Harlot Spotlight - Leppi Navitas

The harlot spotlight this week is on the House's fitness-freak energy bunny, Leppi Navitas.

I think both the mechanics and harlot idea came together at pretty much the same time. One of the things I've been trying to do with HoHH is add monster girls I don't write about very often. Beast girls fall in that category. A bunny girl who is an actual bunny girl is a fairly obvious one, albeit with a slight demonic slant as all the harlots in the House are lust daemons rather than fantasy-world monster girls.

Bunnies tend to be associated with energetic fucking and are otherwise fairly benign. This makes for a very straightforward mechanic. Leppi is totally safe unless the player has the fatigued ailment (or out of semen, which is fatal with nearly every harlot). I like the ailment-check system, as ailments are hidden until diagnosed, and I want a few 'surprise' Bad Ends to catch players off guard.

Her mechanics revolving around the fatigued ailment make her a good fit for the wrestling faction, as most of the harlots there will be very tiring for the player. Leppi's session also causes the fatigued ailment, which make other harlots in the same faction more dangerous until that is cured.

One of the things I added for the 1.5 full-art version is to give Leppi limited repeat visit functionality (essentially the same scenario, but with a few minor dialogue changes). This makes it easier to set up deaths where the first visit puts the fatigued ailment on the player and the second one will trigger that Bad End unless the player has removed it beforehand.

Onto the lore.

Along with wanting to cover the monster girls I don't normally write about, I also wanted to vary the personalities so the harlots are not all sinister femme fatale vamps. I also wanted a few oddballs that are more friendly to the player.

Leppi falls nicely into that category. She's not actively trying to kill the player, but her body exudes a musk during sex that can cause men to overexert themselves to the point of heart attack.

In the wider lore she's a very weak lust daemon called a Lapallan bunny nymph. While the Dominion of Lust setting I use is very different to the usual monster girl fantasy-world settings of games like Monmusu Quest, Lapallan bunny nymphs are closer to just a regular fantasy-world race rather than being typical demons. I still haven't figured out how that quite fits within that universe, but I'll figure it out when I need to.

Leppi is another oddball similar to Bebi Ansikt-Sitta and Ygolia Campbell. The aspect of the human world she's latched onto is fitness. Her dream is to open a fitness centre and get people fit with 'sexercise'.

It's a naïve dream. As the older and wiser individuals in the House know, the most likely outcome for that is Leppi getting burned at a stake or being carried off to a secret lab somewhere for dissection.

I think she would be a fairly fun character in another story, so I wouldn't be that cruel. Maybe she does get a stint in the human world and maybe one of the more powerful benevolent characters such as Inari looks out for her. Give her a magic charm to check the health of men beforehand, so she doesn't accidentally heart attack anyone to death, and the ensuing chaos is more comedic than horrific. I can see that having potential if I need more light-hearted elements for a story.

(And let's face it, a secret bunny girl gym with 'Sexercise!' would probably be a hit among her clientele. :D )

For the art I pretty much wanted a bunny girl dressed as a TV fitness guru and marwmellow delivered perfectly.

Let me know what you think down below.