That makes sense. xD
Cue Tanya putting in her head that she has to honor the whole polish side of the family due to being the last Uma in it, and going 200% effort. ;p
'Isn't this a bit cruel? First of all, they're making us sing and dance after running a race. Sure it's a pretty short one but some of the other runners look tired. Even worse, they're making the losers dance too! Is this some sort of humiliation ritual to encourage them to try harder next time? Several of them look like they've been crying.'
Shirogane's only been running deliveries for something like 3 years, since she started doing that in Middle School. She has, however, been doing what she considers light military style PT for most of her life. Scaled for an uma's strength. She was also running against another uma who was a few years older than her and later on became a racing academy student, so her training scale was closer to that of Tracen than she realized.
A bit of both. Most of her classmates like her because she brings interesting food and will help people who ask her, despite having a somewhat intimidating personality. Shirogane doesn't think much of it since she's been through school a few times and doesn't find it particularly difficult, but she did help improve a good number of her classmates' scores.
It's a replica/refurbishment of a Duchy of Warsaw uniform that some of her family wore at parades a few times.
Shirogane: "Why am I being propositioned by so many people?!"
Basically they look like some of the Pegasus knight headpieces from fire emblem but sized to fit on an uma's ears.
She's something like 145cm. And she's scaled to this height based on her horse equivalent's size in comparison with other horses.
She's also able to tweak her own diet to match, and figured out how to make a variety of supplemental materials, like electrolyte gel packs and the like. It helps that she was specifically training for physical conditioning rather than trying to win a race, so didn't have a time pressure that might push her to overtrain.
Shirogane will take racing seriously in the sense that she treats a job or school seriously. Mainly she's aiming to get on the podium so she gets a cut of a purse. First place obviously gets the lion's share of the money, but for her it's more important to keep getting cuts of the purse over time than winning any specific one. For her to really run like her life was on the line would require her to have a PTSD episode on the track.
At some points it might be more accurate to say that the Polish military had a human corp, since at many points in history their military was mostly cavalry.
Shirogane could find herself unexpectedly popular in Poland if she plays into her Polish heritage more.
...There *are* some circumstances where it might happen, isn't there?.. Shirogane diverting back to her Tanya reactions and scaring other contestants shitless while absolutely gunning it to the finish line would be a rather striking scene.
Since making this post, I've remembered that Mihono Bourbon is a Front Runner with these growths, so she'd be in good company
That's basically what I meant. Although I really hope there are no PTSD flashbacks in this story - they don't seem to fit how she's been shown so far.
Yes and no.
To be fair, the Uma mangas tend to depict losers joining the stage as something voluntarily. I can see some Umas, even when they lost, still join the singing and dancing to get more fans or show appreciation to existing fans. While those who are too bitter at the lost or got something else to do, would opt out.
Sounds like she is better than the average, but not at the level of tryhards (e.g. Mejiro training their Umas since they were a kid). I wouldn't be surprise if she does pretty well early on due to her existing training and probably racing against seniors earlier than others.
No.
Maybe her loss comes about due to her scarring another so badly that they win via Scooby Do induced speed. This could double as both a loss and a catalyst to learn how to emote so she doesn't traumatize her classmates.
Speed boost, like Slipstream.
Ah, didn't remember Slipstream was a Velocity skill, okay
The unnervingly quiet girl suddenly screaming a warcry would probably spook a lot of the umas. Given that even some of the more serious uma are actually a bit skittish (like Narita Brian being scared of his shadow), it would be something akin to a debuff skill that unnerves nearby racers.
If she wants to supplement her family's pension plan, she'd need to run for a significant amount of time, while consistently at least getting on the podium to get a cut of the purse. That or merchandising and other supplementary sources of income. She could probably sell something like recipe books. Or a traffic navigation app.
She'd actually probably have a 20% Guts and 10% Wits growth affinities, but with a lot of Stamina increasing events. She does have a lot of Stamina, but where she really really beats other racers is her intelligence and concerningly high pain threshold. So Stamina might appear to be her strongest suit but it's actually Guts.
Mostly like so. Unlike many smaller umas, Shirogane actually is more comfortable running in a pack. She also doesn't have high enough of a top speed to do all that great as an End Closer.
I think there was an event in Haru Urara's career where one of umas is crying backstage before going out to dance, so there seems to be quite a lot of pressure to perform.
She's a different kind of try hard. She hasn't been training for racing specifically, but is probably comparable in physical fitness, while being superior in desensitization and inferior in public relations training.
Shirogane turning Front Runners into Twin Turbo, lol.
Is this going to follow the Ura finale of career mode and the new one coming song as well of the other events such as Zodiac careers (geminis cup, cancer cup,etc) and the team trials or is just gonna be pure careers for time to time without a Ura finaleHere's an approximation of what Shirogane would look like, though she'd normally cut her hair significantly shorter, and the ear ornaments would be have white wings as well.
She looks completely harmless. Definitely not someone scary to have chasing you at 30-40km/hr
Yeah, that looks unreasonable to manage.
It generally has the Uma in question rolling on the ground clutching their face. It is clearly unpleasant, and goggles would prevent that.
Goldship is literally built different you can't use her as an average to umas at all i'm pretty sure that she actually doesn't feel that much pain and just acts in for the comedy effect cause she have multiple eye damage and nothing really affect her at all.
Given that in Maruzensky's story the Spring Stakes only have 5 runners I assumed that performing in the concert is mandatory for the racers
