#(Technically Aigis; Metis; and Kurogami too but only once and not of much importance for Kuro so)

[systematicallycapricious]

Arenatober prompts both finished and not:

I don’t know if I’ll ever finish most of these, but if I ever do, I’ll link their posts back here.

1 - The Arena

(In a nondescript “024 lives and escapes with Labrys” AU, the two of them end up visiting the nature-reclaimed “arena” that they used to be trapped by.)

2 - Helicopter

[Same AU as above; Drawing idea] The view is the outside of a helicopter window looking into the cabin. Labrys has her hands braced against the glass, pressing her face close with eyes full of wonder (on the right side), while 024 is seated across from her, knees together and hands on her knees, though relaxed and with a gentle smile on her face as she watches Labrys.

3 - Heart

https://systematicallycapricious.tumblr.com/post/665949058140127232/for-arenatober-heart

4 - Betrayal

https://systematicallycapricious.tumblr.com/post/663905119031656448/penny-for-your-thoughts-cordisthecapricious

5 - Wish

[Drawing idea] Minazuki and 024 both know about wishes. Maybe just a small doodle of them sitting side by side and talking, but their speech bubbles are little icons; Mina's is flames, while 024's is a generic girl icon or hospital symbol or something? Maybe even a (chibi/simplified?) Labrys face? That or Shabrys wielding Asterius, as she's somewhat the manifestation of a wish herself? (Maybe Labrys with Asterius from [this fic]? Or Xiphos/024 and Labrys at the ocean pier together?)

6 - Lost

[Drawing idea] Sho and Labrys try to read a road map (or an 'Atlus'-atlas xD). Sho's holding one edge, while Labrys holds the opposite one? ...Ignoring the fact that Labrys might have some kind of GPS function, so maybe it’s even a human AU Labrys?

(Alternative that doesn't work for this prompt alas; General Teddie holds the map while Sho peers/leans over his shoulder as they try to figure out where in Inaba to enact their plan... Or Sho holds it and Gen. Ted. looks on from a TV screen behind him might be more accurate?)

8 - Wander

[Drawing idea] 024 and Labrys are wandering around on a beach, maybe either with 024 taking Labrys by the hand and leading her somewhere, or both maybe spread-out in different places looking at different things? Maybe even could include Minazuki sitting on a rock in the shade watching them too. xD

9 - Listen

https://systematicallycapricious.tumblr.com/post/665866302868570112/for-arenatober-listen-because-why-not

10 - Personas

[Drawing idea] Labrys and Shadow Labrys get costumes or masks based off of their Personas (because seriously, an Asterius-based outfit would just be cool).

12 - The Velvet Room

[Drawing idea] General Teddie: Velvet style.

14 - Sea (Ocean)

(While sleeping, Minazuki unintentionally slips into the Sea of Souls (kinda like Labrys does in OG). While he’s there, a certain other Death-related entity greets him, and they talk about some things pertinent to life and the Sea. Alternatively, as my friend imagined, this is what happens to Minazuki post-Ultimax (though unfortunately the attire I drew doesn’t match that because sleeping clothes TvT;).)

15 - Trapped

https://systematicallycapricious.tumblr.com/post/664882267491123200/for-arenatober-trapped-just-a-quick-little

20 - Stars

https://systematicallycapricious.tumblr.com/post/666740063885000704/for-arenatober-stars-this-just-in-a-cryptid

21 - Break Out

[Drawing idea] Labrys hides inside a giant present box. It's a mini-comic, so one panel is the closed box sitting there, and the next is Labrys popping out with her arms holding up the lid and grinning, yelling "Surprise!" with some confetti floating around her maybe?

