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Ancient Assortment of Laalas

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More Guitar Club! Some recruitment stories, but were mainly focused on Mario.

Naru and Amari are immediately dazzled by sara’s skills! Mario is… there. An existence that Amari can never ignore for very long.

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Amari: he probably doesn’t remember me

Amari: (perturbed, hugging herself) but if he DID, that’d be bad, too!

this image wasn’t from the AU, but i thought that it fit nicely into this story’s vague narrative so i also put it here. in this story, pripara’s virtual world likely doesn’t exist so mario is just a human who used to be childhood friends with amari. what are they now? it’s hard to say…

but since these were drawn when there was only 3 episodes of idol land pripara to go off of, my depiction of mario doesn’t match his actual personality as shown in the canon story.

by the way, naru and amari are solely meant to be friends in this story. there is no actual love rivalry going on here, just amari dealing with her confused feelings. mario, for his part, literally just thinks it’s funny that naru is so short.

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Guitar Club AU! Featuring club President Naru and club Vice President Amari!

Takes place in a universe where everybody from the Pretty Rhythm Universe inhabit the same world. For the Rainbow Live characters specifically, this AU takes place directly after the events of that season. At first, Naru is merely looking for somebody to teach her how to play and she finds Amari. In reality, Amari has stopped playing for so long that she’s a beginner herself now, but she’s reluctant to admit that at first because she doesn’t want to disappoint Naru. If she knew, Naru wouldn’t want to be her friend, right… ?

But the charade doesn’t last very long at all, because despite everything, Amari wants friends who will like her for herself. She comes clean and apologizes for the misunderstanding and Naru, being Naru, doesn’t understand why she’s apologizing in the first place! In her eyes, they were already friends! And since she needs a guitar teacher and Amari wants to make friends, why not form a guitar club?? Both problems solved!

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Translation:

Big text: “They can’t play guitar”

Amari: Ehehe, right…

Naru: We’ll be fine!! (lit. her catchphrase, “it’ll work out somehow!)

This AU is 3-4 years old now and i didn’t think much about how the club actually came to be, so i drew this with the irony of two guitar newbie forming a “guitar club” in mind. The caption above is something that i just thought up now and im sticking to it.

Also, you might be wondering, “why doesn’t Naru just ask Ito to teach her?” as i did for the first time while making this post. Since this is immediately after Rainbow Live’s finale, i assume that Naru didn’t want to ask Ito such a big favor when her family has just recently reconnected. Plus, i think that Naru undertaking this task herself was part of her efforts towards becoming more responsible and independent, which we see her start to do at the end.

I WILL say that Ito being worried about Naru did okay a role in Koiji deciding to help, though. This was something that i decided at the beginning, but i don’t want it to be the main reason since i’m interested in exploring Naru and Kouji’s friendship as well.

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thinking about idol anime’s obsession with allowing girls to skip the natural maturation process that comes along with puberty by enabling elementary school-aged children to shapeshift into a more mature appearance. the girls can grow up “physically” while skipping the dirty process of having to grow up “mentally”—which would otherwise jeopardize their purity, or innocence. in other words, the thing that makes idols desirable.

the ideal “idol” is a child in the body of somebody no older than 17 years old. idol animes such as “creamy mami,” “pripara,” and “lulutto lily,” use magic as a premise to achieve this more literally.

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first kiss

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the bad guy

way before the episodes came out, i wondered what it might be like when amari and mario meet. i thought there might be this awkward in-between period where mario isn’t playing the part of a villain but becomes one in opposing amari and her friends. he just wants amari to need him!

(amari trying to sneak mario out of pripara after he came to find her. they run into her new idol friends and they’re all like, “who’s that guy.” amari lies about it some way)

mario: (about to say something embarrassing about amari’s past to her idol friends)

amari: (IMMEDIATELY charges toward him and clamps a hand on his mouth)

(Mario manages to remove her hand and begins talking again)

amari: AHHH (trying time drown out the sound of his voice) 

amari: (starts shoving him toward an alleyway or smth) WELLBERIGHTBACK

(amari shoves him against a wall) what was that all about?! (some thing else, I don’t know what yet)

mario: I don’t care

am: I-I do!! and anyway, its MY business. it doesn’t have anything to do with you

(He grabs her hand and pushes himself up off the wall. Amari steps back)

ma: it’s got everything to do with me

ma: how long do you think you can keep this up?

am: w-What do you mean

ma: this sparkling idol bullshit (laughs) I mean, give me a break

am: they’re not like that

ma: (exasperated) everyone is like that. or, did you forget already?

am: ...

