Nikki: Warming Match
Designer’s Reflection: Warming Match
Obtained: Memory Stairway
Rarity: SR
Attribute: Green/Fresh
Awakened Suit: Cool Match-Up
Story - transcripts from Designer’s Reflection
Chapter 1 - Mix and Match
Chapter 2 - New Inspiration
Chapter 3 - Breaking the Rules
Story - summarized
Nikki wants to enter a design competition... if she can ever come up with an idea. The rules are to create a unique outfit, but only using ordinary elements.
Her sister, Yoyo, is in the middle of college, but she likes to visit a bustling, up-and-coming district full of fresh and unique outfits. She calls Nikki and invites her to a day out at the district, the Settlement. More specifically, she knows Nikki is having a hard time with inspiration, and she wants to take her to her favorite store down there called The Circles.
Wanting to look her best, Nikki chooses a cute and popular suit to wear to the Settlement... but she quickly learns that the main style there is innovative and not popular. She feels conspicuous as Yoyo leads her to The Circles.
Yoyo is friends with the owner, a young man who styles a suit with a skirt, pink with plaid. He tells Nikki to try any of his clothes, encouraging her to try new styles. So, with her sister’s enthusiastic help, Nikki finally finds an outfit that brings out her wilder side. The owner says that the best way to find a unique style is to try different things together until you find something great.
With this in mind, Nikki returns home and looks over the original suit she wore that day. Cute, pink and purple, sweet... She re-layers the clothes, adds a pillow bag, repurposes her rain boots, and tweaks her design until she finally has a unique outfit with ordinary elements for the design competition.
She wins the competition! To celebrate, she wears her fresh, new outfit as she and Yoyo visit the Settlement for lunch and a visit back to The Circles.
Connections
-Yoyo is always willing to help her sister, even if it means pushing her out of her comfort zone. She did this in Before the Dawn, tricking Nikki into making a costume for herself and pulling her onstage to sing with the band.
-Nikki uses the re-layering technique in her suit for Flower and Jenny. Both have a bra-like shape in the bodice to give it a special touch.
-In the Ark, you can tap on Nikki’s image in the Reflection to bring up extra lines of dialogue. One of the lines mentions “sweaters, lace, and long hair.” Nikki is talking about her very first design as a child, First Snow.
Fun Facts
-This is the third Memory Stairway suit to get a third color, right after Choco Time and Soccer Tone. The pattern on the suit is plaid, like the pattern the owner of The Circles was wearing on his skirt when they first met.
-Each of the Memory Stairway suits demonstrate a different lesson or memory about design that Nikki had to experience to grow in her skills. In Warming Match, she learns to keep an open mind by breaking the rules as she goes; there is always a new way to style.