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!

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Comments

[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!