Exposed in My First Run of Monster Prom

Are you guys going absolutely fucking nuts in quarantine? Maybe I'm just deeply on the struggle bus because I live by myself, but holy shit did my ass fall into a huge depressive wave that I'm only just starting to doggy paddle out of thanks to a weekend manic episode that's still kind of happening.

Said mania is more than likely what led me to purchase two more otome games despite being in the midst of Togainu no Chi and Kissed by the Baddest Bidder on top of having a weekend playdate with my sister to play Monster Prom. I mean I guess you could say I'm just a hardcore high-femme gamer right now. Next stop, Overwatch League! LMFAO.

But today we're talking very briefly (I mean it!) about Monster Prom, which ended up being way more fun than I anticipated and called my ass out for being fujoshi trash from the word go!

For those that don't know, Monster Prom is a competitive dating sim set in a fictionalized monster high school, where your main objective is to obtain a date to prom with a monster bf or gf. You can play from the perspective of four monster main characters, two of which are stylized male and two of which are stylized female, so it can be either a hetero/otome-ish or gay/BL-ish experience depending on how you're feeling.

These are monsters, though, so you're really deciding whether you wanna be femme or masc in the grand scheme. It's a very non-binary gender friendly game since you can read gender and sexuality characterizations into your main character of choice depending on how much you want to project the self or how much you want to strictly role play/assume a persona. So, that's really cool and is honestly ideal for me as someone who now plays both BL and otome games.

In my playthroughs of Monster Prom so far—one run takes 30 minutes to an hour, which makes it seem infinitely replayable for a dating sim—I've been playing as a "girl" because I really liked one of the feminine MC's designs and, as you can tell by the sheer number of otome games I have queued up to play in my spare hours, I'm kind of having a moment in which:

In my first run-through I wanted to go for Liam because he's a glasses hottie, which is how I found "myself" in a situation in which I was unexpectedly exposed as a fujoshi.

My trait-determining quiz before the gameplay set me up to go for Damien (devil boy) or Liam (vampire hipster), so I found myself in a lot of positions where my "wrong" answer for one could be the "right" answer for the other. Minding my own business in theater one day, these two walk up to me while I'm apparently drawing some erotic friend-fiction of them:

Sorry for the redactions, but I used my IRL nickname in the playthrough and I'm still doing my best to have a separate online persona here just to recapture what that's even like anymore. My guess is I'll give up at some point, but let me at least try for now.

Since I was still going for Liam at this point (mistake), I was later expected to teach him the fine art of yaoi lmaolmaolmao. This is the point where I let my headspace get wayyy too synced up to the MC and I instinctively went for the first (and wrong) answer because:

1. I do believe that "yaoi is all about tenderness" and
2. Liam is an uber hipster and seemed like he would hate a reference to a movie as mainstream as Titanic:

In retrospect, I should have paid much more attention to the latter half of that first option because it was an obscene come-on that was The Most for what was at the time very early in our budding romance. I completely overlooked the invitation to physically cuddle even though there was considerable time for me to process the pick-up on account of I took a fucking screenshot. Ahh! Mistakes were made. Unsurprisingly I got rejected:

It all ended up being fine, though, because Damien turned out to be the one for me. I decided I just had to have him and played twice more with my sister and twice all on my lonesome in order to get him. All in all, my best impression of Anne Boleyn to date: Ainsi sera, groigne qui groigne, baby!

So, yeah, that's it; I just thought it was funny and tangentially relevant here lol! In my little post summary I said the Beautiful Glitch team paid homage to my teen self without realizing because I'm a bit of an original BL-only kinda bitch these days, whereas teenage me was a double-duty shipping/fanwork yaoi and original BL fan.

I think the only yaoi fanwork that I still re-read today is Zaria's Defeat of Man because the art and story are fucking impeccable even if it reminds me that I was once a cringe af Hetalia stan. The reason I'm not double-duty anymore probably comes down to the fact that I lack fandoms with appealing gay ships these days. Plus, original BLs are like if my first love, romance novels, and my second love, yaoi, had a baby, so even if I did acquire a for-realsies fandom today, my bet is I'd still favor BL at this point in my life.

This wasn't a full-on review or anything, but I do gots to say that I love Monster Prom so far. I'm finishing out my remaining Togainu no Chi cursed routes so I can play for Shiki bae this weekend at the latest and I'm trying to catch a scorpion in ACNH, so playing Monster Prom much more this week is kind of off the table, but I'll definitely be back for more soon!

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