leonamelody047 - Tumblr blog

leonamelody047 · 1 month ago

Text

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.

#hehehe i live for aus like this #this is great #shinonome siblings bit i love you #also mafuyu exploring her feelings through acting is so good #project sekai #prsk

19 notes · View notes