text; un: 7😆H!TA1

[arf]

Hello everyone, Taichi Nanao here! Age 17, born Oct. 11, 2001, Blood Type O! I love reading fashion magazines, especially the love advice columns, and I'm great at hyper origami and ultra yo-yo! I'm a stage actor, so look forward to seeing me on stage!

They say that if you fold a thousand cranes, you will by granted a wish by the gods. That's got to be a form of magic, maybe I'll try it? What for? Hehe, that's a secret! Maybe you can find out too! I'm offering origami lessons. I'll do a basic 1 hour lesson for 3000G, so it's a discount! Please help me afford new clothes and food that doesn't come in a can!

Also: Is anyone doing anything for the new year?

★☆★ Taichi Nanao ★☆★

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[irritated]

[That actually isn't a bad way of explaining it. Even if Hikaru has absolutely no idea what Taichi means by hashtags, the rest of it does make sense and with some context, he can figure it out.]

Huh. I think I get it. You actually aren't that bad at explaining things. So what's LIME and Timber?

[arf]

It's the other way around I usually have trouble.

[ Learning is his big issue. ]

LIME is like a direct chat service so you can talk to people you know. It's cool because it has stickers and some other services like music streaming and taxi. It's really popular in Japan. [ Less in other places, but Taichi's in Japan so whatever. ] Timber is a dating app! Peoples' profiles show up and you swipe right to show interest or left to reject, then you get each other's info if you're both interested. Even if you don't use it, you gotta know about it because people use "swipe right" and "swipe left" as slang now. I don't have a Timber because it was depressing me, but you gotta be aware of it!

[irritated]

[LIME makes sense. It's like SMS and emailing.

Timber, on the other hand...]

So online dating got that popular, huh...

[The judging tone is definitely there.] Big pass for me. [Hikaru already hated talking to people he didn't know well. Dating them sounded even worse.]

[arf]

[ Tiny fist pump. They're only on audio it's fine, Hikaru can't see him. ]

That's fine, you just have to know the swipe directions whether you use it or not.

[irritated]

That sounds really dumb.

[He's going to be honest because the rest makes sense but that?]

The future is weird. Maybe I was brought here to be saved by it.

[arf]

Do you need saving?

[ Hikaru?! ]

[irritated]

Saved from a weird future where I have to know about online dating so I can stay influential. I can just rely on you for that, Taichi-senpai.

[arf]

[ For dating or...? He's afraid to ask. He doesn't want to be pushy and get told no. ]

Hehe, I'll teach you different memes and challenges so you can stay relevant so you don't have to worry about it! Like, hm.. oh! Hehe, we could do the snoot challenge as a joke.

[ Since Taichi is the puppy.... ]

[irritated]

[Who needs online dating when you have a boy you like right here right now? Although Hikaru wasn't thinking of it like that and man, what a bad way of wording that.]

You're saying a lot of things that still make no sense to me. Is this what it's like to feel old? I'm not even an adult yet.

[arf]

It's where dog owners make a sign with their hands that has a hole in it, then try to get their dog to put their snoot inside!

[irritated]

So instead of a snoot...you put your head through my hands?

[Okay. Weird. But...okay?]

You are the senpai. Senpai knows best.

[arf]

My nose! It's a joke, because I'm puppy-like. [ He thinks for a moment. ] It might be better once I'm better known here or we'll the only ones who will get it.

[irritated]

Anything else we can do? Like some other challenge?

[Hikaru still isn't sure he gets the point at all but Taichi seems into it. He may be an idiot but he does know a lot about this stuff.]

[arf]

There's a lot of dance ones we can do easily! Can you dance, Hikaru?

[irritated]

What kinds of dances? I'll dance with you, though.

[arf]

Cool ones! I don't know what year it is here so I don't know what would be best.. what songs were popular in 2002?

[irritated]

So much slow stuff has been popular. Tons of ballads. Not my sort of thing. But Glow? and Love Song? Video game songs were a big hits.

[arf]

Oh! That's from that video game that they never released part 3 of!

[ At least not by 2018, which is Taichi's timeline :') Who knows what game it was, Taichi only heard gamers complaining about it. It's before his time, and he's only f2p anyway. ]

Just slow stuff is hard to do... [ And frankly slow dancing to love songs with Hikaru is gonna ruin his life??? He's really trying here. u_u ]

Oh, wait! Hold on! I have my phone from home!

[ He messes around for a bit, stares at his phone, and decides to do something silly. He "accidentally" sends this song. Then looks surprised. ]

Ahh, cancel, cancel, wrong one! You can ignore that one if you want. [ tfw you want to show off bc you realize you have your own recorded music but you don't want to look like you're showing off, and it's not really workable for what they're talking about anyway. Either way, he thinks it was a smooth send. He sends Single Ladies next bc he already has the dance for that memorized and he can teach it to Hikaru. ]

Hehe, this is a good one and it's famous worldwide! It's a classic!

[ It still came out after Hikaru's year but oh well. ]

[irritated]

[Subtle, Taichi. Real subtle.

If it weren't for the fact that Taichi would be the type to accidentally send something, Hikaru might have a better idea that he did this on purpose. And when he's told that he wasn't supposed to listen then of course he goes ahead and does so.]

Hey, is this you singing?

[He cares more about this one than Single Ladies. Sorry Beyonce.]

It isn't bad. [He might just be a little impressed.]

[arf]

Ah.. yeah.

[ He didn't think he was gonna listen to it immediately! "isn't bad" isn't... super flattering, but it's not bad either! He'll take it! ]

We recorded songs. That's my only solo. I've got a duet with Omi-kun and all five of us have a troupe song, too.

[irritated]

[Hikaru isn't the best at compliments when he's not thinking a lot about it.]

Do you have your duet? I wanna hear.

[But the fact he's asking to hear more says a lot.]

[arf]

Huh? Uh, yeah!

[ Give him a second, then he sends over the duet. ]

That one's for The Stranger, so it's from Wolf and Zero's perspectives. Zero is my character. She was created in a post-apocalyptic world to be used as a seedbed to try to regrow the world and die in the process, but she escapes and loses all her memories. Wolf finds her in the wasteland and asks if she wants to die, but she wants to live, so she hires him to protect her.

[ The solo one wasn't for a character, it was just Taichi's feelings, but this one he kind of needs to provide context for he thinks... ]

[irritated]

[That is one hell of a story.]

Huh. You guys really do a lot of different stories. Most people usually do Shakespeare or something but not you guys. [It's not bad and Hikaru is digging it.] But this isn't bad either. I like it even if you don't sound like a girl at all.

[Teasing but it isn't a bad thing.]

You should sing more.

[arf]

Tsuzuru-kun writes really awesome stories! [ He laughs, shaking his head. ]

I'm singing, I'm not so talented I can play a girl and sing like a girl!

[ He looks genuinely happy when Hikaru says that, his tail practically wagging. ]

I've got one more if you want! If you're okay with language. Ban-chan and Omi-kun say "motherfucker" in it, so..

[ ...............What is the point in asking if he's ok with language if you're just gonna say it!? ]

[irritated]

[Hikaru laughs.]

You just said "motherfucker"! [Taichi is an idiot but all Hikaru can think is how much he likes him.

But obviously language doesn't bother him.] Anyway. Show me.