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"Let yourself be whisked away to tales of fantasy and adventure in Miss Lovely's world of ASMR and Roleplay. Whether it be roleplays with the waifu of your dreams, or tales of adventure from your favorite fictional characters; prepare to be captivated and let your mind wander as you're drawn into another world."
MissShadowLovely
is an Audio Play producer and Virtual YouTuber on YouTube who makes playlists of videos under the label "Roleplay / ASMR", where she voice acts as fictional characters of her own creation. Each character is a Love Interest for You, the listener. You and her are in a relationship that can start from a diverse range of options, from a Childhood Friend Romance to a Cute Monster Girl you encounter on while on a hero's journey.
MissShadowLovely currently specializes in three series:
- Waifu ASMR: Now in its second season, this is a collection of characters with stories spanning at least 6 videos. Each playlist starts with an introduction to the Love Interest, followed by several episodes of bonding, and ends with a branching path towards Multiple Endings. There is always one Bad End, and one or two Good Ends (the second is labeled a "True End"). Miss Shadow Lovely always includes at least one Bonus episode centered around one of three holidays: Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas.
- Quest Waifus: In which the listener is going on an adventure, and encounters beautiful mythical creatures, from a lamia to a manticore to a ghost. Each one is crippled by a curse, and it's up to you find a way to bring them salvation.
- Misc Waifus: A collection of one-off episodes featuring a random Girl of the Week. Some are original characters, others already exist in other franchises. Her most popular video is her roleplaying as Mercy from Overwatch.
Not to be confused with Miss Shadow Lovely (with spaces), her other channel that specializes in urban legends and creepypastas.
Tropes applying to MissShadowLovely's Roleplay/ASMR videos:
- Arranged Marriage: Nika ends up in one to an Upper-Class Twit whom she describes as a "douchebag" to help consolidate her family's financial security. Nika clearly doesn't want to go through with it, leaving her with the Sadistic Choice of marrying someone she hates but keeping her family's money, or calling it off and getting disowned. The Good Ending and True Ending have the viewer tell her to follow her heart, while the Bad Ending has the viewer say nothing and watching Nika go through with it.
- Ascended Extra: Grivella - the condescending, suspicious, haughty witch from Prollice's story - is the star of her own playlist as Season 2's Yandere.
- Back from the Dead: "Quest Waifu" season 2 starts with the demigoddess Heriotza resurrecting the Traveler after he was killed in order to send him on The Quest to find her father's amulet.
- But Now I Must Go: Your waifu will either leave you or insist that it's better if the two of you do not see each other "for a while" (read: never again) in a Bad End.
- Call-Back: The maid Calida, in conversation with the lord of the castle she serves in, will find out he came to inherit it from "a mossy green-haired woman with red eyes." It's heavily implied this woman is the vampire Renata Esterlily, and the lord of the castle is now her "little mouse" that she fell in love with. Calida even mentions a passing meeting she had with Renata in the marketplace.
- Cannot Spit It Out: If the listeners want the Good End, they will avoid this trope like the plague.
- Chekhov's Gun: Quite a few of them in "Quest Waifu" season 1. The Traveler would have been screwed if not for a few items given to him by some of the women he meets.
- The dagger given to the Traveler by the dark elf is recognized by the dragon, who also gives him a ruby ring. When the Traveler runs into an arachnae, he uses the ring to distract her, then cuts through her webs and uses the dagger's special power to knock her out.
- The wandering ghost gives the Traveler a ring in order to find her beloved. The centaur barmaid uses this to reveal that the ghost has been dead over a century.
- The dullahan gives the Traveler a mark on the hilt of his dagger that signifies him as granted protection of a mercenary's guild. The mermaid recognizes it, and the manticore tells the Traveler that it's not enough to pass by her.
- Childhood Friend Romance: Kuriko the tomboy has known the protagonist of her story since they were little kids, and always liked him. Her Good End gives them a Relationship Upgrade, the bad end has him trying to be just friends, only to have her mental state fall apart as a result.
- Claimed by the Supernatural: The manticore places a mark on the Traveler's hand after he fails to offer her anything of substance that she deems nice enough to let him pass. It means he owes her a favor.
- Curse: The lycans and vampires of Season 1 are all cursed by the god of judgment Gileas for their role in causing great harm and misfortune across their lands.
- Curse Escape Clause: Gileas says that the lycans and vampires will be free of their curse if they can bring life to the world that replaces what their families stole. As such, both Lenata and Simya have adopted policies to protect mortals in pursuit of this goal.
- Cute Clumsy Girl: Prollice the witch drops her books, drops a potion beaker, and nervously stammers over her words when she tries to make the Traveler a healing potion for spider bites.
- Cute Monster Girl: The Traveler encounters lots of them. In just season 1, he encounters a lamia, a zombie, a lich, a mummy, an arachnae, a gargoyle, and a manticore.
- Dating What Daddy Hates: In the Good End and the True End of her story, Nika ends up doing this with the viewer as opposed to going through with her Arranged Marriage. It's partly because of this that she gets disowned and written out of her family's will.
