Bad Endings

**Bad Endings** is a very common and heavily used feature in Is it Love? seen in almost every story route except for one. Bad Endings are the alternate endings to a season where the players do not end up with the main love interest. They usually remain single or end up with the second love interest since they are unable to work things out with their main love interest. All good endings are quite similar with the player and her love interest ending up together and sharing a kiss in the final image, bad endings though can vary and have some unexpected results. In the mini-series, both Viktor and Zac's bad endings became canonical endings that culminated from the other main love interests' mini routes.

## Gabriel Simons Season 1

The player does not believe Gabriel about not cheating on her with Cassidy Sparke and Gabriel refuses to tell her about his life. When he tries to apologize to her, she has had enough and breaks up with him leaving him shocked and upset. This was the very first bad ending in Is it Love? and was the first bad ending to not include a second love interest.

## Gabriel Simons Season 2

The player once again breaks up with Gabriel despite him trying to work things out after his mother Holly Simons almost had a brawl with her during their meeting at Chez Felipe and for ruining the entrapment operation to arrest his father Steven Simons, who quickly escaped after learning of his son's trap. She also ends her friendship with Jenny Blake due to her lies and gives Lisa Parker the key to her apartment and her pet cat to take care of while she's gone. She starts a life with Matt Ortega instead and decides to go on the cross country road trip that he planned.

## Matt Ortega Season 1

Matt is unable to move on from his past and the guilt from thinking he accidentally killed Lana Escobar and breaks up with the player for her own good and leaves the player upset who is then comforted by Daryl Ortega.

## Matt Ortega Season 2

Matt and the player get married in both endings. However, Matt's brother Daryl does not attend their wedding in the bad ending due to the heartbreak because he's in love with the player which leaves a damper on his relationship with both her and his brother. Either way, they have a beautiful wedding and live happily ever after.

## Ryan Carter Season 1

Ryan believes his sister's lies over the player's truth which causes the player to break up with him and have a drink with Jake Stewart who comforts her.

## Ryan Carter Season 2

Ryan is too busy with work to be there for the player and their newborn baby and take care of them properly, and the player realizes this might be her life from now on while Jake and Jenny visit her at the hospital.

## Ryan Carter Season 3

They have an argument due to Ryan being in politics and the player decides to go on a vacation where she is comforted my Matt and Lisa. At this point, Ryan withdraws from his mayoral candidacy and continues his work as the CEO of Carter Corp, and Mark, who was released from prison, remains as a Branch Manager. She finds out that Giorgio Maccini had been released from prison and gave her a last taunt. Parker Sparke vows to protect her from any dangers. She confides in Parker and Parker tells her to open up a restaurant on her own and he also confesses his love to her. The player refuses to do anything with him since she is still a married woman but her marriage with Ryan is pretty much over and she will eventually be with Parker who is okay with waiting for her to get divorce first before they do anything.

## Colin Spencer Season 1

The player was upset that he was offered a solo record deal and would have to move to Los Angeles, California rather than being supportive. Colin decided to break up with her for their own good and she was left upset in the airport when he left and was comforted by Adam Peterson who suggested that they go get a drink.

## Colin Spencer Season 2

As soon as Colin leaves the player for his solo tour once again, he is revealed to be kidnapped by Josh at his apartment and ended up getting tortured by him due to his obsession and remains inside for three days. The player teams up with Doris to find Colin who is revealed to be kidnapped by Josh, as his real identity has not yet to be revealed. Josh also reveals his true motives to both the player and Doris, and he suffers from obsessive love disorder until Colin arrives in a weak state causing Josh to take the player as a hostage. After Josh knocked Doris when she attempted to attack him, Colin shields the player from getting stabbed by his knife. Seeing his bloody idol on the floor, Josh commits suicide by stabbing himself in his torso multiple times with his own knife causing the player to be traumatized from his suicidal actions and they are found by Malaika who is revealed to be resigned her contract from Joe and continues her studies at Oxford. After Malaika and the player helped Doris and the injured Colin, Josh leaves him dead and his ultimate plan was backfired. At this point, this is where Colin gave up on his music career after the incident and unlike other bad endings, he and the player remained together but the player decided to leave back to Rochester to wash away the nightmares she had experienced from Josh's apparent suicide.

