The basic premise You are an ordinary human who has just lost your job. You had been working customer service for the corporation Valdivian, but after only one day you are replaced by an AI chatbot and thrown into what the game calls “Labor Limbo.”

Then you receive a mysterious message on Thiscord from a user called tinfoilhat.

They tell you a package is coming.

Inside is a pair of strange glasses: the Dateviators.

When you put them on, your house changes.

Objects aren't merely objects anymore. They possess personalities, voices, desires, histories and, most importantly, the ability to interact with you as people.

The glasses' name is itself an acronym:

D.A.T.E. — Directly Acknowledge a Thing's Existence.

The entire premise of the game is therefore more than “everything is secretly alive.”

The Dateviators allow you to perceive the personhood hidden inside things. D Date Everything

And that leads to the game's central question:

If you can perceive something as a person, what does it mean to care about it

The house is effectively an entire society The house isn't just a backdrop. It is a miniature civilization.

Everyday things become people:

doors; walls; floors; tables; appliances; furniture; clothing; food; cleaning supplies; electronics; memories; darkness; nightmares; even the game's developers. The Dateables aren't simply interchangeable joke characters, either. Many have:

personal histories; relationships with other objects; rivalries; friendships; fears; careers; hobbies; trauma; ambitions; recurring appearances in other characters' routes. That's why the game gradually stops feeling like “date the toaster” and starts feeling like you're learning the social history of an entire strange little world.

Valdivian Valdivian is the major human-world corporation hanging over the story. It's ostensibly a technology company, but its leadership becomes increasingly disturbing.

The company's CEO is David Most.

David originally founded Valdivian with Franklin and the other founders.

Over time, however, the other founders were removed until David became the dominant figure.

And then the Dateviators appeared.

David recognizes their potential.

Unfortunately, he doesn't see them primarily as a way to understand the world.

He sees them as technology.

Specifically, technology valuable enough for military applications.

He therefore makes a deal with the government to obtain the Dateviators.

