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Here's a couple of points that I thought were worth talking about.

1. Jobs- Obviously, parents (and some teenagers) would need work to get a living, but if this is small town America, what sort of jobs could be provided for? Should the choice of job be voluntary or forced upon them? And what pay would they expect to get?

2. Schools/College- There would also need to be a school for all the younger characters, and maybe a college, since for some characters, it would be hard to justify them not entering higher education.

3. ~Wacky~ Japanese Names- Okay, let's face it, any game is likely to have a fair share of characters from a Japanese canon. This also brings up the topic of having two white parents magically spawning a child of a different ethnicity- Handwave with adoption, choose families carefully or just slap a weirdness filter on everyone so nobody notices than John and Jane have a baby named Sakura?

Well, most jobs would be at least somewhat voluntary, given that their AU selves presumably chose the job. Whether the character wants it with their 'new' memories is a different question.

Having a college would actually be really helpful! College towns tend to have visitors as an extra income sources, and extra fun venues to cater to the students. It would help add plausible variety to the area.

An old friend of mine named his daughter Arwen Leia. People can notice the weirdness, and just assume the parents are enthusiastic fans.

Yes, this being a town by a college would open up job opportunities and places for high school graduates to go.

The only problem with the enthusiastic fan approach is that it opens up fourth wall issues and there aren't many canons which your everyday American would be able to recognise.

:|a That's a good point. Make it more of a generic, "oh, I guess you like to give your kids weird names" thing. We can always look at celebrities for proof that people do so.

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