#ugh Giiiii now i want this

[sweetestberryofthebunch]

ok musician au hear me out: (it’s season 12 so far because that’s what i know but i’d love to hear your thoughts for who could fit the rest of the band !!)

jan and jackie are a duo, famous for jan’s energy and bright vocals with jackie’s warmer tones to balance it and provide lower harmonies, not to mention their iconic chemistry and will-they-won’t-they energy that keeps audiences guessing. their careers are firmly in the limelight after a big break a few years back, and they’ve gotten the best team they could hope for (though they’re still looking for someone to help gigi, their hair and costume person, with the outfits for the shows). now on their second national tour, they feel on top of the world—especially with their friends by their side.

but there’s a new name on the scene that both of them find themselves maybe too bothered by. where they’d never been anything but friendly and welcoming to the people they met, something about this new hot french solo act named nicky doll seems to be affecting them more than normal. worse, somehow, is the fact that she gets along so well with the rest of the team, and even worse? she’s opening for them at their next show.

cast do characters so far:

jan and jackie (main duo)

crygi as makeup (crystal) and hair/wardrobe (gigi)

nicky (an up-and-coming solo act and opener for their next show)

jaida (her designer and best friend)

who else would be in the band/in their team?

Oh this is SO cute! And all their friends from other seasons could be friends they meet st different stops on tour - In new York they play a show at the bar where they got started - which just got taken over by Jan‘s Highschool friend Rosé who can immediately sense the chemistry between not just Jan and Jackie but also Jan and Nicky, pushing her to fool around a little.

In Missouri they save some money by parking their (kind of old and wacky - its their first big tour after all) tour bus in front of Crystal’s little sister Daya’s place. They all stay in the house while they’re there, and Jackie and Jan find themselves forced to sleep in the living room with Nicky, pushed together on a pullout couch. While they deal with crashing egos and maybe some jealousy, Gigi gets to know Crystal a lot more on a trip through her hometown, getting a tour of all her favourite spots.

In LA they stay for a whole week to play at a festival, and in the early mornings after shows in the sun all day, lots of alcohol and maybe some other recreational activities, shenanigans ensue. Meanwhile, Gigi is nervous for Crystal to meet her found family, worried the LA girls will judge her.

After that they’re on the road up the coast for a while, and Jackie gets jealous when Jan and Nicky start writing a song together, especially since Gigi and Crystal seem to get closer by the day too as they make their way towards Seattle…

[carelesstranslator]

Stray Devil Blues Pt 1 (A3! Act 9 Mixed Troupe Play)

Act 1

[A spotlight shines on Lucifer, standing alone on the stage]

Lucifer: The brilliance of that soul stretched across millenia, piercing through to the deepest depths of the earth. That hateful, accursed, blessed siren call.

[Scenery change: Town Square]

Jailor: Don’t come back again.

Mark: Thank you for your care.

Mark: ……hah.

Thug: Give me your money! Mark: — I don’t have any money. I just came out of jail.

Thug: Just pass your bag over! Mark: —ugh

Thug: Ha..ha…. it’s your own fault for being slow to give it to me! I didn’t do anything wrong! Mark: It can’t be…… will my life end just like this?

Lucifer: Do you resent your own destiny? Or do you hate the one who framed you?

Mark: Eh……?

Lucifer: I can give you power. The power to overturn destiny, a blade to deliver vengeance.

Mark: A devil……?

Lucifer: If you do nothing you will rot away here. Alone, unaccepted by anyone.

Mark: …… I refuse.

Lucifer: Then make a contract with me. With your soul as the price.

Mark: A contract……

Lucifer: The deadline for your soul to be paid is a month from now.

Mark: One month? I can’t live any longer than that?

Lucifer: No one can escape the contract.

Mark: No way! Then, there’s no point to it!

Lucifer: Although, there is but one way to free yourself from the contract.

Lucifer: Hunt the souls of people who have made contracts with other devils. If you do so, you can exchange their soul for your own, and be exempt from the conditions of the contract.

Mark: The souls of other contractors……

Lucifer: What will you do? Mark: ……I understand. I’ll forge the contract.

Lucifer: Then I promise you your life, and the success of your vengeance.

Mark: What I want is not revenge. I want to prove my innocence. That will be enough.

Lucifer: ……Very well. With this the contract is forged.

