Polly Geist

* Monster Roadtrip
* Monster Prom

> ***"Polly Geist (22?), a party ghost with an insatiable hunger for all the wrong things."***
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> *- Polly's introduction*
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**Polina "Polly" Geist** is one of six main love interests in Monster Prom, as well as one of the main characters of Monster Roadtrip, alongside Scott Howl. She is voiced by Sarah Anne Williams (@SarahAnneWillia).

## Appearance

Polly is a light blue-grey ghost who wears her hair in a ponytail. Her eyes are the same color as her body and she wears a light pink lipstick. She wears a white noodle strap shirt with her black bra showing a bit while also wearing black jean shorts. She has black boots and black sunglasses that rest on top of her head. On her left arm she wears a gold bracelet.

## Personality

Polly is described as carefree and enjoys partying. She takes actions without considering the consequences, since "YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE".

She is a big user of drugs, and alcohol, often bringing them to school. She can take drugs and drink without worrying about dying or any other similar consequences, as she is a ghost. She can still experience hangovers, however. Additionally, Polly is very interested in sex. She stated that she likes all types and positions of sex, such as "missionary, clergy, apocalyptic, upside down nightmare demon, [and] the pentagram".

Polly is more than someone who just likes to party, however. Her PARTY secret ending shows her gratitude towards her friends for being there to make all the parties and events fun.

She likes gossip magazines, drugs, dickpics, loud music, and classic Russian literature, and dislikes "disliking stuff".

## Skills and Abilities

* **Chemistry Skill**: Chemistry is one of Polly's biggest passions, and coupled with her love of drugs, it may be assumed Polly has some skill in this subject.
* **Chess Prowess**: As the daughter of a chess "Life Senior Master", Polly is highly skilled at and greatly enjoys chess.
* **Cooking Skill**: Polly is quite skilled at cooking (when sober).
* **Literary Knowledge**: Polly is "the biggest literature buff" in *Monster Prom*, and is very knowledgeable on Russian literature thanks to her heritage.
* **Monster Abilities**: As a **ghost**, Polly has the following abilities:
	+ **Agelessness**: Polly ceased to age when she died and became a ghost.
	+ **Immortality**: As a ghost, Polly cannot die.
	+ **Intangibility**: Polly is able to pass through solid objects. This ability is subject to manipulation/exceptions, as she can wear solid clothes and pass through solid matter while retaining her clothing.
	+ **Invincibility**: As an intangible ghost, Polly cannot be physically harmed, and does not experience the negative effects of whatever drugs she partakes in.
	+ **Levitation**: Polly can levitate off the ground, and potentially fly.
	+ **Possession**: Polly is capable of possessing living entities. She does this to take various drugs or consume alcohol, after which she leaves her host; her host is left completely sober, while she retains the effects of whatever she partook in.
	+ **Telekinesis**: Polly is capable of moving inanimate objects without touching them. A one-off event implies ghosts are only capable of manipulating certain objects, such as chairs.
* **Monster Weaknesses**: As a **ghost**, Polly has the following weaknesses:
	+ **Excorcism**:

## Role

### Monster Prom

In *Monster Prom*, Polly is one of the primary love interests.

### Monster Camp

In *Monster Camp*, Polly has been relegated to a side character. She, along with Scott Howl, is one of the "Prank Masterz".

