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HAPPY
ROBIN HOOD - EPILOGUE 2 - "Leo-san..." "Hm? Ah, not me, right? The cat?" "... Please live a long life. If you disappear, everybody will be lonely." - Surrounded by kittens and warmth in his school's archery hall. Leo and his junior, Tsukasa, name cats and confirm Leo's own place in his old unit.
BLUE FILAMENT - 4 - "You should be thankful you got off easy this time, Newbie~ If you do the same thing next time I’m gonna slice your head off!" - yea this is a happy memory. Leo reverse unos Tsukasa's attempt to kidnap him, ties up up, tapes up his mouth, and then parades him around school as he meets up with Tsumugi, a classmate. honestly i just thought this was so stupid.... why does no one stop this? where are the teachers? someone help?
REQUIEM - LUX AETERNA 30 - "I love all of you so, so much! I love Knights, who gathered together my shattered pieces and breathed life back into me!" - Finding friendship and love!! Leo finds acceptance within his comrades, and they all have a teary happy moment of rebirth on stage in front of a full... audience..... who watches all of this..... where's the shame? there's no shame.
GENERAL PERFORMANCE MEMORIES - look he's an idol. i have to. if you just want memories of jamming it on stage, go ahead. leo'll make whoever gets these do the choreo after, ok, so be prepared
SAD
HORROR HALLO - 13 - "You’re the only one I need! If you can’t even do that for me, I’ll… I’ll fall apart! I’ll be rusted and useless and covered in scratches! And all because you wouldn’t be the sheath to protect me!" Leo and Izumi break up :( aka Leo's unhealthy dependency and absolute stupidity smacks him in the face. He can't handle being misunderstood and hated, so he takes it all out on his only friend, blaming him for it all. Then Leo, in his infinite mercy, disappears from school for a While and just. leaves Izumi with this mess. Healthy coping mechanisms.
cw: suicide baiting. REQUIEM - LUX AETERNA 3 + 4 - "I hate you all! I’ve always hated you, all this time! All you ever said were things that pissed me off, yet you all smiled like that was just fine and dandy with you!" - leo's healthy coping mechanisms strike again!! You ever feel like you're gonna get left behind by your friends, so you lash out and gO FOR THEIR EMOTIONAL THROATS? Basically this is Leo tearing at the weaknesses of everyone he likes because that's just what he does sometimes.
CANARY HALL - 12 - "If Sena won’t beat me with a whip, I’ll have no choice but to do it myself." - When past experiences tell you your only worth is One Thing, and if you can't do it right you're gonna get abandoned.
ENSTARS BINGO (THE "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" CATEGORY)
CHECKMATE - A SOLITARY THRONE 6 - "If we're not friends but enemies, we can't complain no matter what we do. With enemies, you can fight! You can kill each other! You can even have a war, and make it into a massacre!" - Leo offers an ultimatum to his old unit: become his enemy and get free use of all his songs... or love him as his friends, but be unable to use his songs. Everyone he asked chooses the former, and he ssssnnnaaaapsss.
CHECKMATE - A SOLITARY THRONE 8 - "I can be the throne a King like you can sit on... Should I just destroy every single thing that doesn't please you, every single person you don't acknowledge?" - Leo Tsukinaga becomes a Tier 3 Simp. Do you want unhealthy dependence? Making an embarrassing anime speech about how you'll become someone's One And Only Sword in your second year of high school? [slaps roof of leo tsukinaga car] this baby can hold so many toxic relationships
Not the actual scene but BLOOD COMPOSING - i honestly hate this canon. Leo protects a cat from a bunch of delinquents, ends up breaking his arm falling down, and then starts composing in his own blood. It's so goddamn extra. It is quintessential Leo Tsukinaga. someone pick this so they can ask why the f-- you would ever do this
ROBIN HOOD - EPILOGUE 2 - "Leo-san..." "Hm? Ah, not me, right? The cat?" "... Please live a long life. If you disappear, everybody will be lonely." - Surrounded by kittens and warmth in his school's archery hall. Leo and his junior, Tsukasa, name cats and confirm Leo's own place in his old unit.
BLUE FILAMENT - 4 - "You should be thankful you got off easy this time, Newbie~ If you do the same thing next time I’m gonna slice your head off!" - yea this is a happy memory. Leo reverse unos Tsukasa's attempt to kidnap him, ties up up, tapes up his mouth, and then parades him around school as he meets up with Tsumugi, a classmate. honestly i just thought this was so stupid.... why does no one stop this? where are the teachers? someone help?
REQUIEM - LUX AETERNA 30 - "I love all of you so, so much! I love Knights, who gathered together my shattered pieces and breathed life back into me!" - Finding friendship and love!! Leo finds acceptance within his comrades, and they all have a teary happy moment of rebirth on stage in front of a full... audience..... who watches all of this..... where's the shame? there's no shame.
