#queen nanari

[megaera-of-pigeon]

[the-backwards-eel]

Snnzkdddkdj i won a sunset island pageant as nanari

[ilovenikkisfashion]

Winter is the Season of Sewing

I just realized my pun! "Sewing"... "Snowing"...

As the days get shorter and the temperature chills, something inside me yells out, "time to knit and sew and dress up all fluffy and cute!" I can only imagine something influenced me, and it may have been a particular mobile game...

In college, the sessions between classes granted me some free time, so I decided to check out a game who's ads kept popping up on my YouTube videos - Love Nikki.

The ads were not at all what the game actually turned out to be. In fact, the ads were quite shocking - I remember the main character with pink hair, Nikki, and another young lady with silver hair, later known in the actual story as Kimi, were fighting over a shared male love interest as well as other ads that made it appear there was a "dating-sim" element, which there was not. Here's an example of an ad (I never personally saw this one, but it is a good example): https://youtube.com/shorts/H3t_r2Y_d6U?si=msTisoOq8IE82X17

If you're interested in comically bad and misleading advertisements, here's a reddit forum I found. None of the ads spark any memories unfortunately, but I may be misremembering, or the ads I saw were before someone started archiving them. https://www.reddit.com/r/LoveNikki/comments/9gnksq/love_nikki_ads/

The game is absolutely adorable and pure compared to the ads! It's such a shame that the marketing studio used shock and strange situations to promote the game, but it did get me to try it out of morbid curiosity...

You play as Nikki, a pink-haired human girl who was sent to the magically world of Miraland where you battle through styling! You start the game through a styling battle tutorial with Queen Nanari, the one who brought Nikki and her cape-wearing talking cat, Momo, to this universe. The queen did not explain why she brought the duo to Miraland, only that they would understand in due time. Nikki meets several characters throughout her journey who guide her through the different cities and kingdoms. Each chapter has about a dozen or so stage missions for you to complete through styling battles against NPC opponents. At each stage, there were currency and clothing item drops, which you could use in future styling battles or collect and use to craft new pieces that were worth more styling points.

There were 10 main style categories clothing and accessories could be labeled under, each piece having only 1 or 2 styles: Gorgeous, Elegant, Sexy, Mature, Lively, Pure, Cute, Simple, Cool and Warm. Each stage required a certain number of points towards certain categories, and you would receive a rank from "F" to "S" depending on your success. There were also 5 buttons along the bottom of the screen during the battle for you to gain additional points or to debuff or sabotage the opponent, and they could do the same to you.

My favorite aspect of the game were the different locations and culturally influenced clothing. The Apple Federation was definitely based off of the United States of America. According to the Wiki page, Welton, the founder of the Apple Federation, fought against colonist rule, and the nation is home to a diversity of people as it is immigrant-friendly. I believe the name either comes from New York City, "The Big Apple," because Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty being the most iconic symbols of liberty, freedom, and refuge for immigrants, or it could come from the notion of George Washington having chopped his father's apple (or cherry) tree as a child and praised by his father for being honest about his misdeed - I can't remember where this came from; it was like a tale passed around in elementary school, but it was apparently true.

I could go on about each nation, but I'll quickly summarize their style and real-life inspiration/influence:

Apple Federation: simple and modern styles; North American / United States inspired

Lilith Kingdom: cute and fairytale-inspired styles; very much European, most notably Greece (Wintermount), Italy (Cicia), Austria (Hayden), and Denmark, Norway, or Sweden (Hela Vi)

Cloud Empire: gorgeous and elegant styles; divided into four regions as follows: Northern Cloud (with snowfall in the mountains that divide the Cloud Empire and the North Kingdom, populated by yaks and snow leopards, this sounds like Mongolia to the north of China), Southern Cloud (the wiki listed Silvery Embroidery as an example of the style, which is reminiscent of the Miao ethnic group in Southern China, known for their elaborate silver headpieces), Western Cloud (based on the wiki description of being a land of "dancers and fortunetellers", the game is stereotyping Romani people, especially with the mention of the region having "a history of bandits", and Eastern Cloud (where the capital lies, and the Imperial Palace appears to be based off the Forbidden City in Beijing)

North Kingdom: a militant and sexy style, particularly for women; assuming this is Russia given that it borders Cloud Empire to the south, and is a nation of snow and bloodshed from in-fighting. There is also a viking/Norse-inspired city, so it this kingdom encompasses the entire Arctic North.

