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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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Technology! We don't have magic in my world. [Which Momo knows by now makes him a bizarre kind of rarity among the arrivals here, because even most of the people he's met who seemed to be from worlds like that at the outset turned out not to be.]

I've definitely been using illusion to do stuff like change costumes since I arrived here, but the more complicated stuff would probably take longer to replicate. It'd need a lot of detail to compare.

Wow! That's even more impressive then!

[Before coming here, he had already thought his world was pretty advanced, but looks like they were just at the beginning. Which was exhilarating.]

Hmm...last year there was a concert during the summer that was run by illusionists. They were really skilled at conjuring images that went along with people's music.

I wonder if its going to happen again this year...

Oh, that would be really fun! I wouldn't want to perform without Yuki, but I could definitely do stage illusions, since that's been so much of what I've been using to practice my illusions since I got here.

[Momo sounds excited at the prospect, but he's also got one more thing to show off, and after a moment, his tapping away in the background stops, since he had a few more minutes to get things happening on his end with the video playing.]

Anyway, here's that first song I was lyricist for...I don't think I told you the names, did I? The first one was Re-raise, the second was NO DOUBT, and this one is called Eternity Theory.

[~~Which is a considerably less unwieldy translation than the more literal "Theory of the Nature of Eternity".~~ The song is akin to the more upbeat, jazzy tone that Re-raise had (if a bit calmer), since it's almost as recent, but rather than the flirtatious lyrics of that song, the words here are reassuring and supportive, encouraging people to come back from uncertainty and sadness and find their own direction. Considering the positive attitude Momo's had for most of the conversation, it's probably not hard to tell it came from him even without having been told.]

Hehe, great! I'll be performing for sure, so maybe I'll ask for your help!

[ Since there's no way Elliot could pass up an opportunity to play for people.

He listens to the song, paying attention to the lyrics more]

That's a really nice song! It's so nice and encouraging! Your own positive attitude really shines through on it.

Definitely let me know if you decide to perform! I'd love to be part of something like that.

[Even when he can't directly participate in events like that, he tends to support them in any way he can, even back home. But for now, since it's just a theoretical, he flips over to send out some other messages to his radio coworkers while Elliot listens to the song.

The compliment gets a bit of a self-conscious laugh.] That's what I was trying to aim for because of the soccer tournament we wrote it for...I used to play soccer for most of my childhood, so I was trying to channel that same kind of fun, do-your-best feeling that I always had into it. I'm glad it comes through even out of context!

Will do!

[He does wonder how long this guy is going to insist on not performing without Yuki, since he's sure his partner wouldn't mind that much. But he'll bring that up another day.]

I'd say it does! It sounds like something you'd have at a sports game. [...Elliot has no idea what soccer is, but honestly that might be less because of his world and more because he's bad at sports]

I don't think we had many songs like that at the tournaments when I was in high school, but I kind of wish we did. I might've gotten into music sooner!

[He laughs as if he's giving himself a bit of flak with that. He was kind of hyperfocused on sport before his accident forced him to branch out.]

Hopefully I'll be able to write a wider variety of stuff going forward, but I was glad I could come out with a good enough first try.

["Good enough" doesn't sound like much of a compliment, but by Momo's standards he might as well be shooting off a confetti cannon for himself to admit that it was adequate.]

Yeah, I know the feeling. I might actually have more interest in sports if there was more music at it.

[There are two types of people, clearly]

Hehe, just keep at it!

Sounds like something Yuki would say...I can barely drag him out of the house some days, let alone getting him to do sports.

[Is this a composer thing??? Clearly he needs to ask Sougo or Minami if they ever show up here.]

I'm planning to! I thought it would just be a one-off initially, but I talked to Yuki about doing it more often just before I came here, so hopefully it'll work out.

Hehe, yeah. I can relate to that for sure.

[Elliot is the guy that occasionally complains if you walk a lot]

I'm sure it will! A good musician always works to improve themselves and reach new heights!

Right, I want to keep on evolving! Momo-chan isn't the type to be left behind!

[Even if he doesn't often have faith in his abilities, he's determined and generally pushes on through anyway.]

Anyway, did you have any other questions about our music? Since I don't want to leave you hanging with anything.

That's the spirit! I look forward to seeing what new heights you soar too!

[And he'll be doing the same!]

Haha, oh I have about hundred and even more once I fully analyze it - but I'll let you go for today. Thank you so much for sharing! I learned so much!

Don't mention it! It's always fun to be able to share things from home, so I'm glad it could help you out!

[Honestly, he sometimes feels like he doesn't have much to share compared to the kinds of places people are coming from.]

I'll see you around sometime, then! Or if they hold that concert again!

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