#slbp umeko

[yonezawacastle]

I do think my favorite thing about Mitsuhide's arc is actually Oichi, and what a high place she clearly holds in MC's thoughts. Otome games are going to focus on handsome guys pretty much by default, but it's just so refreshing to have a female friendship be this central to the story and this important to the protagonist.

[yoolee]

Lately as I have been mindlessly listening to a hundred and a half “I was reincarnated/transmigrated into a book I read/otome game I played” I can’t help but imagine such a story with SLBP as the game in question.

Misc thoughts: Most of these stories have to do with changing one’s fate / avoiding some disaster or doom or fav character’s death and that would be so hard with SLBP from a which is actually one of the reasons why I think it would make a great story. The sort of inevitability of war and its influence is so deeply woven in and it’s not like there are “oh so and so attacked from x river as spring turned to summer in this year” details that could be used. To me such a big theme is just finding moments of meaningful happiness with the important people in your life, and I really like that as a story over a lot of these ‘save the world’ ‘win the war’ ‘overthrow a tyrant’ clear win/lose goals. How would that influence this kind of transmigration story? What would someone who woke up in SLBP have as a goal?

I think it would be interesting because even with knowledge of the supposed inner workings and secrets of characters, and some knowledge of future events, if the protagonist woke up as chef - it’s not like she would have money and influence to act on it. It’d be an interesting challenge, IMO.

Or embracing the more stereotypical storylines you could go:

The semi-serious route of just ‘try to stay alive during warring states era’ which involves NOT being a poison tester perhaps.

The ‘go romance favorite side character (Toramatsu? Tired single dad Kanetsugu? Kansuke?) who didn’t get route’

‘Play matchmaker and find people similar to who nameless chef becomes over course of route because there’s only one of her and you and want all biases to have SOME happiness in their lives’ (protag reincarnated as Umeko? As nameless retainer/vassal?)

Protag realizes they’re in the game only after little brother has left to become a poison tester, and hurries after to get the game back on track (perhaps not knowing which ‘route’ they’re on until they catch up) and then has to you know, not die despite now being extra suspicious

Get unexpectedly attached to a character who wasn’t one of your favorites by virtue of actually experiencing things (eg—Inuchiyo)

Try to find a way to gain enough power and influence that they might be able to actually change things - go try and find Iga and train as an assassin to take out the lords they liked less? Uses the extreme cliche of somehow remembers enough detail about a modern invention or process to develop it (I remember salt being a brief produce plot point in Shingen/Kenshin’s route) but would still have to get around heroine’s agency or lack thereof and availability of resources to enact said inventions.

You could also scrap the idea of protag wakes up as chef and instead have it be like—protag wakes up as one of the lords or named vassals and that solves the influence problem but ups the likelihood of dying in battle or being named a spy problem.

If I were to write it, would probably be the usual slapstick. Go the route of protag waking up as chef, try and keep chef dad alive, leverage childhood friend status to preemptively bribe/lure Inuchiyo over to Kai’s side, maneuver to end up on Yukimura/Saizo prologue path since Kai has the highest concentration of favorites, trying to get Shingen/Kenshin into an alliance (or relationship) trying to develop a business plan for a sweets business (focused on Nobunaga and Ieyasu’s favorites) with maybe Francesco as an investor to try and gain enough mercantile influence for future negotiations.

It would require too much research to rally do well but such is life 😂

[cyllux-the-imaginary]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA man I love SLBP’s April’s Fools gags, it does me everytime

(oboro tho LOL I loved it)

[otome-shenanigans]

pretty sure the only thing masamune is craving is affection, actually

[ninjasuccesssquad]

Girl talk with Umeko and co.

[incorrectslbpquotes]

MC: why would I fuck a demon? simple, the status. imagine you and your friends arriving at the gates of hell, they're all crying, scared to death, and you just walk into the arms of your sugar demon. legendary.

Umeko: where is my bible-

Matsuko: no wait she actually has a point.

[buddy-anon]

[tacogawa]

they dont get enough credit for bein so amazin

[ieyasu-tacogawa]

Ladies ;) MFK. Almost done, a few more to go. Will make a list and link all when all are posted.

[kay-otome]

This girl. Umeko my new bff 💕

[alexisjusthere]

WHAT EVEN IS THIS LMFAO

THEY MAKE IT HILARIOUS EVERY YEAR I ACTUALLY ALMOST BELIEVED IT BUT THEN I SAW YOSHIHIME AND WAS LIKE NOPEJDOJSHDVHFHJEJJF

[incorrect-slbp-quotes-blog]

Umeko: Dieting is my passion! Do you have any idea how I'd have looked, if I hadn't been on a diet my entire life?

Ieyasu: *snickers* Good?

MC: Milord!

[wingcinna]

Maid wife + restaurant wifey = 💖

[ninjasuccesssquad]

Personal Nurse for Yukimura 🤕

[buddy-anon]

THIS IS SO SWEET💕💕💕

Braided (Umeko/MC drabble)

She braids flowers into your hair. 

Twisting the fresh spring blossoms and vines into intricate styles, the light of early morning painting everything in sunrise.

She braids flowers into your hair and tells you stories of her mother. 

She listens, with rapt, watching eyes, as you open up like the blooms she gives you, telling her about your family, wiping your tears when you talk about your father.

Perhaps that is all she would have done.

But you can’t stop yourself, no. Not with her sparkling eyes and her fingers, twining with yours.

You seek her out. 

Finding her every morning.

Helping her with the chores, letting her brush her fingers down your neck.

You, even, are the one to pull her out deep into the garden, before anyone else is awake.

But even then, with flowers in your hair, and your hand holding hers.

She’s still the one that kisses you first.

Soft inspired by @buddy-anon and the post about MC and Umeko being cute girlfriends <3 

tagging @han-pan

[buddy-anon]

small commission with best girls Umeko and MC