#tech.speaking

[tecceran]

you call yourself a vbs fan but you’ve never even been to vacation bible school

[tecceran]

ough hi, red unit has some of my favs (and i got carried away thinking about yellow unit) so i’m going to throw some ideas out and see if you like any!

(your first three ideas are all super banger and fun!!)

[quick tldrs from after i wrote out my big ideas:]

yellow:

shizuku gets shiho to try performing as an idol with her to convince herself to not quit being and idol and to try to reconnect shiho’s passion to music that she lost focus with after leo/need drifted apart. tsukasa wanted to try to bring back saki’s supposed lost spark after she’s released from the hospital and sees becoming an idol as a perfect was to do it. in sekai, seeing the kagamines initially seem to be super close and synchronized siblings, they all feel a pressure to become more like them as better siblings. eventually tsukasa and shizuku will have to learn that saki and shiho want to walk new and different paths, which those two respectively have to find for themselves after they’ve become disillusioned.

red:

honami walks through vivid street on the way home from kanade’s and is captivated by akito and ena unleashing all their emotions and frustrations through a singing battle. she’s inspired to try singing herself as a way to deal with all her bottled up feelings from being bullied and pushing away her childhood friends. she goes to the school rooftop to be alone and to sing, but her attempt is quickly interrupted by minori coming to the roof for her idol practice. honami’s voice fails when in front of another person, but minori encourages her to not give up (like minori isn’t giving up on becoming an idol) and so the two agree to keep meeting on the rooftop at lunches until they can both achieve their goal. they coincidently get untitled-warped at the same time as akito and ena, and in sekai they all join together to become a group dedicated to reminding everyone that the sun will always rise again (an extension of minori’s goal of spreading hope / not giving up + akito wanting to put on a show that will be more powerful than rad weekend)

uhhhh yellow unit time:

it could be kinda cool for the yellow unit to actually grow from a more energetic and in your face style to a more introspective one. both tsukasa and shiho are going to want to start out with lots of energy excitement and power and will probably drag saki and shizuku along.

let’s say shiho has been struggling to find a place for herself with music again after leo/need drifted apart and with shizuku wanting to step down from being an idol, she decides to try a few shows with herself and shiho. to both try to convince herself that she wants to remain and idol and to try to bring shiho closer yo her and get her back into just having fun with music with some classic happy-go-lucky idol songs!!

shiho’s willing to try it, and so they end up running into the tenma right as tsukasa transports them to sekai. rin and len are there and they seem like they get along so well! they’re practically in sync! tsukasa and shizuku look at this and say “i want to connect with my younger sibling like that!” saki and shiho look at this and go “i guess siblings should get along like that. i have to learn to connect with them.”

so they all make the plan to become an idol group together. we’re going to get back saki’s spark, rekindle shiho’s passion for music, shizuku’s going to find joy in being an idol again and we’re all going to get really close to our sibling because that’s what we should do!

and right out the gate tsukasa wants happy upbeat idol songs. we are cheering every up. energy energy energy! saki’s a little lost in what she wants and shizuku pretty used to the style, so that’s what they go with. through their story they have to learn both that the “old saki” isn’t “coming back” like they hope. the style isn’t really want shiho likes best. they shift and grow to that softer, introspective style i mentioned before. not completely gone from your classic idol songs, but maybe working in more of leo/need’s softer songs (think ikanaide, glow, heartbeat). i think you want to see two styles emerging as tsukasa and shizuku learn that they have to let their little sisters grow apart from them. yes this does make the unit somewhat destined to spilt. unfortunately i love me some tragic siblings.

red unit, go!

OK, red unit! i didn’t think i’d have much for yellow unit and then i did. someone this became very honami focused? there’s a “rise as one but ena’s there instead of rui” joke to be made here but idk what it is

i think to get red unit together you want to pull a bit of a kohane and say honami is walking home through vivid street after working at kanade’s when she encounters akito and ena going at it performing on the street. they are letting all their frustrations at each other and the world out and it resonates with honami. she’s a people pleaser and it’s backfired for her, backing her into a corner. but she’s never had the courage to stand up for herself. the most she could do was push saki and ichika away to keep them out of the hole she’s dug for herself. but something about watching the shinonomes unleash everything they have inside them through song resonates.

it lingers with her, so much so that she’s the last member of the crowd standing after akito and ena have finished and packed up their equipment. they’re fairly pleasant with her, having just vented out their frustrations, asking if there was a reason she was still standing there watching. honami panics at this point and blurts out a question of when and where they’ll be performing again. at this point i imagine the shinonomes are just running out every night picking the first good spot they can find, so they can’t give her a great answer.

honami quickly ends the conversation and gets out of there, but of course she can’t get it out of her head. the next day at school she decides to head up to the roof during lunch. she had to make an excuse to get away from her friends, which she hated, but the performance the previous night gave her some newfound strength. she wants to try singing like them and this was the best place she could thinking of to be alone. she turns on the music, and starts to sing. it’s quiet and has none of the power she felt the night before, but she’s doing it.

until minori comes through the door to the roof and her voice dies in her throat. honami didn’t think she needed to perform in front of others before, but in that moment she realised that unconsciously, her song was what she wanted to say to her bullies AND that she did not have it in her to say it in front of someone random like minori, much less to her bullies’ faces.

she once again is ready to wallow in her defeat, walk back down to her friends and tell them that actually her schedule cleared up. nothing changed.

