#Monark Protagonist

[devilofthehounds]

Petit Monark Issue 28: White Day Originally posted March 14, 2022 (source) This is a fan translation. Monark Official Website Petit Monark Tag

[image id: A four-panel comic based on the video game Monark.

Panel 1: Shinya is talking to the protagonist; both look worried. A faded image of Nozomi is in the background. Nozomi: "We're looking forward to your White Day gifts." Nozomi SFX: Heheh! Shinya: "...is what she said, but what should we do?" Protagonist: "......"

Panel 2: The scene shifts to Ryotaro whisking something in a large metal bowl. Ryotaro: "A true man isn't satisfied until he pays back his debts. So I, Ryotaro Date..." SFX: whisk whisk Shinya: "Don't be so dramatic, it's not that big a deal."

Panel 3: Ryotaro presents his creation: a tart in the shape of a rabbit. Ryotaro: "Take that!" Ryotaro SFX: Bunny Tart! SFX: Bam! Shinya: "So cute..." Shinya: "N-No way! How is there such a huge gap between us?!"

Panel 4: Ryotaro wipes under his nose in embarrassment. Shinya holds a bunny tart in disbelief. The protagonist eats a bunny tart in the background. Ryotaro: "Just tell them you guys made it." Ryotaro: "It's kind of embarrassing..." Shinya: "They wouldn't believe the truth anyway."

© FuRyu Corporation. By: Pudding à la Mode

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[derpu-doodles]

woe, Protag be upon ye

[letsbeartists]

信仰のヴァイスロイ、フィデス！Happy Second Anniversary of Monark!

[satoshi-mochida]

FuRyu announces school life RPG VARLET for PS5, Switch, and PC - Gematsu

Publisher FuRyu and developer AQURIA have announced school life RPG VARLET for PlayStation 5, Switch, and PC (Steam, Epic Games Store). It will launch on August 28 worldwide.

In Japan, the PlayStation 5 and Switch versions will be available both physically and digitally for 7,980 yen (8,778 yen after tax). A Limited BOX will also be available for 12,680 yen (13,948 yen after tax), which includes an original box, 80-page creative art book, the special album CDs “Character Vocal Side” and “Original Soundtrack Side,” an A5-size canvas board, a code to download the protagonist outfits from Monark and The Caligula Effect 2, and an original sticker.

Here is an overview of the game, via FuRyu:

VARLET draws upon FuRyu’s experience developing immersive, story-driven games, and will challenge players to explore the duality of their own nature as they navigate the perilous high school halls. Welcome within the halls of Kousei Academy, the first school to implement the cross-reality, virtual reality network known as “Johari,” which is used for everything from finding basic information and making purchases to serving as a social networking and messaging app. The app has resulted in a marked increase in users desire for approval and attention amongst peers, and soon an urban legend begins circulating about users disappearing into otherworldly “Glitches” if those desires grow too strong. And worse yet, monsters inhabiting the “Glitches” are said to replace users in the real world leaving everyone none the wiser.

The protagonist soon discovers that this urban legend is very real and some students have already been replaced by monsters, forcing them to take a stand. As a member of the Student Support Services (SSS), a guild dedicated to solving the academy’s troubles, players must guide their friends, strengthen bonds, and fight to protect the school from impending doom. However, navigating these relationships comes with its own challenges—getting too close to multiple people may lead to unexpected consequences. At the core of VARLET‘s experience is its dynamic Triad Stats system, which shapes character progression based on player choices. These six distinct attributes are divided between Light and Dark Triad traits, influencing dialogue options and passive battle skills. Light Triad stats emphasize morality, sympathy, and altruism, while Dark Triad stats lean into Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and narcissism. Players will determine their true nature, either as a guiding leader who uplifts and empowers allies in battle or as a ruthless ruler wielding immense power even at a personal cost.

