Secret Images

**The Secret Images** are the oldest and most used feature in the Is It Love? franchise and is a staple of the series. They take place as the visual during secret scenes and are only unlocked during so. Multiple are seen in every season and almost every chapter. Almost every character from the Carter Corp and Mystery Spell universes have been in a secret image. Fallen Road and Blue Swan did not follow the tradition of secret images being in every chapter except for one in the final of the season which would feature all of the love interests. Secret Palace follows the tradition that Carter Corp and Mystery Spell left of having multiple secret images a season but they mostly only feature the player and the main love interest as seen in James Oswald-Descieux's story route.

To unlock a secret scene, it is based on a system of making the right choices and if you have then you get to read it for free. Before you are able to see if you unlocked a secret image or not, Miss Chocolate will appear on the screen to tell you if you've made the right choices or not and give you the option to play the secret scene or not. If you have made the right choices, she will say you've made the right choices, but if you didn't however, she will appear and say so but give you the option on if you want to pay for the secret image or skip it. However, from July 2020 this feature was now removed, Miss Chocolate no longer appears in the secret scene dialogue any more as a revamp of secret scene UI was done. Some secret images can be unlocked no matter what and are free for all players, these mostly happen with the first and last chapters of a season and sometimes when the main character shares their first kiss with the main love interests. However this is not seen in Gabriel's case if the player wants to unlock Gabriel's 1st secret scene from his season 1. Some secret scenes though will not unlock no matter what choices you pick and you must pay for them to view them, so going back and replaying the chapter to see if you can get the right choices that time is pointless.

The art styles vary between a cartoonish style to a more realistic approach. A total 11 art style have been observed in a span of 6 years. James Oswald-Descieux and Ryan Carter's story routes hold the most number of art-styles used in secret images. The art has come far though judging by detail and facial art. The Main Characters eyes used to be covered by their hair but are now visible and seen which gives them more features. The player from Peter Bartholy's story route broke the old tradition where their eyes were covered by bangs and now all the players are unique in their appearance, but aren't really cohesive in their appearances anymore. Over the years, some of the images have become more erotic and risqué, which show more sexually explicit art as seen in Ryan Carter's season three, Peter Bartholy's season two, James Oswald-Descieux's season one, Jarod Harding's season one and Cameron Cooper's mini-series. The artists obviously have less limitations as to how far they can go and can really push what they would actually like show. Most secret images have the same context, which are of the main character and her main love interest doing something romantic, such as kissing, cuddling, hugging, having sex or being in close proximity. But there will occasionally be a unique secret image that involves them doing something else or one that will involve other characters. This feature of having characters other than main love interests are now very rare as compared to the old days where each story route had other characters besides the main love interest being featured in secret images or having the main love interest and the player doing something other than wanting to have sex or make out in every other chapter, rather than just once a season. Now secret scenes are restricted mostly to main and secondary love interests and are often repetitive in the context of what the characters are doing. Some fans have disliked this restriction.

As mentioned above, Blue Swan and Fallen Road did not have any secret images except for in their final chapter, which would only feature the love interests.
Instead, they had secret scenes. Secret scenes are the same as the secret images in other story routes, only they don't have a secret image attached to them. And most of the time, they would allow you to play as another character and see things through their perspective, this was mostly common in Blue Swan though. The game will tell you if you unlocked the secret scenes or not and if you didn't, still give you the option to play them if you pay. Secret scenes provide extra dialogue and hidden content that goes unseen if you don't unlock the scene.

Players used to be able to unlock two of the promotional art secret images of the main love interest by having friends who also played the intended story route type in your game's assigned code, each code was different for every phone on every app. Having 1 friend type in your code on their phone was required to unlock the first images and having 5 different friends do it was required for the second. The promotional secret images were not apart of the story route which is why they were the easiest to unlock. This feature however was ended by the time Jake Stewart's story route came about.

