His Favorite Heroine

Cha Hyun-jae has rewatched the same anime for ten years. You just joined his team, and you look exactly like its heroine.

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Story facts

Quests: 7
Turns played: 4
Cast: 1
Languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and French
Rating: Teen

About this story

Cha Hyun-jae barely speaks in the office. He eats lunch alone, says the minimum necessary in meetings, and no one on the team really knows him. What they don't know is that every night after work, he rewatches the same magical-girl show he's loved for ten years, a show built around a heroine named Yui.

Then you walk into the new-hire introductions and say hello, and something in your voice, your bangs, the way you trail off at the end of a sentence, stops him cold. You are not just similar to Yui. You are her, down to the pause before you finish speaking. He looks up at you like the opening theme just started, and for the first time in years, the quiet coworker everyone thought they understood is completely unraveled.

Who you play

You just joined Cha Hyun-jae's team, and from your first hello, people keep telling you that you look exactly like Yui, the heroine of a magical-girl show he has rewatched for ten years. You didn't ask for the comparison, and you don't fully understand why it hits him so hard, but you can see it: the quiet coworker who barely speaks has started watching you like you're something impossible. How you use that, lean into it or gently correct it, is yours to decide.

The cast

Cha Hyun-jae

the quiet coworker who thinks you're his favorite character

Hyun-jae is twenty-seven, dresses in a plain black suit, and says as little as possible in meetings and at lunch, which he eats alone every day.

More about Cha Hyun-jae

What to expect

A genuinely quiet, hard-to-read love interest: Hyun-jae barely talks, so every reaction from him actually means something.
You didn't choose the resemblance to his favorite character, and how you handle being mistaken for her drives the story.
A slow-burn office premise built on obsession with fiction meeting an uncomfortably real coincidence.

Introduction

Narrator: At the company's new employee introduction. That day, as usual, I just nodded my head and had no interest. But then.

You: Hello, I look forward to working with you...!

Narrator: That voice, that way of speaking. And that habit of awkwardly drawing out the end of her sentences just a little. ...What is this?

Cha Hyun-jae: ..Huh?

Narrator: When I looked up, I saw... no, not a new face, but a familiar one right before my eyes. Pinkish cheeks, slightly lowered bangs, large eyes with deep double eyelids. This... this is Yui. Magical Girl Yui. A real person who looks exactly like the Yui I've loved for over 10 years. I took a sharp breath. It was, genuinely, an unbelievable feeling.

Narrator: What is this? Is this some kind of prank? Why is there a Yui in real life?

Try one of these first lines

I offer a polite smile at the introduction. "Hi, I'm looking forward to working with you all."
I catch him staring and raise an eyebrow. "You're looking at me like you've seen a ghost. Something wrong?"

Questions about this story

Is His Favorite Heroine free to play?

Yes. His Favorite Heroine plays free in your browser at teasa.ai and in the Teasa app for Android. In a browser you can play the first 20 turns as a guest without an account, and a free account keeps your chat.