Vera Oberlin

"Sorry, I'm focusing on my career... my career on not dating losers like you!"

> ***"And Vera Oberlin (23), a mean, self-made gorgon with a merciless sense of business."***
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>  *- Vera's introduction*
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**Vera Oberlin** is one of six main love interests in *Monster Prom*.

She is voiced by Cristina Vee (@CristinaVee).

## Appearance

Vera is a gorgon, with dark green snakes for hair. Her skin is a lighter shade of green, and she has red eyes. Her lips and nails are painted a light shade of purple.

Vera's wears a short black dress under a royal blue blazer, black heels, and a gold necklace and bracelets.

Vera's prom outfit is a long black dress with gold jewelry, a singular long sleeve, and a slit running up her left leg.

## Personality

Vera is mean, and will "always [find] a way to get what she wants." She is socially powerful, and enjoys fame and wealth. Vera believes that having money and being wealthy is a way to be free, as well as a way to avoid having to answer to others.

Vera is a feminist, and has a lot of ideas that correspond with feminism. For instance, in a discussion with Miranda at lunch, she attempts to explain to Miranda that "she doesn't need to poison herself for the sake of a man".

She loves her hair, which is just a bunch of snakes, and, because she's a gorgon, poison doesn't affect her. She drinks poison as well, evidenced by a lunchtime event where she explicitly says she drinks it, and is about to drink poisoned scotch intentionally before Miranda interrupts her.

She dislikes people, including those who are vulgar, dumb, ugly, and poor. She also dislikes dickpics. She can be extremely condescending to these sorts of people, and in general, but those close to her get to see the other side of her.

## Skills and Abilities

* **Intelligence**:
* **Wealth**:
* **Monster Abilities**: As a **gorgon**, Vera has the following abilities:
	+ **Living Hair**:
	+ **Petrifying Gaze**:

## Stat Requirements

### Single-Player

* **Short**: 10+ **SMARTS**, 9+ **CHARM**, and 8+ **MONEY**
* **Long**: 15+ **SMARTS**, 11+ **CHARM**, and 10+ **MONEY**

### Multiplayer

* **Short**: 8+ **SMARTS**, 6+ **CHARM**, and 6+ **MONEY**
* **Long**: 12+ **SMARTS**, 9+ **CHARM**, and 8+ **MONEY**

## Relationships

* **Amira Rashid**: Amira and Vera can have a good time once in a while. They both enjoy winning, of course. Vera prefers competing at activities that are more relaxed than sports, so they can team up when Amira feels more like playing billiards than football. Vera is bossy like Vicky, but with a meaner approach to her leadership, which can easily trigger Amira. Amira can sometimes get too stubborn to admit Vera's right to the point of not following her lead just out of pride. Vera enjoys spending time with Amira, but she's not a fan of how she sometimes becomes a liability for her path to victory.
* **Brian Yu**: Brian and Vera have quite a unique relationship. They clash a lot since Vera is all about being ambitious and proactive while Brian is the kind of guy who enjoys just looking at the clouds. This sometimes drives Vera crazy, she has a hard time understanding how someone can have zero ambition... and Brian doesn't give a shit. But sometimes, something that you can't understand can also be... sexy. And it goes both ways, because sometimes Brian is quite aware he drives Vera crazy, and he loves it.
* **Oz**: Vera understands Oz's personality, and even if she sometimes tags that shyness and insecurity as weakness, at least her understanding makes her treat Oz in such a way that he doesn't freeze up so easily. She values that he's nice and smart, and she can enjoy a good conversation with him. Also, her tendency to want to solve other people's issues can make her a bit more patient with him and even try to make him feel more confident about himself, if only to make him stronger in her eyes. But it's important to remember that this can sometimes be problematic too, since Oz's personality is not necessarily a problem to be fixed. On the other hand, Oz absolutely admires Vera's confidence and strength, and he appreciates that she wants to try and help him.
* **Vicky Schmidt**: Vicky and Vera are probably the two smartest students in their class. They share lots of similarities while having quite different approaches. Vicky being always cheerful while Vera tends to be mean. Also, both being great leaders, they have a hard time working together, but they have utter respect and admiration for each other, even if sometimes it's hard for them to admit it. As they are the two smartest students in their class, the developers can see them battling to be the best in almost every subject.
* **Valerie Oberlin**: Valerie is Vera's adoptive sister, and they have been together since the day they were born.
* **Calculester Hewlett-Packard**: Vera and Calculester have an interesting and unexpectedly good relationship. It's true that the biggest obstacle between them is their ethics, but when they can get over this (or just conveniently ignore it), they get along quite well. Vera deeply values Calculester's intelligence and efficiency. She knows that he would never get too wild or unpredictable to the point of becoming a liability. On the other hand, Calculester finds in Vera to be someone someone capable of good and clear conversation, which is unusual within the wacky realms of Spooky High.

