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unmeihaa2 · 2 years

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i’m still on my twewy bullshit except i’ve actually been thinking about a proper twewy au for koharu the basic idea i’m toying with right now is neo twewy/post neo twewy being the focus of the verse.

koharu dying at 19 as a kind of parallel to this being when she joined the doman liberation front in xiv canon & the start of her major canon personality changes essentially being the metaphorical ‘death’ of her as a child.

she comes from a family of politicians (a parallel to being from a samurai family), which is why her honor and sense of justice are so important to her, thus her entry fee is her morality (which affects both). because of their political leaning and the changes they were pushing for in government, koharu’s parents — and koharu herself — were murdered in a fire (a parallel to the razing of doma + her parents’ deaths) that was disguised as an accident. when she wakes in the reaper’s game without them, she seeks justice for their deaths (literally her motive for stormblood) — until her entry fee is taken, anyway.

her psych is a positive-aligned shockwave-type that manifests as a bokken. during the events of her game(s), she primarily utilized the kanesada pin. during neo she primarily uses the tenka mikazuki pin. jotm shockwave pins are named after famous katana, so her affinity for them is a nod to her main class being samurai. as a nod to koharu’s favoring traditional clothes, her clothing brand preference is ryugu.

her game participation takes place post-twewy but during the year before the shinjuku reapers take over, around 4 months or so after the events of a new day

she plays and wins three games*, a parallel to the wol fighting three primals in ARR. she forfeits the same entry fee each time (it’s returned when she wins and then is re-collected when she enters again). each time, she and her partner win but her partner’s score is higher than hers so they get brought back to life and she does not

* her games are not consecutive weeks the same way neku’s were, but she did play the game three times consecutively. in the og twewy, two consecutive game weeks was implied to be weird and three in a row was unheard of, so this is under the assumption that uzuki was running the game on a one week on/one week off schedule, thus koharu’s games took approximately a month and a half to get through

though she wins her games, koharu’s score in each game gradually gets worse (another parallel to her character development in xiv canon) and at the end of the third game she opts to become a reaper, having given up on coming back to life and getting justice for her family and herself

cue the 3 years between twewy an neo twewy! reapers don’t age so koharu stays 19 both physically and mentally

she starts as a support reaper and gradually works her way up to harrier reaper by the time the events of neo occur. her noise form as a reaper takes the form of a dragon, in reference to her being an au ra in her main canon.

she has never met the og twewy players, at least not until the events of neo, but is well acquainted with what’s left of the shibuya reapers as well as the refugee reapers from shinjuku. she has heard of the legendary player neku, knows that the chaotic state of shibuya’s ug is because of him, but isn’t familiar with any of his partners

where she goes from neo is still kind of up in the air. i haven’t decided if she stays a reaper, comes back to life**, or even goes to shinjuku with the shinjuku squad at the end**

this would have her go the route of either voluntarily giving up her reaper wings or outright having them revoked for betrayal in neo, resulting in her going back to being a player and helping win the game à la twewy beat and neo twewy shoka

* this would be because she might technically a shinjuku reaper, even if she gained her reaperhood in shibuya, based strictly off the fact that it was likely shiba, shinjuku’s conductor, who made her a reaper in the first place. uzuki as game master probably wouldn’t have had the power to do it and the next one up in the shibuya heirarchy is joshua (given all the officers & shibuya conductor were erased) and he was on time out from the higher plane and likely couldn’t. shiba may have been the only one with the power level high enough to do it at the time

#❀ IC : VERSE 「物語」 another story : twewy ❛ a tale of reapers.#neo twewy spoilers ahoy

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