—

Mark: I can’t believe it, he was the culprit…… I thought we were friends.

Lucifer: Humans are weak creatures, vulnerable to corruption.

Mark: It’s even more convincing when a devil says that.

Lucifer: It makes things much easier for us.

Mark: Will you always stay here? Lucifer: So long as you do not tell me to return. High-ranking devils such as myself cannot remain in the human world without the will of our contractors.

Mark: Oh, so you’ll appear whenever I call for you. That’s convenient.

Lucifer: Do not speak of me as if I am some kind of tool. It’s unpleasant.

Mark: Sorry, sorry. Lucifer: Humph.

Employer: Hey, new hire! Move this baggage!

Mark: Yes! Mark: Hm… perchance, are high-ranking devils able to carry baggage like this?

Lucifer: Child’s play.

Mark: Perfect. You’re a great help!

—

(Scenery change: Inside the church)

Mark’s friend: I never meant to do it! But for some reason, at that time, I just felt irrationally angry at him……

Mark’s friend: I was possessed by evil!

Mark’s friend: I deeply regret framing my friend.

Walter: Repent and atone for your sins. If you do so, surely your soul will obtain salvation.

Mark’s friend: …… thank you very much, Father.

Walter: ……

Beezelbub: I can sense the presence of a devil.

Walter: He did not look like a contractor.

Beezelbub: It feels like someone disagreeable.

Walter: An acquaintance of yours?

Beezelbub: More importantly, I’m hungry. Today, I want to eat stew.

Walter: I’ve never heard of a devil eating stew before.

Beezelbub: With plenty of meat in it.

Walter: Got it, got it.

Walter: The presence of a devil, huh. Oh, God! Extend the hand of salvation to the lost children, and on the corrupt fallen, the hammer of condemnation!

—

(Scenery change: An alleyway)

Mark: It’s been a while, Cliff.

Cliff: Mark! When did you get out? Mark: A week ago. Thanks for helping out.

Cliff: I’m sorry I wasn’t able to do much. The situation really sucked.

Mark: The real culprit turned himself in recently.

Cliff: Is that so. If he was going to do that, he should have done it sooner. But in any case, it’s good that your innocence was proved.

Mark: ……yeah

Cliff: Have you decided on your next job?

Mark: Not yet. I’m doing day labor while looking for a long-term position.

Cliff: Why don’t you come and work for me? You would be welcome anytime.

Mark: Thanks for the offer, but the ‘work’ that you do is impossible for me.

Cliff: If it wasn’t for the ‘work’ that we do, many more children would be dead.

Mark: I know that. Even so, I can’t do it.

Cliff: If you change your mind, feel free to hit me up anytime.

Mark: Thanks, Cliff.

(Cliff exits the scene) Lucifer: Why didn’t you take up Cliff’s offer?

Mark: Cliff’s work involves intimidation and extortion. Most of his jobs are illegal.

Mark: Of course, I know that without this line of work, there are many who would be unable to feed themselves. Even so, I don’t want to do it.

Lucifer: If that’s the case then hurry up and find a proper and well-paying job. I don’t want to keep being summoned that that dirty old room.

Mark: Even though you’re a devil, you’re unexpectedly fastidious

Lucifer: Being a devil has nothing to do with it.

Mark: Sorry, sorry! Then help me with the cleaning. I probably won’t be able to move out anytime soon.

Lucifer: Why do I have to stoop to this kind of thing……

——

(Scenery shift: Town Square)

Mark: What’s that?

Lucifer: Demons. Though they aren’t very powerful, they tempt and distract humans into acts of evil.

Lucifer: In other words, they become ‘possessed by evil’.

Mark: Look out—!

Demons: Giiiii! Giiii!

Lucifer: Demons are ubiquitous, if you try to stop every single one there will be no end to it.

Mark: Even so, if you see that there is someone about to die in front of you, the normal thing to do is help them out.

Lucifer: How very kind of you.

Mark: You went along with it didn’t you? You too are —

Lucifer: What? Mark: Nothing.

——

Mark: ……for there to be demons around the church. It’s a strange connection.

Walter: Does something trouble you?

Mark: Ah, no——

Walter: Please enter. These doors are open to anyone.

