4th Wall start: YOU-kai

[idolpro]

Who: YOU-kai
Where: The YOU-kai dorms
When: Day 175

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside, all of you in your sleepwear.

Good morning, guest stars! You've got new co-stars to meet, a new dorm to explore, and the television in the main room with the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to them, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color. Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Also, the elevator doors are currently locked. It looks like you actually have no choice but to get to know each other for an hour or two before those open up. ]

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[wagahaiwanekodewanai]

[this friendly neighborhood cat jumps onto the table and raises his voice... which is going to be alarming to people who have never heard him talk before]

Hey! Can someone pick up the phone in my room? It's not responding to my paws.

[freestyleicon]

Sounds like a purr-sonal problem!

[arachnophilia]

I can do that, sure!

[ so~ cheer~ful~ ]

[ don't mind him going to get the phone like he plans on being helpful, but when he comes back he just holds out the phone to morgana... and then drops it on the floor right in front of him. ]

...oops.

[dragoonage]

[ ...he is walking around the cat like it just grew a second head. ]

[thunderbeast]

[Sure. A talking cat. Can't be any stranger than anything else he's experienced today.]

Is that what these things are called?

[He holds up his own phone, which he instinctively knows how to use without ever seeing one before.]

[worldcup]

[ poor Mona...

it seems someone has the phone situation dealt with so he's just getting headpats instead ]

Usually I don't like cats, but I'll be making an exception this time.

[thebiggestloser]

「I'd make a pun that references your felinity, but that's already been done, hasn't it? The punchline is predictable. Maybe you should contact a delivery service for your phone? I hear Kiki comes highly recommended.」

[lemmestab]

[without thinking:]

Of course!

[he's halfway there when he pauses and turns back, phone forgotten, leaning in close to make sure he's not mistaken]

You are a cat...!

[shiebushe]

[ what was that apparently the only part he caught was 'pick up'

using his brand new boney arm he's just going to yoink the cat up by the scruff of the neck ]

What's that? Did our mascot just talk?

[oneferalhog]

[ one guy has tugged off the top of his onesie already so it's around his waist and is DASHING OUT into the main room. he also has a boar head. ]

WHERE IS THIS?!

[freestyleicon]

Uwah~~~ So scawy.

[TAKES A PHOTO]

[arachnophilia]

[ sticks out his leg to trip him. ]

[wagahaiwanekodewanai]

[tail poofs upon seeing BOAR HEAD]

H-hey...!

[worldcup]

You really don't know? That's sad.

[dragoonage]

[ whatever food he had in his hand is now silently dropping onto the floor as he stares at. whatever the hell this is. ]

[shiebushe]

[ WELL!!! he's kind of in the way of the boar... pig... guy's... warpath, so he hops out of the way quickly--

but not without taking the chance to reach out and grab him by the collar to yank him back

it's with his bone hand so it probably doesn't hurt ]

Woah boy, heel!

[lemmestab]

[A MONSTER??!?]

What in the world...?

[what are you?? blatantly staring]

[worldcup]

[ yeah okay so there's a small girl who's got a color in mind so she's done with that process pretty quickly but she is also in pajamas and has grabbed some of the clothes in her room pouting a bit ]

Why are Japanese clothes so difficult?

[thebiggestloser]

「Little miss, be careful of any wayward perverts who might be in earshot.」

[shiebushe]

What? They're not that difficult are they? Though I guess, for a dumb child even the simplest things are hard.

[crocodile_tears]

...Uggghh...

[Rakugan (anyone is free to know his nickname) is... is... well. He may or may not have been drunk last night, but he's absolutely not feeling this morning. So your old man is going to be a cocoon of blankets and futon over >>>>>>>> there, on the ground by the water feature. At least he made it out of bed before giving up!

...Maybe he'll wake up enough to input his color eventually. Maybe.]

[freestyleicon]

[Pounding on the door]

Open up and put in your color! I want my clothes!

[lemmestab]

[this rumpled and sleepy boy is wandering out of his room, very focused on reading his phone. his hair is down and in disarray and he generally just looks confused. he looks up at length]

Is it possible anyone could lend me a hair tie? ...ah, and tell me who I am? I seem to be missing my memories.

[that's not distressing at all]

[crocodile_tears]

[...ah. That's an issue.

Rakugan is uhhhh still in a pile of blankets over by the water feature, but he's shove himself up on his elbows and wave the sleepy boy over to where he is.]

C'mere, kiddo.

[thebiggestloser]

[ Shows zero intent of changing out of his Mona onesie, but his expression is kind of vacant in general ]

「We're trapped in here with no way of obtaining copies of Weekly Shounen Jump.

This really is a problem.」

[shiebushe]

[ you know that kind of head-tilt dogs do when they hear something weird? yeah. ]

The hell's that?

[methanosarcina]

[ She's also just staying in her onesie, irritably rubbing at her face with one hand as she looks at her phone. ]

"It's complicated", seriously?! They're just scraping the bottom of the barrel now, aren't they?

[shiebushe]

[ he just. laughs, sharp at that ]

Well you're here, so I'd say that's right!

[freestyleicon]

[Chilling on a bench in the courtyard after getting dressed, once everyone has put in their colors. Scrolling through his phone, mask pushed up off his face]