Hey, happy new year, everyone. I hope you are enjoying 2025 already because I CANNOT WAIT to share what great things I am going to do moving ahead... in fiction. *laughs*
That's right, this time around and this is likely the last time I'm talking with respect to last year OH CRINGE haha, now that we are actually done with 2024 and if you aren't done with the slew of blog posts I have been doing for the past week you can just read back they were all great lol... I'll be talking about fictional me. Not real me, I think we have gotten enough of that even in the new year. *giggles* I do have some new year resolutions though, and I will do them RIGHT NOW! *dabs*
TL:DR; Speed run sleazy-as-the-year-of-the-snake-and-for-the-occasion-I-can-make-this-as-long-as-possible new year resolutions any% let's go
THE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT FICTIONAL ME
I have made many assumptions about the fictional life I had over the past couple of years we have been doing this. And as such, maybe it's hard for anyone to catch up with what has been going on so far with my lore lol and since I'm the main protagonist of the series anyways, maybe I thought I could roundup all the things I mentioned and maybe have never clarified much, to see if I contradicted myself and then I will have to go back and edit out all this now. *giggles*
They are, mostly in chronological order, including those I wrote in the diaries mini series for the past half year:
(*I don't think I have to tell you, but everything here with respect to "me" is fictional, so just keep that in mind)
- When I was a kid, I was childhood friends with Nagae Rika who I went out with her to the aquarium rather recently [20240329], and was in the same high school with Amamiya Sora being my first crush [20240831] and later my first target for love confession and rejection. [20230708]
- I was also cousins with Kouno Marika where we met up recently in a summer vacation home [20240224], Taketatsu Ayana who was a great elder sister to me [20231125], and Hanazawa Kana [20240727] who was later introduced into the family as the wife of one of my distant relatives, long after coincidentally taking her in to dry up from the sudden rain [20230729] and being friendly with her manager with a round of her favourite bread for afternoon tea. [20231104]
- I entered college/university around the same time that my parents divorced. I ended up living near school [TBA] to avoid the tensions, and not until about a year later did one of my parents decided to remarry, and I got myself a bunch of new younger stepsisters from the Natsukawa family, and meeting their eldest Shiina for the first time. [20240309]
- I slowly became Shiina's beck and call on her voice actress career, where in my days off I occasionally helped out and got to know the TrySail girls [20240720] which was also how I found out about Amamiya Sora ever since high school, and train buddy Asakura Momo [20230715] who ended up loving me so much she wouldn't mind boldly staking her claim while hugging a train station pole. [20240503]
- I then moved into the Natsukawa household not long after before the inheritance of my grandfather was announced and instead of my parents being the beneficiary, I was entitled to a mansion of my own with the condition that I maintain it as a working adult, and never transfer or sell it other than allow it to be occupied by tenants. [20240323]
- I had a wonderful time just in the first year in college mostly because I met with Kitou Akari and her friends in a course and ended up spending more time with them than any group of people I know in school. I also ended up indirectly confessing to Akari at a house party [20231021] thanks to her friends revealing that I liked her ever since I saw her, which led to us going on our first date not long after the exams for the semester were over. [20240429]
- This was also around the time that summer where I started picking up part-time jobs to finance the newly inherited mansion I just had, mostly as a café barista apprentice. I worked at the neighbourhood around the mansion and got to know Tachibana Rika here and there [20231118, 20240921] who lived around the area, and Komatsu Mikako [20231111] who got along with me more than her husband, I would argue.
