#zero shuffle mxc

[pharaohbean]

zero's unit shuffle au

the time has come...... to talk about these People. in order!! feel free to ask me about anything in this au! i do have songs ("commissioned" and "covered") and events and even freaking area items for the sekais!! bc apparently i was REALLY bored in class!!

more shenanigans below!

STAR STAR☆Soar!!

A family--both by blood and by bonds--come together to create joy through their musical-like shows. The WxS-adjacent group (with MMJ-style name) comprised of Tenma Tsukasa (leader), Tenma Saki, Aoyagi TENMA Toya, and Yoisaki Kanade. YES TOYA IS LEGALLY A TENMA

about the sekai: the Star SEKAI is a void full of stars with an amphitheater as well (yes Toya's scared of the void). Although there is technically a glass floor if one steps off of the amphitheater stage, you can see directly through it to a mind-bending expanse of stars. The SEKAI gives the feeling of being in space. Star SEKAI was formed from all 4 members' feelings. SSS starts with Miku (ENFP & 7w6) and Luka (ISTJ & 5w6). - Miku is a chaotic cat-like ringleader, with a top hat and everything. Although she's more of a force of chaos than WxS Miku, she still possesses (unfiltered) pearls of wisdom for the SEKAI members. She primarily comes from Tsukasa and Saki's feelings. - Luka is much quieter than Miku, being a vocalist. Her dynamic with Miku has basically just turned into Luka being Miku's babysitter. Luka is down-to-earth, to a degree that some would call pessimistic. She primarily comes from Toya and Kanade's feelings.

Rooftop/loners

A group of outcasts, all on the rooftop of their school, attempts to reclaim their lost passions through music. The 25ji-adjacent group (with L/n-style name) comprised of Akiyama Mizuki (leader), Kamishiro Rui, Shiraishi An, and Kiritani Haruka.

about the sekai: the Rooftop SEKAI is comprised of tall buildings so high up that there seems to be no ground below. There are sky bridges crossing to other rooftops, but no doors down to lower levels of the building. Colorful graffiti is found all over the walls and floors of the buildings. Rooftop SEKAI was formed from all 4 members' feelings.

R/l starts with Miku (ISTP & 8w7) and Len (INFJ & 3w4). - Miku is a cool, calm, and collected girl with a bit of an extreme side to her. She's unafraid of trying new things, even if they seem dangerous. So far, she hasn't broken anything (well, anything of HERS). She primarily comes from a mixture of all four's feelings. - Len is exceptionally creative and outgoing ... and scared of heights. His fear often keeps him grounded on one rooftop for days at time; he tries to fill the boredom void by graffitiing everything in sight. He primarily comes from a mixture of all four's feelings.

Archery Towards Dawn

A school archery club, led by an ex-idol, tries to spread light--to both the world and themselves--through an online presence. The MMJ-adjacent group (with 25ji-style name) comprised of Hinomori Shizuku (leader), Asahina Mafuyu, Mochizuki Honami, and Kusanagi Nene.

about the sekai: the Range SEKAI is a typical archery range, including a small wooden building that seems perfectly designed for idol work, complete with cameras and mirrors; around the archery range are a ring of darkened woods, almost giving off the impression that none should even near them. Range SEKAI was initially thought to be formed from Shizuku and Mafuyu's feelings alone, but later it's reaffirmed that Honami and Nene contributed in quiet ways.

ATD starts with Miku (ENTP & 5w4) and MEIKO (INTJ & 1w9). - Miku is a secretive and mysterious card dealer (of all things...). No matter where she goes, she has a deck of cards and a playful challenge for the SEKAI residents. She doesn't seem to pull from anyone's feelings, but does in fact come from a mixture of all four's. - MEIKO is a serious and unemotional archer, known best for her cold shoulder that she gives just about everyone (Mafuyu is the occasional exception). She spends almost all of her time perfecting her archery skills. She comes from a mixture of all four's feelings.

Music x Creation

An up-and-coming band forced to play in underground music battles due to a series of deadly events. The L/n-adjacent group (with WxS-style name) comprised of Hinomori Shiho (leader), Momoi Airi, Shinonome Ena, and Azusawa Kohane.

about the sekai: the Venue SEKAI is almost entirely comprised of a venue and it's backstage; all doors leading elsewhere are locked. There are people in the crowd regardless of if a music battle is on or not. The venue itself seems to pull elements from the venues Shiho used to work at and the large underground music battle venue itself. Unlike other SEKAIs, Venue SEKAI is formed primarily from Shiho's feelings.

