Prologue - During the last year I've been living in the spirit of self improvement. What I lacked most was confidence. I started out as an average engineering student. I did many things, with great help from this subreddit. With inspiration from a post I've made this ever changing manifesto where you may see my current progress.

At my university I'm taking care of exchange students since I started. Every semester we organize a reception for the newly arrived ones. This means 500-1000 fun, open, wanting to party students that probably don't know anyone and are looking for friends. And you're the cool Swedish guy, who knows where to find the closest IKEA. I also own a banana costume. I'm wearing this banana costume a few times during the reception, for example during the campus tour where I need to be seen. The banana suit is excellent for peacocking. After the reception a few hundred exchange students recognize me, and I slightly know the 50-100 most social.

Our student union quite often organizes big parties, with maybe 500-800 guests simultaionsly of which most are exchange students. At these parties I wear the banana suit. Since many exchange students recognize me and people who've never met me also greet the "banana man" I get ridiculous amounts of social proof, even but not as much when not wearing the costume. Additionally the banana suit gives a feeling of anonimity so it's easy to practice things you wouldn't do normally. Whatever you do it's not you for most people, it's the banana man.

Now previous 2 of these parties I've ended up dancing with this ridicously good looking spanish girl, who I apparently were training gymnastics and acrobatics with. Both times I escalated some kino and chatted some, but I didn't have the experiance I have now so nothing happened except that she added me on facebook.

The evening - It started out with me going to a corridor party at 9, with my banana suit on, where I didn't know anyone except the american exchange student who I talked to for 20 minutes at another party (no banana suit) and who organized the party. Nothing much happened there in terms of seduction, I just got to know a lot of people and had really fun. Which was why I went there, so perfectly ok.

At 23:30 I thanked the host and headed to the party our awesome student union organized together with a french exchange student who taught me dirty french songs and parts of the marseillaise. At arrival I ran into two italian girls whom I've met at an earlier party and engaged in a chat. It went remarkably well as we talked about Italian and Swedish tonguetwisters and drinking songs. I also asked them and learnt a few sentences in Italian (Languages are really cool to know!) while adding a little kino. All of the time I was getting really much social proof since I wore my costume. I wandered around for a while, talking to people I know and some who I didn't yet know.

Then when getting to the dance floor I met this spanish girl again. She introduced me to her friends from Spain visiting her. We started dancing and I escalated some kino like taking her hand and twirling her around in a pirouette or putting my hand on her hip to lead her in the dance. Another girl I know suddenly came by and asked me to keep her company (I didn't really hear why), but I told her that I'm already busy keeping company and went to the spanish girl to dance closer with her (as opposed to a ring). The spanish girl then took my hands and while dancing dragged me through the full dancefloor away from her friends and the other girl (I'm not sure why!) and we started kissing while dancing through the dancefloor. Later when we were dancing with her friends she wasn't very keen on kino (I think because she wasn't comfortable about doing that near her friends) and she left earlier than me with her friends who stayed at her place.

Today, two days later, I asked her out giving her a choice of two different dates to go for a "fika" which is basically having something at a café in this case. (My first time asking a girl out, I have no experience with this!).

This was her response:

Daniel, how're you? I can't meet with you thursday and friday because there are a friend from Barcelona until next week. however, I have classes in universitetet and after that I'm working every day from 5 to 8p.m...I'm so sorry! Are u ok? Did you find well your return way at home last Saturday-night? PD: see u soon and nice to see you again :)

I will ask her to go for a fika during the next weekend again this weekend. :D

P.S - /r/nofap had a great deal in this

tldr; A banana costume (or something in the same spirit!) is a really good for peacocking, getting undeserved social proof and anonymity handy for trying new things.