History VisualNovel / MyForgedWedding

!!My Forged Wedding features examples of:

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: In the prologue, Kunihiko blithely informs the protagonist that Yuta's problem isn't that serious and she doesn't need to worry about helping him. At the time of the game's initial release, Yuta's route was not available.

* DrowningMySorrows: Takao's response to the announcement that Haruka and the protagonist are dating. He proceeds to get completely hammered, to the point where he doesn't noice when Kunihiko starts serving him water.

* CaptainErsatz: The protagonist's boss in Takao's route of the "Working Couple" side story is a thinly-veiled copy of Miranda Priestly from ''TheDevilWearsPrada''.

* InterClassRomance: Subverted in Haruka's route. Despite early indications that Haruka's parents disapprove of the protagonist because of her lower social class, it never actually becomes an issue. [[spoiler:In fact, Haruka's mother came from a normal family herself.]] Played straight in Ren's route, [[spoiler:He's the crown prince of a little european country.]].

* TheClan: Takao has a huge family, including both parents, his grandmother, four younger brothers, and various extended family members of mostly unspecified relation such as four-year-old Ryutaro and his parents. His immediate family, at least, are depicted as a close-knit and pleasant bunch who quickly embrace the protagonist when she's introduced to them as Takao's fiancee. Kyoichi's family on the other hand...

** The protagonist's parents occasionally have reservations about her choice of partner, particularly her father, who wasn't terribly happy about his [[DaddysGirl daughter]] moving to Tokyo in the first place. Of the love interests they have met so far,[[note]]Yamato, Takao, Saeki, Ren, Yuta, Kunihiko and Haruka[[/note]] only Yamato and Takao have met with immediate approval.

* RealMenWearPink: Takao is frequently compared to a housewife for the amount of thought and attention he puts into housekeeping, such as making homemade cleaning supplies and keeping separate sponges for washing dishes versus pots and pans. The other guys tease him about it a little, but he's never depicted as any less masculine because of the habit, and the heroine occasionally has fluttery moments over Takao's strength and manliness. Justified, he's the eldest child in a family with many children. Yamato is also a very proficient in housekeeping, justified too, because he and his mother were on their own.

* SheIsAllGrownUp: Kunihiko initially still sees the protagonist as a child. He becomes aware of her as a woman midway through his route, and the realization has a visible effect on the way he reacts to her.

* SmokingIsGlamorous: In his first sequel, Takao demonstrates this trope to Yuta, who needs to learn to handle a cigarette for a role he's playing. The other guys and the protagonist comment on how Takao makes smoking look ''tres'' classy. [[spoiler:The scene actually exists for the purpose of foreshadowing a CharacterTic of the sequel's antagonist.]]

* SupremeChef: Yamato is an excellent cook.
* SweetTooth: Kyoichi, who's fond of hot chocolate and puts marshmallows in his coffee.
* TeacherStudentRomance:
** This trope is why Yamato needs the protagonist to pose as his wife - he's a teacher and has specific personal reasons for working at a particular all-girls high school, but the school requires all of its male teachers to be married, no doubt to help discourage teacher-student romances. It doesn't prevent at least one of his students from being very, very hot for teacher. [[spoiler:Yamato only sees her as a student, however.]]
** Towards the end of the route, the protagonist learns that [[spoiler:Yamato's parents began their relationship while his father was a teacher and his mother one of his students]].
* TeamMom: Takao mothers anyone who'll let him. Ren is a particularly frequent target.
* ThereIsOnlyOneBed: Ren's apartment does not have a guest room. He initially offers his bed to the protagonist and tries to sleep on the floor, but finds it too uncomfortable and ends up climbing into bed with the protagonist, after which they end up sharing.

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Yamato's is warabi mochi. He says it's because he likes the texture, and compares the protagonist to it, a description which she does not find very flattering.
* TrashOfTheTitans: Saeki's apartment is a ''disaster''. The protagonist insists on cleaning up when she moves in with him, but when she can't keep up on cleaning for a little while, the mess soon reasserts itself.

* UnclePennybags: Kunihiko's company is profitable enough that he was not only able to open a bar, Long Island, as a hobby, he's able to ''keep'' it open even though his friends are more often than not its only customers. It serves more as their personal hangout than anything else, and Kunihiko occasionally comments that he doesn't want it to attract any more business than it does - that would be too much work.

* VerbalJudo: In Takao's epilogue, [[spoiler:a man with a gun breaks into the hotel room that Takao is sharing with the protagonist, intending to rob them at gunpoint. Takao calmly talks him down, and gives him legal advice on ways to get financial support to help care for his family and his sick wife, which was the reason he'd grown desperate enough to turn to robbery]].

