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I was driving home from my way to work, and I had an idea:
Is it fair to say that girls like, say, most of the Myth girls are in a state of recline because they "achieved their goals?"
Like, this is an idol corp at the end of the day. You follow idols to see them grow and succeed. But we're now at Year Four of Hololive English's existence. They've grown to an absurd degree, and Myth to the most absurdist of absurd degrees. They aren't struggling or looking to prove something anymore. They're winners. They won. Top of the top. Gura, who was always the top, is even more top than she used to be in the EN sphere, when paired with the relative decline in non-Hololive EN Vtubing content.
The idea came to me when I was thinking about Kiara's stream yesterday, after the FWMC raid and having a holiday to waste time on sticking around with. The girl was talking about how she could rent a mansion next time she went to Japan (which apparently means just "a house/apartment" instead of a whole-ass mansion, but still, absurd), so that she could stream while being there. And it put into perspective for me how fucking far most of them have gone, since she was the one who said she lived in a dump-ass shack back at the start of HoloEN. Or how Mori went from struggling to find a place to rent that would let her stream well, to owning multiple pieces of single-family housing units, from what she's described, across multiple countries.
In terms of activity, they've also hit "peak" status. Gura GOT her wishes. Daki? Check. Orisong? Check. Anime Opening? Check. Mori, she's hit it even harder than Gura, with the UMG shit starting to pay real dividends in terms of exposure AND payment. Ina basically never had big scale dreams and she hit all her stuff right out the gate, Ame basically stopped dreaming in general, and Kiara is probably the last one who isn't "peak successful," but that's only because she has unique debuffs and a drive to be something that's very hard to be for her, a successful idol releasing albums and going on tour to some capacity. Fuck, the Eurovision thing is showing that she's still dreaming of chasing higher end goals, which I just don't see in the rest of Myth.
Compare that to, say, Promise. Since the beginning, they've always been on a lower status level than Myth, because everyone was, of course. But they never surpassed that for most of the time they were around. But they had much more measured dreams, and have always been pushing to see those dreams come to life in some form. I think the recent run of 3D showcases, well, they showcase this easily. The girls only just got a new start, and they still have that drive to hit new goals, find new things to keep going for, have more to prove. Not true for all of them to the fullest extent, but I'd say their checklists have a hell of a lot more to fill out, and they benefit from always having the unreachable goal of Myth status that makes their idol journey almost unending. And of course, Advent goes without saying, they've got that in spades by virtue of being the new girls on the block.
Does any of that make sense?