but minori stops her before she can. minori just wants to apologise for interrupting honami, she always comes up here for idol practice you see, and there’s never been anyone up here before. minori’s been practicing forever. it’s her dream to become and idol like her hero, so she can spread the same message of hope that once given to her. she’s been rejected a bunch, but she’s never giving to give up and– oh hey, honami’s crying.

minori gets honami to tell her whole story and how honami’s felt trapped and stifled but she doesn’t know what to do bc even if they’re hurting her, she just wants to spare everyone else pain like she feels.

and so minori tells honami not to give up. maybe if the bullies just understand how honami feels, it’ll get better! so she encourages honami to pick a new song and she can practice singing in front of minori while minori does idol practice until they’re both ready to achieve there goals. and minori’s been struggling in math, so honami can just say she’s giving minori some tutoring so honami’s friends will understand why she’s not around.

but when honami goes to pick a new song, hey what’s this? oh, it’s untitled and they get transported to sekai! and coincidentally akito and ena were also scoping out songs at lunch (ena does day school or whatever) and found untitled too.

and there’s the usual confusion. wait that’s literally actually meiko. what was that light? how did we get here? where is here? who are you? oh wait it’s you from the performance the other night. actually that’s like the least important question.

but minori wants to help honami best she can so without really thinking she just explains what’s going on with honami. honami is super embarrassed but in true vivid street fashion, akito hands honami a mic and is like “let’s see what you got.” meiko decides to allow it. she’s got more faith in honami than honami does in herself. minori proclaims that she’s going to back honami up. ena joins akito as well.

akito starts. doesn’t go all out, just poses a challenge. he’s testing the waters. then minori. she’s not used to singing battles, but she brings a lot of enthusiasm. and ena, not one to follow her little brother’s lead, decides to bring her a-game right at honami. but it’s still an invitation, a call to action.

and when honami’s turn comes to sing, she looks to meiko, and something in meiko’s assured glance gives honami that little bit of courage to at least try. and she starts slow and shaky, but once she starts letting things flow, it becomes a deluge of emotions and she brings power. and for what it’s worth, akito and ena are impressed. they want to sing more, and they’re willing to invite honami and minori along. the sun rises above the horizon line in their sekai for the first time, and honami and the shinonomes feel a sense of peace.

minori, however, is even more hyped, and talks about how she wants to put on inspiring performances just like that to give people the strength to never give up when she becomes and idol. and idk ena is like “why do you have to be an official idol why don’t you just do what we do and perform indie” or whatever and yada yada they decide to group up to help minori achieve her goal and help honami stand up to her bullies along the way. akito’s still surpassing-rad-weekend-pilled, and ena’s inspired to stand up to their father with her singing now or something. idk. fireworks.

skyshuffle [PRSK april fools shuffle unit set in color order!]

Card sets and lore under the cut! 🔽

notes to start:

all the groups are idol groups with different goals and subgenres! mostly I just don't like coming up with new musical performance genres bc they always run too close to what already exists, and also I'm an idol fan by trade, so it's just easier for me to think of. I did try and avoid outright copying any of the existing units' concepts because I think that's boring LOL but some of them did end up running a little close anyway, despite me making them all idol groups to avoid that. oh well.

this was inspired by this super cute fanart series from twitter drawing all the Blue characters together, and I got super inspired to make similar groups for the rest of the cast. (unfortunately i had to split the blues in half </3 too many. blue domination.)

the Sekais for these units are also linked! I imagine in-game that they're in related/interlocking pockets of the overall dimension, and that breaking through them would be either the end of the April Fools event, or a year 4/5 end to their running storylines.

here they are, in reverse order, for reasons that will become apparent.

pink: ⓢⓤⓟⓔⓡⓛⓘⓜⓘⓝⓐⓛ

Luka, Emu, Kanade, Airi, Kohane; the Dusk Sekai

superliminal evolved from the same theater program as in·di·GO (below!), after emu failed to secure funding for it to continue. she is faced with an overwhelming sense of everything ending, but buries her feelings behind a smile.

kohane, naturally, is a big fan of the limited-run theater program, and to her surprise so is fallen idol airi, who she vaguely knows from school but has never approached before. the storylies weaving into music are something that has made airi feel a bit less bitter (that the industry that chewed her up can still make art that means something). kanade visited the show on its very last night via a hospital program giving her free tickets (which honami lightly forced her to use) and fell in love with the way music along with a story could move her more than just music alone.

together at dusk after the program's very last showing - all people left in the wake of other peoples' dreams - they fall in typical Untitled fashion into the dreamscape of the Dusk Sekai and eventually resolve to carry forward their feelings of quiet yearning, the feelings of liminal spaces and forgotten places, and honor them just as much as the louder ones. in doing so, they start a series of popup shows in strange and mysterious locations, often unannounced or teased with ARG-like social media posts, and with a much stranger and harder to follow storyline (for the diehards). this evolves into a very strange idol career for the group, all aiming to inspire conflicting and difficult to name emotions, and to leave a safe space for them to be kept.

blue/purple: in·di·GO

KAITO, Toya, Mafuyu, Rui, Mizuki; the Midnight Sekai

in·di·GO are ~night time~ idols, vtubers with extensive in-universe lore. like niigo, but for extroverts!

their group evolved from the same program as superliminal. it was an interactive musical theater / escape room program with long-running and evolving storylines that Rui was running out of Phoenix Wonderland. Rui looped in Toya early, knowing from school his classical background and having a Directorial Hunch that he was a talented composer and one able to adapt to the genre-spanning and improvisational needs of the show. a late-night escapee Mafuyu falls into the world of the theater program after sneaking out of home late one night, and quickly becomes a regular fixture once she realises that putting on a mask deliberately (in order to roleplay within the safe improv of the shows) starts to ease something held very tight in her chest.

before long the theater program was sadly closed, but the characters became so beloved that even after their run people searched for more content of them. inspired by the fans' persistence, Rui asks Mizuki for help, knowing her experience of online communities and graphic design. together with Toya and Mafuyu, who has long since graduated from dedicated follower to cast member, they pooled their knowlege together and created Vtubers for the original characters, adding one for Mizuki to perform with as well.