ma: you’ll see. The second you stop playing by their rules

ma: but I can play too. S’long as you make it interesting

ma: so keep playing pretend with your little idol friends. I don’t mind being the villain.

ma: we both know who’ll end up being right in the end

mario: (thinking) doesn’t matter what she remembers. i’ll make her understand

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i have a lot of snippets of dialogue with amari and mario dating. i thought that they’d work well together because mario pushes amari to face herself. to him, she’s the strongest person in the world but needs to be reminded of it sometimes. he’ll take her love wether it hits him soft like a kiss, or a punch to the face.

so yeah, i was thinking about a teen couple navigating relationship stuff for the first time. specifically, i wanted to depict how the two of them might handle conflict. amari is insecure and so afraid to express herself that she’ll let the anxiety rips her apart from the inside.

here’s a few:

mario encouraging amari to open up in his own way:

mario: i won’t know if you don’t tell me

amari: (reluctantly tells him)

mario: (rebuttal)

amari: begins an impassioned, argumentative reply but stops) i don’t want to fight about this!

mario: i do. if saying nothing makes you look like that, i’d rather we yelled at each other until we’re both blue in the face

mario: if you want me to understand, 

mario: then make me

amari: ... you won’t hate me?

mario: nah

amari: i’ll can yell pretty loud, you know

mario: we’ll see

amari: what if i call you names

mario: i might be into that

amari: (blushing despite herself) … you’re gross

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mario: if you want something, take it. if you’ve got something to say, say it.

ma: i’m not with you because i thought you’d turn into the perfect girlfriend

ma. i’m here because i love you. i wanna know what’s in your mind

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mario: so, what’s on your mind?

mario: the amari i know doesn’t shut up. i like that about her

amari: ..mn 

ma: (jokingly) what, don’t think i’ll beg? i’ll do it

am: (relaxing a little, playing along) i-i don’t hear anything...

ma: (grabs her shoulder and starts nuzzling her. trying to be annoying) pleeeeeeease. pwetty pwease amawi~~

am: (laughing) oh, gross

ma: pleasepleasepleasepleassplease o great amari bless us with your wisdom

am: stop!

(mario blows a raspberry on her cheek and she loses it laughing. he’s kinda holding her up on her side and she buries her face in his chest, still giggling)

mario: so? what’s up?

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afterward: amari has had her first fight with her boyfriend and the world didn’t explode:

amari: ...perfect girlfriend, huh?

am: what he said before got me thinking. marios not the perfect boyfriend either

am: to be honest, he’s a lot different than what what i had in mind all those years ago. he should be perfect for me, is sort of what i’ve been thinking. since i kinda created him

am: and then we would never fight. or maybe i’d still find some way to mess it all up.

am: but. i really like him the way he is now

am: when i’m with him, there’s no room for worry. it’s like i’m caught up in his pace or something and i’m only thinking about the present. what i want to say, without being scared of how he’ll take it.

am: sometimes it’s just because he’s pissing me off that much, hehe

am: and sometimes it’s because we’re having too much fun

am: or, he already knows what i want and it feels like he’s just waiting for me to take it. i feel freer somehow

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amari: i’ve always been scared of how people see me. but marios sees me. and i never have any idea what he’s thinking, but i’m not afraid of him

am: plus...he’s always made it pretty clear that... he likes me

am: g-gosh, just saying that...

am: (getting progressively redder) he likes me... he likes me.... mario likes me...

amari: mario said he loves me

am: Aaaaawaaaugh!!! (covers her face)

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i have a lot of snippets of dialogue with amari and mario dating. i thought that they’d work well together because mario pushes amari to face herself. to him, she’s the strongest person in the world but needs to be reminded of it sometimes. he’ll take her love wether it hits him soft like a kiss, or a punch to the face.

so yeah, i was thinking about a teen couple navigating relationship stuff for the first time. specifically, i wanted to depict how the two of them might handle conflict. amari is insecure and so afraid to express herself that she’ll let the anxiety rips her apart from the inside.

here’s a few:

mario encouraging amari to open up in his own way:

mario: i won’t know if you don’t tell me

amari: (reluctantly tells him)

mario: (rebuttal)

amari: begins an impassioned, argumentative reply but stops) i don’t want to fight about this!

mario: i do. if saying nothing makes you look like that, i’d rather we yelled at each other until we’re both blue in the face

mario: if you want me to understand, 

mario: then make me

amari: ... you won’t hate me?

mario: nah

amari: i can yell pretty loud, you know

mario: we’ll see

amari: what if i call you names

mario: i might be into that

amari: … you’re gross

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mario: if you want something, take it. if you’ve got something to say, say it.

