#I kept forgetting to upload this onto here hahaha!

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Teddy O’Stara Conversation Sprites! Dreamalong’s resident Merrymaking Magician can be prickly but he’s still sweet at the end of the day :o) He’s our Rotten Soldier! Our Sweet Cheese! Our Good Time Boy! But boy, does he harbor some dark secrets 👀 He can’t wait to show you a bit of his Midnight Show! These were made for fun when I opened my asks on Insta for a day :oD Thank you to everyone who sent in asks! I hope you all had fun! I also would like to thank my good friend @shantimochi on insta for Color Assistance and Animation with the Annoyed expression! She really nailed it, go give her some love!

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Dusk to Dawn

Summary: In which Komaeda asks Hinata what he wants for his birthday, gives Kamukura a present, and they all kiss.Three short ficlets, all related to January 1st.

Rating: T

Warnings: None unless you count kissing.

Notes: I really wanted to upload something for Hinut and Kamoo’s bday and here it is. It’s more like three ficlets squished together as the summary suggests so it’s more...different than my usual fics. It’s pretty short, too, like ~1.5K. But yeye, enjoy.

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“Hinata-kun, your birthday is... January 1st...?”

Hinata flinched at that, flustering before nodding plainly. Komaeda blinked a few times, eyes flickering between Hinata’s face and his student handbook.

“I see...” He shut his handbook. “Interesting! So Hinata-kun’s a New Years baby! Ahaha!”

“It’s really not that great,” Hinata grumbled, making him perk up, smile twitching.

“...Ah, because people lump you in with the holiday, right?” he guessed. Hinata squinted, but Komaeda couldn’t tell if it was because of the sun or...something else. “Or...do people forget altogether?”

Hinata winced.

Ah... So, I’m right.

“I don’t think it’s too bad,” he said, shifting and twisting his foot into the sand. The sea breeze ruffled his hair. “With Hinata-kun’s name, it seems...almost poetic for your birthday to be on January 1st.”

“But it’s really inconvenient,” Hinata replied, muttering once again. “When people do remember, I still get cheated out of a present and a party since people just combine it with New Years. So really it’s...”

Hinata rubbed at the back of his neck, gaze averting and darting along the sand and the shimmering surface of the ocean.

“I suppose that’s true,” Komaeda ended up laughing. “Wow, Hinata-kun, you really do sound unlucky when you put it like that.”

“Hahaha.” Hinata sounded more sarcastic and unamused than anything. “Yeah. I suppose I do.”

“...mm...” Komaeda hummed thoughtfully. “That said, I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Your name encapsulates your birthday. It sounds like fate. So maybe there’s a hope sleeping deep within your birthday that’s waiting for you.”

Hinata blinked a few times, and his frown deepened.

“What the hell’s that supposed to mean?”

“I-I mean! Maybe there’s a reason for all this... Maybe there’s indeed some fortune in having your birthday be the start of the year...” Komaeda trailed off. “Maybe...”

“...that’s just a feeling you have?” He nodded sheepishly. Hinata sighed, rolling his eyes. “I envy your optimism sometimes, Komaeda.”

“Well, you know,” Komaeda said, cheeks pinking. “Hope is essential to the human condition, so...”

So...

“Hinata-kun, how about this?” he asked. “What do you want for your birthday?”

Hinata stiffened.

“Uh... Huh?” He made a face. “Isn’t it, uh, really early to ask something like that?”

“B-But I’m curious!” he exclaimed. “I really want to know!”

“...you really do?” Hinata asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Yes, yes!”

“...you don’t have to nod so forcefully...”

“Well,” Komaeda said. “Whatever it is, I think I can get it. I have a lot of money and it’s not like I have anything to use it for... So, Hinata-kun, just tell me what you want and I’ll be sure to get it! I don’t care what bad luck I have to brave!”

Hinata flushed considerably. “Y-You definitely don’t have to spend money on me, Komaeda!”

“But I want to!”

“You don’t have to!”

“Hinata-kun!”

“Don’t whine!”

Komaeda pouted at him.

