Favourite Characters Available to Marry

[SakuraSky]

I am really curious as to who is quite popular from the characters that are available to marry within Stardew Valley. For me personally, it has to be Sebastian as he is such a vibe honestly.

[BCD]

Harvey is definitely the oldest bachelor. Abigail is attending school (indicated by Caroline in a heart event, also a few lines involving such things as homework), so I had always assumed she was an 18 years old senior, because of age troubles, but she could be 20 or older. It just doesn't reflect very well on her lol.
This is the dialogue in the aforementioned heart event, btw. From the wiki:
Abigail: "Stop telling me how to live my life!"
Caroline: "Hey, cut it out! We're letting you live here free of charge until you finish school. It seems like you don't appreciate that at all!"
Abigail: "Stop trying to make me feel guilty. I appreciate that you and Dad are helping me out, but expecting me to dress the way you want is ridiculous. I'm not a little girl anymore, Mom."
Caroline: (pause) "...You're right. I'm sorry."
I was going to say that one could generously interpret "school" to mean higher education, but Abigail is just written like a high school student. I guess she's not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed.
Some of the other characters (Sam most of all) also feel like they're in high school, but nothing confirms it like that. It's just poor Abigail that's stuck with the smoking gun.

[Jigain]

Escrito originalmente por ajfusch:

I got the impression that Alex, Sebastian, Abigail, Maru, Haley and Sam are still going to highschool

I can't speak for any of the others, but Alex is post-highschool (in one of his dialogues he says he WAS a quarterback in high school), but still studying (another of his dialogues mentions his grandmother wanting him to study more). So I guess college kid?

[ajfusch]

Right. guess I forgot that. Or lumped college and higschool together as "too young anyway" *g*
Not that the new farmer looks very adult ... but their backstory at least makes them older.

[BCD]

I feel like Alex is one of the less mature characters, though he does say that. My guess is that he did finish high school, but not that long ago, and that he didn't pursue higher education. I don't know Evelyn's quote, but my guess is that it could refer to enrolling in college. There's also a heart event wherein he says he feels like an idiot, which could be related to this.
Come to think of it, it's also kinda interesting that Alex regards the player character as particularly well educated. Could just be that his perspective is imperfect and it's just his impression, but I hadn't thought the player character talked about philosophy all that much. I now choose to believe that they discuss Nietzsche with their animals and crops.

Escrito originalmente por ajfusch:

Not that the new farmer looks very adult ... but their backstory at least makes them older.

I'd say we know so little about the farmer's backstory that you could make them about as young as anyone short of the children. For all we know they went straight from high school to JoJa, and didn't work there for long. I always assumed the farmer is pretty young.

[Jigain]

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I don't know Evelyn's exact words about her desire that Alex would study more, but my guess is that it could refer to Alex enrolling in college.

The exact quotes are from Alex in Fall:

“My Grandma told me I should spend more time studying. I was like, '...Grams, don't fret. I'm turning pro!'
Studying is for nerds, anyway.”

“My Grandma told me I should spend more time studying. Maybe she's right...”

While it is possible to interpret these as "he's not studying", I feel I should point out how weird the phrasing then becomes. Alex could easily phrase it as "should study", or "should go to college", or something like that, yet he goes out of his way to specify "should spend MORE time studying". Which to me seems like a clear indication that he is studying, or at the very least should be studying, but he should be doing more of it. If it means he's not in a position where he has anything to study, the whole "more" specification kinda falls flat.

[BCD]

Fair enough. One wonders where he's attending college, but the same is true for Abigail and anyone you think is in high school. Better to assume he teleports to Zuzu when you're not looking.

[Jigain]

Yeah. The whole "attending school" realism kinda shatters as soon as you realize everyone is in town and available for you to talk to pretty much all day, every day, all year.

[XenoReaver]

I think some of you guys are looking a bit too hard into the bus not working affecting their ability to attend school.
Remember that in Sam's 8 heart event you all board the bus to Zuzu City to see his band play, the bus doesn't have to be repaired for that to happen.
For that I always just assumed it was the bus to the desert that didn't work instead of any bus service.

[BCD]

The bigger problem for me is that, as Jigain said, you know everyone's schedules. And everyone is skipping classes.

[mariaaaaa]

Escrito originalmente por SakuraSky:

I am really curious as to who is quite popular from the characters that are available to marry within Stardew Valley. For me personally, it has to be Sebastian as he is such a vibe honestly.

well i allways marry shane because i have seen him as a challenge. i really love his character how at first he doesnt care and is mean to you but as you start gaining hearts with him he starts revealing a very sweet side. he also is a very caring husband and his little shack outside the house that has chickens is so cute specially the profile of him with the chicken its just so cute. i really love him as a husband

[Elaisren2020]

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The bigger problem for me is that, as Jigain said, you know everyone's schedules. And everyone is skipping classes.

