[Kirara Alwi]

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Let's be honest here (Ironic considering that she can be quite a liar)

But, she never expect that a proposal for a cover collaboration to Momo Fujiwara, a vtuber, that she casually watch once in a while that she sent on a whim would brings her a positive answer to it. She WHOLLY expect that it would left unread or worse got a negative response. But, hey no reason to retract that proposal since she is already at this point so continue to iron out the detail.

A week later after their first interaction through private message, today is the day that they will met for the very first time to hold their first recording. Kirara booked a recording studio with the help of some of her connections, with the power of networking she able to nab a great discount for two sessions. Hngh... Hope she arrives anytime soon, doubt she would miss me with this eye-catching outfit Kirara stretches her arms upward lifting away her fatigues. The very outfit that she determined as her identity so Momo can find her easily is that she is wearing a full blown shark jackets with it face as a hoodie and a long black tail on her back.

Futaba Tamashiro

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» QUIRK - Flashburst (B+) : Gives her the capability of a sudden burst of speed where it can easily mistaken as teleportation. The distance that she can travel depends on the duration that she contracts her tendon muscle

» EQUIPMENT - Vulcan Magnus (C+) : A set of hi tech gloves and 10 sturdy metal balls where it can be controlled through the gloves.

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» AWARENESS (B+) Her awareness makes her able to tell distance with sight alone.	» SPEED (C-) This is her normal speed outside of her quirk burst speed
» DEXTERITY (C+)	» STRENGTH (C-)
» DURABILITY(C-)	» VITALITY (C-)

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[Futaba Tamashiro]

Usually, HoloStar's policy of collaborations were pretty strict. They usually only ever involved talent within the agency and technically the outside collaborations were still within the agency, just with the English side of the company. They do make exceptions though, at least according to her manager. This was one of the exceptions. A person she had noted in her stream chat every once and a while. She was told by her manager about getting a intriguing DM about a possible collaboration with another musician. After some research, it was someone named Raralwi. Watching some of their content, Futaba and the HoloStar Management gave it the go ahead. It was low risk after all. She offered to pay for the recording studio session. Not like the company be investing into someone they don't know. It was also an opportunity. HoloStar always loved acquiring new talent.

Futaba was dressed in her signature black cuttlefish dress. It was subtle enough that only people in the know who she was. She wasn't alone though. Her usual bandmates came along. Her bassist, Aoi (and on and off on screen girlfriend) who was busy talking on the phone to her manager and So the keyboard player who was talking to Suki who was making sure everything was going smoothly. Futaba on the other hand was carrying both her guitar case and saxophone case. Eventually getting to the music studio, she noticed the more uniquely dressed girl.

Giving the girl a polite wave, Futaba greeted with the usual enthusiasm people would see on her streams. "Based on your cute outfit, you must be Raralwi! I'm Momo and these are some of my band mates. Plus Oshiro because she insist on baby sitting us!" Her three companions gave varying amounts of laughter before Futaba added "Thank you for arranging the studio. HoloStars really doesn't let people outside the company use their studio."

[Kirara Alwi]

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"So..."

Kirara is going to say something but paused for a moment and tried to look at the glaring sun that resulting in a failure. The pool of sweat has been bothering her back for a while now, the current weather is definitely not the right weather to wear a jacket like this, she doesn't know whose bright idea to wear that in the first place - 'wait that was me' Kirara thought and let out a sigh. "I'd love to say don't sweat it, but I already been sweating like mad woman since the beginning. Give me a sec - oh you can call me Kirara, i don't really care Kirara says bluntly while taking off her shark jacket revealing a rather revealing black tank top where you can easily see her belly button. She fold it messily and let it rest on her shoulder.

"I don't really know much about this vtubing thing... Klara says before start walking to the reserved place without telling them to follow her. "... so feel free to not answer this if you don't want it. But, is Momo like your real name?" Kirara asks. The reason why she asks is that she feels like she has seen Momo somewhere else but she can't recall where - but one thing that she is sure about is that, she doesn't have any acquaintance that goes by Momo Fujiwara. They arrives at the studio room where they going to record for their cover, a spacious and sound insulated room greets her as she opens the door. Any gears that they need to play musics are there and the stu@futaba,dio have a service where they can rent more gears if needed.

