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[sakabroto]

[This is via text because NO ONE SHOULD SEE HIM RIGHT NOW HE'S HIDEOUS and also he's hyper depressed about losing his best friend, but mostly HE'S HIDEOUS. His roots are showing like mad and he's resorted to wearing a beanie. A BEANIE in this weather. It's horrific.]

yeah so glad everything's all back to normal and whatever, but i got an important question:

where can i get some hair bleach and dye? 'cause like hell i'm going out like this

[p r i o r i t i e s]

Comments

[ayes]

Ill make yours in a different color!
I didnt think boys cared about that sort of thing though

I really hope there is a way... but Im not sure
I mean Im not gonna give up hope or anything but!
I dont think that means I shouldn't try to make myself home here too, right?

[sakabroto]

hey just cuz we're guys doesn't mean we can't care about fashion
or not looking dumb
plus i don't want to wear his hat by accident, that'd be hella weird

but yeah you can't give up hope
im never gonna give up
i gotta get things back to the way they were, yeah?
even if that means having to take exams
that sucks
but it ain't so bad here
you got people you hang with?

[ayes]

well if you care about fashion I can sew you a really cute dress!! (>ω^) jk what colors do you like Im not giving up hope I just said that! ughhhh I dont want to go back to school though thats the one thing I dont miss well we were trying to save our school in the first place so I guess I miss it a little bit Ive got friends here! theyre all people I met since waking up

[sakabroto]

[Oh my god, no, You, no!!!!]

uh...not into it like that
but yellow and red i guess. i don't have my parka here, but that's a light purple

why did you have to save your school?
was there not enough money? or something else?

[Because Ryuji kind of saved his school, but that was from an asshole teacher. He's wondering if other places need the Phantom Thieves treatment too.]

[ayes]

yellow + red, got it! and yeah, sorta like that I said we were out in the sticks right? so our school didnt have that many applicants and since it wasnt getting enough interest they were going to close it down and combine us with a school in numazu so we decided that wed try to save it! if we could do well in Love Live and make everyone realize how great uchiura is and how beautiful the sea is... maybe wed get some more applications, you know?

[sakabroto]

oh so you meant literally saving your school

[He's heard of school closures, but this is the first time he's actually met someone who was in danger from one.]

what's Love Live? some kinda game show?

[ayes]

yeah! literally trying to keep it open

haha its a little weird that there are people from other Japans who dont know Love Live
its so big where I come from!

its this big national competition of school idols! a lot of schools have school idol clubs, and they write their own songs and perform and get fans
and a lot of the voting is done online so even schools out in the sticks can participate!
thousands of schools enter every year and the finals are at Tokyo Dome!

[sakabroto]

school idol clubs? man, i haven't heard of those but they sound hella cute

so you're part of your idol club?
what was your group's name?

[ayes]

its really cute! Im in charge of the costumes and my friend Riko does the music and Chika writes the lyrics and our senpai Kanan does all the dance choreography there are nine of us in total, were called Aqours!

[sakabroto]

Aqours huh? i bet you guys have a lotta fans with such a cute name. but you must be hella busy doing all that and going to school

[Ryuji knows. It's hard being a Phantom Thief and a student at the same time. School blows.]

[ayes]

well were getting there! we made it to regionals which is pretty cool especially since our school is so small and in the sticks, since most of the other schools come from cities! our PV got a lot of views online which was pretty exciting youre not wrong about it being a lot of work though!

[sakabroto]

[He bets Mishima would eat this stuff up like crazy. He was the one that was more into idols than Ryuji was and here Ryuji was the one talking to an idol even if she was an idol in..training? He really didn't know what to call an idol club member.]

i mean a regular idol's job has to be hella hard, so it must be double the work since you're also a student. putting together a PV is a shitload of work too.

do you ever get any time to just, yanno, be a kid?

[ayes]

yeah its not THAT bad
I mean its pretty intense but

luckily one of the other members of the club is our senpai, the student council president
shes pretty strict about making sure we don't fall behind in schoolwork but she also helps tutor if we need it

[sakabroto]

wait for real??
your senpai is the student council president, too?
seriously, is making us study a student council president's hobby or something?

[ayes]

yeah! she and her little sister are both in the club dia's pretty strict idk I dont think you get to become president of the student council without caring a lot about academics and wanting your classmates to do well besides if we got bad grades I dont think even mari could keep us from being punished we might even get kicked out of the club!

[sakabroto]

i mean i was already a pretty terrible student
it wasn't until i started hangin' out with makoto that i ever really even cared to study that much
it must be their job, i guess

[ayes]

well yeah if they werent into academic stuff they probably wouldnt be student council president haha so weve got one strict senpai, one pretty relaxed senpai (except for practice, she drills us pretty hard) and then idk how you'd even describe the third one she's kind of silly and over the top and super rich too i mean like whoaaaa her house is gigantic do you just know the one strict senpai or are you in a club with others?

[sakabroto]

huh yeah, that's probably true

[also what is it with there being a rich senpai?? Ryuji thought he was lucky to get to know Haru, but apparently it's a thing to know at least one rich person.

He's also really glad that this is over text and thus he can swallow his surprise when asked about a 'club.']

i know Makoto, the student council president, and Haru - she's into rooftop gardening. Makoto can be strict, but she's cool. Haru's really nice, but she packs a punch

[ayes]

[Luckily, You and Ryuji aren't savvy enough to get into a meta discussion of common fiction tropes?]

Ohhh that's neat! so is it a gardening club?
you guys were in the city right? no wonder you had to do rooftop gardening
haha we had a bunch of orchards near us... you can't fit those on a rooftop!

["Packs a punch" is a little weird for You... maybe he just means she was strong? From carrying all the gardening supplies?]

[sakabroto]

[Discussion maybe, but not tooootally meta.]

Haru might be in one, but idk
i'm not in any clubs anymore
and yeah, we're in the city, so she had to do it all on the rooftop
what'd you grow in your orchards?

[ayes]

oh okay so if you werent in a club you guys were just all kinda friends who hung out? and we grew mikan oranges! numazu and uchiura are kinda famous for their mikan my friend chika had an orchard behind her family's inn and she always dropped off a bunch whenever they were in season hahaha sometimes I thought she ate so many she'd turn into a big mikan herself

[sakabroto]

[Leeeeeet's go with that.]

yeah pretty much

pfft be pretty hilarious if she turned into one
but pretty nice to get free mikan like that
we always had to buy 'em in the city
the closest we got was sometimes the Boss would give us free coffee
which is gross, but he usually gave me soda

[ayes]

thats kinda funny bc chika (the friend with the orchard) haaaaates coffee shed agree with you! its pretty gross but i dont mind it so much see living in the city sounds really convenient and fund and everything but I dont think Id trade my sleepy little seaside town for anything you know? I mean before everything I guess :( hard to believe its all gone

[sakabroto]

ann used to tease me about not having a 'refined enough' tongue to understand it
but whatever
gross is gross and i know what's gross

and i know what you mean
on both fronts i guess
i'm still hoping there's some way to get it all back, yanno?
like if they could save us and make a friggin' planet
why can't they figure out a way to get our worlds back?

[ayes]

i know right!!

though I guess its a little different

like they could maybe remake earth like it used to be but
none of the people who they couldnt save would be there
it would be a new planet that just kinda looked like earth