#unit swap

kanade: she roughly still has the same background but her grandmother and honami catch onto her shut in-ness early and basically tell her to go out more. she wanders close to vivid street and finds mafuyu and ena in the middle of a heated singing battle, gets inspired, composes, and gets mafuyu to sing it. of course, she's roped into singing. kanade's wardrobe is more of a streetwear+sportsy look so she's able to move more comfortably. she likes having her headphones on so she's less overwhelmed by everything

mafuyu: mafuyu has enough of her mother's suffocating nature and rebels super early and finds that support in street musicians who encourage her to just scream out her feelings in song. she gets into an early rivalry with ena bc their personalities just clash but mafuyu has a high amount of respect for ena and kinda likes prodding her a little too much. her outfit is very much punk /inspired/ but she switches between a lot of styles, however she does like long skirts

ena: ena's story is the most changed from this because it involves the vbs story so work with me here: shinonome senior basically forces akito to develop his art skills making him the "perfect" son making ena feel so jealous and resentful of akito and they drift apart. she stops making art as much and focuses on her social media presence, eventually she's invited somewhere near vivid street and gets to sing, catching the attention of the musicians there. her outfit is more to suit her "elegant/refined" vibes that she wants to present herself as, but she can't help but make it look a little artistic with prints and stuff.

mizuki: mizuki idolizes the other three a lot. she's followed their journeys as musicians and is the last to join but that was unintentional even on her part--she really just wanted to make them outfits that would suit their next performance, but ena forced her to practice and found out mizuki's not a half bad singer. mizuki's arc goes a little better here as vivid street is more accepting with her identity but they do haze her a little as a musician with little to no experience. her style consists of a gyaru decora vibe (eventually she WILL put more cute stuff to decorate with) but is still attempting to find her "color"

fun fact: ena originally had a more pink palette but i forgot mizuki was also pink soooooo i just went with ena's current outfit color which was green

One day in her third year of middle school she gets lost, and ends up in this place called 'Vivid Street'? Exhausted, and slightly intimidated by all the loud personalities around she ducks into what she thinks is a quiet cafe, all to find out it isn't at all quiet, it's a music venue! Still, she is tired, and so she stays to listen, having not really payed attention to any music in a couple years.

She is amazed by what she hears, street music is so different to what her and her dad had made, yet it captures her heart so…

After the performance she runs home, nervously brushes off her dad's synth, kept safe in storage my her grandma all this time, and she plays.

In all honesty, the music isn't that great, she hasn't made music in a while, and she's never made street music before, but, it warms her heart in a way it hasn't in a long while. She keeps playing.

A few weeks later she returns to Vivid Street, she heard there was a free to play performance happening, where people could just go on stage and play the music they could. She can't sing, she can't dance, but she can compose, so she goes on stage and plays the first song she had made in two years.