☆TRACK IIX: BETTER TO PRETEND PT. 1

[interdimanagers]

Who: Famous musicians, hopeful auditioners, and random onlookers.
What: Hit gameshow series “Fairy Trial” is celebrating one of its anniversaries, and it’s invited you onboard. For more deets, check out the OOC post!
When: March 11th.
Where: Sevetop Entertainment’s studio.
Warnings: Mingle log mystery bag.

“It's so much better to pretend There's something waiting for you here. Every letter that you wrote Has found its way to me, my dear.” ☆BETTER TO PRETEND For musicians in either Pride or Virgo, the job offer is delivered by their managers- a suggestion to accept an invitation from Sevetop to participate in a successful gameshow. (A message that is delivered perhaps a bit more pressingly to some, with the unsaid words of “This is a chance to make it up to us”.) For others, strangers just trying to make a living and wait for their chance to save their loved ones, the message is delivered over their communicators by Gold, with promises that infiltrating this event will aid you in liberating the captives from their label's control. Either way, all roads lead to Sevetop Entertainment. Sevetop might not have the weight that musical giants Pride Labels and Virgo Entertainment do, but that’s because it’s not into the musical industry. Sevetop is all about television and the big screen. For these purposes, it has its own little area of the city, a bustling kind of Hollywood filled with the more office-like buildings, auditoriums for additions, and even various sets. Whether you’re driven in style via limo, or brought to a regular line of buses, this is where you end up at. Musicians, of course, end up at the more posh meeting room. A spread of delicate little lunch sandwiches, veggie platters, cupcakes, and assorted beverages are on a table for anyone to snatch up, and regularly refilled. Every celebrity is handed a small folder with papers inside going over both the boring legal things and explaining the purpose of the show. “Royals” are the ones to be “saved”, but they don’t have to make the journey easier on their “Heroes” and are given tools at their disposal to help or hinder. Heroes have one goal to accomplish, ‘rescuing’ their Royal, but it changes depending on the challenge. Much to your surprise, some of those aspiring Heroes might just look familiar. Don't tell! ☆THE HEROES In another building, next door, various people picked off the street (some coincidentally, others not so much, thanks to Gold's glamour witchcraft) are being given very much the same kind of presentation… In a room much more cramped, with not nearly enough chairs, on a slideshow. The only refreshments available are small bags of chips (try not to take more than one) and coolers full of bottled water. After the separate presentations are done with, everyone is allowed to check out the sets for past seasons, which includes what look like giant mushroom tops that are made of very bouncy rubber, climbing walls made of fake vines, pumpkin shaped carriages (horses not included), and other such things. Of course, it’s not all play. While you’re messing about, you’ve all been given numbers. Once you’ve been called, you’re to stand in front of Fairy Trial’s hosts and commentators: siblings Bella and Maurice Hooks. Both of them are equally friendly, although her more outgoing to his easygoing, but they have plenty of questions for this little audition. Tell them about yourself: hobbies, job, your favorite fairy tale, what you think your best skill is - and then, the most important, you get to display a choice "talent" in front of the audience. It can be whatever you like, as long as it's crowd appropriate. Be careful, though, because the rock stars you're hoping to work with are watching, too. At the very least, don't make an ass out of yourself. Gold's enchantments are good, but there are some things that even magic can't charm its way through. After all this, you’ll get a chance to just rest and mingle while your rides come back to take you back to the mall or HQ you were picked up at. Obviously for certain famous names, they’ll probably be the first ones out, but who knows… Maybe there was a traffic delay, and now you have some time to spare waiting around here as well. Just take note that you’re not allowed to wander too far from the Fairy Trial sets. Security is keeping an eye on folks to make sure they don’t steal or wreck anything. And don’t worry, you’ll be told about the results within a week! They promise. “You can make believe that what you say Is what I want to hear. I'll keep dancing through this Beautiful delusional career.”

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[mildwildchild]

Oh my god Ryouta no.

"Um - I got enough of that on New Year's Eve, thanks. Besides, you had to use both hands to lift me, I don't see how you're gonna do both of us at once."

He might be asking for trouble here.

[consocius]

Sora's never been bench pressed and he's pretty sure it doesn't sound like fun, before he can say this though, he's surprised by what Jamie says and looks at him. "Wait, what? He did what?"

He turns back to Ryouta. "You did what?"

