#i know it's not a frozen cosplay but this whole scenario is so in character for yachiyo that it made me lol

[halloweenqueenkanagi]

If this latest event establishes Mifuyu as a Dark/Fire type Pokemon and Yachiyo as a Water/Ice type, Kanagi better get a Psychic/Grass type alt to complete the triangle.

[leviathans-watching]

Your writing is ❤❤❤❤

May I please request a scenario where the brothers accident come across MC who's dressed in a night gown?

Probably something like this ⬇️

the brothers seeing you in cute pajamas

includes: the brothers x/& gn!reader (implied fem body type/dressing in fem clothing due to nature of ask but no pronouns mentioned)

wc: .7k | rated t | m.list| pt 2

a/n: thank you! this req was adorable and fun to imagine!! thank you for requesting and my inbox is open to chat, leave feedback, or request!!

reblog please 😻🙏

more reference images that i tried to make more gender neutral:

➳ lucifer coughs, a blush rising on his face. “i apologize. i didn’t mean to barge in and invade your space.” he can’t take his eyes off of you. he’s never seen you in pajamas before- well, he’s seen you in a t-shirt and sweats, but not actual pajamas, especially not ones as cute as those. you don’t even seem to be aware of the effect you have on him as you just wave him off with an innocent smile. as soon as he says what he originally wanted to say he’s back in the hallway, hand on his heart as he tries to calm down.

➳ mammon completely loses his train of thought, stopping right in the middle of his sentence. “um,” he manages, swallowing. “heh, sorry for busting in on you like this.” he stares at you for a moment before ripping his eyes away to focus on the pillow on your bed, a pattern that repeats itself multiple times. it takes you like four times of saying his name before he snaps to attention. you ask him what he wanted, but when he goes to answer he completely blanks. what was it he was coming to tell you?

➳ levi is frozen, hand on your doorknob. a blush almost immediately rises on his face, turning him so red it’s honestly a little worrying. he can’t believe you’re wearing something like that. he can’t believe he’s lucky enough to see you wearing something like that. the majority of his brain is rebooting, trying to jump-start him again, while a small part is (unhelpfully) pointing out how the pajamas you’re wearing are very similar to ones that one of his anime characters wore. then he gets distracted by the idea of you in an anime, and you cosplaying, and honestly, it's been a few minutes and you’re seriously worried for his health.

➳ satan covers his bush with his hand, shutting the door immediately. “sorry,” he calls through the door. “i should have knocked.” you tell him it’s fine and that he can come in, and he slowly pushed the door open again, resisting the urge to slam it shut once more. how’s he supposed to function when you go around looking like that? it’s unfair. somehow, he manages to get through the rest of the conversation, his brain running on autopilot, and once he’s back in the hallway again, he has to resist the urge to melt into a puddle.

➳ asmo can’t deny his interest. he’s never seen you dressed up to go to bed and assumes you’re going to be facetimeing with someone or something. he compliments you, multiple times, circling closer each time, and when you tell him you just decided to wear them for no special reason he pauses. “i could be your special reason?” he offers, only half-joking, and when you just roll your eyes with a little laugh he can’t help but think to himself how that wasn’t a no and would you wear a matching set with him if he bought one?

➳ beel resolutely powers through the conversation, eyes fixed on yours the whole time. he’s a little flustered, but he tries to ignore your state of dress (or undress) like a gentleman, though he only sort of succeeds because he keeps taking a moment too long to respond. it’s pretty uneventful, and beel is kind of grateful he was the one to accidentally walk in on you, because who knows how his brothers would react if they were to see you like this. that line of thinking caused him to spiral and he eventually decided his brothers could never see you like this.

➳ belphie has seen you in pajamas, several times, but never in cute ones like this. honestly, he didn't even know you owned pajamas like this. “sorry for not knocking,” he says. “those pajamas are nice, though.” “you think so? asmo bought them for me and i was a little nervous to wear them,” you reply, twisting in the mirror to look at yourself. belphie sends a small prayer of thanks to asmo. “nah, they look fine,” he assures you. “more than fine,” he mutters to himself, then gives you an innocent expression when you look up, confused.

leviathans-watching’s work - please do not repost, copy, or claim as your own

[myaekingheart]

Kakashi motherfucking Hatake is invading all of my dreams with a fervor, jfc. 

Night of 12/27/19: 

I was off somewhere, likely outside in a place looking very reminiscent of the scene of the Fourth Great Shinobi War, taking cosplay pictures with Suki Cosplay--my favorite Kakashi cosplayer. I’m pretty sure I was in cosplay as my OC Rei, likely in the jonin uniform she wears during the war. The pictures we were taking were super self-indulgent and shippy, and at one point either him or someone else suggested something along the lines of taking some photos with the vibe/tone of “pregnancy photos”? Like those pretty, posted maternity pics people do or some shit, but in the context of this war (which would make some sense since the current plan has Rei pregnant during the course of the war but still). I think it’s also importnat to note that this was dream I was in the middle of when I woke up at 5am yesterday morning and proceeded to have a three hour breakdown because my cats shattered the Ichiraku Ramen bowl my boyfriend got me for Christmas. 

By the time I had calmed down, I was feeling really sick from lack of sleep and my chronic illness was starting to flare, I felt kind of like I was going to puke and my stomach and back were getting really crampy. Going back to sleep was extremely difficult. The dream I had after the fact was especially strange.

There was something about a checklist about being in a relationship with Kakashi, like I guess what all that would entail maybe like a boyfriend scenario imagine post or something. I was with Suki Cosplay again but this time, he was in my house, and it was like a montage of going through this checklist. At one point Elsa from Frozen was there I guess as a representative of a “girlfriend” for Kakashi which really made zero fucking sense and even kind of pissed me off. And then the scene changed and my boyfriend was Kakashi. I was lying on the kitchen floor huddled up in a big, fluffy blanket watching Youtube videos on the TV, just overall very sad burrito. My boyfriend came over dressed as Kakashi, but not just any Kakashi—he was in Suki Cosplay’s 2019 Santa Kakashi, but with like no pants on. So he came over and sat behind me cross-legged, his body pressed against mine as if he was trying to tell me he was in the mood or something. And then for some reason there were a bunch of hazy vignettes afterward about the two of us doing light cleaning around the house?

