Abigail or Leah?

[Pydrra]

So, im conflicted on who to choose for my wife.

Here are my pros and cons for both villagers, and there are a few minor spoilers so don't read on if you plan on choosing one of the two and haven't seen their stories yet.

Obviously, Abigail is really cool. She's different and has a cute story line to go through. However, i find her a bit... childish. I feel as if shes in her 16-18 year old range and i'm not sure shes uh...wife material as of right now. The whole, "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME MOM!", "My parent's are lame" "I wanna do dangerous things" kind of attitude is a little cliche and i can't help but see her as more of a rebellious stubborn girlfriend rather than a wife. Although, i REALLY want to see how her ending goes for myself. I didn't want to spoil it (and please don't comment on what it is) But i hear it has to do with the mines and apparently is very cute.

So... Pros: Different from the other villagers, cool, pretty cute sometimes, probably eats gems.
Cons: Stubborn, basically emo, childish, not farmer-material as of right now. (Also, everyoneee marries her...so)

Then theres Leah, shes mature, sweet, and works hard. She's literally a flower, so innocent and kind. And shes an artist, artists are rad. She moved to Stardew to become an artist and won't let anything stop her. But... shes a little bit, i guess, bland? Her story line is also adorable, with you helping her get her ex off her back, her giving you a gift, etc etc. I can see myself ending with her, having her care for our animals, painting, and i'm leaning towards her a bit, but i feel she would get a bit boring after some time. Yes, she could be a wife. And a farmer girl. But i kind of want more... (Also, i'm a female so id love to see how Kel looks as a girl because her ex changes depending on your gender which is also a nice touch for the lgbt community)

Pros: More mature, SWEET AF, innocent cupcake, artist (can make art for you i think), has the farmer-wife feel
Cons: Bland, would get boring, probably doesn't eat gems, basically a normie, might cry if she sees me eating meat.

So, leave your opinions down below on who you would choose. It'll help me a lot. Thank you!!

[PeripheralVisionary]

Maybe because Abigail is around that age range. Who knows? Character Portraits could be misleading. I sympathize with Abigail because my own parents are so stifling about my apparent incompetence that I actually grew incompetent in a variety of tasks.

[Saint Landwalker]

Leah. Definitely.

I don't really care for Abigail. She's the spitting image of the negative millenial stereotype—live at home, mooch off her parents, complain about how she gets treated like a kid (because she acts like one), contribute nothing to her household, etc. I get the "I want to have an adventure" thing, but... I don't know. Sometimes it feels like she just wants to do things out of spite. I would like to like Abigail, because it seems like she could be great... but the way she's been done, I just find Abigail one of the most disinteresting characters in the game.

On the other hand, I love Leah and think she's awesome. She's independent in every sense, takes care of herself and enjoys it. She's doing what she loves, and like the player-character she left behind a life that was limiting her and trying to force her to be something she didn't want to be out of some sort of sense of meeting personal-or-societal expectations. She doesn't take crap from people, but she's sweet as hell towards those she's close to, and she's passionate about everything she does.

Just my cents.

(Edit: Of course, I also think Haley is awesome and went so far as to marry her in my first game, so clearly I'm not in-line with the "usual" perceptions of the bachelorettes.)

[Venom]

I love it when Abigail invites us to play the game ...
but other than that its not really interesting ..

so , leah for me

[PeripheralVisionary]

Another thing to note, Abigail eats rocks and various other inedibles, so you don't have to feed her normal food.

[Sheeper_Son]

leah for me ...leah+1 :)

[Swirler]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Leah. Definitely.

I don't really care for Abigail. She's the spitting image of the negative millenial stereotype—live at home, mooch off her parents, complain about how she gets treated like a kid (because she acts like one), contribute nothing to her household, etc. I get the "I want to have an adventure" thing, but... I don't know. Sometimes it feels like she just wants to do things out of spite. I would like to like Abigail, because it seems like she could be great... but the way she's been done, I just find Abigail one of the most disinteresting characters in the game.