[yellowcopycat]

"I benched pressed Jamie at Maxxie's New Year's party," Ryouta said as he pulled out his phone. "Here, one of my followers twitted it and I saved it because it was a nice shot."

And Ryouta show Sora a picture of him with Jaime over his head.

"Okay, maybe I can't bench press you both... actually probably could, both of you together has to be two-fifty at most. But I could pick both of you up and carry you."

[mildwildchild]

"Oh goddddd don't show him that," Jamie groans, but knows trying to prevent Ryouta showing Sora the picture would be futile, so he just buries his face in his hands.

"We were both totally shitfaced and - I don't even know how it got to that point. He was all 'hey, I can totally lift you!' and then he just fucking did it in the middle of the club." Jamie looks fairly exasperated as he recounts this turn of events, but it might be a testament to his growing friendship with tolerance for Ryouta that he refrains from shoving him or anything.

[consocius]

Sora's eyes widen at the picture. It's impressive but he also feels bad for Jamie. Then again, it wasn't like that whole night had been bad for him. So he does end up throwing a grin in Jamie's direction, just as charmed as he is amused. Essentially, it's a 'you're cute' grin.

"Yeah, if you can pick Jamie up, you could definitely lift me. We're pretty much the same size," he directs back to Ryouta. "I don't know if I believe you could lift both of us at the same time, though."

[yellowcopycat]

"Hmmm..." Ryouta thought for a moment.

"One in each arm," he said after thinking. "I mean, I could hold you both around the waist in either arm and carry you. I wouldn't be able to to far or fast, but I could totally carry you from here to the other side of the room."

[mildwildchild]

But why tho.

"Are you just talking hypothetically here, or are you actually going to do this to us in public?"

[yellowcopycat]

Why not?

Ryouta looks over at Sora, then back to Jamie. "Wanna try? We can someone to record us or take pictures."

He beams. "It'll be great! There's over lap in our fandoms, so they'll love it!"

Ryouta really just wants to show off.

[consocius]

"One in each arm, huh?" Sora seems amused by it, but he can tell Jamie is a little nonplussed. "It might be kinda funny."

Sora's already standing up like he's decided to let Ryouta do it. "Only if Jamie wants to. And if you drop him or something I'm taking you down," he points at the tall blond as he, the shorty with the noodle arms, threatens him.

[yellowcopycat]

"I only dropped him because I got tackled!" Ryouta protested. He takes Sora's threat seriously

A moment later he's grinning. "It'll be great!" He turns to Jamie. "C'mon Jamiecchi!

[mildwildchild]

Ugh. The things Jamie subjects himself to for you guys.

"Fine, okay. Just across the room or whatever." Jamie isn't super-thrilled to be doing this, but Sora seems game, and it's probably a harmless enough stunt.

[yellowcopycat]

"Alright! Let me go get someone to record us! Be right back!"

[consocius]

Ryouta leaves before Sora can get another word out, but he looks over at Jamie.

"We should like, do something funny when he does it. Like lift his shirt over his head so he can't see," he suggests, grinning. Because that won't end in bruises or anything.

[mildwildchild]

Jamie makes a derisive pffft noise, but he has to grin too. "The goal here is to make sure he doesn't drop us. I don't think impeding his sight is a good idea," he says, giving Sora a little poke.

[yellowcopycat]

Maybe, but the fans our love to see his abs.

Ryouta comes back over with an awestruck fan. "This is Beverly, she's going to record us."

He smiles broadly. "Ready?" And then he wraps his arms around their waists and hoists them up.

[mildwildchild]

Jamie barely has time to flash Beverly a smile and say hi before Ryouta's hefting him and Sora up off their seats. His expression is comically surprised, and he tries to brace his arms against Ryouta's hip and ribcage so he feels a little less like a sack of potatoes.

"Eheh...take it easy, bro," he says, glancing from Ryouta over to Sora and then back to Beverly, putting on his best good-natured grin for this.

[consocius]

While Jamie's facial expression is comical, Sora lets out a ridiculous and undignified squawking noise when he's lifted, though it's quickly followed by laughter. "You could have given us a little more warning!"

He pauses, looking at each of them in turn as well. "That was too easy for you, I'm gonna start eating more." That would be a task.

[yellowcopycat]

Ryouta laughs. "Don't feel too bad guys." He smiles down at his friends. "It's not like I can carry you all that far."

He turns and lifts the shorter boys a little higher and smiles. "Hello from Surviving Friday and Flash Step."