angelcage | Enstars Daily Ship Polls Continued

More notes from the discord randomized ship polls and opinions thereupon:

Kagehira Mika/Mashiro Tomoya: A victim of Human Comedy/Valkyra*bits repayment fes being the last story before they knew they were doing a sequel. As such, Mika and Tomoya are set up for a rivalry with no pay off, with them as prospective future leaders of their units within Yumenosaki. That said! I still like them as a what could have been, had the sequel gone more linearly from the endpoint of the original. Tomoya wanting to make Mika admit defeat while Mika is utterly confident in Valkyrie was terrible as an endpoint but would have been a good starting point.

Fushimi Yuzuru/Saegusa Ibara: A unanimous yay vote in chat. Also a victim of the sequel not being great for cross-unit sequel CR, but their set-up is extremely good regardless in sharp contrast to the what could have been of the previous pairing. We love child soldiers in my discord.

Tenshouin Eichi/Hasumi Keito: Two extremely mainstream pairings rolled in a row. A good ship but I don't have a ton to say about it. This was another unanimous yay but no one really discussed it much.

Godfather/Ran Nagisa: Full disclosure, this was actually rolled as Ran Nagisa/Sagami Jin. In the cases of rolls that are with staff that the idol in question has no CR with, I swap them out for an NPC that is relevant to their story. This one most the chat was negative or ambivalent on for reasons of: not being entirely caught up on the gay dead old men drama, which seems like it is relevant to properly understanding the characterisation of the Godfather, or Nagisa was basically a non-person at the time of his death which makes the ship very static. I, personally, voted Hmm. For reasons of, to quote a friend in chat who put it much better than me: for the 1970s Nagisa's tragic bl uke backstory, with his psychosexually unwell upbringing at the hands of an equally tragic and pining homosexual father figure.

Tsukinaga Leo/Oukawa Kohaku: They've met onscreen but they're largely connected through Mama and Tsukasa, but without the direct third-wheeling that you get with like, Makoto as an unspoken third to Sena Izumi/Aoi Yuuta. Madara is a poor love triangle vector. Nay.

Amagi Rinne/Amagi Hiiro: Chat was split and they're definitely somewhat popular in fanart, but Amagicest isn't my cup of tea. They're fine but I don't think they're each other's most interesting options. Nay again.

Kagehira Mika/Niito Nazuna: Two people who totally didn't understand each other at all and projected their own wants onto the other: the valkyrie story. I think there's a lot of good things here but it's all worked out, and was largely worked on screen. Which is to say I think canon did a great job with them! But this leaves my feelings as... hm, when your ship is canon so you have no interest in fanfic of it? Except they're not an endgame ship, but I've still had what I would hypothetically want out of them. A yay in theory, but not a hard yay. I am satisfied with them.

Tsukinaga Leo/GFK: This was another swapout of a staff character Leo doesn't have CR with for GFK.
For me, with GFK... while he is influential on the plot before he got murdered and even after he got murdered, there's not really enough onscreen to really understand him as a person. We get enough for some of the enstars NPCs! Like Touri's sister, Mama's sister, Bishoujo-senpai, etc. But I wouldn't consider GFK to be one of them. But . . . I also think the dynamic is interesting. I think someone would have to do some good wholesale cloth work at which point GFK is basically an OC, but I could be sold on it. This is a solid Hmm.

Anzu/Hidaka Hokuto: Near unanimous Yay vote. Anzu should get to date the dumbest man alive. I have a very soft spot for Trickstar, as well.

Hidaka Seiya/Hibiki Wataru: This is today's spin result! Despite the fact they don't have any direct CR, I actually struggle to think if they've met onscreen, this is a solid yay for me. Wataru is noted to be super similar to his wife, and both men love and idolise his Ms. Hidaka. I wish you were my wife --> I also wish I was your wife is a dynamic that is really hypothetically funny. My friends also have pointed out that adding Hokuto into this mix makes a solidly funny pairing hypoxically funny. Unable to breathe suffocating from laughter levels. Unanimous yay votes so far purely for sending Hokuto to space and/or a frothing rage.