On the other hand, I love Leah and think she's awesome. She's independent in every sense, takes care of herself and enjoys it. She's doing what she loves, and like the player-character she left behind a life that was limiting her and trying to force her to be something she didn't want to be out of some sort of sense of meeting personal-or-societal expectations. She doesn't take crap from people, but she's sweet as hell towards those she's close to, and she's passionate about everything she does.

Just my cents.

(Edit: Of course, I also think Haley is awesome and went so far as to marry her in my first game, so clearly I'm not in-line with the "usual" perceptions of the bachelorettes.)

"negative millenial stereotype"

So what's the positive millenial stereotype?

[Saint Landwalker]

Originally posted by Mad hatters in jeans:

So what's the positive millenial stereotype?

I'll let you know as soon as I hear one.

[Pydrra]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Leah. Definitely.

I don't really care for Abigail. She's the spitting image of the negative millenial stereotype—live at home, mooch off her parents, complain about how she gets treated like a kid (because she acts like one), contribute nothing to her household, etc. I get the "I want to have an adventure" thing, but... I don't know. Sometimes it feels like she just wants to do things out of spite. I would like to like Abigail, because it seems like she could be great... but the way she's been done, I just find Abigail one of the most disinteresting characters in the game.

On the other hand, I love Leah and think she's awesome. She's independent in every sense, takes care of herself and enjoys it. She's doing what she loves, and like the player-character she left behind a life that was limiting her and trying to force her to be something she didn't want to be out of some sort of sense of meeting personal-or-societal expectations. She doesn't take crap from people, but she's sweet as hell towards those she's close to, and she's passionate about everything she does.

Just my cents.

(Edit: Of course, I also think Haley is awesome and went so far as to marry her in my first game, so clearly I'm not in-line with the "usual" perceptions of the bachelorettes.)

I agree with this, i really want to like Abigail more but... Its just not there. I'll get them both to ten hearts, and see where i end up after. I'm probably going to go with Leah for the reasons you said though. Thank you everyone!

[Sparse Dunes]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Leah. Definitely.

I don't really care for Abigail. She's the spitting image of the negative millenial stereotype—live at home, mooch off her parents, complain about how she gets treated like a kid (because she acts like one), contribute nothing to her household, etc. I get the "I want to have an adventure" thing, but... I don't know. Sometimes it feels like she just wants to do things out of spite. I would like to like Abigail, because it seems like she could be great... but the way she's been done, I just find Abigail one of the most disinteresting characters in the game.

On the other hand, I love Leah and think she's awesome. She's independent in every sense, takes care of herself and enjoys it. She's doing what she loves, and like the player-character she left behind a life that was limiting her and trying to force her to be something she didn't want to be out of some sort of sense of meeting personal-or-societal expectations. She doesn't take crap from people, but she's sweet as hell towards those she's close to, and she's passionate about everything she does.

Just my cents.

(Edit: Of course, I also think Haley is awesome and went so far as to marry her in my first game, so clearly I'm not in-line with the "usual" perceptions of the bachelorettes.)

But I think more people like her bcause "hur hur vidya games" and Goth because apparently that's still trendy.

Leah and Haley are my favorites.

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Originally posted by Mad hatters in jeans:

So what's the positive millenial stereotype?

I'll let you know as soon as I hear one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ihzp55Cuo7M

[Achilles]

I personally went with abigail because i love her Purple hair lol

[Rafein]

I like Leah least of all. she seems the least interested in relationships. Haely followed closely after.

I'm more drawn to Abby, but if you want someone more mature, go Prince Charming and take Penny.

[Swirler]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Originally posted by Mad hatters in jeans:

So what's the positive millenial stereotype?

I'll let you know as soon as I hear one.

Fixing financial messes of the previous generations?

[Cornflakes]

Originally posted by Xengas:

I feel as if shes in her 16-18 year old range and i'm not sure shes uh...wife material as of right now. The whole, "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ME MOM!", "My parent's are lame" "I wanna do dangerous things" kind of attitude is a little cliche and i can't help but see her as more of a rebellious stubborn girlfriend rather than a wife.

Agreed, the way she's written comes off a lot more teenager than the other bachlorettes.

So... Pros: Different from the other villagers, cool, pretty cute sometimes, probably eats gems.
Cons: Stubborn, basically emo, childish, not farmer-material as of right now. (Also, everyoneee marries her...so)

Everyone chooses Abigail? From what I've experienced watching on Twitch and Youtube, everyone chooses Leah.