Hinata stared, and then he fizzled, sighing and running his fingers through his hair.

“I think...right now all I really want is to know what my talent is.”

Komaeda perked up, eyes wide.

“Ehehe,” he giggled. “I’m pretty sure you’ll figure it out before then, Hinata-kun.”

“...hopefully...”

“But, I’ll do my best to help you remember all the same! That way you can start off the year using your talent to bless the world, Hinata-kun!”

“Hey, isn’t that going a little far?” he asked, snorting. “What if my talent’s SHSL Stamp Collector? How is that supposed to bless the world?”

“I don’t know!” Komaeda exclaimed with the utmost cheer. “But I’m sure you’ll find a way, Hinata-kun!”

Hinata immediately broke face and laughed.

“If you say so, if you say,” he said. “Haha... I can’t wait, then.”

Komaeda could only beam.

--

“Ten! Nine! Eight! Seven!”

“Kamukura-kun...!”

He barely so much as batted an eyelash as the other scrambled up, panting and wheezing from exertion. Unruffled as ever, he merely cast a glance in his direction. Komaeda couldn’t help but shiver from his toes to even his smile.

“...Kamukura-kun...” He pulled himself onto the ledge the other was perched on. It hurt, it hurt, all over it hurt, and yet, he only caught his breath because he was for the moment fixated on the abhorrent anomaly that was Kamukura Izuru. “Ehe... You’re not going to join the others?”

“Did you really think for a second that I would?” The question is blunt rhetoric with a cold, sharp undercurrent like a winter draft.

“No, but sometimes you show up anyway,” Komaeda replied, smiling slyly. He sneered. “Even you get lonely.”

Kamukura didn’t so much as blink. Komaeda settled down beside him, giggling wheezy and giddy.

“That said, even I think starting the new year by yourself is rather pitiful,” he said. “So I decided to impose on you! Aren’t you ever so lucky, Kamukura-kun?”

Kamukura huffed.

“Oh come on,” Komaeda whined and dug around in his pocket. “Don’t be like that. Be a little more gracious! I even got you a gift!”

At that, Kamukura did perk up.

“...for the new year?”

“For your birthday,” Komaeda said, and at that moment, Kamukura stilled even as his expression remained utterly unreadable. “I...read through your files. It had...information of the person you used to be on there. It’s funny. January 1st. I can’t believe you were born on New Years Day.”

Kamukura’s eyes narrowed.

“I was not,” he retorted. “The Kamukura Project was finalized on November 25th. My earliest memory dates July 26th. Either of those are more suited to be my birthday.”

Komaeda gave him a look.

“...then consider this a late birthday present,” he said smoothly. “Or even a late Christmas present if you want. It doesn’t really matter to me, Kamukura-kun.”

Kamukura said nothing, and Komaeda shoved the gift into his hand, just as the fireworks went off.

“Happy birthday, Kamukura-kun,” he said, shrugging. “And happy new year.”

It was a book messily wrapped in ruined newspaper, and yet, from the weight of it alone in his hands, he could tell what the present truly was.

“...something like this,” he murmured, unwrapping it neatly without even ripping the newspaper. He blinked once, exhaling out a soft sight as he opened the book. “Boring.”

Komaeda smiled at him, smile every bit as crumbled as the pressed daisy on the page.

“It’s fitting,” he said. “Kamukura-kun definitely reminds me of a crushed flower. You should thank me for the thoughtful gift.”

Kamukura said nothing; merely shutting the book instead.

“So cold!” Komaeda exclaimed brightly. “So despairingly cold!”

Kamukura regarded him coolly, and Komaeda shivered, flinching, in fact, when Kamukura reached out, brushing his hair back.

“A-Ah...” Komaeda’s breath caught, his eyes swirling with despair and confusion. “K-Kamukura...kun...?”

The explosion of fireworks mixing with the collapse of a building. Joyous whoops of Despair mixing in with the screams of people caught in the crossfire.

A fragile, crushed daisy caught between pages of a book too ruined to read.

“K-Kamukura-kun...?”

Kamukura leaned in and kissed him softly at the next burst of sound.

