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Disclaimer: I do not own any characters of Love Live! School Idol Project. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

And so the Curtains close

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Is this on?

Ahem

So it's been a year since I've started this huh.

Hello to anyone who clicked on this chapter. I am Bravo Tango and this is the behind-the-scenes. For—

"Yoooo!" A figure jumps in with a packet of papers tucked under her arm. "Nico-Nico-Nii!"

Ah Nico. Thank you for coming.

"No problem. Let's get this started."

Eager are we?

Nico nods, "Yup. Nozi n' Eli are waiting for me at the house. We're going visit Eli's family in Russia."

Oh how nice. Well then I won't take much of your time and let's begin. Side note, the questions might seem to be out-of-order and I apologize for that.

"Right," Nico brings the paper in in front of her. "So where did the idea for this story come from?"

Funny story actually. I remember that I wanted to watch the intro sequence of Advance Warfare and I ended up watching the entire story. It was around the time that I started to write stories on this website and I had just finished a large collection of Love Live doujins. And so I had a prompt where you were in the Advance Warfare world.

Before I continue I should put this here: Spoiler Warning for Advanced Warfare.

"Yeah you should put that there just in case." Nico then perks up. "Hold on, did that mean I could have exo suits and fly?

Technically, the exo suits would let you jump and grapple to high places. Anyway, I wanted you to be an idol in an exo suit. You would perform concerts and raise morale for soldiers. Your dad would have been friends with the CEO of Atlas, Jonathon Irons. Your story would probably take place before the beginning of the game and then do a time-skip to after the nuclear plant explosions.

After that you felt a need to be an idol and raise the spirits of the people affected from the disaster. Irons agreed and sent two Atlas specialists, Eli and Nozomi, to protect you when you do the shows.

"Oh hey that's the premise for this show."

Yup. So the three of you would build a relationship as you perform the concerts. You would meet the other members of Muse on occasion. Along the way you and Irons would have some sort of father-daughter relationship and I had hoped that dynamic would change his mind about world war. It was STUPID to have him as an antagonist.

"Wow."

Yeah. I really hated how he just wanted to declare war on everyone. I wanted to see how the governments around the world would react when a private company joins the U.N. This company can rival and even top some governments. I would have been cool with him making questionable decisions and have you as someone who would argue against and be some sort of anchor. But NOPE! They made him the villain of the story with shitty motivations.

"...You good?"

Yeah. Just needed to get that out of my system. Anyway, after the success of your concerts, the terrorists would ambush your convoy and kidnap you.

"Same thing that happened in this story?"

It'll be more gritty and explosive since well... you work for a private superpower and exo-suits are involved. The plot will be similar where you are held captive while Eli and Nozomi would find a way to rescue you with the help of Atlas. I probably would have added the characters of the game into the story.

"Dude..." Nico has both of her eyebrows raised. "This sounded like a neat premise. What changed?"

Lots of reasons. First one was that as I wrote the outline, there were many details from both worlds I had to be careful for. Another is that not lot of people would search for a Love Live Warfare crossover. Then I saw some sort of movie about bodyguards and I thought it could work; no exo suits but I didn't have to much change of the story.

"Alright," Nico shifts the paper. "So how long did you plan out this story?"

Planned it in my head for a week, but I wrote the general outline of the story in a day. Looking at it, I'm really surprised at how most of the outline stayed similar to this story. Funny thing was that I was planning to make this a one-shot.

"Holy shit."

Yeah it would have been my longest one-shot I ever wrote.

"Kay." She flips through the paper. "How about some info about Sphera?"

Ah this one. The original name was Titan Security but I wanted to convey a powerful company that has power in multiple countries. So I took inspiration from Atlas and Sphera came into fruition; it is also Latin for sphere.

Tsubasa's initial job was a captain of an elite mercenary squad but it was changed to what she has now.

The company originally would have sold multiple popular brand products.

I originally planned to have a no-name CEO but I decided to have Alice. Fun fact, she is my first character to open the door for me to the doujin world and in turn to the Love Live world.

"Aww," Nico pouts, "I'm not your favorite?"

Oh you're my favorite first in Love Live, but you're not the top overall. You're pretty close though.

"Well shoot."

Sorry.

Nico looks back at the papers. "What kind of references did you make?"

Lets see:

John Wick with the suited body armor.

Madoka Magica names.

Touhou Project names.

Taken scene inspiration where Liam Neeson saves the singer.

Advaced Warfare with the exo suit prototypes and the superpower company.

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter with RHINO.

Nico looks at the last page. "Anything else you want to add?"

Oh yeah. I probably won't do another multi-chapter story for a long time. Especially during the school years. Don't get me wrong this was a fun story but it was stressful writing this in the semester.

"It's all good and you finished it."

I'll stick to one-shots from here on out and I'll have to see after I'm done with school if I want to do another big story. Maybe I'll do some pieces on this universe.

"That sounds neat."

I think that's about it. Thank you Nico for your time and your help for this story.

"No problem."

Though I'm sorry for doing that to your eye.

"It's all good." Nico traces a finger on the scar. "Nozi says I look hot with it and I know Eli thinks so too but she doesn't want to admit it out loud." She then throws the papers up the air. "Welp! It looks like we're done here. It's been a fun ride and I'm glad we finished." Nico starts walking off screen and waves her hand. "See you later and call us when you got a piece yeah?"

Goodbye Nico and I wish you a happy trip with Nozomi and Eli.

Thank you all for staying with me on this crazy ride. Have a great day and I'll see you later.

Bravo Tango out.

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