Here, I take a lot of photos because of what I have to do for work. If I don't keep up a social media presence, I'm pretty easily forgotten. I live in Japan - Tokyo, precisely. I go to Shinonome Academy with Bakaomi, and we're part of the Special Class which is the super elite, basically? You get in via testing, but also there's a scouting process to make sure that there's a lot of talent pooled into each year.
No, Aimi's an idol - we're sort of the same sector, but not really? I'm a stage actor, so I do more theater performances whereas she does music and a couple of other stuff.
But... yeah - my school is pretty weird.
[he snorts]
They figured out this new weird tech that lets you peer into dreams and put on performances inside those dreams? It's soooo weird - but if you graduate at the top of the class, you get a whole lot of perks, so we have to do well anyway.
Huh. Sounds pretty advanced. They kept tech in the orphanage pretty dated—stuff like an iPod and a Gameboy were pretty much the fanciest things I could get, and even those were hard to get a hold of.
[because the method he got them through was bad.]
Anyway, what kind of performances? Shakespeare type stuff, or musicals, or...?
Oohh - yeah! Everyone has phones like mine. And if you wanna play more modern games, Justice is fixing my Switch.
[WHICH TAKA FUCKING BROKE,, but he'll pull up his photo album and start swiping through photos of Tokyo! senri goes around pretty frequently, so there's a bunch of super aesthetic pictures in there. skylines, cute cafes, desserts, some of what looks like a school campus or backstage....]
... What kind of console is the Switch, anyway—wait, why is it broken?
[but yeah the switch came out after 2015, ergo ray doesn't know what it is. oops.
... though in a way, this is a surreal experience. looking through photos of random scenes on a phone. had he, emma, and norman been born into this world instead, is this the kind of thing they'd have been doing?]
Taka dropped it in the snow like an idiot. [he huffs] But it's a pretty new one! It's portable but also one you can hook up to the TV? It's pretty neat. When I get back, let's play.
[but senri will keep just swiping through - his life on display for ray. it's so painfully normal.]
Yep - one of the best. They call me the hope of the theater. It's why I even got a chance to attend Shinonome. My grades aren't the best, but I'm talented.
Traveling is expensive... and I get paid well from shows, but these days it all goes straight back to making sure I can eat and keep up at the academy. But I do want to go to New York or London one day! They have really big performing scenes - Broadway and West End.
When I was a kid, I really wanted to see the Mona Lisa and the Sagrada Família. [surprise, ray is actually a giant art/architecture nerd, apparently.] Well, I guess it doesn't matter anymore, though.
he just smiles at that, though it's not exactly a happy one.]
... You asked once, in the first week here, why I was so prepared to deal with death. You seemed kind of confused when I explained, but—well, I guess you came to some kind of conclusion.
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No. I'm messing with you. When we were kids, Emma's dream for the outside was to ride a giraffe. This just reminded me of that.
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senri blinks and then laughs - ]
Ray-kun has jokes...? Wow!
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[just saying.]
Anyway, you're from Japan, right? What it's like?
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[but senri will hum at that]
Wellllll - oh!
[he'll actually fish out his phone?]
Here, I take a lot of photos because of what I have to do for work. If I don't keep up a social media presence, I'm pretty easily forgotten. I live in Japan - Tokyo, precisely. I go to Shinonome Academy with Bakaomi, and we're part of the Special Class which is the super elite, basically? You get in via testing, but also there's a scouting process to make sure that there's a lot of talent pooled into each year.
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What do you do? Are you like Ai and Love?
[that whole, uh, idol business.]
I know how some of school works from novels and what Madoka told me. Is yours different?
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But... yeah - my school is pretty weird.
[he snorts]
They figured out this new weird tech that lets you peer into dreams and put on performances inside those dreams? It's soooo weird - but if you graduate at the top of the class, you get a whole lot of perks, so we have to do well anyway.
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Huh. Sounds pretty advanced. They kept tech in the orphanage pretty dated—stuff like an iPod and a Gameboy were pretty much the fanciest things I could get, and even those were hard to get a hold of.
[because the method he got them through was bad.]
Anyway, what kind of performances? Shakespeare type stuff, or musicals, or...?
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[WHICH TAKA FUCKING BROKE,, but he'll pull up his photo album and start swiping through photos of Tokyo! senri goes around pretty frequently, so there's a bunch of super aesthetic pictures in there. skylines, cute cafes, desserts, some of what looks like a school campus or backstage....]
Yes and yes.
I can do it all - it's what I'm known for.
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[but yeah the switch came out after 2015, ergo ray doesn't know what it is. oops.
... though in a way, this is a surreal experience. looking through photos of random scenes on a phone. had he, emma, and norman been born into this world instead, is this the kind of thing they'd have been doing?]
You must be pretty good, then.
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[but senri will keep just swiping through - his life on display for ray. it's so painfully normal.]
Yep - one of the best. They call me the hope of the theater. It's why I even got a chance to attend Shinonome. My grades aren't the best, but I'm talented.
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[probably less so for senri but eh.]
Do you get to travel?
[while he's been genuinely curious throughout the conversation so far, it gets upped a notch here.]
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Don't remind me.
[UGH - ]
Traveling is expensive... and I get paid well from shows, but these days it all goes straight back to making sure I can eat and keep up at the academy. But I do want to go to New York or London one day! They have really big performing scenes - Broadway and West End.
Zo is from the States - you can ask her about it!
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[born into the wrong dimension, and all.]
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... how come? You can't go to normal Earth at all...?
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Theoretically, yes. On a practical level, though, there's a reason Earth was divided to begin with.
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[this is so weird for him to even wrap his head around]
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To put an end to a war between humans and demons. [surprise!] The humans got one half, and the demons got the other.
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Demons...? But - then why aren't you in the world with humans? Or -
[that has to be the case, right? if ray didn't know anything about senri's world directly....]
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he just smiles at that, though it's not exactly a happy one.]
... You asked once, in the first week here, why I was so prepared to deal with death. You seemed kind of confused when I explained, but—well, I guess you came to some kind of conclusion.
What were you thinking back then, Senri?
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But....
[demons...]
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[he laughs, just a little.]
I have no idea how he came up with that one.
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