Line #10 VisualNovel/LadykillerInABind


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2	''My Twin Brother Made Me Crossdress As Him And Now I Have To Deal With A Geeky Stalker And A Domme Beauty Who Want Me In A Bind!!'' [[EitherOrTitle or]] ''Ladykiller in a Bind'' is an {{eroge}} VisualNovel developed by Creator/ChristineLove. It was released in 2016 on Creator/HumbleBundle and in 2017 on Platform/{{Steam}}.
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4	The Beast is a motorcycle-riding, leather jacket-wearing, sex-addicted butch lesbian with a reputation for being quite the heartbreaker. However, she's not doing well at school, so her very rich daddy might take her bike away. Her [[HalfIdenticalTwin Half-Identical Twin Brother]], the Prince, is a ManipulativeBastard who's on top of the social pile at his ElaborateUniversityHigh. He'll help her out, for a price -- his class is going on a fancy one-week cruise, and he wants her to infiltrate the cruise disguised as him, and win a popularity contest in his place.
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6	Winning the contest is a bit of a daunting task for the Beast, as her brother is (rightfully) known as quite the notorious douche amongst his peers. This means she will have to do a lot of legwork to swing some votes in his favor, but she must at same time careful not to raise too much suspicion by acting overly nice or kind -- as this would be seen as rather out of character for him -- lest she be exposed as an imposter, and spend the rest of the cruise locked in the cargo hold. At the same time, though, there are plenty of hot young women along on the cruise; who is to say that the Beast cannot try to get to know some of them a bit more ''intimately''?
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8	[[HGame Lots of sex ensues]].
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10	!!This game contains examples of:
11	* ArrangedMarriage: The Beauty is being set up in a marriage of convenience with the President. [[spoiler: Depending on your choices, you can get her out of this arrangement.]]
12	* BitchSlap: The Beauty slaps the Beast often, since she's a domme.
13	* BondageIsBad: {{Subverted}}. The game presents BDSM (for the most part) as a healthy, enjoyable thing. Some of the people who practice it are arguably bad folk, but not because of their kinks. The game even starts with disclaimers emphasizing the importance of consent and power exchange.
14	* BrainsAndBondage: The Beauty is something of an intellectual. Her sub, the Beast, isn't at all.
15	* ButThouMust: The first choice you get is one that will get the player stuck in a loop unless they either wait for another option to appear, or not click the first option at all.
16	* CastFullOfGay: A large number of characters is somewhere in the LGBTQA spectrum.
17	* ClusterFBomb: The Beast, especially towards the President and the Prince, both whom get on her nerves easily.
18	* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: Sometimes, the best way to avoid suspicion and/or get what you want is the meanest.
19	* FemmeFatale: A good number of the characters use their sex appeal to further their agendas, including the protagonist.
20	* FreezeFrameBonus: Epilogue C has one in the form of [[spoiler: blurred text on the background when the Maid narrates how [[VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory the first AI came to be,]] reads "Are you sure I can just type whatever in here? I really don't think the blur effect is going to be enough tbh so it's probably going to be legible and people can tell this is modern linux and not an actual P&P-18 terminal or w/e. well if you can read this, it's the Maid's fault not mine lol"]]
21	* GagCensor: When playing on censored mode, the sex scenes will feature the involved characters wearing [[HomemadeSweaterFromHell tacky Christmas pullovers]] instead of being nude.
22	* GoshDangItToHeck: The Boy refuses to swear, except for one instance.
23	-->'''The Beast''': Are you fucking with me?
24	-->'''The Boy''': ...Yes, I am fucking with you.
25	* GreyAndGrayMorality: No one is completely innocent or evil. For example: our main character is capable of some pretty messed up actions, and her brother, while being a Machiavellian piece of shit, is not that wicked either.
26	* HowWeGotHere: The opening scene is the Prince requesting the Beast to relay everything she did while on the cruise.
27	* HypercompetentSidekick: {{Downplayed}} with the Maid. [[spoiler: Even though she is the brains of the plan, the Prince is the more proactive of the two.]]
28	* ManipulativeBastard: It might as well be ManipulativeBastard: The Game. Everyone wants something, everyone manipulates people to get it. The popularity contest just makes it more visible and the social capital more tangible.
29	* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The Beast and the Boy, respectively. Bonus points for both being crossdressers.
30	* MultipleEndings: As befitting of a visual novel.
31	* NoNameGiven: Every single character. When a character is introduced, the player has a choice of using the default or alternate title to call them by (e.g. "the Athlete" or "the Bro"), or entering your own title. [[spoiler:The only exception is the twins' father, whose name is revealed near the very end (and, by proxy, is implied to be the Prince's name as well). [[AllThereInTheManual Epilogue C]] reveals the Beast's full name via her high school report card]].
32	* PolarOppositeTwins: Being HalfIdenticalTwins aside, part of what makes the TwinSwitch difficult for the Beast is the ''huge'' difference in the twins' core personalities: the Prince is shown to be a callous (and generally more celibate) MagnificentBastard who happens to be [[InsufferableGenius very well-educated]], while the Beast is shown (and implied by most available choices) to be an affable (and ''extremely flirtatious'') NaiveNewcomer who is also [[BookDumb failing many of her classes]].
33	** This is lampshaded by the Athlete; he can tell with just one look that the Beast isn't the Prince and thinks it's downright hilarious that she has everyone else on the ship fooled. This is likely because they're cousins and they've known each other since they were kids.
34	* {{Polyamory}}: Depending on the player's choices, the Beast can end up with both the Beauty and the Stalker.
35	* TheReveal: What the Prince was up to with the TwinSwitch, and the actual scope of his plans.
36	* SafeSaneAndConsensual: Paraphrased in the game upon booting up. Also pretty heavily emphasized by the Beauty, who will put the Beast through all manner of physical and emotional abuse, but also insists on stopping everything to care for her at the first indication that she's gone too far and actually risked ''harming'' her sub.
37	* SharedUniverse: With VisualNovel/DigitalALoveStory, another of Christine Love's works.
38	* SirSwearsALot: The Beast is the shining example of this trope.
39	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Expect pretty much ''all'' of the characters to engage in this at some point. The Beast, being our FirstPersonSmartass, gets the most opportunities to engage in this.
40	* StalkerWithACrush: The Stalker, true to her moniker. [[spoiler: The Boy's less savoury moments have shades of this as well.]]
41	* StudentCouncilPresident: There is one in the story who serves as TheRival, aptly nicknamed either The President or The Rival by default.
42	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The Beast is prone to giving these, mainly to the President and the Boy.
43	* TwinSwitch: The plot is kicked off by the Prince cajoling the Beast into doing this for him. Of course, there is the added challenge that the two of them have different genders.
44	* TwinThemeNaming: [[spoiler: Lillian and Laurence, also known as the Beast and the Prince, respectively.]]
45	* TheUnfavorite: The Beast is her father's least favorite child. The Prince, on the other hand, [[spoiler: doesn't care about his approval.]]
46	* WholesomeCrossdresser: Our hero...[[SweetPollyOliver ine]], the Beast is this. [[spoiler: And so is the Boy, but we find that out fairly early on too.]]
47	** Comments made during The Boy's route also imply that [[spoiler:The Prince]] is this tope too.
48	* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: When the Beast pulls off some of the more intricate schemes, her brother will compliment her. She is not happy about it...

Context VisualNovel / LadykillerInABind