Jostev
Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?
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Unfortunately, we will probably not be seeing Nice Nature in any official races. Nice Nature retired in 1996, while Shirogane debuted 1997, the year after. Quite a few people have drawn parallels between the two, and with Shirogane having debuted right after Nice Nature's retirement I could see it being an in universe joke that Shirogane inherited Nature's curse. Furthermore, if that joke/rumor gained traction then Matikanefukukitaru, being highly superstitious, would probably take it seriously and try to help her- I could even see it being a career or Support card event in the game for the world this story depicts (I am sure there is a word for this term, but when I looked up the word I had thought was applicable (negaverse) it did not appear to have the definition I thought it did). Matikanefukukitaru has a canonical record for helping people around her, too: in the Unity Cup career, Rice Shower talks about how Matikanefukukitaru uses fortune telling and lucky charms to help her with her bad luck (I may be conflating the career with an event), there's an event in Trackblazer (a.k.a. Mant) where Matikanefukukitaru predicts a bad fortune for Mr. C.B. and tries to give her a lucky object (She predicts that an orange object will save her, and gives her a half-drunk orange beverage. Mr. C.B. immediately drinks the rest and Matikanefukukitaru immediately panics about finding a replacement object. My personal interpretation is that Matikanefukukitaru herself was the 'orange thing' that she predicted would save Mr. C.B.), and she's also been shown to help Meisho Doto as well (I don't know how well this example is supported by the games, but it is depicted in other mediums). With that said, this relies entirely on either Matikanefukukitaru drawing a parallel between Shirogane and Nice Nature on her own, or other people in universe drawing a connection (likely as a joke) and spreading it to Matikanefukukitaru. In other words, this cannot happen until Shirogane develops a firm reputation as a "silver collector".
Since I mentioned Meisho Doto and nice Nature anyways, I'd also like to point out that Meisho Doto earned quite a few silvers herself, and while she doesn't have a reputation for being a silver collector or inheriting Nice Nature's 'curse' (both because she mostly got second to T.M. Opera O specifically, and because there was a larger gap between Her debut and Nice Nature's retirement when compared to Shirogane (primarily the former, by a very significant margin)), the character doesn't know that, and may think Shirogane is the reason people don't think She's 'cursed'. Alternatively, Shirogane putting the idea in people's minds could lead to some people joking that the curse split, giving two people a weakened version.
With all that said, none of this has any relevance to the immediate future of the story's plot, and will remain irrelevant for several months (in story/timeline) at least (more likely a couple years, especially for anything involving Meisho Doto). Also, if the author doesn't want to bring up Nice Nature's third place 'curse' in story (for any number of valid reasons), then this information is only good for omakes.
