Line #55 VisualNovel/MoonlightLovers


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3	->''"Can your heart handle this love?"''
4	-->-- From the game's site.
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6	''Moonlight Lovers'' is a French online [[VisualNovel visual novel]] created by Creator/{{Beemoov}} games, the same company behind VisualNovel/MyCandyLove and VisualNovel/{{Eldarya}}.
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8	[[CanonName Eloise]], an ordinary orphan girl living an ordinary life in an orphanage, has it turned upside down after coming of age and inheriting an immense manor. She soon discovers that it is already inhabited by six vampires, whom she can befriend and [[RomanticVampireBoy flirt.]]
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10	[[TheVerse It is set in the same universe as]] VisualNovel/MyCandyLove.
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12	[[https://www.moonlightlovers.com/ English Site Here.]]
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14	[[https://www.moonlightlovers.fr/ Original French Site here.]]
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16	!! This VisualNovel provides examples of:
17	* AcousticLicense: It's mentioned that the Moondance is very noisy, with music in high volumes and people talking. But the characters never have any problem to hear each other while there.
18	* AerithAndBob: Vladimir, Ivan, Aaron, Ethan and Raphael are completely mundane names, but we can't say the same for ''Beliath''.
19	* AllegedlyFreeGame: The player gets 510 AP per day to be used IN THE SAME DAY. Each line of dialogue costs 30, so you can read 17 per day without buying more.
20	* BigFancyHouse: Eloise gets flabbergasted when she arrives to the manor and sees how impressive it really is.
21	* {{Bouncer}}: The Moondance's one, [[FacelessMasses Gaston]], is very well acquainted with Beliath and Ethan, and also becomes Eloise's friend.
22	* ButLiquorIsQuicker: Lampshaded by Eloise, who is afraid that Beliath does this to his victims, but Vladimir assures her that it is not the case.
23	* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: This is a given, considering it is an [[RomanceGame otome game]].
24	* ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject: The vampires have several subjects they prefer to avoid or ignore entirely, so this happens often. The main one is the one of how Vladimir moved into the manor.
25	* CoolestClubEver: Needless to say, the Moondance.
26	* ConvenientlyInterruptedDocument: Inside one of Aaron's books, Eloise found a paper with instructions on how to kill vampires, wrote by her mother. Too bad that the most important bits had faded with time.
27	* CrushBlush: Duh. Happens do every one of the vampires.
28	* CuriosityKilledTheCast: The VisualNovel/MyCandyLove cast should know better than to invade abandoned manors to throw parties.
29	* DarkHouse: The setting of the game, inherited by Eloise.
30	* DeadManWriting: Eloise's parents were certainly pretty excentric people, living in an auto-sufficient manor away of everything and leaving a letter for her just in case that they die before she grows up.
31	* DestinationDefenestration: Eloise almost dies like this. The vampires are forced to save her, triggering the whole plot.
32	* DisposingOfABody: Trying to avoid having to do this is one of the reasons why the vampires try to avoid killing people. But sometimes people die in the manor, and this dirty work always falls on Beliath's and Ethan's hands.
33	* EmergencyTransformation: An important part of the plot. Eloise [[DestinationDefenestration fell from the second floor]] and would bleed out very soon. Her condition was too critical to transform her into a vampire, so they chose to transform her into a chalice instead.
34	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The whole point of the introduction was illustrating each one of the vampire's personalities.
35	* FacelessMasses: The vampires are the only characters to have animations and change facial expression, all the other characters are only black silhouettes.
36	* FlowerMotifs: Vladimir gets [[BerserkButton really mad]] after seeing that his cyclamens were destroyed. That's because they symbolize his relationship with his mother.
37	* FrozenFashionSense: Vladimir and Raphael are the only ones in the group that have a hard time adjusting to the present times.
38	* GardenOfLove: Vladimir's very convenient hobby served to create the perfect setting for romantic scenes.
39	* GuideDangIt: Guides are extremely helpful to get the ending you want, considering that choices can have consequences several chapters later.
40	* HairColorDissonance: The black hair options for the [[PlayerCharacter player character]] being anything but black is common in [=BeeMoov=] games, and Beliath and Raphael suffer from this as well.
41	* HauntedHouse: The mansion gained this reputation for being seemingly uninhabited for a long time, but being well-kept.
42	* HorrorHunger: Ivan is the only vampire who can't hold his thirst. The other vampires actually deal with the presence of blood pretty well.