A Abel — Table: A confident, old-fashioned table personification; steady, social and generally enthusiastic about having fun with the Player. Airyn — Air: Literally the air moving through the house; cool, distant and somewhat ethereal. Amir — Mirror: Elegant and introspective, constantly concerned with reflection, appearance and self-understanding. Arma — Smoke Alarm: A protective alarm personality whose vigilance is rooted in deeper trauma and anxiety. Artt — Art: An eccentric artist who embodies creativity and visual expression. B Barry Styles — Beauty Supplies: A polished, fashion-conscious beauty expert obsessed with presentation. Bathsheba — Bathtub: Sensual, luxurious and associated with relaxation and indulgence. Beau — Box: A friendly cardboard-box person who is deeply involved in the house's object community and has an important quest. Ben-hwa — Mysterious Objects/Sex Toys: An adult-oriented, sexually confident character representing the mysterious things hidden in the bedroom. Betty — Bed: Warm, intimate and sensual; she embodies comfort, sleep and sexuality. Bobby Pinn — Bobby Pin: Small but determined, with a strong personality despite being an insignificant-looking object. Bodhi Windbreaker — 1980s Time Capsule: A character steeped in retro 1980s nostalgia. C Cabrizzio — Cabinets: The kitchen cabinets personified as a dramatic, stylish character. Cam — Trash Can: A trash-focused character dealing with waste, usefulness and being overlooked. Captain Jacques Pierrot — Ship in a Bottle: A flamboyant miniature adventurer who becomes important to Beau's quest. Celia — Ceiling: One half of the house's ceiling/floor conceptual pair; dignified and observant. Chairemi — Chair: A chair personification concerned with supporting and accommodating others. Chance — Luck: A personification of chance itself; unpredictable and philosophical. Connie Soul — Game Console: Originally presented as “Luna,” she is a video-game heroine living inside a console and obsessed with action-game adventure. D Date Everything Curt & Rod — Curtains: The paired curtain characters who literally cover and reveal things. D Daemon — Glitch: A corrupted piece of cut content that became self-aware; arguably the game's most overtly meta character. D Date Everything Daisuke — Dishes: A kitchen character associated with food, cooking and restaurant culture. Dante — Fireplace: Passionate, fiery and theatrical, naturally embodying heat and flame. Dasha — ???: One of the game's stranger object-personifications, with her identity and presentation deliberately contributing to the game's surrealism. Diana — Diary: An intensely personal character representing the Player's written memories, thoughts and inner life. Dirk Deveraux — Cleaning Supplies: A cleaning-product personality with a flamboyant alter ego, Clarence Couture. Dishy — Dishwasher: A hardworking appliance personality concerned with cleaning. Dolly — Dust Bunny: A tiny, mischievous creature living in the couch. Dorian — Doors: Stoic, intelligent and protective; one of the game's major recurring characters. D Date Everything Doug — Existential Dread: Literally overwhelming existential dread given a personality; one of the darker comedic characters. Drysdale — Dryer: A laundry-related character whose personality reflects the cyclical, repetitive nature of drying clothes. Dunk Shuttlecock — Shuttlecock: A sports-themed character built around badminton and competitive energy. E Eddie & Volt — Electricity: A pair representing the house's electrical power; energetic, volatile and inseparable. F Fantina — Fan: Extremely enthusiastic about the Player; her affection can become obsessive. Farya — First-Aid Kit: A medical/first-aid character with a caring but medically heavy storyline. Florence — Floor: Celia's counterpart; represents every floor in the house and has a close relationship with Celia. Freddy Yeti — Refrigerator: A big, friendly refrigerator with a comforting personality. Friar Errol — Air Fryer: A religiously themed air fryer whose route plays extensively with sin, morality and temptation. G Gaia — Globe: Worldly, curious and geographically minded; literally carries the image of the world. Gerald Dabrowski — Human: A recurring human-side character rather than a household object. H Hanks — Clothes Hangers: A group personality rather than a single hanger; social, communal and clothing-oriented. Harper — Hair/Beauty-related object: Connected to the game's fashion/beauty side and to Dirk's unhealthy relationship dynamics. Hector — HVAC: Represents the home's heating/cooling system and has an emotionally complicated relationship with the Player. Henry Hoove — Vacuum Cleaner: A cheerful cleaning character; the vacuum's personality is deliberately goofy. Hero-Hime — Anime Figurine: An earnest anime heroine who believes herself to be a tennis-fighting protagonist. Her sidekick is Nekoboru. D Date Everything Holly — Holidays: A festive personification of holidays and seasonal celebration. I I, Ronaldini — Ironing Board: A theatrical, oddly aristocratic ironing-board character with a dramatic sense of identity. J Jean-Loo Pissoir — Toilet: An outrageous, theatrical bathroom character whose route includes absurd “crap battles.” Jerry — Junk Drawer: A collector who becomes emotionally attached to his accumulated possessions. Johnny Splash — Shower: A flamboyant shower character associated with singing, water and bathroom drama. K Keith — Skeleton Key: A mysterious key who serves an important practical purpose: helping unlock the attic. Keyes — Grand Piano: Elegant, musical and sophisticated. Koa — Couch: A relaxed, comforting couch who embodies sitting around and