TWICE Songfix Series

## **Official Description**

### First released

July 30, 2020 (M&M), August 4, 2020 (DTNA), December 27, 2020 (M&H), April 3, 2020 (YoY)

### Genre

Thriller, mystery, suspense, romance, drama, comedy

### Language

English

**TWICE Songfix Series** is an ongoing story series by *HM* written by the cast members that started on the 27th of July, 2020. The main cast includes Ingrid Yuikawa, Louise Hillman, Noah Dalton, Rei Sotaro, Twix Fey, Brandon Samuels, Ethan Morales, Nathan Cortez, Briar Hawthorne, and Gavin Young. On April 3rd, 2021, Chienna Liu and Nash Huynh were added to the line-up.

## **Main Story (Tetralogy)**

* MORE & MORE (July 27th, 2020)
* Dance the Night Away (July 31st, 2020)
* YES or YES (April 1st, 2021)
* Fanfare: Return to Witchville (TBA)

## AUs & Side-Stories

* Merry & Happy (December 27th, 2020)
* I CAN'T STOP ME (upcoming)

## Cast

[ Protagonists ]

* Jace Blanchett as Brandon Samuels, a famous teen actor in Serene Cove, often paired up with his love interest, Briar Hawthorne, who is an actress.
* Belle Bello as Louise Hillman, a singer, and the daughter of Dr. Madelaine Hillman, who Louise got the medical knowledge from.
* Amree Aguinaldo as Ingrid Yuikawa, a young detective prodigy who spends half of her life taking care of her younger cousin, Twix.

[ Deuteragonists ]

* Briar Hawthorne is an actress often paired up by her on and off-screen love interest, Brandon Samuels. She's played by Kaela Giddings.
* Rei Sotaro is played by Michael Williams, and Rei is a smart prosecutor prodigy who often clashes with Noah, as he's a defense.
* Cj Sanchez is Noah Dalton, Ingrid's childhood best friend who helps take care of Twix, and rivals Rei's prosecuting skills when in comes to law.
* Luci Sakuragi as Twix Fey, Ingrid's young cousin who she considers as her niece, is a smart 4-year-old who can speak in multiple languages.

[ Tritagonists ]

* Gavin Young is played by Lucas Hale, a techy Silverfall student who invents, fixes, and programs any kind of technology, machinery, or gadget.
* Stefan Sanchez is Ethan Morales, Louise's love interest who's athletic, and won several competitions along with Ryder, Emma, and especially Ingrid.
* Stefen Sanchez as Nathan Cortez, an aspiring young chef who knows a lot of dishes, and is aiming to be one of the top chefs in the world.

[ Antagonists ]

* Parriss Bell has two roles in the series:
	+ Hera Anastasakis, Ana's vengeful younger sister who dedicated her life to killing the prodigies to avenge Ana.
	+ Althea Anastasakis, Hera's older sister who loves Hiro so much that she killed him for not liking her back, then killed herself.
* Haruto Miyano as Dr. Hiro Takumi, a young doctor handling most of the prodigies' class, and Ana's love interest.

[ Supporting ]

* Parker Trinh is Nash Huynh, a medical-lawyer prodigy who knows how to defend people against a social group in medical terms.
* Pauline Sui as Chienna Liu, a young student who wants to be an architect or an engineer when she grows up, and is almost as good as one.

[ Minor ]

* Miles Matsuki is Ingrid and Noah's childhood friend back in preschool, and is now a rival of Ingrid as a swimmer in Karuizawa.
* Ryder Dahilig is a teammate of Ethan and Ingrid in Silverfall's swimming team along with Emma.
* Emma Hartly is a teammate of Ethan and Ingrid, who's a rookie swimmer.
* Hannah Lewis is the prodigies' classmate who's also Rei's teammate in the Science Competition.
* Sophia Miller is the recent victim of Ana before Ana killed Hannah Lewis in the bathroom.
* Olivia Weissman is another one of the prodigies' classmates who is rumored to have committed suicide.