Mark: ——

Walter: Would it be, that your trouble concerns devils? Mark: Eh? Walter: I’ve seen people who had the same expressions on their faces. I might be able to help.

Mark: Do you know something about devils?

Walter: Yes, well. People come to me for help with the exorcism of lower-ranking devils, and the contracts formed with devils.

Mark: The contracts formed with devils…

Walter: They grant wishes in exchange for the contractor’s soul. Would you like to know how one may free themselves from the contract? Mark: Is there such a method? Walter: The salvation of God is granted to anyone. I cannot say more than that our here, come within.

—

(Scenery shift to within the church)

Mark: ……

Mark: This is…?

Walter: A place where the power of devils cannot reach.

Mark: So, about the way to escape from the contract……

Walter: It is by bringing salvation to the corrupted soul! Mark: ——!?

(Beezelbub appears)

Beezelbub: There’s no mistake, Walter. This is a contractor. The one who holds his contract is ———

Mark: A devil!?

Walter: Are you surprised that a priest would work together with a devil? This is but a necessary evil.

Mark: Come, Lucifer! (Lucifer is summoned, but runs into a purple barrier)

Lucifer: How impertinent, to try to hold me with a barrier.

Beezelbub: As I thought, it was you, Lucifer. Then, this person is that ……?

Lucifer: If you know, then release me immediately.

Beezelbub: Unfortunately, it is not I who makes that decision. If I do not do my job, I will have to go without lunch.

Lucifer: To be baited by food…

Mark: You lied to me?

Walter: You wish to escape from that devil do you not? Then, there is only one way.

(sfx: blade being drawn)

Mark: ——gh

Walter: Haa! (sfx: blade slicing through air)

Mark: Ghh

Beezelbub: It’s alright, don’t worry. There are many other contractor’s souls here. You won’t be lonely.

Mark: You hunted other contractors’ souls too?

Walter: I did not hunt them. I saved them!

Mark: It’s the same thing! Walter: You’re quite persistent.

Beezelbub: As expected of Lucifer’s contractor.

Lucifer: Break the barrier, Mark!

Walter: As if I would allow that ——-

Mark: Haaa! Walter: Beezelbub! Beezelbub: What is the price?

Walter: Quiche!

Beezelbub: The contract is forged.

(sfx: Mark is stranged and lifted in the air by Beezelbub)

Mark: ——gghhh

Beezelbub: The time for games is over. Before Lucifer manages to break through——

(sfx: breaking glass as the barrier is broken, sound of feet landing on the ground)

Lucifer: Too late. You’ve angered me, Beezelbub.

(sfx: sound of demonic energy being summoned)

Walter: Tsk. This is troublesome——

Lucifer: Haa! (sfx: sound of demonic energy hitting Walter and Beezelbub)

Walter: gh—

Beezelbub: —-gh

Mark: No, stop, Lucifer! Lucifer: Why? Mark: If you go any further, they will die!

Walter: ——we’ll retreat for now, Beezelbub

Beezelbub: …… it looks like I must go without lunch today

(Walter and Beezelbub exit scene) Lucifer: Why did you stop me?

Mark: I have no intention on hunting the souls of other contractors

Lucifer: You want to escape from the contract don’t you? Mark: Of course, it’s hard to accept that I will have to die in a month’s time. But even so, I don’t want to exchange someone else’s soul for mine

Lucifer: As always, you are too naive

[sweetestberryofthebunch]

i had a dream about academia au last night and it was SO cute ??? like it was the philosophy club and they were just chatting and being so excited they kept standing up and pacing and eventually remembering themselves and sitting back down (jan did it three times alone but crystal definitely did it once too) and of course that means i reread academia au this morning and UGH it’s so GOOD !!!!!! anyways ily <3

Giiiii Omg! It makes me so happy to know people still like what i wrote, even now that i barely have the time to even open official documents for work n shit, let alone write for myself haha.

You’re such a light, I’m always so happy when u pop up in my inbox im so happy hehe. I hope you’re doing well!!!

Fun fact I got lost in a rabbit hole of s12 clips on tiktok this morning and the way i miss themmmm now is unreal 😩 i want that era back i miss 2010 emo boy Nicky and Crystal on my TV :( gotta rewatch some time…

Also Jan in your dream is me back when i did Philo discussion rounds in school, i used to get soooo into it i had to get up haha