43	* InsultFriendlyFire: Beliath mocked Vladimir's FrozenFashionSense in Raphael's presence.
44	* IntergenerationalFriendship: Eloise can befriend the vampires, depending on the answers chosen. The vampires also have this kind of relationship between themselves, since some of them were born centuries apart.
45	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The vampires usually don't drink twice from the same victim and it's important that they wipe their memories after.
46	* LaserGuidedKarma: Some bad decisions you make lead to bad consequences.
47	* LimitedWardrobe: Like in other [=BeeMoov=] visual novels, the characters wear the same clothes everyday.
48	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: The vampires were discussing how to do this while Eloise was bleeding out, but, in the end, they managed to save her life.
49	* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: On Beliath's route, Asmodee overshadows Neil.
50	* {{Masquerade}}: In VisualNovel/MyCandyLove you play as a normal high school student and only gets some ambiguous hints of the existence of the supernatural, while Moonlight Lovers is focused on this world.
51	* MayDecemberRomance: Unavoidable, unless you choose Ivan, considering that all the love interests are [[OlderThanTheyLook vampires]] and Eloise just turned 18 by the start of the story.
52	* MayflyDecemberRomance: The only way for a [[TheAgeless vampire]] to be freed of their bond with their chalice is waiting for the chalice to die from old age.
53	* MoodWhiplash: In almost every chapter.
54	* MugglePower: The vampires take extreme precautions to avoid being discovered. They are specially fearful of the police.
55	* MultipleEndings: Three different endings for each vampire.
56	* NoodleIncident: The one when Beliath stole and wore Vladimir's clothes is vaguely mentioned by Raphael.
57	* PeggySue: The replays can be used to get outcomes you didn't get the first time and rewrite the history.
58	* ThePowerOfFriendship: Discussed and played straight.
59	-->'''Beliath:''' I... I don't know. I never believed in the power of friendship and all that crap... We're not in a 1980s movie.
60	-->'''Eloise:''' Why? Because it's too cliché? Know what? Clichés work because there's an element of truth.
61	* OddlyVisibleEyebrows: A way of making the character's facial expressions clearer.
62	* OhCrap: The vampires, when they see Eloise as a soon-to-be corpse. She had documents with her that proved that people knew where she went and would notice her disappearance, and sooner or later the cops would knock their door.
63	* OlderThanTheyLook: Except Ivan, who was turned vampire recently and really is the age he seems to be.
64	* OurVampiresAreDifferent
65	** TheAgeless: The vampires. Aaron, the oldest of them, was a mercenary during the Hundred Years' War.
66	** KissOfTheVampire: As long as the victim isn't afraid and doesn't resists, the "poison" present in the vampire's fangs make it a pleasurable experience. Because of this condition, this trope is played in different ways in each routes before finally being played straight.
67	** SuperSenses
68	*** SuperHearing: Raphael is the one that makes most use of it, but all of them have very impressive hearing. It also seems to be their favored sense.
69	*** TheNoseKnows: Their sense of smell is also sharp, specially to detect blood.
70	** VampiresAreSexGods: Or at least Beliath thinks he is.
71	** VampireBitesSuck: Eloise was afraid during her first experience, so she describes it as nothing less than terrifying and painful.
72	** VampireDance: You can guess which kinds of dance each one prefers.
73	* ParentalAbandonment: Eloise spent most of her life in an orphanage.
74	* PrettyFreeloaders: The vampires actually occupied the manor illegally. They aren't pleased when the rightful owner tries to claim it.
75	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Minus Ivan and Ethan, the other vampires are all at least a few centuries old, some older than the others.
76	* RomanticVampireBoy: The vampires the dateable characters of an otome game. Though you can make a case that the majority of them aren't all that ''romantic'", per se.
77	* SocialCircleFiller: Eloise's friends from the orphanage. [[FacelessMasses Melanie]] is said as having been her best friend while she lived there, and Eloise even mentions some other names, but those people have almost zero relevance to the story and exist solely to avoid FriendlessBackground.
78	* SpecialPersonNormalName: The vampires, except for Beliath, and Leandra.
79	* TookALevelInJerkass: The vampire whose route you chose. It is funny to compare their behavior in the first chapters of their own routes when compared to in other routes.
80	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: You can say mean things or take selfish decisions.
81	%%* WannabeLine: In front of the Moondance, of course.
82	* WelcomedToTheMasquerade: The price Eloise had to pay to survive.

Context VisualNovel / MoonlightLovers