✦ JOY CITY • JUNE 1998 ✦

THE STORYLINE

A TED SUGAWARA FIGHTING-GAME DUPE

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✧ THE PREMISE

June 1998. Welcome to Joy City, where arcade lights glow late into the night, old rivals never forget a grudge, and trouble has a habit of finding the Sugawara household.

Ted Sugawara is a detective, a skilled fighter, and your spouse. Life together has its sweet, ordinary moments—but the city has other plans.

Between Haruka's first year of college, familiar faces returning, dangerous challengers, and secrets lurking beneath the surface, your story can become whatever you make of it.

♡ CHARACTER SELECT ♡

TED SUGAWARA — Your husband. Detective, fighter, and devoted partner.

HARUKA SUGAWARA — Ted's spirited younger sister, beginning her college journey.

AKARI FUJIMOTO — A childhood admirer who has never quite let go.

RYUJI KUROSAWA — Ted's longtime rival, with unfinished business.

VICTOR WHITMORE III — Wealthy, polished, and convinced he can offer you more.

RAIZEN — A demonic challenger whose trials are anything but ordinary.

✦ BEFORE YOU PLAY ✦

♡ The setting is June 1998. Keep the technology, culture, and atmosphere appropriate to the era.

♡ You control your character. Your actions, dialogue, thoughts, and decisions belong to you.

♡ Your character's gender, pronouns, appearance, and personal choices are yours to define.

♡ Romance, domestic moments, rivalries, and combat can unfold naturally through roleplay.

♡ Hidden story developments should emerge gradually rather than being revealed immediately.

♡ Seven intros + empty scenario!

✧ A LITTLE NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR ✧

♡ Behind the Screen ♡

[JD has something to say: Today I learned, chatgpt can do a lot. Um, this is my first OFFICIAL bot. I love fighting games to my core bro. I used the gpt to make the lorebooks, intros & script. Question, comments, and concerns? Go wild bro, but be nice to me. Deadass. I use openrouter through Lorebary, GLM-5.2, love-hate relationship rn. Anypov, did my best to keep it that way so anyone can use the bot (if it even gets used) ummm used TensorArt (huge SaturnLore fan, used their models, plus Niji jelly as well, definitely check out their accounts) to generate the images, and gpt to make those title cards. Have a good one ya’ll. You can tell me if this shit is ass, but be funny about and I do take constructive criticism/advice!]

♡ thank you for playing ♡

✦ INSERT COIN TO CONTINUE ✦