I'm glad you're enjoying nanowrimo!! also A3! band AU 👀
well i WAS enjoying nanowrimo but then boom depression. i’m sure i’ll end the month with at least 40k tho
aight so i’m writing this while waiting in line at an einstein bagels. if i’m overly excited it’s because a breakfast sandwich is in my near future
Anyways band au right
a3 but like what if veludo way was the live music capital of japan and has tons of record labels out there for musicians trying to make it and whatever
mankai records is one of the biggest names attached to veludo for being an independent label for independent artists but was so focused on its first breakthrough artists they never hired any new talent and they retired or moved onto other things and it died lol
yeah yukio founded it but i’m a feminist. his daughter izumi bluffs her way into ownership of mankai records and mentors/manages/adopts a buncha dudes with trauma and says “i can fix him” and then she DOES. twenty-four times. she did that. what a girlboss. i’m a feminist.
anyways it gets corny if you name them all spring band/summer band/fuck that noise band/that shit CORNY corny band so i gave them funny names :)
i also don’t have a name for the fic ahaha 😳 this entire time i’ve had my docs titled after that one mashup abt mainstream music 😳 don’t worry about it i’m sure it’ll be fine 😳😳😳
🌸 forward
ok this is spring!! these twee ass mfs do indie pop and twee pop. belle and sebastian type beat, early los campesinos type beat. SLIGHT younger hunger energy. sakuya thought of the name since everyone was born in spring, and then from daylight savings time. spring forward babeyyy
sakuya: the lead vocalist aww that’s so cute isn’t that cute you simply can’t not root for him. working voice claim for him is the guy from los campesinos he sounds just like him. he has tons of lyrics he’s written himself and he’s just a little guy. he’s so set on sharing the content he’s made and deserves so deeply to be a star i don’t know how to word it. he is perfect and i love him. oeugh
masumi: ok so forward is fun because they’re bass led! masumi is their bass! they don’t have a lead guitarist their bass is their lead! my head is just so brrrbfhfb about bassist masumi i love him. this mf 100% believes he’s better than everyone else because he listens to vulfpeck. dude wakes up prays to his Les Claypool altar and then kicks ass. he’s that mf that watches primus music videos and goes “this isn’t weird what’s wrong with you people” and everyone hates him because they ARE weird they ARE and other primus fans know that they will never be able to fully comprehend what’s going on but masumi claims he does even though everyone else knows he’s full of shit. i love him.
tsuzuru: rhythm guitarist he learned how to play from his eldest brother, you know, one of the few times tadoru’s been reliable lol. he’s so so good at supporting that he’s a good steady rhythm guy, doesn’t like to lead the melody lol. one of the worst things about this au is that he owns a weezer hoodie. and that’s why i DON’T love him. OH AND HE ALSO COMPOSES HES A COMPOSER!!! he’s a music theory student! he does a shitton of songwriting and composing not just for forward but also, literally everyone. like literally everyone. sure there’s a few other songwriters on the label and everyone has ideas for music but tsuzuru has a lot of talent with building on those ideas and he’s easily the best guy to bounce ideas off of he has fl studio on his chonky 2014 laptop
itaru: YOO ITARU YEAH WOO GO ITARU I LOVE BAND ITARU I HAVE SO MANY ITARU THOUGHTS
izumi: quit your day job. join my [twee] band
itaru: i will not quit my job but i used to take piano lessons when i was younger. i’ll play keyboard if i get a room + meals
izumi: done
itaru: cool (read as: pog)
itaru: [did indeed take piano lessons when he was a kid but also did not stop playing piano. dude owns so many keyboards. some of them are computer keyboards but that doesn’t matter. the point is that he’s a youtube let’s player/streamer but also releases his own music under the username taruchi and ITS ACTUALLY GOOD? WHAT? HOLY SHIT? he is SUCH a good producer it isn’t even funny. i’m talking ayesha erotica, i’m talking toriena, vague passion pit references. what a fucking chad i love him sm]
citron: would you believe me if i said he was a drummer 🥺 i also have tons of citronny thoughts but they’re spoilerific 😐 but he’s a drummer guy just a little guy he’s suchhh a vibe love of my life. LOVES phil collins LOVES brann dailor because i’m (you say: what?) self indulgent 😘😘😘 his technique is kind of lacking tho 😐😐