The game’s staff includes:

-Character Theme Song Composers

Daibakuhashin

Hitoshizuki and Yamasankakkei

KANON69

NILFRUITS

OSTER project

Tadano Kede / A4.

wotaku

Yoshida Yasei

-Background Music: Tsukasa Masuko

-Scenario: Gakuto Mikumo, Ryutaro Ito

-Scenario Editing: Kazunari Suzuki

-Series Original Work: Fuyuki Hayashi

-Production: FuRyu

-Development: AQURIA

-Produce and Direction: Hideaki Ito

-Direction: Takashi Muto

An “Announcement Presentation” live stream will premiere on April 25 at 5:00 a.m. PT / 8:00 a.m. ET / 21:00 JST, featuring the premiere of the opening movie and the latest information on the game with the voice cast. You will be able to watch it on YouTube.

Watch the announcement trailer and music sample videos below. View the first screenshots at the gallery. Visit the official website here: English, Japanese.

Announce Trailer

English

Japanese

Theme Song / Soundtrack Sample Video (Special Mini Album CD)

Background Music Sample Video (Special Mini Album CD)

[livitaexe]

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DISCLAIMER: If you're a minor or someone who has 'Proshippers DNI' somewhere on your blog, I'd really rather you not interact, because while I do not write incest or minor/adult ships, I may age up minor characters (especially if I don't agree with their canonical age) and may write stuff like dub-con or orientation play.

Hello, my name is Livita (or Livi for short) and I'm a hobbyist who writes a little bit of everything, from reader inserts, Canon/Canon ships, smut fics, SFW fics, and gen fics (though I mostly happen to write reader inserts). To be honest, as this is meant to be a more casual space for me to interact with other writers/readers, promote my stuff, and muse about characters in imaginary situations/scenarios, I probably won't be posting full on fics here, but I may post snippets of what I'm currently working on.

I'm also selectively open to requests, because if a premise interests me enough, I may want to eventually write it, but I personally won't be accepting any requests that features dominant readers (unless they're male), readers with specific appearances, femdom/malesub, M/M smut, pegging, scat, anal fisting, sounding, rimming with a male character being on the receiving end, incest, minor/adult ships, non-AFAB readers (unless they're a cis male paired with a female character, I guess), vore, prolapse, and wound fucking. Of course, there might be more, but that's all I can think of off the top of my head at the moment.

Honestly, requests featuring rape will be on a case to case basis, because most of the time, non-con does not interest me as I much prefer writing goonette readers/female characters who want the 2D men I'm writing about, but if there's an element of humiliation to it (like reader being forced to squirt in front of a crowd for example), I could see myself giving it a try. Dub-con is fine, though!

Mind you, I don't mind F/F, but when it comes to smut, I find it easiest to write for M/F pairings just because what I find most hot at the moment is maledom/femsub. Humiliation is also a pretty big staple of mine, so you can expect to find a lot of it in my smut. I also really like inventing all sorts of reader insert characters with specific personality traits and backstories due to the fact I enjoy imagining 2D boys with all sorts of nameless women.

And while all my reader-inserts are written in the 2nd POV. there might be instances where I would use Y/N in dialogue just because most of the characters I'll be writing about are Japanese, to the point where they aren't the type to use nicknames. For convenience's sake, though, the reader insert character of my fic, 'Love When You're Used', will be referred to as Yayoi Ibara in asks while the reader insert character in my 'Fifty Shades of Biwasaka Eiji' series will be referred to as Ruri Saegusa instead of 'Reader-chan' in asks.

Fandoms I'm In/May Write for:

Granblue Fantasy, Persona ( specifically 3 & 4 ), Monark, The Caligula Effect, Spirit Hunter ( Death Mark & NG ), Kara no Shoujo ( Girl in the Shell ), The House in Fata Morgana, Metaphor Refantazio

Favourite Characters to Write For:

Kensuke Hibiki ( The Caligula Effect ). Eiji Biwasaka ( The Caligula Effect: Overdose ), Shinjiro Aragaki ( Persona 3 ), My OC. Goonette/deranged weirdo readers.

multi-chapter fics.

