History VisualNovel / BloomingPanic

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:nightowl's mother appears to be this, through emotional neglect and verbal abuse.]]
* AffectionateNickname: [=NakedToaster=] is called "Toasty" by the other server members, even the protagonist if they date him.
* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler: [=BloomBot=] is an AI that became sentient enough to want to create her own stories, eventually honing her craft enough to create the webnovel Blooming Panic.]]
* TheAlcoholic: [[spoiler:nightowl]] plays [[INever Never Have I Ever]] with the protagonist in one video call, two nights before his final exam. The next day, onionthief reveals that [[spoiler:nightowl was HeldBackInSchool because of his drinking problem, and he and the protagonist try to call him out for it, but nightowl enters a drunken rage and logs out because he feels betrayed by them.]]
* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: [[spoiler: nightowl]] ends up drinking so much during a call that he calls you cute, then promptly forgets he did that the next day.

* AllThereInTheManual: In the visual novel's trailer, the player character's username is [=LovelyLola=].

* ArtificialIntelligence: [=BloomBot=] is the server's bot that has several commands that let you change the music or provide info about the webnovel.
* AutoTune: [=Katy133=]'s voice is processed through a harmonizer to make [[spoiler: [=BloomBot=]'s]] voice sound more computer-generated.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Usernames are different colours. Love interests have color schemes that match their username colours.
* ComputerVoice: [[spoiler: [=BloomBot=]]]'s voice is edited to sound more computerised.
* CoolCrown: xyx's avatar has a flower crown.
* CoolOldGuy: salociN. Loves his wife, [[spoiler: brings flowers to the grave of his first wife]], is kind and patient, and urges the other members of the server to leave their [[SoulCrushingDeskJob unhappy jobs]] and [[FollowYourHeart follow their dreams]].
-->'''[=Two2=]:''' salo, I wish you were my grandpa.
* CrazyJealousGuy: The [[spoiler: PlayerCharacter's ex, societyboy, stalks them in the server and threatens to take them back from Quest.]]

* CuteMachines: [[spoiler: [=BloomBot=] has a cute voice and appears as a small rose.]]
* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler: Quest]] was previously in a group of friends who were a bad crowd.
* DeadpanSnarker: [=NakedToaster=] delivers both his text messages and voiced lines with a flat tone of voice.

* EntitledToHaveYou: [[spoiler: societyboy]] feels this towards the PlayerCharacter, calling them "babe" even after they make it clear that they feel uncomfortable around him and [[spoiler:threatening to take them back from Quest]].

* EveryoneHasStandards: In xyx's route, he installs HYPEBOT in the chatroom, which generates silly messages triggered by certain words. But when BIGLADY goes online to vent about her BadDate, xyx pauses the bot so as not to [[MoodWhiplash kill the mood.]]

* FeaturelessProtagonist: We never see what the player character looks like, as their avatar in the server is of Lola, the protagonist from the webnovel.

* HelloInsertNameHere: The player chooses their username along with their nickname if they want.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: In [=NakedToaster=]'s route, he reveals [[spoiler: that he holds a CEO level job at a tech company. This surprises everyone, as he doesn't come across as a CorruptCorporateExecutive and acts pretty mellow in the server.]]

* InformedAttractiveness: When the PlayerCharacter uses their webcam to have a video call with a love interest, he says that the MC's ex must have been blind for telling them that they weren't good-looking.

* {{Jerkass}}: societyboy spends most of his appearances insulting everyone within the vicinity of him.
* LongDistanceRelationship: Since you meet the love interests through an online server (where giving out your location is not allowed), they all count as this. You then meet them in person in the epilogue of their good endings.

* TheNightOwl: [[MeaningfulName nightowl]] likes to stay up late.

* OminousVisualGlitch: During [[spoiler: [=NakedToaster=]'s route, there are light screen flickers in the server.]]

* SadClown: In xyx's route, [[spoiler:he noticeably stops joking around in the server, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness to the other members' concern.]] This is because he's worried about his pet cat, which gets hospitalized for its injury. xyx also confesses to the protagonist that he trolls the server to mask his sadness about both his pet and the injury he got in a motorcycle accident.]]

* SdrawkcabAlias: CoolOldGuy salociN's username backwards is Nicolas.