ma: i’m not with you because i thought you’d turn into the perfect girlfriend

ma. i’m here because i love you. i wanna know what’s in your mind

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mario: so, what’s on your mind?

mario: the amari i know doesn’t shut up. i like that about her

amari: ..mn 

ma: (jokingly) what, don’t think i’ll beg? i’ll do it

am: (relaxing a little, playing along) i-i don’t hear anything...

ma: (grabs her shoulder and starts nuzzling her. trying to be annoying) pleeeeeeease. pwetty pwease amawi~~

am: (laughing) oh, gross

ma: pleasepleasepleasepleassplease o great amari bless us with your wisdom

am: stop!

(mario blows a raspberry on her cheek and she loses it laughing. he’s kinda holding her up on her side and she buries her face in his chest, still giggling)

mario: so? what’s up?

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imaginary reporter: mario, what do you like about amari?

mario: what do i like about her? hm..

ma: her hair,

ma: kinda looks like ice cream, right. the swirly kind

ma: looking at it makes me kinda hungry

amari: that’s not the kind of thing a girlfriend wants to hear...

ma: it’s just the first thing that came to mind

ma: there are other things

mario: i like that she’s kinda crazy

amari: wha—!

ma: she’s always surprising me. being with her is never boring

ma: and she’s fun to mess with

ma: she kisses like she’s trying to punch me in the face with her mouth. it’s hilarious 

am: it’s not... !

ma: it’s cute

am: ... it’s not... (blushing)

ma: everything about amari is cute, but i figure you were talking specifics

ma: so, you could say i like everything about her? yeah. there’s your answer

ma: i like everything

imaginary reporter: amari, what do you like about mario?

amari: (blushing) ...nothing! i don’t like him!

mario: hahaha!

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Vampire story

Katsumi Amari

16 years old

Left out yet again today

(Today’s lunch looks so good, but she can’t eat it. she was sitting at a table by herself. mario invited himself over, as he usually does)

Mario: still can’t believe you got turned into a vampire by that kid from pripara

Amari: shh!! hey somebody might hear you!!!

Mario So what if they do? No one would believe it. Hell, I still don’t believe it

Amari: then they’ll just think I’m weird!

Mario: so do you feast on the blood of the innocent now? thats pretty badass 

Amari NO I still eat normal food 

(that is, when she can keep it down. Which hasn’t happened since she’d been turned, but amari doesn’t want him teasing her about that, too)

(Mario eyes her own lack of a lunch and continues eating his, which is mostly comprised of sweet breads. It’s been so long since she’s had any she can’t help but stare)

(she meets mario’s gaze by accident and he gives her a teasing grin)

Mario: Like what you see?

Amari: wh—!!

Mario: The bread, I mean

Amari: You did not

(he offers a piece to her)

Mario: want some?

(her stomach growls at the site even though the smell just makes her nauseous now)

Amari: i’m good

(mario looks at her for a moment, studying her face, but then he shrugs and goes back to eating)

(a moment later, he perks up in his seat and turns to amari ready with a question forming on his lips—)

Amari: no, I will not turn you into a vampire

(mario slumps down in his seat)

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(posing for an idol photo shoot. mario is carrying amari )

mario: (blatantly looking at her chest)

amari: ...you could at least pretend not to stare

ma: no it’s just, are they real?

am: OF COURSE THEY ARE!

am: why-why would you even—!

ma: i mean, didn’t you used to stuff your bra?

am: (dumbfounded)

ma: i remember you used to pose in front of the mirror and bounce around with your fake tits

ma: but now you got real ones! isn’t that grea—GUHUOGH!! (<—sound of amari kneeing him in the gut)

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I would like to think that since Mario isn’t human, he doesn’t know what cigarettes are. He just thinks that people use them to look cool, so he like. Gets a hold of a pack

and Amari is about to give him a disapproving lecture until he rips the pack open and bites into one. Then, she’s just flabbergasted

mario: (chewing, trying to look cool but obviously disgusted) heh. this is fucking nasty

amari: you… Don’t even have a lighter, do you

ma: a What?

(Shows him one)

ma: What is this? Juice?

am: NO

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the 'how big is your english vocabulary' test dropped new ship dynamics

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did you forget about amario? dont

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i should clarify that it sounds like mario talking about himself, but i think it’s funny to tag posts that remind me of him simply as “mario” because everyone probably thinks i mean the italian mushroom man. imagine me saying that about wahoo nintendo guy

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must a villain be redeemed? isn't it enough that they're bitter, evil, and most importantly, hot?