#c: hanna kauwealoha

[nmitty]

one thing about me is that i will get endlessly giddy over the fact that my indulgent daydream ships embody my fave romance tropes. as if they would embody anything else

(addison and niles are enemies to lovers, hanna and shanti are best friends to lovers, victoria and paisley are 'are they lovers?' 'worse.')

[nmitty]

mitty and moon's main six as my toxic traits (unserious edition) (not that there's going to be a serious edition i'm not self-aware enough for that)

niles: checks ao3 for new fics in dead fandoms every. single. day.

addison: has a notebook dedicated to sarcastic remarks with separate sections for those directed at parents, general family, friends, acquaintances, and colleagues.

hanna: parasocial paternal relationship with stephen sondheim.

shanti: weezer listener.

victoria: screen time of 25 hours a day. rounded down.

paisley: wishes all school sports could be replaced with dodgeball.

[nmitty]

mitty and moon's main six's fave musicals (golly gee look at that alliteration) (this is how i cope with the worst days of my life) (if you want elaboration i HAVE elaboration)

niles: legally blonde. little shop of horrors. sweet charity.

addison: ruthless! spring awakening. the last five years.

hanna: assassins. chess. into the woods.

shanti: how to succeed in business without really trying. mean girls. victor/victoria.

victoria: bare: a pop opera. cabaret. fame.

paisley: bring it on. cats. we are the tigers.

[nmitty]

mitty and moon’s main six ranked by how much they yap except i yapped so hard i just started talking about how they interact with people in general

shanti: this girl is a yapper the same way rottweilers are. she came into this world screaming and by god she'll go out of it that way even if the screaming lands her the best seat in the guillotine house. give her a random wikipedia article title and she'll unleash a rant on the subject with so much passion you'll ignore how 110% of her facts are either 4chan urban legends or bullshit technobabble from the likes of star trek. she'll start every conversation with the word 'also' as though she's been carrying the tête-à-tête (pronounced by her as tit-a-tit, obviously) on through snores alone.

niles: i say this knowing i crafted him to be my ideal male main character — nilesy is god’s most autistic soldier and only acknowledges social cues when they're printed in 12-point courier. he talks more when he's nervous and unfortunately for everyone within the vicinity he is always nervous. about half his words total are apologies for events that were/are/will be absolutely out of his control. this only gets worse when he gets to hollywood because no american high school offers an elective in britishisms. he spends hours every day explaining the etymology of sayings like 'takes the biscuit' with apa citations and only shuts down if he realises he didn't list the citations in alphabetical order.

paisley: the most active listener on the planet. would make symphonies out of sympathetic nods and appropriately flabbergasted gasps regardless of whether she was acting as the audience to teenage gossip or the sealing of the magna carta. has a lot to say herself but won't intentionally steamroll over others to get to her point. speaks just as much with body language. if she's not tapping her feet you should check if she still feels sensation in said feet. if she's not fidgeting with her earrings you should check if she's lost them for the fiftieth time today. it's a very intuitive system.

victoria: a trained yapper. knows every synonym to 'stunning' in existence solely to describe herself. usually expresses herself in emojis, though, and if in truly dire circumstances, emoticons, like the cavepeople of the 1980s. tends to switch topics a lot in quick succession due to instatiktoktube attention span. parrots trends faster than instatiktoktube can produce them. most likely to send a 1,000 word text to the group chat because her pasta arrived slightly south of boiling. least likely to confront anyone in real life about it because she'd prefer a repeat of her cruise ship crashing into an island with an active volcano on it than a playback of her one month stint as a fast food cashier.

addison: also a trained yapper but she's been in the business long enough to be her social battery drains like an iphone set to the brightness of the sun. she opens her mouth for interviews and meals and that's it. and sometimes not even the latter. her mother has told her roughly two things regarding the subject of yapping: if she starts yapping, she will start complaining; if she starts complaining, she will start being unattractive to men. her mother was only right about the first part.

hanna: treats talking like a 9-5 and has been bargaining with everyone around her to fire her from the position of cardboard chatterbox for eternity. shanti's known her since first grade and last heard her say a non-scripted sentence over ten words in second grade. she knows little more than fingerspelling in sign language but in true theatre kid fashion her hands have done more talking than the president ever will. which president? all of them. in the history of the universe.

