Rafe Route

The Planned ending summary for Rafe was released after Lovestruck announced that it will shut down on March 31st 2022. This summary revealed that Male MC could romance Rafe.

## Planned Ending (Female MC)

Rafe and Heroine head to 1930s Los Angeles to prevent a murderous dinner party held by Rafe's cousin, Gaspare. Their plan to avert the party goes awry when Rafe threatens Gaspare at knifepoint to save Heroine's life, weakening his position of trust. Faced with the reality of Heroine's mortality, Rafe entreats her to become immortal. She refuses, but they come closer than they ever have to sleeping together. As Heroine steps into her power in order to position herself to take down the Society, she makes the choice to live for herself. She and Rafe finally break the pact, deepening their relationship at the worst possible timing as Richard returns and exposes Rafe's duplicity. Rafe's family vows to destroy him.

While Rafe grapples with the true depth of his love for Heroine, Heroine begins to embrace the darker side in earnest, shedding her guilt in the face of her father's true evil. Heroine becomes immortal, giving a new dimension to her relationship with Rafe and forcing them to confront the emotional truth of it. Heroine's descent into darkness has captured her father's eye - she is everything he dreamed she'd be. But when Richard asks her to be his heir Heroine refuses, vowing to use everything she's learned to bring Richard down. Side by side with the man who has accepted her for all that she is, Heroine works to destroy those who threaten them. It all culminates when Heroine finally puts on the accuracy improving power stone, and kills Richard with Rafe's knife, the final piece of the puzzle.

While the Clubhouse burns, they make love in the ashes. Then they set out to prove that they have a life worth living together forever.

## Planned Ending (Male MC)

Hero and Rafe meet at a bar and have an incredible one night stand. When they meet again at the Society party, Hero wonders if Rafe knew his identity but Rafe says he had suspicions but chose to maintain plausible deniability. Rafe wants Hero to infiltrate the Society to destroy it from within but Hero can't bring himself to play that role. They will find another way! Hero has a clear sense of right and wrong, and struggles with the discrepancy between their morality. Hero refuses Rafe's invitation to sleep together again as he is trying to resist catching feelings for Rafe.

Eventually, Hero reaches the end of his self-restraint, and invites Rafe to bed. Rafe, struggling with his own feelings, declines. He's trying to figure out why it matters so much if Hero disapproves of his methods. When Rafe has to do something terrible despite Hero begging him not to, Hero's reaction makes Rafe realize that he  is in love with Hero. Hero decides to go back to LA, despite his feelings for Rafe, when Richard reappears! Hero decides to get close to Richard and convince him to give up his evil deeds. Rafe inserts himself in Richard's orbit - even if Hero is upset at him, he needs to protect Hero. Rafe proves how much he cares for Hero, while Hero realizes how truly irredeemable his father is.

Rafe finally realizes why Richard didn't raise his children according to Legacy tradition: Richard plans to sacrifice Hero in a ritual to gain ultimate power. They exchange I love yous.  Rafe offers to kill Richard for Hero, but Hero doesn't want that. This would make them just as bad as Richard. He wants to take Richard down in a way that he can live with. During the final showdown Rafe gives up the opportunity to kill Richard, wanting to be a man Hero would be proud of.

When Richard dies anyway, Rafe wonders if his choice didn't matter in the end, but Hero says that for eternity Rafe will know that instead of choosing murder he decided to save somone because people are worth saving no matter what.

## Gallery

Rafe's Route Summary (Female MC)Rafe's Route Summary (Male MC)