Night of 12/28/19:

I don’t know if it’s just because these were last night or what but I remember these A LOT more vividly than I do the previous night’s dreams. These two were kind of related, but also kind of not.

The first portion was that me and a bunch of Naruto characters were piling onto a city bus in Japan on our way to the Naruto theme park they recently opened in Hyogo Prefecture. At first, I remember Kakashi and I sitting next to each other in a pair of seats by a window, one of the first rows that face forward rather than to the side. For some reason, I was not only pregnant but apparently in labor and I was just leaning forward with my forehead pressed against the railing in front of the seats trying to breathe. Kakashi was sitting next to me rubbing my lower back and looking kind of impatient about getting to a hospital. I think either Hinata or Sakura were sitting in the seat in front of us, one of the ones that face to the side. But then all of that faded and I was suddenly perfectly fine, sitting by myself in one of the front-most seats—one of those ones right in front of the platform where people can put their bags and stuff, that are a bit higher than the rest of the seats. In my experience, these spots are often taken by other bus drivers on their way back to the station either at the beginning or end of a shift (I just ride public transportation A LOT and I also know that not all public buses have these, I think it’s the newer ones that do). Everyone else on the bus was carrying on, like I think Naruto and Sai were running around arguing or something. It was all super hectic/chaotic and in that moment I felt super out of place. And then we pulled up to the theme park and everyone freaked out and rejoiced and rushed off the bus.

And then the second half of the dream snaps back to the weird pregnancy shit. Suddenly I was with Kakashi and in labor again, but this time instead of on the bus, we were walking into the lobby of the hospital. I remember he followed me up to the check-in desk and I awkwardly stated my name and business and the receptionist handed us this MASSIVE stack of paperwork on a clipboard. Kakashi took it and thanked her and then we went and sat down in the waiting area. He took the responsibility of filling out all of the questions for me while I sat there leaning forward just trying to calm the fuck down and breathe. He was asking me the questions on the forms, and a lot of them were really weird and unnecessary but I don’t remember exactly what they were and in the dream, was far too in pain to really care. At one point, I remember reaching out and squeezing his hand hard and he just looked at me and then stood up muttering something about “This is ridiculous, we need a doctor now” and then guided me back to the check-in desk with clipboard in hand. Then the scene kind of shifted to us getting taken back to a room, and he was right by my side the whole time like holding my hand as they wheeled me back, and then I’m pretty sure there were some very hazy vignettes of like being in the hospital room? Like I remember squeezing his hand, I remember breathing heavily, I remember this look of alert concern on his face, I remember him like holding my thigh while I pushed or something? It was all really specific but hazy and kind of weird, but then again I can’t say I’m totally surprised because these sorts of things have been running through my head relatively frequently these days just because I’ve been thinking a lot about when Rei and Kakashi have their children in the fanfic as well as the fact that it feels like literally everyone I know in real life is getting pregnant these days and it’s….lowkey dizzying. But this is fine, this is just perfectly fine lmfao

[elizabethschoices]

#LoveHacks, Book 2, Chapter 3: My Thoughts

I’m just going to warn you now. There is probably more swearing in this than usual. Which says a lot.

Am I going to have to pay diamonds to cosplay? I’m gonna be real upset if I do, tbh.

FUCKING HELL I DON’T WANT TO PLAY AS SEREENA I DON’T EVEN LIKE HER LET ME BE ME AND HAVE MY BEN

It’s Sereena’s first day of the new quarter at Strickland University and we instantly get to last chapter’s ‘next time’ moment. We bump into a cutie pie and fall to the ground. I hate Sereena, so I’ll blame this on her. Probably is her fault anyway.

Sorry, my bad.

She helps us collect our things and Sereena mentions how her professors already hate her. I don’t blame them. Can we please get this chick’s name and move on, please? I have a con and a man waiting for my arrival.

She’s headed to Lecture Hall C as well, so clearly they’ll walk together and I’m guessing a lecture hall is just a classroom so they’ll have the same class too?. For once I’d like something not so rom-com-y. Make this chick not gay at all but Sereena still falls for her and then the chick realizes she’s maybe falling for Sereena (somehow ‘cause lmao that bitch is terrible) and IMMEDIATELY like shuts her out because how do you deal with your life changing like that and then Sereena is all ‘oh god wtf do i do now what did i do wrong’ and honestly I wouldn’t be mad if they didn’t even get together in the end of this book. Drag that shit out a little bit, make it a bit more realistic than, say, someone getting three marriage proposals and still not knowing which one they want to marry after they already have a fucking husband-to-be selected.

Can we please get this woman’s name already? She claims she’s got an in with the professor, so she won’t go too hard on Sereena. Let that bitch rain acid on her, idgaf.

Aiyana. How do you say that? I-Anna like Anna from Frozen with an I in front of it?

(E-Glesias with a I!)

Wtf is a tizzy?

Someone’s breaking out the obscure words.

Blah, blah, blah. More dialogue that doesn’t give me anything important other than Aiyana wanting to impress Sereena without trying to, and Sereena being impressed for some fucking reason and denying it.

They get to Lecture Hall C and hoo boy, I hope she’s not majoring in that crap. Apparently she’s been kicked out of that classroom and the new class in there is Environmental Studies, who are apparently snobs. I hope Aiyana is an ES major.

Even better, she’s the TA for it. ‘Bout time Sereena got some sort of clapback.

God, I’m glad that shit is over with. Back to me! And my Ben, of course. <3

Ah hell, she’s spoken one sentence thus far and I feel a diamonds option coming on. Fuck you, PB. I would love to dress as Starfall, because I know Ben would love it. I’ll pass on Kenna because MC looks weird in it. I suppose I’ll go in my everyday wear.

Not everything has to be about money. Somewhere along the line, you forgot about having a fun, enjoyable, playable game, PB. Though I can admit this isn’t nearly as bad as the baseball game where Ben specifically says not to wear purple and WE HAVE TO FUCKING WEAR PURPLE.

‘These Cosplays Are Only As Good As The Real Thing If You Have Money To Waste’

There’s my sweetheat!!! We head to the con!

