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Caroline

Starting off the Top 5, coming in right after Abigail, it's Abigail's Mom -- Caroline! What can I say about Caroline? She's great. Super sweet, nice, outgoing, vibrant, and romantic. She's also what I consider among the most attractive women in Stardew Valley. The only drawback to her having all of these attractive qualities is, well, she's already married. Somehow, she's married to Pierre. Even though he seems not to give much of a shit about her. Yikes... ConcernedApe, Why?

I think Caroline is a victim of societies' obsession with the idea that younger women are more attractive. It's like when I'm playing Harvest Moon and I want to marry Nina but I can only marry Popuri. I mean, Abigail is fine, but damn. I would really prefer to marry someone like Caroline if they had just made her single and available for marriage. It's weird that the developers don't get this.

The closest we probably have in Stardew Valley would be Emily, and to be fair, she is ranked higher on this very list.



Caroline is a little on the difficult end to befriend. Her movement schedule is pretty consistent and constrained to a very narrow range, so that's good. The problem is that her taste in gifts is a little more picky than some others. I never bothered to test out if she likes Quartz -- if she does, then it's probably not as bad as I'm thinking. But otherwise she tends to get annoyed when you give her the same foraged items that are liked by many of the other characters.

Obviously gifting her cheap farm grown gifts like Parsnip is the best option without going out of your way to track down her favorite gifts, but this is a process that requires a bit of extra effort, time, and cuts into your profits. Not always the easiest thing to do in year 1.

In summer you can grow Summer Spangle for Caroline, this is usually the best option if you want to befriend her quickly within the first year.

Caroline suffers from having fewer lines, fewer cutscenes, and fewer face portraits compared to all of the marriage candidates. Despite all of those handicaps she was still able to rank this highly on the list. The fact that she's always in a good mood, brings positive energy to me whenever I talk to her, but isn't overbearing or too outgoing is probably my favorite thing about Caroline. Her personality type really feels 'just right' in the goldilocks sense. She's laid back but always in a good mood.

Her trivia on the wiki page is pretty funny. Apparently she sends you the recipe for Parsnip Soup, which is one of Pierre's hated gifts. LMAO. Also she talks about helping Evelyn out in the public garden, but she's never seen helping Evelyn even one time, ever. And she will say lines about the weather being nice even if it's raining outside. Obviously these minor text glitches just add to her unique charm.



The new tea event is pretty weird, but that is standard fare for Stardew Valley. I like that you can grow tea now even if I'm not sure what the point of it is yet. I haven't messed around with it enough to know if it's profitable, or if you can use it for something else... or if the only point is to give it to Caroline as a gift, and maybe others who like tea. Either way, there's a lot of crops in the game that you'd probably only grow if you wanted to do it, so adding more options is something I'm always okay with. It adds more variety to the game.

But man, to come back to my main point and harp on it once more. Remember when I said marrying Sandy would be neat but it's not like I'd bother starting a new file just to check this feature out? I'm pretty sure if they made it possible to marry Caroline I would start a new file as soon as that update became available.

The fact that Caroline takes every day off, never really does anything, and even brags about how she is 'relaxing for the day' every single day for entire season doesn't even bother me. I mean, I've complained about some of the leech spouses in the past, but if Caroline wanted to do nothing except hang out and drink tea I'd be fine with that. She is just that good.

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