## Adam Peterson Season 1

Adam is on the run from police after being caught for hacking Carter Corp and breaks up with the player through a text for her own good telling her it's not fair that he put her through this and ask her to wait for him, and that she should move on and forget about him. Later on while at Starlite she feels bad for breaking Owen Hobbad's heart and realized that she might have feelings for him, Lisa Parker convinces her to go see him and laughs while the player runs out of the club to go to his apartment. Owen is shocked to see her there and she tells him that she doesn't know what she can give him and that they should only be friends which he says he is okay with, for now, which hints that the two are probably going to get together eventually.

## Daryl Ortega Season 1

Daryl breaks up with the player after his pride and ego was bruised from losing a race to Giorgio and gets in his car and drives away angrily leaving the player upset and comforted by Joe Kicks, who tells her that Daryl needs time. The player vows to get Daryl back whether he wants her to or not since she still loves him.

## Jake Stewart Season 1

Jake proposes to the player and tells her that he's going to resign as a government agent but changes his mind after Carrie Kang tells him about their old case about a girl who was murdered in Chicago, he then decided to keep his job. Jake confesses his love for her and tells her he will change his ways but she slaps him because she doesn't want to have a long distance relationship but also confesses her love to him. She then broke up with him much to his sadness but he left with Carrie shortly after. Several months later she learns that Jake failed to catch the serial killer in Chicago. She also gets engaged to Ashton Darrow after he proposed to her.

## Mark Leviels Season 1

The bad ending was caused by Mark's ex-wife Grace Leviels, who desired to get Mark back but she fails in her plot to try and break Mark and the player up because Mark still rejected her. Mark was shocked to see that the player did not trust him and believed Grace's accusations of being an abuser, Mark refuses to be in Shanghai due to this incident and he wasn't divorced yet and broke up with the player for not trusting him. He tells her that they took things too fast but he gives the player his best wishes with her new job and hopes that she can find the strength to trust another man. He later departs for New York to resume his old job in Carter Corp.

## Drogo Bartholy Season 1

The player decided to leave the manor due to Viktor Bartholy causing her too much trouble and Drogo was too late to stop her and she cries since their relationship is falling apart due to Viktor's interferences, leaving Drogo upset.

## Drogo Bartholy Season 2

Cassandre Osborne imprisons Viktor Bartholy in a seal but steals his vampire abilities for her own personal gain and Conrad Bartholy reveals that she has betrayed them and that she took Drogo with her. It is unknown if she kidnaped Drogo or if Drogo went with Cassandre on his own free will, but the player is distraught that she doesn't know where Drogo is, that Viktor might not remain imprisoned and the fear of having to tell Sarah what her grandmother has done after she wakes up while Conrad comforts her.

## Peter Bartholy Season 1

The player listens to Nicolae and leaves Mystery Spell and goes with Sarah to Paris much to Peter's sadness while they say goodbye. Later on Peter is seen at her hotel, much to her shock, and informs her that the Descendants of the Templars are attacking Mystery Spell.

## Peter Bartholy Season 2

Their battle against the Descendants of the Templars did not go as planned and they lost. Charles and Loan Huxley escaped and Dorothy Rakoczy was killed. After Dorothy's funeral, the Bartholy's decided to follow Viktor to try and find Charles, and Haku Kobayashi convinces the player to talk to Peter but she caught him packing and learned that Peter decided to go back to his hometown, Transylvania, and he broke up with the player but told her that he would always love her before leaving. The player becomes very depressed after he left and Haku comforts her, telling her that she should move and that he'll always be there for her while she falls asleep in his arms.

