~Content Warning: major spoilers for the game’s plot~
After defeating and trapping the Goddess of Desire in the abyss, Leonid soars out of the Ocean of Memories... and into his next trial. He comes face to face with the many, many gods of faiths throughout space and time. As each civilization or religion rises, so too does the corresponding god or pantheon.
None of them are happy that Leonid bested a god. They see him as a threat to their very existence: if a mortal defeated one god, who is to say it won’t happen again? They try to destroy him - fortunately, while the gods are all-powerful, they’re not all-knowing, so Leonid is able to escape.
He comes across an old friend of his, the God of Styling and Their five envoys. They offer him a respite, but Leonid doesn’t want to stay long. He still desires knowledge and the greater pursuit of truth. He says goodbye to Them and Their envoys before leaving.
But not long after he left, the older gods waged war against the newer gods. The old gods want to destroy Miraland and other similar continents to prevent other humans from coming there and besting them. The new gods wish to protect the humans from destruction and terror. Finally, the God of Styling decides to give up Their life - Their very existence, even - to end the war. No god is unscathed, but Miraland is safe for now.
The fallen gods all come back as civilizations rise again, and they fade when their peoples die out.
Except for the God of Styling. They took Themself out of the cycle of rebirth.
Leonid tried in vain to bring Them back, traveling through time, planting the power of styling, tracking history through designs. Nothing brought Them back.
Finally, Leonid heard a voice from the future. It was Nikki, saying she would never give up. Her will to keep going triggered a flash of light. The light of the God of Styling.
Leonid named her his successor, gave her the snowflake necklace, and set up star trails to guide Nikki and help you, the God of Styling, come back to life.
Connections
-After defeating the Goddess of Desire, she “looks” past Nikki and says to the player, “It’s you.” She recognizes you as the deity that died during the war.
-The overarching story arc for Volume 2 is finding the Five Envoys. They are the ones surrounding the God of Styling when Leonid approaches them, and as “you” explore Vol. 2 with Nikki, each of them says you feel familiar.
-In Vol. 2, Chapter 1, Leonid’s voice tells you, the player, to “open the door and return to your world.” He’s hinting that you are the missing god.
-While trying to bring back the God of Styling, Leonid noted that Nikki kept failing but never gave up. Nikki’s Reflection for Star Sea explains that she kept going back in time to try to save Miraland, and her desire to keep trying is the spark that resonated with you, the God of Styling, and woke you up.
-Nikki got the snowflake necklace from Leonid in the game Nikki Up2U.
Fun Facts
-All the clothing pieces in the suit are super versatile. They can blend into any suit (as you saw during the “mistake” photos in October).
-This Reflection is a fitting end to Leonid’s trilogy. He remains mysterious as ever, but it explains more why he chose Nikki as his successor, why it seemed he wanted Miraland to head towards destruction, and what his ultimate goal is.
-Leonid mentions a Tree of Life. Several religions feature such a tree in their mythology.
-The God of Styling says that there will always be a cycle of death and rebirth. Rebirth/reincarnation is another concept that several religions have.
-In the trailer for Nikki’s suit Star Sea, a celestial figure whispers to her, “You can do it.” It’s possible this is you, the God of Styling, coming back to join her.
-The God of Styling is gender neutral in the Reflection. Sometimes, Leonid uses he/him or she/her pronouns, but the god is always neutral. So, I made all the pronouns They/Them for clarity’s sake here.
Oh my god OH MY FREAKING GOD!!! I was messing around with the first chapter again because I wanted to see how high of a score I could get and asdffghjkl I thought I was just going to be in the top 1% or possibly top 53% or something not the top 10 Holy snicker doodles
I may or may not have anything to add to some games for the week, whether it be that nothing exciting happened or I just didn’t end up login in.
Inside the () is which suitor I am on in that game.
Order before is how this post is set up.
Read Time:
Current Games In Index
Midnight Cinderella (MidCin)
Destined to Love (DtL) ---
Love, Lies and a Heist (LLH) ---
Ikemen Sengoku (Ikesen)
Ikemen Revolution (Ikerev)
Ikemen Vampire (Ikevamp)
Love Nikki Up2U (Love Nikki)
Mr. Love Queen’s Choice (Mr. Love)
Several Shades of Sadism (SSS) ---
Lust In Terror Manor (LTM) ---
Love 365: Find Your Story (Love 365) ---
SPOILER ALERT
MidCin: Byron
I started Byron’s Sugar end only to find myself in the biggest rookie mistake of my life! I forgot to do the grace lessons at least twice a day. So I need like 4123 XD before I can complete the last grace challenge. Which also means I’m doing the same with Nobunaga! (#`Д´)
I’m going to end up using some of the stamina stuff that I have but I won’t be getting done anytime soon.
