it’s almost been a FULL YEAR since true colours released!!! for those of you who don’t know, i’ve created this blog specifically to host a Chenrich Ship Week to celebrate the one year anniversary release of the game! it will be starting on September 10 and going until September 17! the prompts are as follows (and can also be found on the side bar of this blog!)
Day 1: Gabe Lives AU
Day 2: Second Kiss
Day 3: Autumn/Fall
Day 4: Found Family
Day 5: Concert/Jam Session
Day 6: Camping
Day 7: Proposal
Day 8 (Bonus): Erika Mori & Katy Bentz Appreciation Day!
if you’re stuck for inspiration, you can refer to THIS POST for some ideas from me to get those creative ideas flowing! super excited and looking forward to seeing what everyone’s gonna come up with!!
i will do my best to reblog the creations made for chenrich week, and i will be using the tag “chenrich week” or “chenrichweek” or “chenrich week 22″ to find the posts!
Posting the prompts now so that everyone has plenty of time to prepare for the very first Chenrich Week! And if you notice one of the prompts being on a particular date... Yes, that's intentional c; We gotta celebrate, after all!
Saturday July 9th - Friday July 15th
Day one - Jamming Session
Day two - Birthday
Day three - Date night
Day four - Summer
Day five - Stargazing
Day six - Foosball
Day seven - Road trip
Day x - LARP/(TT)RPG
To clarify: 'Day x - LARP/(TT)RPG' is a bonus prompt. This one isn't tied to any particular day. If you can't come up with something for a certain prompt, you can use the Day x prompt instead! Or if you just feel like doing an extra one, that's totally fine too!
Just make sure when you post your entries (on here, Ao3, or Twitter) to use the tag ‘Chenrich Week’ and the tag for the prompt of that day as follows: (example) ‘Day One Jamming Session’, ‘Day Four Summer’ etc. So that it can be easily found and reblogged or retweeted!
When you post on Ao3, you can add your entries to the Chenrich Week 2022 collection!
So the blog is still a little bit of a work in progress until it feels more like how I would like it to be, but for right now, I wanted to make a quick intro post of sorts!
I mainly have created this blog because I really wanted to set up a Chenrich Ship Week for folks to participate in! And, since the one year anniversary of the release of True Colours is fast approaching, I figured, what better time to try and organize it!
CHENRICH WEEK will be held from September 10-17! There is a link on the sidebar of this blog that outlines the seven prompts for the week, as well as a fun eighth bonus day that will be solely dedicated to appreciating the hard work and talent of Erika Mori and Katy Bentz!
This ship week is open to everyone in the fandom! Artists, writers, gifset makers, fanvid makers, theorists and everyone who loves the game and Chenrich! Even if you don’t feel like you have something to do, you can always spread the word! Events like this live or die by word of mouth and level of excitement and participation! So reblog the content creators you see participating, make posts hyping up the event and spread the love! We all love Chenrich very dearly, so let’s come together and celebrate them!
Hello again all! I wanted to make a specific post for the Chenrich Week prompts to hopefully help inspire any and all creators! Again, you can refer to the list more easily at any time by clicking through the link I have on the blog’s sidebar if you wish! But for some more in-depth details, please read on!
And again, all of the below ideas are just suggestions to get the ideas flowing! As long as you come up with something you think fits the prompt for the day, you are more than welcome to share whatever you come up with!
CHENRICH WEEK (September 10-17)
DAY 1 (Saturday): GABE LIVES AU
Obviously, without Gabe’s death, there wouldn’t have been a plot at all, but that doesn’t matter with fan works! Whatever you wish could have been given more focus while Gabe was alive, now is your chance to explore! Whether it’s seeing more of “Protective Big Brother” Gabe giving Steph the third degree, whether Gabe would’ve been a little shit and teasing the hell out of both Alex and Steph for their crush, or whether it’s a flash-forward to the future where he’s Alex’s best man at their wedding, or cat-sitting at Steph and Alex’s apartment that definitely shouldn’t have that many cats, the possibilities for an alternate universe where Gabe lives are endless!
Steph and Alex’s first kiss was absolutely wonderful and earth-shattering of course, but what about their second kiss? After Alex suffered several awful bodily injuries, after Steph went through a period of anxiety and self-doubt and worry, after Jed confessed to be a liar in front of everyone, when and how do Alex and Steph approach the idea of “who they are to each other”? Is their second kiss soft, full of relief? Is it a passionate promise of tomorrow?
Or, perhaps, if you want to deviate away from canon, is there an AU where a second kiss occurs? Perhaps they drunkenly met at a bar one night and ended up making out and the next morning one of them finds themselves over at the other’s house. Or there’s elements of mysticism and the supernatural involved where one of them remembers every life, but for the other, each rebirth or reincarnation is like kissing for the first time.
Autumn means Halloween, Thanksgiving... maybe even preparing for Christmas already! Maybe Steph learns that Alex never really had any good “traditional holiday” experiences in her childhood and decides to pull out all the stops. Is it a comedy of errors where Steph tries a little too hard and it all falls apart? Or maybe they have a nice quiet evening to themselves and enjoy each other’s company!
Fall could also mean Steph’s trauma around the fall of Arcadia Bay rearing its ugly head once again. How would they process that together as a couple?