Futaba Tamashiro,

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» QUIRK - Flashburst (B+) : Gives her the capability of a sudden burst of speed where it can easily mistaken as teleportation. The distance that she can travel depends on the duration that she contracts her tendon muscle

» EQUIPMENT - Vulcan Magnus (C+) : A set of hi tech gloves and 10 sturdy metal balls where it can be controlled through the gloves.

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» AWARENESS (B+) Her awareness makes her able to tell distance with sight alone.	» SPEED (C-) This is her normal speed outside of her quirk burst speed
» DEXTERITY (C+)	» STRENGTH (C-)
» DURABILITY(C-)	» VITALITY (C-)

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[Futaba Tamashiro]

Futaba glanced over at Suki before following Kirara into the studio. There were many students at UAU and unless Futaba interacted with them regularly, she probably wasn't going to recognise them. That was the case with Kirara. She probably had seen her in the library before but not enough to leave an impression. Not that it was a bad thing. Only one student knew who Futaba was outside of UAU and they signed a NDA. Conveniently, Suki had brought that along. It was also part of the contract that they needed to get sorted out.

"Before I can properly answer that, we need to get a couple things signed. It's nothing crazy, just basic corporate stuff." Futaba tried sounding reassuring to some extent. The documents weren't anything special. Kirara wasn't signing her legal rights away to a Production Company. Futaba motioned to Suki who was grabbing two documents out of her briefcase and put them down on a table situated in the studio room. While Suki did this, the other three started setting up their instruments that they brought along.

"These aren't anything crazy, Kirara." Suki would say, taking out a pen that was branded after her own vtuber identity (A Manta ray). "One is an NDA, it basically means you aren't going to disclose any confidential company information to anyone. Gives us the right to sue for damages if you do. etc etc." The NDA would at least allow Futaba to answer the question that Kirara asked. "Other is just a temp work contract so HoloStar Inc. can compensate you fairly." Suki finished her little spiel, waiting for Kirara to get to the documents.

"Don't worry about the NDA. It's just common sense stuff. Don't leak personal deets and the such." Futaba would add, currently examining her saxophone reed, mulling over if she wants to put in a new one.

[Kirara Alwi]

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"Ah... Contracts..." Kirara mutters as she paused for a moment, her energy is visible shifted compare to what she shows from a moment ago. There are very few people that could successfully make her to stick with their advice and one of them is the director of her orphanage. ... That is rather a bit tricky. While you did say it is nothing crazy but mama director keep telling me to call for her husband who is happened to be a lawyer when handling with contract. She says to be extra careful when I am signing stuff Kirara says as she shakes her head with a wry smile. She takes out of her phone, her fingers dance swiftly on the phone screen and a moment later she put the phone away to her pocket.

"Is it okay if we go ahead with the recording first? The rent time is ticking after all. I will assure you that uncle will come soon or at the latest when the session end" Kirara says followed by a lie as she actually can make any guarantee if uncle going to come or not. Sure, she did message him earlier but he is a lawyer after all - Kirara wouldn't be surprised if he is busy and can't come.

Futaba Tamashiro,

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» QUIRK - Flashburst (B+) : Gives her the capability of a sudden burst of speed where it can easily mistaken as teleportation. The distance that she can travel depends on the duration that she contracts her tendon muscle

» EQUIPMENT - Vulcan Magnus (C+) : A set of hi tech gloves and 10 sturdy metal balls where it can be controlled through the gloves.

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» AWARENESS (B+) Her awareness makes her able to tell distance with sight alone.	» SPEED (C-) This is her normal speed outside of her quirk burst speed
» DEXTERITY (C+)	» STRENGTH (C-)
» DURABILITY(C-)	» VITALITY (C-)

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[Futaba Tamashiro]

"That's fine." Suki would mutter, before taking a seat in the studio. Not her purview after all. If head management says they can't compensate someone because they aren't signing a simple contract, that's on them. Not HoloStars' problem. Futaba, meanwhile, gave Suki a sheepish look before placing her saxophone on one of the saxophone stands. Plugging in her guitar into one of the speakers, she motioned to Suki who got up from her chair and entered the sound booth. Suki was mostly there to make sure everything sounded good.