MxC starts with Miku (INTP & 8w9) and Rin (ESFP & 7w6). - Miku is a determined and powerful girl, often overwhelmingly so. She is proficient in the guitar, stands out in a crowd, and never minces her words. She can hold her own in a music battle with no teammates, which is exceedingly rare. She primarily comes from Shiho's feelings. - Rin is upbeat and gusty, but air-headed and inexperienced. Her instrument of choice are the drums, but she can often be found daydreaming, which Miku criticizes her about often. However, she somewhat makes it up with her innocent determination. She primarily comes from the other three's feelings.

Asphalt WORN ROAD

Four unlikely people form a music group through a dare to create a new style of music in just a week. The VBS-adjacent group (with VBS-style name) comprised of Shinonome Akito (leader), Hanasato Minori, Hoshino Ichika, and Otori Emu.

about the sekai: the Mountainside SEKAI is a lone road up on the side of a mountain, with unmarked parking and a small sitting area off to the side. The road seems to go infinitely in both directions along the side of the mountain, but one can look over the edge, held back by a steel railing and find an ocean far below. Mountainside SEKAI was formed from all 4 members' feelings.

AWR starts with Miku (INFJ & 6w5) and KAITO (ESTP & 2w1). - Miku is shy and awkward, often hiding herself in her sketch book. She often freezes up and flees when faced with new people, which most often leads to her hiding behind KAITO and later Akito. Although her self-esteem is low, her advice is deep--a little too deep. She primarily comes from the girls' feelings. - KAITO isn't too far off from VBS KAITO; he is clumsy yet sincerely tries his best as a sort of father figure for the group and other VIRTUAL SINGERS alike. It's been rumored that KAITO knows where the road leads, but he likes to keep an air of mystery around him. He primarily comes from Akito's feelings.

[pharaohbean]

Hey, saw your Prsk Unit Shuffle AU and am very interested in seeing more.

In particular, I'm interested in hearing more about how the groups formed. It's always neat to see how these characters first meet and interact under different circumstances. And, as a little bonus, maybe what their "Untitled"/theme song is, because I feel like that's a very key part of a unit's identity that tends to be overlooked.

(Not sure if you're still interested in asks about this AU. If not, sorry for bugging you about it)

GASP HELLO I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MY UNIT SHUFFLE AU im so sorry this too forever to get u back on!! schoolwork is a pain and then i went SHOPPING (which takes forever :sob:)

okok so i haven't really thought about all the details of how they get together? so bear with me this is a rough draft lol

SSS: the idea at the core of this group is that its a family with different strengths coming together to make music. so tsukasa is the scriptwriter, saki is the lyricist, toya is the choreographer, and kanade is the composer! the group is headed by tsukasa, who's actually been putting on these shows for all of them since he was a kid. as he got older, he started taking stardom more seriously (leading into canon), but an incident in middle school ended up with the tenmas legally adopting toya, so that definitely shook things up for tsukasa (in a good way!). so i think that (+ l/n not reforming, which does happen in the SSS main story) allowed tsukasa and saki to consider banding their strengths together, since tsukasa loved putting on shows and saki loved seeing them, but she would also help put them on for toya (and later kanade, when she joins them not long after toya does). the two of them very quickly realize that they need more hands, and although recruiting kanade as composer is easy (bc 25ji never forms- dont ask why im still figuring that out lol) toya is a lot harder bc he's still active under BAD DOGS with akito. however, with akito picking up AWR around the same time (+ hatsune freaking miku appearing to toya), toya does join under their choreographer as for their untitled, their song is Wonderland and the Sheep's Song by Hachi, but I worked out their line distributions to this lovely KYO cover! you can see my color-coded lyrics for them here if you're interested :)