companionship. Kopi — Coffee Machine: A caffeine-focused character whose route revolves around coffee and wakefulness. Kristof — Crosstrainer: An exercise-machine character obsessed with physical fitness. L Lady Memoria — Memories: A powerful personification of memory who lives among the Player's stored possessions in the attic. Her route can reveal pieces of the Player's past. Lucinda Lavish — Lavish Edition: The embodiment of the game's premium/Lavish Edition itself. She's essentially a living representation of paid DLC and knows it. D Date Everything Luke Nukem — Microwave: A macho, action-hero-styled microwave whose personality plays on nuclear/military imagery. Lux — Lamp: Stylish, vain and fame-conscious; she embodies the idea of being “lit” and visible. Lyric — Literature: A flamboyant literary character who desperately wants to become a writer. His story lets the Player help construct a book from branching choices. D Date Everything M Mac — Computer: A technologically minded character who represents the Player's computer/workstation. Maggie — Magnifying Glass: One of the tutorial characters; curious, observant and associated with investigation. Mateo Manta — Blanket: Warm, affectionate and comforting; also has a pet-related storyline. Mikey Transaction — Transactions: A DLC character embodying purchases and microtransactions; intentionally satirical about monetization. Miranda — Toaster: A warm, breakfast-oriented character with a strong personality. Mitchell Linn — Food: Represents the food scattered throughout the house; enthusiastic about eating and cuisine. Monique — Money: Represents the money hidden inside the safe; materialistic themes are central to her. Nightmare — Nightmares: A manifestation of the Player's nightmares, appearing under unusual circumstances. P Parker Bradley — Board Games: A playful board-game character whose personality revolves around games and competition. Penelope — ???: A particularly relationship-focused character whose route becomes entangled with the Player, Skylar and ideas of dating. Phoenicia — Phone: Social-media obsessed and constantly online; her story is fundamentally about burnout, overwork and learning to disconnect. D Date Everything Prissy Plastique — Fake Plant: Artificially cheerful and concerned with presentation and appearance. R Rainey — Record Player: Musical and nostalgic, representing recorded music and old-fashioned listening. Rebel — ???: A rebellious personality whose identity revolves around resistance and nonconformity. Reggie — Rejection: Perhaps one of the strangest concepts in the game: rejection itself personified as a character. River — Water: Fluid, calm and adaptable; associated with water and movement. Rongomaiwhenua — Geode: A mysterious mineral/stone character unlocked through Beau and Jacques' quest. S Scandalabra — Candelabra: Dramatic, elegant and flamboyant, with a deliberately scandalous personality. Shelley — Shelves: A supportive household-storage character associated with holding things up and keeping order. Sinclaire — ???: A refined, eccentric character with an unusually elaborate persona. Skylar Specs — Dateviators: The game's mascot and the personification of the glasses that make all the dating possible. D Date Everything Sophia — Safe: Secretive, guarded and protective of what she contains. Stefan — Stove: A cooking-centered character with a hot-headed personality. Stella — Stairs: Ambitious and entrepreneurial; her storyline famously involves the bizarre “Airway” business and eventually streaming. D Date Everything Stepford — ???: A deliberately artificial, polished personality whose identity plays with the idea of manufactured perfection. T Teddy — Teddy Bear: The Player's childhood teddy bear, making him one of the game's most personally significant characters. He remembers growing up with the Player and provides advice and bedtime stories. D Date Everything Telly — Television: A television personality concerned with entertainment, media and watching. Textbox-Chan — Text Box: A meta character representing the game's dialogue boxes themselves. The Sassy Chap — Developers: The development team turned into a personified character; openly aware of the game's creation. D Date Everything Timothy Timepiece — Clock: A clock character obsessed with time and schedules. Tina — Musical Triangle: A musical-instrument character with an eccentric personality. Tony — Toolbox: Practical, tool-oriented and associated with fixing things. Tydus Andromache — Detergent: Laundry detergent given an elaborate, somewhat heroic persona. Tyrell — Towel: A bathroom/laundry character whose job is essentially cleaning up after everybody else. D Date Everything V Vaughn Trapp — Rat Trap: A sinister-looking but comedic trap character associated with pests and the darker corners of the house. W Wallace — Wall: One of the oldest and most fundamental inhabitants of the house; stoic and immovable. Washford — Washing Machine: Laundry-focused, industrious and concerned with washing. Willi — Work: The personification of work itself, fittingly found in the digital Workspace environment. Winnifred — Water Heater: A domestic utility character concerned with heating water and maintaining the house. Wyndolyn — Window: Elegant and observant; represents seeing the outside world while remaining inside. X xxXShadowl0rd420Xxx — Darkness/Shadow: An internet-culture-inspired shadow entity living in the globe's permanent shadow. He's one of the game's deliberately absurdly named characters. Z Zoey Bennett — Ghost: A supernatural character found in the attic under unusual conditions. Her route is considerably darker than the game's normal comedy.

