Maybe Shirogane will show Haru how to run deliveries and doing so she ends up building up the stamina needed to run Long races while she is running around delivering things to all her fans and helping out. I believe the story explanation for her failure was that Haru was more focused on being friendly with all her fans than she was on training enough to build up endurance.
That and the fact that she actually doesnt train seriously when she is told advice she listens for a bit but with time she always defaults to her usual habits at least when i played her career mode i always see how she listens and tries to mimic King Halo and asks other racers how to improve but she always always ends doing her own thing or gets distracted. It would be sweet if Shirogane can actually share a bit of her focus and diligence while Haru her joy of race and the desire to win like Ying and Yang it would be a perfect complement imo.
Plus, if Haru starts hanging around Shirogane, Haru is likely to drag her friend Rice into things as well. I really liked Rice and Haru's friendship in the game.
This is funny to me because Nice Nature's nickname is "Bronze Collector" due to her seemingly being magnetised to 3rd place.
I would totally read both of those stories if someone wrote them.
Mayano, Haru, Rice and now Shiro. The Short Gang allegations will never go away. Mayano and Haru starts plotting to get fellow shorties to join in on Shiro's training because they observed a pattern and are running with it.
Smol cuties unite!
She hasn't internalized that yet. The others noted that while she ate fast, she didn't eat very much. She might need a meal plan as part of her training regimen, one that simply reads "MORE."
Oguri Cap: "I have found my apprentice. Together, the world will be our feeding ground."
Honestly, I think it would be an Uma like Super Creek that would be more focused on making sure Shirogane got enough to eat. Oguri Cap has too much of a risk getting distracted eating her own food.
The tricky thing is that I get the feeling that Shirogane already anticipates this happening, and her solution is less of proving herself as a racer and more of having set up back-up plans for herself. She'll put in effort, of course, as she's dutiful and she doesn't quit and she wants to make her family happy. If the crisis point happens soon enough, before she's been able to set the full groundwork for her alternate career pathways, she'll have more of a drive to push past her barriers, for now at least. But if she reaches a solid wall in the path as a racer and the only ways forward are to give it her all or give up on it, she'll choose to give it up. It got her far enough, and she's grateful for the opportunities it gave her, but now it's time to move on with her life and find a "real" career.
Probably not, since Haru's style of encouragement is not one Shirogane would really respond to. That isn't to say she would dislike Haru, just not really be affected by her enthusiasm.
It won't be that directly antagonistic but Shiro would likely think that Haru is mentally challenged and is part of some kind of disability program...or conclude she's undercover security. It's relatively difficult to truly dislike someone who is so gormlessly friendly and happy even if they are not very good at their job. And even if Haru isn't the best racer her mistakes largely don't negatively affect other people. Shirogane would be mildly perplexed how Haru manages to stay in the academy, which could play into her conclusion that she's undercover security or a designated gate filler.
Other debuff umas: "Get out of the way! I'm gonna crush you!"
It is mildly amusing how the title of this story is a pun.
Shirogane does have a desire to win, for the money. On the other hand she indeed does not have a strong desire to reach for the top, because she knows most top runners have fairly short careers.
Her skill immediately rushes other runners around her as they try to get away.
What kind of motivation is Shirogane weak to? Encouragement? Money? Early Retirement? Perceived Expectations?
I mean, if she was offered a ride in a fighter jet or airplane Shirogane would definitely take it.
This is not helped by how she likes to run exactly in her opponent's blind spot, and is on the smaller side so not every runner would recognize she was there initially.
Shirogane passes on her technique of weaponizing past life trauma. Which might actually be fairly effective for Haru since she did have quite a bit of it.
Shirogane even means silver, lol.
Yeah, racing is just another sport to Shirogane, one she happens to be rather good at, but there's no real added significance to her. Racing is something her classmates dreamed of doing and many of them really desire to win races, which is something Shirogane really doesn't have. Instead, she has an absurdly high threshold for acceptable training and rather high standard for adequate.
Shirogane does have an urge to run as an Umamusume. She does not have an urge to race. There is a strong instinct in her for getting from point A to point B as fast as possible, but it is not in a race.
I think it'd be more like she gets less stats and skill points for running races, but is basically immune to negative effects and has a very stable mood. Her initial career goals would a long list of lower graded races, but you can convince her try some of the bigger name ones.
She would have needed a computation orb to amplify her speed enough to win the race. With her instinctive magic it does not have as significant of an effect.
Another thing that might freak out other umas is Shirogane's willingness to eat things that taste bad or are tasteless if it will help her.
Or maybe she won't desire victory unless she gets sucked into past life trauma.
How to get from Friendly trench to Enemy trench.
But that's casual Tanya, not serious Tanya
i had an idea that Shirogane should start her own fan site early to kick start her retirement fund, where shes posts POV races and have a monthly donation system (with the hope that some people forgets to cancel the payments) and end up unknowingly being an 'Kuudere' Race Star
Maybe she could post 360 degrees pov videos of her races, then transition over to a VR equivalent for those who want to experience it.