R/l: im gonna be 100% honest with you SSS and AWR are the only ones with any semblance of a plot rn LOL but here's the base idea around R/l: mizuki and rui both congregate on the kami school rooftop bc, yknow, loners (mizuki is never reached out to by kanamafu, so not 25ji on their part. tsukasa doesnt end up applying for phoenix so wxs doesn't have a chance of forming). at some point, i imagine they got talking about music, but never did anything concrete. but not long into the main story (probably the very start) an also joins them, her dream of surpassing rad weekend getting weaker as she struggles to find a partner (koha will be explained later) so she goes to hang with her friend on the rooftop. at some point, mizu and an both accidentally enter sekai, where they meet miku and len. those two tell them that there's still two others they need to find because they also made the sekai. mizu and an get.... maybe a little too excited over this. an takes this chance to invite her friend haruka over to kami (so she transfers) and join the group, but in their search for their fourth member they end up accidentally alienating rui (ironic). they fix that tho-- although HOW i dont know lol their untitled was one i went back and forth on (tbh only SSS and AWR i didnt lol), but i eventually decided on Untitled Hymn by shaito! their color-coded lyrics are here (i just realized you can barely tell where an is in lines but ehhh)

ATD: okay so. ATD is the group thats given the most gosh-darn trouble. ive revised their cast motivations like, TWICE now. but basically it goes like this: shizuku and mafuyu are both members of the archery club, with mafuyu trusting shizuku so much that her public mask slips a couple of times (against her will). shizuku's not dumb, but she doesn't say anything bc i think she understands that mafu has her secrets. after shizuku quits being an idol (on more of her own terms), she still wants to find a way to share the light she had before that seemed to reach mafu a few times. enter: accidental sekai trip! this trip both gives shizu the idea for an online group (which could sorta count as MMJ but i think the big distinction is they do more streamer/vtuber stuff and less purely idol stuff?? im still working on that) and lets her see mafu with her mask fully off. eventually, shizu drags nene into the business (nene never attends kami here, workin on that) bc shizu and mafu have no idea how streaming works and nene does, but nene likes hiding behind the camera but is still a part of the group bc who can say no to shizu? and hona joins at shizu's request bc they're both beautification members (and apparently hona+mafu are both honors students so i wonder if they have some overlap?? can you tell ive never attended public school lol) their untitled gave me SO MUCH TROUBLE. because ATD is supposed to be a weird mix of 25ji and mmj? but all of their songs get swiped by either R/l, AWR, or even SSS, so it was hard to find something that i thought could be specifically them. eventually, i finally decided on Common World Domination by PinocchioP! Their color-coded lyrics can be found here :)

MxC: oh boy this one's a doozy. so the idea here is like... there are underground music rings? which sounds wild but like if music is vaguely the lifeblood of this world i DONT CARE it can happen! i don't wanna make it life-threatening tho so its more like... you get blacklisted from everything. which for shiho--who got sucked into this world in an attempt to find bandmates--is VERY BAD. but shiho's given a little bit to find a band before their first performance, but with l/n definitely gone their separate ways (and she never wanted to involve them in the first place) she's kinda stuck. enter: airi and ena! both of them had been watching the music battles, unsatisfied with their current lives (airi having just quit idol/tv work, ena just frustrated over her art), but airi knows shiho thru miya, and when she heard about shiho's impending doom, she resolved herself to very quickly learn guitar and join her group, roping ena (who has a little bit of drum experience from akito and mom) into it as well. meanwhile, while all of this is going on, kohane (being the sweet soul she is) has been trailing shiho out of concern, but then is entirely horrified at the underground battles bc shes still pre-canon meek. but she really wants to help shiho, so she agrees to try and learn keyboard. after clearing the first battle, shiho and her group are safe--for now. they'll have to clear a lot more battles if they want to escape the underground their untitled is Hello Builder by UtsuP since i wanted them to have harsher rock songs than l/n (bordering on metal-ish)! color-coded lyrics here :)

AWR: funny story--all of the above units were made in the order listed! so i got to AWR and... i have ichika, minori, emu, and akito. and im like "NONE OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE ANYTHING IN COMMON". and then i went. "WAIT. THATS IT!" so here's how AWR goes: ichika still tries to reform l/n, but fails; minori is still trying to become an idol; and emu is still trying to revive the wonder stage. all three of them, all attending miya ofc, end up bonding over this and they start thinking. is there a way to satisfy all three of their dreams (band, idol, and show) at once? and at FIRST the answer is "no lol" so they go exploring. and somehow someway (workin on that) word finds out about this and some guy on vivid street dares akito to try and fix em into shape in a week. akito--being akito--accepts quite hotheadedly, then quickly realizes that maybe this wasnt a good idea?? because EVERYONE has a different music taste and its almost impossible to keep up with them all!!! but eventually they do figure it all out, and by the end none of them wanted to split apart or anything. AWR is i think the group that has the least amount of direction which might be on purpose. i think (again im rambling rn so) part of their story is figuring out what their direction is going to be! their untitled is Lip Sync by DECO*27, written as a part of holo*27 (hi no im not rlly into vtubers i just like their music) but i count it bc its written by a voca producer and this would not be the first time a non-vocaloid sung a unit song (cough cough mafumafu and tuyu). you CAN find my color-coded lyrics here.... but i did the translations. which means they're pretty much 98% google translated then bonked around to make sense. i dont know japanese please dont sue me