Plugging in some other bits and bobs (Like headphones), she waited until the rest of her bandmates were set up. Usually, her band had 8 members but most were not required for this sort of gig. They weren't going to do a cover of Shake & Shake, Futaba's band biggest song. That was usually a event and concert ender for them. They were doing cover of other songs.

Waiting just another minute for her bandmates to set up, Futaba gave a thumbs up to Suki before asking Kirara "So, what we going with first? If you don't mind doing a corporative singing effort, we can start with Modern Girl. That require Suki though. Not that she'd mind. We could also do Lost in Paradise. Fans love that one. Whatcha think?"

Kirara Alwi,

[Kirara Alwi]

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Seeing their team working together to preparing is quite a different experience to what she has done for herself. It come to realization that she has zero idea on what other instrument player need to prepare and thankfully, the studio is quite well prepared to accomodate all their need. Kirara was humming the song that they are going to play as she sat down to her station after making a minor adjustment for the placement. The way she hums it, she kind of mix both song into one without any proper logic but it sounds feel nice to her. Then, her wandering thought suddenly jolted back in as Momo raise a question that need her attention.

"That is quite a dilemma you put me in" Kirara answers as she gives it some thought. She never been a great decision maker, she keeps changing her mind at the very end - like now. "The thing for sure, I wouldn't do the singing. Not my jam - Not like I am great at it. But I will give you a banger drum backing from behind" Kirara continues for a moment, unconsciously hum the mix of both song, then an idea pops up.

Will it work though?

The idea is rather last minute after all and not sure if the other member can do it. It is not like she has rehearsed it or anything; but a quick improvisation on the flight is her strength as drummer - making her a flexible one. Ah shit, well... the worst thing they can do is say no...

Hear me out, this might sound like a crazy idea - how about instead making out of two covers, we remix those two song into one? Kirara proposes "I am fully aware that this was not what we agreed on our previous discussion that leads here, so I definitely understand if you don't want to do that and I am willing to stick with the original idea and let you choose the first song" Kirara adds.

Futaba Tamashiro,
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» QUIRK - Flashburst (B+) : Gives her the capability of a sudden burst of speed where it can easily mistaken as teleportation. The distance that she can travel depends on the duration that she contracts her tendon muscle

» EQUIPMENT - Vulcan Magnus (C+) : A set of hi tech gloves and 10 sturdy metal balls where it can be controlled through the gloves.

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» AWARENESS (B+) Her awareness makes her able to tell distance with sight alone.	» SPEED (C-) This is her normal speed outside of her quirk burst speed
» DEXTERITY (C+)	» STRENGTH (C-)
» DURABILITY(C-)	» VITALITY (C-)

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[Futaba Tamashiro]

When Kirari spoke, Futaba could feel So giving Futaba a look. Shaking her head, Futaba tuned her instrument a bit. While the idea of remixing both songs together would probably work. Doing it live wouldn't really work though. Requires some sort of coordination with everyone and a lot of synergy. "I like the idea. I think we could play both songs separately then remix them in post. We'd probably need to have the entire band here if we wanted to do both songs at the same time." Futaba could feel So ease off a little. So was a rathe impatient fellow but she was nice when you got to know her.

Regardless, time was money so Futaba decided that she was just going to pick the song they'll start with. Motioning to Suki, Futaba picked up her saxophone. Suki nodded, setting up a couple switches, before coming in the recording studio. Picking up Futaba's guitar, Suki got to her station. "I'll let you lead, So." So gave a nod of acknowledgement before pulling the mic closer to her mouth.

ONE! TWO! THREE!" Futaba would yell out before starting the saxophone line. Swaying along to the beat, Futaba Futaba would join in Don't you dare touch the dial! We dressed up like a heart attack for you, We dressed up like a heart attack! So the band would play, having a hell of lot of fun. It was pretty normal for them as a band. It got pretty rowdy when all eight of them in a studio, hence why there was only 4 of them here.

Kirara Alwi ,

[Kirara Alwi]

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Kirara just shrugs it off with a smile plastered on her face, the loss is not hers but post-op editing is a good compromise. Everyone stand on their position, ready to jam their heart out. There is one thing that Kirara hides from them, she never been in a band situation like this; playing drum on her own and with others are completely different experience. The first part she can follow other beat swimmingly effortless, however as the time goes; she falls to her bad habit. Her rhythm while it is good on her own starts to deviate from other making the overall sounds becomes obviously off.