There’s a lot of warm and friendly people within the town of Haven. If Alex stuck around with Steph, what does it look like for her to settle into life with the people around her? How quickly does everything start to feel like home?
And if Alex and Steph decided to leave, to tour around the world, what would that look like? Who would they meet on the road, how would Alex feel around Steph’s old band contacts? Would Alex feel out of depth in “Steph’s world”, or would they grow together as they travel?
There’s a few texts in the game between Steph and Alex that imply that they totally had one-on-one jam sessions together at the record shop. And obviously there’s no way their performance at the Spring Festival was a fluke, so they’ve obviously rehearsed together! What would their jam sessions look like in a familiar space where they’re alone together?
Or, perhaps, how does their first performance on the road go? Are they in a small dive bar where no one pays them any attention? Do Steph’s old contacts hook them up with a bigger venue right off the bat? Do they brainstorm band names beforehand or completely forget about that tiny little detail until Alex is standing at the mic for the first time?
Camping can be super romantic and serene. If you’re prepared, that is! Maybe Steph wants to take Alex out for a lovely experience in nature, just the two of them, and she forgets to bring something crucially important. Maybe Alex is just as confused as she is, or maybe she’s a secret wilderness buff because one of her foster families put her in the girl scouts.
Do they get horribly lost while hiking because somebody can’t read a map? Or maybe their idea to rent a canoe wasn’t exactly the smartest one because neither of them really know how to paddle, exactly. They don’t know why they keep spinning in circles, they really don’t.
Who ends up getting down on one knee? Do they plan a surprise proposal, or is it something that is just so natural that there’s no fanfare, almost as if it is an inevitable conclusion? Do they get friends involved with the occasion? Are they one of those “we both somehow decided to propose to each other on the exact same day” sort of couples? What makes them decide to propose in the first place?
The final bonus/optional day is a day to appreciate the full performance artists (mocap for face&body as well as voice acting!) for Alex Chen and Steph Gingrich - Erika Mori and Katy Bentz!
Maybe it’s just making a post talking about your favourite moment in True Colours (or in Wavelengths as well as LIS: Before The Storm for Steph!) that you felt was performed really well. Something that just really grabbed at your heartstrings and pulled you into the world and made you experience it fully.
Since Erika and Katy are both on Twitter, this would be a wonderful chance for everyone around the same time to flood their mentions with appreciation, positive comments and so so much love. They worked really hard, and what better way to show them that their performances still impact so many of us, even one year after the release of the game.
Katy Bentz is also a streamer on Twitch! If she’s streaming on Saturday, why not stop by and spread some love there! I personally frequent her streams fairly often, and she really does appreciate every message she gets from people who say how much her performance of Steph means to them. She doesn’t stream too often on Saturdays, so maybe get a headstart on this one and pop in on a Friday instead ;P
hi!!!! i fell off the radar for AWHILE and im so sorry! organizing this by myself while trying to keep up with the prompts for my own fics and work and life and being an adult, things just got away from me! but the event is STILL HAPPENING!!!
if you want your creative work to be featured on this blog (and i hope you do!), please dont forget to tag this blog in ur post on tumblr and i will attempt to do my very best to reblog y’alls creations!!
if you’re worred about me missing it, just feel free to send me an ask or a DM directing me to your work and i will get right on that!!!
HAPPY CHENRICH WEEK EVE MY FRIENDS!!!!! and don’t forget abt the ERIKA MORI AND KATY BENTZ APPRECIATION DAY on the 17th!!!!
hey friends!!! it’s been a little while since i’ve posted an update! life has gotten pretty busy for me lately, and i’m running this event solo. but huge thanks for all the followers and the interest <3 i can’t wait to see what everyone creates for this week!
reminder that it is coming up in just under a month! SEPTEMBER 10-17! the prompts are all listed on the sideblog and are open to ALL creators, whether you’re an artist, a writer, a gif maker, a video editor -- whatever it is! if you love chenrich, this is the week for you to create your little heart out!
i have plans to make a more comprehensive post detailing and outlining the prompts and providing with potential prompts to help get the creativity flowing for everyone who wants to participate! so keep an eye out for that :)
also there will be a twitter handle for updates as well within a couple weeks or so to hopefully reach more people and build more hype.
in the meantime, keep reblogging, keep spreading the word of the original post (which you can find here) and start brainstorming!
i would love to see a lot of different media for this week if possible, from art to writing to giftsets to vids... anything you can come up with that could fit with the prompts! i’m really excited for this yall :3
chenrich week is from september 10-17 and will feature prompts such as: gabe lives AU, found family, concert/jam session, and proposal!! so if any of that intrigues you, or if you know of anyone who would be interested, let them know! :)
Apologies everyone, but I will be moving Chenrich week. Originally the idea was to host it next week, to celebrate the one year anniversary of the game’s announcement. But I am not doing the greatest mentally right now & I’m hosting Chenrich week all by myself.
So far I only received one prompt suggestion, so there's also simply not enough prompts to host Chenrich week next week. Preferably I'd have all the prompts known two weeks in advance, so everyone has enough time to prepare. Hence the decision to move the date.
Not set in stone yet, but I'm thinking of the week of July 4th - 10th, with July 10th being Alex Chen's birthday. Apologies again, but I am simply unable to host it next week, hope you can understand.
