30+ hours and my brain is now mush

Once upon a time, I didn't ship anything in LoveLive!. Then I finished S1 and wondered why the hell the entire fandom shipped NicoMaki. Then I finished S2 and wondered why the hell *I* shipped NicoMaki. So I drew this in an attempt to figure it out myself. Inspired by that Cool Nico in SIF who goes "Coool" whenever she pops up. Cutest thing ever.

I petered out at the end because 20 days later, I had a better grasp of their characters (and why I shipped them) and realized that what I was drawing was nowhere near that. ...Also, I've sat on my ass for 30+ hours this week trying to line this and month-ago Toast didn't think to finish that last sketch so present-day Toast just said 'Fuck it' and gave up.

tl;dr: Super OOC but I spent too long on this to not upload it. Why the fuck I went on for so many fucking pages, I don't even know.

August 15 - September 3, 2014, dA