#not as long as maybe u wanted but i was really scrounging through my screenshots i do have of him

[starswallowingsea]

tell me about ummm. uhh. ibara

okay

mr sneaky snake himself coming to my grandma's house asking where i am /j

the first thing i think of when i think about ibara is how he seems to be a planner but has like. no plans for when they go awry which seems to be happening a lot especially in !! era (i have not read a lot of stories with him in ! era so i will not comment on that here). like rinne doing his whole thing in the main story with drawing all the ire towards himself and trying to let the rest of crazy:b go on their own, himeru rejecting the song in ariadne despite being offered it and a way to perform it without suspicion, nagisa's whole thing in the !! era (bogie time, conquest, and secret service all involve nagisa taking his own action away from ibara and thus throwing his plans off every single time). i think ibara should also take some improv acting classes so that he can get a little more comfortable with spontaneity because up til this point he's like. he's had this regimented life with the military school and then with regular idol boy school and keeping order and schedules. he makes a very good vice president because he can (generally) see through others' plans and plan around them but he's not very good at thinking on the spot.

i have almost no screenshots of ibara but its okay i'm insane enough about this game to just remember these things you can trust me /half joking. anyway the fact that frontline watchdogs exists and he just. cannot handle taking care of bloody mary or even call her by her name at the start of it. my man needs a fucking break and fr needs to embrace the spontaneity that eve does. there is a time and place for order but he just needs to learn to let go sometimes and i do think he is working on that and being able to stay calm when plans go awry and think on the spot will only help him develop. but it is funnier when he's forced to do some variety show because nagisa wanted to. shout out to bogie time my friend bogie time. bogie time really was good for him in being able to let loose in a safe environment and get more comfortable with thinking in the moment rather than pre-planning everything. a little change can be good ibanyan.

i do also think its very funny and cute that he kept the nicknames from bogie time for hajime and himself. the way he just told gatekeeper to stay away from jimenyan in the satellite prologue and hajime hadn't even used his nickname. its a nice touch that he still holds onto something silly like that. even ibara who has constructed a very careful image of himself has this one single silly habit of calling his (unexpected!!) friend a cat nickname from one show they did together.