chikage: HA U THOUGHT i have plans for him joining the funny twee pop band with the weez*r guy and an otaku greasebin but i’m at 7.5k words and only just getting to introducing masumi he ain’t showing for a while
☀️ summer sun
the most on the nose name i think. but they do jpop! and idol thingz! they all sing and dance instead of play instruments. their style is super edm, super energetic, super in-your-face. i’ve done way more jpop listening in the last month than i have in my entire life to figure out how to write these guys and… are you serious… all of the super recommended boy groups i’ve seen are so tough don’t you ever want to be soft… summer sun has a very madkidz + hey say jump energy but make it more edm and happy to be here
tenma: ya he’s still a movie star. he also knows how to sing and dance because he was the dude from japanese high school musical idk i never saw hsm. anyways the point is he was actually japanese pt barnum from japanese the greatest showman and ever since japanese into the woods debuted with him as [male lead idk i’ve only seen a few scenes from that i don’t think i liked it much] his fans have been begging him to do more music stuff and he said Fine and is the leader of summer sun and for as much as i dunk on him his popularity really does help out mankai records a lot so good for him ig
yuki: uggh yukkuuun you are so cool and for what. onstage his persona is the snarky-but-cute type (basically him but turned to 11 lol) yes king give us nothing. just like canon he does costumes! he’s more of a stylist for the other bands since matching gets kitschy and autumn might actually keel over and die if they all wore the same thing, but for summer sun and a few other performances where cohesiveness is important he’ll sew he’ll do a little sewing he wears skirts even on stage and i think that’s so powerful of him
muku: hehe he’s the youngest… summer sun is easily the most theatrical band or at least the one with the most acting, you know, since all their stage idol personas are basically their core personality over the top. he wants to be a heartthrob idol prince like his favorite shoujo leads and his persona is largely inspired by that, but whenever he gets a chance to be cool and suave he gets flustered but that has his own charm too… also a really good dancer… sonboy…
misumi: misumi is so all over the place it’s hilarious. on game shows and offstage he’s just living his best misumi life but then he slips into his idol persona and he’s SO MYSTERIOUS? SO COOL? he’s the closest thing summer sun has to a bad boy but he’s still so happy to be here and it’s so clear that he has love in him waaa. his style is always changing, his persona is never consistent and that’s one of the reasons why he has so many fans. he’s the designated rapper! he raps! he loves that kinda migos flow when rapping and he calls his style Triangle Beats but tsuzuru’s like “you know they’re actually called triplets” but misumi says No They’re Triangle Beats and everyone else on the label also calls them triangle beats instead of triplets
hold on bagel intermission
you guys i just got my breakfast sandwich and oughfnehbf
oh yeah
kazunari: pansexual king skinny legend a lot of why i love kazuun is because of his actions during the plot rather than his backstory and gimmick, you feel? he’s such an emotional support for everyone even when they don’t realize it and he’s kind of the heart of summer sun if you really squint. he keeps the graphic design thing up, and he’s kind of a jack-of-all-trades that doesn’t do a lot of major parts by himself, but sings with others to fill chords, does adlibs, etc
kumon: funny rapper boy… funny rapper boy… patting his head so hard rn
🍁 the fall
i know god isn’t supposed to pick favorites but if He won’t i will. over the years the fall has the most diversity with subgenres, they start off grunge punk and hardcore and as they continue they dabble into hard rock, nu metal, they get a little fucky wucky and have a bluegrass influence for a sec… if i had to describe their sound at first i’m saying minor threat
banri: lead vocalist. i’m gonna speak to you not as a tumblr x reader blog admin, but as a person. i want you to go on youtube dot com. i want you to look up pyrrhic victory by citizen. you might recognize that band name but i promise this is a different vibe i think idk i don’t listen to pop punk. anyways you’re gonna listen to that. that is literally banri settsu. that is literally what he sounds like i swear, screams and clean vocals and all and the worst part is that he barely even sang before he auditioned i hate him this is the most accurate voice claim in the au.
