Terran | Asexual & Agender | She/Her (Yeah I’m agender, yeah I use gendered pronouns). Mostly my being obsessed with Jade, but also whatever random TWST related thought comes to mind. I do have a habit of not posting for long stretches of time.
Wow, I didn’t realize just how long it had been since I last posted here… It’s not that I’ve grown tired of TWST or anything, I still log in every single day and play every event, I just… don’t feel like I have any unique insights or interesting takes to share about anything that’s happened lately, y’know? Maybe I’ll have something to say about the anime when I finally get around to watching it.
Anyway, since I’ve made a habit of reporting my pulling luck on every tweel banner, I figured I might as well continue that. Especially since my luck was absolutely insane this year!
They both— BOTH!— came home in 20 pulls!!!
That makes 3 YEARS IN A ROW that Floyd’s birthday card specifically has only taken me 20 pulls to get!!!
However, since 20 pulls worth of coins/tokens aren’t enough to buy all the birthday outfit furniture pieces in the shop, and I want to collect all of Jade’s, I decided to do more pulls on his broomquet banner, and got a copy in the first 10 pull!
As usual, Floyd was nice to me (came home in the first ten pull), and Jade made me go all the way to 100.
From what I’ve seen of other people’s pulls over the years, a lot of people seem to have similar experiences pulling for the tweels. Floyd is nice. Jade plays hard to get. As much as I want to be upset with him… it’s honestly kind of impressive how consistent he is lol
Anyway, not only did Floyd come home in the first ten pull, he was the very first card!! Which means he and Jade were at completely opposite ends of the spectrum, which I find fascinating.
How Yuu could get selected to go with Vil, without leaving it up to chance:
This is such a random and small thing, but my Yuusona’s not the type of person to leave things up to chance, much like Azul and Vil, so I was thinking about how they might get in on Azul’s plan, as well as how Ace might’ve actually rigged the lottery, and this is what I came up with:
While all the other students are staring each other down for a fight, Yuu backs out of the fray and notices Azul talking to Jamil and Ace off to the side.
Immediately understanding that something’s up, they decide to get in on it, but they don’t want to run right over and draw attention to the group, potentially exposing the plot to everyone.
Instead they stare them down, until Jamil (his senses heightened from a lifetime of vigilance) notices and tells the other two.
Ace quickly assures them that he can handle Yuu, and their group splits up. Ace going over to speak with Yuu, and Azul and Jamil mingling into the crowd in preparation for the plan.
Ace tells Yuu what’s up, and Yuu, of course, makes him promise to rig the lottery for them as well.
Azul suggests the lottery. Jamil backs him up. Yuu speaks up as well, specifically saying that they’ll only agree as long as Azul isn’t involved in the actual drawing of names, further reassuring everyone else that even if Azul had been planning something, he isn’t likely to get away with it.
Ace speaks up next, offering to be the one to write all of the names down, since he happens to have some note paper and a pen on hand.
At this point someone from the crowd would likely say, “How do we know you’re not going to put your own name in several times?” To which Ace would reply, “You can all gather around and watch me write the names if you want.”
One person provides a hat, and everyone gathers around to make sure Ace writes each person’s name exactly once. Only Yuu, who knows to specifically be watching out for his slight of hand, notices that he discreetly folds the corner of the pieces of paper with the four of their names of them down just as he’s dropping them into the hat.
Finally, Jamil speaks up again, suggesting that Yuu be the one to draw the names. Since they had previously spoken up against Azul’s meddling, everyone is happy to let them be the one to draw.
Then all Yuu has to do is specifically feel for the pieces of paper with folded corners, and just like that, they’re all chosen. Only Grim’s name gets selected by random chance.
I was prepared to go all the way to 200 for him if I absolutely had to though, so I guess I’m just glad he didn’t make me do that.
Anyway, I obviously had to immediately buy & craft all of the new furniture and make a little campsite guest room layout with all the outdoorsy furniture!
(It kinda looks like Jade and Epel are both grilling food in the above screenshot lol)
And here they are chilling around the campfire!
Both of the brothers in their club outfits!! (Floyd was in the guest room by complete coincidence! I used the invite on Jade and I never use the spare key function just ‘cause I like to see what cards show up randomly).
And here’s a close up of the adorable, little squinty-eyed smile Jade makes while his food is cooking! He’s so cute!!! 😭
I’ve never done memes in this format before, but these three images really reminded me of these characters specifically, so I figured I might as well make these!
I didn’t pull for Ace’s broomquet card (even though he is one of my favorite characters), because I’m saving up for all of Jade and Floyd’s cards that are coming up in the future, and I knew between Ace’s broomquet card and his Playful Land card, I wanted the Playful Land one more.