It’s even more awesome in person!

Edgar!

Ben’s last name is Park? Benjamin Park... Hmm, I prefer Benjamin Burnley, myself, but that’s fine. Park is close to Parker... As a kid (let’s face it, even as an adult) I bet Ben imagined himself as Spider-Man. What little boy or girl hasn’t?

LOVE. ME. SOME. HIM.

He asked for Ben’s autograph! How cool! I’m so proud of him.

I’m here with a real-life celebrity!

Just about everything is a perk when it comes to Ben.

We see fuckface from ROE, and then play a VR demo of The Crown and the Flame. Oh great, we’re at the Iron Empire. I wonder if wearing the Kenna Rys outfit changes this scene up in any way.

A soldier appears and attacks high, so we duck. Then we deflect his sword ‘cause I don’t even know if we can cut through his sword. All we have is Kenna’s short sword!

He lunges for us and holds us up in the air. We kick him in the gut. Then we force him to surrender.

We beat it on the first try, and apparently nobody else has. Sweet! Ben says the Venus Corps panel is about to start, so away we go.

FUCKING HELL I. DO. NOT. CARE. ABOUT. SEREENA. OR. HER. STORY. I. CARE. ABOUT. MINE. AND. BEN’S.

Sereena is a legit cunt. I hate her. So much. She provides nothing but disaster to this series. Your classroom got moved, so fucking what. You probably received an email about the change, but are too irresponsible to check the damn thing. Just because they study the environment, which is pretty god damn important, doesn’t mean they don’t believe in ‘equal rights’. And I’m not sure how Women’s Studies equates to equal rights?

If you’re all about conserving resources, why do you hog student resources?

Like, really? Why is this such a big deal to her? More people are interested in a class that teaches about the environment than one that teaches about women? What even about women does it teach? Will it get you a fucking job? Does Sereena even have a job? Or is she still freeloading off of Brooke and MC?

She deserves the embarrassment. She’s being an asshole for no reason other than to be a brat.

Then she thinks she’s in love because someone schooled her ass.  What a self-absorbed cunt. Just because your friends are unwilling to defy you doesn’t mean that the rest of the world will follow suit. That’s not love, idiot.

Why does she even sit through this lecture? For someone who cares so much about Women’s Studies, she had no problem ditching it for something she doesn’t even like.

Aiyana says she hosts a campus radio show, so she’s Outtie 5000. I would be too if I had to come face-to-face with Sereena. She invites her to come along as a special guess, but I will be damned if I spend diamonds on Sereena. I didn’t even spend any for Ben.

She sees someone playing Dopey Cat and then we’re finally back to the con!

It’s post-panel now, and he’s signing autographs while we wait! Love him.

Oh fucking hell, that dude Evan from last book is here. It’s good to see you. It’s not, but I don’t want to be rude. I don’t even remember that date, but I guess he was a jackass and has now apologized for it. Apology accepted. Then he goes off too his friends.

And what was the point of that?

Ben comes back. Believe me, honey, you won’t lose me. I’m far too attached.

I HAVE THE CUTEST BOYFRIEND EVER!!!!!

I HAVE THE CUTEST BOYFRIEND EVER PT. 2!!!!!

AWWWWWW MY BABY IS MOVING UP IN THE WORLD! So the people in charge of Venus Corps are planning a spin-off about Starfall’s teen sidekick, Solaris, and they want Ben to illustrate and write for it!

I am announcing this to you all as if he is a real person and actually my boyfriend.

...

I need a man. A real man.

OH SHIT ‘BOUT TO GET LAID!

lmao what the hell is up with this weird screen like this isn’t a outfit change scenario

and why is he standing all defensive like that? And bby we need to buy you some jeans. Blue jeans. Idek what color those pants are.

We invite Ben to stay and celebrate!

We change into something more comfortable and poor baby’s too distracted to order food.

Good. >:)

MC makes him focus on the menu, so he decides on champagne and chocolate-covered strawberries. We drink some champagne and he tells us the story how he got his job in the first place.

We drink some more and then MC goes for a strawberry. We feed Ben a strawberry because it’s not really celebrating him if we eat them all. We kiss him after he’s taken a bite. He deepens the kiss and pulls us to his lap as he sits on the bed and I’m like yo where were we at in the first place?

Kissing from the ear to the collarbone and back? This boy is too sexy. TOO SEXY!

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if Ben had some pudge to him. I don’t need a six-pack. I can deal with some love handles just fine. >:)

Don’t stop!

MC, how in the hell are you going to wear a red bra underneath a black piece of lingerie?

Ben and MC get it on and I wonder if his glasses stayed on the whole time? Did they fog up? Did they fall off at some point? I need answers, PB. Also, this wasn’t that great of a scene, guys. Kind of a waste. Only reason it isn’t is because I spent it with my babe.

Great, what was a perfect night turns into more Sereena playtime. Gross.

We’re at a coffee shop and Horatio is behind the counter. Lovely, more of this bullshit.

He’s too much of a perfectionist for this job. I appreciate the effort, but a little faster’d be nice.

So Dopey Cat is getting popular. Mark doesn’t seem to know. And I’m like... How?? My blog isn’t popular in the slightest and I’m all over a single like, dude.He says he doesn’t know because he’s got in phone on silent due to emails from something called Kablammo. Cole douses Horatio in a spit take. I also hate Cole.

Horatio again thinks the universe has sent him a sign, and Cole says Kablammo is a major game publicist. They most likely want to talk to him about Dopey Cat. Why not read the damn emails, Mark? These characters (with the exception of my Ben) are all morons.

He reads the emails and they want to buy the rights to Dopey Cat. he could be rich.

The end.

Until next time!

[skyppai]

Mobius FF “It’s been 2 years! Everyone assemble! Mobius Final Fantasy 2nd anniversary live broadcast” 28th edition

Host Sanshi, who's in charge of the international release of the game, producer Kitase and project leader Hamaguchi.

The presentation was broadcast from the Theater Cafe & Dining STORIA before a live audience.

