When I first read Vampire Dairies premise, I thought it was something boring, but after I tried to watch if five seasons later, I grew to like it a lot. Teenage drama and romance can be surprisingly compelling and emotional. But I digress.
Monsterhearts interested me instantly, I’ve heard about it.
So, I have a question, is there a playbook that represent/mirror/draw it’s inspiration from asexuality, demisexuality, aromanticism? Because, if anything can make teenage drama even more confusing, it’s someone, who ignores every rule and trips every wire without noticing it.
Imagine growing up, as you do, with your usual hobbies, friends and routines, but everyone is changing around you. You might not even notice it. At first, or at all. You change as well, of course, but your change is subtle, you might not even see it as a change. Everyone else is different. You might think of yourself, as the only sane (hu)man around.
You may think, that you see the world for what is, yet in other’s eyes – you’re the one blind. Child? Innocent? Alien? You are in middle of dangerous game, yet not aware of it. You don’t play. You don’t know, what the rules are and can’t even comprehend, when exlplicitly told of them.
When you do have relationships, you think of them as friendships, though, there can be different kinds of friendships for you. Sometimes, you don’t even know, what those relationships exactly are aside from knowing, what they aren’t.
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Thoughts?
Have you checked the Neighbor from Jackson Tegu’s Second skins ?
Kalysto de la vacuité not yet…
Looks interesting.
I take it’s not finished yet? It’s hard to judge by one move and short intro.
I’d suggest the Unicorn, another Second Skin.
Where I can see it? My google-fu shows me nothing, other than Kickstarter.
The Unicorn.
Problem is I don’t think you can find/buy it for now (and kickstarter is not fully delivered)
Well, that went nowhere… But thanks, anyway.
Maybe, you have your own suggestions/ideas?
Perhaps Jackson Tegu can help as to whether The Unicorn is or will be publicly available.
I’m sorry, Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, the Second Skins project is not publicly available yet. If you’d like to send an email to me: of.lightning at google’s email service (which is gmail) dot com, I’ll let you know when it becomes available. Won’t be too long now (but still a while.)
Thanks for talking about my stuff you guys! Sorry that I couldn’t actually deliver yet…
I’d take a look at The Hollow. Since you’re newly created, you have no idea how to respond to, well, anything, really.
The Unicorn comes sort of close, but as an asexual myself I feel like it doesn’t quite do it. Unicorn is more about actively avoiding sex and trying to rise above high school drama, whereas asexuality isn’t a choice.
Honestly the Neighbor is probably your best bet; especially if you emphasize the monster-as-metaphor-for-sexuality. Everyone else is dealing with it except you, and you just deal with the fallout of being obliviously adjacent to all these scary changes. Moves like Mixed Signals, Lucky I Guess, and Nap Fan mean you’re always stumbling into the romantic/horrifying drama even if you aren’t generating it yourself.
I’ve also run an demiromantic Calaca and an asexual Prometheus, both were pretty successful.
Sydney Marsing Thank you, graciously. I’ll note it.
Here, have a slice of this delicious cake:
http://goo.gl/wVFfiQ ;p
There’s a potential revised draft of Monsterhearts in the offing that will feature asexual options.