## Stat Requirements

### Single-Player

* **Short**: 7+ **BOLDNESS**, 10+ **FUN**, 10+ **HEARTS**
* **Long**: 10+ **BOLDNESS**, 15+ **FUN**, 20+ **HEARTS**

### Multiplayer

* **Short**: 6+ **BOLDNESS**, 8+ **FUN**, 8+ **HEARTS**
* **Long**: 7+ **BOLDNESS**, 12+ **FUN**, 11+ **HEARTS**

## Relationships

* **Amira Rashid**: Amira and Polly both know how to have a good time. Both are wild spirits with a love for danger. They approach intensity in very different ways, though. Polly is much lighter, being intense in her enjoyment of life and its pleasures, while Amira's intensity tends to gravitate towards competition and being the best. Because of this, they can pretty much enjoy each other, but when Amira starts becoming obsessed with something due to pride or sheer stubbornness, Polly tends to just disconnect and phase out.
* **Brian Yu**: Brian and Polly share their appreciation of just enjoying life with no further ambition. Brian really likes how Polly is always light about everything, and they're both great enemies of the concept of pressure. They're not exactly the same, though, since even if they share this, Brian has a calmer approach to life, while Polly is much more wild. So Brian enjoys the little pleasures without the need of the crazy intensity that sometimes is Polly's signature.
* **Oz**: Oz admires how Polly is always happy, positive, and ready to enjoy life. Polly sees this admiration and she values it herself. She would always try to make Oz feel more relaxed so he can just enjoy life the same way she does. Unexpectedly, Polly is one of the people who best understands Oz and the way he might sometimes feel, since some drugs hangovers are close to the chemical imbalance Oz experiences from time to time. Because of this, she cares for Oz being happy, but she’s also understanding and patient when he’s in a hard place, respecting it. And of course, Oz appreciates this big time.
* **Vicky Schmidt**: Vicky and Polly are fairly similar yet wildly different. Both are pretty joyful people that can engage in energetic activities together, but Polly can get too wild and reckless too quickly, while Vicky will remain respectful even when she's completely unleashed. They understand their differences and respect these limits while enjoying the aspects of themselves that overlap. Because of this, Polly often enjoys partying with Vicky when she gets a bit tipsy and indulges herself in a bit more wackiness than usual. On the other hand, Vicky loves spending time with the less wild side of Polly, and enjoys engaging in calmer activities such as discussing literature or playing chess with her.
* **The Coven**
	+ **Faith Fernández**: Faith and Polly have occasional casual sex. Due to Polly being so good at sex, she meets Faith's standards.
* **Damien LaVey**: Polly and Damien are both reckless and mischievous and often cause trouble at the school. This can include starting food fights at lunch or hiding from the school janitor for committing war crimes against Canadian munchkins.

* **Liam de Lioncourt**: Both Liam and Polly are dead, so they both don't need to eat. This allows them to spend their lunches taking pictures of their food and posting the pictures to social media. This also caused the Principal to believe the two had eating disorders, and assigned food guards to them.

* **Miranda Vanderbilt**: While Miranda's innocent behavior causes her to misunderstand some of the things Polly says about sex and drugs, they are still very close. Miranda asked Polly for ideas for her party, and Polly showed Miranda some of the apps on her phone, which she can get defensive about, such as when the player has the option to break it and frame an enemy dodgeball team.

* **Scott Howl**: Polly and Scott's love of fun and pranks caused them to form a group called the PRANK MASTERZ (with a "Z"). Polly pulls pranks on Scott, such as switching his shoes so his right shoe goes on his left foot. They also come up with schemes such as turning in 100 jelly cups for a free jelly cup.

* **Vera Oberlin**: (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.