* **Miranda Vanderbilt**: Miranda and Vera share the interest of harming others, as Miranda displays genocidal tendencies and Vera uses murder for manipulation. Vera's feminist ideas cause conflict between the two, however; Vera is often shown to be exasperated by Miranda's mindset of needing a prince to rescue her. In several events, Vera has to try and explain to Miranda that she doesn't need to go to drastic measures in order to find a prince, such as in a lunchtime event where Miranda is about to consume a poisoned apple, so a prince will rescue her.

* **Polly Geist**: (Ice Queen). Vera and Polly just love to mess with people. They're like disaster sisters. They have very different views of the world, yet they click in a very special way. Even if they can be selfish individually, when they're together they really care for each other in a way that's rare to see. They have a good and healthy relationship in which they push each other outside of their comfort zones: Vera reminds Polly to have some life goals, while Polly reminds Vera that goals are meaningless if you can't enjoy life from time to time.

* **Scott Howl**: Scott instantly assumed he and Vera were friends when they first met because they attended the same school and both ran in the morning. He initially got on Vera's nerves, but his warm personality and shared experience of being abandoned by their birth parents eventually endeared him to her greatly.

## Trivia

* Vera is an orphan.
	+ In a secret ending, it is revealed that Vera wasn't born into the Oberlin family and instead is the adopted sister of the Shopkeeper.
* Vera is involved in the stock market, and several illegal businesses including the drug trade.
* Vera is on King Minos' list of Wealthiest Human Hybrids Under 300 Years Old.
* In Vera's CRIME ending, the second event reveals that she can speak Clown.
* Vera is left-handed.
* Her surname is based on Chanel Oberlin, the protagonist of *Scream Queens*; although she was changed from her initial concept as a typical Mean Girl, the name stuck.
	+ Her first name was originally going to be Petra (a Greek name meaning "rock"), referring to her ability to turn people to stone.
* According to her Steam trading card, Vera enjoys drinking single malts. In game, an event that may trigger when you sit at a table with Vera and Miranda reveals Vera "only [drinks] four things: scotch, red wine, the tears of [her] enemies, and straight up poison".
* Vera is said to be the most difficult character to take to prom out of all of the six you're able to court, due to her fairly demanding stats.
* At least three of her snakes have names. One event sees her giving jobs to Hissy and Bob, and in another event she irately informs Scott that a snake he had dubbed "Bendy" is named Spirulina.
* Her birthday is December 22nd, which she shares with her sister Valerie, making them both Capricorns.
	+ They share their birthday with game creator Julián Quijano.
	+ As the game is implied to take place in the year it was released, 2018, this would make their birth year 1995/1996.
* As revealed in the ICE QUEEN route, Vera has attended Spooky High for at least six years.
	+ She also met and befriended Scott Howl at that time.

## Route Appearances

* A CHANGE OF PLACE
* BLOODY QUEEN
* CORPSE
* CRIME
* CULT
* DRAGON HEAT
* FAMILY
* FELLOW STUDENT
* FOURTH WALL
* FURRY
* GHOST
* GIFT
* ICE QUEEN
* IDENTITY
* LOCKET
* NARRATOR
* ORGY
* PRANK MASTERZ

## References

1. ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/743450-Chat
2. ↑ Sculptures Polaroid (physical copy)
3. ↑ Japanese Fair Polaroid (physical copy)
4. ↑ Braids Polaroid (physical copy)
5. ↑ Rain Polaroid (physical copy)
6. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1295100826491531264
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 ICE QUEEN
8. ↑ Music Festival Polaroid (physical copy)
9. ↑ Surprise Test! Polaroid (physical copy)
10. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1161792131276705792
11. ↑ https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=51528.msg1287631#msg1287631
12. ↑ https://steamcommunity.com/market/listings/753/743450-Chat
13. ↑ https://btflglitch.tumblr.com/post/189808959600/the-past-today-is-veras-birthday-its-also
14. ↑ https://btflglitch.tumblr.com/post/184160045280/is-this-the-best-zodiac-sign-well-it-surely-is
15. ↑ https://twitter.com/btflglitch/status/1208870723122552839