dear_mun | OC - Mun is voice-testing again

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OC - Mun is voice-testing again

Mundane,

Okay, if you really insist, I'll call you that. I still think it sounds rude. Just a couple things.

1. How old is they guy I'm talking to over at LJ? And why do you think it's amusing that I'm talking to him? He seems okay, for an adult. Why do you think Father wouldn't like him?

2. You have a novel to edit. You have a 100 challenge you gave yourself, for me, which is cool, don't get me wrong. You have two other muses - really, we're called muses? - in games right now. What's with this idea of sending me across the country to NYC? I'll be away from Carol and Father, away from Lee and Kyle, and is there even a Court in NYC? If there is, isn't there some sort of procedure I'd have to follow to go? Or do I have to go ask Aunt Verity about that, too? And anyway, weren't you thinking of sending the French chick there? How much time do you think you have?

3. I did mention the novel, right? Because I'd like to be more than just an RP muse.

~ Raven

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I've found mundanes totally worthless when it comes to writing novels.

[Hi there, pretty androgynous Asian person. Raven might have to take a moment, because you remind her of her almost-boyfriend for some reason....]

Really? She's written the thing twice now. She needs to stop being self-conscious and edit it. She's in draft three. It's not like she doesn't know how my story goes.

Are you one for a novel, too?

Hey at least yours has finished yours. Mine gave up not even halfway through of mine. Left me in a rather... well, a spot I would rather not be left.

Novel, these sort of places, the New York you were speaking of...

Not even halfway? That bites. Keep bugging her to get back to it. Mine's been working on this for years.

It's nice to have a place to vent, I'll give it that. And to talk to other people. Father would probably think it's good for me. Get me out of my shell a bit, you know?

Some crazy underground New York. Her redhead's there now, and so's the guy I've been talking to at the other place. She thinks it might be amusing to see how I'd do there.

[She shakes her head.]

I don't think she gets how busy I am, even though she's the one who makes me that busy. She isn't thinking of sending McKenzie anywhere.

Yep, that's the New York I'm at. I've been worse places, but it's not where I'd like to be. Muns don't seem to care much about what we want.

So I'm noticing. Where would you rather be?

So, this version of New York...is it...um...have you seen anyone in it carrying bags of blue stones?

Tokyo. Where I'd been headed before I ended up there.

Blue stones? No, not really. Like sapphires or something?

Tokyo? [Grin.] All the best designers are in Tokyo.

[And that helps her pinpoint which Asian the pretty androgynous person - woman? - is.]

Were you going to visit family, or for a job interview, or...?

[She shakes her head, glancing down for a moment. Probably would have been better not to ask.]

No, not sapphires. Little blue stones, like pebbles you'd find in a river, or on the beach. About the size of a circus peanut.

So I've been told. I've never followed fashion too closely.

Eh... It was sort of a career move. Going to see if I could make it in the big city [She gives a sardonic smile]

No then. Nothing like that.

I follow some of the EGA and other stuff online. I like to repurpose things I find at the thrift stores. And h.naoto's lines are are like my dream wardrobe. If I had the money....

Make it big? Are you a performer of some sort?

[Certainly captivating enough.]

Moving to a new city's gotta be difficult, though. It's weird for me. I've never left home. And now I live with my father on weekends, in a different city. Not that it's far, but it still takes some getting used to.

[She can't quite hide her disappointment at that.]

Anything...weird, then? I've heard New York can be kind of weird. Not as weird as Portland, I don't think, but....

Ah. That's pretty neat. I know a couple of people who do that sort of stuff. Repurposing.

It's not exactly new. I've been to Tokyo many times before, but not to stay. I might not stay as is, I might end up having to leave for somewhere else, but I figure I have to try there first.

And yea. I'm an actress.

Weird? Sure. There's all kinds of weird. But what can you expect from an underground city?

Smile. Give her a bit of praise....]

It's a lot easier now that I have a dressmaker's dummy. I'd kill for a good sewing machine, though. I had an okay one, but it broke last summer. I'm back to hand-stitching everything, or borrowing a machine at school after hours, if our family and consumer sciences teacher doesn't mind staying late for me once in a while.

[Oh, now that is very cool.]

Gonna be a film actress, or a stage actress? Do they have Oscars and Emmys and Tonys in Japan?