22nd large update: What's new in May

1. Update info

2. About Chapter 8

3. New contents

4. Jobs and spirits

5. Announcement

Update on May 30th

Deck copy paste feature, to easily fill other character slots with cards you prefer to use.

Check other weapons even while all slots have stat upgrades in process. Sort features added. Higher stat cap (each raised by two), lower stamina consumption when shortening the upgrade time.

Notification icon when a new summon gacha has become available

Requirement for card augments are lowered. Having the necessary materials is now enough (like in the Western version). Expand skills will unlock even faster.

New options for auto battle. Choose not use the rental card, choose conditions if and when ultimate should be used.

Retired cards are added to the revival store (similar now to the Western ability card store)

Hamaguchi explains his new role at the FFVII remake team and how it will affect his role in Mobius. He will stay with Mobius but wants to support FFVII Remake with the same effort he put into Mobius for the last three years. Since there is a limit to how hard one can work he will focus his energy on FFVII. He asks for the fans' understanding.

They're showing concept art for chapter 8, due in mid of June.

Also how they adapted it to 3d, paying attention to the details.

And a very early sneak peek of a cutscene that is still work in progress: https://youtu.be/ZqyXu0SKpcM?t=26m51s

For the 2nd anniversary, there will be special cards commemorating scenes from the first two years. They showed 6 cards from the first batch, which mostly show scenes from side stories.

Kitase asks Sanshi which is her favorite. Since she heads the international release the Alien invasion is still fairly recent for her and since it also was the first event that's the one she fondly remembers.

Sexy cards for both Wol and Echo.

On the week end of June 3rd/4th, there will be the chance to draw one free great summon, with a guaranteed 5 star card.

And a campaign with daily login bonuses. Lots of free magicite, 14 summon tickets and 2 grow stars.

And a free one card summon for 30 days all throughout June.

The new job quests for June cover the Dissidia Legend jobs. Job quests are maps where you have to use a certain job to clear dungeons with certain conditions. If you can clear them, you get ability panels that can greatly enhance that job and bring it up to speed with the current jobs, statwise.

Like last year, they will also have gachas for previous legend jobs during the anniversary period, so people that didn't get them the first time can try again.

There will be a collaboration with FFXIV:

Ultima Weapon can be fought in multiplayer.

Its drop items can be exchanged for powerful equipment:

The Ultima Edge for ranger jobs.

Ultima Mace for mages.

Ultima Wing for Meia.

Hamaguchi battles Ultima Weapon: https://youtu.be/ZqyXu0SKpcM?t=48m30s

The new jobs in June are FFXIV themed:

Knight of Eorzea.

Ya Shtra will be the first mage ultimate hero job.

Ultimate hero jobs are different from legend jobs. Legend jobs have Wol and Meia basically cosplay Tidus, Aerith, Squall and so on. Whereas the ultimate hero jobs really give them the appearance of Cloud or Sephiroth (warrior jobs), Lightning (ranger job) and now Ya Shtra (mage job).

This will make a job look and sound like those characters and also change their ultimate. Stats and elements are those of a different job that has to be chosen together with the ultimate hero one.

For Ya Shtra, both Wol mage jobs and Meia can be combined. But since Meia's weapons don't fit Ya Shtra's design, she will use her default weapon in that case.

Hamaguchi demonstrates the new jobs in action, including their ultimates: https://youtu.be/ZqyXu0SKpcM?t=1h23s

New spirits for June:

Hamaguchi shows them in game: https://youtu.be/ZqyXu0SKpcM?t=1h8m39s

Composer Mitsuto Suzuki announces the release of the second OST:

It releases on August 2nd, available on the Squenix eStore and other official shops. 3200 yen plus tax, covers chapters 4 to 8. Pre-orders open on May 27th.

Wol's voice actor Nobunaga Shimazaki is the first special guest.

It's his second time on the broadcast since the very first one 2 years ago. Kitase suggests that they use a more familiar way of addressing each other, maybe using nicknames. He asks Shimazaki if he has any.

Shimazaki says some of his friends used to call him Lord (because of the historical Oda Nobunaga) and when the manga A Chef of Nobunaga became popular, some even called him Chef. But most people call him Nobu, which is short for Nobunaga. So they settle for Nobu. Shimazaki says he's fine with anything, Lord, Chef, or even Devil, whatever the setting requires.

Now Nobu wants to know everyone else's nickname. Hamaguchi is an obvious case, his should revolve around the Hama part of his name. Hamaguchi confirms that's what his nicknames usually come from. Nobu comes up with an alternative: Animal. He can be like the mascot character.

Sanshi says that's her real name when read in Japanese (she's from Taiwan). But she'd like a nickname. To suit her radiant personality Nobu suggests Sunshine. She says she'll try to live up to the name.

Nobu heard stories about Kitase, being a Warunori rather than his actual name Yoshinori (yoshi can mean good, waru means bad). Apparently Kitase is a bit of a prankster in office. So today Kitase will be a character of darkness, like Voice (Vox in English).

Now that everyone has a nickname, Sunshine moves on to the next topic. The STORIA cafe prepared some Mobius themed meals and beverages just for this occasion:

Echo's fickle blueberry frozen yoghurt

Meia's azure tonic water

Mog's kupo kupo strawberry milk (the only hot beverage of the menu)

The meal comes as a set and is "really something like an onion".

The drinks have nice details like the wings for the Echo's yoghurt and the cherry on the spoon of the strawbery milk. Sunshine guesses the cherry is supposed to be the crystal over Mog's head. She assures everyone that no moogle was killed to prepare the drink.

Kitase has Nobu read a piece of paper out loud, in his Wol voice. He announces the next TVCM campaign:

They show one of the new commercials: https://youtu.be/ZqyXu0SKpcM?t=1h30m6s

In the commercial the Ultima Weapon (FFXIV collaboration) is mentioned, as well as the Warrior of Light part of the story nearing its climax.

