#meruly

[ur-old-tv]

Peso the merguin

Btw: does anyone have any tips for taking pictures of traditional art, I'm working on digital but it's really difficult

[aikatsuswings]

Starry Magenta Meruli

[meruli]

https://www.tumblr.com/meruli/763601030218907648/wonderful-precure-4kids-dub-names-leaked?source=share

Are they actually getting a dub?

Nah lmao it's a joke inspired by the A3 4kids dub meme

[scrapman-labs-official-account]

[document #01: Echoes of Time/Meruli introduction]

[Researcher name]: Meruli Adamant

[Subject]: Temporal Overlap Syndrome (TOS) and it's effectiveness in combat situations

[Status]: first phase (theoretical analysis)

[Document Approval Status]: Green

[Begin]

Lead Temporal Researcher Meruli here. This should be my first Document to be approved for public view by Dr. Scrapman and her Inner Circle. Today's subject: analysis of Temporal Overlap Syndrome. Let's begin, shall we?

[SUBJECT EXPLANATION]

1. Temporal Overlap Syndrome is a condition brought about by extreme speeds (see Dr Leridio's papers on Universe Skimming and it's effects on the effects on Light Speed and Temporal Distortion) reached through HyLight engine overclocking, or use of HyLight Engines to escape gravity wells through hyperportation through the source of the gravity well.

2. The (proven) effects are: increased tolerance to HyLight contamination, the ability to manipulate objects within 10m of the subject via a seperate body that can regenerate in under a second, increased working speeds via this second body (hereby named an "Echo" unless the subject has the Stand Strain genetic defect or the progenitor of it, the Stand Virus), the ability to teleport via switching with the Echo. This seems to drain the stamina of the subject, as they move sluggishly for a while after.

[HYPOTHESIS]

It is my belief that the energy within the Echoes can be utilised to speed up the use of weaponry. It may also be usable for reconnaissance as rumoured effects include the ability to inhabit the Echo in exchange for the total vegetisation of the subject while the Echo is inhabited.

[INTERVIEW LOG]

Interview #01

[The following is a transcript from Interview Room #12, which lost all power shortly after recording was violently and abruptly cut off]

[The footage starts as Dr Meruli enters a room with a man who has TOS, her own projection closing the door behind her]

Meruli: so. You have Temporal Overlap Syndrome?

Subject: yes. It's been strange, but I'm being treated like some sort of superhuman now.

M: well, you ARE one now, so it makes sense.

[The Projection brings Dr Meruli a cup of creamed honeyed milk, and a cup of hot cocoa for the Subject]

M: cocoa? It's freshly made.

S: no thank you. I had some cola before I came here and I don't want to be on the toilet for half an hour when I get home.

M: disappointing.

[Dr Meruli pours the drinks into a larger mug, then takes a sip]

M: more for me then. Back to the subject of this interview. Have you ever harmed another person with your Echo?

S: well, my wife wasn't happy that I'd been changed like this, and she tried to kill me, so I desperately tried to stop her and the... Echo... Punched her in the gut. She calmed down later.

M: your wife is not my concern.

S:... Harsh.

M: don't care. I asked if you'd hurt anyone with the Echo, not about your psychotic wife.

[She stares at him with dead eyes]

M: no offence, of course. I'm simply not interested in anything other than getting the information I require.

S: no offence but you, my good miss, are a fucking asshole.

M: oh? However would I have known that without you telling me, I wonder?

[The doctor lets out a small chuckle]

M: no more small talk. I'm here for answers, so back to questions!

S:[under breath] dead eyed freak...

[Dr Meruli hears this and with lightning speed begins to choke the subject, a look of boiling rage on her face]

M: what did you call me?

[The subject claws at her small hands before being released from her grip]

M: I apologise for that... Outburst.

S: I regret coming here.

M: I regret you coming here too. Now, second question: are you, in fact, able to swap spatial coordinates with your Echo?

[The subject looks at the once again emotionless, childlike woman and shudders]

S: y-yes, that is something I can do.

M: good, good. And don't think I didn't notice your shuddering and stuttering. You clearly aren't the sort of person I should be talking about this with. Get out.

