#vbs event

[sekaicards]

Event Theme Tournament! 1.1

Kick It Up a Notch: livestock, industrial, rams, run-down

Cast a Spell on You: witches, magic, textile craft, diagrams

[rorynni]

I’m rereading all of the VBS stories right now and Toya must have looked so out of place singing on Vivid Street before he met Akito and started getting his outfits picked out and styled by him.

[mirmalade]

what happens when your red string of fate dissolves right before your eyes. what then

[coral-canary]

New Kohane card……. She’s so cute…. She’s infodumping to her….

Also does anyone else remember when Kohane and An talked about riding the Ferris wheel in Phoenix wonderland together alone at night during Time to hang out so they could enjoy the sights.

And. And Kohane’s trained is her looking at someone while riding a Ferris wheel over a neon amusement park at night (with the neon being in her and An’s signature colors).

No…. Just me….??? Ok……

[sleep-deprived-luka]

Vbs a Christmas Carol, for reasons I can no longer explain

[janeshadoww]

Vbs worldlink 2 got me feelin like

[thisaritree]

...so. akito's gacha line for vbs wl2.

[briarhearts-art]

an old akitoya doodle that i still liked :3

[tom-is-online]

Looking at you with my autistic eyes

[ravenclod]

Whip the wimp girl An doodle... maybe perhaps

" I'm going to surpass her !!"

> this ask has been festering since (checks notes) march 22nd... BUT I COMPLETED HER IN TIME FOR WTWG ENDING !!! i wanted to post it after i had read the event.

closeups / no lighting under break

[st1ckerhappy]

PUTTING THIS EVENT RIGHT AFTER 4TH ANNIVERSARY IS DEVIOUS WORK 😭😭😭

edit: THESE ARE LITERALLY A WEEK APART?!?!

[sekaicards]

Event Theme Tournament! 1.41

STRAY BAD DOG: warehouse, lighting, graffiti, industrial

Find the dream view: music store, high saturation, comic, instruments, solid background

[rorynni]

vbs doodle idea: toya discovers nail polish (probably by An or Mizu)

/nf!!

OKAY SO my thought process here was that an and toya are both wearing black nail polish in their BURN MY SOUL outfits, and since that was actually the first time toya wore nail polish in a card, an did his for him

[ace-and-the-rpg-horrors]

i doubt that Arata's going to make any major appearances now, but i think it would be so funny if VBS starts travelling and he is made to supervise them, because Ken is busy and tells the kids, "sorry, i am not trusting you guys by yourselves abroad in a million years." so he calls up Arata, since he's travelled before (to America)

Arata is like "yeah, sure. how hard could it be?"

about everything that could go wrong goes wrong.

in the middle of the night, they were all meant to meet at WEG, from where Ken would drive them to the airport. all of them except Toya forgot at least one thing at home and had to go all the way back to retrieve it.

Arata ordered a cup of strong coffee while they all waited for An to come back after running up to her room for the sixteenth time.

at security, An, Akito and Arata seem to accidentally create a "whose jewellery can set off the metal detector more" competition. Toya is highly disappointed in Akito. and just before the trip, Emu had given Kohane a tiny little robot that has recorded messages from all of W x S, to remember them by while she's away!! so cute!!

it gets Kohane pulled away to be searched.

not even anything dodgy in it, it's just as if the machines could detect the Made In Rui Kamishiro's Room essence. Kohane was terrified. it took Arata, Akito and Toya to hold An back from fighting security and getting them all arrested. Rui woke up at home a few hours later to fifty missed calls from Akito, An and the airline.

Arata bought another coffee at duty free afterwards.

oh, and since i'm silly about my headcanon of Iori and Arata being twins, STANDOUT happens to be doing a world tour at the same time. Arata prayed he would not see his sister at the airport. he is not God's favourite. she sees him struggling with the kids and immediately takes the piss. he retorts that he hopes her plane crashes. nearly gets jumped by the other band members (minus Mio)

he needed two coffees to recover from that.

Kohane is super excited about taking as many photos as she can while in the airport, wanting to capture everything. Arata sees her struggling with holding the camera while dragging her suitcase and decides to be nice, offering to hold it. she accidentally calls him nii-san and he feels joy for the first time, thinking that maybe it's all worth it. which is very quickly dissolved when An takes him holding Kohane's bag as an invitation to drop her bag on him ("cheers, Arata!!"), followed by Akito. Toya tries to scold them and help carry all the things, though sheepishly finds that he does not have the strength to.

"why the fuck do i bother." ~ Arata Tono, 2024, on his fifth coffee.

Arata gets a call from Souma checking up on him and is so relieved that he's positively beaming (and maybe even tearing up) while he walks away to answer.

"ehhh, he hasn't smiled at us like that all night, even though we've been so good!!" ~ An. she and Akito tease the hell out of his relationship with Souma when he returns.

while waiting to board the plane, he has to deal with standing next to a bickering An and Akito, the sleepiness starting to really get to the both of them, making them more snappy. Toya is starting to really realise that flights involve... heights. and is staring into space while having a silent panic attack. Kohane unintentionally wanders off to go take more photos, nearly giving Arata a heart attack when he thinks he's lost her. or that might've just been the caffeine.

he is unable to buy another cup of coffee at this time.

the second Arata gets into his plane seat, he goes "do not talk to me" to all of them and immediately falls asleep. some poor flight attendant has to shake him awake to ask him to put his belt on because he'd forgotten. he starts sobbing right then and there.

he gets to order his now hourly coffee from that same flight attendant a bit later.

he tries to drift off once more, though is awoken again, this time by poor Toya in the middle seat digging his fingernails into both his and Akito's arms from fear, like a cat, while the plane takes off.

Arata downs some more coffee and reflects every one of his life's decisions while his arm is taken hostage.

An, who is much too peppy at this sort of hour, in Arata's opinion, reaches across the aisle every ten minutes to shake his free arm and ask "are we there yet??" so he makes Toya keep an eye on how many exact miles away they are and regularly report it to her, to both distract him from the height and satisfy An's curiosity.

when they arrive at their destination, VBS is ecstatic. Arata promptly goes to his room in the hotel and passes out for about twelve hours.

he gets offered coffee during breakfast and feels sick at the thought... before remembering that he's with this lot for a good few days and quickly accepts.

[chiricat]

mizunenetoya 🎀🤖☕️

[toyalove]

TOYA WL2 MAJOR SPOILERS

my post-reading reflection... good morning its 8am

i'm really, really so hurt by the fact that, everyone in toya's life... from his mother, to his father (although he was really angry), to his new classmates, to even his friends at kamikou: they all love and care about toya. well, because he is toya and that's all that matters

but the fact he already disappointed the people he loved the most. he was too scared to see their faces, whether they'd still love him or not. he was too scared to have to go through that, again and again, even if he knows that the people who love him dearly will forgive him. so he instead chose to shut himself away, cutting off music completely. if it was associated as the thing that caused disappointment, then it would be just easier to give up. he ends up running away from reconciling those feelings too.

its a cycle that is of insurmountable difficulty to break free from... yet it is so easy to be chained by the cycle, constantly afraid of the people around him, falling deeper.

no matter... how happy those memories were. he was just, too scared.

i'm really glad that, in the real timeline, toya finds out that akito insists on performing with him. akito insists that toya isn't the half hearted person he thinks he is. that toya crazily loves music.

i'm really glad that, in the real timeline, toya regains his confidence and faces his feelings and fears to his father. he reconnects with the classical music he loves so much. he is understood by his family. that he knows he is loved despite the mistakes.