Rui manages the tech and backend for the vtubers, as well as managing any AR concerts they put on. Toya provides music and together with Mafuyu works on the storyline and character motivations as things evolve. Mizuki manages their social media and crafts intricate storytelling and lore videos, with Toya and Mizuki both keeping tabs on different areas of the fanbase to see how things are being recieved.

for Mafuyu, being able to become someone else, but of her own volition this time, becomes a safety net, and a way to explore emotions and express herself while keeping her true self safe. and for the others, the group becomes something similar, as well as a way to look out for the forgotten fans of the original theater production: carving out a space for night owls, oddities, and those who can't wear their true face in public.

blue: unlimitedSKY

Miku, Nene, Haruka, An, Ichika; the Blue Sky Sekai

an idol group centered around the "search" for something; this is more of an extended metaphor in terms of their idol work, but each of the members also has someone or something that they yearn for and strive to find, as of yet without success.

haruka convinced an to try idoling with her due to her apparently endless search to find a partner. the setup is similar to vbs wl2, in which kohane never overcame her shyness in order to take such a bombastic stage as vivid street requires; an never gave up on trying to win her back, but with haruka's encouragement decided to try and inspire her lost partner in a new way. she tries to see becoming an idol as another vector of achieving their shared dream.

haruka, while more tight-lipped about her dream, is in search of the figure from her fes card, and has braved the idol world again despite what happened with ASRUN in order to try and find them, and to inspire and protect others along the way, in the same way her hero did for her.

nene retains her fraught relationship with the stage, and is trying to build a different relationship with performing in order to reach the heights inspired by the mermaid performance she saw as a kid. in becoming an idol, she's trying exposure therapy while avoiding musical theater itself; getting stage experience while trying to stay as far from what she knows (and what triggers her) as possible.

ichika became an idol in search of miku - yeah. lol. - but specifically in search of a way to understand and express her emotions in the same way miku evokes in her. she longs to be able to understand her own feelings in a way that lets her release them in her voice, the same way miku can be a conduit for her own and others' feelings.

the group comes together when haruka becomes stuck ruminating, on feeling like she's unable to help her friends the way she is, and can't get rid of the nagging thought that she once had everything she wanted and just couldn't hold onto it. on a whim, she invites an to sing with her at karaoke, and an's vivid-street-given ability to pull feelings out of her opponent in singing/combat not only overwhelms the room's soundproofing and somehow involves innocent bystanders (nene and ichika, who were there by complete coincidence), but also unlocks something in haruka and an both. a shared knowlege of the feelings of frustration that come with having an open sky visible end-to-end and room to go in any direction you want, but still feeling like there's something beyond it that eludes you; wanting something that is by definition unreachable or invisible.

unlimitedSKY coalesces around that feeling, and aims to give not only themselves the strength to reach into infinity, to believe that not even the the sky is the limit, but their fans as well.

yellow: twin//tails

Rin & Len, Tsukasa, Saki, Shiho, Shizuku; the Daylight Sekai

twintails, obviously, has a twin & sibling theme; this incarnation of the Kagamines are explicitly twins (compared to VBS's partners and the other more ambiguous versions), and the storylines revolve around what it means to support each other as family. i slightly cheated to switch nene and shizuku here so i could make this happen, because their two colors are so borderline. but i actually like how nene looks with the more saturated group anyway tbh and pairing nenean is always funny

despite being a yellow group, their arc color is more of a yellow-green, and comes to symbolise new life, growth, and budding emotion - shizuku learning to let shiho grow, even if that means growing away from her, extends into a full metaphor & growth vector for all the sibling pairs as their storyline progesses.

Tsukasa retains his Tsukasa-Isms, given that their childhood inciting incident at the musical remains unchanged, but things take a slightly different turn when Saki leaves the hospital and doesn't seem to bounce back the whole way immediately (*this is normal actually). she loves his attempts to cheer her up, but seems happiest when things are just normal. scrounging for ideas, he takes her to an idol concert instead, where Saki mentions idly that it'd be nice to sing like that. Aha! thinks Tsukasa. He takes out his phone and starts googling How To Make Sister Idol?, and whoopsiee presses a song called Untitled and whoopsiee Shizuku got both her and Shiho lost after the show and ended up bumping into them right as they were going in--! (I couldn't think of any better ideas at this point. if anyone has suggestions for these last two, please shoot! the connections are sparse between the cast of these last two groups)

red: BREAK→DAY

MEIKO, Honami, Akito, Minori, Ena; the Daybreak Sekai

the unit of Whole Assing Your Dreams, Fuckers!

sunrise -> lantern/light theme -> light in the darkness -> emphasis on fighting for life and the fact that dawn WILL always come if you are stubborn enough.

this tenacity is what binds together both the shinonomes learning to use their clashes for good, as well as minori and honami learning to take charge of their own lives despite their setbacks and strive for what they want earnestly and aggressively (when required!)

i imagine the inciting incident here is Akito, in the absence of running into Toya by chance, still wavering on whether he wants his goal enough to commit to it. then him being challenged by Ena, who declares she'll just have to beat him at singing if he's going to be such a little weenie about it. they strike up a rivalry, for the first time having somewhere to direct all of the energy they waste sniping at each other, and peace somehow miraculously reigns in the shinonome household.

aaand somehow minori and honami get involved and it becomes an idol thing. i really don't know how at this point because honami has no idea who any of these people are pre-canon and even now only really knows ena lmao.

i had to swap the color order of the units so that people reading this from the top would still think i'm cool for at least the first half....

give me ideas if you have them!!!!!!!!!! i really like these units and i want to tumble dry them in my mind some more, but also it's way more fun to think of things with others.