juza: bassist and backup vocalist. yeah. he’s fun because he does entirely hardcore vocals. yeah he can sing too but you listen to his gutturals and then you’ll get why he sticks to ‘em, they’re monster. the fall’s members have the most diverse music taste but this guy always listens to super savage metal, you know, crowbar, nails, high on fire, he named the band after a gojira song 🥺 his bass playing is also fun because he’s not quite strictly lead nor is he strictly rhythm. a lot of the fall’s discography has these fun wacky cool bass lines in there and he always wants to improve i’m going to sob i love band au!juza so dearly i could cry so hard rn
taichi: TAICHI OMG!!! i love taichi here actually?? he’s a keyboardist which is a strange instrument for a punk band but it makes sense because he [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] and he originally played because he [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] which is why he [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS BUT ITS THE ONE WE’RE ALL EXPECTING] and then he also [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]. he also knows how to play the accordion which comes in clutch when [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS]
omi: i have such a soft sport for band au!omi because he was really the first concept i made for this au and i have such strong feelings about his relationship to music and how it connects with mankai, his past, the worldbuilding, etc. he’s a drummer and OH MY GOD his bass drum game. immaculate. dude has calves for days and he knows how to use them. one time for a super hot outdoor festival he took his shirt off halfway through the set because so you know how much of a workout drumming is and the crowd roared bc how do you not and omi was totally lost and thought banri did a cool frontman thing but everyone in the fall thought he was just gloating and never explained it to him and he was so confused and forgot about it until six months later when he was making pudding and then it just randomly clicked. also, omi listens to george strait.
sakyo: ohh sakyo is another character that just makes my brain go zzssshzhzhshhwwwoooowowouu *space travel noises* because how do you not it’s sakyo there’s SO MUCH material for him! he’s a guitarist! he gave up on his dream of being in a band years ago but the revival of mankai records makes him play for keeps and WAAAA. and then you think about how we never really meet the other members of the og troupes (artists in this case) and that means i have full creative freedom and that makes my brain go ZHZHSHSSSOOOOOHOHOHOHOWW
azami: the sakyo-azami guitarist dynamic :D >>>> everything else :/
❄️ these freezing lakes
don’t ask me about their genre. trying to figure out their subgenre was one of the biggest production snags writing out this outline. they do rock. i can tell you that. smiths and sting and dead brothers, they’re very dead brothers. rock, but in the way that dust in the wind is rock and also folk but in the way that hotel california is folk (not at all). and then album 2 (master’s mesmerized by mystery) drops and then they have the AUDACITY to be prog. fuck these guys specifically.
tsumugi: but i don’t MEAN IT when i say fuck these guys i think winter has some of my favorite characters and dynamics and i think of them so dearly and so tenderly. tsumugi is a vocalist and a guitarist, rhythm, and doesn’t really sing often but- fuck- god- fuck fudkx you gsuys i had a voice claim for him but i forgoOT WAIT NO NO J GOT IT I GOT IT FLEET FOXES. THE SHRINE/THE ARGUMENT. GO LISTEN TO THAT. TGATS TSUMUGI. THATS HIM RIGHT THERE IFFICER.
