Since this scenario’s expanding on a panel from the most recent Studio Christmas party, I thought it’d be fun to tie it in to another panel from that party. I know this one’s maybe a little more PG-13 than I usually do, but I just had this interaction in my head and thought it’d be cute.
This Subscriber has been pushing for something with Beerus bottoming for a while. The biggest obstacle to this was that their Asks and such mostly hinged in this premise of swapping roles to train Beerus. Since Beerus isn’t the one who trains Goku and Vegeta, it never made much sense to me to use those questions. For Scenarios I have a bit more wiggle room to play with, however, so I basically abandoned that element of the scene to instead fork in dialogue about the character who’s actually training them, Whis, who I’ve already drawn with all three of these characters at different points.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’d discussed an idea like this with this Subscriber in the past, so I had a pretty good idea of what characters he wanted to see. It just so happens that I’m fond of these characters, too, and it’s a bit of a changeup for each of them as well. Nobara was quite proud of her Smash skills in a flashback, and I’m pretty sure Najimi’s not really on her level. However, one thing Najimi’s good at is annoying other players to throw them off their game, which allowed them to best Nobara and Anzu here. Anzu’s more of a single-player gamer, but I’m sure she could also normally best Najimi. For those interested, they were playing the Switch version of Smash here. Najimi was playing as Mario, Nobara was playing Snake and Anzu was playing Link.
I believe this scenario was intended for a more Studio-focused setting, like with Krillin hooking up with some boy from another franchise. However, I couldn’t get the idea of taking it this direction out of my head, so instead I had Krillin hooking up with 17 at the office.
Here’s our second ever Subscriber Scenario! Now, I don’t personally think of the inventor characters in the Studio as having a “club,” it’s more like there’s a central location they tend to gravitate to (the Studio labs, as seen in the Studio Tour game, which is where this pic takes place), and so they tend to mingle and interact there. We’ve seen that a lot in Asks and stuff, but I liked this idea of them testing out fucking machines casually on each other. Specifically I liked the idea of two of them having a bit of a back-and-forth while one got fucked, with the expectation that they’d soon be trading places. Mei’s also been seeing a lot of love on my Discord lately, which I’ll probably have occasion to talk about in a month or so, so I thought this would be a good chance to give her some spotlight. I had fun writing the dialogue here, and I hope y’all enjoy the scenario.
So this is a new reward I’m testing out for my $20 tier on SubscribeStar. The idea is that Subscribers at this level or above can submit to me scenario ideas, little story-based scenes involving characters within the Studio (though they don’t have to be set in the Studio, like this one is). Each month I’ll choose one that interests me and do my interpretation of the concept. Since this is a test run, how people respond to the concept (both in and outside the tier) will help me decide if it’s something I want to try and keep doing every month.
For this idea I thought it’d be funny if Gojo was just annoying Nanami while he tried to relax with Tiana. That makes this one sort-of a sequel or epilogue to Closing Time. I thought maybe some folks might enjoy seeing this pairing return with a slight twist.