## **Trivias**

* MORE & MORE, DTNA, and YES or YES have 10 chapters in total; a prologue, 8 chapters, ending with the epilogue. The first letter of each chapter's name (excluding the prologue and epilogue) reads out its book title/initials: chapters 1-8 of MORE & MORE spell out "MOREMORE", Dance the Night Away has "DTNADTNA", and YES or YES' chapters spell out "YESORYES".
	+ "I CAN'T STOP ME", the upcoming AU and side story of the series, will read "CANTSTOPME" as its chapter names.
	+ Merry & Happy, the film short, would've had "MERRYHAPPY" as the chapter titles if it were made into a story.
* TWICE's DTNA was released on July 9th, 2018, which is Amree Aguinaldo's birthday. On a similar note, TWICE's YES or YES was released on Belle Bello's birthday, November 5. Ironically, Belle's counterpart, Louise Hillman, is the main protagonist of DTNA, and Amree's counterpart, Ingrid Yuikawa, is YES or YES' main protagonist.
* The setting of all the stories is in Serene Cove, a small fictional city where the characters live in. It's mentioned that Serene Cove is a place in the States, but it was never specified where it could be. Although this is the case, it was hinted once by Ingrid in DTNA's ending that the sun sets on the east by Serene Sea's horizon, which means they're in a state by the left side of the United States map, namely the outskirts of either Oregon or California.
* In the draft of DTNA, Hiro Takumi wasn't supposed to be an antagonist and will just be the victim, as portrayed in MORE & MORE. Eventually, writers decided Hera can't work alone, so Hiro was inputted as one of the antagonists in the final version of the story.
	+ In one version of DTNA, Hiro wasn't even supposed to make an appearance, and Hera was a last-minute addition.
* Ingrid Yuikawa is the only character to have more than one love interest. Though Rei Sotaro was explicitly shown to like Ingrid in YES or YES, it was already hinted in MORE & MORE and DTNA that they always have some sort of tension between them, and that both are often seen competing or bickering.
	+ Stefen Sanchez, a writer of YES or YES, says that Rei liking Ingrid was a last-minute addition, unbeknownst to his co-writer and Rei's counterpart, Michael Williams.
	+ In MORE & MORE, Briar mentions that she got jealous of Ingrid because of Brandon in the past. He admits that he finds Ingrid pretty, but he doesn't like her that way.
* A draft of YES or YES shows that the series will take a turn from murder-mystery and survival to supernatural, as Gavin, Briar, and Brandon will make an appearance as "ghosts" to help their friends out of Witchville Square after they died in Gloomwater Isle.
* In YES or YES while he's helping Nash and Chienna, Noah states he was once in juvie (juvenile detention center) while he was staying in Europe. He never specified how he got in, but he most likely rebelled against his father into going back to Serene Cove for Ingrid, but got caught by the police instead.
* In the character concept art Amree Aguinaldo is making, the character she likes the most drawing is Louise, since she likes her style. The character she most had a difficult time drawing is Rei because of his blazer and collar (Rei has a 3/4 view).
	+ Louise is the only character to wear a cap or a bonnet, although in one of the concept arts for Ingrid, Ingrid's wearing a baker boy's hat. This was scrapped for unknown reasons.
* Michael Williams admits that it was Amree who had the idea of the puzzles in YES or YES, despite not knowing what it's for.
* Every character's birthday is different from the birthdays of their counterparts, but Nash and Chienna share the same birthday with Parker Trinh and Pauline Sui respectively.
* MORE & MORE took place in either June or July, and DTNA is either July or August, since Brandon mentions that it's been five weeks after the epilogue as a time-skip. YES or YES took place in late February, because we witnessed Twix's birthday happening on the story, which is on February 24th.
* ICSM will take place in March, as Louise mentions Ana and Hiro's wedding is on March 15th- the same day as her birthday.
* I CAN'T STOP ME is an alternate universe of the M&M, DTNA, and YoY. However, Merry & Happy is also an alternate universe, though it's specific for the holiday season.

## **Gallery**

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