- Death Amnesia: After being resurrected in Season 2, the Traveler can't remember anything about who he once was, or anything about his past life.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: In the Tsundere and Vampire paths. The former slowly comes to realize that the protagonist is the only one who actually care about her, and the latter was just putting up an act to scare her "little mouse" into staying.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In the Good Ending to the Vampire path. Renata's "little mouse" of a captive stands up to the god of judgment Gileas, which is enough to convince him to break part (but not all) of Renata's curse.
- Dissonant Serenity: Etsuko the yandere speaks this way. She never raises her voice above a soft cooing, all while describing the unspeakably terrible things she's going to do to anyone who gets between her and her captive, telling her victim to stop screaming, and how she killed some of the protagonist's friends.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: In Renata's Good End, it's revealed that the deity Gileas only agreed to partially lift the curse on her family because you, the listener, took exception to his lack of sympathy and pleaded her case with all your heart. Renata is forever grateful to you and humbly asks you to stay by her side forever as her lover. There is also speculation that the listener eventually became the master of the castle, and his family line gained incredible influence throughout the land, because you are able to use your clout to save your waifu from certain death in the Maid story. It's hinted that Renata's existence is canon in the world of your maid waifu.
- Eldritch Location: The Bogs of Gellar allow many forms of the undead to exist there, including a lich, a zombie, and a mummy.
- Featureless Protagonist: The Traveler in the "Quest Waifu" series. While dialogue makes it clear that the Traveler is a male human, no other description is ever given of him.
- Forced Sleep: The dagger obtained by the Traveler is Acradon's Dagger of Torpor. It has a magical spell that makes anyone cut by it instantly fall asleep. But if the target isn't then killed, it takes a whole cycle of the moon for the spell to recharge. The Traveler uses it on the arachnae in order to escape her clutches. Should the Traveler go back to the dark elf who gave him the dagger, she's pleased that it worked just as intended.
- Fur Against Fang: The vampire roleplay from season 1 features a conflict between vampires and lycans. The protagonist eventually has to choose which side he wants to help.
- The Gadfly: The Cheshire Cat. She claims to be able to make a bridge vanish beneath the Traveler's feet, only letting him pass if he answers her riddles. But she gives him all the answers right away, and then reveals she was just messing with him.
- Ghost Amnesia: Two of them in Season 1.
- The zombie can't remember why she's in the Bogs of Gellar, or where her heart is, only that she can't seem to find her way out. Should the Traveler choose to give her the Rune of Enclara, she regains her memories, revealing that she was a girl who was so filled with heartbreak that the bog's dark magic cursed her into an undead form.
- The wandering ghost in the forest can't remember the face of her betrothed, or where he might have gone. She also has no knowledge of the passage of time, thinking it's only been a few hours since she was attacked by bandits, when it's actually been over a hundred years since both she and her lover were killed. Giving her the Rune of Enclara fixes both of these problems.
- Good All Along: In the vampire roleplay, it's revealed that Renata and her family bring humans to Castle Esterlily, but not to torture or feed on them. Instead, she is trying to cope with an eternity devoid of warmth, feeling, and the joy of living by surrounding herself with mortals with positive energy. She spoke half-truths in the earlier videos in order to intimidate you into staying because she wants you to feel safe when you are with her, and she wants to protect you from her bitter enemies, the lycans.
- Hot for Student: The Yandere Teacher has feelings for the student viewer, and goes to such lengths as giving them detention to spend time with them, as well as seperating them from their girlfriend and making academic threats against her.
- I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: You have the option of responding to Kuriko's declaration of love with this. It shouldn't surprise you that this will put you on a path to the Bad End.
- Insistent Terminology: The lycan always refers to the listener as "sunblood," and the vampire always refers to him as "little mouse," since she insists that she's a cat toying with her prey.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The Bad End of Amina, the idol singer. She breaks up with her boyfriend because they both know how hard it is to keep their relationship a secret, despite the two of them still clearly being in love with each other. She even had to do it through Inelegant Blubbering.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: The main conflict in Amina the Idol Singer's roleplay. While she's rich and famous, the listener (as her long-term boyfriend) has to not show any affection to her at all in public because of potential backlash from celebrity gossip columns and the paparazzi.
- Love Potion: In Etsuko's True End, your brain is permanently altered by a serum that renders you 100% complacent with being with Etsuko forever. At least you're both happy together now, right?
- Martial Pacifist: The Traveler doesn't like hurting people, but will if he has to. He even cuts the arachnae with a sleeping dagger to knock her out, though he does spare her life when he easily could have killed her.
- Mayfly–December Romance: The dragon waifu laments that she had a lover named Acradon in the past, but because she lives so much longer than ordinary humans, Acradon died while resting in her arms as an old man. Should the Traveler choose to give her the Rune of Enclara, the dragon believes that the Traveler is her lover Acradon in a new body, declaring that the two of them are now bonded in Eternal Love.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The Bad Ends are all consequences of your own hesitation. Your waifu's life is ruined and so is yours in some of the darker paths, such as the Season 1 Yandere. All because you couldn't be honest with her about your feelings.
