A Musical Practice

[honokairo]

Who: The Love Live! Girls, anyone who lives at Hikawa Shrine, and anyone leaving and entering the shrine! And stalkers. There are stalkers.
What: Practice for performing on stage! Their first practice ever.
When: Sometime in the afternoon, after school is over.
Where: Hikawa Shrine, Union.
Summary: Honoka has finally managed to amass a group of people to get together as a little musical group to perform. They are going to try to practice together for the first time, and that could go any number of ways.

"Hello everyone!" She shouts once all the girls who she expected to come to practice arrive. "I wasn't sure where we could practice, but I'm so glad Rei let us come here and use the courtyard! So!"

She stands, feet at shoulder width, in front of the girls, looking determined as ever.

"We'll do some singing first! And after a little break, we'll try dancing! Someone will need to clap for us to keep time, but we can alternate who does that so everyone gets to practice dancing. And then! We can get something to eat when we're done! If there's someone you don't know, get to know them a little bit before we begin our practice!"

"Okay! Let's start!"

Comments

[honokairo]

Locked to the Love Live Cast

A: Dancing!

[Honoka is trying really, really hard to get all the moves right. But she flubs up every now and again. Sometimes she's not in time, sometimes she's doing the completely wrong move altogether. But, sometimes, she's getting it perfectly, or as perfect as someone as inexperienced as her can get it right. She looks over and grins, whether she screwed it up or not. Someone...might want to tell her though what she messed up or she'll never get it fixed.

She's still having fun, even though it's hard work. By the end, she's panting and out of breath.]

B: Break Time!

[Speaking of that out of breath, she wanders over to grab her water bottle for now, sitting up against a pillar or wall or what have you. Taking sips from it, she relaxes. That was hard work and man is she out of shape.

Maybe she needs to go on a diet.]

C: Singing!

[Finally after the break, they all line up to try to sing a song together. Honoka has brought along a little stereo with the music, playing it so they can work on harmonies and being together along with the accompaniment. It...probably doesn't sound so good at first, so they break into sectionals, helping each other out with their parts.]

Open to All

D: Mingle!

[Before and after the practice, Honoka can be found either saying hello and being generally friendly with everyone who approaches her, or if it's after, recovering from all the work. But she'll love to talk to you even if she's tired, if you approach her.]

D: i'm so sorry for this shitbird

[tsunbird]

[As a current inhabitor of Hikawa Shrine, Ankh was not exactly expecting a hoard of young girls singing and dancing in close proximity to where he sleeps. You know, Shrines are usually quiet, and all that? Apparently these girls had other plans with their loud voices and excitable, at least partially-synchronized dancing.]

[So some point after their little practice, there's a tall skinny guy with crazy hair and feathers wandering up to Honoka with a sort of alarmed expression on his face.]

So who exactly are all of you and what are you doing?

come to the power of friendship, ankh

[honokairo]

Well, we don't have a name yet. [She pauses to think. Ankh's question is a good one.] Right now we're just a group that has started to practice together so we can do live shows, but...

That's a good question!

his canon likes to forcibly hold his hand with friendship. literally.

[tsunbird]

[He tips his head at a degree that should be uncomfortable but doesn't seem to bother him at all.] You should probably work on the name part. Live shows benefit from advertisement, and you need something to be called for that.

HAHA good these girls will do the same to him

[honokairo]

Advertisement? [Oh man, she never thought of that.]

You mean handing out flyers and asking people to come to our shows?

did someone say diet

[umiiroshoujo]

[Everyone needs a break, of course. Human and Pokémon alike. Pushing too hard would simply result in complete exhaustion or injury. Or something like that. Even Umi needs a break! But she isn't quite as beat.]

For someone who's serious about this, you're surprisingly out of shape.

someone just might of said that

[honokairo]

!!!

Umi! But I was doing so well!

[....oh god...oh god...is she out of shape?!]

[umiiroshoujo]

[May Arceus have mercy on your soul, Honoka.]

You're determined, but look at yourself. This is taking more of a toll on you than it should.

[honokairo]

[Somebody help her]

But I've been working out so much lately...I feel fine!

[No she's a little winded, more than she should be.]

A. [1/2]

[future_sight]

[Is that applause? Standing by the sidelines is Nozomi, dressed in red and white shrine maiden robes. Someone else stands next to her, also dressed in white and red.]

[2/2]

[erichika]

[Eri is applauding politely, but her expression is definitely a bit more... severe.]

[honokairo]

[Honoka waves to the two of them and comes right over. But Eri looks scary.]

Nozomi! Eri! Hi!!!!

[future_sight]

Hard at work, I see. What do you think, Ericchi?

A

[nicocism]

[Nico didn't want to join but of course she can't just not come see what's going on. She's determined to disapprove of this mess though, even if it's really exciting seeing all these girls get together and practicing things.

So of course that means nitpicking every little thing]

You missed your step on back turn, so you were late facing forward again. Then you skipped the clap just to catch up! It throws the balance off if you don't at least move your body that way before the step back left again.

[honokairo]

I'm sorry Nico! [Senpai please don't be too harsh on her! She's trying so hard!]

I'll try again!

[nicocism]

Don't apologize, just do it better next time.

[Huff huff so much for not helping them practice]

It's like this, look.

[She demonstrates the part she was talking about. It's not perfect, but hey, she wasn't the one practicing this routine really, she just picked it up watching the last couple times they did it.]

You missed the step here, your foot was like this. It needs to be like this, okay, or you turn too slow.

[honokairo]

[She nods with determination at Nico. She will get it right, senpai.]

[Starting the music again, she imitates what Nico showed her, correcting her mistakes this time. She gets them all correct except she still turns a little too slow, misjudging how much momentum she needed to put into the turn. Finishing that moveset, she looks back to Nico, excited.]

How was that?

Dancing

[ricericebaby]

[Hanayo isn't faring much better at the dancing thing. Her glasses keep coming loose and falling off, and she has to stop halfway through.]

Maybe I should get a strap or something...

[honokairo]

What's the matter, Hanayo? [She stops too, seeing her friend distressed.]

[ricericebaby]

My glasses keep falling off. I don't think I can dance like this without losing them.

[honokairo]

Can you take them off and dance without them? [She thinks. She doesn't have any way to keep Hanayo's glasses on her head at all.]

A (and I'm not sorry)

[unbalancedlove]

[Since they practiced together, even if just a bit, Kotori and Honoka fall into synchronicity with surprise ease. It's a pity that their rhythm is not the one of the rest of the group nor are they using the right steps either.

And here, left... no, right!

Yet by betraying the natural rhythm that Honoka and her fell on that change into the correct steps causes a certain thing to happen.]

W-Waah!

[A certain crash of idols.]

ahahaha i love it

[honokairo]

Kootooriiiii-!!! Waaaaah!

[Bam, there's Honoka on the ground, a birdie lying on top of her.]

Oh....I don't think we did that right...

[unbalancedlove]

[At a certain distance from them a silly Scatterbug notices that her trainer fell and promptly throws itself into the ground to mimic her mistake.]

O-Ow... S-sorry, Honoka...

[If you have to fall it's better to do it with the Kotori that weights as much as cotton. She doesn't have too much extra weight but all those sweets do go somewhere.]

I think so too. It was right after the turn, wasn't it?

[honokairo]

Ohhhh, I don't remember! [She tries to pick herself up, holding her head. Owwwww.]

Was it the turn or was it the part where we switch places? It's so complicated!