Opening Night [OPEN]

[shikisha]

Who: Nonon Jakuzure and anyone who's interested in classical music, saw her post, or was invited by her. Feel free to tag around too and meet other people in their beautiful formal wear~!
When: Some Friday after her post.
Where: Opera House
What: Nonon has been working with the opera house's orchestra, and being the controlling girl she is, decided to stage a few concerts. Formal dress is expected. Nui Harime interrupts and kisses Nonon.
Rating/Warning: None likely.



It's opening night, and there's a nice big display board in front of the opera house announcing the first performance of Nonon Jakuzure conducting the house orchestra. Even with a little stylized depiction of Nonon with her signature pink hair and smug grin.

Formal dress is expected, though some people might be able to sneak inside in casual wear, just don't let Nonon catch you. She's going to be in the front of the house though, inside past the ticket booths where people can pick up tickets set aside for them ahead of time, if Nonon had done so. Of course, it's about as analogue as you can imagine, Nonon wasn't about to use the Cerevices to do ticketing, that just isn't classical, it would ruin the entire mood. No, she wants lines and printed tickets.

After greeting any friends or acquaintances the lights in the hall lower once, then twice, signalling the start. She disappears into the back, only to reappear on stage under a bright spotlight with the loud, almost deafening sound of a whistle.

"Entrance March! Under the Double Eagle!" She waves a large pink baton this way then back again. "Now, prepare for a jaunty, thrilling, and mind-blowing performance!"

She's dressed in a flashy conductor's outfit, and proceeds to lead the orchestra into their first song. The rest of more standard affairs of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, music people might have heard if they are from Earth, or somewhere vaguely Earth-like. In general it's not actually that long of a concert, no more than an hour and a half or so, with a short intermission. She wants to hit people with the loudest, most impressive sort of music she can, leaving them wanting more.

Sometime towards the end of the performance, the lights go out completely, only to return with a spotlight on one adorable blonde girl giggling. She invades the stage as if she belongs there, striding right up to Nonon to give her a kiss on the conductor's angry, shocked face, before floating away impossibly. Holding in her anger, Nonon wipes her lips with the back of her hand, blushing furiously, and proceeds with the last song after yelling at Nui Harime, something about getting even with her.

By the end she'll be hanging around the stage, meeting anyone who wishes to speak to her, and then going backstage to change if certain close relations wish to meet her there. She expects flowers to be thrown though of course, maybe even a standing ovation~.


[ ooc: Feel free to run into her whenever! And the date is kinda nebulous, just assume after the latest event. If you have any questions PM me or hit me up on plurk at ashleywr! ]

Comments

[keep_hope_alive]

Well, I wasn't owned by them, not that they didn't try mind you. I just read the fine print in the contract and did a little research.

[And then found the dirty gangster and beat the snot out of them, and turn them in to the police.]

And it's not that you can't play if you're not signed with them, it just made making a living harder is all.

[shikisha]

Organized crime is so last century. Nowadays you can make enough money even running a textiles company to run a private army bigger than most European states'. If a mafia like that had tried to take control of where I grew up, they never would have survived.

[ And that's the truth, Satsuki would never allow a group like that on her domain. ]

So that's what you've been doing before you got here? Playing for your supper on street corners?

[keep_hope_alive]

Well, organized crime is the thing where I'm from.

[He shrugs.]

Well, I used to struggle with getting food, but thanks to someone doing something about the mob the music scene and everything else has gotten much safer.

[He shrugs again, feeling a little proud of that last bit.]

[shikisha]

So you're from Italy then? Or America? I guess Trevor is more of an American name, isn't it?

[ He could not even be from Earth though, that would just be even stranger. ]

Oh, and who is that? Some kind of masked crusader? [ She snickers at her own joke. ]

[keep_hope_alive]

Yup. Born and raised in the U.S of A.

[Another Earth, if he could ever really make sense of what happened to it since he got here. At the mention of a masked crusader though...]

Actually.....yeah. Because of a masked crusader.

[Totally serious about that, seeing how he is said masked man.]

[shikisha]

Ara, I knew I was right. [ She looks so smug. Until he actually seriously says that her offhand comment was true. ]

...Are you kidding me?

[keep_hope_alive]

[And he just remains silent for that last bit, letting the silence carry his answer. Yes, he is dead serious. After a moment he clears his throat and continues.]

They call him "Cerberus", and he's been stomping around my hometown for a few years now. Nobody really seemed to like him at the start, but we've pretty much feel a lot better about him now. Less mobs, more clean jobs.

[shikisha]

[ She just shakes her head, some worlds are really dumb. Or maybe it's just an American thing. ]

Yeah, and he has superpowers?

[keep_hope_alive]

[He makes his world very special.]

Well, that depends on what you define as "superpowers". We just know he has magic and a sword. Theory is that he's with the mage academy but those guys deny any involvement with him and condone his actions.

[A beat.]

I think they even branded him a heretic or something.

[shikisha]

...Mage academy? Now I'm pretty sure you're making things up here. Or your version of America is really strange.

[ Yup, one or the other. ]

[keep_hope_alive]

I'm not making it up.

[A beat.]

I'm guessing magic isn't a thing your world? Have you ever heard of Rise City?

[shikisha]

Of course it's not.

[ Of course? She acts like everyone's world is dumb like her own. ]

..No. Am I supposed to have?

[keep_hope_alive]

Well, I suppose that and the existence of magic is where our world differs.

[He sighs.]

And here I thought I found another person from my world.

[shikisha]

I'm pretty sure it's going to be a lot more than that.

[ Given that he likely doesn't know about REVOCS, no one does, which is a big deal. ]