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//// CHRISTMAS DATING SIMS ////
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The main character is Joshua Wood, one of the many students at the well-known Syntrust Academy in the city of Sobeston. On one snowy night, Joshua is returning late from a study group when he notices a dark haired girl is waiting in the snow. Whether he approaches her or not, he's quickly drawn into a strange fate when she is attacked by a monster. She seems confident at first, but is quickly overpowered. Right when it seems like she's going to lose, Joshua steps in to try to protect her. They form a small bond and she draws a power-up from it, becoming able to defeat the monster attacking her.

Joshua is about to leave and at like this was a dream when another girl approaches. She explains that the monster was born from a Sinful Heart and that they're a common problem in Sobeston. For some reason, it seems that Sobeston is a place where sinful feelings can manifest as monsters and that even though the Christmas season is supposed to be a holy time, they've been getting more common as of late.
She asks his name and assures him that he'll be transferred into their dorm soon. Joshua is still a bit dazed, so doesn't think much of it.

When he leaves for school the next morning, Joshua finds the girl who was fighting last night is in his class. He's called out into the hall and bluntly told that he's going to be put in a special dorm for "Virtues". Virtues are people who can manifest an exceptionally strong purity that can fight the Sinful Hearts. While he himself can't fight them, it seems that he can give Virtues power boosts by establishing strong pure bonds between them.
However, Joshua soon finds that none of the five girls in the dorm seem to have any sort of social connection at all. He is told that the Virtues Organization used to have a yearly Christmas Party where they tried to get the school in good spirits, and sets out to reestablish the party. In order to do so, he's teasingly told that he'll need to have a date.

The game has five girls (+one secret sixth) that Joshua can optionally pursue, each representing a virtue (two of them were killed in battle, as he'll soon find). Joshua must maintain strong bonds with all five girls so that they can fight Sinful Hearts at the end of each chapter. There are seven chapters, though they're relatively short; one for each known girl, one as an intro, and a final chapter for the Christmas party and conclusion.

//// FIGHTING THE SINFUL HEARTS ////
Sinful Hearts draw power from sinful feelings of human hearts. Each chapter has a Sinful Heart battle at the end, which is led up to by an incidental character who exists only for that chapter.

Battles start with Joshua picking two or three girls to join the fighting, depending on the particular storyline. One girl in the party must always be the girl whose chapter the fight is taking place in.

The Sinful Heart has a set HP.

The power of the girls changes depending on their social ranking. A high rank social level gives higher stats.

The max number of social rank levels each girl can achieve is 10.
Social Rank is used in the place of attack power.

When the battle starts, the characters announce that they are creating a "Heartfelt Zone". In the Heartfelt Zone, the players get a certain number of turns to do nothing but attack the Sinful Heart. The number of turns is determined by the social ranking of the chapter's main character.

Once these turns are up, the remaining HP is weighed. If it is above a certain amount, the Heartfelt Zone breaks and the girls are defeated. If it it is below that amount, a scene plays where they finish fighting the Sinful Heart.

//// UNLOCKING MISS SECRET GIRL ////
The Secret Sixth Girl is actually the main villain for the story.

Points for her will begin counting up from the get go, but you only have a chance to take her route when you've played through the game once.

Once you've played the game once, and if you have enough points, you can ask her to be your date for the Christmas party and change her into a Virtue Warrior.

//// THE FIVE GIRLS ////

////////// DEMETRIA RESILENE
The Virtue Warrior of Diligence, opposite to Sloth. She is the resident bitchy one.
She puts her 100% effort into everything, which often leads to her becoming very stressed out and sick. Though that has never stopped her. She is the girl that Joshua first meets and sees fighting. Demetria is hard to approach because she doesn't have much time for relationships between training her body for fighting Sinful Hearts and keeping up with her school studies, but once she takes interest in a relationship then she is quite devoted, almost to a fault.
Demetria is head-strong and honest about her feelings. She is quite blunt and rarely gets shy. She is not the type of girl to waste time and comes off as very unfriendly.

Deme fights Sinful Hearts with a Sword.

////////// CASEY CHERRIUM
The Virtue Warrior of Charity, opposite to Greed. She is the resident cheerful ditz/magical girl.
Casey is generous to a fault, always giving and often forgetting about herself. For this reason, Casey is typically flat broke and unable to give any more. Casey has a bad habit of giving more than she has and has racked up quite a bit of debt as a result, but is too busy giving to remember to pay it back.
Joshua can typically catch her working part-time jobs all around campus so that she can get more money to give away. She is nice to a fault and severely gullible and in constant need of protection.

Casey fights the Sinful Hearts with a plastic Magical Girl-like baton.

////////// FARICA DOVEN
The Virtue Warrior of Patience, opposite to Wrath. Farica is the resident shy girl.
She hands out endless second chances to people and is very forgiving and patient with their mistakes. Farica manages the school library and is the reason why so many books are missing-- because she waits for everyone to return the overdue ones without much penalty. People tend to walk all over her as a result, but she isn't the type to get upset about it. Her friends in school tend to wrong her and she never complains, making her a bit sad.
Farica never gets angry, but expresses her frustrations in creepy poetry.

Farica fights the Sinful Hearts with a book, though she typically wags her finger at them in gentle scolding rather than actually hitting them.

////////// ELINA ELKLAND
The Virtue Warrior of Kindness, opposite to Envy. She is the resident obnoxious one.
She is cheery, happy-go-lucky, and really obnoxious. She is the girl who wants to throw a Christmas Party again. Elina is typically satisfied with whatever she gets and doesn't need much to be happy; she drags Joshua on crazy adventures that don't cost a penny, such as playing in the snow and exploring the woods. Elina is very adventurous and the least serious of all of the girls in terms of her studies and obligations as a Virtue Warrior.

Her weapons as two cute boxing gloves with lion face decorations.

////////// KATRICIA ROLLINT
The Virtue Warrior of Knowledge, opposite to Lust. She is your resident dead-pan.
Katricia is very distant and focuses more on her ideal world in books than on reality. She has a booksmart view on the world and knows how she should act, but rarely comes out of her room and gives herself a chance to put her knowledge to the test. Because she rarely leaves her own study or interacts with others, Katricia is very pure and innocent.
She feels that she is supposed to be super smart because of all of her reading and gets a bit tsundere and childish when she's proven wrong. When Katricia does not know the answer to something she will typically blurt out a fake answer and try to BS her smartness.

Katricia fights the Sinful Hearts with a roll of red duct tape. When she attacks, Kat yells "Sorry, but you're incorrect!" and makes a red "X" duct tape pattern over her enemies.

////////// ABIGAIL "abby" SULLENTON

////////// VICTORIA REED
Mystery girl 6, who is secretly the Warrior of Temperance, opposite to Gluttony, and also the super villain.
Victoria's abilities for Temperance went astray when she got caught up in revenge. Her feelings of being betrayed and treated injustly caused her to snap and lose the self-control she was supposed to have the Virtue for. Victoria's powers went off the cliche deep end and she became a dark magical girl. This caused her Virtue powers to inverse and Victoria became the powerhouse that allowed Sinful Hearts to manifest in the city.

At school, Victoria gives hints to help the main character with each chapter. She is aware of the fact that she is the reason the Sinful Hearts are manifesting but is afraid to come to terms with the injustice she is causing.

During your first playthrough, the game ends with either Victoria succeeding in covering the entire city in a blanket of snowy sin or you and your girl of choice defeat her. When defeated, Victoria seals her own heart so that she can no longer power up the Sinful Hearts and becomes a walking doll of sorts.

During your second playthrough, you can optionally save her with the cliche power of your love.