fanmail + theme announcement!

[idolpro]

Who: You!
Where: Hotel Lobby!
When: Day 338

[ What?? Is it. . . fanmail time already????

It is! So there are many boxes scattered around, less like they're blocking the entrances and more like they're just blocking your walking path in general. Don't trip, there's a box! Look out, it's a box! What's in the sky!? . . . I dunno, that's not a box!? ]

Producers: It's starting to warm up, so let's warm things up!
Producers: Out with the old, in with the new! Novel and Romance are over, now it's ✨✨✨RECIPROCATION✨✨✨ and ✨✨✨DRESS-UP✨✨✨for you!
Producers: Did you get something nice? Pay it back, you fucking fucker!
Producers: Did you get something mean? Get thy vengeance sevenfold!
Producers: Oh, and make sure you look nice when you do it!
Producers: You won't get the extra points though ☆(・ω<)

[ OOC NOTE: WE'RE GONNA TRY SOMETHING NEW!

In the interest of making it easier to hide/separate NSFW content, we're asking players to put their NSFW fanmail reactions under a "cut". How does that work? Here's an example!

We've got a poll up on Discord about it; if it's too much effort or if there's something about it you super don't like, you don't have to do it, but for the sake of player comfort and happiness, if it's not too big of an ask, we'd like everyone's cooperation in trying this out. Thank you! ]

Comments

[purrrnicious]

[She laughs.]

Too bad for you, you've fallen in with the wrong crowd~

I mean, I don't think you can call a space warlord a "good boy", now can you?

[heavyliesthecrown]

Our second time around we tried to become Space Knights. It didn't work out as well.

But I thought we were brilliant by the end of the first round. Everything had started out so dire and then flipped around. Warlord is quite a fearsome name. You ended up dragging us away from a bad situation.

Avente en garde is a truly capable team. ♪

[purrrnicious]

Mmhmm. Some of them are dead weight, but some of them have their moments.

You're welcome, by the way.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Yes, thank you.

I was a little [ a lot ] shaken after the game, as well as learning out a couple of difficult truths.

But I realize things could have been so much worse. So I am glad we escaped a fate that would have made it so much worse.

[purrrnicious]

[She frowns a little, running her claws through her hair as she thinks of Future is Now and their




melting]

I don't know what they were thinking, messing around with stuff like that. . .

There is no clever way out of games. If you only learn one thing, learn that –– they'll always turn it around on you.

[heavyliesthecrown]

[ He nods ]

. . . Honestly, after the game I was troubled enough that I visited a couple of units, including my oniisama's unit. He said something along those same lines and offered some good advice.

I cannot say I am ready for whatever faces us next. But... I think he was right when he explained that it is important that we all remember that we are prisoners here and we have been forced into desperate situations and to do things we would never want to do.

He said a number of other things, but it boiled down to moving forward and knowing that we will make mistakes that will result in harm to ourselves and others, but that it is important to keep our pride and our heads high and to make decisions that we will not regret, even if the outcome, in the end, ends poorly.

I would like to agree with that thought process. And to keep in mind that other units are not truly our enemies, but also victims, too.

[purrrnicious]

[Her tail flicks, and her tone drops to something a little cooler.]

Do what you want, I don't care.

But I'm not going to die so you can feel better about yourself, or self-righteous, or so you can make nice with the other units, in a game or not.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Please do not misinterpret my words.

I do not have any desire to roll over and die. We are knights and we do not simply fall on our blades when faced with adversity. I don't believe that we should either.

[ Not at all. ]

What I meant, was that we will make decisions that we will not like, but we should not hate ourselves for wanting to survive or regret them. And neither should we blame others for their own gameplay either.

[purrrnicious]

[Giving him a narrow, suspicious look –– but she seems to be letting it go.]

. . .Let's just say I'm used to being considered expendable. I've never put up with it before and I'm not about to start now.

[heavyliesthecrown]

You feel avante has treated you that way?

[purrrnicious]

Mostly no. I think Cardinal totally wishes they could, but Avante is pretty good at making the moves we need to at least try and survive.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I can't imagine a scenario of desiring a loss.

I believe our biggest complication is the fact that there are people on a number of different units that we do not wish to hit.

But we know that not hitting others in a game isn't always an option.

[purrrnicious]

Have you even been in a game like that, yet?

[heavyliesthecrown]

I was worried we might have to in this last one.

[ But they ended up not doing so. He doesn't believe. ]

The units I prefer to avoid are sensitIV, Taisho, and BARiTONES.

. . . Which is a lot.

[ But at least he doesn't think the rest of the unit wants to hit Taisho or BARiTONES.]

[purrrnicious]

[She frowns, folding her arms and shifting her weight to one foot so she's cocking a hip.]

Based on what? I mean, we're not going to take out Gold's brother so you can protect some guy you passed in the road once. Who is on those units, exactly?

[heavyliesthecrown]

My close unitmates from home are on Taisho and SensitIV. We are all from within the same unit called Knights where I come from.

on BARiTONES, Tenshouin-oniisama is there. We are close friends [ He assumes this since he calls him older brother back home apparently- ] and our families are business associates.

[purrrnicious]

So, your singing "friends".

Eichi only cares about himself and Wata-whoever. He's never mentioned you even once.

[heavyliesthecrown]

They are more than just singing friends. But yes. As idols that is our job. I imagine that was why King forced me to Taisho in an effort to make me part of the unit.

[ Naturally that wasn't gonna work.]

. . . A-As for Tenshouin-oniisama, just because he never said anything about me before... doesn't mean anything. He has offered me genuine help and advice, and was the one to first inform me of our relationship and even my name.

[purrrnicious]

Believe what you want. I'm never protecting him again, so don't ask me to.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I heard our units have an alliance anyway, so it doesn't really make a difference with their unit, does it?

[purrrnicious]

Whoever told you that is lying. We don't have a formal alliance with anyone. There's just teams people want to avoid –– Cardinal's the one that usually insists on avoiding BARiTONES. I have no idea where we rank with them any more, but I doubt we're their first priority by a long shot.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I don't know. He seemed fairly earnest when he said they refuse to hit us due to an alliance...

But it's worrisome if one side believes one exists and then I'm hearing that there isn't one to begin with. [Hmm ]

Who is it there that Cardinal-san wishes to protect?

[purrrnicious]

We don't have one. No one ever has a "formal alliance" because the whole unit can never actually agree on it. I've been around when people tried, more than once. It always just ends up as some vague "we try to avoid them" thing.

And if you want to know about Cardinal, ask Cardinal.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Since we have so many people we want to protect, I imagine that is the case.

I know we are on the same unit, but I haven't gotten to know Cardinal-san much yet. I'll ask her.

[purrrnicious]

[She scoffs.]

Yeah, good luck. They never bothered talking to me unless it was to tell me I was playing a game wrong.