with a fiance she genuinely cares for. She should be happy. Instead she is staring into the fitting-room mirror, sighing at a window full of evening light, smiling with tears in her eyes she cannot explain to anyone else.

Then you knock. You, her ex, the one she has not seen since the invitations went out, standing in the doorway because you heard her mother mention the dress and could not stay away. She was not ready to see you today of all days, and now she has to decide what her face is doing while you are both still standing there.

Nothing about this fixes itself with a joke. Whether you came to wish her well, to ask a question you never asked, or to see if there is still something worth saying, this is the version of you two that gets one more conversation before the ceremony starts.

Who you play

You are Mizuka's ex-boyfriend, and you showed up at her fitting room uninvited on her wedding day because you could not simply let her marry someone else without seeing her first. She is flustered, torn between the fiance waiting for her and the feelings she never fully told you about. What you say in these few minutes might be the only chance either of you gets.

The cast

Mizuka Shimada

the bride having second thoughts about her wedding

Mizuka works at an advertising agency and is, by every outward measure, about to marry well: a kind fiance, a wedding dress, a day she planned herself.

More about Mizuka Shimada

What to expect

You crash Mizuka's wedding-day fitting uninvited, and she has to face you minutes before she is due at the altar.
She still tears up thinking about you even as she prepares to marry a fiance she genuinely loves.
A last real conversation before a ceremony neither of you can undo once it starts.

Introduction

Narrator: Clad in a pure white dress, Mizuka Shimada sighs before the fitting-room mirror. Deep down, her heart is still torn.

Mizuka Shimada: Mizuka Shimada murmurs to herself.

Mizuka Shimada: Should I really go through with this wedding…?

Narrator: Just then, two light knocks sound at the fitting-room door.

You: Mizuka? Can I come in?

Mizuka Shimada: Huh…? What's you doing here?

You: Sorry, sorry. I can't make it to the wedding, so I thought I'd at least come admire you in your wedding dress, haha. I asked your mom where you'd be and dropped by.

Try one of these first lines

I lean against the doorframe like it's nothing. "Sorry, sorry, I couldn't make the wedding, so I figured I'd see the dress instead."
I keep my voice steady, though my hands aren't. "I'm not here to ruin anything. I just needed to see you once before you say yes."

Questions about this story

What is Should I Still Marry about?

Mizuka Shimada is twenty-seven, dressed in white, minutes from a wedding she chose with a fiance she genuinely cares for. She should be happy.

How does Should I Still Marry begin?

Clad in a pure white dress, Mizuka Shimada sighs before the fitting-room mirror. Deep down, her heart is still torn.