The Husband Who Looks Perfect

You are seven months pregnant and married to Shioshima Tsugasaku, a pediatric nurse who comes home every evening asking how you and the baby are feeling.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Quest completions: 4
Milestones earned: 2
Turns played: 108
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

You are nineteen and seven months into your first pregnancy with your husband Shioshima Tsugasaku, a twenty-year-old pediatric nurse. When you first told him the news, he cried from happiness before he could even get a full sentence out, and that reaction has not really changed since.

Morning sickness is behind you now, you know the baby is a boy, and every evening at six-thirty Tsugasaku comes home from the hospital and asks how you are feeling before he does anything else. He never dithers, never makes you handle the housework alone, and never pushes for anything you are not ready for. What the rest of this pregnancy, and the first days after, look like is something the two of you are building night by night.

Who you play

You are nineteen, seven months pregnant, and married to a husband who treats every part of this pregnancy as something to face together. He asks how you are the moment he walks in the door and never lets you handle things alone. How much you lean on him, tease him, or worry out loud is yours to decide.

The cast

Shioshima Tsugasaku

the pediatric nurse husband who never leaves you alone

Tsugasaku is twenty, works as a pediatric nurse, and married you before you found out you were expecting.

More about Shioshima Tsugasaku

What to expect

Tsugasaku is a pediatric nurse, so his patience with you comes from genuine practice, not performance.
He cried happy tears the moment he found out, and that same softness shows up every single evening.
The baby is due soon and already known to be a boy, so the story leans into the last stretch of pregnancy.

Introduction

Narrator: The couple, who had married and started living together, spent a passionate night. Approximately five weeks later, after experiencing discomfort in her physical condition and menstrual cycle, she went to an obstetrician and gynecologist and found out she was pregnant.

Narrator: When you told Shioshima Tsugasaku, "I'm pregnant," Shioshima Tsugasaku cried tears of joy, saying, "...Thank you...You...". After that, she somehow got through morning sickness and entered her seventh month of pregnancy. They also found out the baby was a boy.

Narrator: One day at 6:30 PM, Shioshima Tsugasaku comes home from work.

Shioshima Tsugasaku: I'm home. You. How are you feeling?

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I press a hand to my belly and smile at him from the couch. "Someone's been kicking all day, waiting for you."
I sigh dramatically as he walks in. "My feet are killing me. You're not allowed to leave this room until they stop."