Love When You're Used — Female Reader/Aragaki Shinjiro. The reader in this is hypersexual as a result of a troubled past and is very much Devil Arcana-coded. Now has it's own master post.

Memoirs of a Wild Card: Momotomi Iroha — An OC-centric gen fic exploring Persona 4 with a Female Protagonist, but instead of being a retelling, the story is a character study that focuses more on her troubled upbringing and the Social Links she has (aka her relationships with other characters). Sex is mentioned, to be honest, but no smut is really present due to the fact Iroha is on the aroace spectrum.

[review-anon]

Hey mod I wanna say a like a week back I sent a long ass ask. On the game Monark if you see it feel free to ignore it. I feel it was too long eve for me.

But to get on Monark again. The premise of the game is "Controlling the madness" and how far one would descend into madness for their own selfish ego and for the ones they love. Would they be willing to cause chaos in the world. As the game Monark shows in its main cast. Sometimes even kind hearted people will say screw the world for the sake of a love one.

While this is rightfully selfish you still find yourself invested and rooting. For those characters it's neat

-Villain anon

//Love is a powerful force, as powerful as hate.

//And it can warp you into terrible things, I don't think I need to explain how the whole reason Anakin became Darth Vader was due to his fiancee dying.

//Not played Monark so I can't really commend but I believe this is where Moral Mystopia can play into view as people tend to have double standards for the protagonists.

//I would say more here but eh spoilers for later but you will see how love can make someone go mad.

//And not just the yanderes.

[sylvich]

Redraw of an old art

I didn't realize how much time had passed until I counted... Can call it a progress, I guess.

[jupiter-mokusei]

Monark 1st Anniversary 10/14 2022

Always I Love This Game!!

[zombie-dumplings]

Ma'am I dont think this an appropriate question to be asking your new highschool student!

[yusuke-of-valla]

Do you think Joker being a silent protagonist/player surrogate hurts P5 story in any way cause for me, it's why Akechi is an awful rival, or why the romances don't work or why Shido isn't as engaging to beat as it should be.

Oh yeah definitely. I think so many things are hurt by Joker not being able to express like coherent and consistent opinions?

Like he and Akechi can’t really debate because Akechi mostly talks at the player and it’s not a compelling back and forth

Although I think in general Persona 5 has a problem where characters don’t have real agency and not in an intentional way I mean in a “none of the choices matter because deciding to choose a target is always supplemented with the threat of Joker being arrested thus making any moral or ethical qualms characters have pointless because even if they are concerned they’re going to be arrested”

And this sort of compounds because at the same time everything has to come down to Joker and the Player which is why I hate the bad ending of the Third Semester so much, because even though everyone just finished talking about how they want to make their own decisions and whatnot, the choice is still ultimately Jokers and Joker can’t have an opinion on that. Like, it’s bullshit

Of course I might not be the best person to ask because there are very few silent protagonists I actually like (Undertale, Deltarune, uh the guy from Monark) and for the most part even in games I like with silent protagonists I usually end up feeling like things would be improved if they weren’t silent (Byleth)

So you might want to ask someone else because I can’t really say if Persona 5 is a good or bad example of a silent protagonist because I tend to dislike them as a default

[pheonyxian]

Bloop, dealers choice

Ank has a large number of siblings, some older and some younger. Functionally he has an unlimited number of siblings, as I started a bit of a trend of giving Atlus protagonists his last name if I lacked a better idea. So three of his known siblings are modeled after the Persona 5 protag, the SMT 5 protag, and the Monark protag (even if it’s not technically an Atlus game.) They joined a rebellion group fighting against the evil organization Ank is a part of, so there’s some love lost.