22 - Anger

[RPGMaker mechanic showcase] I was going to show off the “anger” mechanic I’d made for Sho over the past several months, but it was rougher than I recalled it being when I last saw it, so I decided against doing so. Maybe one day. :T

24 - Alive

[Drawing idea] Labrys has a huge flag that says 'Plume-People Rights!' that she's gleefully/joyfully waving around; Minazuki's like 'why was I dragged into this...? -_-' ; 024's got a button-pin with a Plume icon and a smaller flag (handheld one); Aigis and Metis are holding up a long banner together, and Ryoji's just there to support his sorta-children(?). Kurogami might also stick his head in... literally, since he’s out of frame, to ask 'does this apply to me too?' or something. {The main reason I'm kinda associating this with the "alive" prompt, aside from the obvious stuff going on with the A-SSWs and all anyway, is because this picture spawned from me going on a tirade to my friend about Minazuki deserving better for being a living being too, and then my friend agreed with me, and then the joke of 'Plume-people rights' happened. xD}

28 - Nightmares

[Writing idea] Basically a random drabble of a nightmare that Sho has, involving a proto-Kagutsuchi design that honestly looks pretty handy for literal nightmare fuel, and Yu. It’s also a mild homage to PMMM I guess. xD And it’s techincally for an AU, but could easily be read as a canon-compliant scenario too, I think?

30 - Shadows

[Undecided type of idea]

Sho: "I already told ya. This thing isn't me."

Shabrys: "You're right. It's not you. It's more 'you' than you are. You're the one that's walking around like a hollow imitation of it."

Shabrys: "Now suck it up, buttercup. Or are you too much of a pansy when you're the one facing down the Shadow?"

...or something like that. It's a mini-comic (could be a drabble too though), with the setting of a recreation of the hospital room that Sho woke up from his coma in (except, like, modeled after an actual hospital room). Sho is standing a few feet away from the foot of the foreground bed, warily staring down a younger-looking version of himself who's curled up on the bed and looking down at the floor (or squeezing his eyes shut). Shabrys is sitting on the edge of the background bed (being the other bed in the room), placing her visually between the two despite her being more off to the side in actuality. She's got both her legs and arms crossed, and is leaning back slightly. It’s probably some form of post-canon, although I have no idea how this situation would happen, or some kind of AU that allows for Sho to have forced Labrys to encounter Shabrys in a way similar to how she did in OG. Also because it could be kind of fun to give Shabrys some vindication in a situation like this.

1e - Scars

[Sholar AU; Writing idea] Labrys contemplates her “scars”... sounds less fleshed-out than it actually is, I just can’t say some stuff without being able to use a spoiler warning. TuT;

8e - Grave

[Writing or drawing idea] A very random idea where post-Ultimax, Sho makes a shrine for Minazuki (who’s been M.I.A. for months/years, so he’s presumably deceased at this point) in his place of residence, because I got curious how that’d work in an instance like this. Or, directly from my notes:

Post-Ultimax; Sho's made a shrine(a butsudan) for Minazuki, with a tablet/piece of paper or something that has his name (ミナヅキ ショウ) written on it, but no picture of himself or anything, since none were ever taken and taking one of himself just to put there is too weird/off-putting. It's surrounded by disorderly candles in all the wrong colors and all uneven, and other shrine-related things, since Sho doesn't really know how people are supposed to set one up, but. There's also a Japanese flycatcher/other applicable blue-bird feather he keeps in the center of it, too. He found it somewhere and it's the closest thing he can get to 'remains’ for Minazuki. A shoddy stand-in, but it serves its purpose. He goes there to talk to Minazuki every now and again, even though he'll no longer be able to receive an answer, he just doesn't care. It's all he knows, and it's the closest he can get, now that... (Minazuki's gone for forever) He might even permanently affix/leave one of his swords there as well, symbolic of how he feels the least whole he's ever been in his own life, of how he's one uneven when he was once two in balance. It affects his fighting style to some degree probably, but to him it's kind of how it should be, he thinks? The word isn't "cathartic"... I don't remember what it's called. :T Maybe kinda like using two swords/that other sword in tandem with his specifically again would be wrong or something, because that was his too, so it's only fair if they both get one? Or that he deserves it for letting Minazuki die? :?

I’m not sure if butsudans and graves are exactly the same thing, but in Sho’s case I think it’d kinda function as both? Also not sure if it’s OOC at all, but. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Such are random musings.