- I did my internship in an IT company who treats their people like dogs, and so Uesaka Sumire and I helped out each other [20240501] more often than ever surviving the holidays, and she did thank me for all of this at the last day of my internship. Oh, by drinking my share of course, this senior is a true alcoholic. [20241012] Somehow I did not recognize her when I saw her in a party Shiina told me to go, where I jokingly asked for her bust size. [20231223]
- It wasn't too long until my relationship with Kitou Akari took a turn as we progressed into the final year of our college days. I even invited her to a resort to spend our summer vacation that year. [20241019] She broke up with me soon after, probably realizing she could not deal with the intimacy which she soon noticed she must commit, and we never met again until fairly recently when I started work as an adult. [20231014]
- I spent the depression period between college graduation and finding a full-time job playing around a dating app as recommended by a friend. After going around lost and alone and just getting myself into various situations which I even ended up in a hotel room with a "rental girlfriend" [TBA], it was really Lynn-san who brought me out of the dark, hanging out with her online and then offline [20240928], even if it's just watching her play at the beaches of Okinawa. [TBA] I also met a few other ladies which changed my perspective during that trip too, though I don't know if it's coincidental or on purpose. [TBA]
- After my guilt trip, I was still desperately searching for a job, but I ended up finding a girlfriend faster than I could get myself paid with Koga Aoi whom I met on the train. She fulfilled my desire for intimacy though I ended up with her jealousy as a trade-off. This wasn't too bad in my opinion, I technically only got busted once with neighbour Waki Azumi celebrating her birthday with her husband [20240907] in the same restaurant that we were supposed to hang out. Or maybe that one time I had a foot bath with her in public [20230811] and Aoi refused to talk to me for at least half an hour when we met up for a summer festival. [20230826]
- I met Takahashi Rie on my first day of my full-time job in another IT company. [20230701] As she was the only one in the same age group as me in the office, we hung out more often than ever even spending New Year's Eve alone together [20231230], the boss (and the whole office) thought we are a couple and they gave me amusement park tickets which we did go on Takahashi-san's birthday, unbeknown to me. [20240302] I did end up having to tell her I have a girlfriend [20240706] even though she has the hots for me, and I hope for her sake she got over it as time passes. [TBA] I feel sorry for her to be honest. Her best friend Ueda Reina did contribute to this somehow after I met her hiding behind the curtains at Takahashi-san's place [20240502], though I doubt that her advice could be taken seriously anytime soon. [20240713]
- Somewhere around this time, I was also saved by Minase Inori who held me as I was about to fall down a long flight of stairs due to my weak heart, and I think it only got weaker when she decided that the way I was to repay her is to hang out with her more? From the summer festival [20230805, 20230819] to at my place [20231202, 20240316] which mind you was at the Natsukawa household, I probably hanged out more with her if not for having a girlfriend.
- The first day of my full-time job also signalled the day I had to start to take full ownership over the mansion as inherited from my grandfather. I tried keeping the rental fees reasonable but to no avail thanks to high property prices around the hill area, and its location being far away from public transport. To make it so that I could run it and also cover its running costs, tenants Kanno Mai [20240817] and more recently Toyota Moe [20241026] helped me along the way to play as permanent residents of the abode, and I could not thank them enough. Though it's not as ideal for the latter because she is asking a lot back in return for just being the overseer of the premises, seducing her way through not paying rent, especially the using of her attractive looks on my frail virgin heart. [TBA]
- Not all tenants were this nice to work with though, I've had my share of Ogura Yui who ignored me if not for the most important matters [20240810], but she did leave not long after, breaking the news to me last minute as she usually does, when I woke up in my bedroom from a nap. [TBA] I also got to meet up with her friend Ishihara Kaori where she guided me on my first trip to a temple around the area [20240803], though never seeing them both at the same time and place just because Yui here is quite a shut-in and has a habit of not appearing for meetups leaving me alone with Ishihara-san, who seems desperate to be friends with me instead. [TBA]
- I did not leave my girlfriend Koga Aoi hanging though, as I did travel with her to her hometown at Saga Prefecture where the beaches are beautiful if not for the consecutive days of bad weather [20240217], and waiting for the train became the hottest thing we did that season. [20240824] Maybe we should not talk about how she also got to see my body when we were at the hot springs resort [TBA], that is just between us.