[tecceran]

@sekaitransparents 1 year anniversary bingo event!

ੈ✩ prompts: crossover + shuffle unit + best card set ‧₊˚

【 xenoblade 3 themed card edits 】

machina!nene + (half) high entia!toya

gormotti!airi + tantalese!honami

╰┈➤ free to use with credit!

* . °•★|•°∵ credit + my bingo card + my thoughts + no background versions under cut! ∵°•|☆•° . *

transparents by @/sekaitransparents of course!

‣ the person with the xenoblade 3 themed profile choosing to do a xenoblade 3 themed crossover? whaaaat?

‣ if you know nothing about xenoblade (which i assume is most people) this probably won’t make a ton of sense, but i nonetheless am going to explain my thoughts

‣ machina!nene is probably pretty obvious bc of the robonene connection. since she already has purple eyes i pulled colors from mwamba, and combined the metal plating + light details from him and lanz. had to do the silver/white hair

‣ i will admit high entia!toya was done partly just so i could make his headwings two different colors to match his hair. he did have a kinda bird-themed set tho, so i think it fits. plus the fancy rich classical musician just feels very high entia. tho being a half-blood high entia actually doesn’t feel fitting of toya’s father but by 3 you’re lucky to be a high entia with medium headwings and they were already a nightmare to figure out rendering at this size

‣ gormotti!airi was again kinda obvious. she’d want to be a cat girl. and i based her ears more on nia + her family so the trans metaphor theme continues. gormotti designs are actually wildly varied with how “animalistic” they are, and then you throw nia in, and without getting into spoilers, her ears are more back-facing than other gormotti so it’s just all over the place

‣ tantalese!honami was kinda just a vibes/for variety’s sake thing. i can’t recall rn if there are any distinctly tantalese (or urayan for that matter) characters in 3, but logistically there should be, so i decided it’s more fun this way.

‣ i happened to have a online music group (ie, nightcord-esq) swap unit with these four and 3/4 of them were featured in this card set (which as stand alone art is one of my favs) so i decided on these four! i could (and might) do more/all characters at some point (it would have to wait till my winter break, i’m so swamped with school rn 😓😓) since i already have plans for everyone (except VSs). i wanted each of the the units to have an even kevesi/agnian split, and it ended up working out that the first two and latter two characters in each pjsk group worked as an kevesi + agnian pair, so they could all be ouroboros pairs, too! (i wonder, would that make the VSs moebius?)

[tecceran]

@sekaitransparents 1 year anniversary bingo event!

ੈ✩ prompt: favorite siblings + opposite color scheme ‧₊˚

【 shinonome siblings recolors 】

╰┈➤ free to use, credit appreciated!

* . °•★|•°∵ credit + my bingo card + my thoughts + some extras under cut! ∵°•|☆•° . *

transparents by @/sekaitransparents of course!

‣ i wanted to pick/adjust the colors manually, so having the transparents to clipping mask onto was a big time saver!

‣ ena i found really easy. i wanted to go from pink-tinted-brown to green-tinted-grey, but the bright light green just looked so cute i decided to be less exact with the “opposite” colors. she mostly wears pinks and various shades of brown, so i went with greens and cool-toned greys.

‣ i was having a having a way harder time with akito and had to let it sit for a few days. my first attempt is below. i tried to go for a similar blue to kaito for the hair + a purple jacket to be opposite the yellow hoodie. i wasn’t quite happy with it, but i figured it was just the difference feeling “cursed.”

‣ i happened to decide to rewatch saiki k, when i realised kaido had the color scheme i was going for (blue hair + red eyes) and i decided to give akito another shot. i went for the light blue hair and i kept the black top over colored garment to match the black jacket over yellow hoodie. and just kinda vibed the rest of the fit.

‣ their backgrounds were already opposite color schemes (pink + green and orange + blue) so i just slapped gradient maps over them with each others’ colors

‣ and of course i had to add lil headcanons!! ena with the black nails and akito with an eyebrow piercing! i usually give akito silver jewelry, so i went for gold metal here

‣ mmm, yep! think that’s all for now.

[tecceran]

xbc3 off-seer toya sketch

ramblings under cut

!!spoiler warning for all three of the numbered xenoblade games!! mostly the first two actually. i imagine if any reads this, it will be a curious pjsk fan who doesn’t really care about xenoblade, but proceed at your own risk.

