#wl2

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Now tell me, how did all my dreams turn to nightmares?

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While this AU does follow the concept of WL2, where Kanade's dad is alive, most of the events that happen later in the event (e.g. KanaMafuEna meeting, Ena allegedly dropping out of school, MizuMafu meeting) don't happen. But to explain some of the points in the chart:

At this point in the story, N25 has not entered their SEKAI, they've only been a group for a month or two. Their SEKAI will be different in this AU since it won't be Mafuyu creating it on her own.

While Kanade's purpose in forming N25 was to save others while she made a song to save Mafuyu, she tends to treat 'saving Mafuyu' as 'making Mafuyu smile', which is an effect of her composing happier music in this AU

I'm still considering whether to make Mafumom supportive or not in this AU. Regardless, part of Mafuyu's inability to feel things is due to her burning herself out very badly.

There is no sort of 'you all want to disappear more than anyone else' speech because 1) Kanade is happy 2) Mizuki always has a barrier up that prevents Mafuyu from properly reading her.

Mafuyu and Ena, on the other hand, know that they both have wanted to disappear at some point in time. Was it a bit blunt on Mafuyu's end? Yes. Which is why she hasn't just straight up asked Mizuki either.

Though that isn't stopping Mafuyu from being persistent about getting to know Mizuki more, despite the latter's attempts to avoid it.

Ena's self worth is much worse than canon. So much worse. Now it's even more linked to likes and recognition. This is due to her first fanart for Kanade and Mafuyu's song blowing up.

So sometimes, she wonders if she's even worthy of her position as N25's illustrator, especially when her normal art doesn't do well.

It's quite common for her to fluctuate between periods of high self-worth and abyssmal self-worth depending on how her art does. It's the low periods that Mafuyu refers to as 'relapses' since that's when Ena tends to feel like disappearing.

Mizuki genuinely wants to get closer to N25, but just can't find the strength to put down the barriers she built up due to all the bullying. As a result, she gets very flighty and dodgy during in-person meet ups

Also, a lot of her bullying came from the popular kids in middle school, with some of them even posting mocking photos of her online. This has made her really scared of Ena after finding out about her selfie account.