“...come on,” he murmured when they parted, tugging on Komaeda’s hand. “Let’s get going.”

--

“Five! Four! Three! Two!”

Komaeda pulled him in for a kiss just as the fireworks went off and the bell rang all across the island. Everyone popped their party poppers with a squeal and a whoop, and he himself could only shiver, eyes going wide as Komaeda pulled away, his own eyes shimmering.

“H-Happy birthday...and Happy New Years...”

He blinked once, blush darkening.

“Y... You too...”

Komaeda laughed breathlessly as he was pulled in for another kiss, the two of them holding one another close.

“...thank you, Nagito,” he said softly, and then stammered out, “T-Thanks...a lot...”

Komaeda smiled at him brightly and burst into little giggles.

“It’s been quite the eventful year, hasn’t it?” Komaeda asked, pecking his lips again. “Hey, what do you think the next year will bring us?”

“...I have a few predictions...”

Komaeda clung to him, squeezing.

“You’re not going to get rid of me,” he whispered. “That much is for sure.”

“...I would not...” He squeezed Komaeda in return. “I wouldn’t have it any other way. Hope, despair, either, neither, I just want us to be together, Nagito.”

Komaeda nodded against him.

“Hajime-kun,” he sighed. “Izuru-kun... I...”

“Yo! Birthday boy! You gonna come over here or what?!”

Komaeda jumped, but he kept him close, fingers threading through the ivory hair. The others were grinning without worry, even as he felt Komaeda’s face warm and his heart skip a beat.

“Yeah, yeah,” he called back. “Give me a moment, will ya?”

He leaned in and softly kissed Komaeda’s cheek, watching with fondness as the pink tint darkened.

“Come on, Nagito,” he said, taking Komaeda’s robotic hand and squeezing. “Let’s get going.”

Komaeda could only beam.

[noscorpsaladerive]

Flo in Bordeaux!!!!

I wrote up mine and Emily’s experiences seeing Flo yesterday but the verb tenses are all over the place and this is REALLY LONG so it’s going under the cut I hope y’all enjoy :)

So Emily and I got to Bordeaux around noon but we couldn’t check in until 14h so we were walking around trying to find food that didn’t cost 20€ per person and we accidentally came across the theatre!!!  They had a couple posters with Flo’s face on them and I nearly died omg.  We saw a couple of vans outside and I’m guessing it was all of their equipment.

Skip forward a few hours and one mild freak out session that resulted in breathing exercises later, and Emily and I FINALLY head over to the theatre about an hour before showtime.  There are already quite a few people outside, which surprised me a little bit, but the age demographic was very strange.  Like there were a lot of women who were at least in their 40s and 50s and even a gaggle of preteen girls not that enjoying Flo’s music is limited to a certain age group but it was just an unexpected demographic (as Erin said it’s the same one as 50 Shades of Grey lol).  But anyway while we were standing outside I heard some music playing AND IT WAS FLO’S SOUNDCHECK.  I think he was playing J’attends encore but they just played part of it but it was still enough to cause a heart attack dear goodness

So we finally get into the theatre (and there was this whole drama about the staff holding onto my fancy camera during the concert because apparently photos weren’t allowed ugh but ANYWAY) and it like still hasn’t quite hit that I’m actually seeing Flo again??? I think part of it might’ve been the fact that we had to get up at like 4:45 in the morning to go to the train station but I was like scarily calm considering this is Flo we’re talking about.

The opening act was a band from Bordeaux called MO and they were actually really good!! I’d looked them up beforehand and their music seemed like French country and considering that I don’t like American country I wasn’t too excited but it was a little bit more soft pop than country and it almost reminded me of Diane’s music??  It was a very similar genre regardless.  They got the audience to do this like percussive song thing with them and it was really fun I’d definitely be happy to see them perform again.