[The projection opens the door before dragging the subject out]

M: why does the Inner Circle send imbeciles like that to my interviews?

[She looks to the camera, and in a few moments, begins to bleed from her eyes and mouth before reaching for the thing, her arm elongating before reaching and crushing the camera]

[Secret camera footage from after the camera was destroyed]

[The projection is shown bleeding in a corner as Dr Meruli scratches alien symbols into the walls, her arms broken in several places and her skin cut to ribbons by her own nails]

Meruli: algathoth, ruinain, eleeae, luuvoil. Algathoth, ruinain, eleeae, luuvoil.

[A trio of guards assigned to the doctor enter the room, one with a large bucket of blood, another with a Gravknife, and the last with a mug of honeyed milk]

Guard 1: doctor?

M: algathoth ruinain eleeae luuvoil algathoth ruinain eleeae luuvoil algathoth ruinain eleeae luuvoil

Guard 2:[into radio] the doc's gone Eldritch again sir.

[Dr Meruli slowly turns to the guards, blood flowing from her orifices (particularly her mouth and eyes)]

M: did I not request seventeen litres of blood?

G2: Dr Ilimai needed all of it. This was all that was left.

M: bring me that man I threw out. His blood will suffice

G2: but doctor-

[She slid a single, bladelike nail across his throat]

THAT IS AN ORDER. GETHRUKINALKITISHI-LAAAHRU!

[The second guard backed away as the doctor spoke in her recently unearthed eldritch dialect]

G2: u-understood, ma'am.

[As he left, the doctor smiled at the other guards]

M: he hesitated. All you gethrukin are so weak minded.

[She grabbed the knife from the first guard and sliced her arm off, biting her coat as she did so]

M: the one time I need blood...

[She begins to paint eldritch spells on the walls, green and pale yellow energies arcing between the carved symbols and painted sigils]

M: come, hastur! Give me clarity!

[Her coat slowly yellows, pages of an incomprehensible play flying around her and sticking to the coat until it seemed to become a totally different garment]

[Following footage REDACTED by order of Dr Scrapman]

"Following interview instances all devolved into eldritch bullshit, so I fucking purged them. Also can we decrypt the eldritch shit she keeps putting on the walls BEFORE she summons hastur into the basement again?"

-Dr Scrapman

[lgvalenzuela]

[hija-del-universo]

My my. Look who’s talking 🤭🤣

[precure-stuff]

Please don’t eat Meruli’s ears 

[elcall]

Very interesting!! I love reading rewrites! I like the struggles you gave Yume, she really didn't have enough of them.

Also I love the Ako coord design! It looks really similar to the Canon one so I can see it adopted XD

Also going to tag @meruli !

I passed my finals and am free from the prison that they call school (for a few weeks) so time to continue my AiStars Rewrite because I am better than Bandai

(also I am prone to forgetting things so if I repeat information from the last post,,,, just be patient w/ me please 😭)

Season 1 (continued???)

Main characters as usual are Yume, Koharu, Rola, Mahiru, Ako, and Haruka Ruka 

I said that S4 only had Yuzu, Yozora, and Tsubasa but we’re changing that– Lily now is also part of S4 and takes Hime’s spot since,, yk,,, Hime’s missing 

Hime disappeared a while before the S4 Selection (so she was there for her second year at FSA and was in S4 for one year, but is not there for her third year when the series takes place) 

Hime disappeared after an S4 concert (the same one that Yume and Koharu attend to in Episode 1 of AiStars)-- and Yume was the last person to see her (and the rainbow power was accidentally given to her here idk how just bear with me) 

Anyways uhhhhh what else 

Brands in the rewrite aren’t under a specific type; they don’t fall under cute, cool, sexy, pop coords specifically (so they can make coords that vary in types) and idols can choose what coord they want based on their preferred idol type 

We’re deleting that one FSA rule where you can’t make a brand if you’re not in S4 because I think that’s lame and stupid and doesn’t do much for the plot anyways 