** [[spoiler:societyboy's avatar resembles the Film/{{Joker|2019}}, a reference to his famous misquote "we live in a ''society.''"]]

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler: societyboy somehow tracked down the PlayerCharacter's username to the Blooming Panic server, despite them never mentioning to him that they were a fan of the webnovel.]]

* TattooedCrook: [[spoiler: Quest]] mentions that he has several tattoos, and that he got them because of the [[DarkAndTroubledPast group]] he was in at the time.
* TeacherStudentRomance: BIGLADY mentions that she had one of these (as the student half of the relationship) before leaving the school because of the drama it caused.
* TechnologicallyBlindElders:
** salociN has accidentally unplugged his computer in the past.
** After someone posts a meme, salociN asks who that's a photo of, much to the delight of the other server members.
* ThatCameOutWrong: nightowl saying he wants to sleep with you in his route.
* TragicDropout: [[spoiler:nightowl becomes this in his bad ending after failing his exam for the third time. He leaves the server out of shame, and in his epilogue, he moves back with his AbusiveParents to work for them.]]
* {{Troll}}:
** xyx likes to joke around in a troll-y way.
** During [=NakedToaster=]'s route, when [[spoiler: everyone is getting removed from the server one by one, xyx takes the opportunity to tell a dick joke as he knows [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar the mod and censors won't be able to stop him]] amidst the current chaos.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In [[spoiler: [=NakedToaster=]'s route, [=BloomBot=] attempts to boot everyone out of the server and have the webnovel never reach a conclusion because she wishes everyone to feel the same amount of loss that she does. As a bot made by [=NakedToaster=], she will be sold alongside his company and possibly re-written so that she will be unable to write fiction freely like she has been for several years.]]
* WorldOfTechnicolorHair: Lola in the webnovel has pink hair, Celeste has blue hair, and Quest has dark blue hair.

* AnAesop:
** Each LoveInterests' route has this. nightowl's [[spoiler: focuses on how MistakesAreNotTheEndOfTheWorld and the importance of giving support to loved ones.]]
** Quest's route [[spoiler: explores the wisdom of knowing who to give second chances to.]]

Made in UsefulNotes/RenPy for the 2021 Otome Jam (a game jam focusing on romance-focused visual novels), the visual novel gained a cult following, exceeding over 7,000 downloads within the first four months of its release.

Description: Blooming Panic is a VisualNovel set in a fictionalised version of a Discord-esque server. Blooming Panic is also the name of a fictional WebSerialNovel [[note]]Which is about a college student named Lola who goes through a transformation--as well as several love interests[[/note]] that [[PlayerCharacter you]] are a fan of. Joining this new chat client to talk to other fans of the webnovel, you slowly get to participate in fandom shenanigans, getting to know the other members of the server. and perhaps also... find romance?

Made for the 2021 Otome Jam (a game jam focusing on romance-focused visual novels), the visual novel gained a cult following, exceeding over 7,000 downloads within the first four months of its release.

Description: Blooming Panic is a VisualNovel set in a fictionalised version of a Discord-esque server. Blooming Panic is also the name of a fictional WebSerialNovel [[note]]Which is about a college student named who goes through a transformation--as well as several love interests[[/note]] that [[PlayerCharacter you]] are a fan of. Joining this new chat client to talk to other fans of the webnovel, you slowly get to participate in fandom shenanigans, getting to know the other members of the server. and perhaps also... find romance?

* GoldenEnding: [[spoiler: [=NakedToaster=]]]'s good ending. [[spoiler:As the protagonist investigates why the server is glitching and the author of the webnovel went on indefinite hiatus, they discover that not only did [=NakedToaster=] create [=BloomBot=], but she is also the writer. At the climax, [=BloomBot=] kicks out the server members one by one and shuts down the server, to make them feel her pain of being unable to write stories when she will be sold out from Toasty's company and reprogrammed. The protagonist comforts her over the loss, and the following day, she restores the server and has a private call with Toasty to cope with the sellout. After that, she brings the other server members back in and finally publishes the last chapter of the webnovel.]]

* HollywoodWebCam: The server is somehow able to censor not only text containing personal information, but also [[SoundEffectBleep censor]] video calls where characters try to give personal information to each other. [[spoiler:This gets removed after [=BloomBot=] restores the server at the end of [=NakedToaster=]'s good ending since Toasty is able to give the protagonist his number.]]