#like. I'm not that invested but i know what event is running on JP and when concerts are and when new singles release

[project-sekai-facts]

What could possibly lead you to drop prsk? Like, completely drop it, not following the news, new events etc

Cis mizuki

[m1ssunderstanding]

Hello! This is your Secret Santa. Not sure what I'm going to do yet but I was wondering a few things!

You said you like when the smut is kinky and dark, could you elaborate a bit? Do you have some favorite kinks? Favorite dark-ish tropes?

When you say Dickens AU, do you have a particular novel in mind? Or is it about Victorian life hardships in general?

Thanks! 🎅

lolol this is what I get for being embarrassing on the form! Now I have to be embarrassing on main. (I mean about kink and Dickens equally btw) Welp, here goes! I'll just put it all under a cut so no one has to read it that doesn't want to. Genuinely though even though it's embarrassing I'm so glad you're asking! Thank you for taking the time to get to know what I am hoping for :) <3

As far as kink goes, I love the typical bdsm stuff.

Objectification

Dumbification

Expositionism

General demeaning language

Praise kink

Restraints, gags, whips, flogs

Orgasm denial

Overstimulation

Choking

Marking

I will say while I love all of that stuff, I also love just normal sex too lol especially if the story isn't focused on the sex you know it can be very vanilla and sweet and I will love it. But if the whole story is focused around sex, especially if you're putting Paul with someone other than John or Linda, I'd rather it be kinky. So like dealing with class stuff between Paul and Jane or Paul and Robert Fraser or with age stuff between Paul and George Martin or John and Brian or size stuff between anyone and Mal. And it might be surprising, but I don't care who dominates. If you're writing a sweet story where Paul ends up happy with John or Linda, the choice is yours as to whether the sex is kinky or not.

As far as Dickens goes, you could stick them in any book really. And obviously just write a scene from it. Or you could reimagine an event from their lives if Dickens had written it.

Specific book au ideas:

Oliver Twist with John and Paul as older versions of Oliver and Dodger respectively or you could do Paul as Nancy and John as Rose

David Copperfield with Paul as David. John could be Steerforth or Agnes.

Little Dorrit with John as Arthur and Paul as Amy.

Great Expectations with John as Pip and Paul as Estella.

Bleak House with John as Ada and Paul as Richard.

The Old Curiosity Shop with John as Kit and Paul as Nell.

Hard Times with Paul as Sissy and John as Louisa.

I would love it if you genderbent one of the characters if Dickens accidentally wrote jp into a straight pairing.

Event adaptation ideas:

Alan Klein is the PERFECT Dickens Villain. John and Paul have pooled all their savings together to start a business. John was the primary investor as Paul had very little money, but Paul still has the most at stake because consequences are higher for him losing all his money. John finds Klein as the perfect person to manage all their affairs and Paul feels like he has to go along with it because he feels indebted to John forever because of how much he invested in up front into their business. Chaos ensues. People go bankrupt. Law suits drag on. Linda and her little daughter Heather who are destitute still manage to help Paul out of it all and in the end after they're married we find out Linda is inheriting a bunch of money.

John and Paul met at an abusive boarding school. Paul is there because his father's grocer shop supplies the school with food. John is there because his family can afford it. John hates it, bullies the teachers, tries to slack off and cause as much trouble as possible. Paul secretly hates it too but is really grateful for this opportunity and kisses up. They both become quite popular in their own ways and wage war on each other until they are forced to come together during mutual punishment -- Paul is treated far worse because of his class but John has forward thinking principles and insists they go it together and they realize they have a lot in common and they run away to the circus together.

John is a notorious robber who makes friends with Paul's dad at a gambling club. Paul is the whore with the heart of gold who supports his father's habit (I know I kind of already wrote this one but not in a dickensian au) Paul falls in love with John in spite of himself and even though he always dreamed of joining polite society, he joins John's crime sindicate and their combined smarts allow them to amass huge amounts of money but they have to live this whole double life to avoid being caught and at the end there's a huge house fire in which everything they built together is lost and they blame each other and fall apart.

You know. Etc. Things like that. But obviously you could think of your own thing or not do Dickens at all.

[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

it may be too soon to think about this, but since I'm new to this type of game, I wonder how long does it typically last? I would hate it if it shut down when there are still so many mysteries unsolved.

By "type of game", I'm assuming you mean mobile gacha games? 🤔 In which case, it's hard to gauge because every gacha game is a little different. Generally, it depends on a mixture of popularity and profit. The more people know about the game and/or the more people spend on it, the longer the game sticks around.

The mobile game market is EXTREMELY competitive, so many titles only last for 1-2 years at most. However, there do exist outliers like Fate Grand Order (7 years old) and Granblue Fantasy (8 years old), both of which still boast active playerbases and hefty earnings. For reference, TWST EN will be 1 year old in January 2023, and TWST JP will be 3 years old in March 2023). However, since TWST is backed by big names (namely Disney), who have a lot of influence and money to aggressively market the game, it probably won’t get shut down any time soon and they’ll have plenty of time to finish the main story. Last I checked, TWST is still super popular in Japan and the profits are in the several millions of yen (as the target demographic of the game is young Japanese women).

Now, you’ll notice in the last paragraph that I specifically mentioned Japan. That’s because, like it or not, TWST always has, and always will be, more profitable in Japan than with international audience (due to various socioeconomic and cultural factors, which I won’t get into in this post). Meanwhile, TWST is definitely a lot more “niche” overseas and doesn’t bring in as much revenue (part of which I believe comes down to negative cultural views surrounding microtransactions and/or the international demographic skewing too young to afford in-game transactions).

Basically, what I’m saying is... TWST JP has a long enough track record to demonstrate that it’s still going strong, but I’m not as certain about EN’s future. I’m sure EN is still making some money, but it really becomes an issue of “is this worth all the time, effort, and money we invested into this project to keep it running”? Because what you have to understand is that companies don’t just want to make money; they want to make as MUCH money as possible with as LITTLE of an investment as possible. If the costs and resources for upkeep are too much, for too little profit then it’ll get axed.

I want to be clear that I’m NOT saying that I think EN will be cancelled soon or anything of the sort; I’m just saying that, at this point, I don’t think there’s enough data out there to accurately predict if EN will stick around for as long as JP has. In terms of new content, EN still has plenty of events to catch up on, as well as episode 6 of the main story; that’s more than enough to sustain for another year, but in the end it’s hard to tell what the longevity may be without looking at more detailed numbers.