When I first downloaded the app Alyn was my first choice and I didn’t enjoy his at all and ended up uninstalling the game and later coming back and choosing Byron and he’s the originally Bae, before Leo. And reading his route again has reminded me how much I love him.
Ikesen: Nobunaga
I guess right! However I might have enough time to fix my mistake before it costs me a lot.
This coming week I will be starting Eternal End . I just have Ch 10 left so this will be exciting.
Ikerev: Lancelot
I’ve been spending a lot time catching up so it’s really just re-reading until I get to Ch10 again.
Lance reminds me a lot of Louis Howard form MidCin and I honest wasn’t a huge fan of him. I’m hoping Lance turns out to be more than another Stony Prince...
I knew I shouldn’t have but I did. I counted how many endings I still needed to get done with all current suitors and well 22 wasn’t what I was expecting.
Ikevamp: Napoleon
Alight where should I start? Because I only got three parts done this week.
Part 5
I have learned of both Napoleon and Sebastian’s secrets Mawhahaha
I love how MC says stupid shit like “I’m over that phase in my life. I don’t need love, so I won’t be falling in love.”
Part 6
Am I honestly the only one a little creep-ed out by Jean d’Arc? Can anyone give me more info on him? Which other suitors form other Cybird games would you say he’s most like? I’m hoping Cybird is gonna make this work well.
Part 7
So I learned a lot about Isaac and I’m honestly looking forward to his route.
I have a feeling that the next part will be dramatic cause that’s how this works.
Love Nikki:
I am still working on Vol. 2 Ch 5
I am enjoying the home event though with Royce.
I hope they will do this event again some time. I’m still hoping they’ll do some of the other things again.
With all the other events going on that are far better in my opinion than the home stuff, I find it hard to want to enjoy these events. I want to get all the items, but I don’t want to spend my dias on them ╮(︶▽︶)╭
Current Suits
White Blossom: %85 or Minstrel of Time: %72
Adventurous Journey: %86
Rose Fragrance: %80
Mr. Love:
I’ve reached level 28!
I haven’t progressed in the story at all.
I’ve been working on Ch 5 Elite and training.
I’m not sure how to do everything and I don’t have a lot of time yet to catch up on all the stories I’ve acquired so far.
Have you considered playing Love Nikki? It's also a dressup game and it has a lot of different accessories
I used to play a previous game in the series, nikki up2u a Whole Lot in highschool! I really loved it, it was like style savvy before I learned what style savvy was, but I haven't played it in like thirty years cause I had to delete it from my phone at one point for space reasons ahsgdhssjxhhd, never got around to playing the other games tho
I tried it out just now! It's cute, I like a lot of the accessories, it's a shame the apps constantly full o' pop ups tryna get you to buy whatever or share whatever dhdgshsj it really slows down my phone, but the dress up battles are pretty fun and the arts cute! I really don't like the way the way skin tones are handled in the game tho hghh
I think I'll stick with it for a lil while at least tho, cause there's some fun stuff and it reminds me a bit of animal boyfriend (which also handles skin tones badly but in a different way dhsgshH) which ive been playing for like five years, or the dream girlfriend and dream boyfriend games( I like em but I basically never feel like playing them only because animal boyfriend spoiled me with how smooth and fast it runs qwq), honestly I'm always here for dress up stuff shxgshja
Low-key also wanna redownload Nikki up2u tho....is it still on Google Play... Oh god it is.........oh god I just saw my rating of it from 2015 (I gave it 5 stars)
Anyway going from up2u to dress up queen is wild holy BALLS like I think there was a game in between these two? I'm assuming they just did some soft reboot stuff though cause I have no clue how you go from mildly fantastical but still grounded slice of life to like, politics between four factions? Or something? Is there a war? Queens? Murder? In like two games? Momo's still the same tho shdbshah
They definitely improved on stuff tho, like now they have like, tags? Tags for different style categories like Style Savvy and there's actual visible stats and points now sjdbshsj you can actually figure out how it works now qwq