#i just think itd be cute if the big bad scary fear demon was a total softy for his person (and terrifying to everyone else)

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Oh mi gosh they match each other's freaks i love it. (Ngl when the reveal happened my first thought was...oh God Sweetie really brought their 'date' to get killed.)

Now I'm just imagining that their date nights are binging scary movies and ranking them. Or going to haunted houses. Sweetie's favorite month being October because there are more scary attractions they can go to, they go all out for Halloween.

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Random moment of blabber about my dumb dating sim idea cos for some reason all this fandom for New Spoiler Thing has got me more hyped up to work on my totally unrelated original stories? I guess it just always inspires me to see how toby fox achoeved his dreams and i wanna fight for my dreams too! Tho also on the other hand its a lil discouragibg cos i know this is the Big News so this would be a bad time to post a bunch of stuff about like..anything else. So maybe still try and practise drawing my stuffs but save it til next week to post them?

Anyway! About the game!

I just had a bit of a good moment of wrangling my way through a block in the story. Kind of a minor thing but i was having problems because..i like monster boys...? Like here is a dating sim about a monster boy who is sad about being a monster boy but of course since i am the oc creator who made him in the first place of course i think he's cute and perfect. So my first draft just has the love interest accepting him immediately and like all his paranoia about being rejected was completely unfounded. And i feel like maybe thats a wasted opportunity? Like would it actually decrease the catharsis of the moment if it felt like it was saying "you were dumb for worrying, dude"?? So now i'm just thinking what if the love interest actually IS scared of monster-bae, and also didny just like.. Guess it long before he confessed it, so everything just gets wrapped up super perfectly with minimal angst. Maybe instead he just knew that his friend was hiding SOME sort of secret, and kinda.. Guessed correctly on all the relevant effects of this secret but not what it actually is? "Oh god he's looking so sick and he keeps acting like he's gonna go away forever, fuck i need to save up to find a doctor holy shit" when no actually he's just a vampire and he's been planning to like.. Literally leave. Because he thinks he doesnt deserve happiness or belong amoung normal humans. And then there could be horrible misunderstandings cos what if love interest sees his full-on monster form and is like "fuck, youre the one who did this to him!" And then monster boy is like "well i wanna die anyway, and this way he'll never have to know the truth" so he pretends to be a villain and just accepts his fate. And even if you manage to play it all right and solve the mystery and get them to talk it out, love interest wouls still react with fear when he first finds out, and monster boy might jump to the wrong conclusions and run away. Like "you're scared of me!" "Yes! But that's my fault, not yours!" He doesnt know how to deal with someone who sees his true self and still chooses to stay. And someone whose fear turns to love at the sight of his face. So much god damn relief!! "Oh thank god youre just a demon, i thought you were DYING!" *so much goddamn smoochies of the bat boy*

Anyway yeah, thats my thought. Do indeed have some of the angst, even if its still "as soon as he realizes the monster is actually the man he loves, he realizes his fear was unfounded". It could just be another good way to show alternate perspectives when you play as each character? Like one of them talks about how scared he is of the monster on the mountain, and how he's scared he cant protect his sick friend from it. And then the other is seemingly obsessed with hating this thing, moby dick style, until you find out it literally is him and the entire time he was just being super hard on himself. And then you get to see both of these false perspectives clash with each other in the final act, and ultimately shatter to reveal just a sad lonely monsterboy who didnt want to lose the man he loved. And then we can finally get to the sweet acceptance and domestic romanceys, but it'll feel better for being earned!

...also i STILL NEED TO SETTLE ON A FINAL DESIGN FOR THIS DAMN MONSTERBOY. All i know is that he should have some sort of bigger monster form cos i find it hard to even really see something like a humanoid with wings as really "scary" at all. He needs to be a 50 foot tall dragon or a satan bat or a skeleton ghost or something. But still can do a halfway transformation for the cute monsterboy aesthetic, yknow? And i was leaning towards either "ice ghost" cos yknow cursed mountain and all, or vampire cos that'd have all the negative symptoms that'd make sense to be misinterpreted as illness. So either that or some other type of monster that has to consume blood or soul energy or something, and looks all pale and corpsey when its gone thru 15 years of trying to hide as a human and being half starved. But regular vampires are definately in the "not scary just a regular human wjth bits glued on" category, so itd have to be some sort of interesting design for them. Like a real grody gnarly giant bat monster that can just disguise itself as a human? Also it would be really cute in the happy ending to have your boyfriend cooking some fancy blood recipes or something, to show how much he loves ya! Like, not just romance hapoiness but also our monsterboy's life is just generally a lot better cos he doesnt have to hide himself and can just buy pig's blood at the butcher. Healthful in body and soul! ALSO MOSTLY THE ROMANCENESS, YES.

Anyeay lol those were my Thoughts