* WellDoneSonGuy: Saeki's father is a successful literary author who disapproves of Saeki's scriptwriting career, considering it disgraceful.
* WifeHusbandry: How Kunihiko's relationship with the protagonist is sometimes interpreted in-game. [[Literature/TheTaleOfGenji Hikaru Genji]] is directly referenced at one point.

* TheClan: Takao has a huge family, including both parents, his grandmother, four younger brothers, and various extended family members of mostly unspecified relation such as four-year-old Ryutaro and his parents. His immediate family, at least, are depicted as a close-knit and pleasant bunch who quickly embrace the protagonist when she's introduced to them as Takao's fiancee.

* InterClassRomance: Subverted in Haruka's route. Despite early indications that Haruka's parents disapprove of the protagonist because of her lower social class, it never actually becomes an issue. [[spoiler:In fact, Haruka's mother came from a normal family herself.]]

* LapPillow: A favorite of Yamato's.

* LastNameBasis: Hardly anyone, not even the game's text, calls Saeki by his given name of Takamasa.

* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: The ground state of Yamato and the protagonist, especially once they're officially dating.

* MeetCute: The protagonist first meets Yamato in the prologue while doing some grocery shopping by Kunihiko's request. She has trouble finding the things he's requested, leading to Yamato having to grudgingly help her.

* NiceGuy: Takao is unfailingly courteous and considerate towards everyone, especially the protagonist.
* NoSenseOfDirection: Kyoichi, [[InformedAttribute or so we are told]].
* ObliviousGuiltSlinging: The Maruyama clan is just ''thrilled'' that Takao's found himself such a kind, beautiful, wonderful fiancee. Meanwhile, Takao and the protagonist are cringing internally the whole time.

** The protagonist's parents occasionally have reservations about her choice of partner, particularly her father, who wasn't terribly happy about his [[DaddysGirl daughter]] moving to Tokyo in the first place. Of the love interests they have met so far,[[note]]Yamato, Saeki, Ren, Takao, Kunihiko and Haruka[[/note]] only Yamato and Takao have met with immediate approval.
* PickyEater: Ren hates broccoli.

* TheQuietOne: Ren.
* RealMenWearPink: Takao is frequently compared to a housewife for the amount of thought and attention he puts into housekeeping, such as making homemade cleaning supplies and keeping separate sponges for washing dishes versus pots and pans. The other guys tease him about it a little, but he's never depicted as any less masculine because of the habit, and the heroine occasionally has fluttery moments over Takao's strength and manliness.

* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Ren is the prince of a (fictional) small European country. He's in Japan to study medicine and work on the development of a new drug which could significantly improve his country's quality of life.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: {{Discussed}} by the other characters in reference to Takao, who they warn the protagonist is likely to turn out to be a CovertPervert. He's not - but he ''is'' the one out of the group most likely to have moments of unexpected badassery, such as hauling off and punching one of his relatives for being a crappy parent, talking down a would-be robber while being held at gunpoint, and (in the "Working Couple" side story) playing the role of CrusadingLawyer to the hilt to put a CorruptCorporateExecutive in her place.
* BigFancyHouse: The Utsunomiya estate in Haruka's route is an ''enormous'' traditional Japanese-style manor, complete with TheThingThatGoesDoink. It's so huge that Haruka admits even he doesn't know all of the rooms.

* BrilliantButLazy: Kunihiko comes across this way, given that he's the founder and owner of a successful IT company but rarely seems to do any actual ''work'', instead preferring to hang around his bar, which he started on the side purely as a hobby. His route proves that he can exert serious effort towards running his main business when it's actually necessary, but he seems to have arranged things so that it's not necessary all that often.

* ChildhoodMemoryDemolitionTeam: On Kyoichi Kunichiro's route, [[spoiler:his true motive for vying to inherit the family estate is so that he can gain ownership of the house he grew up in, in order to ensure that his mother will be able to return there if she survives her surgery. His aunt plans to demolish the house out of resentment against her sister]].

* CluelessChickMagnet: According to Haruka, Takao never lacked admirers in high school - not that he ever noticed.
* CompanionCube: Yamato treats his Roomba like a pet, including greeting it when he gets home.

* CrazyJealousGuy: Yuta's [[InformedAttribute apparent]] major flaw. It's played quite gently for the most part, but he still takes the time to give the protagonist a very visible hickey in a fit of panicked jealousy and doesn't respond well to his friends joking about stealing the protagonist away.

