star trail - lightshow version - polyneedpilled - プロジェクトセカイカラフルステージ！| Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! (Video Game) [Archive of Our Own]

Sing more! Ring out more! In this moment, forget everything and... let's enjoy this dreamlike time together!
So that that emotion can turn into the power to move forward... I'll put my all into this one note, this moment...!
After weeks of rehearsal, Leo/need performs their opening act for Free Cluster at the Star Tokyo Arena.

Or: star trail is such a peak song, it's a shame there's no chart for it in the game...

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Notes:

Ignore how I'm one month late to Find the Dream View

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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Shiho

(... Standing here like this, it really is a large arena.)

Shiho

(There's lots of people in the audience, from the arena all the way to the 3rd floor... It's overwhelming.)

Shiho

(And also... It's very far away. And not just the distance to the seats...)

Audience

Oh, some people have come out.

Audience

Ah, they're the band for the opening act right? I don't know them though.

Shiho

(...but also the distance from their hearts. It's like there's an invisible wall in the gap in front of the stage.)

Shiho

(...However.)

Shiho

(We'll break down this wall, and pull them into our world...!)

Honami

(Everyone... Are you ready?)

Shiho

(On the count of four... Let's go!)

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(Full Combo!)

♪ The frustration of my voice not reaching ♪

♪ With the feelings I want to express in my heart ♪

♪ (For sure!) ♪

♪ The heated vacuum tube of my amp feels a bit ironic ♪

♪ When we grow up together someday ♪

♪ will we laugh at how silly this all was? ♪

♪ It all feels so empty... ♪

♪ (Holding this all so dear!) ♪

♪ So let the melody of the memories that slipped into my mind ♪

♪ become the sparkle that will connect us together ♪

♪ I'm sure that within our hearts ♪

♪ we've been holding on to these unchanging feelings! ♪

♪ Tracing out a drawing with the stars ♪

♪ by connecting the stars in the night sky ♪

♪ to form a constellation of us ♪

♪ It's not just to comfort us ♪

♪ We're holding on to the future ♪

♪ We'll keep going forward ♪

♪ even if we can't see it yet ♪

♪ our shining star trail! ♪

Notes:

follow my twitter where i repost twenty million polyneed fanart posts and occasionally crash out about compsci

Ok. Self-promo aside, I have a lot of thoughts about this fic. First of all, the actual event. It's so peak. Shiho finally reaching her dream of playing professionally in front of an audience, not by herself but with the rest of Leo/need by her side, is such an impactful moment in Leo/need's story arc. Also, they animated the cards??? d1 hype moments and aura, FTDV is my second favorite Shiho focus event ever (Resonating With You still wins though, sorry). Unfortunately, I now have to kill Shiho for having ungodly high event tier cutoffs 🥀 i swear if her t100 world link 2 cutoff goes over estimates im gonna crash out

Regarding the elephant in the fic: Did you know this fic was supposed to be a proof of concept? Really funny I know. I do plan on making a full longfic with some rhythm game elements* depending on how this is received, so any support would be greatly appreciated :) A lot of the kudos and comments on my prototype fic were a big reason in convincing me to revisit this idea! CSS is a really fun tool to play around with once you actually realize how much it can do besides just coloring text. Of course, CSS was also most definitely not intended to make a whole rhythm game engine, but the fact that it's possible is kind of beautiful to me.

*Fun fact! If you hit every single note, you'll get a tiny little pink "Full Combo" text indicator next to your score. Pretty cool, but it also means I have the power to limit certain parts of a fic behind score clear requirements if I so desire. I'm sure you can trust me to use this power responsibly :)

Some neat technical statistics: ignoring asset files, this fic uses about 58,000 characters of HTML and 91,340 characters of CSS. In reality, the actual count is about 6,000 and 10,000 characters of HTML and CSS respectively, and the rest is generated from a charting engine export and a ~166 line python charting file. If I really wanted to, I could pull any song chart from PJSK and turn it into a playable chart in about 3 clicks, but to be honest the novelty of a rhythm game engine in AO3 wears off pretty quickly if you only use it to generate low-effort song recreations (which is also why I'm probably not going to open-source my charting engine anytime soon.) If you're interested in how some of the tech works behind the scene, however, you can probably figure out most of my tricks through Inspect Element --- rendered HTML & CSS code is always open-source, after all ;)

what else do i put here uhhh polyneed real polyneed forever

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