Hamaguchi reads a letter from Mogy-Announce* to Shimazaki out loud (*Mogy-Announce is a handle used on the Mobius twitter to tweet news in Mogy's moogle speech pattern):

"Dear Master*, kupo! Your performance at the commercial recording was flawless and left no room for criticism. We recorded a few more takes just to be sure but they were all high quality and demonstrated your skills as a professional, kupo. The staff from the recording studio also said that Shimazaki-san is so amazing. The recording didn't even take 20 minutes and was over much sooner than anticipated. Thanks to that I could take some free time at a cafe before returning to office. The Caramel Latte Macchiato I had that day was the most delicious thing ever. All thanks to you, kupo. Yours, Mogy-Announce." (*onjin-san/life-savior in Japanese, as the moogles call Wol)

Nobu is amused and says it's not part of his job to enable Mogy-Announce to drink Latte Macchiato. But he had a good time himself recording the commercial.

Kitase asks Shimazaki about the two years he has been acting Wol. Shimazaki explains that contrary to the work for anime he usually does, which only requires around three months per project, he has had steady recordings for Mobius almost on a monthly basis. So that makes it rare among his work.

When he started out, he didn't want to give Wol too much individuality, him being the protagonist of a social game. He kept him neutral so anyone could identify. But over time Wol became more defined and Shimazaki very attached to the character, even developing a liking for Echo. He also identified more and more with Wol, reacting to characters in the story, like getting angry when Vox would make an appearance. The relationship with Echo is somewhat nasty but without being spiteful. He didn't trust Meia at all at first, then getting closer only to be shocked sometimes but understanding it was Palamicia that must have made her like that.

He had a lot of fun developing Wol's character. Now he hasn't read the script for the final chapter yet, he says, correcting himself, for the next chapter. So he's hanging on the cliff with which chapter 7 ended. But the recording for the next chapter should be soon.

Kitase asks him about what scenes impressed him the most. Shimazaki reiterates how much he likes Echo and raises a scene in chapter 5, when Echo gets scared. He felt Wol was very kind to her in that. A major plot point is that Palamicia as a system cannot be trusted. He mentions a spoiler for chapter 7. Echo seems to be also of this very system but Shimazaki really wants to believe that the Echo that traveled with Wol, his very own Echo among the many that exist, is better than that. But he suspects the next chapter will prove him wrong.

Of course he also mentions Mog. He constantly made him aware of the whole prophecy business and he still doesn't know what the purpose of Mog's part in the prophecy was. But same as Echo, even though there might be many Mogs, the time they spent together, both the warmth and the suffering, made Mog the one Mog for him. That might have been the salvation offered by Mog's fate. Also when he gets angry at Vox, Mog is like an anchor that enables Wol to calm himself.

Kitase and Hamaguchi suggest that the scenario writer might change the story according to what Shimazaki might want. Shimazaki says it's probably already written. But he really doesn't want Echo to turn out bad.

Sanshi asks about the process of the recordings. Do the actors get to record the scenes together? Shimazaki confirms what Mao told them at TGS 2016, as opposed to anime recordings they do their takes separately. But he listened to their lines so it almost feels like he had spoken to them.

Next they have a game of guessing missing lines of famous cutscenes, Hamaguchi versus Shimazaki. Depending on who will win, the players get different prizes:

An elixir if Hamaguchi wins, or 10 Expalights and 3 summon tickets if Shimazaki wins. Both remembering the correct line and interpreting it in the voice of the character factor into scoring.

If you completed the first two chapters and the third ranking tower, it's safe to watch this: https://youtu.be/ZqyXu0SKpcM?t=1h46m33s

Shimazaki wins, so unfortunately no elixir for the players, Kitase jokes.

Next up is drawing contest:

They all have one minute to draw Mog. The drawings will be given as a present to fans afterwards.

Kitase's Mog.

Sanshi's Mog.

Hamaguchi's Mog.

Shimazaki's Mog. He's quite embarrassed by his lack of drawing skills.

When they show what Mog is supposed to look like, Shimazaki says he couldn't draw him even he were looking at this sample.

To have a shot at winning one of the drawings, fans need to tweet one of their favorite memories from Mobius FF, using the hashtag #mebiusFF_2shuunen.

This concludes Shimazaki's segment.

They then take a ten minute break before the last segment featuring the other two guests, director Motomu Toriyama and scenario writer Kazushige Nojima.

The last segment is moderated by Kitase.

Nojima's slide lists that he's from Hokkaido, that he likes Heavy Metal (Iron Maiden etc., dreams of being a guitar hero) and a selection of games he worked on:

Jake Hunter series, script (1988~)

Bahamut Lagoon, director (1996)

FFVII, story, event planner (1997)

FFVIII, scenario (1999)

Kingdom hearts, scenario (2002)

Super Smash Bros. Brawl, part of the scenario (2008)

When Kitase asks Nojima to introduce himself, he comments the slide as follows: During the bubble economy he managed to slip into Data East and wrote the lines for a caddie in a golf game. People liked his work on that game and entrusted him with writing for the Jake Hunter series. And that's basically the pattern that continued throughout his career. Around 10 years later he aplied for a job at Square and then after another 10 years at Square he quit and has since then written for different games among them Smash Bros. He enjoys being free lance now.

Toriyama's slide lists that he's from Shizuoka and a huge fan of the Otoko wa tsurai yo movie series. His selection of games list:

Bahamut Lagoon, story event planner (1996)

FFVII, event planner (1997)

FFX, event director (2001)*

FFX-2, director (2003)

FFXII Revenant Wings, director (2007)

FFXIII, director (2009)*

[*Some years are wrong on the original slide. I corrected them.]

He explains that he first got a job at Square and started out working with Nojima on Bahamut Lagoon. Then he worked with Kitase and Nojima on FF starting with VII. With X, he started doing directing work. On DS he directed Revenant Wings and then FFXIII. He's been directing Mobius alongside Hamaguchi from the start.

Kitase points out that including the year they spent developing and preparing before they launched that is three years they have been working on Mobius. He then asks about Toriyama being a fan of Otoko wa tsurai yo. He says when he applied at Square, he told Sakaguchi that he wants to turn FF into a series that has over 40 installments like that movie series.

Kitase keeps asking about him being a fan of that series. Apparently, during his college days Toriyama participated on a quiz show on TV where fans can win by being knowledgable about their fandom. Toriyama aced the show.

Since the two of them are the core of development of Mobius, Kitase wants to do a Q&A.

