video, un: hystericbunny

[itaidol]

[The feed opens on a teenage girl with cyan hair in big wavy, twirly twintails. She gives the camera a little awkward bow. Come on, Amari. This is your big debut in a new world(?!), you can do this.]

P-pleased to kneet you! I'm Asari!

[If you look close, you can see the life momentarily leave her as she realizes her goof. She immediately reaches for the phone, shutting the feed off.

... ...

It turns back on a bit later, with a red-faced Amari trying very very hard to act like that didn't just happen.]

Right! Um! My name is Katasumi Amari! So. Er. Wild question but has anyone here ever thought of being an idol?

[So here's the thing about Amari's branch of her canon. It's got a magical VR idol world, but because of Shenanigans, everyone in the world forgot it. You can't tell anyone about it directly, they have to remember it on their own. THUS, A DESPERATE AND FUTILE DANCE TO REMIND PEOPLE FROM OTHER WORLDS ABOUT SOMETHING THEY DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY WAY OF KNOWING IN THE FIRST PLACE BEGINS...]

Um. [She twirls a lock of her hair between her fingers, starting to sweat nervously.] I guess. What I'm saying is. If there are any other people who love singing and dancing here, I'd love to get to dough you! I mean know you! I mean--

[Sputtering and flailing, she quickly ejects herself from the situation by turning the feed off once and for all.]

Comments

un: abnormalitylover, video

[abnormalizes]

[Oh, no, Amari. Poor girl.]

I don't think I ever considered it. I do like singing in the shower though, I don't know if that counts? It probably doesn't.

un: happyaround

[roundandaround]

Yeah! There's tons of us! Please join the Music Club, we meet at Shining Karaoke, there's idols and bands and DJs and more!

video | un: Pop Star Royalty

[denyingit]

[OH, SHE'S ADORABLE! And well, Rumi just so happens to be an idol, or more like a pop queen.]

Hello, my name is Rumi, I'm the leader and lead vocalist of a three girl k-pop group called Huntrix, we all love singing and dancing, and we're all here, so we'll start releasing our music here soon too. Very nice to meet you! Are you an idol back home too like we are?

[And they're not even the only idols here.]

1/2

[itaidol]

[Oh god the video actually posted oh god people are replying to it she's gonna crawl under a rock and--]

[itaidol]

[--oh! Wait, actually, she recognizes this one, from not long after she arrived.]

Oh! Eva-san! H-hello again!

It definitely counts! If you like singing, that's all that matters! You'd do fine!

[...Do fine at what, exactly?]

[abnormalizes]

Hi, Amari. Do fine at...?

[Surely she's not actually suggesting she be an idol.]

[itaidol]

At PriP-- er. Shoot. I mean, at being an idol! Like, what if there was a place where everyone could sing and dance and dress up together?

[She might be!!]

[abnormalizes]

Oh! I mean, that kind of seems like a lot of pressure? I'm not, like, professional-quality.

[itaidol]

Oh!!! That sounds-- [Intimidating! Socializing with actually talented strangers!? Pass pass pass!!] --a-amazing! When do you meet?

[itaidol]

[Wow, she's really pretty!! And she's part of a three girl team, just like in PriPara! Could it be--?]

Um, that's right! I'm just an amateur idol, though! If you sing k-pop, then that means you're from Korpria, right? Wow, I've never met a foreign idol!!

[Kor...pria....?]

[itaidol]

That's okay! I'm just an amateur too! That'd be the beauty of PriP-- of a place like that! Everyone is a friend, and everyone is an idol! It'd be really low-stakes and fun!

[She's getting some deja vu to when Laala made this pitch to her. God, is she being too pushy? She's probably being too pushy. But she can't stop until she knows for sure Eva isn't from her world!]

[abnormalizes]

[She could just talk about her own world and disprove that pretty quickly-]

...I guess it does sound kind of nice? Like karaoke but with more dancing?

