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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]

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.

[stopfen]

[She's learning so much about ART!]

I think I'll keep sewing as my most artistic hobby...I don't think I could put enough effort into something new.