- My recent developments with women has been when I went to a bar which was recommended by a friend. It might be the first time for me at that location, but for Aizawa Saya [20240430] who came with her friend whom I also got to know alone some time later [TBA], it was her introduction to alcohol as she just turned of age. Initially sitting beside me, she somehow got interested in talking to me even though she exudes the youthful yet matured look and didn't look like the kind of person who would engage in conversation with people like me. I ended up helping her out with one of her college courses but I would argue she was struggling to stay awake too. [20241005] I did reward her for her efforts which she invited me in return, to go with her to a ski resort in the mountains. [TBA]
Wow, this took quite a while to collate. *laughs*
FYI anything marked as "TBA" is within what I have been planning within the year, so read on later to see if I gave more spoilers than I shouldn't have. *wink* Yeah this is like writing an academic report and trying to pad it with references haha ah- Please don't do that. *laughs* I'll put in the links if I remember.
THE RELATIONSHIP CHART
Thanks to Milanote for their free account lol, I was able to come up with a proper character relationship chart which will include the new season, as follows:
As my bro said when I showed him this, "I have more questions than answers". *laughs*
Which, to be fair, true. *giggles* But I also hope if you have read through the series this far, me, that this (lol) should be a good summary of what the world around fictional me has been so far, and maybe if you followed on the upcoming season from here on, you will get to know the chart above better.
I did intend to create like, "what do you think of xxx" kind of chart, but maybe we leave that for next time we do this again. Most of them are just going to be like "mutual understanding" LMAO that's a Yakuza video game series joke
THE NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS FOR "THE FANFICTION"
Well, there will be a new season starting this weekend so hypers, we are starting the year with the imouto. *giggles* I mean, I am already welcoming the new year with Nan-chan as my phone wallpaper so *dabs* haha I don't have to worry too much about that, but as you will also notice, I am officially going deep into my own bromide photo collection (yes I am hosting those images so stop pirating them please, also low res just because) in order to gather more inspiration (hehe) but also, to feature more characters as for obvious reasons not all of them are available in my current accomplice for source images Suruga-ya anyways, which (I might as well reveal now) will include people like Ookubo Rumi *umph* (haha) and Hondo Kaede, which the former's is not even seen on this site, ironically. Yeah, those ones I bought last month? They are more precious than you think. *wink*
In the summer this year too yes I have planned that far, we will also continue on the adventures where I was hanging out with Lynn-san who I met through an app and that will be known to me as the Okinawa arc haha why not dude, where we will bump into more... lovely characters as I try to only have fun with the one girl in front of me while forgetting about getting dumped by the ex, if you would recall. *sob*
I am also concluding some stories with characters in upcoming seasons, so Ogura Yui thanks for having me anyways, and I will do a couple more for Ishihara Kaori but that is not too soon. I am also increasingly worried on the prospects of some of them getting married which might make me change my plans for writing them into this lore, so yeah Kido Ibuki you have definitely made things worse for me ever since your bombshell news last year on your birthday, but thank goodness I didn't write her in as a love interest so we are good to carry on with this. *giggles*
At some point they are all going to be married and I will have to write only about Horie Yui, no doubt. *laughs*
This shall be it then! A shorter blog post (lol really?) to start the new year, on the stuff I am more keen on sharing compared to... well, maybe I should stop with PixAI that thing makes non-priority queues so slow I had to wait for hours to make an edit on my prompts. *sigh* Haha alright who cares about those, so be sure to tune in to SEASON FIVE (damn) starting this weekend which is happening once again, on Saturday... afternoons typically I can't wait to do things in the evenings now especially if I have the time. *giggles*
P.S. My phone wallpaper yesterday (actually also for the whole of this week) was (see thumbnail) Nan-chan giving me the watermelon popsicle? And I just said no because fictional me is also weak to cold food (in summer, by the way) but then I turned around and she placed it to my lips. *silence* I know right, filthy stepbrother thinking of indirect kiss I can't even MUAHAHAHAHA haha see you guys this weekend for more imouto