Private Finished Sicc Flipps in the Dancing Room

Flannel Katt · Mar 25, 2020

"What do I want you to do? What do I want you to do?" Dylan dropped his skateboard carelessly on the floor with a clatter and grabbed Cool Kid's shoulders. "What do you want you to do?" He asked, alien-shaped sunglasses slipping down his nose so that his virulently green eyes could meet Redhead's.

"There's a whole internet world out there, audiences of gamers and memers and 'grammers and lurkers, waiting for content. Waiting for your content. Our content, even. Smash cut edits? Prank montages? Let's Play streams? Live music AMVs? Tiktoks? The sky's the limit, kid," Dylan intensely monologued to the boy taller and older than him, "believe in the heart of the cards."

He did not let go when he finished speaking, just stood slightly too close, slightly vibrating. It would have been twitching, if it wasn't so rapid. Hah, twitching.

Hope the Bard · Mar 25, 2020

Hikaru's illusions all poofed out of existence when Dylan touched him. He recognised TikTok - that had been popular in Japan for a while. Come to think of it, why didn't he have his own account? And why was this dude talking down to him? Nothing made sense anymore. Soon someone was going to tell Hikaru that the sky wasn't blue - maybe it was green or yellow. The kid finished his little monologue, basically vibrating. Whoa. He had energy. Chaotic energy.

Heart of the cards? That was a Yu-gi-oh reference. He'd seen that episode when he was a kid! Okay, so maybe the guy liked anime? That could explain the weird behaviour. "Then...we could start something together, sure. In our free time!" He smiled. "But wait. I came here to tell you not to use your skateboard in here. You'll damage the floor." He said, pointing to the scuff marks the boy had already made with a stern look.

Flannel Katt · Mar 25, 2020

Dylan broke off his stare to inspect the state of the floor. Hm. Mhm. Yep. Scuffed. Not scuffed enough to be scuffed, but not glossy anymore in his sicc flip areas. Kinda ruined the mirror-image-mirror-finish vibe. Whoops. No security cams in here, so he probably wouldn't get reamed for it, if this kid didn't narc.

"Thought a place made for dance tricks would be sturdier," he said, and collected his board and his phone.

Dylan turned back to New Collab Guy, phone in hand. "In the spirit of our new collab plans, what's your insta? Gotta be able to coordinate our timestables. I'm SpiteBepsi, obvie." He thumbed in his passcode and then turned the screen so his new bud could see, open on the Instagram app.

Hope the Bard · Mar 29, 2020

Hikaru nodded as the guy sobered up a little. He seemed apologetic enough, even if he didn't say sorry out loud (something that Hikaru's friends had tended to do a lot.) "HikaruSuzukiCV," he replied, looking at the phone screen and jaw dropping. Literally. He thought his own follower count at 10k was nice, but for real?! The kid had over a million?! Wow. He felt himself take a sharp inhale and emit literal anime sweatdrops. Wait, nope, that was just his illusion powers working on their own. Okay.

"I'm pretty much free anytime except for school, clubs and recording. Just suggest a time and we can meet up. You live in the dorms too?"

Flannel Katt · Mar 31, 2020

Dylan swiped HikaruSuzukiCV into the search bar and started scrollin down his insta. Looked like this dude actually used his legal name for online content? Frakkin brave of him. Either as internet-illiterate as a boomer or tryin hard for that this-is-my-job superstar style. Respect. SpiteBepsi followed the account. Some of the posts looked like maybe Japanese?

"My schedule's up an down and in an out like the wind to hit those prrrrrime zone streamin hours, but I'm around." Dylan gestured vaguely in a circle, as though that would indicate where his crash pad was. "I post when I'm goin' live, so anytime that's not up, slide into my DMs, yeah? Unless you wanna guest star n' shoot some fortnite or something. I'm down to do guests, chat would love your whole schtick. I've got recording to do too, but only when that inspo vibe hits different, y'know?"

Dylan slipped his phone into his pocket and adjusted his sunglasses for optimal coverage.

Hope the Bard · Apr 1, 2020

...what.

Just when Hikaru thought he'd be able to understand the kid, there he went back to speaking whatever strange language it was that rendered him completely unintelligible. Hikaru felt himself sigh as a white cloud left his mouth, literally.

"Look... okay, I don't know how this works, but could ya try speaking formal, normal, modern English? I don't think this language charm is doing its job properly. To be honest, I kinda have no idea what you're saying?" He scratched his neck awkwardly, tilting his head as he offered a confused, well-meaning grin. His language charm slid down his wrist a little.

"My English ain't that good, so this thing here is meant to tell me what people're saying and put it in Japanese for me to get it," he said as he pulled on it a little to bring it into focus. "...but you probably knew that."

So much for progress.

Flannel Katt · Apr 6, 2020

Dylan blinked slowly behind his glasses. Well. Well well well. Well. Most people he knew who didn't know english knew 1) Spanish or 2) korean and english gamer memes. He'd picked up Spanish from like, existing in places and living his life, sort of, and he was pogchamp fluent in memes. This was. A new problem.

Dylan adjusted his sunglasses and his hood in order to buy processing space.

"Huh." He said, galaxy brain genius, "didn't know it was a magic bracelet that did language buffs as a passive. I mean- shit. Uh. Didn't know that. Ffffffffun times. Yep. So- yes. Translatable plain words. Google translate but without the spaghettification. I mean. Mistakes. Right. Uh-"

Dylan did a quick spin around and threw a double finger guns at HikaruSuzukiCV.

"What's up instagram user? I'm Dylan at username SpiteBepsiTTV on most social media platforms, and it's grrrrrreat to meet you today. If you want to work together to make some content- short videos, songs, maybe play some games on my livestream- feel free to send me a private message on instagram. I keep a weird schedule in order to do livestreams when most people are online to watch from different time zones, so I should get back to you pretty quick no matter what time you want to rrrrrrrecorrd. OKAY PEACE LATERS!"

He threw up a peace sign and spun to face the door, activating his heelies.

Dylan maybe hit his shoulder into the doorframe because talkin mainstream felt like it was giving him actual hives, but he turned it into most of a pirouette. Probably.

Hope the Bard · Apr 10, 2020

Hikaru just stared. Did this guy just have a character flip? Was he like Hikaru? Were they two birds of the same feather? Could he stop trying to think of rhetorical questions?

The answer was yes. He could understand the instagram bit. He actually found a smile spread across his face as finally he could understand the guy. Fluently. His words were properly making sense. The swearing was a surprise though.

He kinda just watched the guy bump into the doorframe a little clumsily before turning it into some trick, and that was cool. He guessed. They were mutuals now. He never thought that telling a guy off would lead to him...making a celebrity friend? It wasn't like he didn't get along with some more popular voice actors, but he wouldn't really call them friends at all. They kinda treated him like a kid, which was fair enough. He wasn't even old enough to drink.

Well, he wouldn't let a perfectly-still-usable-if-not-slightly-damaged dance studio go to waste. He set his phone and bluetooth speaker down and began to warm up, ready for another session.

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