i hope you enjoy my indepth explanation!!! im always happy to talk about these guys :D

[pharaohbean]

bwiubfiwfb THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND WORDS!!! im so glad you like my swap au gremlins :D

"untitled hymn" is actually in pjsk! its called incomplete anthem or smth and idk why but the pjsk wiki and the vocaloidlyrics wiki have a discrepancy between them and ive just decided to go with the vocaloidlyrics wiki lol im trying not to use songs that are commissioned/covered in pjsk, but vs only songs are 100% up for grabs lol

THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO THIS HELPS TREMENDOUSLY

Hey, saw your Prsk Unit Shuffle AU and am very interested in seeing more.

In particular, I'm interested in hearing more about how the groups formed. It's always neat to see how these characters first meet and interact under different circumstances. And, as a little bonus, maybe what their "Untitled"/theme song is, because I feel like that's a very key part of a unit's identity that tends to be overlooked.

(Not sure if you're still interested in asks about this AU. If not, sorry for bugging you about it)

GASP HELLO I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MY UNIT SHUFFLE AU im so sorry this too forever to get u back on!! schoolwork is a pain and then i went SHOPPING (which takes forever :sob:)

okok so i haven't really thought about all the details of how they get together? so bear with me this is a rough draft lol

SSS: the idea at the core of this group is that its a family with different strengths coming together to make music. so tsukasa is the scriptwriter, saki is the lyricist, toya is the choreographer, and kanade is the composer! the group is headed by tsukasa, who's actually been putting on these shows for all of them since he was a kid. as he got older, he started taking stardom more seriously (leading into canon), but an incident in middle school ended up with the tenmas legally adopting toya, so that definitely shook things up for tsukasa (in a good way!). so i think that (+ l/n not reforming, which does happen in the SSS main story) allowed tsukasa and saki to consider banding their strengths together, since tsukasa loved putting on shows and saki loved seeing them, but she would also help put them on for toya (and later kanade, when she joins them not long after toya does). the two of them very quickly realize that they need more hands, and although recruiting kanade as composer is easy (bc 25ji never forms- dont ask why im still figuring that out lol) toya is a lot harder bc he's still active under BAD DOGS with akito. however, with akito picking up AWR around the same time (+ hatsune freaking miku appearing to toya), toya does join under their choreographer as for their untitled, their song is Wonderland and the Sheep's Song by Hachi, but I worked out their line distributions to this lovely KYO cover! you can see my color-coded lyrics for them here if you're interested :)

R/l: im gonna be 100% honest with you SSS and AWR are the only ones with any semblance of a plot rn LOL but here's the base idea around R/l: mizuki and rui both congregate on the kami school rooftop bc, yknow, loners (mizuki is never reached out to by kanamafu, so not 25ji on their part. tsukasa doesnt end up applying for phoenix so wxs doesn't have a chance of forming). at some point, i imagine they got talking about music, but never did anything concrete. but not long into the main story (probably the very start) an also joins them, her dream of surpassing rad weekend getting weaker as she struggles to find a partner (koha will be explained later) so she goes to hang with her friend on the rooftop. at some point, mizu and an both accidentally enter sekai, where they meet miku and len. those two tell them that there's still two others they need to find because they also made the sekai. mizu and an get.... maybe a little too excited over this. an takes this chance to invite her friend haruka over to kami (so she transfers) and join the group, but in their search for their fourth member they end up accidentally alienating rui (ironic). they fix that tho-- although HOW i dont know lol their untitled was one i went back and forth on (tbh only SSS and AWR i didnt lol), but i eventually decided on Untitled Hymn by shaito! their color-coded lyrics are here (i just realized you can barely tell where an is in lines but ehhh)

