It's kinda insane how in tune you are with Mizuki and Ena respectively. Reading through your fics and asks is soo fun and really in character!
Anyways, what are you hoping that colopale will develop/do with mizuena?
they are literally keeping me hostage it’s not a joke they live in my walls they live in my head im actually signing SOS in morse code as i type bc it’s them speaking Through me /j
okay but tbf the truth is idk how they did that, but the team in charge of niigo is like. sooo good at consistent characterization. it’s smth i encountered very very very rarely in media i consumed, especially smth as long running and with so many characters as a gacha game?? and even more mind boggling when u consider how complex they are!! it’s easy to stay consistent in characterization when u have a simple character you can build on / tack more quirks and qualities onto as the game/story progresses and who adheres to stereotypes and archetypes. but all of niigo is soo… complex, their backstories are all so nuanced and well-researched (in terms of topics, eg enmeshment, emotional incest, survivor guilt, transmisogyny, savior complex, self-objectification, ena’s relationship with her dad and art, mizuki’s dualistic jaded yet extroverted personality, her avoidance, her push and pull, her guilt, mafuyu’s dissociation, kanade’s self-harming and neglecting tendencies, gender roles, parentification and sm more holy shit) so it’s like. if ur obsessed enough with them you have dozens and dozens of hours of very much in-character interactions to dissect so. yeah
ANYWAY sorry for rambling but honestly, on that i cannot answer! from what i deduced, i believe they were written with the mizuena5 arc in mind (cellphone love story is proof to me). also they read like a stereotypical shoujo romance but anyway. yeah. so after mizuena5 i think the writers will focus the niigo storyline on FINALLY addressing kanade’s codependency (this will tie in nicely with the mafumom & mafuyu conflict, since familial enmeshment is just parent-child codependency). meanwhile, mizuki and ena will keep growing as individuals alongside each other and niigo. but after kanade’s arc is solved, who knows!! i think they game will continue after they go to uni and like. it’ll never happen but mzen roomies… grah… in any case. unless they get another arc (maybe mizuki’s fear of “getting scared again” that she mentioned in the alley starts acting up) or smth related to university, i feel like they’ll just. be as they are now. flirty, sweet, cutieful, by each other’s side, as they promised in that alley 🌅🩷