#everyone give a round of applause to masen for making me unearth this big ass premise that i cant even formulate the words for

[prometheanglory]

hi! who’s shiori if you don’t mind telling us?

shiori would be my old enstars oc! shiori abe, if we’re being specific — he was the leader of my old fan-unit, maboroshi !

content warning ⚠️ : briefly mentions suicide

hello. hi :-) welcome to the ramble pit. i only have old art of him but here’s the most recent-ish?

a soft-spoken and gentle boy of... notably astonishing stature, despite his incredibly feminine face and delicate build (being 194cm). he has a very lonely and melancholic atmosphere about him — few people talk to him and seldom does he talk to others if he doesn’t have to. shiori is of a notably toothless disposition — he doesn’t seem to have much room in his body for any aggression or anger at all. i would even go as far as to say that he has a very defeated mindset (or maybe a far too willing sacrificial lamb).

in typical enstars fashion... nothing about any 3rd year student is clean and simple, shiori is no exemption ! his entire premise is centered around grieving and learning to let go of the dead (be it himself or others.)

the dead being referenced is best summarized as the ‘past’ for shiori. maboroshi is not actually his first unit — he was a formed member of a two-man unit called ‘fantôme’ with another fellow student, ren satou. fantôme is no longer an active unit, seeing as shiori would later disband the unit after ren’s passing.

ren is actually meant to be that student referenced in knights’ starfes event (the one that confessed to naru, before subsequently becoming incredibly disillusioned in eichi’s war and taking his own life)

it is critical to shiori’s character to mention the presence of love. he loved ren, romantically and platonically to the point where he was entirely willing to be crushed alongside him in fantôme’s final stand against eichi’s new system (granted, he knew that ren didn’t feel the same type of love back but shiori wasn’t seeking romantic reciprocation from ren — he just wanted to love ren.)

fantôme is actually based around the phantom of the opera... except i take it and i spin it on it’s head 🤪 erik who is transfixed with christine is played relatively straight (at first) by ren who is one of the first people to ever validate shiori’s beauty — however the plot would later be turned on it’s head as the tragedy unfolds. ren and shiori ultimately switch roles in who is the phantom and who is christine. where christine dignifies the innocent monster that is erik by extending her love to him, ultimately gracing him with humanity... the same is not applied to ren and shiori. shiori exists as the innocent monster that was not granted the mercy of death, and instead he must grow to learn even the most crippling aspects of what it means to have a heart so human.

maboroshi is actually a relatively new unit... and is still pretty underground (nice pun)... they have a rather traditional and supernatural feel to them — a recognized charm point of their shows are their distinguished elegance and grace!

the unit is comprised of: shiori abe, yasu hisakawa, and michi kurama.

the entire.... ‘why was maboroshi formed’ is kinda long and im now realizing how much of a spider web my entire maboroshi plotline was but 🤪 TEEHEE the summary of it essentially is michi (who’s greatest flaw is in the fact that he is such... a charismatic trailblazer that he continuously tramples other people and leaves them broken) ends up trampling his own friend (the only friend who had managed to cling on for this long to michi... in other words, yasu).

yasu is... ironically, best known for how little of a presence he has — michi, wataru, and shiori are the very very few people who have ever managed to remember yasu extensively. when he is trampled by michi, he begins to crumple under the pressures of eichi’s war; he is being pushed to the same edge as many other unfortunate students of yumenosaki academy .

shiori is brought back to yumenosaki with a desperate plea from michi to please save his friend — michi can’t bring yasu to listen to him alone, and michi isn’t at all capable enough of talking to him. in the end, it results in the very shaky foundations of maboroshi, a trio of three boys who have always existed outside of the image of what it means to be a sparkling idol and have been left for dead in eichi’s war for perfection. it seems they all have a lesson to learn in reanimating their corpses.

that wasn’t short at all. but anyway. theres probably more to talk abt concerning shiori (and maboroshi as a whole... and then some) but i have weasel brain and a plate of corn dogs so ✌️ until next time