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[fiddlestick]

Name: Elliot Craig
Date: 5/10
Format: voice

[In the background, there's the sound of a record playing cheerful music. ]

Hi everyone! I'm Elliot, it's nice to meet you all even if this isn't where you wanna be right now. Sorry about that. I teach music and I'm a healer with Coven infirmary training. So if you need either of those things, just lemme know!

Anyway, um, I had a question. What's music like where you're from? Or what kind of music do you like? There's so many people from different places, I feel like I'm always finding out something new and I'd like to learn as much as I can.

Oh- I'll start. I'm from Erebonia and we have a lot of classical music - stuff with lutes, violins, piano, etc. Operas are pretty popular too, though in the last few years Northern rock - or I guess just rock, has been spreading! Oh, and radio's really big. I still miss listening to my favorite radio show honestly...

S-Sorry, didn't mean to ramble. What about you guys?

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[fiddlestick]

Oh, sorry! I misunderstood.

[whew]

Yeah, the general term is dance music. But there's a bunch of different kinds, depending on what kind of dance you do. Jigs, Ballroom dances, Square, Ballet, Swing, Tangos ... there's all types.

If you like the fast kinds...that might be a jig?

[stopfen]

Why are there so many types?

[This is getting complicated.]

[fiddlestick]

Haha, because people keep coming up with new types! It's an art form, after all.

[stopfen]

Doesn't that make it difficult to request?

What is the kind you do?

[fiddlestick]

Ehehe, me....?

Well if you're asking me to play dance music, I'll do any style I'm familiar with. Jigs and ballroom songs are probably the easiest to play on violin.

Though if you're asking what kinds of dances I can do ... I really don't have the coordination or reflexes to do any of them well, I'm afraid.

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[stopfen]

[Typing is too much effort, so a recording starts after a few seconds of silence.]

I guess I prefer jigs then. I've seen ballrooms and they seem a bit... Much for me. [There's a shrug there. Too fancy for someone who wanted a simple life.]

Do you really have to be coordinated for it, as long as you enjoy moving?

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[fiddlestick]

Hehe, I could understand that. You don't strike me as the ballroom gown type.

[Mikasa in a big poofy dress? Too weird to imagine]

Well no, you don't! No one has to be an expert to have fun. Buuut, being coordinated enough not to trip and hurt yourself definitely helps.

[stopfen]

[Her voice softens at that. He couldn't see it, but her eyebrows dipped. Like a sad puppy.]

...Oh. You think that wouldn't suit me either...

[Just give her a moment to dwell on that. Mettaton and Tataru had said it was fine but he didn't, like Historia hadn't.]

But don't you have to be coordinated for music?

[fiddlestick]

[oh no. he can hear the sad puppy]

U-Uh, yeah- but I don't really know anything about girl's fashion anyway, so don't take my word! You should try whatever you want to try on!

[BE FREE]

Only with your fingers and breathing! Only leg movement I have to do is foot tapping.

[stopfen]

['Uh yeah' ...Comforting... Her voice stays flat.]

But doesn't that mean you can learn?

[fiddlestick]

[He sighs]

Believe me...attempts have been made.

[stopfen]

So I can try music with you but you won't dance...

[It was almost deadpan. Almost, only the smallest bit lighter than complete deadpan.

She's teasing. ]

[fiddlestick]

Haha...h-hey I'd dance if you wanted to!

I just can't say it'd be good...or you wouldn't get your toes stepped on.

[stopfen]

You don't seem as heavy as the last person... If that's an issue, I'll just make sure your feet don't touch the ground.

[That's not dancing, that's swinging him around.]

[fiddlestick]

Gah- you mean like a little kid? Please don't!

[stopfen]

What? Are you going to lift me?

[fiddlestick]

No? Why does there have to be lifting at all??

[stopfen]

Isn't that a part of most dances? I don't know any proper ones, but that's what I've been told...

[She's still bullying.]

[fiddlestick]

J-Just where are you getting that information?! No, lifting is like...advanced stuff! Like professional ballets do it to show off!

[stopfen]

That's what I saw them doing in parties at the capital... [Though she'd only attended a few. Being one of the last scouts meant awkwardly being dragged along to meetings.]

What is ballets?

[fiddlestick]

It's a dance style that's more a performance art than something you do at parties.

People tell a story through the dance. I hear it's really difficult, to the point that some ballerinas work until their feet bleed.

[stopfen]

[Welpppp. Her interest in that has been killed before it had a chance.]

But isn't dance supposed to be...fun?

[Please ignore the voice hitch at the last word. Like she doesn't really get what it means.]

[fiddlestick]

Haha, it is!

But it's also an art. And ballerinas take their art very seriously.

Don't worry, most people don't dance until their feet bleed.

[stopfen]

[Please ignore the tail end of the drawn-out 'ohhh' of realisation.]

Like the entertainers here? Like Mettaton?

[Dramatic 24/7, there was no off. That was just how into the art he was.]

[fiddlestick]

Yeah, exactly!

Consider it this way - art, music and dance can all be really fun hobbies. But if you want to make a profession out of it, you have to commit yourself to it on a whole other level.