Rika

Ongaku Academy

^-^ Haha! No, far from it. More like a Sophomore in high school. I got advanced on both English II and Geometry finals! <3 <3

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Loved all of your replies! I'm sorry that I've only been posting once a day, but my tests are all done and I'll hopefully have more free time. cx <3 You'll all have a post later tonight! Promise!

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@hatakekuro Like, a tenor voice.

@Gooblefly Haha! Well, I meant your voice was manly. The name "Gobblefly" doesn't exactly scream "I'M A MANLY MAN! >:O" Haha! XD

@Obscene Symphony Oh, sorry for being vague! He meant Michio! <3

@MissCapnCrunch I feel so bad for Paris. XD I would murder Tatsuya if she was my roommate. God.

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@Vena Sera Aw, I'm sorry you got busy, hon! ;-; If we had more room, you'd definitely be a member, but we have too many people. <3 <3 I'm so sorry, I really am. I'm sure your character would have been a star! <3 Okay, okay?

@Obscene Symphony Okay, omg, thank you. XD I'm kind of awake now, and I posted, soo. Yes.

@hatakekuro Your voice is so low. o_o; I mean, that's a good thing, but I didn't expect it to be so low!

@Gooblefly And your voice is low too! Geez! XD Manly men.

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The First Day: An Intro to Ongaku

It did not take Tatsuya long to make herself at home. She kicked off her boots and settled on her bedspread, humming, maybe even purring. Her moms wanted to make sure her room looked exactly like her room back at home so she wouldn't feel homesick. Honestly, home hadn't even crossed her mind for the whole duration of the trip to Ongaku, nor during the time spent staring at the ceiling. The only sound that brought her out of her peaceful trance was a buzzing inside of her pocket. Eyes wide, alert, Tatsuya took her iPhone out and stared broodingly at the name on the screen. Michio. At the message, she rolled her eyes and began to type in characters, but shortly after, she got another text. Her heart stopped. Tsukino. Her two dear friends from childhood were rooming together. In a mass and fit of giggles, Tatsuya began typing away, a funny grin curved in her lips.

Right ahead of ya, sucker! >w< I got here two hours ago. And yeah, that's Tsuki-san! I'll see you two dolls at the dinner. ^w^ Get acquainted and stuff!

And send. Tatsuya relaxed, but once again tensed whenever she heard a quick, harsh knocking at the door. And then, a voice. The girl stood, her eyebrows furrowing in confusion at what her.. assumed roommate had said. She grinned funnily again, walking over to the door and tugging it open, finding a pink-haired girl standing in the hallway. This was the piano prodigy? "What the hell are you talking about? Gosh, come on, this is your room too." As though they were already good friends, Tatsuya took the girl's hand and dragged her inside the strawberry-scented lair.

"Paris Uzumaki, huh?" Tatsuya frowned, tipping her head. "That's a weird first name. It sounds fancy, though. Paris." Tatsuya chuckled, turning towards her and taking a small, quick bow. "I'm Tatsuya Aika and starting today, I'm your roommate! Nice to meet you!"

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Tsukino pushed up his glasses, taking a seat on his already-made, grey bed. His own side of the room was not much. It had a desk with paper and notes scrawled all over it. Probably the most noticeable thing was a shelf absolutely stacked with a disarray of books and journals. Tsukino noticed the younger boy texting someone, and he smiled in a fox-like way at his question, nodding. Michio. Or as Tatsuya called him, "Mi-kun", which Tsukino found to be very Tatsuya-like. Oh, how famous she was for giving people she liked or loved nicknames. In Japan, it might have been considered disrespectful to give them so early, but her cute, girlish looks usually let her get away with a lot of stuff. Tsukino's green eyes peered up at Michio over the rims of his glasses. He had known Tatsuya longer than anyone at the Academy, surely.

"Yes, Tatsuya-chan is a good friend of me. And I know very well that she is more than a good friend of yours, hm?" His tone was nonchalant and light-hearted as usual. He pushed up his glasses again. "Her mother, Akira-san, worked for my family as a maid when Tatsuya-chan was about nine or ten, so we became friends." Observing him, Tsukino sat up a bit, leaning against the bed board. "She called me the day she was accepted in the Academy and mentioned that you were accepted too. It's funny how this whole roommate thing worked out, huh?" Tsukino stood, stretching his arms and yawning.

"But anyway, enough about her. We'll have plenty of time to talk to her during the dinner. In the meantime, what are you in here for? I bet it's something smart. You look smart." He innocently put his hands behind his back.

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So I've been brainstorming pretty much non-stop since we started this thing and I had an expansion on the whole 'secret band' thing, if we were to go that direction. What if, when the band builds up a fan base, their website broadcasts the locations of concerts in code? Something like a melody that doesn't work, or a track with coordinates spoken between other sounds, and altered to sound like incomprehensible techno music? Or maybe some of their songs do something similar? Maybe I'm going way off the rails but I figured I might as well mention some ideas. Any thoughts?

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I really like this idea. The website thing would seem like a less complicated route. So, we get Michio to build a website, right? Perhaps in one of their songs, they mention a code to only access certain parts of a website to see when their upcoming gigs are up. And you know, Ongaku is filled with rock-deprived geniuses, so they'd pick it up really quick. Ahh, and as for teachers being suspicious.. Later, and I mean MUCH later in the plot, they do an investigation under the help of an antagonistic snitch? But let's not get ahead of ourselves.

Thank you for laying this idea on the table! I like it! If my ideas are kind of stupid, just say so. I want to make it conflicting and dramatic, but at the same time, this roleplay centers on character development. I'm more into our characters and their personal perceptions of situations than an actual conflict itself, which is the second most important thing to me. I hope that makes sense. I'm really tired because of testing. XD

So, Michio is the manager, handling things. He needs an assistant, right? And we also need a makeup/costumes person flamboyantly gay man. Is there anything I'm not covering?