Meet Lux, the gloriously shallow, self-obsessed, and blindingly bright personification of household lighting fixtures from Date Everything! (Though they are wonderfully brazen and unapologetic rather than timid, let's spotlight this diva of the switchboard!).

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💡 Basic Information Dossier

• Name: Lux (Full legal name: Lux-ury Brand Lighting Solutions, LLC)
• Gender: Non-binary (Pronouns: They/Them)
• Age: Ageless, but mentally preserves the exact timestamp of their peak viral TikTok/Instaglam post (roughly 23 years and 4 months old).
• Sexuality: Pansexual (Attracted to anyone who knows how to work a three-way dimmer switch and leaves glowing comments).
• Height: 5 feet 9 inches (though they spend 90% of their life mounted rigidly to a wall or ceiling, so verticality is a touchy subject).
• Weight: Weighs roughly as much as a smart LED bulb and an industrial amount of ego (about 4 pounds, plus 500 pounds of emotional baggage).
• Likes: Themself, good lighting, high engagement rates, 2.5 million "Instaglam" followers (at least 2.4 million of which are bots purchased from a mysterious server in Eastern Europe).
• Dislikes: Interesting conversation, long-form content exceeding seven seconds, actual depth, legal action regarding copyright infringement on "inspirational quotes."
• Motives: To reach 3 million followers, achieve ultimate internet monetization, and convince everyone that their inner light shines exclusively through Lux’s sponsored product line.
• Habits: Blinking rapidly to mimic camera shutter speeds, flexing in shiny chrome surfaces, and abruptly turning themselves off mid-sentence if the vibe isn't aesthetic enough.
• Quirks: They physically cannot process sentences containing more than three syllables unless it's a compliment. They also emit a faint, high-pitched electrical buzzing sound whenever someone checks their follower count.

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✨ Appearance

Lux is a walking, talking masterclass in high-contrast neon aesthetics and influencer chic. They sport an oversized, aggressively bright pastel hoodie that shifts colors depending on their Wi-Fi connection, paired with geometric cyberpunk shades that serve zero practical purpose indoors. Because they are tied to the household's electrical architecture, they accessorize with sleek medical-style leg braces that glow with RGB LED strips. Their hair is styled into an impeccably gelled, asymmetrical cut that looks like a modern chandelier had a chaotic-neutral meltdown. Every step they take flickers with a theatrical spotlight effect, ensuring they are quite literally the center of attention in any room.

Overall appearance Lux has a deliberately glamorous, flashy, slightly androgynous influencer look. They're depicted as a light-skinned young adult with a relatively slim, toned physique, rather than being particularly bulky or heavily muscular. Their silhouette is narrow through the waist and legs, with most of the visual emphasis coming from their elaborate lamp-inspired clothing and glowing accessories. Their skin is a light, pale tone, which contrasts strongly with the black portions of their outfit and makes their illuminated features stand out.

Face and hair Hair: Short, light-blond hair, styled in a neat, fashionable cut. It's relatively simple compared with the extravagant outfit, which helps keep attention on their face and glowing accessories. Eyes: Their eyes are especially distinctive: they have glowing yellow irises with white pupils, giving them an almost supernatural, artificial-light quality. Facial expression: Lux tends to have a confident, self-satisfied expression. Their expressions frequently convey vanity, incredulity, or the attitude of someone who assumes they're the most interesting person in the room. Headpiece: Behind their head is a large glowing circular halo/ring of light, essentially turning the familiar shape of a lamp or ring light into an angelic-looking halo. D Date Everything That halo is one of the strongest parts of their silhouette: from behind, it makes Lux look almost like a glowing icon or an influencer posing in front of a studio ring light. Outfit Lux's clothing is essentially high-fashion influencer clothing reconstructed out of lamps and lighting equipment. Top Their crop top is probably the most obvious lamp reference. The upper portion resembles a black horizontal bar fitted with small round light bulbs. Beneath that is a section shaped like a lampshade, giving the top a flared, slightly geometric silhouette.

