I can get back up however many times it takes [OPEN]

[determinationtofist]

⭐ Who: Hibiki Tachibana & You!
⭐ When: Throughout October
⭐ Where: Out and about in Yumemigaoka or the Dreamsphere
⭐ What: A lot of post-disturbance aftermath, trying to wind back down after that, etc etc. Please plot with me for things or how your character intends to approach Hibiki afterwards if that's something they'll do.

Comments

[hanamane]

Um...

[He manages to glance back at the screen in front of them, and... just where were they in the song now, anyway?? The chorus? The bridge?? In the chaos of everything, he's lost track of the melody, and there was no way he was going to be able to bounce back and get a good score at this rate. Bold to assume he was getting anything higher than zero, though-- He may as well cut his losses with this one, but...]

I-I can choose another song, if you want...?

[Because Strangled Cat Noises Part 2 is TOTALLY what Hibiki wants for her birthday!! TOTALLY!!!!]

[determinationtofist]

[ Ack... Hibiki is a firm believer of the idea that in karaoke, how bad you are doesn't matter, as long as you sing your heart out and have fun doing so... but...! ]

N-No, it's fine...! J-Just, um...! Let's relax for a minute, huh!?

[ She wonders if it'd actually weaken her if she sang in her vicinity... ]

[hanamane]

[He seems to visibly deflate at that, his shoulders slumping and his hands fidgeting nervously at the mic. Oh... oh no. Did he botch this?? His very first karaoke party with his peers???]

Uh... O-Okay...

[He sets the microphone back on the table (blissfully away from future vocal crimes), though he still looks a bit chagrined.]

I've never really done karaoke in a place like this before, so...

[Amane, that has zero to do with the problem at hand here, bro]

[determinationtofist]

[ Ugh...! Oh god, he looks so sad, like a kitten with the widest, saddest little eyes you've ever seen...! She needs help! Ai-san! Anybody! How does she let this boy down softly!? Eh!? Nobody's coming to help her!? Noooooooo...! ]

A-Aah, there's nothing wrong with that! Everyone has to start somewhere...!

[ ...Fundamentally, Hibiki cannot tell him his singing sucks. Even if it seriously does. Because that would be a double standard to her insistence that even bad singing can be fun during Karaoke. That what matters is singing from your heart.

Except god his singing is bad. How is it that bad!? She can tell, you know! He has a good voice on him! Especially for his age! How does he end up yowling like that instead!? ]

...I just figured you needed a break, is all!

[ Yeah, that's all. ]

[hanamane]

[THE TRAGIC MEOW MEOW POWER IS STRONG IN THIS ONE... and the worst part of it is, he isn't even doing this on purpose!! He's just naturally pathetic sometimes!!! His fidgeting moves down to his fingers, now that the microphone is out of his hands, twisting them subconsciously as Hibiki tries to reassure him. He wasn't so sure he needed a break midway through a mellow song like that, but...]

R-Right...

[But what else could he do? Argue with her on her birthday?? A birthday right after she went through a Disturbance, no less??? He may as well just take the L on this one and leave the matter be, especially after a massive catastrophe like this one. But, man... why did this usually happen whenever singing was involved with him??]

Um... did you want to go next, then...?

[determinationtofist]

[ Is it too late to go back into her Disturbance? It honestly seems better than trying to avoid breaking this poor boy's heart right now. Being trapped in a disturbance feels like a spa day compared to this right now. ]

U-Um... sure!

[ She doesn't even know where to begin. How do you hide from someone that they're a terrible singer throughout an entire karaoke party!? Agh, should she just let him sing next time and just sit through it!? Would it help if she prepared herself for the experience by getting in some of her own singing!?

She has no clue but she can't think of anything else to do, so... she hesitantly takes the mic. She's still reeling from her first time experiencing Amane's singing, so she doesn't have a particular song in mind. She'll just hit "random" and... ]

Ahem... I'm a dreamer...
Hidden power...?

[ ...did. Did she just. Get the same song? ]

[hanamane]

[If Amane didn't know any better, he'd say this was a personal attack-- but (aside from the fact that he saw her hit the random button with his own two eyes) Hibiki didn't really seem like the type for that sort of underhanded bullying. And really, based on what he'd seen in her Disturbance...

... well, he wasn't going to think about that now. Nor was he going to ask her about it-- it wasn't his business, after all, and he didn't want to subject her to the same interrogations he got after his own Disturbance. Instead, he's just going to take a seat and listen to her perform the song, albeit with much better luck than he had before all this. It was one thing to hear her sing in the Dream Sphere, but Hibiki was pretty talented in general, wasn't she...?]