* DidNotGetTheGuy: Unusual for a Voltage game, the Happy Ending for [[spoiler:Yuta's]] route ends with him deciding that he and the protagonist are best off as friends.

* EngagingConversation: At the beginning of Takao's route, he gets nervous trying to describe the favor he needs from the protagonist and ends up blurting out, "Please become my wife!" Then he has to hastily backpedal and explain that he only needs a fiancee, and only in pretense rather than reality.
* {{Expy}}: Ren is basically Wilfred from ''Be My Princess''. Both are quiet blond princes with overbearing butlers, both have a strong dislike for a certain vegetable (broccoli for Ren, carrots for Wilfred), and for both of them flowers hold a special significance. Ren's sequel makes the resemblance even stronger by revealing that, like Wilfred, he also has an older brother who renounced his claim to their kingdom's throne in order to pursue a career in science.

* GrandRomanticGesture: In Kyoichi's sequel epilogue, he pulls out all the stops to re-do his marriage proposal to the protagonist (the initial proposal having been rather rushed). He rents a limo, custom-orders a dress for her, reserves an entire three-star restaurant, and presents the gemstone for her engagement ring to her in the petals of a rose along with [[BrickJoke a new contract]].
* HandsomeLech: Saeki rarely misses a chance to flirt with the protagonist, admire an attractive woman, or otherwise somehow turn the conversation towards sex.
* HonoraryUncle: Kunihiko to the protagonist. She calls him "Uncle", as he is a relative, of sorts, who spent a lot of time babysitting her when she was a child and he was in his teens. Their actual familial ties are a little complicated, but suffice to say that they ''are'' related -- just not by blood[[note]]The protagonist's paternal grandmother is an Aikawa woman who married beneath her, to her family's disapproval. Meanwhile Kunihiko's father, the current Aikawa patriarch, was adopted into the family.[[/note]]. Dealing with the fallout forms the crux of Kunihiko's second sequel.

* IDidntTellYouBecauseYoudBeUnhappy: The relationship between Takao and the protagonist becomes strained during his Wedding Bells sequel when she discovers that the reason he's been so stressed out lately is that [[spoiler:his firm is under investigation for possible tax fraud]] and he'd avoided telling her about it. He kept it from her so as not to worry her, but the protagonist feels that this means he doesn't rely on her, and the fight that results is heated enough that the protagonist goes home to her parents in Kyushu. Once she's there, she quickly finds herself better understanding Takao's side of things when she instinctively avoids telling her parents the details of the fight to keep ''them'' from worrying.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Yamato and the protagonist have a degree of this, although it's more on the level of playful bantering from both sides rather than anything more violently belligerent.

** Haruka ends up on the receiving end in his sequel. [[spoiler:The protagonist's father, who wasn't happy about his [[DaddysGirl daughter]] moving to Tokyo to begin with, is even less enthused to learn that she's dating a bonafide BlueBlood who is probably only playing with her until something better comes along.]]
** In Kunihiko's second sequel, the protagonist's parents are not thrilled to learn she is in a relationship with a man who is practically family and used to babysit her once upon a time. [[spoiler:Meanwhile, Kunihiko's family oppose the relationship because of the protagonist's lower social standing.]]

* MistakenForCheating: For a couple of course in Takao's Wedding Bells Sequel, the combination of a birthday note signed "Aoi" and the feeling that Takao is keeping some kind of secret from her causes the protagonist to worry that he's having an affair. It's cleared up rather quickly, however: while Takao ''is'' keeping a secret, it has nothing to do with another relationship, and "Aoi" is just a (male) co-worker.

* {{Crossover}}: The epilogue to Kunihiko's sequel crosses over with ''VisualNovel/OfficeSecrets'' - although none of that game's cast appear, Kunihiko and the protagonist attend a gala held by Infinite, the clothing company at which ''Office Secrets'' takes place.

** In Kunihiko's sequel, the protagonist's parents are not thrilled to learn she is in a relationship with a man who is practically family and used to babysit her once upon a time. [[spoiler:Meanwhile, Kunihiko's family oppose the relationship because of the protagonist's lower social standing.]]

* ParentalMarriageVeto: Invoked on Haruka's route - he chooses the protagonist as his sham fiancee expecting his parents to object to her middle-class origins, which will give them an excuse to break the "engagement" once it's served its purpose. [[spoiler:It's subsequently subverted when the protagonist learns that Haruka's mother came from an ordinary family herself and feels a kinship with the protagonist because of it.]]