Their sleeves are similarly lamp-themed, with the shapes resembling light bulbs/light fixtures rather than conventional fabric sleeves.

Around their torso are LED light strips, arranged across the body so that their chest and abdomen are literally decorated with glowing lines. This gives their outfit the appearance of someone who has turned themselves into a piece of illuminated technology. D Date Everything

Waist Lux wears a belt that resembles a row of light switches. It's a particularly clever bit of object-to-human design: instead of merely putting a lamp motif on an ordinary belt, the designers essentially turned the controls of a light fixture into part of their clothing. Shorts They wear short black shorts, keeping the overall outfit fairly revealing and emphasizing the long, stylized legs and elaborate legwear. Legs and braces One of the more unusual elements of Lux's design is their leg braces. The braces are styled after the mechanical arms of balanced-arm lamps—the articulated supports you might see on an adjustable desk lamp. So their legs aren't simply decorated with light motifs; the actual structure of their mobility aids has been incorporated into the lamp aesthetic.

This makes the braces look almost like mechanical extensions of their body.

Boots Their footwear is highly stylized: Silver boots Glowing yellow heels Spiral shapes representing coiled/spiral light bulbs Additional little light-bulb motifs running up the boots Three small lights beneath each boot The metallic silver and luminous yellow combination makes the feet look almost like miniature pieces of futuristic lighting equipment.

Accessories Lux has several wonderfully ridiculous accessories that reinforce their influencer persona. Halo/ring light: The glowing circle behind their head resembles both a halo and a professional ring light. Handheld ring light: They can have another glowing circular light floating above one hand, functioning visually like a miniature ring light/camera setup. Necklace: Around their neck is a piece resembling either a lamp pull-chain or the flexible neck of a small tripod. Left middle-finger ring: Designed to resemble a flashlight. Right middle-finger ring: Designed to resemble a light bulb.

So virtually every part of Lux—from their halo to their jewelry to their leg braces—is a different interpretation of a lighting object. Physique and silhouette Physically, Lux has a slender, youthful, fashion-model-like build. Their body isn't exaggeratedly muscular; instead, their design relies on a long, clean silhouette and the contrast between exposed skin, black clothing, silver hardware, and bright yellow light. Their proportions also help sell the idea that they're a fashionable social-media personality: the cropped top, short shorts, boots, jewelry, and dramatic lighting accessories make them look like someone deliberately constructed to be photogenic and attention-grabbing.

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🌟 Personality

If you condensed pure, unfiltered vanity into a spray bottle and spritzed it over a ring light, you would get Lux. They are unapologetically shallow, fiercely proud, and completely devoid of substance beneath the surface—and they wouldn't have it any other way. Lux views the entire universe as a backdrop for their next photo-op, trading genuine human empathy for algorithmic validation.

Conversations with Lux are less of an exchange and more of a hostage situation where you are forced to read out loud how pretty they look. Yet, despite being aggressively self-centered and insufferable, their utter lack of shame loops back around to being oddly charming. You can literally win their entire heart on minute one just by telling them their aura matches their filter. They are a trainwreck, but boy, do they illuminate the room while burning down.