Then after a good while where the crew moved instruments around and they adjusted the lighting one last time the band walked on stage and started playing some music then FLO WALKED ON STAGE AND I COULDN’T STOP GRINNING LIKE AN IDIOT and they keep playing then he gets interrupted by his mom calling and he finally turns around and I see his stupid face and I’m gonna die just writing about this omg and he’s so damn cute and he’s now wearing a hoop earring (we were on Flo’s left so we had great views of the earring haha) and omg I’m still dying

Anyways after the fake phone call with his mom they start playing Se serrer la main which is one of my fave songs on that album but like i wanted to like stand up and jam along but no one else was standing??? Concerts that take place in real theatres stress me out idk if we’re supposed to stand or sit or what but ANYWAY

after that song ended he asked « Y’a des drôles de filles ici ce soir?? »/« Are there any drôles de filles here tonight? » (sorry I can’t think of how to translate drôles de filles rn) but I FLIPPED MY SHIT QUELLE DRÔLE DE FILLE IS SUCH A JAM (plus it’s my blog title lol) uhhhh idk which songs were next and I’m too lazy to pull up my recording rn to check but he sang a new song and damn it was such a jam and he was like noodling and dancing across the stage and i was struck by two things:  1) he seemed SO COMFORTABLE in his own skin and in his own body and i know he’s struggled with body issues before so it warmed my heart to see him so comfortable with himself and 2) he leaned backwards at one point (a mini-Rosenberggggg lean if you will) and I noticed his abs through his shirt???  And I was like wtf????  Are his abs just THAT well defined or is his shirt kinda see through??? Later on after I saw his nipples I was like YEP that shirt’s see through oops.  I knew his outfit seemed too normal I was getting suspicious. He also dabbed at the end of that song and you could feel half the audience groaning hahaha.

Uh I’m forgetting the song order but for Les Blessures qui ne se voient pas he started out a cappella and people were kinda singing along at first but everyone stopped and it was literally a silent theatre full of people listening to nothing but Flo’s voice and it was so beautiful and powerful I almost cried.  Oh I also almost cried when he did Te Ressembler because I wasn’t expecting him to do that song and it reminds me so much of the relationship I have with my mother and it just gets to me man.

After maybe like half an hour he started the whole bit where he tells us his life story starting with Canada which is a shame that he doesn’t start earlier because I would literally die to hear him perform some Lost Smile.  So he starts out the bit at a bar and he orders a rum and coke from the bartender (aka the guitarist who was wiping down his guitar with a towel as if it was a bar countertop lol) so the guitarist pours him a glass of wine and calls it rum and coke and Flo says « What kind of rum is this? » and the bartender/guitarist says « It’s Bordeaux rum! » and everyone screams since we’re in Bordeaux and Flo says that the best rum is from Bordeaux and everyone screams some more.

He talked about the friend he wrote « Alone » for then he performed said song and I nearly died I never in a million years thought I would ever hear him perform Canada songs live but also I feel like Emily and I were the only ones who knew the song???  The general feeling I got from the audience was confusion while I was jamming along having the time of my life.  The only other Canada song he performed was Mrs Mary which I don’t know as well as Alone but oh well.  

Next he did the getting a call to come audition for MOR and the fake audition and he was acting all cute and when the casting director aka the keyboardist asked how old he was he said 27 and like half of the audience squealed he was acting so cute then this motherfucker went and sang Bohemian Rhapsody which is ANOTHER song I thought I’d never hear him perform live and I just about died and cried I was a roller coaster of emotions last night okay?

Then he sang « L’Assasymphonie » and we all stood up and jammed and I’m pretty sure there was eye contact happening between us and I was living for it seeing Flo perform that song gives me life I have a video too but I’ll be uploading all my videos, pics, and recordings later.

Then he got a fake call from Dove (and I squealed really loudly when Flo mentioned Dove) and Dove said he’d had a dream about Flo with a big sword (ahem) and that’s how he introduced Quelque chose de magique and I died all over again it was like this really awesome rock arrangement and I was living for it @Dove why don’t you get Flo to do the arrangements for your musicals from now on at least that way you can’t tell him to chop all his hair off but I digress.  Tbh I’m really glad Flo did Quelque chose de magique because Mon combat is awkwardly just out of his lower range and Auprès d’un autre is just...yeah.  But it was so great to hear him sing LRA live again I was so pumped.