## Nicolae Bartholy Season 1

Both endings take place in a dream and neither are real or happy endings since the player is in a comatose state no matter what. In the bad ending, Nicolae fails to save the player from Viktor who is trying to kill her and Ludwig Eberwald saves her instead in his werewolf state and kills Viktor. The two then get married and he was accepted by her family and the next day Ludwig is able to find the cure for his werewolfism. When he returned home later he revealed that the cure worked and that he was finally free and the two made out on their couch.

## Sebastian Jones Season 1

The player gets expelled due to her relationship with Sebastian but he decides to resign from his job instead so she can stay and the player gets ostracized by the other students and teachers. When she returns to the manor Nicolae reveals that Drogo stole the Mirror of Truth and he apologizes and returns it to her and she then gave it back to Sebastian who was very thankful. The player receives an email from Esteban Dias who wanted them to fix their relationship and wanted her to go on their expedition to Peru which she agrees to, which Sebastian was unaware of. The player hides in the back of their truck under blankets with Isabella Jones and Sebastian finds her and scolds her and tries to drag her out since he didn't want her to go but was stopped by Isabella who told him that they needed her powers. Sebastian agreed and allowed the player to come but asked if she could stay in the back and it ends with her sitting uncomfortably in the bed of a truck with Sebastian mad at her.

## Sebastian Jones Season 2

Sohan Héka suggests to the player that she join him on his quest to get vengeance on Viktor Bartholy and the player learns that Sebastian and Isabella are moving to France because of Viktor and he gives the player one last hug after breaking up with her and then leaving coldly with Isabella, Sarah and Esteban so they can go to France and protect her leaving her in tears. She was comforted by Sohan and she accepts his offer much to his delight and the two kiss and start a new relationship together.

## Viktor Bartholy Season 1

Viktor becomes filled with rage and insanity and locks the player in a basement after learning that she betrayed him and she no longer adores him. She is able to escape with Elena Gabe and Viktor demands that they be captured and killed. They run into Drogo Bartholy and he suggests that they go meet Cassandre Osborne so she can help them reverse Viktor's spells. Cassandre helps them but casts a spell on the player that will fill her blood with poison which will kill Viktor if he drinks it. She goes to the woods to confront Viktor and he was heartbroken to learn of her betrayal. The player still loves him though and warns him that her blood is poisoned, but he didn't heed her warning and he began to drain her blood. She slowly died from blood loss but sacrificed herself to kill Viktor as Viktor will die shortly after due to drinking poison.

However, this bad ending is actually canonical due to the recent events in Conrad's route being played out. Viktor did not actually die though and recovered from the poison, so the player died in vain.

## Conrad Bartholy Season 1

Viktor eventually learns of Conrad's plan to infiltrate The Arcane to stop him when Elena uses her astral projection powers to find him at the Arcane. He and the Councilors are there to subdued them in the forest. He also let his Councilors to murder Haku first before all three of them are obliterated by Chad Williams using his necromancy magic but at the cost of his energy. Viktor angrily kills both Chad and Nao Arasaka by slashing their necks with his superhuman strength and succeeds in stealing Elena's vampiric powers by biting on her neck after one of his Councilors had blocked Conrad on his way to protect his lover. At the basement of the Bartholy Manor, Viktor reveals that Conrad was permanently paralyzed and he was the shell of his former self and he put both him and Elena inside the coffin, claiming it is a magical tomb when he put grimoires and candles on the tomb. He eventually closes the casket on both of them, leaving them for dead in centuries and Viktor continues to make world domination with his vampires. Elena emotionally apologizes for all her decisions especially to her love for Conrad and she soon begins to dying inside the coffin.

## Sarah Osborne Season 1

During the infiltration of the Arcane, Maïssa Ameretāt was convinced by Viktor to join his side despite her hatred towards him for killing her lover Joshua, causing Elijah Osborne to protect the girls. However, Viktor kills her first after he easily manipulated her into joining on her side and made a murder spree on his main base where he murders the player first then Elena Gabe who soon uses her astral projection powers to inhabit the player's dead body which was later mourned by Sarah before escaping. Viktor along with Charles and Cassandre had decided to brutally torture Elijah in the basement of the Arcane.