Then theres Leah, shes mature, sweet, and works hard. She's literally a flower, so innocent and kind. And shes an artist, artists are rad.

I disagree, I don't see her that way.

Pros: More mature, SWEET AF, innocent cupcake, artist (can make art for you i think), has the farmer-wife feel
Cons: Bland, would get boring, probably doesn't eat gems, basically a normie, might cry if she sees me eating meat.

I'm just not getting the "sweet and innocent" vibe from Leah. She couldn't handle the commitment of living a "normal" lifestyle with her long-term romantic partner, so her response was to dump him/her and run away from all responsibilities. She gives up whatever commitments she had in the city to live in a shack, where she is so poor she has to forage for wild food, and yet she spends what money she does have on alcohol, to the extent that she's a fixture in the saloon every weekend. She's a lush. She just gets off the hook easy because she's attractive and booze "helps her creativity", while Pam is widely derided as an alcoholic because she isn't attractive and isn't utilizing inebriation for some other purpose.

When you ask Leah about her art she says she doesn't make art for money, she does it for "the experience" or the "pleasure of making art" or some BS like that. Please. She's unmotivated and unindustrious. She frequently says things like "Do you ever take an entire day off? It's a refreshing break." or "What should I do today? Any ideas?" She's not "seizing the day", she's carelessly letting time slip between her fingers. She can't handle responsibilities, so she adopted a low-pressure lifestyle where she can work at her own pace without answering to anyone else. She's a hippie-dippie treehugger who'd rather lick the moss off rocks than work for an honest dollar.

Sure, okay, she has passion. She has a drive to make art. But she only does it when she feels like it. She's more concerned with feeling good, being relaxed, and having pleasurable experiences. She's a hedonist.

On the other hand Abigail is a Manic Pixie Dream Girl. She has issues with her parents, but pretty much all the singles in SV have issues with somebody. Haley doesn't get along with her sister, Penny is ashamed of her alcoholic mom, Alex has anger towards his dad, Sam doesn't get along with his parents, Sebastion is keeping his step-dad and step-sister at arm's length. Abigail's conflict is certainly up front, but she's open about it and able to address it directly.

I have a difficult time seeing the emo/goth thing for Abigail, which might just be me looking at her character through a different lens than everyone else. People call her "emo" but that doesn't match her behavior at all. She's not mopey, she's not The Gloomy Girl trope, but she is a bit morbid, a bit inclined towards the occult. It's not "Ugh, we're all gonna die anyway, everything is pointless" type apathy, it's "aren't grim and macabre things fascinating?" She's not Marilyn Manson and Hot Topic goth, she's Wednesday Addams and Tim Burton gothic.

Her mother accuses her of staying in her room too much and playing too many video games, yet Abigail frequently leaves her house to go all over the map, from the Wizard's tower to the railroad tracks, to the library, to the mountain lake to play her flute in the rain. How does gleefully playing the flute in the rain make her a shutin? How does having an obsession with ghosts and spirits make her a depressive? The behavior we see from her is not consistant with what other characters say about her.

My first impression of her was that she was like a JPRG companion character plucked out of some other fantasy game and plopped into a sleepy, do-nothing village. She's bursting at the seams to bring something outlandish and inspired to her ordinary, bo-dunk life. Abigail aspires to be The Action Chick.

I was devistated when her mom revealed that purple wasn't Abigail's natural hair color. Which, I mean, go figure, right? But with other characters like the Wizard, the Governor, Sebastian, Jasmine and Shane with purple hair, I thought it was just the standard fantasy world stuff. Even her own mother has green hair! But Abigail alone is called out for coloring her hair. I think the combination of dying her hair, wearing a collar, and the "Ugh my parents don't understand me!" makes a lot of people think of her as a Hot Topic teenie bopper, and I can see that. I'm just coming at this from a different direction that's more forgiving of her unlikable qualities and less dismissive towards her aspirations.

[See you Space Cowboy...]

Maru

[Budekman]

abigail , love her rebel personality , from the looks of it she still innocent , and i like advanture type wife haha