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CHAPTER 3 IS OUT!!!

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Chapter 2 is out!

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Chapter 1 of day.light is here!

Enjoy!!! Please leave any feedback you have!

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Progress Update for day.light's Main Story!

Hi, here is the first progress update!

Today, I managed to complete the outline for day.light's main story; meaning all of the plot points and ending of the story have been properly mapped out. I have also started work on drafting chapter 1.

That being said, I want to conduct a short poll to inform how I should upload chapters.

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Shadow Shadow but it's day.light!

For reference, I place them into N25 MVs with this guide:

Kanade -> Minori

Mafuyu -> An

Ena -> Nene

Mizuki -> Mizuki

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I'm not fixing me accidentally reblogging something I wasn't supposed to on this account. No it's not going into the directory either

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"i'm wxs's number one fan" yeah, only if kohane azusawa is found dead in a ditch any time soon

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The results are in!

re:birth received 9 votes.

Excluding my own vote (which I determined through an online wheel picker), they received 8 votes. I thought they would be definitely less popular than AURORA, which I was seemingly wrong about regardless of my vote.

Forever Dream! received 3 votes.

They are my favorite unit in the AU by a marginal amount, so this is a bit ironic. I would've voted for them if not for my wheel picker idea, to be honest.

AURORA received 7 votes.

I expected them to win the poll solely because they have more available content than the other units as well as having two of the most popular characters in the fandom (Mafuyu and Tsukasa, especially since they're in a unit together). It was surprising to see this not be the case.

The Phoenix's Castle of Ashes and Ressurection received 4 votes.

This result was a bit expected, in all honesty. Kohane is particularly unpopular with the English fandom, Shiho is slightly more obscure than others due to originally being in Leo/need, and I don't think Emu or Ena's popularity can make up for that because neither of them are the most popular of their units either.

day.light received 10 votes.

I probably should've seen this coming. After all, I made their premise mysterious and a bit dark on purpose, and all the characters within the unit are either passively liked by a majority of the fandom (Minori and An) or commonly favorited (Nene and Mizuki). I do get to write my favorite original character in Project SEKAI itself first because of this, so that'll be fun!

day.light will be the first and potentially the only unit in the Vertical SEKAI AU to get a properly written main story.

A new subdirectory will then be added for this content since it isn't contained to the blog.

I will update everyone on my writing progress as I see fit. Thank you for voting!

Now that the directories have been completed, two things are in order.

First off, I would like to thank everyone who voted in those polls, and everyone who has stuck around with this blog. I greatly appreciate your support! Secondly, I have an important announcement to make.

I will be writing a main story!

For at least one unit!

I don't know if I will do the others yet, but I will try my best regardless. I haven't completed a project of this scale before; let alone five, so I want to test the waters first with one unit before deciding on if I will do the others. So, that being said...

Additionally, if I do decide to make more main stories after the first, they will be picked from the results of this poll. For example, if AURORA won 40% of the votes and day.light was a runner up at 20%, day.light would get their main story next after AURORA (if I decide to make more main stories), and so on. As for information on how this main story will work, it will be written as a fanfiction on AO3. If anyone can't access AO3 or doesn't want to use it for any reason, I can make alternatives (i.e. other fanfiction sites, posting to Tumblr itself, Google Docs) if you ask. I am not a professional writer by any means, so if anyone would like to help out with things like beta reading, please let me know. It'll probably take me at minimum a month or two for me to finish writing a draft, though. This blog will also run as usual during the writing period, so feel free to continually send asks! Thank you once again for your continued support.

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I’m curious… How each characters react when they first found SEKAI existence. Especially AURORA since theirs made solely based on Tsukasa.

Ichika would be freaking out internally (#1 Miku fan) but also be convinced she's just dreaming. Haruka would be concerned over the logistics of the SEKAI existing, while Rui would also be concerned about said logistics in a completely different way. Akito is a bit scared (won't admit it) and wants to leave.

Saki and Touya would get over their disbelief relatively quickly and would have fun admiring the whimsy of their SEKAI. Airi and Kanade are a bit confused but follow suit upon seeing Saki and Touya's more relaxed attitudes about the SEKAI.

