897/Idol Musings

Idol Musings
Date of Scene:	21 January 2016
Location:	Mitakihara - Fairy Drop Fashionables
Synopsis:	Reiko Touyama spots Tsubasa Kazanari shopping inside her favorite boutique! She awkwardly introduces heself. Then more awkwardness ensures.
Cast of Characters:	Reiko Touyama, Tsubasa Kazanari

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Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama is sort of peeking around the Fairy Drop Boutique today, looking at clothes and gift packs. She sighs a bit, glumly, in her usual dress and wear of her jacket, black shirt and jeans. She doesn't have a backpack or sketchbook on her as she is shopping and didn't expect to get caught by a muse today to draw anything.

Really, a lot of the past month is still on her mind. Not nearly as much as it has been but things still tug at her. What if she acted sooner.... what if she followed Hiroko's advice... maybe she should move on...

She sighs and takes a deep breath and closes her eyes as she peeks in between two clothes on a rack and removes a red shirt with a white star in the middle she turns around and hrms... "No.... Too Red.... maybe good for Mei though...." she thinks.

She puts the shirt back on the rack and looks for something else to catch her eye. So far... nothing else is.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
But perhaps someone will. Wearing a nearly white teal jacket on top of a white shirt, along with a striped pair of orange shorts and white boots... it's Tsubasa Kazanari. She seems to have come in alone, and starts browsing through clothes. Similar to what she's wearing right now, casual easygoing clothes unsuited to the stage and not in line with any local school's uniform regulations.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama spreads a rack of clothes and peeks in at them and then beyond as she blinks blinks blinks at the person she sees out from between the rack. She leans forward and her eyes widen. She digs into her pocket and fumbles for her phone and begins opening a page on the smartphone's webbrowser and begins swiping to a picture and then holds the phone up and looks at the picture of Tsubasa on stage...

To the girl she sees...

Picture.... girl....

No way!? Here!? And alone!? And no entourage or guardians or security!? Celebrities just DO that!? Reiko has a very vivid picture of what celebrity life is like and it's mostly all wrong.

She carefully closes the clothes around her as she peekkks from around the rack and begins to tiptoe over towards Tsubasa slowly. She peeks from around a closer rack.

Tip toe, tip toe.

She looks up at Tsubasa with wide eyes standing behind her.

woooooow, Mei or Ikiko or Ayana is never going to belive her!

No way! She needs a picture! or--or an autograph! or something anything!

Oh. She realizes she's just standing there staring like a looney if Tsubasa bothers to turn around to the girl. She stammers- regardless and finally speaks..

"Um... h..-hello there. Aren't you..... Tsubasa Kazanari...?" she asks, the smaller younger girl wide eyed with wonder and also her eyes are juuuuust begining to sparkle.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
Tsubasa turns around when she hears the nervous voice, and puts on her stage personality, smiling at the younger girl. "Yes, I am. Are you a fan?" She glances around the store, to see if anyone else is paying attention. "Try not to draw attention, okay? I don't want to cause a scene." She's pleasant, though there's also a clear element of 'going through the motions' with this, and almost immediately goes back to looking through clothes, barely paying attention to Reiko.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
At first, Reiko takes the smiling, pleasent voice at face value- but then... there's that... oddness. A sense of familiarity to this tone. Where has she heard this kind of tone before? She seems to tap her bottom lip in thought a moment and looks a little introspective for a moment. It reminds her of someone...

It's Hiroko, but she can't put that together in her head right now. So instead, she resumes her nervous, but slightly pleasent demeanor. "O-oh, okay! Yes--I'm a fan!" she says, lightly- it's okay, Reiko doesn't want to drag attention to /herself/ either. She does peek at what Tsubasa seems to be looking at.

"Um..my name's... Reiko Touyama! but.. um... you probably..."

"Don't really care.." she says.

Ugh. Talk about feeling like a small fish in a big pond. In fact, a koi appears- swimming in the air, orange and vibrant and seems to be sitting in a tiny kiddy pool. It's drinking from a cup from a silly stray and has sunglasses on.

Reiko peers at this and frowns. That's like the OPPOSITE of how she's feeling! Tsubasa can see the koi if she bothers to look at this spectacle. Reiko doesn't seem to expect Tsubasa to see this. (Usually, everyone doesn't see them, but magical types? They see them. Boy do they see them.)

She looks to Tsubasa, with wide eyes again. "So... do you. Come here often? It's a nice store. I've been...trying... someplace else...because... a friend said...to be more elegant... you gotta try to look the part! But that's just part of it...!"

The koi in the hilarously tiny kiddy pool nods at Reiko matter of factly.

Yeah that's happening.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
"It's always nice to meet a fan, Touyama-san." Tsubasa glances towards Reiko again when she says that, and then blinks. She stares right at the koi for a bit, before turning back to browsing through clothes. They're hardly elegant clothes, it's more street casual than anything, not even all that expensive looking. "I try to avoid sticking to any particular shop. I'd stop being able to shop the way I like." She doesn't bother explaining why, and she's definitely not acknowledging seeing the koi.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama sort of blinks at Tsubasa's staring of the koi. She looks at the koi. She looks at Tsubasa. Koi. Tsubasa. She breaks contact. Was she just..staring at blank space? Or did she see the koi!? She looks at it for answers. It shrugs- because it doesn't know if it was seen or not. She frowns at the koi severely, it's eyes widen and then it poofs away in an orange sparkle, leaving a little glitter in it's wake. She sighs and shakes her head.

She crosses her arms. "Y-yeah it-- must be hard. To shop when you're famous...I bet. Like... people like me approach you." she mutters. "Oh--I'm sorry, I'm not.. trying to--bother you just. I-- wanted to...say... hello...."

Oh god now she's stammering into muttering come on Reiko ELEGANCE!