Q: How did the story of Mobius FF come into being? (What process and ideas lead to its development?)

Toriyama says that around the time they started working on Mobius, smartphone games were becoming increasingly popular. Toriyama wanted to do a proper FF on smartphones, with the same quality as on consoles. That's when he started consulting Nojima about the story, roughly 3 years ago.

Nojima says it originally was supposed to be a small scale story. But when he wrote a plot of collecting items to become the warrior of light, Toriyama said, are you kidding me? So it gradually went up in scale and Nojima was wondering how far Toriyama would take it. And to his surprise, they really did go through with the project.

Kitase nods saying that at the time it certainly was their goal to go big with a smartphone game, and they communicated it like that to the press but of course it was still up in the air how it would materialize in the end.

Nojima adds that when the project started he and Toriyama hadn't met in like 10 years. Toriyama nods, saying they probably hadn't met since they originally started working on the story for XIII.

Q: What meaning does the term möbius encompass for the game?

Toriyama says it literally refers to the game being endless. The numbered installments he had worked on were establishing a connection to the player each time a new one released but this one should be an ongoing story, with monthly, never ceasing updates. For that reason, they called it Mobius.

Nojima says he still is used to writing stories with a proper ending. The first sequel he wrote was probably X-2 and Mobius is the first time since then he worked on a series. So he was nervous if he could actually turn the story into a proper möbius string.

Kitase takes him up on that saying so it might not turn out like the title. Shimazaki also felt anxious about what might happen to Wol. Toriyama nods, saying that the final chapter of the warrior of light story arc is coming up.

Q: What is the process you create the story for Mobius FF?

Toriyama says he delivers his ideas of what the story should be like to Nojima. He never writes it the way it was originally intended but what he comes up with is always interesting.

Nojima says at the time there were plenty of RPGs for smartphones and when he saw the ads for them on TV, they all said they were grand epics. His reaction was, what are they even talking about? He wanted to do something different.

Toriyama elaborates that they went for something more mature. People in their 30ies or 40ies, if they game they usually do it on smart devices. So they went for that adult audience. But then they wondered, what would be a suitable story for those adult players.

Nojima says, he feels they strayed far from the original question. As Kitase insists, he explains he wanted to pass the ball into other directions. He and Toriyama meet, like once every two weeks. And he made multiple suggestions on those occasions. Toriyama nods saying that he and Daisuke Watanabe, a scenario writer at Squenix, met with Nojima every two weeks.

Kitase wants to know about those changes Nojima suggested. What was something he wanted to get rid of? Nojima contemplates the question, then says he didn't like that their weren't any female characters.

Toriyama admits in the beginning there was only Wol, before they came up with Echo and Meia. About Echo's first appearance, they used the scene as Nojima had written it and it was Kitase who asked, will we be okay with female character like that?

Hamaguchi chimes in and says, they did show the game to target groups before release and those also felt there was a lack of female characters, back when they only had Wol.

Q: Why are Echo's hands always hidden?

Toriyama says there wasn't any special reason for that from their side. It was the character designer Itahana who wanted to give Echo some mysterious feature. Echo tends to wear pretty revealing outfits but her hands, they never show. Itahana insisted on that but Toriyama tends to forget about it. In fact, for one of the anniversary cards they showed earlier on the broadcast, the illustrator did originally draw her hands. When they noticed, they had to ask him to change it.

Q: What kind of life does Wol lead on his journey? (Does he sleep outside? Does he eat with Echo? Does Echo even eat?)

Nojima says, they did consider showing Wol eat. But then there would have been other things they'd need to show as well. They didn't want to open that can of worms.

Toriyama says, although the graphics look so real, there still is a lot left to players' imagination. If you tap a location, Wol automatically starts walking there. So he wanted to come up with interesting location names that would draw up feelings, like "this place sounds scary". He thought the details would be best left to the player's imagination as well.

Kitase interprets that so in between locations at some time Wol is eating. Hamaguchi jokes, he could be gobbling up some food in between battles.

Q: Are there any episodes they ended up not using?

Toriyama says it might be surprising but there actually aren't any. He says that that's due to them having to release new content every month so they couldn't afford not to use some of what they came up with. They really felt the pressure and had to use all ideas they had.

Kitase comments that it's certainly different from their other projects. Even if you stock up on ideas, you run out of that stock quite fast. Hamaguchi nods, saying they spent half a year of preparing content, intending to add more on the way but they ran out of stock much too soon.

Nojima says, once everyone finished their drafts, those all came to his place for rewrites and he had to spend more and more time on Mobius to keep up. For that reason he also didn't have to change any lines that usually would be subject to editing, if he didn't want to change them.

Hamaguchi says, before launch many voices on the team wanted to delay the launch to have more time for preparation.

Q: For collaborations like the FFVII one, characters like Cloud make appearances. When you write stories that are entangled in past work, what do you pay special attention to?

Nojima says that during the collaboration Cloud really overused his signature line "not interested". It was his job to cut down on the number of times of him saying that. He feels such a line should be used just once, for best effect.

Toriyama says that since their team consists of some of the same staff that also worked on VII and XIII, they could write those as side story extensions of their previous work. As for Cloud, they wanted him to be the Cloud from early in the game when they were blowing up Mako reactors, as opposed to the Cloud from after the end of FFVII that appeared in the sequels.

He adds that they wanted to ensure that the new stories would be faithful to the originals as not to betray the expectations of the fans.

Kitase comments that the FFVII collaboration went on for quite a while. Hamaguchi explains that it was because VII is so popular. Toriyama says they had to do ending staff roll for the VII collaboration or it might never have ended.

A: Mushroom Hills or Bamboo Villages, which do you like better?

Kitase explains that they asked Meia's actress Mao this very same question during the TGS2016 special broadcast.

Nojima says since he doesn't like snacks he doesn't have any preference. He probably hasn't even eaten either of them. If he has he probably didn't pay attention to what shape they had.

Toriyama says he also doesn't have a strong preference for either of those two. But he mentions a different kind of snack called Curl that will be discontinued soon. He quite liked those as they were popular among his generation. He'd like to do a collaboration with them before they're discontinued.

Q: Why did you want to work in the games industry?