Kirara, of course, notices it but she keeps going - wanting to know if they can keep up with her or not. Her ego starts to cloud her own judgement and she starts to create a new sound to the song despite it is their song. She is starting to lost on her own world and got excited on her own. Completely forgot that she is currently play with others and not on her own.

Futaba Tamashiro,

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» QUIRK - Flashburst (B+) : Gives her the capability of a sudden burst of speed where it can easily mistaken as teleportation. The distance that she can travel depends on the duration that she contracts her tendon muscle

» EQUIPMENT - Vulcan Magnus (C+) : A set of hi tech gloves and 10 sturdy metal balls where it can be controlled through the gloves.

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» AWARENESS (B+) Her awareness makes her able to tell distance with sight alone.	» SPEED (C-) This is her normal speed outside of her quirk burst speed
» DEXTERITY (C+)	» STRENGTH (C-)
» DURABILITY(C-)	» VITALITY (C-)

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[Futaba Tamashiro]

"Stop!" Futaba would say, holding up her hand. Her bands mates stopped playing, exchanging looks before giving Kirara a look. Improvising is fun and all. Futaba enjoyed doing that herself. It something her band did a lot when they played live or were just messing about in the studio. It's a bit different though when you're trying to record music, especially if you are on a time crunch.

Grimacing a bit, Futaba twirled her finger around her mouth piece. She wasn't sure how she would address it but she mulled her thoughts for a little. "So, I get vibing and changing this up. It's chill. But you mentioned that we have limited time." Futaba paused a bit, hoping Kirara would understand what she was getting at. "If we wanna get some good recording in, ya gotta focus on the music? You feel? If you get lost playing and we have a drum track that is a total mess we just wasted our time." Futaba didn't want to come off as too rude but she was a professional after all. Her and her band's time was precious.

[Kirara Alwi]

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Sigh

Kirara sighed internally while trying hard to not actually show it. At the beginning, she thought Futaba and her band would be cool but she should blame herself to not actually go deep dive upon their actual character before proposing for a collaboration. "Yeah, I get it. I will stay in the line" Kirara says it as neutral as she can be, however a slight tone of disappointment can be heard for a split second before it gone at the beginning of the sentence.

Kirara gives the cue that she is ready and contine to jam - but this time; she make sure to follow the general rhythm of the other. Please, uncle come soon. So you can sign the contract and we can be done here' Kirara wishes inside her heart while her hand flying on the drum. At this point, she just want everything to end now but she doesn't want to be the one that ends it.

Futaba Tamashiro,

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» QUIRK - Flashburst (B+) : Gives her the capability of a sudden burst of speed where it can easily mistaken as teleportation. The distance that she can travel depends on the duration that she contracts her tendon muscle

» EQUIPMENT - Vulcan Magnus (C+) : A set of hi tech gloves and 10 sturdy metal balls where it can be controlled through the gloves.

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» AWARENESS (B+) Her awareness makes her able to tell distance with sight alone.	» SPEED (C-) This is her normal speed outside of her quirk burst speed
» DEXTERITY (C+)	» STRENGTH (C-)
» DURABILITY(C-)	» VITALITY (C-)

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[Futaba Tamashiro]

Futaba could feel So's eyes in the back of her head. So was the more judgmental person of the band. It tracks, at least when it comes to the music business. She's been doing this for 8 years now as a career. Of course she was going to be judgmental of someone like Kirara. Tapping her foot a little, Futaba glanced over at Suki before she heard So loudly announce "Going on a smoke break." before walking out of the studio. Should have expected that.

"Okay, lets take a break." Futaba sighed a bit, putting her instrument down. She watched Aoi and Suki step, following So outside. Grimacing a bit, she walked over to Kirara "Sorry about her. She's just a bit impatient." Futaba smiled a bit, before taking out her phone. "Don't take anything we say too personal. We've been at this for a while so stuff that comes natural to us doesn't always translate well." Futaba was trying to be a bit more diplomatic. She knew that if So or Suki started talking, things could be a little rougher.

"How long have you been playing? I think I never asked." Futaba would say, motioning to the drum set.