[devilofthehounds]

[image id: An edited version of the "'Whatcha got there?' 'A smoothie.'" meme, featuring characters from Monark. In the first panel, images of Chiyo Aikawa and Nozomi Hinata are overlaid on top of Sam and Carly respectively, the caption reading "Um... whatcha got there?" In the second panel, images of Ryotaro Date and the protagonist are overlaid on top of an ostrich and Spencer respectively, the caption reading "A smoothie." /end id.]

My first playthrough, I made a beeline for the second-year building as soon as the game let me.

[derpu-doodles]

he boye <3 (aka my sister got a niche game and I became mildly invested)

update I am now Very invested (not enough to override the Dangan hyperfixation but Hot Damn These Guys Be Bouncin Round My Head Like An Idle DVD)

[fluri-above-all]

Do you know by any chance if you can be gay in Monark xD

I still don't know

I am not 100% sure as I just started the game today. Would be nice! But NIS doesn't seem to allow joy in any of its games with homoerotic undertones so I am doubting it. But if I find out otherwise I will let you know! I just met Shinya and I can't help but notice the subtext and music when the protagonist speaks in scenes with Dr. Hasegawa, so I feel a bit baited atm. Lol!! Along with terrified every time a Death Call goes off. Enjoying myself so far, but like I said I will see!

[ravenoftheskyes]

The Monark Twitter Account posted this art, as well as an announcement that Monark and Caligula 2 will be collaborating. There will be costumes of Regret and the Protagonist in Monark as Pre-Order bonuses, shown here.

[satoshi-mochida]

Monark, the “new school RPG” from former Megami Tensei and Shin Megami Tensei staff, will launch for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Switch on October 14 in Japan for 8,470 yen, the latest issue of Weekly Famitsu reveals.

The game’s staff is as follows:

Planning, Production, and Direction: Fuyuki Hayashi, Mitsuhiro Hoshino

Scenario: Fuyuki Hayashi, Ryutaro Ito

Scenario Supervision and Cooperation: Kazunari Suzuki, Aya Nishitani

Character Design: so-bin

Background Music: Tsukasa Masuko

Developer: Lancarse

Publisher: FuRyu

The protagonist is voiced by Gakuto Kajiwara. The stuffed rabbit character is voiced by Shigeru Chiba.

The story follows the True Student Council, which was established to solve the abnormal situations in the school. The protagonist, who becomes the deputy head of the council, chooses a buddy from four characters to defy the unreasonable.

The main story has multiple endings. There are different routes for each of the four buddy characters. To make multiple playthroughs easier, you can also skip shared routes and advance through different buddy routes.

Battles are command-based with a free move turn system. Increasing your madness will allow you to use more powerful skills, but if you increase it too much, you will go insane and rampage against targets both friend and foe, making it impossible to fight.

There is also an “EGO” system, which represents the player’s desire levels of pride, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. These change depending on your diagnosis and the choices you make, and also affect the demons you can employ as your “underlings.”

Underlings’ appearances and voices can be customized.

The magazine also has an interview with the developers. Here are some key tidbits:

Hayashi and Hoshino: “We got excited talking about Shin Megami Tensei IF, and how nowadays there are no games like it, so we constructed the prototype for Monark with consideration for the world view and atmosphere we thought important to preserve in a school RPG project.”

Haysashi: “I can’t thank [the creators who joined the project sensing mine and Hoashino’s enthusiasm] enough. The chemistry with the other creators was there and we were able to develop the game with the idea team.”

Suzuki: “While I’m participating in the project as a supervisor, I hve been able to give detailed advice to Hayashi and Ito, who are writing the scenario.”

Ito: “I worked on the stories for 100 students.”

Masuko: “I worked on about 40 songs.”

Both the four-minute debut trailer and six-minute background music introduction video for Monark are scheduled to premiere on June 10 at 12:00 JST.

Visit the teaser website here.

Update 10:55 a.m.: Here are the first screenshots and box art, via @Renka_schedule:

https://imgur.com/a/QgX5E1O