## James Oswald-Descieux Season 1

The player quits her job to become an actress and also learns that James gave his title to Ethan McAllister and that Ivana Oswald-Descieux will not be standing trial or going to prison much to her shock and anger but James was on his father's side despite claiming he wasn't which caused an argument and the two break up. The two have 1 last conversation at the airport where James reveals that the hotel management has gotten worse since they broke up and that the player was having a hard time playing a role but they were interrupted by news reporters. One year later, the player is a famous actress and is at the premier of her new movie. While she is being interviewed by reporters, she smells a familiar fragrance and turns to see a man walking away from her. That man was James who was crying at the sight of losing the love of his life and that she is better off without him, while the player was unaware that he came to see her.

## Zac Hudson Season 1

Despite the current relationship between the player and Zac Hudson, the player eventually breaks up with Zac by shutting him off whenever he telepathically contacted her and continuing to set up her original plans. Upon receiving the celestial bullets from Danael at their main territory, the player gunned him down with infernal bullets which turns him into golden dust. She and Asmodea standing tall on the throne where she finally unveils her true identity as a demoness named Judith Lightbringer, the daughter of Lucifer Lightbringer and the late Diane Lightbringer in front of many demons and reveals her original plans in overthrowing her father to become the next Lord of the Underworld.

However, this bad ending is actually canonical one due to the recent events in Lucifer's route being played out. Danael had barely survived from the multiple gunshots sustained by Judith using infernal bullets and the player from Fallen Road under her angel name Sariel, who implicates Zac being responsible for murdering Danael and was misguided and unaware of the latter's real motives of betraying his own kind and Zac defends Judith by dodging both Lucifer and the player's questions during their interrogation towards him and Danael despite being dumped by her, and the player had noticed his heartbreak and realized that Judith was mainly responsible for their troubles and as the current leader of the Styx who wanted to overthrow her father Lucifer by making a rebellion.

## Jarod Harding Season 1

The player and Jarod Harding break up. While at a bonfire party with her co-workers, Adrian Walker convinces the player to dance with him by the fire while she and everyone else have a good time, and it is hinted that she and Adrian will start something in the future.

## Caleb Rosewood Season 1

The player fails to buy Rosewood Ranch as well as getting disapproved by Kadrick Rosewood following the incident with Amy due to his overprotective nature to his brother Caleb, leading the player to leave the ranch. She later helps Sean Wilson in tracking down the married couple consist of both Carl Weaver and Joyce Weaver and Carl manages to take down Sean. Before he could attempt to attack the player, he was hooked in the face by Caleb, knocking him out and telling Sean to apprehend him. Later on, while walking downtown following the incident, Nayati tells both that their energy goes bright when they are connected to each other. While staying at the Wilson's Inn, it is revealed that her boss Robert Smith had successfully let Alan sign the contract. For pushing over his plans, the player immediately decided to resign her post as a Property Promoter. As soon as she decided to go back to Seattle, Caleb came back to her and it is revealed that following their father's sign the contract given by Robert, Kadrick was angered for what their father has done and wanted to challenge against her company. Caleb also wanted to help his brother to defend the ranch by them. Despite their connection however, the two had romantically kissed.

## Fallen Road

Caliel's ending is considered the bad ending. Cal reveals to the Angel community including the corrupt Judge and the jury that the romantic relationship of their kind is possible while showing the engagement ring to them and he accuses Danael because of his strong dislike of romantic and close relationships which he claims as forbidden. Despite the jury being found not guilty, the corrupt Judge sentenced the player to be sent to Hell much to Cal's horrible shock and seeing their corruption and the player was thrown in Hell by her executioners but Cal rescues her and confesses his undying love for her before going back to the court room.

## Blue Swan

Blue Swan does not have a bad ending as each love interest gets their own, respective ending which all end on a good note.