[Yeah, about that underground thing....]

How does anyone get enough vitamin D in that place?

I'd imagine. I can sew a bit, but it's mostly just repair stuff. Buttons and hems and the like. I can't imagine making actual clothing.

Stage. There's some awards, yea, but that's never really what I perform for.

[A short laugh]

They probably put it in the water.

That's how you start is buttons and hems. Adding a bit of lace here, a bit of trim there. Getting things at thrift stores is great, because you can deconstruct them to get patterns and ideas without spending a ton of money. I've got a dress I did that's made up of five or six different pieces.

Stage is cool. Is there a big theater community in Tokyo, the way there is in New York or Toronto over here?

[She laughs as well.]

Everything's in the water. And I bet the vitamin companies make a fortune in selling supplements.

Suppose so. It's... not really something that's ever interested me much.

It's pretty much Japan's version of those cities, at least from what I've been told. Don't have much of a basis of comparison.

Them and the electric company.

Oh. [Awkward Raven is awkward.] I didn't mean to ramble on. Sorry about that. Not a lot of people seem to be interested in sewing and stuff, even with all the ridiculous clothing they make on Project Runway that everyone can't stop talking about.

[She fidgets for a moment.]

Never been outside Japan before?

[That gets a smirk, and then a very serious look.]

The electric company's gotta be making a killing. Underground, what other sources of light and heat are there?

No, no you're fine. I can do the same sort of thing if you get me started on dance or the like.

[A shrug]
Not... as such.

[She'll give you a shy smile for that.]

Actor and a dancer? That is cool. What kind of dancing? Just theater dancing, or other kinds as well, like waltzing and line dancing and stuff?

Not as such? Going on a boat offshore doesn't count, you know.

[Just a little teasing, because it's a strange answer. Though not really that strange, if she stops and thinks about it, which she doesn't.]

Musical theatre does require a lot of its participants. And the Revue, doubly so. I studied ballet and modern formally, and I've picked up a bit of other stuff as need be. So yes, I can waltz.

It's... complicated.

The Revue? You've got a specific theater in mind you want to audition for, I take it?

I used to think waltzes were evil. Quadrilles are evil, now. And chain dances are the worst.

[You're piquing her curiosity, you know. But it's still difficult to ask.]

Complicated how? You don't...you don't do the 'door thing', do you?

Oh, ah, no. I was a member of the Takarazuka Revue for a while as an otokoyaku. That's what I meant.

Ah, I've not had to do a quadrille. Or really a chain dance. Closest I've come is precision line work.

Door thing? [And she's suddenly on guard

The what as a what? You've lost me on that, I'm afraid. But if you've performed with a company, that's good for your resume, right? Experience the other actors won't have.

There are a lot of turns and criss-crossing of paths with other dancers in a quadrille, especially the way - the way Father taught it to me. And with a chain dance, you have to hope the person in front knows what they're doing, or else you end up in a big knot and you can't move.

[She notices the slight shift of expression, and nods slowly. She's half-hoping the wariness is because the woman understands.]

Door thing. Where you open a door and step through to a different place entirely. I...I know someone who can do that.

Otokoyaku. Means I played male roles. Takarazuka's all-female. I... can't really put it on my resume though.

I know of those dances. Just... not much call for them on stage. Or anywhere I know of really. You do historical reenactment or something?

What sort of other place?

Like reverse Shakespeare. So that means you get to be Caliban or Dracula instead of Miranda or Mina. Definitely cool. A lot of the really good parts are written for guys. Except for Madea, but no one ends up liking her by the end of the play.

No, not historical reenactment. They're...they're part of this thing Father brings me to when I visit him. Dancing's expected, so I've had to learn fast.

[She's going to watch your expression carefully while she talks, just in case she can catch any sort of recognition.]

Sometimes it's a mundane place, like ending up at home when she walks through a door at school, or ending up in the bathroom when she'd been walking into the cafeteria. But sometimes, if she concentrates, she'll end up somewhere that isn't mundane.

Yea, pretty much like that. I was totally thrilled when they sorted me for it in school.

Oh. That's interesting. Sounds... a bit needlessly formal though.

[She chews on her bottom lip for a moment, choosing her next words with extreme care]
I... know of such things being possible. Sort of. Never to mundane places though.

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