So some characters still have the same brands (Lily w/ Gothic Victoria, Yozora w/ Romance Kiss, Yuzu w/ Shiny Smile) but some don’t 

Ako, for example, uses a brand that’s story themed– this brand is heavily connected with a film production agency and the agency and brand correlate stories (like if the brand released an Alice in Wonderland collection, the film agency would then release a movie based on Alice in Wonderland) 

I wanted to lean more into Ako’s acting side and thought this would be a good fit 

Haruka Ruka uses a brand called “DECO●LOUR MY WORLD” that follows a decora and candy concept

Oh and she’s also the princess of this land called “E-Magi Nation” (pronounced “imagination”) and everyone thinks she’s putting up a persona because there’s no land called the E-Magi Nation silly! Except no she’s dead serious she’s a literal princess from the E-Magi Nation and her home palace is actually made of gingerbread and candy canes thank you for asking 

Romance Kiss’ official concept says that its a “brand that travels around the world” and takes inspiration from different ethnic cultures, so I was thinking this brand would have a whole bunch of branches in different parts of the world with different top designers and such– Yozora (and later Mahiru) is the top designer of the Japan branch 

The muse of Romance Kiss is in charge of representing the different cultures of the brand 

The school coords in Four Star Academy also has various silhouettes rather than the typical “different tops- same skirts and shoes” pattern 

Here’s an example with an Ako Star Coord I designed 

(I didn’t design anyone else guys I don’t have any ideas I tried with Hime and it was a disaster so please be nice about the Ako design I tried my best) 

Also people can enter the magic fitting room thingie (I forgot what its called HELP) by using their Aikatsu mobile instead of their Aikatsu pass because idk I thought it’d be cool I’m not too sure about this idea though

Lets move on from most of the plot points and go to the end of the season 1 where the S4 Selection happens because I forgot SOOOO many things!! Yay me!

In Wind Dance, Haruka Ruka loses to Yuzu (but since everyone in S4 is a third year including Yuzu, Haruka Ruka gets the spot for S4 next year) 

In Bird Theatre, Ako wins the spot for S4 by beating Tsubasa 

In Moon Beauty, Mahiru beats Yozora and inherits the muse position from Yozora

Its here where Yozora announces that she’s taking a hiatus from being an idol to focus on being a designer (for Romance Kiss) (guys I need reasons to get the 25th S4 Gen out of Season 2 okay bear with me) 

In Flower Song, Lily wins over Rola and Yume,,, however, Rola wins over Yume and gets the S4 spot; Yume becomes Flower Song Class’ admin

TLDR: basically Rola, Ako, Mahiru, and Haruka Ruka are the 26th generation of S4 and are the S4 for Season 2, Mahiru (or Ako I’m not sure) becomes the leader for S4 and we say goodbye to our previous generation of S4 

Oh and Hime shows up at the finale! But like in a super mysterious way where we know its her but no one sees her and she’s just quietly lurking and its basically a hint to her being in the next season

Season 2

Ohohohohoho here’s the fun part 

OKay SO 

The top idol Hime Shiratori has shown up to Four Star Academy… with the Perfect Idol Elza Forte 

Idk why they’re there its probably to try to steal S4 away from FSA 

Anyways Elza does her big performance and she gets her Star Wings and everyone’s in awe and she’s made her name as a perfect idol you guys know the drill 

Hime says that she has returned to help her friend Elza collect perfect idols and get all the Star Wings like they’re Pokemon 

And because of this, she is currently residing in Venus Ark (not as a student she just stays there as a guest of Elza’s) 

The normal shenanigans happen, some Venus Ark characters get their pretty wings 

Oh and later, Hime does a performance (which is her big return back to idoling (which she kinda hates), just for Elza to get her sun wings) and gets the Earth Wings 

A big thing here is how Hime truly trusts Elza and wants her to achieve her dream, doing the one thing she hates (being back in the public spotlight) just so Elza can get her mom’s approval (this is important later) 

But you may be wondering…. if Hime got the Earth Wings… what wings does Yume get? 