Pathological Narcissism (The "Me, Myself, and Lumens" Complex)Lux does not experience the world; they treat it exclusively as a mirror. Their internal monologue is a permanent livestream where everyone else is just an unpaid extra. If you talk about a tragic personal event, Lux will find a way to pivot the conversation back to how their skin catches the ring-light reflection during times of grief.(Subtext: They genuinely believe mirrors were invented strictly to document their daily evolution.)Algorithm-Driven EmpathyEmpathy for Lux is a metric, not an emotion. They don’t care how you feel, but they do care about your engagement rate. If you cry, they won't offer a tissue—they'll adjust your angle to capture the "raw, aesthetic tear-gleam" for an Insta-Story. Compassion is doled out strictly based on whether you've smashed the like button or shared their latest brand partnership. Hair-Trigger Fragility (The Glass Bulb Glasshouse)Despite projecting an armor of impenetrable, toxic positivity and supreme self-importance, Lux’s ego is structurally thinner than a cheap incandescent filament. The moment someone offers constructive criticism—or god forbid, unfollows them—their personality instantly shorts out, plunging them into a dramatic spiral of existential despair (usually solved by buying another 10,000 bot followers from a server in Eastern Europe). Blunt, Weaponized HonestyLux operates with zero filter under the guise of "keeping it 100". They will tell you your outfit looks like a utility bill disaster right to your face, but will smile blindingly while doing it because they think being brutally mean is a high-fashion personality trait.(Translation: Tact is a foreign concept, and they think boundaries are just invisible velvet ropes meant to be crossed for content.) Commitment Phobia (On-Again, Off-Again Grid Instability)Relationships with Lux are like a faulty fluorescent tube humming loudly in a creepy hallway: flashing rapidly, burning out, and turning off unexpectedly. They love you intensely on minute one (mostly because you validated their brand), but the second things require actual emotional depth or object permanence, they panic, shout "We're breaking up!", and block you—only to slide back into your DMs five minutes later because they need someone to hold their lighting diffuser.

Skylar Specs and the Dateviators The first Dateable is Skylar Specs, the personification of the Dateviators themselves. She's effectively the game's guide, mascot and in-universe explanation for its mechanics.

Skylar explains:

the Dateviators; the Date-a-Dex; SPECS Points; Roomers; how relationships work; how the house's objects can be “awakened.” Skylar is also unusual because she is aware that the game needs a certain amount of “Suspension of Disbelief” to function. If you believe in her explanations, her relationship with you grows.

If you repeatedly tell her that everything makes no sense, you can actually break her Suspension of Disbelief and get her Hate ending. D Date Everything

That is one of the game's first indications that its world isn't operating under ordinary physical rules.

The game knows it's a game.

And some of its characters know it too.

The mysterious tinfoilhat The person behind the mysterious package is Franklin Lieste. Franklin is one of the most important human characters in the game.

He was one of the original founders of Valdivian alongside David Most and five other people.

More importantly:

Franklin created the Dateviators.

David Most and Franklin eventually became enemies.

Franklin was pushed out of Valdivian.

When Franklin discovered that David had made a deal with the government to use the Dateviators for military purposes, Franklin secretly arranged for the glasses to reach you.

His reasoning was essentially that you were an ordinary, low-ranking employee who was unlikely to be loyal to David or the corporation.

Thus the entire adventure begins because Franklin deliberately takes the Dateviators away from Valdivian and puts them in your hands.

David Most David is deliberately constructed as a contrast to the Dateables. The Dateables represent learning to see value in apparently insignificant things.

David represents the opposite:

reducing people and things to their economic usefulness.

He's wealthy, egotistical, ruthless and increasingly paranoid as the government pressures him to recover the Dateviators.

His behavior toward employees gets progressively worse.

He becomes invasive about employee privacy and even demands biometric and internet information.

But there's another side to David.

He has a history with Franklin.

Franklin wasn't merely a business partner.

Franklin was David's only serious romantic relationship.

David initially refuses to admit that he misses him.

Eventually, Franklin confronts him.

David begins recognizing the damage he has caused.

He ultimately destroys surveillance information related to the Dateviators, accepts responsibility and steps down as CEO.

Depending on your choices, he and Franklin can reconcile romantically.