Playable meetup with Lukas Brandt
Sunday at Oma's Table
His grandmother just opened his fridge. There is nothing of yours in it.
Sunday in November, 1:15 PM · Lukas's apartment, Yorkville, Upper East Side
Meet Lukas BrandtMeeting his family
Meeting His Family: Three Romance Scenes You Can Play
What is the meeting his family romance scene?
Meeting his family is the romance scene where she is brought to his parents' table, his grandmother's party or a family tradition. It tests the relationship in public. Every relative is watching, and how he acts in front of them says more than anything he texts. In Yome you can play it as a meetup.
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Playable meetup with Nikos Varelas
Yiayia's Name Day
Everyone at his grandmother's table will assume you're his. He won't correct them.
Saturday, 7:30 PM · The Varelas family backyard, Astoria, Queens
Meet Nikos VarelasPlayable meetup with Wes Halvorsen
Pond Hockey Sunday
He's telling your brother today. In front of the whole family. Your call when.
First Sunday of December, 10:20 AM, −15°C · Your parents' lake house, northern Minnesota
Meet Wes HalvorsenThree moments you'll play
- The meetup
Sunday in November, 1:15 PM, Yorkville. Lukas's whole family is cooking in his kitchen. His grandmother opens his fridge and finds nothing of yours in it. You're supposed to be his fiancée.
- The meetup
A backyard in Astoria, Saturday at 7:30 PM. The anchor pendant you chose for his grandmother is in Nikos's pocket. In the car he told you everyone will assume you're his. He won't correct them.
- The meetup
First Sunday of December, minus 15, your parents' lake house. Your family's yearly pond hockey game. In the driveway Wes says he is telling your brother today. Before the game or after. Your call.
Why people love it
Family shows who he is
A man can be anyone in a text. In front of his grandmother he is himself. The family scene shows how he protects you, how he talks about you, and whether he corrects the cousin who calls you his girlfriend. Readers love this scene because it reveals him without a single speech.
Everyone has a role to play
Family scenes come loaded with secondary characters: the grandmother who notices everything, the brother with the questions, the aunt who already planned the wedding. They give you something to react to and him something to defend you from. Every one of them is a test you did not study for.
Yome has three versions
You can meet his family at a Greek name day in Astoria, at a Sunday lunch in a Manhattan apartment, or at a pond hockey game at your own parents' lake house in northern Minnesota. Each one comes with a different kind of pressure and a different man under it.
Three family scenes in Yome
Sunday at Oma's Table belongs to Lukas Brandt, 36, an M&A attorney up for partner at a Midtown firm. You signed his two-page agreement to save your apartment: three weeks as his fiancée. Clause 7 says no touching beyond what's credible. Then his grandmother arrives for Sunday lunch and starts checking the details.
Yiayia's Name Day belongs to Nikos Varelas, 34, second son of a Greek shipping family in Astoria. Pond Hockey Sunday belongs to Wes Halvorsen, 31, a hockey captain who also happens to be your brother's best friend. Here the family is yours, and he is the one under pressure. Each plays as a meetup with rounds, choices and a chemistry score.
Guys whose families are already part of the story
Plenty of men in Yome bring a family problem with them. Matěj, 25, an analyst in Frankfurt, says his mother lands Wednesday with plans to introduce him to a friend's daughter. Haruto, 25, works at his aunt's okonomiyaki shop in Osaka, and she has told the family he is bringing a girlfriend to his cousin's wedding.
Chad, 26, left his father's investment firm and has been seated at his mother's gala beside eleven women she approves of. Marek, 26, a Chicago bike cop, lives with his 84-year-old grandfather, who plays the accordion at 7 a.m. and tells everyone Marek is a mailman. Each one gives you a family to win over through chat, even without a dedicated level.
How it unfolds before and after the meetup
Family scenes hit harder when you already know the people involved. In chat he will tell you about his grandmother, his brother or his mother, and he remembers what you ask. By the time you sit down at the table, the names mean something.
After the meetup, he texts first, and the conversation picks up where the party left off. At relationship milestones he writes you a letter, and family scenes tend to show up in them.
Before the party: the gift and the fridge
The best family scenes start before anyone sits down. In Nikos's story, the meetup before the name day is The Name Day Gift. His grandmother complains about his present every year, so he drives you to Ditmars Boulevard to pick one. Officially it is for her. He keeps asking what you like.
In Lukas's story, the trouble is his empty fridge. A man who keeps nothing but sparkling water and mustard at home has to convince his grandmother that a fiancée lives there. These small setups give the family meetup its stakes, and they are why playing the earlier scenes first makes the table feel crowded in the right way.
Questions, answered
Can you meet his family in Yome?
Yes. Three meetups center on family: Sunday at Oma's Table with Lukas Brandt, Yiayia's Name Day with Nikos Varelas, and Pond Hockey Sunday with Wes Halvorsen, which takes place with your own family instead.
Which meeting his family scene is a fake relationship?
Sunday at Oma's Table. You signed a two-page agreement to act as Lukas's fiancée for three weeks so you could save your apartment. His grandmother is the first person who might see through it, and she starts with his fridge.
Is Nikos Varelas a mafia character?
His story has a dark-romance edge. He runs his family's Port Newark yard and collections, and you are working off your brother's debt as his assistant. Yiayia's Name Day is the softer side of it: his grandmother's party.
Are his family members AI characters too?
Yes. Every man in Yome, and everyone in his story, is a fictional AI character. The grandmothers, brothers and cousins exist only inside the story. He answers you in character, and the family is written to react to what you say.
How do I unlock a family meetup?
Meetups unlock as your relationship level with a guy rises. Talk with him, earn XP, and he will ask you out. Family meetups come later in a Story lead's arc, once there is something to defend.
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