week four | mingle

[showhost]

Welcome to your fourth and final week, teens!

There aren’t many changes around the house today: it seems everyone is dialed in on what needs to be done and the upcoming week. Everything that was on the fritz last week is now back to normal, aside from the Dress Up Your Blorbo curse. You can still do that at will.

Anyway, it's fine that all seems quiet.

There’s plenty going on anyway this week.

Dates | Embrace Space | Property Damage, etc | CR Event | A Thing
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Submissions

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[makeine]

[ okay but consider his ego is like, the best thing in the whole world, his blind confidence really does numbers, ]

Yeah, I can see why you're the leader of your troupe. I bet you'd drag 'em through hell and highwater -- in a good way, because they want and need you to, not because you're forcing them or anything.

[ so inspiring... twinkle twinkle little star, how i wonder what you are... ]

Our dreams are like, the nice breaks everyone else needs. I think that's pretty important too.

[aspirings]

Ha ha ha! Well, of course!

[... But. The way she phrased it manages to hit that little part of his brain that is actually not connected to his ego.]

... Still, that we are able to move forward and make the progress we have is thanks to all of them. Their skills, the way they've grown and all of their hard work... I owe a lot to them for all of it.

[makeine]

[ yeah, better than some girl and her gut instinct that's been wrong most of the time.

...

except... where matches of the heart are concerned, maybe... she's been relatively correct in pushing there... doesn't do any good for a wish though-- ]

Yeah, they've really worked things out. Kinda nice just to sit back at this point. Are you relaxing a little more now that Nene-chan's here to help?

[aspirings]

[hmmm...]

Well... it is good to see her again, that's for sure, but...

[This sort of thing really isn't Nene's bag, and he does feel bad she got saddled with it.]

... it is a shame she ended up having to help cover my responsibilities like this. She has better things to be doing with her time.

[makeine]

Oh, it's only a week! I'm sure she'll end up appreciating the people she's met and stories she's heard here -- and make your next production all the more successful, too.

[ every experience happens for a reason... kind of thing. ]

[aspirings]

[...........]

Right! Naturally!

[He just takes his responsibilities very seriously but it's fine that's not star-like to dwell on so.

Instead, he shows her the next few notes.]

Once you have all of these together, you can repeat again, and the tune should sound familiar.

[makeine]

[ help. tsukasa, you're doing so good.

but she does as she's been doing, playing the chord a few times before putting it all together... oooh. ooh!!!!!!!! ]

Twinkle, twinkle, little star...♪

[aspirings]

[Ooohhhh!!!

Tsukasa is just as excited. You'd think it's the first time he's heard someone play twinkle twinkle little star. And, quietly:]

Now, the same notes but in reverse.

[And, when she does, he'll sing too:]

How I wonder what you are... ♪

[makeine]

[ !!!!!!!

she'll continue on, playing and singing both: ]

Up above the world so high... ♪

[aspirings]

[He seems content to leave the playing to her now that she's gotten the hang of the handful of simple notes that make up the song, instead picking up where she leaves off:]

Like a diamond in the sky... ♪

[They may as well wrap up the verse, after all, right?]

[makeine]

[ right!!! tsukasa's got it!!!! she'll hold the note on "star" a little longer, too... ]

Twinkle, twinkle, little star... ♪

[ ... before she continues playing as he'd instructed before.

bring it home, captain!!!!!!!! ]

[aspirings]

[And bring it home he will, of course, with a flourish (performer that he is):]

How I wonder what you are! ♪

[And, as the last note trails off:]

That was excellent!

[makeine]

[ ooooh!!!!! that felt so good!!!!! ]

We're a perfect duo as always, Tsukasa-kun! [ be it for a scene or... this????

she's clapping her hands... wow. ] Thanks for teaching me a little, though. I'm gonna knock that impassive smile off Nukumizu-kun's dumb plain face with this for sure.

[aspirings]

We certainly are!

[The egos. The egos!!!

