71st ♫ | is it love? is it like? never felt it in my life

[liedol]

AI HOSHINO ★ VOICE TEST/CMO

A voice test/general CMO for Ai Hoshino from Oshi no Ko! I'm planning on using the English dub for voice reference so this is mostly to get me into her head for playing her down the line.

I haven't settled on a 'default' canon point for her yet, so I'll be jumping around from her teen years to 20 depending on what better suits any given thread – you can also indicate a preference for if you want teen idol Ai or grown up idol Ai!

POTENTIALLY HANDY PROMPTS:

RP Scenario Generator #1 | RP Scenario Generator #2 | High School AU Meme | Friendship Meme | Shippy & Platonic Fluffy Scenarios Meme (has a lot more than just general fluff!) | Random Scenario Meme | Jamjar CR Meme Promps | Exploration Meme | Magical Girl AU Meme

Comments

[tapformana]

A group...?

[That idea had... never occurred to her.

She could try that... and it'd be helpful, but... Could she do it?]

You're a genius!!

[liedol]

[ Preen, preen. Yes, compliment her genius. ]

It's more fun dancing with a group, anyway. When you're working hard with your friends, it hardly even feels like work!

[ Not that Ai – or any of the other girls in B-Komachi – would know anything about that anymore. ]

Do you have any friends who'd like to sing and dance with you? Maybe you could start a group with them.

[tapformana]

[... Well. At that, she kind of... droops. Her ears curl downwards, even.]

... Um, well... Not really. No one I know from my home is here. And I don't know who else here would be interested in a group... It's hard to talk about music and stuff with people, since everyone here is from so far in the past...

[liedol]

[ immediately, Ai has a premonition brought about by what can only be called finely honed idol instinct. just a feeling of: oh if she doesn't play her cards right she's going to get volunteered into a group with this girl, huh. quick, damage control time. ]

Well, you've got an amazing opportunity! This is a chance to blaze a trail and establish something all your own. Isn't that exciting?

[tapformana]

[Tap's ears perk back up! ... In alarm, rather than excitement.]

Huh?! Wait, weren't you just suggesting a group instead of doing it on my own?!

[liedol]

Exactly! You've got a unique opportunity to start a group all on your own!

[ If it sounds like she's intentionally trying to confound the poor bun at this point then... well, you wouldn't be WRONG... ]

Wouldn't that be exciting? You could decide all for yourself and the friends you make what being an idol means for you.

[tapformana]

[Tap can't help but feel like she's being confounded.... but at the same time, everything Ai is saying is accurate! And surely a perfect ultimate getter idol would never try to deceive or confound someone on purpose!]

Hm...

... Wait, but I still don't know how to sing or dance for real!

[liedol]

Hm...

[ This is the part where she'd just reiterate that Tap needs to go and learn from someone but she stops, with a thoughtful look on her face. Tap had been the one to hurry over here, introducing herself and bouncing off the walls with excitement but the more they talk... ]

Tap-san... are you scared of trying to connect with people?

[tapformana]

... H- Huh?

[She freezes in place.]

W- What do you mean...? Why would I be scared of that?

[Bullseye... Well, not that Tap necessarily realizes it herself, yet.]

[liedol]

Who knows! But it's just something that keeps coming up. You're scared of going to music and dance teachers because you're new to this place... and you're also scared of trying to connect with idols you could form a group with because they're not people you already know.

Being an idol is all about connecting with all sorts of people from the stage... so why are you so scared of doing it face to face?

[tapformana]

Well... I mean...

[Her ears droop.

Congratulations, Ai, you have successfully bamboozled the bunny into the new topic.]

... I was kinda, a shut-in, you know? I said before, I only did stuff in a game, you know? And if someone's scary in a game, I can just log out... And even if a PK happens, I'm not really hurt, but...

[liedol]

And being on stage is easier? Because there's more distance?

[ psychoanalyzing the bun!! ]

[tapformana]

Yeah!

[She seems to brighten up when Ai gets her.]

... Well, not that I've ever been on stage before. I was in a commercial once, but that was as my character... But if it's a stage, even if there's danger, I can fly away!

[liedol]

So you're scared of getting hurt, then.

[ She just says that right to Tap's face??? ]

And rather than take the risk... it's easier to just stay in the position that'll make it easiest for you to run away?

[tapformana]

Well... yeah.

[She droops again.]

I mean... I only became able to leave my room once I started to look like this, because getting hurt is scary...

[liedol]

Then is that your whole plan? To run away when something is scary and you might get hurt?

[ Not that Ai has any place to talk... at least, that's how it seems to hurt. ]

Not that I'm criticising you! But if that's the kind of idol you want to be, things might be hard for you.

[tapformana]

... I mean... It's not that I want to be like that...

[This must be why Ai is the perfect idol, huh? She could just look directly into Tap's heart so easily...]

Is being an idol really beyond me? I just like singing and dancing...

[liedol]

[ Being an idol like me is beyond you, is what Ai thinks and decides not to say. The more Tap says, the more she becomes convinced that her initial impression was right – this girl's love is much too pure and bright to be the dirty, greedy sort of idol that Ai has made her bread and butter being. ]

That's only something you can decide, you know. [ There. That sounds a little kinder, a little gentler. ] A lot of people really like dancing and signing, but being an idol is a little different. You have to open your heart to all sorts of people and that's always going to be a little bit risky. You have to decide for yourself if that's going to be worth it.

[tapformana]

I see...

[Opening her heart, huh. It's so easy to do when her heart is all that connects her to others- Online, opening her heart to everyone and anyone is simple. It's how she operates, naturally. But at the same time... Once she's physically there...

That silver-black glint, that noise, still haunts her nightmares.]

Well... Even if I can't be an idol, something good happened just from even wanting it!

[liedol]

Dreaming about something is the first step to making it happen! That's how things worked for me.

[ That's not... technically a lie, not really. It just sounds a little nicer when she says it like that and in this context, is all. ]

So maybe if you dream about it hard enough, you can work up the courage to make it real.

[tapformana]

Hm...

[She perks up.]

That's right! No matter what it is, love can make anything real! If you love a world enough, if you love a character enough, they can become real, so something like this should work the same way!

[liedol]

That's exactly right! [ Ai gives her a cheery thumbs up. ] As long as you put enough love into it, then things will work out eventually.

[ That's how it worked for me, she'd said. And it was true - the fans and the people around her loving Hoshino Ai was how she'd been made "real". Real in the sense that she was a thing that could be observed, the way a trick of the light is 'real'.

Real enough that maybe even a girl like Tap, who's scared of her own shadow, could stand up on stage too. ]

So do you think you've got enough love in you to go for it?

[tapformana]

Probably!

[She bounces in place.]

I've got enough love that it gave me a body like this, after all!

[liedol]

[ .................. bounce bounce, indeed.................. Ai's never been one of those girls who longs for a more........ generous figure, but this girl would make anyone feel like a flat up and down board by comparison, huh...... ]

A body... exactly like that?

[ SHE CAN'T NOT ASK ]

[tapformana]

[... Well. It's not hard to tell what Ai is thinking. Where does she even start with this?]

Yep! My boobs are big but my love is bigger! Or something like that!