## Characters Featured In Images

* The Main Character (Gabriel)
* The Main Character (Matt)
* The Main Character (Ryan)
* The Main Character (Colin)
* The Main Character (Adam)
* The Main Character (Daryl)
* The Main Character (Jake)
* The Main Character (Drogo)
* The Main Character (Peter)
* The Main Character (Nicolae)
* The Main Character (Sebastian)
* The Main Character (James)
* The Main Character (Mark)
* The Main Character (Viktor)
* The Main Character (Jarod)
* The Main Character (Zac)
* The Main Character (Joe)
* The Main Character (Cameron)
* The Main Character (Sarah)
* The Main Character (Caleb)
* The Main Character (Lucifer)
* The Main Character (Chad)
* The Main Character (Parker)
* Elena Gabe
* Gabriel Simons
* Matt Ortega
* Daryl Ortega
* Ryan Carter
* Jake Stewart
* Colin Spencer
* Adam Peterson
* Mark Leviels
* Owen Hobbad
* Joe Kicks
* Ashton Darrow
* Parker Sparke
* Drogo Bartholy
* Sebastian Jones
* Conrad Bartholy
* Peter Bartholy
* Sarah Osborne
* Haku Kobayashi
* Nicolae Bartholy
* Ludwig Eberwald
* Viktor Bartholy
* Sohan Héka
* Esteban Dias
* Loan Huxley
* James Oswald-Descieux
* Julian Devolt
* Cameron Cooper
* Caleb Rosewood
* Mike Stover
* William Sheffield
* Jarod Harding
* Zac Hudson
* Caliel
* Asmodea
* Morgane Delchamps
* Niño di Luca
* Adrian Walker
* Lucifer Lightbringer
* Chad Williams
* Aiden Williams

**Non Love-Interests Featured**

* Lisa Parker
* Jenny Blake
* Child
* Samantha Gautier
* Lana Escobar
* Giorgio Maccini
* Doris
* Fiona
* Josh
* Isabella Jones
* Cassidy Sparke
* Lorie Bartholy
* Lizabeth
* Charles Huxley
* Ka-Ata-Killa
* Cassandre Osborne
* Elijah Osborne
* Nicolae's Fiancée
* Rosa Osborne
* Roger Bronson
* Mindy Clayton
* Mai Lan Dinh
* Andrea Steinmann
* Jeffrey Harris
* Dorothy Rakoczy (promotional art only)
* Derrick Tremblay (promotional art only)
* Malaïka (promotional art only)
* Tattoo Artist
* Creep (possibly)
* Border Collie
* Pink Biscuit
* Persian Cat (promotional art only)
* Hamster (promotional art only)
* Macau (promotional art only)

## Character Not Featured

* The Main Character (Fallen Road)
* The Main Character (Blue Swan)
* Extra Main Character (Julian)
* Steven Simons
* Holly Simons
* Thomas Gordon
* Liang Shaw
* Grace Leviels
* Nao Arasaka
* Derrick Tremblay
* Maïssa Ameretāt
* Rosa
* Carrie Kang
* Beth Young
* Raj Hirapati
* Ethan McAllister
* Cleo
* Dad
* Rose Murray
* George
* Jason
* Jesse
* Kean
* Danael
* Sofia Flores
* Camilla Cresset
* Ross Bergman
* April Stover
* Tyler
* Margaret Lawrence
* Aleksei Votiakov
* Alicia Boone
* Dorothy Rakoczy
* Torquemada
* Ramos Hearse
* Anita
* Juan
* Celeste Devolt
* Ivana Oswald-Descieux
* Henry Oswald-Descieux
* Damian Krug
* Chuck Stanford
* Max Storm
* Neema Walker
* Richard R. Reynolds
* Bakary Harding
* Mia Cooper
* Malaïka
* Samuel
* Kadrick Rosewood
* Amy Dixon
* Nayati Yellowtail
* Mila Yellowtail
* Sean Wilson
* Rosie Wilson
* Carl Weaver
* Walter Mills
* The Hitchhiker
* Humphrey Harper Hawkins
* Janet Simmons
* Ghoul
* Borya Rakoczy
* Creep (probably)
* Grandpa
* Persian Cat
* Hamster
* Black Cat
* Macau
* French Bulldog
* Cassandre's Cat