GENERAL PERFORMANCE MEMORIES - look he's an idol. i have to. if you just want memories of jamming it on stage, go ahead. leo'll make whoever gets these do the choreo after, ok, so be prepared
SAD
HORROR HALLO - 13 - "You’re the only one I need! If you can’t even do that for me, I’ll… I’ll fall apart! I’ll be rusted and useless and covered in scratches! And all because you wouldn’t be the sheath to protect me!" Leo and Izumi break up :( aka Leo's unhealthy dependency and absolute stupidity smacks him in the face. He can't handle being misunderstood and hated, so he takes it all out on his only friend, blaming him for it all. Then Leo, in his infinite mercy, disappears from school for a While and just. leaves Izumi with this mess. Healthy coping mechanisms.
cw: suicide baiting. REQUIEM - LUX AETERNA 3 + 4 - "I hate you all! I’ve always hated you, all this time! All you ever said were things that pissed me off, yet you all smiled like that was just fine and dandy with you!" - leo's healthy coping mechanisms strike again!! You ever feel like you're gonna get left behind by your friends, so you lash out and gO FOR THEIR EMOTIONAL THROATS? Basically this is Leo tearing at the weaknesses of everyone he likes because that's just what he does sometimes.
CANARY HALL - 12 - "If Sena won’t beat me with a whip, I’ll have no choice but to do it myself." - When past experiences tell you your only worth is One Thing, and if you can't do it right you're gonna get abandoned.
ENSTARS BINGO (THE "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?" CATEGORY)
CHECKMATE - A SOLITARY THRONE 6 - "If we're not friends but enemies, we can't complain no matter what we do. With enemies, you can fight! You can kill each other! You can even have a war, and make it into a massacre!" - Leo offers an ultimatum to his old unit: become his enemy and get free use of all his songs... or love him as his friends, but be unable to use his songs. Everyone he asked chooses the former, and he ssssnnnaaaapsss.
CHECKMATE - A SOLITARY THRONE 8 - "I can be the throne a King like you can sit on... Should I just destroy every single thing that doesn't please you, every single person you don't acknowledge?" - Leo Tsukinaga becomes a Tier 3 Simp. Do you want unhealthy dependence? Making an embarrassing anime speech about how you'll become someone's One And Only Sword in your second year of high school? [slaps roof of leo tsukinaga car] this baby can hold so many toxic relationships
Not the actual scene but BLOOD COMPOSING - i honestly hate this canon. Leo protects a cat from a bunch of delinquents, ends up breaking his arm falling down, and then starts composing in his own blood. It's so goddamn extra. It is quintessential Leo Tsukinaga. someone pick this so they can ask why the f-- you would ever do this
HAPPY
PERFORMANCE
Choose your flavor! All performances are in these outfits instead, okay.
Grateful Allegiance
Silent Oath
Voice of Sword
Those experiencing these memories will feel great happiness and excitement. You really, really, really love performing. There's nothing better than the rush of being on stage, accompanied by the people you love, surrounded by the smiles of your fans.
ROBIN HOOD
You lay on the floor of the archery hall at school, surrounded by warmth. The exact source of it all is unclear. Perhaps it's the five kittens that clamber around you as you herd them gently with your hands... Or perhaps it's due to the presence of the redheaded, younger boy in front of you, proof of a return to a place you once thought lost.
"Suo," you call out, and he turns to regard you. "I wanna name these kittens, so can you give me some ideas? For now, I've thought up of names for four of 'em. This is Sena, this is Rittsu, this is Naru, and this is Suo! ♪"
He looks a little unimpressed at that. Not surprising, really. Those are all borrowed names from the group you so love, his own among them. But that's what came easiest... They’re young ones moving forward, close to your heart. That really is just Knights, isn't it? Yet, that's only four of five. As you tap playfully at the ground in front of the nameless fifth kitten, you ask your companion for advice on that last, troubling puzzle.
... And if he looked a little unimpressed before, he looks very unimpressed now. He hurls an insult at you in that perfect English of his, slipping easily back into Japanese to elaborate on the foolishness of your pure confusion. You don't know what he means, you truly don't, even when he mentions, simply: "Leo-san".
The name is unfamiliar. To him, you've always been 'Leader', and it's not until shortly after that you realize he refers to the kitten pawing at the floor, the one he speaks to gently and picks up into his lap. Knights is no longer a group of four, he says.
He tells you to live.
"If you disappear, everybody will be lonely."
It's warm. Here, on the ground of the archery hall and surrounded by kittens and companionship, you make a promise. You'd run away once from the burdens that weighed on you, but you won't run away again. For this little chick of a brat who believes so earnestly in you, for the people who welcomed this clumsy, shattered you back from the brink of death --
-- you’ll try.