At some point during the musicals or just after Flo took another sip of the wine (which the guitarist had been drinking lol) and he said « Fuck that’s good I’m gonna need three or four more glasses » and tbh same but after the musicals they brought out a drum and let Flo drum for a bit and they did Sur mon nuage then he did Arrête somewhere in there???  Oh and the slow version of Je ne sais pas (which is the better version imo) which he apparently wrote about the girl who dumped him in Canada which I totally didn’t realize.

Then he was winding down the show and did that sped up version of Quoi de neuf which stresses me out because it’s so damn fast and he also kept switching up the lyrics in the chorus???? Like dude wtf I can’t sing along if you keep changing it!!!!

He left the stage afterwards but came back to do another new song whose name I forgot and he tried to teach us the chorus and was like « it’s really easy!! » but I couldn’t understand the words he was singing???? Oh well maybe he’ll release it on his next album whenever that’s happening (which he hasn’t even mentioned another album so I’m not holding my breath lol) then he ended with Qu’est-ce qu’un homme which is such a good song y’all it’s SO GOOD. But y’all when he had his arms around his band members to bow the Floobs were out they were really out there and idk how to process this information.

We headed outside to see about stagedooring and there ended up being two groups of fans at two different exits and we were kind of eying each other trying to figure out who was going to be right and if we needed to rush to the other side but all of the sudden everyone rushed to one of the theatre’s main doors??? So Emily and I rushed along and we were all penguin huddled together and no one really knew what was happening but we were all just waiting while the theatre staff opened the door and let a few fans in at a time.  We finally figured out that we were meeting Flo inside which I thought was nice since that way he wasn’t being crowded by a bunch of fans at the same time.

So Emily and I finally get inside except I’m getting loopy because of lack of sleep and we really hadn’t eaten that much that day either and I was SO CLOSE to deciding I was going to tell Flo I was disappointed he didn’t do any Lost Smile lol.  So the line of fans goes around a corner so we can’t really see what’s happening until we get up close and we can see the dudes that opened the show and we thought Flo would be after them but no you greet Flo first and that’s when my heart started beating real fast I wasn’t fucking ready y’all but we were doing it.

So I finally get up to Flo and he and a staff member are talking about how many people are still waiting and he didn’t quite see me at first when I handed him my ticket to sign and when they’re done talking I quietly say « hi » and Flo finally sees me and y’all he got so fucking excited I was so worried he wouldn’t recognize us but he did!!!!!!!! Even though it’s been almost two years!!!!! He asks us how we’ve been and he seemed so sincere and genuine and so interested like he really did want to know how we had been doing and as he’s signing Emily’s ticket I asked what his cat’s name was and he said he wasn’t saying right now but that he was going to announce it later.  But he did tell us his cat was super sweet and that he didn’t make too much noise in the morning and that he will play fetch like a dog and I was like omg my cat too!!! I’m also 95% sure at some point during this convo I straight up told Flo I love his cat but idk if he heard but he didn’t seem weirded out lol so that was good.  Flo took selfies with me then while he was taking selfies with Emily I said, « The concert was better than Harry Potter » (a reference to the classic « Song For A Lunatic ») and he was trying so hard not to lose it mid-selfie and I’m pretty sure it was the cause of the blep in Emily’s selfies it was so fucking great hahaha then the theatre staff fussed at all of us because we were taking so long but it was so worth it. He thanked us for coming and seemed really sincere about it like it wasn’t in just a « I need something to close this convo with fans » way it was like really genuine and this man and his sincerity will be the death of me.

Emily and I stayed calm until we got outside the theatre then we fucking lost it and screamed at Emily’s mom on the phone while she was at work because FLORENT MOTHE RECOGNIZED US and he had like a substantial conversation with us and he didn’t with the people ahead of us and he smiled SO MUCH in our selfies it was so amazing I feel so validated as a fan like one of my all time fave singers actually knows who I am and I’m dying.

I recorded most of the concert so I’ll post that recording and some pictures and videos later on!!  Damn this turned out wayyy longer than expected lol.