[Video] Fly Blue Boy

[blueburnshotter]

[So SOMEONE is used to a life of fame and glory, doing promotional work involving cheer squad photoshoots and crap like that. Among this crap is an ANNUAL CALENDAR..

That he just found out was done without him this year.

And that a bear may or may not have been dressed up in a uniform and filled in for him. Hayato is not sure how much of the text message he should believe, but he doesn't rule that possibility out.

Either way, he is BUTTHURT. But he's determined not to miss out on the fun entirely. So here he is, all charming/smug smiles and bright ideas.]

I'm looking for an elite team of those who love the camera and who the camera loves right back.

It's nearly the end of the year, which means calendar sales will be shooting up pretty soon. So who wants to volunteer for a little school project? A Smash Academy calendar does sound like quite something, doesn't it? This school is rather well known in this city, so it has potential.

The proceeds will go toward a charity just in time to make the holidays a whole lot cheerier for those in need, people who need to keep track of dates will make their walls a little more beautiful... it's for a good cause all around.

How about it?

[TIME TO DRAW CUTE PINUPS IS WHAT I'M SAYING HERE]

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[Video]

[stopstaring]

...What is a camera?

[Because Olivia understands most of what's being said. Just not the camera part. Funny, how it's one thing that captures her attention unnecessarily.]

[blueburnshotter]

[OH OLIVIA, YOU DEAR SWEET THING. Hayato does have to wonder just where folks have to be from to not know what something like a camera is. Then again, if he can run into someone from home who is from the past, why can't other people be from even weirder points in time and space?

He'll just have to enlighten her.]

It works a little similarly to the computers we're using now. But instead of a moving, speaking video, it captures just a still image. ...Think of it as creating instant life paintings with the press of a button.

[stopstaring]

Oh...

[And at first she almost doesn't get it, because the computers are still stupidly new to her. That comes with the territory of not coming from a world with them, Olivia supposes.]

It sounds convenient. A more convenient way of creating a still life painting. That's impressive! I didn't know anything like that existed. I can't wait to see what you're commissing, Hayato.

[blueburnshotter]

Oh, but we must have you take part! I couldn't possibly allow you to sit out of a project calling for the very grace and beauty you are in such ample supply of.

[He's so close to a full year's worth of people...]

[stopstaring]

M-me? I don't think I'd be very good at something like that. I don't even know how to take... pictures... or anything like that.

[No one ever said Olivia was the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree.]

[blueburnshotter]

Don't you worry, that part's all taken care of.

[Sort of. He's got a couple of photographers' webpages open in other tabs.]

No, you belong in front of a camera.

[stopstaring]

Naked, right.

Oh, nonono. I think you're picking the wrong person here. I hardly know anything about what would be needed of me. There are plenty of other people who could be used for that, aren't there?

[blueburnshotter]

That's for a more personal project.

That's the beautiful thing about a group project. The more people involved, the more rewarding the end result is. Why, I have seen true miracles occur whenever the whole world unites.

This won't be on such a large scale, of course, but the goal is to do some good for the community...

[stopstaring]

aww yeaaaa

That's true, yes. The reward at the end, I mean. I'm happy to help if you need it, Instructor Saionji. I just don't know how much of a help I'll be. I'd probably be okay cooking for the needy. Maybe people who are like me, and can't go home to their homeworlds...

[That's oddly a good idea. Thanks, Hayato.]

[blueburnshotter]

[Hmm-- he wonders if all that dimensional rift business has anything to do with this being stranded from a homeworld. Is it that common an occurrence here? Poor sweet Olivia...]

That isn't quite what I had in mind, but I won't stop you from doing something like that anyway. You have a good heart, don't you...

[stopstaring]

I want to try to.

[Which isn't hard to admit.]

It's hard not to be in Ylisse or with the Shepherds, so I have to do the best I can while I'm here.

[blueburnshotter]

[Homesickness, he gets.]

You're in some luck there. My duty is to bring out the best in everybody here. We'll be a fantastic match.

[stopstaring]

[As much as she wants to protest, Olivia wants to believe that he's right more.]

I-I'll try my best!

[And it's all she can promise.]