Republic of Wasteland: "tribal and aboriginal style"; they've lumped together different tribes and ancient cultures that are polytheistic in this region- ancient Egyptian (Wind Sand and Pale Morrow), Central Asia (Windvale), and North American Natives (Pota), the latter of which makes no sense given it's obvious inspiration

Ruin Island: sci-fi, futuristic style; this has no particular geographical influence

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This was a longer ramble than I was expecting! The point I'm trying to make is that this game, because I started playing it in the winter time, I now associate winter with styling and fashion. I've even made my own form for sewing projects!

My fiancé introduced me to Obsidian, a unique note-taking software that I am currently using to plan my sewing and styling journey! First I'm starting off with understanding what designs flatter me the most. I've gathered all my information from this person I've seen pop up on Pinterest during my research: Gabrielle Arruda. The diagrams are very informative and easy to read.

I have divided different articles of clothing and accessories into folders. Once I've got everything researched, I'll pop into the Nikki's Info Wiki and gather each piece that fits these categories.

For anything that may not be my style, I could always make it for someone else!

I am looking to make all of the clothing out of natural materials: wool, cotton, linen, etc., as I try to keep away from unnecessary plastics while designing a timeless wardrobe.

I'm excited to share this journey! My biggest wish is to have a fulfilling life where I can create, and this blog will be my journal.

[fictionkinfessions]

Kinfirmed Ophelia from Shining Nikki and I think it's funny how similar both my Love Nikki! series kins are: both are queens with an emphasis on the divine, have white and gold outfits, long blonde hair, and a brother (though my relationships with said brothers were clearly different in each life). Funny how things work out. -Ophelia (Shining Nikki) and Nanari (Love Nikki!) #🌙🌹🐚

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[cyrantelnovapaleorayeeso]

Can someone give me a lore refresh

Leonid gives nikki the snowflake necklace in nikki 2 which allows her to visit miraland

But nikki gets to miraland via queen nanari (and her shadow)

Did Leonid just plan that far ahead? Would she (nanari) be unable to summon nikki if she didn't have the necklace?

[merlin-plays-ln]

i love the stupidity of this but if we're going by typical persona roles, i feel like Marina and Aeon would be Nikki's (wildcard) attendants. Potentially leonid as igor?

anyways proposed confidants:

0. Fool - Nanari / Leonid

I. Magician - Momo

II. Priestess - Kimi / Helz

III. Empress - Ace / ???

IV. Emperor - Chloris / Mercury

V. Hierophant - Orlando / Lolory

VI. Lovers - Bobo / The Player

VII. Chariot - Yue Qianshang / Vivian

VIII. Justice - Nidhogg / Loen

IX. Hermit - Fu su / Yexiao

X. Fortune - Starlet / Qin Yi

XI. Strength - Queen Elle / Zoey

XII. Hanged Man - Louie / ???

XIII. Death - Lunar / Ashley

XIV. Temperance - Sofia / Lolory

XV. Devil - Mela / Qin Yi

XVI. Tower - Neva / Caprico

XVII. Star - ??? / yuka + Jax

XVIII. Moon - Royce / Joy

XIX. Sun - Yvette / ???

I can't decide if Bobo should be Lovers or Star for LN 🤔the rest for LN I'm pretty sure on.

I'm unsure on Empress, Hanged Man, and Sun for SN

Welcome to the Barbecue Room.

