Satoru's never done a song like this before, and she's anxious about whether it will work, whether she can pull it off. If it fails and Suguru is shitty about it, the vulnerability of that will gut her. If Suguru had just said no, too weird, too much of a change to the original song, that would have been fine. But if it fails.
Bouncing a little in place, energy as restless as ever, Satoru lets all that energy settle into tense readiness as she steps up to the mic. She's glad that Suguru starts, that the first couple of lines are unchanged. It would be too hard to start that blending from the first words. They need to lead up to it, lead into it. One melody, then add the harmony for a couple of lines, and then everything twists.
Her adrenaline feels supercharged as they run through the song, with Suguru matching her and keeping up with her, like a game, a puzzle--this performance they can only do together. There are a few mistakes from what she'd intended, a few discordant moments where it doesn't work, but those are minor fixes. The concept is solid.
As soon as the song finishes, Satoru's reaching for the notes, marking an adjustment and asking Suguru's input on another, workshopping it and then running through it again. They're drawing a crowd now, aides and stadium employees stopping their other tasks in order to come and stare, and there's applause at the end of the second run-through. Satoru lifts a sheepish hand in appreciation and thanks, preferring to minimize it rather than bask in it as she would for a performance. Right now she just wants to keep working, talking through another set of tiny adjustments. "I want to run through it at least once more with the full accompaniment, once things are more set up on stage."
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Bouncing a little in place, energy as restless as ever, Satoru lets all that energy settle into tense readiness as she steps up to the mic. She's glad that Suguru starts, that the first couple of lines are unchanged. It would be too hard to start that blending from the first words. They need to lead up to it, lead into it. One melody, then add the harmony for a couple of lines, and then everything twists.
Her adrenaline feels supercharged as they run through the song, with Suguru matching her and keeping up with her, like a game, a puzzle--this performance they can only do together. There are a few mistakes from what she'd intended, a few discordant moments where it doesn't work, but those are minor fixes. The concept is solid.
As soon as the song finishes, Satoru's reaching for the notes, marking an adjustment and asking Suguru's input on another, workshopping it and then running through it again. They're drawing a crowd now, aides and stadium employees stopping their other tasks in order to come and stare, and there's applause at the end of the second run-through. Satoru lifts a sheepish hand in appreciation and thanks, preferring to minimize it rather than bask in it as she would for a performance. Right now she just wants to keep working, talking through another set of tiny adjustments. "I want to run through it at least once more with the full accompaniment, once things are more set up on stage."