#except it's for luka

[wodimewoahtime]

lukas talent being the splits the things i would do to this 30 year old man

this is actually making me consider a new hc tho.... luka already is like a purebred show poodle with 74923792 diseases (asthma, chronic migraines, weak heart, bad circulation) so what's one more????

i think!!!! luka should have hypermobility!!!!!

[enden-agolor]

For the FD au Lukas is getting adventure gear that he wears when he's out doing his biome research 🤗 He can't always be wearing his professional attire, don't wanna risk dirtying it up. Also Dewey is his adventure companion he found and adopted while traveling.

[shakingparadigm]

the school of only nepotism's finest!

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[skittyplush]

Jesslyn is having a girls night when jessean is out :3

[pisscentral]

local elias bouchard simp falls in love with a *different* evil, aging aristocrat

[furiouskettle]

wow, i drew a merperson during may for once! 🧜‍♂️

[premamelody]

derg

[ihateornithologists]

[colorfuldragons]

halloween special: vocaloid characters, but as flight rising dragons

𝟣. hatsune miku: charcoal/robin/fuchsia

2. kagamine rin & len: silver/banana/white

3. megurine luka: oilslick/rose/metals

4. gumi megpoid: grapefruit/pear/banana [left] || grapefruit/pear/pear [right]

i couldnt decide which gumi scry/outfit looked better, so i figured id just include both!

5. kaito: ice/blue/grapefruit

6. meiko: berry/brown/cream

7. kamui gakupo: ice/mist/turquoise

[iliveunderarock]

the other evillious characters i guess

[liquidstar]

After years of yuri content, two boys kissing is what gets the channel more attention, so personally if I was Vivinos I'd tweet that Ivan and Till are actually two butch lesbians and then turn off my phone

[vagun1ka]

hurt/comfort lukamiku hours

[absha120420]

if I EVER get up and make a alien stage doujin swear it's actor au wholesome romance yaoi slow burn 1000

[cari-canes]

For some reason, these two combination of images remind me of that one TMA character

[afraidparade]

What's your process for coming up with characters?

my boyfriend goes "what if there was a guy" and then i draw the guy

[geospiral]

The stage was always Luka’s world, and everyone else was just living in it.

Luka’s first round in the 50th Alien Stage competition was the fourth round, but really it should have been the second given the predetermined matchups. The Segyein were saving his round for later in order to excite the in-universe audience to the previous winner’s grand return.

(There is no dimmed profile in the second bracket.)

Luka being set up to go against either Mizi or Sua was absolutely intentional; the Segyein knew whoever came out of Round One would be an easy target for Luka’s manipulation, which, in their eyes, would make for a good show. When organizing the rounds, it seems like the Segyein try to go for which setups will elicit the biggest emotional responses out of the contestants. They clearly already knew about Mizi and Sua’s intimate relationship with the fact that the contestants’ profiles are most likely created by the Segyein with little to no input from the humans themselves (probably made with the help of the ever-present camera flowers in Anakt).

(translation)

This would also explain why Sua and Ivan were so certain about Mizi going up against Sua in the competition despite them not being told about the round matches yet.

(Take this with a grain of salt because it is possible they were already told who was against whom before this comic, but given how young they look, I'm thinking that it's probably too early for them to know.)

(translation)

If Luka weren’t in this year’s tournament, they would have probably set Till up against Mizi in Round 5 instead since the Segyein are aware of how much she means to Till. They technically could have still done that with Luka in the competition and had Round 6 be him vs. Ivan, but they most likely didn’t want to save Luka’s signature act until the final round, which the Segyein would have believed themselves to be doing given how they don’t seem to know how important Till is to Ivan (probably intentionally on Ivan's part).

(Text: "Intimacy: 70% It feels like I'm being chased all the time, but I can't find any evidence, so the teachers only suspect me!!! I'm so pissed!! He's always done things I don't like, and I don't understand... Anyway, he's a bother.)

Note: While I think the character profiles were probably made by the Segyein, I don't think the intimacy levels from the artbook are. I'm showing Till's intimacy level for Ivan to highlight his comment about the teachers not believing him when he says that Ivan is constantly following him around.

The Segyein knew the two were friends at least, but that seems about it. Maybe that was enough for them to be a possible sixth round setup if they came out of 2 and 3 victorious, but given the vast potential there was for Luka vs. Ivan after a Mizi vs. Till round, I don't think the Segyein knew the depths of Ivan and Till's relationship and therefore didn't care until it became blatantly obvious after the canon Round 6 and could be capitalized upon for the finale.

From a meta perspective, an Ivantill round was obvious, but my personal opinion is that in-universe I think that matchup was more akin to a happy little accident on the Segyein's part.

This is also all ignoring the huge elephant in the room, which is the Rebellion throwing a wrench into the competition.

I think the biggest change in the direction of the competition (not the results of the rounds but in how the rounds themselves were organized) due to the rebellion was how the Segyein decided to have the finale be mere hours after Round 6. If the fifth round hadn’t been interrupted, I think that the sixth would have been performed right after, like how the first four rounds were. Also, I don’t think they would have tried to aid Luka in his manipulation by throwing up pictures of Ivan on the screens and would have just left him to his own devices like in Round 5. But the Segyein wanted to lure the rebels out to save Till, so basically flashing a big sign that says, "THIS GUY IS MESSED UP FROM THE LAST ROUND AND WILL DIE IF YOU DON'T DO SOMETHING" was probably the best way to do it.

This is all to say that I think it's a lot more interesting if Luka was being set up to be the winner the entire time. Obviously he still had to work for it, but I like the idea that almost everything was set up in his favor; he just had to take advantage of it. The Segyein wanted a good show, and Luka knows how to perform. He did not disappoint them.