tasuku: i know i say it a lot but i think tasuku might be my favorite band au character. i’m so set on it. he used to be a [REDACTED FOR SPOILERS] and then he joined these freezing lakes and now he’s a lead vocalist! not a leader but he does vocals and is a hell of a frontman in the way that he’s so charismatic without trying you just naturally want to get wrapped up in the songs, ya kno? i think a lot about his background in godza studios and how that bounces off not just the mankai crew but also the world of veludo way itself and he’s so talented, and he does so much to do what he can, and i love him, i truly do, i think he’s such an underestimated character in not just canon but also canon narrative and i could just go on about his relationship with taichi, and his relationship with tsumugi, and then his relationship to sakuya and sakyo and izumi, and azami and tenma, honestly, tassun is such a star and i could just go on about him i can’t wait until he gets his time to shine
hisoka: so anyways hisoka washes up on a beach like pokémon mystery dungeon explorers of sky and then learns how to play drums he’s our funny drummer boy he goes ppp pp ppp and i love that for him. gekkagumi is still a thing here. i want everyone to know that, as if gekkagumi in an acting troupe wasn’t batshit enough
homare: homare is such a character that requires actual thought to comprehend because there’s so much going on with him. i can’t think about him when i’m sleepy because i know i’ll forget something and fuck with his outline. anyways he’s still a poet. cool! because he’s a poet he’s also adept at writing lyrics for the gang, and each member of the label ends up writing a song or two at some point, but they do basics and concept and stuff, homare is the guy they go to so it can get refined, because he actually makes his own music, he has a bandcamp, but it never really took off because he’s such a kook and invented prog music, if you ever listened to the art of dying by gojira and counted the opening time signature and got 45/4 that’s because he did that, and then also he’s a guitarist, he’s the guitarist for these freezing lakes, he’s their lead, but then again you remember they’re kind of this very orchestral but folky band, and a lot of their songs use way more instruments than there are people, and that’s because homARE IS ALL OF THEM, HE’S ALL OF THEM AT ONCE, HE PLAYED PRETTY MUCH EVERY INSTRUMENT OUTSIDE OF THEIR MAIN LINEUP, HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE FLUTE, HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE HARMONICA, HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY THE CELLO THE TROMBONE THE SAXOPHONE PIANO MARIMBA WHAT DOES HE NOT KNOW HOW TO PLAY I HATE THINKING ABOUT HIM. HE’S PERFECT. I NEED BRAINPOWER TO WORK ON HIS CHARACTER AND I HATE THAT. I LOVE HIM BUT I HATE THAT.
azuma: bassist! he picked up bass in high school but he also has a background in piano, so he occasionally swaps between the two during live gigs. he’s actually more experienced on piano than homare, too, so for studio recordings he also records piano tracks. i like azuma here because he’s such a common glue for everyone, you know? i keep looking at my notes and there’s always something that mentions his dynamic with x, especially for winter. it’s funny, too, because he’s such a not-loud character and yet he’s always so present
guy: okay so i said tasuku was my favorite right. i meant that. i mean it. but that’s referring to year 1. and you do not understand how much it pains me that i have to wait until the very very end of year 2 to even look at guy because this guy, THIS GUY is my favoritest ever in the au and i have so many thoughts about him on the daily and i!!!! gotta write!!!!!! so i can talk about guy!!!!!!!!!!!!! last week i literally snapped awake sometime past 3 am because i had a Guy Thought. guy is fucking crazy. he’s so rad. i love guy. band au!guy is quite literally what keeps me going.
there’s so many individual thoughts i have about the past gen, mixed band dynamics, have i mentioned that it has a 4% chance of happening in canon but how much i want tsuzuru, tasuku, omi and azami- soccer club!- to collab and release some super experimental clipping-inspired tracks? izumi’s first outfit in the fic is a giant faux fur coat with oversized sunglasses, a cropped tank top, jeans with only one leg cuffed, granny boots and a leopard-print purse. she accidentally steals a power bank. i just want the fall to go to amoeba records and film a What’s In My Bag?™ episode because banri scoured the bitch for ashnikko and taichi listens to the hamilton soundtrack and juza listens to Suffering Soul by Nails and omi is standing there, arms full of sturgill simpsons and one (1) 2112 by rush and then sakyo comes back with oscar peterson trio. forward karaoke night. THE TIME KAZU SMUGGLED SUMMER SUN INTO A CLUB,
thank you everyone for being patient! i’d like to apologize for being inactive lately. life got super hectic recently. i just came here to confirm yes, i’m still alive, but i likely won’t be publishing any requests until after november. apologies for the delay.
i mean to say that i’m taking on a new project.
this is my first year ever participating in nanowrimo! when i first started @citowon it was the first time in years that i’ve been able to get over my writer’s block, and i’m happy to say it’s completely gone. i’ve always wanted to participate in nanowrimo, and it feels absolutely amazing to finally grasp that dream. i don’t want to be too corny, but i truly don’t think i would’ve been able to take this goal on without a3, and without my readers. thank you dearly for reading my work. it really is what keeps me going! please bear with me as i continue to write.
i’m taking a small day’s break from working on my next request so i decided to look at my a3 drafts in google docs since i’ve got so many wips and i just found a chikaita fic from december 2020 (probably the first a3 piece i’ve written) but i have no idea what it’s about??
the summary is pretty vague (not uncommon for my works) but i made a summoning salt reference, i wrote sex (huh?) and the word “kidnapping” is here (HUH???)