He doesn’t seem to be very happy that I skipped his birthday though, considering he took me all the way to NINETY TWO! Eight single pulls away from pity!!
I waited until all the banners came back and used the free Playful Land ten pull we got to go to 100 on Ace’s banner (technically 102), and luckily, he came home again! Hooray for a free uncap!!
They were both nice to me this year!!! I was fully prepared to go to pity for both of them, but they only took me a total of 60 pulls combined!!! 20 for Floyd and 40 for Jade!
Funnily enough, Floyd also came home in 20 pulls on his birthday banner last year. I guess it being his birthday puts him in a really good mood or something. In any case, I’m not complaining!
I just saw Jade’s SR for the new Halloween event and he looks absolutely gorgeous!!! His hair!!! His makeup!!! His pose!!!
Last year I was hoping he would get a banner SR for that Halloween event and he didn’t, (though he did end up getting that New Years SR soon after), so I’m extremely happy to see him getting one this year!
Also, wow! Jade has gotten SO many cards this year!! And I can not wait for them all to come to the English server!!!
I didn’t pull for Ace’s broomquet card (even though he is one of my favorite characters), because I’m saving up for all of Jade and Floyd’s cards that are coming up in the future, and I knew between Ace’s broomquet card and his Playful Land card, I wanted the Playful Land one more.
He doesn’t seem to be very happy that I skipped his birthday though, considering he took me all the way to NINETY TWO! Eight single pulls away from pity!!
Same anon who sent in an ask regarding the RSA and NRC rivalry being one-sided. Just call me Rinna.
Hmmm. The more I think about it, RSA just feel like they've have overstayed their welcome, if that makes sense.
Book 5 with Neige and the dwarves made sense (still bitter about the ending though) but after that, they feel as bland as plain, unbuttered, untoasted white bread (except Chenya).
The dwarves' felt like they got shoehorned into Sledathon, their motive was lame as hell, and their win against NRC was BS. Not even a fluke, just BS.
Hey Rinna! (I’ve never had an anon with a name before. This is a fun first for me!)
I can see what you mean by “overstayed their welcome”. It almost feels like the story doesn’t know what to do with RSA. They’re supposed to be NRC’s rival school, but outside of school related competitions it’s almost impossible to integrate them into the story without it feeling shoehorned.
Also, a bit off topic, but it’s wild to me how the dwarves had a whole thing about how they’re not children, they’re just small, and then their motivation for the Sledathon was just… so extremely childish. If the whole school is like that, it’s even more difficult to take them seriously as a threat. 😑
Something that genuinely bothers me about the whole "RSA are the heroes and NRC are the villains" shtick (or whatever you call it) is that it feels super one-sided.
We actually see NRC train and work hard to get what they want and achieve their goals but we're never told nor shown if RSA actually works as hard as anyone in NRC (unless I'm misremembering things). They just feel so flat compared to everyone at NRC.
Honestly, Harveston's ending is what made me gradually get sick of RSA because a small, nagging voice in my head is telling me that if they compete in another competition, NRC is going to lose. Again.
I totally get what you mean.
I do think the message of “sometimes you are going to lose, even when you put your all into something”, is a good lesson. But the framing of “heroes vs villains” with the heroes always winning by default kind of negates that message in a weird way.
It’s like… “The universe doesn’t owe you a win just because you worked hard for it. …Unless you’re a ‘good guy’!”
I think the ultimate message the story is trying to go for is that NRC needs to learn “teamwork”, and once they figure out how to work together, then they’ll be able to succeed. But I personally felt like our boys worked together quite well during the Harveston event, which was a big reason why I really thought they were going to win and was so upset when they didn’t.
But yeah, the whole RSA rivalry thing is definitely frustrating 😔
I just saw Jade’s SR for the new Halloween event and he looks absolutely gorgeous!!! His hair!!! His makeup!!! His pose!!!
Last year I was hoping he would get a banner SR for that Halloween event and he didn’t, (though he did end up getting that New Years SR soon after), so I’m extremely happy to see him getting one this year!
Also, wow! Jade has gotten SO many cards this year!! And I can not wait for them all to come to the English server!!!
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Whew!!! I finally managed to actually finish this story!!
This chapter isn’t anything super interesting if I’m being honest, it just felt necessary to include that little conversation between Yuu and Azul at the end since Azul was essentially the main point of conflict between Yuu and Jade, so having them be on good terms now makes it feel like there’s no longer anything standing in the way of Yuu and Jade developing feelings for each other!
I’m sorry it took so long to finish it. I was really busy with work, especially over the summer, and also completely stumped on how to write this chapter because I wanted to change the conversation between Yuu and Azul to be a bit more… “meaningful”, I guess? Hopefully it doesn’t feel too awkward.
Anyway, I do fully intend to get into writing the second half of this story soon!
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