Toriyama says he wanted to do a long running series like Otoko wa tsurai yo as a story game format. Square was a big game company specializing in RPGs at the time so he applied for a job there.

Nojima was told by his parents to go find a job. It was the days of the bubble economy and you could easily make 10000 yen a day by doing a part time job. There were a lot of part time jobs for boys at the time. He had a lot of fun doing part time but his parents nagged him to get a job already and a friend of his had just started a job at Data East. So he tried out for a job there.

Kitase asks, and then you just kept with it? Nojima says he's surprised himself that he kept with games so long. Upon question, Nojima says one of the part time jobs he liked was at a Namco arcade.

Kitase also asks Hamaguchi the same question. He says he was really impressed by FFVI back in the day, how you could tell a touching story within the game medium. That made him want to enter the game industry. And he's glad he could work alongside Kitase who directed FFVI.

Then Nojima asks Kitase. Kitase says after he quit the job he had before Square because it was too stressful he hadn't really done anything for half a year until he saw an application ad by Square in Famitsu while browsing it in a book store. His previous work wasn't game related but he did want to work in games for the story telling aspect. When he entered Square Final Fantasy still was at its 3rd installment.

Q: In your years creating FF, what memories and anecdotes of stressful periods come to mind?

Nojima asks if it's okay to not hold back on this one. Kitase says to feel free to criticize him, if he wants to. Nojima says he has no reason to do that. But during the many years working on FF there was really a lot of stress involved. For example, you'd never know when you should come in for work. He worked flextime and would show up at 1 p.m. but no one else would be there yet. Toriyama says it's different now. Nojima says as he comes to think of it, there were too many bad episodes to count. Like when the commercials started airing but the game still wasn't finished yet. The production style was different then, not as properly organized as it is today.

For Toriyama, waiting is the hardest. He had to wait 2~3 hours for this broadcast as well but one time he had to fly to the US for a Microsoft presentation, to show off FFXIII. There was a Beatles themed game so Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney were there as well. The Japanese devs and the Western ones all had to attend from early in the morning and were shut in a small room for hours, like half a day. That was the worst time for him.

Q: As the Warrior of Light story arc of Mobius FF approaches its climax, can you tell us about what will happen after? (Within what you can tell currently.)

Nojima comments it's not easy to judge what can and what cannot be said at this point.

Toriyama says the final chapter was finished at last and they started recording the dialog this week. The chapter will conclude the first section of the overall story, which dealt with the warrior of light. Of course the story will continue and they already started work on the second section.

Kitase notes, so even though te warrior of light part is concluded, that doesn't mean the story ends. He asks what Toriyama can tell them about what will happen in the next section.

Toriyama says that the warrior of light section will be followed by... he pauses and looks at Nojima. He continues: followed by the warrior of ruin, the warrior of destruction? He looks at Nojima for confirmation. Then he says that Nojima and he have worked out the plot for the next section together.

Nojima comments he managed to pass the ball into quite a different direction with this one.

Toriyama continues and says Warrior of Ruin will be the subtitle of this next section. He expresses embarrassment about how to communicate this to players. So far you were the warriors of light (he covers his mouth as if to conceal the following words) but starting next year you will be the warriors of ruin.

Kitase mentions new characters for the new chapter. Toriyama presents artworks for two new characters.

All Nojima can say at this point is that he is strong. Toriyama points out that his name is written on this artwork as well. He's called Graf. The name has a certain meaning but they won't reveal it at this point.

They have one more:

It's the new female protagonist Sofi. Wol will still be in this one but Sofi is another playable character. Kitase comments she looks like an active/lively character. Nojima says she somehow turned out like that. He adds that he suggested this character right when they started with the new section and was very detemermined to include her.

Kitase asks when the new section will start. Toriyama says the 8th chapter will finish in June or July. They will then need some more time to prepare the next section. It should be fall or winter until it releases. There might be more collaboration(s) in the meantime.

Sanshi returns and thanks the guests for their time. They have the usual after broadcast login present:

Former project assistant and host Asuna is back to congratulate them on their 2 year anniversary. She brought a flower arranged Mog made by her older brother:

[helloyukimura]

Jongup's AOT surprise party

*KRRRRRrrr* Jongup opened the front door of an abandoned dance studio.

JU: “Did the manager give me the wrong address? This place looks so still.”

Jongup walked towards the dance room with a large mirror, there was no music player so he used the music on his phone and started rehearsing without thinking too much of it.

Jongup was doing some smooth moves, when suddenly the music stops.

JU: “Huh? I charged it before going out. “

Jongup walked towards his phone but his phone wasn’t there anymore.

JU: “Where did I leave it? I should call my phone so I can hear my ringtone ringing.”

Jongup searched for his phone so he could call himself and find his phone.

JU: “I’m so stupid! “

Ten seconds later the lights went off and there was this weird noise cracking noise coming from the opposite of the room. The lights went on again but were flickering. A music box appeared and it was playing the song “Swan Lake”.

JU: “Hey this is something different than usual, maybe I should make some funny choreo for this one and show the others!”

Jongup makes a “funny” choreo on the number of ‘Swan Lake’. Jongup gets a little bit tired and walks to the crappy vending machine to get a bottle of water.

JU: “I hope this machine still works, I’ve only got 1 dollar for 1 bottle.”

He puts the dollar into the machine, and the bottle falls. He grabs the bottle but the bottle has red stains on it. He ignores it, and takes a sip.

JU: “Aaah that’s so refreshing!”

He sits next to the vending machine on a bench, and hears a child laughing in the dark hallway.

JU: “Hello? Are you also rehearsing here? Do you want to dance together? OMG that would be so much fun!”

The manager was so confused that nothing seems to impress Jongup. The sudden disappearing of his phone, the fake blood stains on the bottle, the creepy child laughing sound and even the creepy song. At the same time the manager could have guessed it. Jongup isn’t someone easy to trick.