[nmitty]

mitty and moon's main six + their top five karaoke songs. yes all of them are annoying yes none of them are trusted with the aux cord or any modern approximate yes this is the content you're getting instead of coherent backstories or a superstar school netflix mockup welcome to my sick and twisted mind

niles: don't dream it's over by crowded house + here comes the sun by the beatles + stay by lisa loeb + there she goes by the la's + wonderwall by oasis

addison: basket case by green day + don't speak by no doubt + lotus flower by radiohead + numb by linkin park + toxicity by system of a down

hanna: all that jazz from chicago + defying gravity from wicked + hopelessly devoted to you from grease + i dreamed a dream from les mis + over the rainbow from the wizard of oz

shanti: baby got back by sir mix-a-lot + buddy holly by weezer + fergalicious by fergie (ft. a very emotional rendition of the american national anthem midway through) + never gonna give you up by rick astley + party rock anthem by lmfao

victoria: 99 problems by jay-z + no diggity by blackstreet + lose yourself by eminem + this is how we do it by montell jordan + you oughta know by alanis morissette

paisley: dancing queen by abba + footloose by kenny loggins + i wanna dance with somebody by whitney houston + macarena by los del rio + y.m.c.a. by village people

[nmitty]

still writing longer bios but this is The-with-a-capital-t 'fan' cast for mitty and moon's main six!! some might not be totally accurate age- or ethnicity-wise but this is about as close as i can get to how i imagine their appearances in my head. from left to right then top to bottom:

rian mccririck as niles mitty

sophie grace as addison moon

peyton elizabeth lee as hanna kauwealoha

maitreyi ramakrishnan as shanti venkatraman

elle fanning as victoria baker

momona tamada as paisley young

[nmitty]

now playing: freaks by surf curse

famed for their work on critic-loathed but audience-lauded single-camera sitcom superstar school, the principal cast of mitty and moon are terrible liars comprises six young talents with the combined emotional intelligence of a brick wall (but, like, a brick wall with pretty graffiti on it):

niles mitty: a.k.a. james warner. the newest addition to the cast. superstar school is his first appearance as a professional actor, but he's been working hard behind the scenes of several a disastrous play at bourdillon school, a public institution best known for its anti-arts stance and strict policies on acceptable behaviour for the two sexes. recognised for his encyclopaedic knowledge of superstar lore and sweltering chemistry with addison moon in and out of character, it's only a matter of time before his career takes off into the stratosphere. that is, if addison moon doesn't strangle him first.

addison moon: a.k.a. stella summers. the main character. addison grew up on camera, working her way from commercials to feature films before adolescence, believing childhood to be as overrated as most of the oscar bait movies she's worked on. while superstar school might be beneath her material-wise, it's a surprisingly enjoyable break from what her family considers True Acting.that is, until producers hire some nerd named niles mitty as her accent coach, then have the gall to get him an actual job on the show.

hanna kauwealoha: a.k.a. lucy hoapili. the voice of reason. a theatre kid who has seen far too many tragedies on off-off-off-broadway to have any patience for miscommunication or golden age musical slander, hanna is a master of monologues and slightly insensitive honesty. while she'd rather be on stage than on set, she can admit there are a few positives to her current work environment, chief among them the fact she bears witness to popcorn-worthy drama every day. shanti venkatraman's best friend, believe it or not.

shanti venkatraman: a.k.a. nora ramiah. the comic relief. a tutor turned trouper by sheer luck and a lot of bad puns, shanti may not be the most practical thinker around, but she’s certainly an entertaining one. if there’s anyone who can help come up with cover stories or create a windy, winding lecture on the spot to excuse oneself for eating the coveted last cookie in the break room refrigerator, it’s her. good luck handling the debt that’ll put you in, though. hanna kauwealoha's best friend, much to the kauwealohas' relief and the venkatramans' concern. for hanna, of course.

victoria baker: a.k.a. shiv finn. the mean girl. at least, that's what everyone thinks thanks to her unabashed self-confidence and unheeding handling of famous flings. better known for her stint as a lifestyle influencer and celebrity interviewer, she's the first (and last) person to compliment her acting, but she really does want to improve, if only to prove that it's not just nepotism babies like addison moon who can succeed in show business. she's pretty sure paisley young is her sidekick, but she was also pretty sure santa claus was the tooth fairy's long-lost twin brother, and look how that hypothesis turned out. or don't. she's planning to shoot a short film on it with paisley as rudolph.

paisley young: a.k.a. amber pang. the ingenue. a dance prodigy and chronic peacekeeper, paisley originally made the jump from documentaries and competitions solely to eschew traditional school while still providing her parents a steady income, but has discovered a persisting love for the spotlight along the way. superstar school isn’t going to win her any emmys, but it is a way to distract her from the injury that made her leave dancing in the first place, and that’s more than she could ask of any other hobby she’s obsessed over and promptly dropped like a hot potato after realising, oh, that requires effort. she lets victoria baker think she's her personal assistant because that girl has so many gourmet leftovers it's a wonder her actual personal assistant still lets her bring tupperwares to all those fancy shmancy balls.

[nmitty]

quick little tag dump (except it's so unlittle i need several landfills for the sole purpose of organising my thoughts abt Them) (p stands for paracosm c stands for character m stands for media meaning fictional tv shows and films within the paracosm mc stands for media character and s stands for ship) (look i don't get it either let me live)