## Gallery

* Gabriel Simons/Gallery

* Matt Ortega/Gallery

* Daryl Ortega/Gallery

* Ryan Carter/Gallery

* Jake Stewart/Gallery

* Parker Sparke/Gallery

* Giorgio Maccini

* Colin Spencer/Gallery

* Adam Peterson/Gallery

* Owen Hobbad/Gallery

* Joe Kicks/Gallery

* Ashton Darrow/Gallery

* Drogo Bartholy/Gallery

* Sebastian Jones/Gallery

* Sohan Héka/Gallery

* Peter Bartholy/Gallery

* Sarah Osborne/Gallery

* Haku Kobayashi/Gallery

* Elijah Osborne

* Charles Huxley

* Nicolae Bartholy/Gallery

* Ludwig Eberwald/Gallery

* James Oswald-Descieux/Gallery

* Cameron Cooper/Gallery

* Mark Leviels/Gallery

* Viktor Bartholy/Gallery

* Jarod Harding/Gallery

* Adrian Walker/Gallery

* Caleb Rosewood/Gallery

* Lucifer Lightbringer/Gallery

* Chad Williams/Gallery

* Lana Escobar/Gallery

* Lisa Parker/Gallery

* Zac Hudson/Gallery

* Asmodea/Gallery

* Morgane Delchamps/Gallery

* Josh

* Niño di Luca

* Rosa Osborne

* The Main Character (Peter)/Gallery

* The Main Character (Drogo)/Gallery

* The Main Character (Daryl)/Gallery

## Trivia

* Gabriel Simons and the player from his route were in the very first secret image ever.
* The first secret image took place in Starlite
* Ryan Carter has been in more secret images than any other love interest and has the most images featured in one whole story route due to having 3 seasons. But the player from his route has been in more secret images than any other character in the entire series.
* Sarah Osborne has been in more secret images than any other female character excluding the main characters.
* Nicolae Bartholy's season 1 has the most secret images featured in one season with a total of 26.
* Gabriel's season 1 has the least amount of secret images featured in one season with a total of 8.
* The player from Peter's route was the first main character to fully show her eyes in a secret image.
* Peter's route holds the record for featuring 4 secret scenes in a chapter that is seen in Season 1, Chapter 6.
* The player from Drogo's route was the first main character to be in a secret image all by herself with no other characters involved.
* Dorothy Rakoczy is the only on screen full story Mystery Spell character that has never been seen in a secret image.
	+ Most of the mini-series exclusive original characters seen in Mystery Spell haven't been featured in secret images either, but unlike Dorothy, they've never been in a full feature length story route.
		- Dorothy has appeared in a promotional art image, but it is not a secret image and was not used in a story route.
* Mark Leviels was the first non love-interest featured in a secret image which took place in season 1 of Ryan Carter's story route.
* Lisa Parker, Jake Stewart and Ryan Carter are the only character to be in deleted secret images. Deleted secret images are finished images that did not appear in the final product of the game.
* Peter Bartholy's season 1 was the first season to have 3 secret scenes featured in 1 chapter rather than 1 or 2.
* Esteban Dias has been featured in the least amount of secret scenes and images as compared to other second love interests (excluding mini-series 2nd love interests).
	+ Esteban is the only second love interest to only appear in secret images that the main love interest (Sebastian Jones) was in as well, meaning that he never had an image be of just him and the player like other second love interests.
* James Oswald-Descieux's story route is the first and only story route where the player can unlock the promotional art that features main the main love interest. However, earlier via Friend code share, the players were able to unlock secret scenes but this tradition has now disbanded after the arrival of Jake's story route.
* Daryl's route has the most borrowed images, as some of them are copied from Drogo Bartholy's route.
* The Border Collie from Matt's route was the first pet featured in an image and has been seen the most along with Pink Biscuit in images with a total of 2 compared to other pets. It is debatable if Isabella Jones in her owl form is considered a pet.
* Doris was the first villain featured in a secret image which took place in Colin Spencer's season 1.
* Daryl Ortega and Jake Stewart are tied with being the 2nd love interests in the most secret images from the main love interest's respective story route (i.e Matt Ortega & Ryan Carter), with a total of 7).
	+ Sarah Osborne has been in more secret images than any other 2nd love interest without a story route with a total of 13, but her secret images come from 2 different story routes so they do not count as she is only a 2nd love interest in 1 story route.
* Roger Bronson was the first non-love interest in Blue Swan to appear in a secret image.
* In Peter's story route, there are a total of 12 secret images that he is not in, which means that he is present in less secret images in his story route than any other love interest.
* Elijah Osborne is the only non-main character/love interest to have a secret image dedicated entirely to him in a mini-series.
* The Is it Love? team has been criticized for whitewashing black main characters like Jake's, James' and Caleb's main characters. Caleb's main character never had a consistent skin color in secret images
* Mike Stover has been featured in the least amount of secret images out of the Blue Swan love interests, with only one.
* The player from Blue Swan and the player from Fallen Road are the only main characters who have never appeared in a secret image.