LOL HAHAHA GUYS 

she’s not getting any wings 

(I swear I love her she’s one of my favorite characters I just gonna make her struggle… sorry) 

The lineup for the wings goes like this: 

Kirara has Mercury as usual 

Mahiru gets Venus (guys guys calm down I know that Elza has Venus canonically but I swear I have a good reason!!!) (the good reason being that I like Mahiru and Rola together and if Rola gets Mars then Mahiru should get Venus because in mythology-)

Mahiru got her wings due to a plot point in Season 2 where she has multiple muses in Romance Kiss to show the many faces of beauty in different cultures rather than just one– she implements this officially in a festival celebrating different cultures and does a performance and BAM SPR 

Hime gets Earth because it made the most sense to me 

Rola gets Mars and Aria gets Jupiter, like in canon 

Ako gets Saturn (I kind of pushed out Yuzu and Lily in Season 2 so that they play roles similar to Yozora and Tsubasa and Hime in the canon Season 2 of AiStars, so that Ako and Haruka Ruka can get their pretty wings) 

Rei gets Uranus and Elza gets Neptune (because *mumbling* the Sailor Moon ship) 

Haruka Ruka gets Pluto and her wings are made of candy because I said so 

Oh and Koharu’s back! She was in France for a bit learning more about fashion and Elza took her in and now she’s a cool fashion designer who loves Venus Ark with all her heart and having the time of her life 

Aria and Hime also have a sweet relationship– Hime actually meets Aria in Season 2 (rather than pre-show in AiStars), and the two connect 

The main reason they connect is because they were both muses of My Little Heart. My Little Heart was Hime’s brand before she disappeared, and after she did, the whole brand was running around to pick up the pieces 

They had a little reboot and got a new muse (our little fairy Aria) who became the new muse of My Little Heart 

Hime is sorry for the trouble and hate that Aria received after she became the muse but Aria’s very sweet about it with her– they get along quite well because Aria sees Hime as this cool older sister and not a top idol, and Hime is truly at her calmest with Aria 

Oh speaking of brands, Hime has a private brand in Season 2 to avoid the same thing that happened with My Little Heart (she’s planning to leave the spotlight again after Elza gets the Sun Wings) 

We’re gonna skip a lot of plot points because.. again… I forgot a LOT of the ideas I had I should really write these down 

Hime finds out that Elza was just using her the whole time and gets really really upset,,, and pulls a little revenge 

Can you guys guess what it is 

Lol Hime gets the Sun Dress… surprise(!!)

I know Hime is out of character here compared to canon but then again this is my rewrite and I can do whatever I want and I think she should be able to destroy a few dreams because of the betrayal she feels 

And everyone was like “WOAH!! How did she do that!! Gasp!! The Sun Dress is here again??!” 

So the main rival of Season 2 shifts from Elza to Hime

Uhhh skipping more plot points,,, but Yume is doing pretty great! She was kinda moping around after she didn’t get an SPR but she and Koharu made up and created a new brand called “Rainbow Berry Parfait” Yay!! 

So she’s kinda vibing because her best friend is back 

OH MY GOD WAIT I FORGOT TO MENTION 

So at the end of Season 1, because she lost the S4 Selection and was exhausted due to the rainbow power, she took a small hiatus 

She still trains a LOT, more than she used to, so she learns to control her rainbow power again idk how 

But you may be wondering,,, Yume has no SPR nor a sun dress, how the heck is she gonna beat Hime in the finale? 

Basically, Yume and Koharu,,, craft a Moon Dress by themselves– its not given from the system or anything but they literally make a dress that can rival the Sun Dress 

Each one of Yume’s friends help her too, like Mahiru making the crown, or Haruka Ruka helping get certain fabrics? Stuff like that 

And then in the near finale of the season, Yume performs in this Moon Dress (without wings) 

She activates her rainbow power and has a super powerful aura,,, except the rainbow from her aura then goes into her back,,, and forms a pair of wings 

And its sort of basically the system deeming her “worthy” of the Wings of Stars 

Yume wins the competition and beats Hime– so both of them sort of get what they want? Yume is at the top now because of her hard work and now her super rainbow power and Hime is finally lifted the burden of being the top idol 

