#band au.fic

[chuuyanakaahara]

ok please tell me more abt band au kouyou,,, and also why is dazai disgraced,, (tho i can think of a few things)

band au kouyou <33 she's actually gone through several different roles in terms of when i was figuring out what to do with her in this au, bc i knew i wanted her to be important but i scrapped the original plot wherein she was a pivotal factor of that backstory, so i had to change it.

kouyou is now one of the most influential people in the industry. and she knows it. she has a soft spot for female artists bc she knows the industry is unjust but she has a visceral, violent hatred of child stars as in she doesn't think they should be a thing.

she's gone through it. she was disgraced from her very, very powerful family because she was a curious child by nature and got them into a couple scandals when she spoke to the press. they stuck her with a nanny and cut her off from anything financially beyond that singular nanny for years, until she got her first modelling job at 16, where she got many of the skills she carries now; make-up and etiquette and fashion, so on. she kept jumping from gig to gig to stay afloat after her parents realized that she did have said modelling job and therefore fired that nanny. (mind you, now she's living wherever she can afford, where she used to live with the nanny in the nanny's place, like a stand-in guardian.)

one of her more scummy jobs ended up suggesting she audition for a role in a popular movie, set to be a musicial. she did, though she could not sing for shit, but the director liked her so much that he agreed to get her voice acting lessons if she accepted the role, because he really wanted her to be part of the film. to this day, it's the only film she's been in. she began releasing music after the movie, and she had a little bit of money to play around with, and she got signed to the port record label, where she moved the ranks incredibly quickly due to her background in the bureaucracy of modelling and such.

dazai is "disgraced" for several reasons. he, too, was a child prodigy who had an incredible amount of scandal surrounding him when he was young, and a lot of trouble with his record label because he'd explicitly go against their wishes and breach contract, by changing all of the passwords of his accounts so his PR team couldn't undo the damage, by getting arrested, by releasing demos he was explicitly told not to, because he was young and stupid and trying to find a reason to live and he couldn't, it was all too monotonous. he ends up leaving the spotlight because he was released from his contract and no one wanted to sign him when his release just happened to coincide with, say, the death of one of his best and only friends, where he went on a month-long, very public bender. his following is almost cult-like. nowadays, he's signed to another label, but he doesn't make much music on his own. he likes to ghost-write because, like chuuya, he doesn't have a muse for his own music, and he might end up actually killing himself if he goes back into the public eye so soon. (its literally been four years.)