## Trivia

* When talking about emojis, Polly reveals that she is from Ecuadorian descent. This is apparently another one of her lies (like her frequent lies about how she died), as "A Ghost Story" reveals that she's Germanic-Russian on her father's side and some type of Slavic on her mother's.
* On multiple occasions, Polly will mention that thanks to her family she is quite knowledgeable about Russian literature and chess. She specifically mentions that her mother was a "Russian chess life senior master."
* She is considered the "biggest literature buff" in the game.
	+ Eight books that Polly would recommend, in celebration of Saint Jordi/Saint George's Day, "in no particular order" are:
		- *The Gambler*, by Fyodor Dostoevskey.
		- *Grow Up*, by Ben Brooks.
		- *The Pillow Book*, by Sei Shōnagon.
		- *Héroes*, by Ray Loriga.
		- *Laughable Loves*, by Milan Kundera.
		- *The Character of Rain*, by Amélie Nothomb.
		- *Almost Transparent Blue*, by Ryū Murakami.
		- *Dubrovsky*, by Alexander Pushkin.
* Her biggest passions are literature and chemistry, and she is quite skilled at cooking (when sober).
* Polly doesn't need to and can't eat since food passes through her body. When the Principal of Spooky High found out she wasn't eating, he assumed she had an eating disorder and assigned guards to her and Liam in order to make sure they consumed their food.
* Polly's name is a pun on "poltergeist", a type of spirit that creates disturbances.
	+ Her first name, Polina, is also a reference to the main female character of the short novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, *The Gambler*.
	+ She coincidentally shares her name with Paulina Sanchez, a character from *Danny Phantom* and early crush of the titular character.
	+ Her name being a pun is lampshaded in a Monster Roadtrip event that sees her, Scott, and the player attempting to convince an NPC that a used car is actually a refugee from a war-devastated planet, “Carrobotplanet.” When the NPC points out that the name of this planet is oddly precise, Polly replies, “I mean, I’m a ghost named Polly Geist, but you don’t hear me crying.”
* Her birthday is December 12th, making her a Sagittarius.
	+ As her age is given as "22?", this means she died when she was 22, but her death occurred sometime in the past, so that she has been *around* for more than 22 years. She has not, however, been dead long enough that her father has passed away of old age. As such, it is difficult to determine her year of birth.
* There is a possibility Polly is Jewish. In the Weird Drugs secret ending, she says the player character is a real mensch, a Yiddish term meaning "a person of integrity and honor."
* Polly's family tree is as follows:
	+ Gustaf Geist (grandfather)
	+ Unnamed Russian ballerina (grandmother)
	+ Vanya Geist (father)
	+ Nadja Geist (mother; maiden name unknown)
	+ Unnamed younger sibling (gender unknown)
* As revealed in the ICE QUEEN route, Polly started attending Spooky High after dying.
* As indicated by sending a letter to her living father in the ending image for the LOCKET route, Polly (and likely her mother and sibling) no longer lives with her father.
* Polly's face is on the desktop icon for *Monster Prom*.
* Several events in *Monster Roadtrip* allude to Polly suffering from tokophobia; a strong fear of or aversion to becoming pregnant or giving birth.

### Possible causes of death

Many ways Polly died are mentioned through in-game dialogue. However, none of these are her actual cause of death.

In an ending released in the "A Ghost Story" update initiated by purchasing a haunted locket, Polly reveals that she really died when her father drove while drunk and got into a crash, killing her, her mother, and (presumably) her younger sibling.

 During the cult ring ending on the third event encounter, Polly will mention how in the last cult she was in they all drank poison Kool-Aid and died.

## Route Appearances

### Monster Prom

* A CHANGE OF PLACE
* EEL/SERF PARTY
* CORPSE
* DRAGON HEAT
* FAITH
* FOURTH WALL
* GHOST
* GREETING CARDS
* ICE QUEEN
* LOCKET
* ORGY
* PARTY
* PRANK MASTERZ
* WILKINSON

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://btflglitch.tumblr.com/post/187283130590/the-future-polly-chemistry-teacher-if-you-are-a
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 LOCKET
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Chess Polaroid (physical copy)
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253426047267205126
5. ↑ Roadtrip Polaroid (physical copy)
6. ↑ Bumper Cars Polaroid (physical copy)
7. ↑ Cooking Polaroid (physical copy)
8. ↑ FAITH
9. ↑ ICE QUEEN
10. ↑ Surprise Test! Polaroid (physical copy)
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253426206646480897
12. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253426506249826315
13. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253426590765035522
14. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253426689029181448
15. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253426817207169028
16. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253426967342284800
17. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253427122514739201
18. ↑ https://twitter.com/monsterprom/status/1253427272851189761
19. ↑ https://btflglitch.tumblr.com/post/189638126065/the-past-today-dec-12th-has-been-pollys
20. ↑ https://btflglitch.tumblr.com/post/184190520665/sagittarius-is-a-hot-sign-ah-no-its-a-fire
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 LOCKET (see this image)