[denyingit]

[Aaaaaw, thank you, Rumi thinks Amari is really pretty too and her hair looks amazing!💕]

So, you've only recently just started then? I started Huntrix a few years ago. [tho whatever if anything she may have been doing until then in the idol industry and anywhere is a ... mystery aside from insane amounts of hunter training / being a hunter for all her life.] Yeah, back home we live in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, but we just returned from a world tour there.

[Rumi definitely thinks that Korpria and other random things she says are absolutely adorable too.]

[roundandaround]

It's kind of a drop-in-drop-out thing we do some nights, here's our schedule!

[She sends a schedule, which is pretty simple... thankfully for Rinku, or she'd never be able to keep it. Thankfully, as she said, there's a note that members can come to whichever meetings they want for however long they want.]

Are you an idol? That sounds fun! But also like waaaaaaaay too much work.

1/...3?

[itaidol]

World tour... wait, so you're a real world idol!? [Stars in her eyes over here!] I've only ever performed in PriPara! And even then, only for just a few months!

[--Ah crap she let "PriPara" slip! ... Well, Laala never actually told her what would happen if someone heard PriPara who hadn't been reminded of its existence. Maybe this would all work out nicely and Rumi already remembered and would recognize the name and then they'd be best friends forged in the fires of idoldom!!!]

yeah 2/3

[itaidol]

[.... Or maybe it'd be the opposite and, having heard the forbidden word, she'd forcibly forget PriPara entirely! Ohhhh noooooo! (Editor's note: the actual reality, in which Rumi is from a world without PriPara, has not even remotely crossed her mind.)]

[itaidol]

[Amari wriggles and writhes at this absolutely, entirely hypothetical situation she's cooked up for a bit before remembering the video feed is on and quickly straightening up and nervously asking:]

You. Uh. Do you know PriPara?

[denyingit]

[Color Rumi both surprised and confused.]

We weren't talking about being real world idols? I mean, yes, I'm a real real world idol.

[If not real world idols then--- what? What's that supposed to mean? She's just about to ask what's PriPara but she gives the girl a moment to ask her question from her instead.]

Nope. Never heard of it. What's Pripara? And only a few months? That's really cute, so you're still on that early steps stage.

[Even if A LOT can happen there too.]

[itaidol]

Oh thanks! I'll be sure to come by, um... sorry, I think we've met before, but I don't think I ever got your name?

B-but yeah, that's right! I'm just an amateur, though. A part-time idol at PriPara.

[Rinku didn't recognize PriPara's top legendary team, Saints, when they first met, so she feels pretty confident they aren't from the same world. It's probably okay to mention it without fear of repercussion pripercussion.]

[itaidol]

[That'd certainly stop her in her tracks in more ways than one.]

Yeah, yeah! And cute and cool clothes, too! Dressing up however you can dream, it's the best!

[roundandaround]

Rinku! Aimoto Rinku! Is PriPara your agency? I hope it's fun. Photon back home always has to deal with idol rules and stuff.

[abnormalizes]

I have been dressing up more lately, it's been nice.

Are you going to run something here?

[itaidol]

[Rinku-chan! She'll remember that.]

Oh no, I don't have an agency or anything like that. Someone half-baked like me doesn't even have more than a temporary manager... PriPara is a big virtual world where everyone can be an idol! It's really popular where I'm from. That's where I perform.

[itaidol]

[Welp. Cat's out of the bag now. SORRY IF SHE JUST LOCKED YOU OUT OF PRIPARA FOREVER, RUMI. (She didn't. It's fine. Calm down, Amari.)]

PriPara is a virtual world where everyone can be an idol! It's hugely popular across the globe where I'm from! I grew up watching idols perform there and wanted to be just like them. [She seems a bit embarrassed to be admitting that.]

[itaidol]

Run something? Well, I thought it was already running, but... I'm starting to not be so sure.