It's just them being them. Sometimes they suffer from each other, sometimes they suffer together. Always filling up the timestamps-marking comments below with incredibly confusing quotes.
It all began here:
or no, apparently it began with the gaslighting during APEX co-op, on Nijiexpress*(1), and among Beedrills. We will get to some of those later. All the VOD mentioned will be listed at the end.
Before the very first karaoke stream of Ike Eveland*(2), he was with Selen and Vox. "I just got off a call with Selen senpai and Vox," said he, in the very beginning of the stream. "They sort of, were there for me in the green room, so to speak. To calm me a little bit."
If you've ever watched that stream, boi was he nervous as hell. Later*(3), when they brought up Ike's lie about not doing the scream in the last song, Vox said, "he told me he didn't want to do it. He told Selen anyway."
Selen was there with him, if not for him, when he woke up early in the morning in order to prepare for all of this. She was there when he freaked out, seeing the number of concurrent viewers at the end, and made him an after party thumbnail. Thus the "this was my senpais' idea," in the after party description; or in her words, peer pressure!
They talked about this once again in the second part of Selen's Beedrill endurance*(4), which was not even a day after. Time is relative, and both of their sleeping schedules were messed up, considering how many hours they spent staying up to be supportive for each other.
The first part*(5) of the Beedrill endurance happened days before. Cursed things were discussed, on the topic of pop culture, and Ike just-wanna-check-in-with-my-senpai Eveland stayed for hours of gaslighting, even got some souvenirs which he never wanted.
Two hours passed by, and Selen was left alone with one and a half beedrills barely done, when she told her chat, "that was such a fun time. I love fun laughs with Pomu and Ike. I really needed that." Turned out she was not having the best day in her life.
Not only did Ike came back again for the second part of 30+ Beedrills, he came for the SADX stream*(6) as well. Sitting on her shoulder, as tiny as her conscience could possibly be, all the way through the game after hours of group meeting.
It's just them being them. Sometimes they suffer from each other, sometimes they suffer together. Always filling up the timestamps-marking comments with incredibly confusing quotes.
Before going further into the chaos of later collabs, here's a quick reminder that we finally found out*(7) what Ike meant by "I genuinely can't draw," when he firmly refused to draw a Beedrill.
Alright. Collabs. Start with the latest one, Dead Space 3*(8). I smiled so hard just rereading the quotes in the comments below. Some of my favorite arcs are the true protagonist and Selen's engineer degree. Ike lost count of how many times he said I hate it here, but when the one leaving him behind and treating him as a meatshield retorted "you LOVE it here," he admitted it without hesitation. Selen kept him on screen as a company after streaming, hosting an auction for the one and only Ike Eveland figure, after trying to feed him to Ember.
She may be one of the best at playing shooter games in Nijisanji EN, but not quite so when it comes to horror with jump scares. On the other hand, hand Ike a knife or a gun and you will be surprised (or even a little bit scared) by his fearless gap-moe. Balance restored.
Comparing to DS3, Rayman Legends*(9) was not that intense. I mean, except for that 15 minutes of soccer/football war. More chatting this time, and I said this not as a complain, but quite the opposite. Co-op was already questioned, but it's always a pleasure to watch Ike plays platformers, even more merrier with gaslighting along.
And then there was Fortnite*(10), a collab with Vox and Luca. Selen bought a battlepass and she needed to make it worth it. Ike with a gun again, felt so hollow not having enough real player to shoot at. I had so much fun watching ungamer Luca. Also Mr. I-don't-play-favorite, the dodge-master Ike Eveland, gave up his rules and begged for his life.
Selen has invited him to play APEX together before, streamed on twitch. Here are some precious clips of Selen reclaiming "gaslighting" and defending her kouhai. She's the only one allowed to bully her kouhai here, I see.
Watch SelenTatsuki's clip titled "Barfight Selen"
There was a Pummel Party multi-collab*(11) with VShojo, where 初音アイク and 鏡音セレン was born, when Ike changed into an avatar with blue-green color double ponytail, and Selen was called Len as a nickname. They were both in the Among Us collab*(12) with all the Niji EN member fellows, and they had one round of the smart students in class, the two of them and Shu, being the imposters.
Aside from the game streaming collab, there are SADX and Beedrill Endurances like I mentioned before, which are not collabs in literal, but hours of zatsudan which bring serotonin. They are becoming my comfort videos. I just revisited one of them today while looking forward to the rest of the journey in Dead Space 3.
As for now, I wait. Wait for Ike to post his schedule this week as a Quilldren, at least. He's like always too busy to take care of his own schedules lol
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*All the VOD mentioned (1) 2022/01/02 【GUERILLA SUPERCHAT TANGENTS】 what's my sleep schedule anymore (2) 2022/1/21 【SINGING 歌枠】 Let's do this karaoke thing (3) 2022/1/21 【GUERILLA STREAM】 Karaoke afterparty! (4) 2022/1/22 【BEEDRILL ENDURANCE】 Part 2 (5) 2022/1/12 【BEEDRILL ENDURANCE】 Part 1 (6) 2022/2/8 【SONIC ADVENTURE DX】 finally the wait is over (7) 2022/2/15 Final Answer?! NIJISANJI EN Game Show (8) 2022/2/11 【DEAD SPACE 3】 Selen's POV / Ike's POV (9) 2022/1/27 【RAYMAN LEGENDS】 we will NOT sabotage each other (10) 2022/1/19 【FORTNITE】 Selen's POV / Ike's POV (11) 2022/2/3 【PUMMEL PARTY】 Reimu's POV (12) 2022/1/31 【FULL NijiEN AMONG US】 Ike's POV