- No Canon for the Wicked: The maid path of Season 1 implies that the Good Ending to the vampire route is what happened, since there are several hints dropped about Renata's presence and that the listener is her "little mouse" who chose to be with her.
- No Dress Code: The Yandere Teacher wears a unbuttoned blouse and jacket with visible cleavage, and she has the gall to call the viewer's girlfriend a "floozy in a skirt".
- No Name Given: Most of the protagonists are never named.
- In the "Quest Waifu" series, the protagonist is most commonly referred to as "Traveler," but also called "stranger" and, in some cases, "trespasser." The latter is mostly used by more apprehensive people that the traveler meets.
- In the vampire versus lycan roleplay, the vampires refer to the listener as "little mouse," and lycans refer to the listener as "sun-blood."
- Paper Tiger: The arachnae looks rather intimidating and threatens to eat anyone who disturbs her webs, but according to the centaur barmaid, she's all talk. The arachnae confirms as much should the Traveler go to talk to her a second time.
- Personality Swap: In Season 1, Calida the Maid is a withdrawn, higher-pitched, soft-spoken waifu who values your happiness above anything else, while Renata the Vampire is no-nonsense, speaks in a deep, "I'm-large-and-in-charge" voice, and expects you to obey her every word without hesitation if you value self-preservation. In Season 2, it's the other way around for both waifus. MissShadowLovely herself has lampshaded this by mentioning in Community comments that fans of Calida will identify more with Season 2's vampire while fans of Renata will connect with Season 2's maid.
- Poor Communication Kills: The driving force behind the miseries and faults of all of MissShadowLovely's waifus.
- The Power of Love: How the listener rescues all the Quest Waifus from their cursed existences.
- Riddle Me This: The Cheshire Cat tells the Traveler that he has to answer her riddles, or else she'll make the bridge across a chasm vanish. Turns out she was just messing with him, and can't actually do that; she just wanted to waste his time.
- Second Law of Gender-Bending: In an ASMR video about her, Bowsettenote says that she's grown to like all the attention she's gotten since putting on her Super Crown.
- Sense Loss Sadness: The zombie in the Bogs of Gellar can't feel anything since her heart has been stolen by the bog's magic. She describes it as a feeling of emptiness that keeps growing.
- Signature Laugh: MissShadowLovely's signature laugh is a short "Hmhm!" giggle, which is shared by many of her waifus.
- Sssssnaketalk: The lamia slithers all of her "s" sounds when she talks.
- Stage Whisper: The lich talks in loud whispers, drawing out all of her sentences with long breaths.
- Sudden Downer Ending: Any of the Bad Ends. A series of delightful videos of bonding and romance, and at the end, your waifu's world has been shattered, and she may never know happiness again. At best, you will lose contact with her for a long time, if not forever.
- Take a Third Option: Are you too scared to leave Renata the Vampire's castle, but you don't want to remain her prisoner? No problem! When a pack of werewolves attack Castle Esterlily, you can watch an Alternate Path where you ended up getting rescued by another waifu, Simza the Lycan, and develop a relationship with less Stockholm Syndrome.
- Then Let Me Be Evil: In Renata's bad end. In a Moment of Weakness, she says her "little mouse" is free to go, but after coming to her senses, she decides to abandon her mother's wishes to break the curse and embrace the darkness. Renata tracks down her little mouse and lectures him about betraying her, giving him no chance to defend himself before killing him effortlessly and drinking his blood.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: If the Traveler gives the Rune of Elnara to the wandering ghost, he reveals that she's been dead over a hundred years, and that her beloved was killed by the bandits that also took her life. However, because the rune he was given was blessed by a goddess, he posits that, should the ghost accept it, she'll come back to life in order to be his lover. He turns out to be right, as the ghost is resurrected after she accepts it.
- Tomboy: Kuriko. She does a lot of workouts, practices like crazy for a swim meet, and says she hates girly stuff. She's even briefly a Shipper on Deck for someone else the protagonist likes until he admits he doesn't like "girly girls."
- Trial by Combat: Calida the Maid intends to go through with one to save her mother and sister from slavery. In her Bad End, she runs off without telling the protagonist that she's doing it, the implication being that it's going to be a Heroic Sacrifice, since she's never so much as held a sword before. The Good End makes this unnecessary, as the protagonist uses his political sway to get the conviction of Calida's family overturned without her having to fight anyone.
- Tsundere:
- The dark elf from Season 1 of "Quest Waifu". She's clearly infatuated with the Traveler, but is very bad at hiding it. She says that she feels "nothing but neutrality" towards him, curses him for "shoddy excuses for bandages," and insists that she would have been just fine without his help despite being knocked unconscious in the woods at night with very bad wounds.
- Nika, an Idle Rich girl who puts on an air of being a Rich Bitch because of her family constantly moving, and her parents instilling in her that Love Is a Weakness. Telling Nika to follow her heart has her slowly break out of this, since the viewer is the only person who is genuinely nice to her.
- Wound That Will Not Heal: The zombie Myverna has her heart missing, leaving a hole in her chest where her heart used to be.