TO DUMB IT DOWN FOR MYSELF SO I DON'T LOOK AT MY POST LATER AND BE LIKE "WTF".

To be secretive among students, the band, after acquiring a fan base BEFORE their first gig(and by fan base, I mean Tsukino, Fukatsu, Hiro, and maybe some NPCs), the makeup/costumes guy is introduced after their first gig, which will be played some place underground, idk. And after getting a BUNCH of people as their fans, teacher suspicions arise and they disguise a website as a classical music appreciation website. BUT THE FANS THAT KNOW THEIR SONGS CRACK THE CODE, so they use this to access upcoming gigs and what not.

AM I CORRECT?

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Understandable! Everyone, wish me luck on my state tests today! >0<

<3 Also, after Gobblefly posts, I will post and we can get this hype-train a rollin' faster! :3

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@Obscene Symphony@Mr_pink@hatakekuro Oh my, oh my! I really love all of your ideas! So, let me get this straight. After the dinner, the characters will be called up to a stage(alphabetically maybe or by grade?) and are requested to showcase their talent on the spot? Before that, though, yes, Tatsuya could pitch her idea to Michio and Tsukino and Michio could take notes while Tsukino could do research on the students. c:

@hatakekuro Oh, poor baby! *huggles* Don't be embarrassed! Like @MissCapnCrunch said, we believe in you! >< You got dis! <3 <3 <3

And everyone's posts are lovely so far. c: <3 <3 Cute, cute, cute!

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Annnd, the IC is up! @Obscene Symphony, I hope you don't mind me assuming Michio is already there. c: I'll edit if you so please.

Everyone, post away! I encourage you to already be in your rooms or just arriving in your rooms! Get to know your roommate! <3 After everyone posts, I will announce the next course of action!

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The First Day: An Intro to Ongaku

Tatsuya Aika paced and paced and paced. She didn't know how long. Maybe too long, because the feeling in her legs became lost. The night before, she had made sure to memorize every map Ongaku Academy had to offer. The first floor was the lobby and basic classes like math or science--the useless stuff. And then, the second floor was a physical activity floor filled to the brim of ballet dancers or hip hop dancers or tap dancers. The third floor was the most important, lined with doors containing instruments and microphones. And the very top floor were the dorms, but that didn't matter now. What mattered was.. was.. her band.

Tatsuya had arrived in the morning, earlier than expected of a regular student, and organized/decorated her new dorm a bit, making sure to leave room for her roommate. She was pretty sure Mi-kun would be texting or calling her soon, expecting her to have slept late or to have totally forgotten about it. Little did he know, she had been decorating every inch of her side of the room with posters of her favorite anime and manga characters, tidying up her desk with manuscripts for music and songs, and polishing her guitar which she kept so neatly propped up in the corner of the room. And now, here she was, pacing and pacing and pacing. Her head was swimming in nerves of her prospect for a new band. Of course she was confident enough to gather a handful of people to make it happen, but.. still, Tatsuya was only human. She couldn't pull it off alone. The small girl stopped in the middle of the soft-carpeted room, staring ahead with more of a glare than anything. That was where Mi-kun came in. He had worked in a shop for most of his life. He could handle some things. Yes.

And Tsukino. Tsukino, one of her other childhood friends who was more or less supportive of most of the things she did. This would bring no harm to anyone, forming a band. Tatsuya slowly backed away, taking a seat on her comfy, pink sheets. She hugged her plush cat, tapping her foot in thought. Okay. You can do this. She told herself over and over. You can do this with some help. Yeah. Okay. Tatsuya had heard there was a big welcome dinner hosted by the Academy the first day, so she would find Mi-kun there and even Tsukino too. There, she would give them her grand idea. And they would damn approve it.

In fact, I could even go search for them now! She thought, abruptly standing up, but stopped dead in her tracks. Oh, yeah. She wanted to meet her roommate, who she heard was a piano prodigy. I've never met a piano prodigy before.. This could be a big deal. I bet she's really cool. She has a weird name, though. Furrowing her eyebrows, Tatsuya patiently took a seat, waiting then.

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Tsukino had given tours in the morning to cute, little first years, so he hadn't gotten a chance to greet his old time friend at the door as he planned to. It was, after all, fun giving her a hard time. But instead, he checked on a list to see if she had arrived, and oddly, Tatsuya was one of the first ones. This must mean a lot to you. He thought, avoiding the stares of giggling first year girls in the lobby. Grabbing a complimentary apple that was meant for new students, Tsukino shoved his hand in his pocket and stared up at the roommate list. He had had the same room since Year 1, but his old roommate had finally graduated for being quite the accomplished dancer. Tsukino had seen his roommate's face on Tatsuya's cellphone wallpaper, and maybe once or twice in public with her, but that was about it. Michio Ueno. Huh. He frowned, starting to casually stroll up the stairs.

The 4th year student took a bite of his stolen apple, walking up and up three flights of stairs until he found himself caught in the girls' dorm hallway. All boys had to walk through it to get to their own, and some, Tsukino mused, lingered longer than they should have. He was surprised of the lenient rules of Ongaku Academy. Girls were allowed in boys' rooms and boys were allowed in girls' rooms. Then again, most students there were solely focused on their studies to ever even think on flirting. Tsukino took another bite of his apple, arriving at his room and opening the door.

There, his roommate stood, tall and unimposing. Smiling, Tsukino's arms lowered to his side as he tossed his mutilated apple in the trash can, tipping his head at the sight of Tatsuya's best friend. "Ah, you must be Ueno Michio. A pleasure to meet you. I'm Tsukino Yorushi."