#kanade and tsukasa are kinda conflicted feelings

[starshine-valley]

AN ALIEN STAGE PROJECT SEKAI AU

except it’s not really what you’d expect.

Minori Hanasato

-> she had originally wanted to participate in Alien Stage because of a long time winner, Haruka.

-> Her ideal dream was to meet her one day. Nobody told her that she died in a round against Kanade.

-> Started to sing because of Haruka, being the catalyst for what got Kohane interested.

-> Status: Dead (Round 1)

-> What Minori thinks of others:

• kohane (100%)

- “My best friend! I wouldn’t be here without her! I love her so so much~!”

• an (70%)

- “She seems to like Kohane-chan a lot. I see her around and she’s so cool~! I don’t hangout with An-chan much compared to Kohane-chan though…”

• mizuki (80%)

- “Mizuki-chan is one of my biggest fans! Next to Kohane-chan of course! I talk to her when An-chan and Kohane-chan are together.”

Kohane Azusawa

-> Participated in the first round with Minori and ended up being the winner. She still thinks about her even until now.

-> Got rescued by Tsukasa’s group when Kanade almost won the round.

-> She worries about the rest of her friends. If she can rescue them in time.

-> Status: Alive (Escaped round 5)

-> What Kohane thinks of others:

• minori (100%)

- “I’m sorry, Minori-chan…”

• an (90%)

- “I will save you. I promise I will. Just hold on a bit longer, okay?”

• mizuki (60%)

- “Akiyama…?”

• tsukasa (90%)

- “you saved me. why? i owe my life to you, Tsukasa-san.”

• kanade (20%)

- “…”

Mizuki Akiyama

-> Pining over An since she could remember. All they want is for An to look her way.

-> A close friend of An. They went on silly adventures when they were younger. Almost escaped together.

-> Very well known. She does modeling gigs and sponsorships.

-> Status: Dead (Round 6)

-> What Mizuki thinks of others:

• minori (80%)

- “Minori-chan? Did you do that on purpose?”

• kohane (60%)

- “An misses you. She stopped singing when you left.”

• an (100%)

- “cheer up.”

An Shiraishi

-> head over heels with Kohane. Was an absolute wreck when she went missing.

-> The aliens like taunting her a lot due to misbehavior. She a rebel like that.

-> Ever since Round 6, she hasn’t been the same. People wonder if she’ll even be in the 7th round with Kanade.

-> Status: Alive (for now…)

-> What An thinks of others:

• kohane (100%)

- “… kohane…”

• mizuki (???)

- “… i’m sorry…”

• minori (70%)

- “hope you’re doing alright wherever you are, Minori-chan.”

• kanade (20%)

- “Kanade… I can’t face you. I don’t want to die.”

Kanade Yoisaki

-> Ruler of the stage. She replaced Haruka this round after she got killed in Round 4.

-> She really wanted to go against the proud star and childhood best friend, Tsukasa Tenma who was supposed to go against Haruka in previous rounds but dropped out for an unknown reason.

-> She doesn’t talk much aside from singing.

-> Status: Alive

-> What Kanade thinks of others:

• minori (10%)

- “…”

• mizuki (20%)

- “she would have been a good opponent.”

• an (30%)

- “i’m glad to go against her.”

• tsukasa (100%)

- “it’s been a while, Tsukasa-san. Hope your spirit didn’t go away.”

• kohane (30%)

- “hm…”

Tsukasa Tenma

-> Had thought that Alien Stage and being in the spotlight was all he wanted. Turns out he was wrong.

-> He starts a human rebellion after escaping and dropping out of Alien Stage at the disappearance of his sister, Saki and death of his other childhood friend, Toya Aoyagi

-> This rebellion has three other people in it: Emu Otori, Rui Kamishiro and Nene Kusanagi

-> Status: Alive

-> What Tsukasa thinks of others:

• kanade

- “Yoisaki-San. Just what are you planning?”

• kohane

- “We’ll get through this, Azusawa! I believe in us!”

[the-one-that-weeps]

Hello, here I am coming from the shadows for one last thought since the Nene teaser will prob leave me unconcious for the rest of the month.

I think there is something really interesting and fucked up colorpalet could do with what they're setting up with Rui.

There have been two Main things (that aren't Asahi) that are still unadressed sore spots for Rui :

-Him feeling like he's selfish/greedy

-His insecurity at not helping Tsukasa or Nene in Tsukasa2/Nene4 (for nene4 it was shown in a side card story) (also slightlyyyy hinted at Tsukasa3 ???)

Considering how colorpalet really emphasizes how kind Rui is, what I think could make for Rui legitematly being brought down to his lowest is make him believe that he is the "villain" or simply that he's somehow in the wrong for what he's doing/done.

Sounds like it could be coming out of nowhere but during WxS's training arc there was been a lot of indirect themes of betrayal going on that I think just repeat themselves a bit too much to be ignored especially in Rui4 with the whole "the villain was your friend all along !". People associate this with Sakaki and I kinda do too but it is just like...

You know how there is kind of a trope sometimes of RPG's having one of the team members ending up as the final boss (not common enough to be really a trope but it's something i've seen a lot of times). This is the vibes this is giving me.

It would also fit extremely well with Rui's whole thing of being "the villain" everytime WxS do plays.

It would also fit extremely well with his bloomfes which seems to kind of hint at Rui feeling guilty for being in such a well off/positive situation. I mean Kanade's bloomfes seemed to foreshadow her own path towards what she wants to do so we can assume Rui's bloomfes is there to foreshadow whatever Rui would go through.

Maybe Rui will be influenced by Sakaki to believe his decision during the disbandement arc was wrong/immoral which, I don't think would cause very Great Things. Especially when Asahi is in the background T-Posing.

Anyways going back into the mist cya !

Ohh... Yeah...

Actually I think the conflict from Tsukasa2 has either died down or has just. Joined the overall pile of regrets Rui contains. The conflict that in my opinion could possibly affect him as of now would be the regret about what happened in Mizu5. He was there for a reason and he's one of Mizuki's best friends so that's bound to come up again.

The Sakaki theory seems based to me. I also see the reasons why Rui would start feeling like a bad person again (because it HAS been hinted in the past... Many stories, like you said) but I'm hesitant about what colopalette might do with it because... I really don't want it to look like Rui's just returning to square one? He's grown so much and it's been a really good journey, in his bloomfes he affirms that he remembers the pain of his past and it's not as jarring anymore. He's healing— so unless Colopale takes a very specific route in order to make him feel inadequate again I'm kind of worried if that character development will be erased

I don't mean this in a "he's healed now he'll never struggle with feeling like a bad person again!!!" Way, I mean it in the way that Rui HAS, objectively, learnt new things about relationships while being with wxs. I don't want him to forget all of them. I trust sega will make it good, seeing they did just that with Mizu5 (the fear of rejection is there, but so is the learned truth about Ena's kindness) but still.

I feel like the next Rui events will be very stressful ones. Asahi + Sasaki + all the other wonderful things going on in Rui's life right now basically. Also Rui still hasn't told Tsukasa and Emu about his past and technically no one in wxs knows what happened to him in middle school so... Maybe there'll be a story for that? Not necessarily since Revival my dream was already very backstory focused, but a man can dream