@segasister inquired: For mun: what are your ships?
To start off, there are two running themes people will notice in my ships: that I ship Miranda with a LOT of people, and tend to avoid shipping the PCs with anyone. It’s not that I totally dislike the PCs, but rather… I guess in them not really having any personalities to find within the game itself, I just find them much less compelling than every other character. I also just trend away from enjoying the PCs for that reason. I suppose they’re nice, but there’s nothing really to work with for them.
That said, my first ship and, honestly, main OTP for Monster Prom is: the poly ship. All of the PCs with all of the ROs in a big poly puddle. I’m a major poly shipper regardless, so this one was kind of a given, and particularly on the ROs’ ends, they work together so wonderfully and beautifully that it’s easy to imagine that they’re all already dating one another, and the PCs are just wanting to join the cuddle pile!
My second OTP, and the one I indulge most often though… Is Miranda x Liam. I’m predictable and I’ve loved their ship ever since I was first introduced to Monster Prom! There’s just something about how Liam tries to act all high and mighty yet genuinely cares, and Miranda’s dogged determination in including him in things and genuinely caring for him too. They’re just so sweet together, and they have one of my favorite things in any ship where they can learn from and grow from each other! It’s a specific kind of thing where two people can have their disagreements and even their fights, but be able to come back together and fix the wrongs and for them to both make the other into a better person. Liam’s seen a lot of stuff in the world, and has seen the downfalls of many empires and kingdoms, and can assist Miranda in a way that she sincerely needs, while Miranda has the optimism and simple joy to see the bright side and beauty in things. Hell, when I first saw the Prom King route, I was sure that Miranda was planning to ask Liam to Prom at the end, but… PC got asked along to be Prom Royalty instead.
I also have ships that do get preferential treatment, though they aren’t my cream-of-the-crop OTPs, so here they are, a bit more rapidfire:
Miranda x Valerie. Honestly this ship is right behind the other two OTPs in how much I love it, and it’s entirely @necrodanger‘s fault with their (former) Val blog. Val’s honestly the single other character who has gotten the closest to Miranda, excluding Bellanda, and I kept the word/term ul’kiha from those roleplays!
Miranda x Eden. He may be an OC but @sacred-songbird knows how much I love these nerds together and how beautifully they work.
Polly x Faith. Tam knows what they’ve done and good GOD I love these two ladies together. The Coven is SO underappreciated and though canon paints the two as just friends with benefits, they genuinely work so well together and I LOVE mutual pining with neither party wanting to make a move out of fear of ruining their relationship. Love them.
Miranda x Damien. Since I’m a sucker for childhood friendship turned romantic, and also just the two being able to bond over the stressors of royal life and have an escape from it. I’m still wholly convinced that these two are one of the devs’ secret canon ships, and though it’s yet to be proven true, I have my suspicions.
Miranda x Calculester. @mindsmelded has SOLD ME on this ship. Calc is so wonderfully optimistic and bright and Miranda… Miranda has so many expectations and burdens and honestly there’s all the reason in the world for Cal to realize that Miranda is everything they stand against, and yet she has an anchor in them and is being given a new way to look at the world in a way that REALLY helps her. Nothing quite summarizes them like this one ask, of Miranda wearing Calc’s shirt with ‘ fragile but alive ’ on it. Just. God I never imagining liking this ship as much as I do.
And here’s the other ships that I really do love, buuuut maybe don’t get a full explanation!