#i do have charas I ship with all of them (except Mina I think) but they’re in the doc

[romijuli]

Oh no you have enabled me. I have a whole fan company. (And TWO self-inserts, even. Something went wrong here.)

I don’t get to talk abt them a lot and tbh I’m still kinda trying to straighten out my lore for these clowns so. Ramble time under the cut I’m so sorry:

IOLITE COMPANY MY DARLINGS. they’re technically recycled but they’ve changed enough from their original variants to be separate characters. More detailed descriptions here if you’d like to learn about my clowns, but I’ll give the quick rundown of who they are what they do and what problems they have.

OH RIGHT. Iolite forms like right at the beginning of act 3, which explains the Godza-isms

Actors:

Bee Jubilee (they/them): co-founder, occasional director, and first actor of Iolite Company! An American transplant who came over as an English teacher but wound up running this full time. Volunteering as Izumi’s assistant at Mankai led to them reuniting with an old college friend and rekindling their love of acting! (Self insert the first, named after a three-years-old joke about me being a trenchcoat full of bees?)

Sayuri Fujioka (she/her): second actor in Iolite Company, and playwright to boot. So unbelievably tired. She’s a lot like Homare, in that she tends to say stuff that can come across as blunt or hurtful, though in her case it’s more that she doesn’t see the point in sugarcoating things.

Aiko Hoshino (she/they): third actor in Iolite and company props master! Very excitable, though she can be a bit of a theater know-it-all. Ex-Godza fan who fell in love with Mankai during the act-off and became Sakuya’s biggest fan (who isn’t Kasumi or a Sakuya yume) after seeing Alex. (Amabi student in jubansaku’s year! Or at least I think they are? It’s not in the doc…)

Eri Hanazawa (she/her): fourth actor in Iolite and the company’s costumer, though she’s still learning the ropes on making stuff from scratch instead of just altering existing clothes. Painfully shy (and only worsened by teachers drawing attention to it), which makes her desire to become an actor kind of surprising, but apparently seeing some talented street actors will do that.

Fuyuko Iida (he/she, genderfluid): fifth actor to join, but far from inexperienced! (He’s one of the street actors who inspired Eri, after all!) Tiny and full of fucking rage, partially in general and partially from being consistently typecast as cutesy roles during her time in more traditional theaters. He just wants to go apeshit!

Rei Morimoto (she/her): sixth actor to join, and formerly part of a street act duo with Fuyuko. Comes off as a princely bishoujo sort, but is actually a TOTAL dweeb who adores cute things. Please let her play more girly roles. Please.

Mizuki Arisato (she/her): seventh actor to join—the first of the “rookies” aka the batch that joined after they got permission to use an actual building—and resident hair/makeup artist. Has Sakuya’s “I need to be cheerful and happy all the time” complex, except Mizuki is just straight up depressed under that. (Yosei kid in taitenmasu’s year!)

Imo Amamiya (she/her): eighth actor to join, second “rookie”, and designated baby of the group (17 in y3, when she joins!) Quite a space case—she wandered into practice by accident lmao—and perpetually sleepy, with HORRIBLE taste in close friends. (St. Flora student in Kumon’s year!)

Goswin Jubilee (he/him): ninth actor to join, third “rookie”, and Bee’s younger brother. He’s a kniroun fanatic (and unfortunately a twitch streamer) who came to see a kniroun rerun, wound up sitting next to Aiko, and got DRAGGED to Iolite. (They’re besties now.) Had a bit of a funky relationship with Bee thanks to his childhood rage issues, but it’s getting better. Slowly.

Hibiki Yoisaki (she/her): final actor and last rookie recruited, but she’s been a pain in the ass since before Iolite even started! Her brother’s in Godza, and since she wanted to be an actor, too, he kinda passed along the mentality he learned there. She gets better, obviously. (Amabi student in taitenmasu’s year!)

Staff:

Nana Yoshizawa (she/her): co-founder of Iolite as well as its director! Pretty easygoing, unless you imply that backstage crew is somehow inferior to the acting side of theater or that theater techs are just actors who couldn’t make it. Quite possibly the most normal person here. Met Bee while studying abroad in America!

Touya Minase (he/him): co-founder of Iolite and company sound designer! He comes across as a shockingly normal big-brother sort…unless he’s a) looking for Weird Noises For Sound Stuff (I made this guy before I knew about Rento. I can’t believe it.) or b) using his Mankai connections to get pics from photo shoots to torment the rest of Iolite with.

Ryou Kousaka (he/they): backstage crew specializing in…everything! Whatever you need, he can do, even if it’s a quick role in a show! They’re a pretty excitable sort, almost like a second Taichi. He actually lives with Touya and doesn’t seem to have contact with his family, and will not elaborate as to why. (Yosei student in taitenmasu’s year!)

Chel Jubilee (they/them primarily): Bee and Goswin’s older cousin, the Original theater kid of the fam, and Iolite’s OTHER do-everything clown, though they won’t step into the spotlight themself. A college theater major who wound up dropping out and losing their love of theater entirely, but hopped over to Iolite to visit the fam and wound up sticking around. Showed up in the middle of act 12 like “hey where’s that other theater company you guys seem to like”. (Self insert the second, if you couldn’t tell.)

Others:

Makoto Yoisaki (he/him): Hibiki’s brother and one of the chiller Godza members, though he retains the competitiveness and a hint of jealousy towards Reni’s current faves. He cares. He really does. His sister’s just stubborn. (Amabi student in Kazu’s year! Save him.)

Mina [WHAT IS HER SURNAME] (she/her): former member of Masumi’s fanclub who DEEPLY regrets it. She was supposed to be a one-off character in a fic I’m working on but I love her so I’m figuring out where to put her. Sakuya in particular has Issues with this girl because of the Masumi Fanclub thing, even though she’s chilled out since hs. (Fuyou student in jubansaku’s year!)

Mankai March question 3!

We learned about everyone’s favorite character yesterday, now let’s learn about any characters you might have! Do you have any OCs or yumes for A3! ? Feel free to ramble about them!!