I agree it seems that way, but maybe they are being home schooled/ self taught online lesson/tutorials when they either "sometimes go off grid" (more likely/believable if you are playing mods to be fair) or form a "study group" and play D&D, have band practice or whatever afterwards (the game shows them round the table they use for D&D style game it could just be an oversight that their text books or whatever are not there for a while before the game board appears). I would also add that Abigail at least does use the library - you can find her there sometimes either reading a book or looking around the museum displays and she'll comment about an assignment/homework she's working on or something along those lines. As for Sam, maybe Penny helps him with his studies - she already tutors the younger kids. Sebastian is tricky (Robin mentions they were not around in the valley when farmers grandpa died, yet when they did move to the valley Sebastian was either 2 or 3 years old - and mentions Maru wasn't born yet, so if nothing else we know Sebastian is at least 2 - 3 years older than Maru.) he looks slightly older than most of his friends maybe a year? But mentions he could have gone to higher ed in Zuzu and got accepted onto post-grad job earning big bucks, but he preferred to be freelance/indy.

I don't know where to place Harvey age wise - in many ways he seems more "elderly" or at least suffers from conditions which are thought to be linked with the elderly. (he mentions numerous ailments he has - bad eyesight, being the primary/most often mentioned). Granted he may just have a condition witch affects his eyesight or whatever but he also acts more like a retired or close to retirement kinda guy - solo hobbies/activities unless he goes to the saloon or is attending a town/seasonal event.

How he is still practising as a Doc is troubling (watch his "examinations" of the residents, some residents like Abigail or Maru etc. he will keep them for hours -on the in game clock- while he listens to their chest - Abigail even gets irritated and asks if he's done yet so she can leave. Is his hearing as bad as his eyesight or is he just really creepy? I mean I could understand if it was with Sebastian, dude smokes way too much, or Alex/Pam one is super buff the other is out of shape. All three could have lung/heart issues, so he'd probably be more thorough with their checkups, like he is with Evelyn & George.)

Based on this I could never date/marry Harvey (too questionable), Sam (nice guy but more of a friend), Alex (ditto), Maru (too much hassle - Robin would be a better choice if she ever left Demetrius and i wanted an older partner).

So it falls to the usual suspects to whom i'd marry: Abigail, Penny, Shane, Sebastian.
Although Emily, Haley & Leah are perfectly fine too. If we include mods all this is irrelevant as
I'd marry Riley - best spouse imo

[BCD]

Haha, I never thought about the implications of Harvey's checkups. I usually don't see them, and when I do I don't hang around to see how long it lasts lol. It's certainly an oversight and I wouldn't hold it against him, but it's still in the game.
Harvey doesn't look very old to me. Older than the other bachelors, but not old. My interpretation is that he's recently out of med school, probably a little over 30. Questionable depending on how young you think the farmer is, but I wouldn't say he's absolutely too old.

[ajfusch]

My feeling that the farmer isn't that young is because it's implied that you open the letter from grandpa after working your hated job for years. It doesn't come across as bad as such, just same old, same old with no real career going anywhere, and imho you need years of that so that you seriously contemplate packing your stuff and moving to a run down farm at the end of the world.
So they are at least midtwenties, probably early thirties, even if they started work early.

[Kalypso]

Escrito originalmente por BCD:

Harvey is definitely the oldest bachelor. Abigail is attending school (indicated by Caroline in a heart event, also a few lines involving such things as homework), so I had always assumed she was an 18 years old senior, because of age troubles, but she could be 20 or older. It just doesn't reflect very well on her lol.
This is the dialogue in the aforementioned heart event, btw. From the wiki:
Abigail: "Stop telling me how to live my life!"
Caroline: "Hey, cut it out! We're letting you live here free of charge until you finish school. It seems like you don't appreciate that at all!"
Abigail: "Stop trying to make me feel guilty. I appreciate that you and Dad are helping me out, but expecting me to dress the way you want is ridiculous. I'm not a little girl anymore, Mom."
Caroline: (pause) "...You're right. I'm sorry."
I was going to say that one could generously interpret "school" to mean higher education, but Abigail is just written like a high school student. I guess she's not necessarily the sharpest tool in the shed.
Some of the other characters (Sam most of all) also feel like they're in high school, but nothing confirms it like that. It's just poor Abigail that's stuck with the smoking gun.

'free of charge until you finish school' implies college. No one tells a 16-17-18 year old still going to high school to pay their parents to live with them. High Schooler's don't really have enough time to work enough for that anyway. They can barely afford car payments.

[Sebine]

Abigail best girl.