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i have ideas for all of the pjsk characters i just don’t have the patience to draw them all out.

i wanted all the natural pairs set up by the game to be one agnian/one kevesi so they could be ouroboros. they’re also probably all off-seers or wannabe off-seers because that’s really the only music in aionios.

i’ll at least talk about vbs here.

toya is the off-seer for a kevesi colony. he has a pretty high percentage of high entia blood, so he still has pretty big headwings (compared to others in 3, not pure blood high entia) but they match his hair color. for some reason his dad feels like the type who would have been a high entia blood purist, but toya made it to aionios somehow so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

akito is agnian and would become toya’s ouroboros partner. he’s also an off-seer, but like mio he probably got drafted into the role due to his prowess when he really just wanted to be a great fighter and make it to his homecoming. he’s gormotti and has the cat ears. also face stripes. they might just be a nia thing but i think they’re fun. i imagine you don’t see his core crystal much like taion, but he could have a flesh eater’s core crystal.

if i’m remembering correctly, agnian colonies commonly have two off-seers, so an would be in the same colony as akito. i feel like she definitely has to have the fire hair like sena and brighid. like she’s already got the gradient, it’s perfect. i don’t imagine her having a peculiarly shaped core crystal, but she could have ether lines like sena as well. she probably is more naturally in tune with off-seeing than akito, but he has the edge in combat. they probably has a similar relationship to canon where they poke fun at each other and argue, but they take care of each other when things get rough.

for kohane i think she comes from a different kevesi colony than toya. her colony’s off-seer just died unexpectedly, so kohane took up the mantle as the new off-seer for the colony. maybe toya’s colony is nearby so he helped train her like crys with noah. i know there’s like a kevesi off-seer school/training program but i don’t care. kohane is just a basic homs like noah. an is her ouroboros partner, too

[edit:]

as far as combat stuff, i think kohane is an attacker, an would be an attacker, but in more of a debuff-y way, akito a dodge tank (i picture him similarly to mio), and toya could be a healer.

i think the flutes are customized to the off-seer in game? so everyone gets a custom one + a charm. toya’s charm is a wing but i might change it later. akito’s is a lightning bolt. an’s is a star. not sure about kohane yet either but maybe she’ll just have a ring similar to noah since she’s new to off-seeing.

also thinking toya maybe caught the eye of a consul while in off-seer and was taught violin. i’m not sure if off-seer flutes are made specifically somehow that allows the special motes to rise, but i say toya’s violin is customized and it can raise motes.

maybe the way toya’s dad is worked in is that he’s the consul (tho not literally toya’s bio dad then) that teaches toya violin, and then toya has a whole arc about coming to terms with the fact consuls are bad because he was close to one.

he’s temporarily at kohane’s colony teaching her when the whole ouroboros thing happens.

toya’s instrument could be worked into his blade like glimmer, but i kinda like the idea that it’s an actual instrument not made for battle in anyway. and it means he gets to stand over a battlefield and play a haunting violin melody.

[tecceran]

(reblogging this on my main)

yes, you are allowed to use my art for phone wallpapers!

here is a slightly cropped version that may fit your device better!

🎤 day 150! 🎵

➥ today’s akito is drawn by me!!

[tecceran]

for some reason decided to make a dedicated art blog @tecceran--starlight!

just reblogs of old stuff rn. but if i do make new art i’ll have a place for it ig

also gonna put my edits over there if i do more of them

[tecceran]

Hi Tech!!! For the music ask game, 1, 9, 10, and/or 23 :D

hello fish!! thank you for the ask!! <3

also i’m doing two for all of these because i’m indecisive, want to talk about more music, and then i can do one pjsk/vocaloid related and one otherwise. and they’re in whack order because that’s the order i answered them in.

(also strap in, this got long lol)

★ 10: A song that makes you sad

▸ one more light - linkin park

just the fact that the whole message of the song seems to be “stay alive. there’s always someone out there that cares for you. *i* care for you.” but knowing the circumstances of chester bennington’s death, this song always hits me particularly hard.

▸ cinema - ayase (YOASOBI) - performed by vivid bad squad

right off the bat had to put cinema. the blorbo feels are real. every time i read the lyrics while listening to it i want to cry (or i do cry). akito shinonome what have you done to me. (told me there’s always hope is what he did. look at him. he gave me bittersweet hope.)

★ 23:A song that you think everybody should listen to

to me there’s two ways to read this prompt. “i think everybody should listen to this because i’m obsessed with it” and then there’s “i think this is a good song for everybody to listen to”

first option ▸ “ÅMARA (the great intelligence)” - sasakure.UK!!!!!!!

i have fallen in love with the otherworldly sound and the sci-fi/post-future visuals of the MV. also miku and kaito just sound beautiful. i do appreciate very realistic vsyth tuning, but i also really like when composers lean in to the inherent electronic sound to produce something that feels incomplete when sung by humans. however i would say the MV calls for a minor body horror warning and an eye contact warning!

second option ▸ “a symptom of being human” - shinedown

shinedown is a solidly “dad rock” band, but because of my dad it’s very special to me. also i am a huge sucker for any song that’s message is “we’re all human. we’re all a little weird, but we’re all still people.“ even if it’s a little cringe i still always love it. i think everyone feels at some point like they’re somehow different than everyone else, an alien, an outsider, broken somehow. so i love any song that says “that’s OK. we have differences. but we are all still humans, and we all deserve to find happiness and peace of mind because of that.”

