#it feels right to give ceroba freedom with how she chooses to participate. let her include her own aesthetics let her actually win over sta

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Alternate timeline where instead of doubling down Ceroba has her breakdown much much sooner, reevaluates her life choices, and becomes a samurai so she can be Starlo's rival. (Going off the line that "Clearly he chose correctly" I can believe she'd be a little resentful of him and maybe want to knock him down a peg.)

Bonus points if Starlo has 0 idea this is happening and just thinks he made a friend :)

Yknow the idea of ceroba being stars rival is the one missing piece that completely sells me on the idea of ceroba being willing to involve herself more in stars larping. Because we know she’s not really into westerns in general (she watched them all with star when they were younger. It’s not like she never tried to get into it) but you know what she is into? Fucking with starlo. Introductory scene is her fucking with starlo. Fucking with starlo is the highest form of enrichment to her. That would be her favourite part of larping with him I think, that teasing back and forth banter they do.

That’s the other thing that is so so good abt larper ceroba. That she could totally “knock him down a peg” as u say, bc she has one strength over the rest of the wild east larpers: she would NOT gaf about following a scripted ending. Ceroba “just untie them” Ketsukane isn’t gonna just let starlo ‘win’ all their conflicts just because hes the hero, he wins if he puts in the effort to win!!! It would be absolute whiplash for star since his main ‘nemesis’ beforehand basically always went down without a fight bc he was so committed to playing his part. Throwing in someone who is on a more equal playing field with him would be a nice change for him to try and adjust his performances to lmao (something something reflecting how starlo and cerobas relationship is built off of equality respect and balance)

You have no idea how badly I wanna write smth going off of this idea… I’ve only ever seen one fic im pretty sure and it hasn’t been updated past chapter 1… larper ceroba ily