#debugging Shirahama

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It's a beautiful day and a beautiful sky so you know what that means

It's time to put Shirahama in Situations™

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well okay ofc I have to go ask abt debugging shirahama. one time when I was trying to 100% the mysme routes I was like “oh let me set up 707’s entry route so I can start at his branch and get the bad endings” and then I romanced him so hard in the initial days that it was literally impossible for me to get one of the bad ends

Lmaoo YES because I would LOVE TO TALK ABOUT DEBUGGING SHIRAHAMA. Also worth noting I COMPLETELY skipped through the suggested playthrough order the first time I played mysme and went straight for 707's happy ending 😂 last I was working on was Jaehee and I had just gotten her first bad ending (you skip off to be in love with Zen instead lmao) and that was 3 years ago SO I'm a little Rusty™ at the game descriptions, hence the need for refresher courses.

The first thing he noticed was that the game wasted absolutely no time in throwing him right into his objective: collecting those colored little hearts and hourglasses—though he couldn't say he fully understood what the latter was for. When he'd asked the first time he incidentally got one, the system was silent.

“System, do you have a tutorial mode?”

...

“You could at least acknowledge me,” he grumbled. He tried for at least a good 10 minutes to get the thing to answer him until it dawned on him.

“The system will now respond to ‘Jesus.’"

It really wasn't kidding, was it? Suddenly he felt a strong urge to bash his face into the apartment's granite kitchen counters.

“J... Jesus,” he muttered reluctantly.

“Assistant menu open. Please choose from the following options:

1. Open story summary

2. Check hearts/hour glass balance

3. Open CG progress menu

4. Set character profile”

“Uh, ‘open story summary’ I guess.”

The story certainly was an odd premise, albeit novel for its time. The disembodied voice explained the death of the owner of the apartment and the gist of the whole “RFA” chat, with brief descriptions of its characters. It was kind enough to offer a suggested playthrough order, but he wasn't in a state of mind to start with the male love interests, so Jaehee it was. After fumbling around with the user settings to update his name (Kyouko, for the sake of making it less jarring) and picking a preset profile picture, it was well into the afternoon when he finally opened the app. The group was active—he must have counted at least ten existing chats from earlier in the day.

Shirahama had always been cool and casual when it came to DMs or texts. Despite his otaku nature, he wasn't as “chronically online” as some of his classmates, especially Miyano or Tashiro. His plan was to introduce himself to the chat slowly for a few days—get to know them better and such so his sudden presence didn't seem like he was looming over their chat too much. They were always chatting every few hours, so it would be weird if he was suddenly online all day every day. It was already weird enough that he was using a dead person's phone. His non-pressuring strategy usually worked well enough to win over most NPCs, so he kept his strategy to play it cool, and it got him moderately positive responses. Everything was working just fine.

That is, until Day 5.

After four full days of carefully inserting himself into this group of friends, with seven more to go until the end of the route, Shirahama found himself unexpectedly in the worst case scenario.

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So do I add Tashiro to the game before or after Shirahama makes it through the first route in mysme? 🤔

More importantly, do I drop him in and Shirahama knows immediately? Or does he drop in as another character???

Consider... Option 1: shirashiro shenanigans as roommates in Rika's apartment creating havoc

Option 2: Tashiro gets to watch as Shirahama goes through every single route and not his. And he remembers throughout the whole thing (707 style)

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I may or may not get sucked into mysme again oops

I opened the game up to try to remember how to get the fourth/fifth day's general bad ending bc I'm working on a little something (debugging Shirahama) and I couldn't remember what it tells you and happened upon this chat in my history

IS THIS NOT THE BEST WAY TO DESCRIBE SHIRAHAMA THOUGH LMAO

God I wish I could put the 707 theme song randomly into the fic whenever the reader starts reading some nonsense.. alas I am a writer and not a video editor 😭

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oooh ask game!!! 8 and 9 👀

Fanfic writer ask game

8. What kind of document do you use to you write? Microsoft Word? Google Docs? Straight in the AO3 text box?

I used to use Google docs then Google was like hey we're ok with using your stuff for AI training! And I was not about that so I use Campfire now!!!

I still have some stuff archived in Google docs tho

9. What’s your favorite line(s) or scene(s) that you have written?

Ok I had to think about this for a second but right now I'm really about this scene in the first chapter of debugging Shirahama

[kagiura-akira]

I write sometimes. I don't exclusively write for ssmykghr though, so here's where I keep a compilation of relevant sasamiyaverse stuff I write.

Sasamiya

Stay With Me (M) (oneshot)

Kagihira

Oneshots

Petrichor

When you say my name

sleepyhead

Sleep, love

Love and other tax evasion strategies

On couples and lovers

Sweet Talk (M)

The Reckoning of Hirano Taiga (M)

Series

My ASMR Boyfriend (in progress)

Strawberry Dreams Universe:

Strawberry Dreams (complete)

I'll love you if you let me (so love me harder) [direct sequel to Strawberry Dreams] (E) (complete)

Midnight Musings (oneshot)

Royal Phantasms (E) (oneshot)

Blossoms of Youth (in progress)

Kagihira Kisses Collection oneshots:

First Kisses

Kagihira Parent AU oneshots:

Starlight Drive (For Kagihira week 2023 day 1)

Kagiura vs IKEA

Toddler vs. Gravity

My Little Criminal-chan

Salon de Kagiura

New Fears

Birthday oneshot for Kagi (2023)

Oh Baby Baby (featuring parent!Sasamiya)

How to parent a girl in her villain era, by Hirano Taiga

Kagihira week 2024 oneshots

Day 1: Hearts in Bloom

Day 2: Focus on Me

Day 3: Red strings and a promised future

Day 4/5: Don't go home without me

Day 6: After the rain, the sun always shines

Shiramiya

Our Universe (oneshot) - warnings for character death

Shirashiro

Sunless Sunflowers (in progress)

Misc. sasamiyaverse

Debugging Shirahama (in progress)

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AirahTea's vocal cover of Endless Struggle has me wallowing in feelings about the Choi twins and Ray in particular so I'm fixing to make Debugging Shirahama into a Shirahama/Saeran fic wherein he gets past all the normal and regular deep stories and the system lets him skip one of the "Another" stories (and gives him passes on some of the DLC content as he gains so many hearts to exchange for upgrades and so on, but getting to zero hearts will result in forever being trapped in the game :) )