★ 1: A song you like with a color in the title

▸ white rabbit - egypt central

gonna be honest, i don’t know anything else by this band. think this is kinda their one big hit

▸ close to gray / infinitely grey / kagirinaku haiiro e - surii - performed by nightcord at 25:00 / 25-ji, nightcord de.

shinonome siblings’ comms never miss let me tell you. they’re also literally both me. like i relate to ena in many ways. both shinonomes mean so much to me </3

★ 9: A song that makes you happy

▸ upside down - set it off

this song is like whatever the reverse of personification is for a silly little guy. it’s a little dumb and dorky but the stupidly upbeat protagonist never fails to make me smile because it’s so hilariously optimistic. i know a lot of set it off fans (at least the ones i know irl) prefer their heavier albums (and i’m really happy with the singles they’ve been putting out since they got away from that label) but upside down always feels to me like the band themself wanted to experiment more with making lighter music, rather than them being pushed that direction by the label (which i feel happened somewhat with elsewhere)

▸ wah wah world - giga and mitchie m - performed by hatsune miku, minori hanasato, and azusawa kohane

this song is also very silly and fun. it perfectly fits minori and kohane to me. two cute girls with a lot of determination and a bit of an “edgy” side! it’s also way better than sekai (the song). sorry but it’s true idk how it happened

[tecceran]

when you get this, you can answer with 5 things you like about yourself (if you want to), and then send this ask to 10 of your followers (or as many as you want to, spread positivity, but take care of yourself)

adskahdsjalhskadhsksl this was way harder than it should have been so it took me a while to get to it…

1.) i suppose to start, i have always been happy with my body. i don’t experience much of anything in the way of dysphoria (aside from the constant hairstyle debate) and i have enough natural athleticism that i can move my body weight if need be (i.e. pulling myself up onto/over something) which for whatever reason is something i’ve always been proud of. my ability to scale a mid-sized wall.

2.) i also like, or at least appreciate that i absorb and retain information quite well. while my actual work ethic may not be great, i am able to do pretty well in academics just from info sticking with me pretty well. i think i learn stuff well in general.

3.) i have been pretty happy with my art lately, or at least i’ve felt a lot more like it’s worthy of been posted and seen by others. i have so many ideas, and i want to draw more often.

4.) i guess i like that i can take charge and overcome my shyness/social anxiety when someone else doesn’t want to. i guess the older sibling instinct outweighs the people are scary instinct. pretty sure the people in my group for the freshman seminar presentation loved me because i would—for whatever reason—just run my mouth until whoever came to see our project left.

5.) i guess it’s not really about me, but i’m really glad that i’ve been able to have so many great people around me. sure, my little brother is going thru his teenage asshole years, but we have each other’s backs when we’re out. not to mention all my close friends have been such wonderfully kind, talented, and inspiring people and we’ve stuck together with minimal drama for a while. for that i’m certainly grateful.

uhhhh uhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhhhhh i got all serious and rambly uhhhhh uhhhhhhhhh MY DOG BE UPON YE

[tecceran]

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did you hear that? three THOUSAND five hundred eighty FOUR fish want you (🫵) to vote for Angelique. are you going to let those fish down in front of a beautiful woman? i didn’t think so. vote Angelique.

Sexiest Podcast Character 2024 — Scripted Redemption Bracket — Round 2.5

Propaganda

Angelique (The Secret of St Kilda):

She’s simply perfect in every way. Flirts with Lockie especially but also kind of everyone. Runs the only (?) store on the island and uses the fight (more of a one sided beating, really) that happens inside it as an excuse to remodel. Allegedly went topless in the Louvre after a fight with her father. She’s literally the sexiest person on the island trust me. With your help, she could be the sexiest podcast character too!

Doug Eiffel (Wolf 359):

man with long hair + lots of body hair + nicotine addiction + aura of cringefail #is v attractive to me sorryyy

#EIFFEL! #vote eiffel everyone #my boy <3 #my awful girldad <3

#DOUGLAS EIFFEL #YEAHHHH GO CRINGEFAIL PEACEKEEPER

Additional propaganda below the cut:

Angelique (The Secret of St Kilda):

#VOTE ANGELIQUE MY BELOVED!!!!!!!!!! #sexiest podcast character TO ME! trust! #she’s perfect

#this is so sad I should’ve campaigned harder 😔 #Godspeed on future rounds Rowan #rip Angelique for getting exiled that shot doesn’t go well when you’re from st kilda

#anyways in an island of cultists find yourself a woman who will let you beat up a guy in her shop and be so so chill about it

#she IS extra. she IS sexy. also shes a woman and i love women

This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.

Doug Eiffel (Wolf 359):

he's hot. dilf. silly. yeah.

#DOUG! DOUG FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!

#doug eiffel is one of the only characters in this tournament i genuinely find attractive godbless 🙏 #(​<- /acespec not /passive aggressive to be clear)

I don't really remember anything about Wolf 359 since I only listened to a few episodes so I'm throwing my lot in with whoever has the most compelling/funniest propaganda. I think this would be funny and I commit to nothing if not the bit

[tecceran]

Hey!

Wasn't sure whether to send this here or in the daily Akito acc, but I wanted to ask if you've read The Gay Akito Thesis™ (by burningdaybreak)? Although the main point of the essay is their homosexual Akito headcanon, they analyze Akito pretty in-depth and I think it's a very good read if you like Akito. I quite recommend it

askjsksajdglaajskahskjks i saw this while i was taking a break from tumblr and forgot to come back to it– i’m sorry. and either account would be fine btw!

i hadn’t seen this particular post by burnjngdaybreak before, but i did read his post on aun no beats and the bad dogs, which i enjoyed!

i’ve become quite busy person, so i’m unable to read through it all now as it is quite long (which like, same) but i’ll definitely be working through it!

thank you for shouting it out!

[tec-canva-n]

✎﹏ info + intro ﹏✐

✩ hi, i’m tech, i like she/they pronouns but any are fine

✩ i do art and edits sometimes!

✩ i will take requests!!