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While Jongup was in the abandoned dance studio you and the B.A.P members prepared for his surprise party. You prepared different cosplay outfits of the attack of titan for all the B.A.P members and you've asked the make up artists and hairstylists to help you to make the members pretty. It was really hard to beg them, but luckily you could cook very well to make them all a lunchbox with love for a whole month to keep them happy. The most important thing is that all the members do love Jongup and that they are willing to participate with your surprise party. Himchan was your first member to convince because he has a weakness for Jongup. Just getting Himchan at your side was enough to get Daehyun and Youngjae then the rest followed. You told them all to get dressed. You left the main personage's outfit for Jongup because you know that he would like to cosplay as well. When you thought that everything was going as planned, something happened.

YG: "Yah! I'm not going to dress like that!"

You heard Yongguk nagging for the first time.

HC: "Bang! You're outfit is red and it matches your style. You just need to wear this for today and then you can make Jongup very happy."

YG: "I don't want to dress up like a girl. That’s too much."

You quickly approached them and begged Yongguk with your puppy eyes.

You: "Yongguk oppa please help us. You will make Jongup really happy if you dress like this."

Yongguk stared at you, not looking pleased and his expression does makes you scared. Himchan stepped between you.

HC: "Okay fine Yongguk you can skip this cosplay thing, but you will have to bring the birthday cake with candles on it in for Jongup."

You: "But-t oppa what about this personage then? It's not complete without Mikasa."

HC: "It's okay because you didn't prepare a outfit for yourself right."

You: "Eh?"

HC: "Here I will wear Yongguk's outfit and you can wear mine. I have Sacha Blaus, but it's too awkward for me to wear this one. I think that it fits you better than me. This cosplay should be done by a cute girl."

You got shy for a second.

You: "Fine I will do it."

You grabbed the outfit and got changed. You haven't thought of it, but the size was a little bit baggy for you. Luckily the stylist helped you with safety pins to make you look pretty in it. It made you really happy. Himchan was right about it. It made you look cute and lovely. Jongup would be really happy to see you with all the members dressed as his favourite anime characters. The next members to be finished were Youngjae and Daehyun. Youngjae was dressed as Levi, he tried to make the same expressions as the character to make you feel happy. You laughed feeling relieved and happy. It seems that Youngjae kind of likes to cosplay more than you've imagined. Daehyun was dressed as Armin a cute blond guy. Youngjae laughed at Daehyun's cosplay and it made Daehyun a little bit irritated so they started to make fun of each other.

You were a little bit worried about them. Then Yongguk stepped in between them.

YG: "Stop making fun of each other and help me out with Jongup's birthday song."

YJ&DH: "Yes sir!"

They followed Yongguk and it was peaceful and quiet. You watched them getting out of the room. You were amazed by Yongguk's leading style.

You: "Wow that was so cool."

Suddenly you realized something.

You: "Did Yongguk say a birthday song? Aww that's so cute! He really is a good leader that gives a lot about his members."

HC: "Of course~ why else would I think of that solution~"

You: "Waaah! When did you stand behind me? You scared me."

HC: "Some minutes ago. Sorry for scaring you."

You: "It's okay. I have a big heart."

You felt someone tapping on your shoulder.

Zelo: "(y/n)-ah."

You: "Uwaah!"

You hide behind Himchan.

Zelo: "I just wanted to say that Jongup is on his way here. I've got a message from our manager"

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Jongup follows the laughter into the long and dark hallway and ends up in another dance room with a large mirror.

JU: “Little boy? Where are you?”

*Hihihi hahahha* the distorted child laughter continues in the hallway.

JU: “Where is the light switch in this thing? Ah there it is,”

He sees something lying on the floor and walks towards it.

JU: “OOOMOO no way, Eren Jaeger cosplay outfit?! This is insane this looks exactly like his outfit in the anime and manga! I hope no one minds if I try this on!”

Jongup tried the outfit on and it fits perfectly. He started to pose in front of the large mirror, showing of his biceps and sixpack. Everyone was watching Jongup until he said his cool sentence.

JU: “Yeah titans, See my muscles? Fear me!”

Everyone on the other side of the large mirror burst into laughing because of Jongup's cuteness. The manager pressed the button and the mirror started to rise. Revealing all the members standing in a row in front of Jongup with Yongguk and you in the middle holding his birthday cake. The music played while Daehyun and Youngjae are singing a special happy birthday song to Jongup.

Everyone: "Happy birthday Jongup!!!"

Jongup just kept his hands on his mouth totally surprised. He looks like a very happy child who enters Disney land for the first time.

JU: "When did you guys do all of this for me?"

You: "You like it right."

JU: "I like it a lot!"

Everyone smiles and Jongup made his birthday wish and blew all his candles.

HC: "So what did you wish for?"

JU: "That we-"

You: "Noo stop you shouldn't tell your wish or it won't come true."

JU: "Oh then it's a secret Himchannie hyung."

Himchan laughed.

HC: "I'm sure that it is something about anime or games. Or maybe something like frozen."

Jongup gives Himchan a glare. Then he smiles at everyone.

JU: "Thank you so much. I am the happiest right now. It seems that my wish from last year came true."

You: "What did you wish for?"

JU: "I wished for a super cool birthday cake and that I could spend my birthday with the ones that I love. I actually had seaweed soup in the morning at my family's place."

You couldn't help yourself but to smile at Jongup's cute wish. He was like an angel who is actually alive living happily. You hugged him tightly.

You: "I'm glad that you liked it!"

Jongup patted your head softly. When you look at him he leans in to kiss your forehead. You blushed at his sudden action and everyone was surprised too.

DH: "Woah daebak Jongup is initiating a kiss!"

YJ: "Yah! Do you have to make it even more awkward."

HC: "It's cute."

YG was watching silently, but you could see his gummy smile. Zelo was standing there scratching his neck awkwardly while blinking and smiling.

*Groooowl* somebody was hungry.

DH: "Let's eat the cake! I feel hungry~ Jongup-ah please cut the cake~"

Jongup smiles and nodded. He cuts the cake and everyone was happily enjoying this moment.

The End!

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Hi everyone,

This time Admin K and I made this super funny and cute scenario for Jongup’s birthday. It’s a little bit late but we wish Jongup a happy birthday by giving you all a Jongup scenario. And we would like to thank you all for supporting us! We’ve reached 400 followers this year! We’re so happy! Woohooo~ 

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