Honami and Shizuku would have a lot to say about how much Tsukasa's SEKAI resembles him. Mafuyu felt like a complete outsider to the SEKAI. Tsukasa was afraid of his SEKAI (much like canon).

Everyone in TPCoAaR except Emu freaked out about the Castle SEKAI existing lol

Minori thinks the livehouse is a little cool. An doesn't like it at all. Nene was a bit happy to have a place to escape to. Mizuki was definitely a bit confused but accepted things pretty fast overall.

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What's the difference between Park Sekai and Wonderland Sekai?

The Park SEKAI is an actual park, like the one in the image below:

The Wonderland SEKAI looks like this:

Hope this helps!

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Now that the directories have been completed, two things are in order.

First off, I would like to thank everyone who voted in those polls, and everyone who has stuck around with this blog. I greatly appreciate your support! Secondly, I have an important announcement to make.

I will be writing a main story!

For at least one unit!

I don't know if I will do the others yet, but I will try my best regardless. I haven't completed a project of this scale before; let alone five, so I want to test the waters first with one unit before deciding on if I will do the others. So, that being said...

Additionally, if I do decide to make more main stories after the first, they will be picked from the results of this poll. For example, if AURORA won 40% of the votes and day.light was a runner up at 20%, day.light would get their main story next after AURORA (if I decide to make more main stories), and so on. As for information on how this main story will work, it will be written as a fanfiction on AO3. If anyone can't access AO3 or doesn't want to use it for any reason, I can make alternatives (i.e. other fanfiction sites, posting to Tumblr itself, Google Docs) if you ask. I am not a professional writer by any means, so if anyone would like to help out with things like beta reading, please let me know. It'll probably take me at minimum a month or two for me to finish writing a draft, though. This blog will also run as usual during the writing period, so feel free to continually send asks! Thank you once again for your continued support.

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Welcome to the Vertical SEKAI AU!

For ease of use, this main directory has been divided into two smaller directories below. Please use whichever one you prefer!

Click here to view the Categorical Directory!

This directory is intended to display the lore in an concise and easy to understand manner; I recommend using this directory first if you're new here!

Click here to view the Chronological Directory!

This directory is intended to be a dated archival of all posts on this blog; including announcements and other non-lore matters.

If there are any errors in either directory, please notify me, and I will fix them. Thank you for checking out the Vertical SEKAI AU!

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Categorical Directory

Introduction to the AU; start here if you're new!

Introduction Post

day.light's Main Story

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

How did each unit form?

AURORA

re:birth

Forever Dream!

The Phoenix's Castle of Ashes and Resurrection

day.light

The world of VIRTUAL SINGERS

Park SEKAI

Stage SEKAI

Wonderland SEKAI

Misc. Lore

Unit Cover Picks Round 1

How different are the characters in Vertical SEKAI from their canon counterparts?

Do Kohane and Shiho ever clash when making shows?

Character Honorifics Round 1

Kizuna Ranks Round 1

What does Tsukasa think of RAD WEEKEND?

How did AURORA surpass RAD WEEKEND?

Class Assignments Post 3rd Anni Timeskip

How do the Kamiyama Third Years Interact?

AURORA's subunits: Diadem and HAIL

Unit Cover Picks Round 2

The difference between the Park SEKAI and the Wonderland SEKAI

How did each character react to their SEKAIs?

Gallery

3DMV Screenshot Collection 1

re:birth School Uniform Live2Ds

TPCoAaR School Uniform Live2Ds

Forever Dream! School Uniform Live2Ds

day.light Shadow Shadow 3DMV Screenshots

All other posts concerning meta aspects such as announcements, polls, and other asks unrelated to the lore can be found in the Chronological Directory.

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Chronological Directory

Upload Dates are taken from the Archive feature on Tumblr desktop— they're not reflective of when they were posted in my actual time zone (EST).

