I was finally able to sit down and do some work on this game today.
This involved me mostly doing aesthetic changes and programming. The writing itself is going to be pretty brief and straight to the point while still capturing the characters, so that's not going to be so much of a focus.
I really dislike the standard Sugarcube 2 UI, so I quickly destroyed that with CSS (and a sprinkle of JQuery) that I used in a previous Twine game. Once that was cleared, I imported cropped sprites of Vera and Rel.
A big theme with the game, and these two OCs, is give and take. How much you centre everything on yourself, and how much you focus on others. Because I want to make a relatively upbeat and heartwarming game for this jam, I can't explore this theme to its full extent. So, instead, to show this theme, I am simply showing the sprite of the character that is getting more attention to on the side of the screen.
I have started writing, but only the starting passages.
Here's my Twine file so far.