ATD: okay so. ATD is the group thats given the most gosh-darn trouble. ive revised their cast motivations like, TWICE now. but basically it goes like this: shizuku and mafuyu are both members of the archery club, with mafuyu trusting shizuku so much that her public mask slips a couple of times (against her will). shizuku's not dumb, but she doesn't say anything bc i think she understands that mafu has her secrets. after shizuku quits being an idol (on more of her own terms), she still wants to find a way to share the light she had before that seemed to reach mafu a few times. enter: accidental sekai trip! this trip both gives shizu the idea for an online group (which could sorta count as MMJ but i think the big distinction is they do more streamer/vtuber stuff and less purely idol stuff?? im still working on that) and lets her see mafu with her mask fully off. eventually, shizu drags nene into the business (nene never attends kami here, workin on that) bc shizu and mafu have no idea how streaming works and nene does, but nene likes hiding behind the camera but is still a part of the group bc who can say no to shizu? and hona joins at shizu's request bc they're both beautification members (and apparently hona+mafu are both honors students so i wonder if they have some overlap?? can you tell ive never attended public school lol) their untitled gave me SO MUCH TROUBLE. because ATD is supposed to be a weird mix of 25ji and mmj? but all of their songs get swiped by either R/l, AWR, or even SSS, so it was hard to find something that i thought could be specifically them. eventually, i finally decided on Common World Domination by PinocchioP! Their color-coded lyrics can be found here :)

MxC: oh boy this one's a doozy. so the idea here is like... there are underground music rings? which sounds wild but like if music is vaguely the lifeblood of this world i DONT CARE it can happen! i don't wanna make it life-threatening tho so its more like... you get blacklisted from everything. which for shiho--who got sucked into this world in an attempt to find bandmates--is VERY BAD. but shiho's given a little bit to find a band before their first performance, but with l/n definitely gone their separate ways (and she never wanted to involve them in the first place) she's kinda stuck. enter: airi and ena! both of them had been watching the music battles, unsatisfied with their current lives (airi having just quit idol/tv work, ena just frustrated over her art), but airi knows shiho thru miya, and when she heard about shiho's impending doom, she resolved herself to very quickly learn guitar and join her group, roping ena (who has a little bit of drum experience from akito and mom) into it as well. meanwhile, while all of this is going on, kohane (being the sweet soul she is) has been trailing shiho out of concern, but then is entirely horrified at the underground battles bc shes still pre-canon meek. but she really wants to help shiho, so she agrees to try and learn keyboard. after clearing the first battle, shiho and her group are safe--for now. they'll have to clear a lot more battles if they want to escape the underground their untitled is Hello Builder by UtsuP since i wanted them to have harsher rock songs than l/n (bordering on metal-ish)! color-coded lyrics here :)

AWR: funny story--all of the above units were made in the order listed! so i got to AWR and... i have ichika, minori, emu, and akito. and im like "NONE OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE ANYTHING IN COMMON". and then i went. "WAIT. THATS IT!" so here's how AWR goes: ichika still tries to reform l/n, but fails; minori is still trying to become an idol; and emu is still trying to revive the wonder stage. all three of them, all attending miya ofc, end up bonding over this and they start thinking. is there a way to satisfy all three of their dreams (band, idol, and show) at once? and at FIRST the answer is "no lol" so they go exploring. and somehow someway (workin on that) word finds out about this and some guy on vivid street dares akito to try and fix em into shape in a week. akito--being akito--accepts quite hotheadedly, then quickly realizes that maybe this wasnt a good idea?? because EVERYONE has a different music taste and its almost impossible to keep up with them all!!! but eventually they do figure it all out, and by the end none of them wanted to split apart or anything. AWR is i think the group that has the least amount of direction which might be on purpose. i think (again im rambling rn so) part of their story is figuring out what their direction is going to be! their untitled is Lip Sync by DECO*27, written as a part of holo*27 (hi no im not rlly into vtubers i just like their music) but i count it bc its written by a voca producer and this would not be the first time a non-vocaloid sung a unit song (cough cough mafumafu and tuyu). you CAN find my color-coded lyrics here.... but i did the translations. which means they're pretty much 98% google translated then bonked around to make sense. i dont know japanese please dont sue me

i hope you enjoy my indepth explanation!!! im always happy to talk about these guys :D