ELEGANCE!

"Elegance!" says Reiko...

OH-----darn that one was outloud! She covers her mouth and as she murrrrgs. "I mean!--- um. Elegant--is..how you are. On stage!"

A koi appears, it is holding a sign , it says 'Nice Save!' to some effect before it dissapears. Reiko sort of wants to die on the spot.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
"Nice save." Tsubasa reads aloud, looking at the sign when she does. This time, the smile seems a little less practiced, somehow this entire situation amuses her enough to warm her out of well-practiced fan interaction habits. "Are you coming to my concert this weekend?" She is back to looking at clothes, hiding her face from Reiko, and the koi. She picks a black jacket, holds it up and looks at it, apparently trying to judge what she thinks of it.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama says. "Yeah--I am....! I've had tickets for weeks!"

'Nice Save'? Oh---oh no she /can/ see them. This makes her intensely more upset somehow. She knows only certain people can see them. But she doesn't pry. She's kind of already all up in this person's face and ugh. Intense desire to want to curl up and die on the spot risiiiiiing.

"That jacket looks really nice and---it's gonna get colder before it gets warmer... my grandpa always says..." she says softly.

She pauses for a bit, and finally brings up the orange elephant with a koi tail in the room after some thinking.

"So... you can see them right...? My friends...?" she asks curiously. She motions her hand to the right. A koi appears. It waves smarily. It dissapears. "I--i'm sorry. I really have no control over them... so..if they're annoying you I can't really...do much about it...um..." she mutters and stammers.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
"Seems like I can." Tsubasa doesn't bother denying it, but she doesn't attach much weight to it either. Instead, she gets another jacket out of the rack, this one is denim instead of black, and she seems to be comparing them. "I'll look for you in the audience, then." She promises, though of course this is easily said and hard to check upon. It's not like she isn't looking at all of the audience during her concerts to begin with. "How long have you been a fan?"

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama thinks on this, how long has she been a fan... well, "Well..I have... I think.. I heard the second..or third Zewi Wing album. I mean, I have it! on CD!" you barely see CDs nowadays afterall! She tries not to go too deep into that name though. Reiko is many things but 'an idiot' isn't one of them. She's pretty sure's done 'enough damage' just by mentioning it- but- well. She asked.

What could she even say about such an old wound? She was too young to really understand much beyond 'neat music and a desire to be famous someday' at the time. She's a little older now of course than two years ago.

She tilts her head, a koi mimics these motions just over her right shoulder. It looks about as wide eyed as she does. At least, she doesn't seem annoyed by her koi--or isn't asking about them.

"But--I've never been to a concert, this is going to be my first!----I...wasn't ever old enough to go by myself.. and---"

"...my parents never really have time to take me... and... grandpa.. is too old for that kinda stuff..." she says.

"BUT! I can go by myself this year!" she beams wide.

"It's going to be so fun!" she says with wide eyes again, totally psyched for this. The koi mimics this- it's now sparkle eyeing at Tsubasa in turn.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
If Tsubasa has anything to say about Zwei Wing, she keeps it to herself, calm, collected. "I hope you'll enjoy the concert." She clearly doesn't want to discourage Reiko from being a fan. She notices the koi's wide sparkle eyes, and frowns mildly at it. "Good thing you don't need tickets for your friends?" She suggests, adding, "And remember, magic is no game."

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama head tilts and blinks... the last sentence causes the koi to dissapear with that 'sparkle pop'. She seems taken a-back. 'magic is no game...'....

"It used to be...." she says softly.

"...I guess.. you know then too. About stuff." she says.

She looks around curiously as she sighs. "...it was a game! I mean... me and my friend... made up this story. Like.. make belive. She wrote it.. I drew all the costumes-- and the characters- and--- it was make belive--it /was/..." she says insists.

"But... I dunno... something happened. My friend just woke... up one day. And the mascots I drew were real. And we were real magical girls and.... the bad guys I drew were all real..." she sighs.

"It was... a story. About girls.. who protect color. You know? Prism Keepers... and... I was orange! Because... orange reminds me of koi! I really like koi." she admits. "--and they-- we protect color from... Griselda. And the Gray Kingdom-- who commands the Shades..." she says. "-- if there's no color... people lose hope and.. get drained of energy." she just sort of wilts visibly now. "eh--sorry. I know you didn't ask just...I know. It isn't a game. Grisedla wants to kill me afterall... so that she can replace everything 'orange' on Earth with grey. The same with the other Keepers-- and all we've found so far is me and Red!" she says nervously.

"All I can really do is take one of the inactive Chroma Crystals with me and hope it reacts to someone one day..." she says.

"...someone who's favorite color means something important to them... that'd be willing to protect it...and become it and---" she sighs.

"I'm sorry. This is just something I've been real down a lot recently...I should... maybe I should...leave you alone.. now. I'll.. um! I'll be at the concert! I promise!" she smiles weakly.

Tsubasa Kazanari has posed:
The idol listens, and then just says a simple thing. "Good luck, be careful." Tsubasa doesn't smile anymore, no, she sounds quite serious, and perhaps a little down. She turns back towards her clothes shopping, and seems to be very intent on not saying anything else, or otherwise paying attention to Reiko. She's also actively hiding her eyes from the younger girl.

Reiko Touyama has posed:
Reiko Touyama wanted to ask for an autograph but...now she feels like jerk...and sad and....

Why can't she just be normal?.... What's normal anyways?... does she even remember..,? What's it's like to not have silly little koi following you---seeing tiny future selves or... being friends a werewolf? a talking magic fox? Ughhhhhhh.

"Y--yeah I will..I'll leave you alone now..um. Maybe...I can get your autograph then... at the show!" she says.

She turns and begins to leave because she desperartly wants to get out of here now.