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]

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.

[heavyliesthecrown]

Did you two have a disagreement that led to your indifference to one another?

It is a shame for us unitmates not to get along. I know that I am new, but I have been hoping that we all might come to see one another as family while here.

[purrrnicious]

Not really. They were like that from the start. I mean –– we argued later, but it was like that before that.

They think they're better than everyone else, and they get to decide who actually has worth. And to have worth, you have to be totally cool with them sacrificing you or anyone you care about for their precious "ideals", and some other criteria they've never bothered sharing. I heard about some of it. . . before they added LiliS and BARiTONES as units, apparently everyone hated Avante because Cardinal decided how they wanted to play was the "right" way to play, and everyone else should have to follow it. They used to sacrifice Avante, or teams they cared about –– Gold still has some hangup about not protecting his brother on Wild City over it, and there's something with Nemesis no one's ever filled me in on except she thinks her opinions don't count or whatever.

I'm not chasing after acceptance from someone like that. I've had enough of being just something someone can use to get what they want, or being expected to prove that I have value.

So, like, if you get on with them, good for you. But I'm not interested.

[heavyliesthecrown]

I am sorry you have had that experience. As well as Gold-kun and Nemesis-san. I won't press further on a subject that is likely unpleasant for you.

I am sure that we may all come to disagree at times on various matters. The important thing is still respecting one another. I am not sure that we will always be able to find a solution that satisfies all. But ideally, like the knights of the round table, I would personally prefer a wholesome environment where we can raise one another up with mutual respect.

[purrrnicious]

[zero comprendo]

. . .You want a round table? Go buy one yourself, we've got nothing to do with that.

[heavyliesthecrown]

. . . Ah, right. You said your world and the way you grew up were very different from others.

The Round Table is based off of the legendary Round Table of King Arthur. It was a place where noble knights gathered together as equals for the good of one another and the kingdom.

[purrrnicious]

. . .

Wait, so you're talking about a group that based their whole deal around the shape of a piece of furniture?

[heavyliesthecrown]

No, no. That was just the place they gathered-- their meeting and strategy location. Rather than just one person sitting at the head, everyone faced one another nobly and as equals.

Perhaps it is because of this that they were known as 'The Knights of the Round Table.

The shape is mostly irrelevant.

[ . . . . It feels strange explaining now, though... ]

[purrrnicious]

So it's just where they happened to meet? They could've been the "Knights of Conference Room 4A"?

[She laughs –– it's squeaky and girlish and probably kind of at odds with her usual more severe demeanour.]

Or the "Knights of the Utility Closet"!