✩ don’t be an asshole, a bigot, spread hate, etc. or i block

✩ my main is @tecceran; i mainly reblog shit there

✎﹏ tag system: ﹏✐

#tech.drawing ⇒ all drawings, finished or doodles

#tech.editing ⇒ edits, included transparents i’ve made

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i content warning / trigger tag using ‘#cw content’ and ‘#tw content’

[tecceran]

❝ there’s no storm it won’t stop

better wait more . . . ❞

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✶ you can call me tech! ✶ she / they ✶ i’m over 18 ✶

✶ DNI is i block you if i’m not vibing with you

✶ this blog is multifandom, it’s mostly for reblogs with some goofing & shitposting

✶ i like being tagged in games!

✶ i like she / they pronouns but idc that much. my gender is like girl+ everything that girl encompasses and also whatever extra bits i liked and decided to keep. you may gender me otherwise if it’s funny

✶ please know if i have left incomprehensible tags on your posts with no explanation it’s a compliment

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#tech.chatting - goofy text posts or conversational posts

#tech.speaking - longer or serious text posts

#tech.answering - responses to asks

#tech.reblogging - most things on this blog will probably be reblogs but hey there's a tag now

#tech.queued - and queue tag babey

#tech.saving - posts reblogged for future reference / use

#tech.favs - my favourite reblogged posts

#tech.promoting - propaganda on polls

#akito.daily - from akito-shinonome-daily side blog

#ask.game - ask games

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[tecceran]

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hello there!! i’m tech or tecceran + she/they pronouns

this primarily a personal blog so i reblog shit a lot. go crazy in the tags. i’ll post my own stuff occasionally.

as far as a dni, just don’t be an asshole or a bigot, it’s not that difficult. if i have a problem or just are not vibing with you, i’ll block you. it’s not necessarily personal ¯\_(v_v)_/¯ sometimes i have to gatekeep for my own sanity (/hj)

i’m 18+ if that matters to you. there will be no true nsfw here. there may be content with dark/heavy themes tho, so i will do my best to tw tag

i run @akito-shinonome-daily we are one in the same

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#tech.requesting - requests i’ve completed

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[tecceran]

i have thought about this before so i’m going to add my two cents. (this is long, sorry, i am incapable of brevity)

i think like in the game, the other three should be somewhat established as adventurers and kohane isn’t yet. akito and toya could already be partners and an is still looking for a partner of her own. all of them want to be great adventurers and help people. (maybe ken and the rest of rad weekend could be a legendary adventuring party that killed a dragon or something, and they’re like “retired” now)

at one point kohane’s home village is being attacked by some kind of monster, and an and the bad dogs (separately) are trying to defeat it and save the village. kohane happens to be on the outskirts of town one day (maybe collecting something like mushrooms, berries, or flowers) and that monster stumbles across her. luckily an has been right on its tail this whole time, so she’s there to save kohane! but during the ensuing battle with the monster, it turns out kohane has some talent for adventuring. maybe she instinctively casts a bit of magic or is just able to join an in singing and that somehow that powers up her bard magic.

so an then is so impressed with kohane she asks if kohane will become her adventuring partner. kohane’s living situation is probably less than ideal considering she was desperate enough to be out in the woods alone when there’s a monster known to be lurking around terrorising people, so maybe that’s why she agrees to join up with an. maybe that latent magic in her brings up questions she can’t ignore. maybe she secretly always dreamed of being an adventurer too, she just never thought it was realistic. whatever reason, kohane joins up with an and they do go do adventuring things trying to turn a profit by helping people.

i imagine since they’re just partnerships and still kinda younger, both an and akito and toya stick around a general area (all of the little villages and towns around one major city). so an knows about the fact the bad dogs have a similar goal to her. after teaming up with kohane, maybe another monster is reported in whatever tavern or place these things are posted in, and both pairs are there together and hear about it at the same time. an thinks it’ll be a good first adventure for kohane, but akito thinks kohane isn’t cut out for adventuring because she has no training or experience. so he says he and toya are gonna find the monster and beat it first.

mita is there (because i love vbs npcs and i say so) and also overhears this. and he decides to back up akito’s words by sabotaging their monster hunting. he follows an and kohane so he can buff up the monster or summon more when they encounter it, hoping kohane will run away scared and will prove she’s not cut out for adventuring.

an and kohane do succeed in finding the monster before the guys, and kohane has learned a simple spell and got outfitted with a weapon for defense. it’s going well, but then mita does his sabotage thing and accidentally calls way more monsters or in some way causes a much bigger threat than any of these guys really think they can handle. so he scrams.

when fleeing, mita bumps into akito and toya, who were also hot on the monster’s trail, and he tells them how he fucked up and there’s way too many monsters. akito is pissed that mita did something so reckless and frankly stupid, but he lets him go and runs to help. even if akito thinks kohane’s not cut out for this, he’s not going to just let them get killed.

akito and toya show up to find the drastically escalated situation. kohane maybe got too scared and overwhelmed to cast magic anymore, but an is still managing to hold the monsters off. the guys help out and they’re able to take out the threat together.

an maybe realised that someone had summoned more monsters, and how dangerous it was. akito doubles down like he does in game that kohane was not cut out for adventuring. going on some rant about how true adventurers don’t back down from anything. an accuses him of summoning the monsters, and akito takes the blame and he and toya head off.

toya hears akito’s rant and thinks about how he ran away from his father’s intense training to be a knight or something. akitoya break up ensues. toya tells akito that adventuring is dumb and you’re needlessly and stupidly seeking out danger. akito probably more or less ran away from home to pursue adventuring, and it means the whole world to him to be an adventurer and help people like how he was saved by the legendary ken when he was younger. so he attacks toya and runs off on his own and shit.