Also Rei, Aria, and Kirara get Elza’s mom to give her a hug and they sort of mend their relationship from there 

And in the end of the season, Yume beats Rola in the S4 Selection, Mahiru, Ako, and Haruka Ruka win their S4 spots again

Rola decides to go to England to find out what being an idol means to her (and makes a cool rock band because I think that’s what she deserves) 

Koharu is now the top idol of Rainbow Berry Parfait– she leaves Venus Ark and opens a boutique that is also a candy shop because why not 

Ako is the top actress,,, ever; she’s getting film deals everywhere, every movie she is in sells out completely, she’s a big hit 

Mahiru is a supermodel, she’s constantly traveling the world for brand deals; one of the most influential people in the world 

I’m ngl I barely talked about Haruka Ruka,,,, oops I swear I love her 

I imagine that she gets her own talk show that’s super successful- I also remember making her have a rivalry with Yuzu so she probably beat Yuzu sometime in Season 2 but I never mentioned it until now 

And Yume is the top idol of top idols; she’s now the leader of S4 with her super successful career and now she’s just vibing 

Elza and her mom are working to mend their relationship good for them good for them 

Also Elza apologizes to Hime for using her because I think Hime deserves that apology; they don’t end up being friends again but they do end their little,,, whatever they had going on, amicably 

Venus Ark leaves Japan at the end of Season 2 and they’re gonna go to some other country to girlboss and be better than other idol schools good for them 

Hime actually stays in Japan! She now helps with Hotaru’s (Moroboshi’s sister) flower shop! 

Yozora is the top fashion designer for Romance Kiss in the Japan branch 

I think Tsubasa starts an idol agency because I think it’d be cool to have one of those and no one would do it better than Tsubasa 

And Yuzu and Lily make their own idol unit its literally a canon event 

And I think those are all my ideas so far for the series but if I remember any more ideas I’ll probably reblog this with the new ideas 

Also if you read this whole thing, I APPLAUD YOU BECAUSE HUH??? One of god’s strongest soldiers fr 

(Note: I swear the characters, especially the main six, are very close to each other I was just trying to get my ideas out so I didn’t focus on much on the relationships between characters) 

Also I definitely planned more for lore building like the origin of the rainbow power and how the aikatsu system works (because that thing is definitely sentient,,,) but that's all in Season 3 + 4 where there are new characters (,,,,my ocs,,, STOP SCREAMING I AM BUT A GIRL WHO WANTS TO INDULGE HERSELF IN HER LITTLE DELUSIONS!!!) so that may be a different post,,, maybe

(special tag for @elcall, I hope I did Ako justice 🫶)

[theonlysunlight]

Ruli “Ruli” Tamaki - Marine Meruli

[i-miss-music-247]

I wanna thank @meruli @millepara @precure-stuff and @aikasugifs as well as @hothotmiso for keeping my love of Aikatsu alive. I appreciate you all giving us sweet sweet idol content 🥰

[aikatsuswings]

Starry Pink Meruli

[scrapman-silva-and-alanor]

Oh my stars it's wonderful you don't know about the Wyrm Cults then!

MERULI GET BACK IN YOUR CAGE

What is your opinion on the old faith, I know they ain't entirely religious but what's your opinion on them? And the Bishops?

From what i heard they are Monsters......Horrible and rulers of their faith. And I heard that their also cannibals. They say that their evil, but from the killing, cannibalism and piles of satanic rituals I can tell it's a LIE

[meruli]

[elcall]

As a thank you to @meruli for a favor I've posted the first chapter of the Haruka joins venus ark fic ive been working on for forever!

I can't wait to release more parts uwu

[tsunflowers]

fuck yes she put on a meruli fursuit in aiplanet

[scolek]

Hey, remember that melty-striped-heart thing that I thought was going to be Anns dressier type! 

well, unless Ann switches obsessions from Ayumi to Ruli, thats not likely, because that Melty heart is for Melty House, Rulis brand as a fashion designer! 

Meruli (sp?) is the mascot, and Plain Meruli here is repping an actual real life dress!

so thats that mystery solved!