#ichiyanagi

"immediately, ichinose was 17 again"

Summary:

Ichinose Ao does not exist within the files of Boys’ Life Romance!. He’s not on the cover art, or in the manual, or in the background, because Boys’ Life Romance! is a dating sim, and it’s one that finds itself hard-pressed to care about anyone except its romanceable leads. The game’s CGs are drawn in stunning definition, but background characters are reduced to faceless bodies with similar hairstyles. Even Kuresawa’s girlfriend isn’t spared—he describes her smile, and the way her eyes curve, but the game leaves those details in shadow. The “Life” in Boys’ Life Romance! applied not to a sense of realism, but rather the game’s timeline, which spanned two fictional years and filled those days with plenty of content. The main romance routes only began in earnest in the protagonist’s second year, so by virtue of their graduation, third years were locked from interaction, and thus locked out of romance. Ichinose Ao, for all intents and purposes, is a nobody.

surprise, @malt-rants-and-stuff! I, kiri, am your secret winter gifter, ringing in the new year! (just barely, in my time zone). when I saw you say you’d like to see something with ichinose and shirahama in your prompts, I cackled. after all… I think I might be the guy who put you on them in the first place? so I decided to write an installment of the dating sim au, featuring shirahama & ichinose! this is completely standalone, but it's the first work I’ve done where I felt like I'd properly hammered out the structure of my dating sim au hammered out, so it was such a joy to write.

Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Yumihiko Ichiyanagi (Sebastian Debeste) from Ace Attorney Investigations 2

Mood

I’m sorry I’m only capable of drawing AA and persona apparently.