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sub_dividedOut of curiosity, which one of these would you rather see:
1. Ritsuka's class puts on a school play. Ritsuka is the understudy for the lead, Yuiko is a surprisingly good villain (everyone is shocked), Yayoi is a humorous marginal character. The lead, who is also on the soccer team, has a match during rehersals, so Ritsuka subs in and of course he's a really great actor. Of course. The entire class (along with Shinomine-sensei, who has her own reasons) insists that he play lead instead. He wants to refuse, but that kind of acceptance is dizzying. In a moment of weakness, he accepts. Ritsuka and Soubi bicker over whether he should or should not come to the performance -- Ritsuka tells him it's unnecessary and strongly hints that he shouldn't ("think of what it will look like, a college student at an elementary school play!") but can't bring himself to expressly forbid it.
The performance goes off wonderfully and everything is very waffy and sweet and cute, up until the moment when his classmates, meaning to complement him, say to Ritsuka: "Wow, you're such a good actor! It was like watching a completely different person!"
Instant conversion of happy fluffy feelings into PAIN AND ANGST.
2. One of Soubi's university art school aquaintances is making a movie for class. Ritsuka and Soubi both get cast -- Soubi because he's good-looking and assumed to be a good actor, Ritsuka because he's "cute" (R disagrees, S agrees). Unlike in the first story, Ritsuka knows what's going on in this one. He's an extremely self-aware person. Acting in the project is a double-edged sword, on the one hand he's happy about the attention, on the other he's unhappy to be reminded that he's good at leading a double life. And he has to spend time with Soubi, another double-edged sword. He ultimately justifies his participation by saying that he is fulfilling a promise, while at the same time realizing that this is only a justification. (Ritsuka is an extremely self-aware person.)
There is angst all the way through. However there is one big compensation: when viewing the final product, Ritsuka notices that Soubi can't act. I mean he's bad. I mean he's the worst actor ever. R laughs, S is happy that he's happy, HAPPY ENDING (in quotation marks).
Also, this is a ghost story. Soubi is the ghost. The director cares more about special effects and editing Soubi into the movie with filters than about acting, which is how Soubi got away with his hilariously awful performance in the first place.
So.
[Poll #730071]
Sorry about the delay on Call Me Anytime. I haven't give up on it or anything like that, it's just that uhh Suikoden V got in the way. (more on this later) Also I bought waaaaaay too many books during the Ann Arbor Book Festival. I read and read and read, and the pile does not get any smaller. (more on this later too.)
EDIT - does anyone want to write the next entry at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
chain_of_fics? The line is "Maybe he had done it because she had warned him, who could tell."
1. Ritsuka's class puts on a school play. Ritsuka is the understudy for the lead, Yuiko is a surprisingly good villain (everyone is shocked), Yayoi is a humorous marginal character. The lead, who is also on the soccer team, has a match during rehersals, so Ritsuka subs in and of course he's a really great actor. Of course. The entire class (along with Shinomine-sensei, who has her own reasons) insists that he play lead instead. He wants to refuse, but that kind of acceptance is dizzying. In a moment of weakness, he accepts. Ritsuka and Soubi bicker over whether he should or should not come to the performance -- Ritsuka tells him it's unnecessary and strongly hints that he shouldn't ("think of what it will look like, a college student at an elementary school play!") but can't bring himself to expressly forbid it.
The performance goes off wonderfully and everything is very waffy and sweet and cute, up until the moment when his classmates, meaning to complement him, say to Ritsuka: "Wow, you're such a good actor! It was like watching a completely different person!"
Instant conversion of happy fluffy feelings into PAIN AND ANGST.
2. One of Soubi's university art school aquaintances is making a movie for class. Ritsuka and Soubi both get cast -- Soubi because he's good-looking and assumed to be a good actor, Ritsuka because he's "cute" (R disagrees, S agrees). Unlike in the first story, Ritsuka knows what's going on in this one. He's an extremely self-aware person. Acting in the project is a double-edged sword, on the one hand he's happy about the attention, on the other he's unhappy to be reminded that he's good at leading a double life. And he has to spend time with Soubi, another double-edged sword. He ultimately justifies his participation by saying that he is fulfilling a promise, while at the same time realizing that this is only a justification. (Ritsuka is an extremely self-aware person.)
There is angst all the way through. However there is one big compensation: when viewing the final product, Ritsuka notices that Soubi can't act. I mean he's bad. I mean he's the worst actor ever. R laughs, S is happy that he's happy, HAPPY ENDING (in quotation marks).
Also, this is a ghost story. Soubi is the ghost. The director cares more about special effects and editing Soubi into the movie with filters than about acting, which is how Soubi got away with his hilariously awful performance in the first place.
So.
[Poll #730071]
Sorry about the delay on Call Me Anytime. I haven't give up on it or anything like that, it's just that uhh Suikoden V got in the way. (more on this later) Also I bought waaaaaay too many books during the Ann Arbor Book Festival. I read and read and read, and the pile does not get any smaller. (more on this later too.)
EDIT - does anyone want to write the next entry at
chain_of_fics? The line is "Maybe he had done it because she had warned him, who could tell."