#sorry for the gigantic yap wahhhwah

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I love your art (the way you draw expressions is so delicious) and it made me think about what changes to canon could have caused mmj to turn out this way, and ultimately, I think that it's a matter of all of mmj just coping differently with their situations...

Like, yeah, Minori could have coped with the bad luck and isolation she experienced over and over by lashing out at everyone and herself rather than becoming depressed and listless (before she found her dream)... maybe because something happened and she started to lose confidence in herself and her dream, becoming much more hyper-aware of how far behind she was. Or maybe she saw Haruka later than in canon... or maybe she just started lashing out from the start and it started snowballing from there.

Haruka... Basically, what if she was worse with coping with the pressures of being a top idol and the depression influenced by that and the situation with Mai? Lost faith in herself and others to the point where she completely stopped trying to keep up appearances and couldn't really do her masking behaviors anymore. Especially because laziness to me isn't really a personality trait, it's how people perceive a lack of motivation, and a lack of motivation is usually caused by something else.

Airi, similarly to Haruka, what if the pressure on her, how her agency gradually pushed her further and further away from her dream, eventually broke her spirit instead of causing her to be resistant and angry? Instead of fighting back and becoming even more stubborn, she just can't deal with it anymore and kind of crumples in on herself. I have a few doubts because that pink cat is just so fucking stubborn that the exact same circumstances as canon probably wouldn't have led to what I described above, so there probably would have to be a few changed key events.

Shizuku is the biggest stretch, but ..... I'm thinking that her whole deal in this version of a personality swap au would be that the immense pressure on her to be "perfect" would cause her to react like Arisa did and become more like Arisa, especially with the influence of Arisa herself. And eventually it all builds up to a point where she becomes bitter to survive in the industry. But, as I said, I'm not really confident with how this scenario would play out....

joining tumblr since tiktok's probably getting banned in the U.S. 😭 here's some old art of personality change mmj