It's fine.

He tilts his head at that, curious.]

Nukumizu? A friend of yours? ["Dumb, plain face"... that's so mean]

[makeine]

[ okay but if tsukasa saw him he'd agree that's prime mob a material. ]

Yeah. He's stupid, hopeless, a total dunce who reads a lot but can't read between the lines, and doesn't know how to treat a girl the way she wants to be treated without being told...

[ her voice trails off, but nothing truly annoyed in her tone -- more that kind of annoyed where you complain about a friend, albeit with some amount of affection. because nukumizu is an idiot, he is stupid, hopeless, a total dunce and dense as bricks...

... but, at the same time-- ]

He's a good guy, though. Nukumizu-kun treats me and the other girls like we're just friends -- which we are, before you get any ideas -- so he's always looking out for us, even if it's totally clear he thinks it's a pain sometimes, and he's the one that worries, rushes forth, and tries to do whatever he can to make sure we smile. Even if it's totally unnecessary sometimes. Honestly, he's pretty much our school's best kept secret.

[aspirings]

[I hate that this is true.]

I see...

He sounds like he's a very good friend to you. And that you're a good friend to him in return.

[He smiles brightly at that.]

That's wonderful! It truly is nice to hear more about your life, as... something a little more understandable to me.

[and not. whatever everyone else has going on]

[makeine]

[ god ]

Right back at you, Tsukasa-kun. [ she's sighing. ] At least I don't gotta worry about being single on Christmas Eve this year.

[ ... ]

And neither do you.

[ hahaha ]

[aspirings]

Ah... I suppose that is true.

[He was never really concerned with it before, but...]

I haven't really thought that far ahead.

[Like.... assimilating back into every day life but now with a demon boyfriend. New hit isekai title.]

[makeine]

[ look.





yeah no she's really not thinking about it either. ]

I don't know how I'm gonna do it either. Will-kun's... not a demon, but like... there's still a lot different between us. Slang he's gotta learn, technology he's gonna have to get used to -- he's gonna be a total oddball either way, but I can at least just say he's a foreigner like Karen-chan. It's a little tougher with me visiting him.

[ since she's gonna be discriminated against on top of not understand a damn thing. imagine seeing a slur and you don't know it's one. ]

[aspirings]

Right...

[Hmmm... Tsukasa rests his fingers on the piano again, if only for something to do, and starts to play something quiet and simple, a tune while he thinks.]

That does sound challenging. You'll also have to learn a completely new set of norms and ways to act, huh?

[makeine]

Something tells me they're not gonna like my mouth too.

[ and she is so fond of running it. someone insults will and they're really gonna catch her hands. she closes her eyes as tsukasa plays, happy just to be near the music. ]

Will-kun'll be happy to help me, I'm sure -- his eyes always shine when he talks about stuff like that, so... I'm kind of excited to learn all about him and the Elda. Even if they're nearly non-existent now.

[aspirings]

[And he is happy to play while they sit here--it's soothing to play the piano, even if it's been awhile. He doesn't play any complete songs, not with the lack of sheet music, but he does play snatches of whatever songs he can remember.]

I see... [A non-existent tribe, a completely different world with different norms... it sounds like a pretty daunting task. Still...]

Well! If anyone is up for the challenge, I imagine it will be you. Not to mention you'll have a very powerful motivator.

["love". cheesy. wow.]

[makeine]

Spite.

[ fuck those crown theocracy guys or whatever she's gonna put will on that throne and make the world swallow their words about the nineth tribe which deserves just as much of a chance to live as any of the others boringly without traits or not!!!!!!!!!!! ]

[aspirings]

Ah.

No.

That's not--that's not what I meant.

[makeine]

I'll show them who's "el-dumb".

[ a woman scorned...... ]

They wanna burn the last of Will-kun's tribe to the ground? Wanna make sure the elda never existed? I'll erase their family trees.

[ girl you cant say that!!!! ]