[dress-up-bestie]

I’m not a huge fan of “the big good turns out to be the big bad” reveal sometimes but I do prefer that over Nanari being revealed to be possessed by an evil puppet.

[sorry-corridor]

Ever on and on

I continue circling

With nothing but my hate

In a carousel of agony

'Til slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing

And suddenly I see that I can't

Break free

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Here’s a possessed Nanari drawing that took way longer than I thought. Originally it was supposed to be for day one of Nikkitober, but obviously that didn’t happen. I really like how it turned out and I hope you do too!

[eremulade]

[the-backwards-eel]

Pt.2 of my last post

6. Nanari and lilyth

- sick queens (literally)

- Also nanaris kingdom is literally called the lilith kingdom

- Its spelt differently but still

7. Lunar and maria

- epitomes of grace and elegance

- but will protect if they have to

- likes birds (especially blue ones)

8. Joe brownie and curtis

- grey hair

- men in suits

- companions of women heirs in suits (kimi and prez)

- get hit on by women

9. Shade and whitney

- white hair

- came back from the dead

- can fight

- looks like theyre allergic to colour

- look cold on outside but warm on inside

- wait why do they actually look the same

- except whitney has 2 eyes

- and shade doesnt have stripes on his face

10. Orlando and curtis

- men in suits

- men with glasses

- can fight

- lowkey have something going on with previous white haired boys

[lnlore]

Queen Nanari's default sprite

[dreamfy]

Nanari ~

[megaera-of-pigeon]

wow could you tell more about Nanari's manipulation of Bobo and Neva please?

Oh definitely! Spoilers for information not on our server ahead, of course!

The Bobo one is actually not very spoilery, if you’re caught up on her dreamweavers. That “Lord” she and Noah serve, who’s been telling her to follow around and deceive Nikki, has kidnapped and done something nefarious to Bobo’s mother, and is having Noah follow Bobo around to and pretend to help her look for answers when he’s just trying to lead her away from suspecting the Lord? Yeah, “Lord” is almost definitly Nanari. (That’s why everything has been so mysterious surrounding her it’s not Royce!!! He’s not evil!)

The Neva stuff comes up in that Tree of Memories hell event that I wanted instead of SoS but whatever. It’s been awhile since I read the summary of Neva’s suit lore, but apprently Nanari arranged for smol child Neva to be cursed with some weird thing that turned her into a pseudo vampire, which is why she she has trouble in the sunlight (and possibly relates to the scars on her back mentioned in the WFSM story regarding her), and then had smol Neva become Royce’s bodyguard. I’m not clear on why, but I may have just forgotten. Anyway yeah Nanari gave Neva a weird vampire curse as a very young child (like 7 or so) and then made her serve her family so that’s great. I think the story from ToM ends with her and Royce finding a way to uncurse her and then she decides to leave service to Royce and go see the world which she’s been unable to do so that’s very nice.

Anyway Neva and Bobo could have a lot to talk about... help each other recover from this.... and then teaming up to defeat her... ya know. It could be great.

[yunikina]

here's a shitpost

sprites by @ms-loki-loves-nikki !!

[nikkiandmomo]

Eruca

Heart Knight

Loyal Guard - "I pledge my loyalty to Queen Nanari, for today and all days to come, I will serve as the queen's bodyguard"

Heart Knight - Heart Knight Eruca and prince's bodyguard Neva have different personalities. However they get along well.

Guardian Will - Her will is as solid as steel. The loyalty and perseverance protect the country in peace and prosperity.

Sweet Knight - "The bow is justice! As knight of Lilith Kingdom, how can I not have bows decorated on my clothes?"

Token of Knight - Eruca's teacher got this sword for knight glory in an expedition.

[megaera-of-pigeon]

Nanari, rolling up to the palace 15 months after Tree of Memories: Neva kill Royce for me yet?

Where is Nanari

getting starbucks