Introduction Post (10/15/2024)

Unit Cover Picks Round 1 (10/15/2024)

How different are the characters in Vertical SEKAI from their canon counterparts? (10/15/2024)

Poll asking if the blog should be asks only (10/17/2024)

Do Kohane and Shiho ever clash when making shows? (10/17/24)

How did AURORA form? Is Tsukasa's SEKAI the same as canon? (10/18/24)

A funny misunderstanding (10/24/24)

Character Honorifics Round 1 (10/24/24)

Announcement for the #non ask tag (10/24/24)

3DMV Screenshot Collection 1 (10/25/24)

re:birth School Uniform Live2Ds (10/30/24)

Kizuna Ranks Round 1 (10/30/24)

How did re:birth form? (10/31/24)

What does Tsukasa think of RAD WEEKEND? (10/31/24)

How did AURORA surpass RAD WEEKEND? (10/31/24)

How did Forever Dream! form? (11/1/24)

How did TPCoAaR form? (11/4/24)

Update on OC ask formatting (11/5/24)

How did day.light form? (11/6/24)

What does re:birth think of their VIRTUAL SINGERS? (11/11/24)

Small hiatus announcement (11/20/24)

Class Assignments Post 3rd Anni Timeskip (11/24/24)

How do the Kamiyama Third Years Interact? (12/5/24)

TPCoAaR School Uniform Live2Ds (12/5/24)

AURORA's subunits: Diadem and HAIL (12/5/24)

What does Forever Dream! think of their VIRTUAL SINGERS? (12/6/24)

Forever Dream! School Uniform Live2Ds (12/6/24)

What does AURORA think of their VIRTUAL SINGERS? (12/7/24)

Announcement and Poll concerning this directory (12/8/24)

Unit Cover Picks Round 2 (12/11/24)

Tiebreaker for the directory poll (12/15/24)

Announcement of a main story and poll (12/16/24)

What's the difference between the Park SEKAI and the Wonderland SEKAI? (12/18/24)

How did each character react to their SEKAIs? (12/22/24)

Main Story Poll Results and Additional Information (12/24/24)

day.light Shadow Shadow Screenshots (12/26/24)

First progress update for day.light's main story (12/26/24)

Chapter 1 of day.light's Main Story (12/27/24)

Chapter 2 of day.light's Main Story (12/31/24)

Chapter 3 of day.light's Main Story (1/8/25)

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So, uhm...

It seems we need a tiebreaker!

With the same descriptions as before;

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I thought of some more songs each unit would cover! Most of these picks are primarily lyric-based in terms of how they fit the unit/characters, but there's one song mostly based on general vibes/instrumental. I wonder if you can guess which one it is?

re:birth: Monuke no Karada by MI8k

CW: This MV has animated depictions of body horror.

This cover would be sung by Ichika, Akito, and Park SEKAI MEIKO.

Forever Dream!: If You're Gonna Jump by Omoi

This cover would be sung by Kanade, Saki, Airi, Touya, and Stage SEKAI Luka.

AURORA: Dish Eater by Sukoya Cathedral

This cover would be sung by Tsukasa, Honami, and Wonderland SEKAI KAITO.

The Phoenix's Castle of Ashes and Resurrection: Doll's Fall by LadyMonsters.

This cover would be sung by Kohane, Emu, Ena, Shiho, and Castle SEKAI Rin.

day.light: apricot by Iyowa

This cover would be sung by Minori, An, and Abandoned Livehouse SEKAI Miku.

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I am going to make a directory for this blog in order to make the Lore or whatever easier to navigate. This will become the new pinned post of the blog as well.

Keeping this in mind, I would like everyone's feedback on how each post should be organized. There are four options:

Chronological, which is just each post listed in the order they were posted originally. I would include the date they were posted as well.

Categorically, which is each post listed in categories that denote their information. For example, the Live2D posts and ingame screenshots would go under a "Gallery" category in the directory.

Both, which would separate the posts into categories and list their respective upload dates simultaneously

Both but separately, which would mean two directories of both kinds so people can look at whichever they prefer (each subdirectory would be linked in the pinned directory).

Please pick based off which would be the most convenient to you; I don't care how much extra effort I have to put into making these. I like organizing stuff!! Thank you.