Your Own Variation

Mr Darcy has just called you tolerable.

You are Elizabeth Bennet. From the Meryton assembly to Jane's sickroom at Netherfield, what you say and what you keep back are yours to choose: laugh at him or let it go, walk the three miles through the mud or wait for the carriage, argue with him in the drawing room or hold your tongue. He notices more than you think. Twice you see the week through his eyes.

Act one of an illustrated choice-based interactive novel, written in Jane Austen's register and drawn in the manner of a hand-inked manga, one picture to each chapter. About 25 minutes a reading, 10 chapters, 19 choices, 3 endings. Plays in the browser on phone or computer; undo any choice, saves itself, text size and dark mode, a journal of your Elizabeth's temper. Endings found are kept, with a hint for each one still to find.

Gentle reading: courtship, family embarrassment, a sister's illness. Nothing explicit. Act two is being written; one ending leads into the novel A Fever at Netherfield, by the same author.

How it was made. The prose and the page code were written with AI (Claude) under human direction, from a plan, a state sheet and repeated whole-story reads and revisions. The pictures were made with AI (ChatGPT) from written art direction. Pride and Prejudice is in the public domain; no line of Austen's is reused. Built with ink (inkjs).