Day 5 of my Christmas advent/challenge thing, and it only took until now for me to stop trying very hard! Every day until Christmas, I'll make a post featuring either the character from the Arcana assigned to the day (apologies in advance if I fuck up their personalities) or an event of my choosing if no relevant character exists for the Arcana. Arcanas are assigned numerically, as in Fool (0) was the fourth, and the World (21) is Christmas Day. Stories have no set theme and they have no minimum length. Next Arcana is the Emperor, Savo's character who I forgot the full name of, Kami! Loosely based off of [url=http://i.imgur.com/dMHp0EC.jpg]this,[/url] and mostly done because I felt like yesterday's post needed an apology after how terrible it was. [s]Don't care enough to rewrite it though; I'll make it up to you with baras later on, Kissu[/s]

Basic updates and schedule can be found [url=https://arcvalerik.titanpad.com/1?]here![/url] (though a bit out-dated)

[hider=Day #5]For some reason, the school had decided that all students were obligated to send in an audition for some new "talent show" one of the newer teachers suggested to the board. Kami had decided it would be best for whoever was available that boring Thursday afternoon to get together and get over with their audition tape that everyone was sure they'd never have to do again in Warakuma High. One of the teachers permitted them to borrow the auditorium to do the shooting, and the students found themselves awkwardly lingering around the voluminous room with a camera and little direction.

 "Who wants to go first?" Kami eventually said, after almost an hour of nothing but... Well, nothing. Nobody was particularly eager to get up on the stage and flaunt a "talent" they had, but they were [i]required[/i] to appease the school's attempts to "include everyone", and hell if any of them were going to bother with getting in trouble when they still needed all the time they could get to investigate the mirror world further. Eventually, though, Noboru half-heartedly rose from his old and creaky plastic chair and walked onto the stage with a plan to lift the mood if nothing else. All the students present watched the boy wander to the center for a bit, hesitating, before he quickly jolted to the back of the stage to grab a long and fortunately dry mop from an empty bucket and returned to the center without much more. Kami took a deep breath like Noboru couldn't and pressed the record button, waiting longer than necessary to remove his finger from it.

The "audience"'s reaction went from eager to frankly shocked as the second-year on stage hastily removed his shirt with clear embarrassment in his movements, the boy's abs, chest, and general musculature clear in the bright and direct lighting of the auditorium. The room remained awkwardly silent for an extended period of time until Noboru mustered up more courage to play the song he has queued up on his phone before sliding it off to the side, out of the way. The song [i]Sexy Back[/i] began playing from the weak speakers as the teen started slowly gyrating in tune with the music around the long stick of the mop, clearly using it as a pole for his "dance". Some of the people watching remained in a stunned stupor, while the others stifled laughter either because they got what he was trying to do or because they thought it just looked stupid. Kami himself couldn't believe what he was witnessing: one of the earliest W.M.I.S.T members mock pole-dancing on camera. Nobody even tried to stop Noboru from doing what he was doing until he himself decided to stop.

When the boy did stop, Kami eagerly pressed stopped the camera's recording and looked straight back at Noboru, who had excused himself from the stage. He still couldn't believe that Noboru had done that. Had gone that far just to break the ice. And the best part of it all would be actually sending it in, even if it meant having to deal with the backlash that came with it. His mind said not to but his heart said to go for it, and Kami's heart was the bigger driving force for the boy, though he decided to consult someone else (and probably Noboru) before actually submitting the final tape. His mind soon returned to the others, however, when Ayano herself soon got onto the stage, a simple and relatively boring audition in itself, followed by Leiko, Sato, and all the others until the audition role was completed.

They all ended up agreeing the lighting on Noboru's sweat-glistened muscles was superb.[/hider]

Oh, also, I'll probably post IC tommorow if I'm feeling particularly productive then.