an and kohane run into toya again, i guess maybe ken has bed and breakfast or tavern, and he tells them about breaking up his partnership with akito and how akito lied about summoning the monsters.

someone else in the place overhears akito’s name and tells them all how akito ran off alone to defeat a really powerful monster and all that. and toya does really care for akito and wants to go after him and save him. an and kohane come too because toya’s gonna need all the help he can get, and they do owe them for the other time. ken tells toya that he doesn’t think adventuring is about never backing down period, but rather about never giving up on a problem. and sometimes you have to try a different approach. sure toya doesn’t want to defend people as a knight, but he wants to protect people as an adventurer, just like akito.

idk ken is too old for adventuring or had some major injury in his final battle or something. so he can’t go with. but toya, kohane, and an go chase after akito. they catch up to him just at the last second as he’s about to get overwhelmed by the monster and help him out. they defeat the monster together. akitoya reunion moment, the boys apologize for things.

at this point either they just decide they work well together as an adventuring party and can overcome stuff together they couldn’t do alone. or if you wanted to include sekai maybe miku in some way delivers them a prophecy where they need to work together to prevent some grand destruction. either way they can now venture out into the adventuring world. the others help kohane learn stuff, but she’s probably just really naturally talented like in game so she managed to keep up.

if there are any other dnd and pjsk players out there, how would you make a more fantastical version of the vbs backstory if they were a party of bards? asking for uhhh uh uhh jay

[tecceran]

hello hi fish thank you for the tag <33 my music taste is simultaneously in 2 very different places rn so this should be interesting. also an opportunity to tap about things i like? yes please

1. “Parasite” ~ Set It Off — all of SIO’s recent singles have been killer. they are back and better than ever ❤️‍🔥

2. “Beyond the way” ~ Vivid BAD SQUAD / Giga + q*Left — shoutout to giga for being the #1 vbs fan. this is probably my favourite comm in the game. look at my kids go! look how far they’ve come! also hatsune miku is there!

3. “The Wolves” ~ JJ and The Pillars — just a very fun song. i associate it with last life smp. some people never left the desert. i never left that shitty snow soul sand castle 😔

4. “Secret Worlds” ~ The Amazing Devil — my favorite song off this album, but honestly you could tell me any song off this album was your favorite and you would be completely valid. it’s that good. really fun to sing, so full of expression!

5. “Creating Monsters” ~ Set It Off — once again a recent SIO single that absolutely kills it. also a relatable message. i too make monsters with my head and it’s annoying as shit when you know rationally that you’re overreacting, but your body still is sure fucking reacting.

6. “Talking to Myself” ~ Linkin Park — i am my father’s daughter, what can i say? very danceable. i love this album.

7. “Demons and Angels” ~ LOWBORN — i can make this song about cloud strife. in other news, it’s just got a really fun driving beat. really gets you pumped up. (why do i sound like a gymbro?)

8. “炉心融解” / “nuclear meltdown” ~ iroha(sasaki) + kuma(alfred) — i tend to prefer the shortened cut used in pjsk, but i like the song so much that i listen to the full version too. i love the lyrics, even if they are dark. and the akikoha cover is just doing it favors.

9. “シャンティ” / “SHANTI” ~ Vivid BAD SQUAD / wotaku — THE BOP OF ALL TIME!! i love love love love looooooove this cover i waited for the day it would come to spotify. why do vbs keep getting the drinking / drugs / guns songs? i don’t know. but i’m not mad bc this cover goes so hard. i found a fan choreo video on youtube one time too and i’m insane about that too. whoever plays kaito in that is like inhuman /pos. it’s amazing.

10. “What Hurts The Most” ~ Rascal Flatts — OK so i lied we’ve gone in a third direction. technically rascal flatts is country, but a lot of times it just kinda feels like rock so it gets on to my playlists. case in point: what genre is life is a highway? idk i really really like this song. i don’t think the lyrics are anything special, but they do kinda hit a specific theme that always gets me, and it’s just got some something that i vibe with

stole this from sb on the dash but im ever so fond of talking abt my favorite music SO<3 (added explanations 4 the songs as well)

Tag Game: Shuffle your On Repeat playlist and post the first 10 songs

Strangers by Ethel Cain (ive been listening to preacher’s daughter the entire january. surprised there’s not more songs from it here)

It Ain’t Me Babe by Bob Dylan (I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH it makes me so giddy every time. is anyone still bobbing.)

Sally II by Hop Along (get disowned is another album i have on repeat the whole year long)

Lola by The Kinks (fun song)

Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright by Bob Dylan (im still bobbing. sad that you’re gonna make me lonesome when you go didn’t make it because then we’d have all 3 of my favorite dylan songs here)

Tibetan Pop Stars by Hop Along (shout out to the person who put this on their edward little playlist i owe you my life and mental illness. im not kidding this is SUCH a song. i cry a little thinking about it)

St. Chroma by Tyler, The Creator (listened to it on repeat during my trip to kraków and its still hereeee i love it dearly)

Von dutch by Charli xcx (from my fitzier playlist)

Deadlines (Hostile) by Car Seat Headrest (also from my fitzjames playlist. every song from making a door less open evokes incredibly primal instincts in me)

Concorde by Black Country, New Road (Lies down on the floor and curls into a ball)

no pressure tags: @new-hyperfixation-every-month @catwyk @3584-tropical-fish @deltapelagicpetrel @sulfurrrr and anybody else who wants to :^))