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I don't know if that's an endearing trait of mine, though...

[He's not sure what about himself is endearing, actually, aside from his ponytail (very cute). But that's something he'd rather not think too hard about!]

So did you choose your answer because it's not what people would expect?

... No. Simply because the person I am on stage, and the person I am off it, are two different existences entirely.

[ in a more literal sense, but he can't tell shiina that. ]

I can play the part well enough -- if I can't be who they expect me to be, then I have no right to stand before them -- but my stage persona is what others want to see me as rather than who I am. So for them, I'd give it thought, I'd weigh the pros and cons, and finally I would come out to a different answer than the one I gave you just now.

[ ... and he knows the other'll ask what that answer is anyway, so he straightens a bit more with a slight smile, speaking with an even but friendly tilt in his voice -- as if he was really being interviewed. ]

An idol must be versatile, beloved, and able to compliment any dish he may be paired with -- a potato certainly fits those particular specifications, doesn't it?

That's a pretty cool answer, too. You've totally thought of everything, huh?

[For as obviously inexperienced as Kaname was at other things, he was very much an idol.]

I forget it's important to think about what people want you to be sometimes. I mean, we're pretty un-idol-like, usually~.

[Though you still have to know what an idol should be like in order to not be like them, he supposes. He didn't think too hard about it most of the time, though it wasn't like he was unaware of what people thought of him or anything, either. They just did things a little (or a lot) differently.]

[ born and raised baby!!!! good at one thing and fumbling through the rest!!! being praised for it though does... make him feel good, of course -- he only put what he learned (from reimei, from a voice on the phone) to use -- but at the same time

at the same time, it's more he should be happy instead. kaname eases back against his seat and crosses his arms, hmphing softly. ]

Indeed. Though it's admittedly a rising charm point for fans to be ever-closer to their idols due to behavior like that, I can't help but be against it. We're selling a fantasy, you know? A perfect, dream-like performance, from perfect, dream-like performers -- a world where they can escape their dreary or painful lives for even a moment, invited to a land of glittering stars, of song and dance. Being too "un-idol-like" ruins that.

[ ... ]

But whatever works for you all, I suppose.

[ he won't... knock it so much, since it's based in jealously. to be loved for who you are, rather than what someone thinks of you or wants you to be -- how nice. ]

[Some might be put off by that sort of response, but Niki isn't. He's pretty understanding anyway, but it probably helps that his feelings about idols aren't quite like everyone else's, either. Niki smiles despite the sort of critical response.]

That's probably true. I don't know if we'd survive if we were normal idols, though. [Because Rinne had tried that and failed, and because Crazy:B was meant to crash and burn anyway. It's a miracle things don't turn out that way, though he doesn't know the details of how it actually works out. But...] I'm pretty bad at pretending to be normal, so it's better for us that way.

[They weren't normal and they weren't perfect. They could... probably should pretend to be, but they wouldn't just be lying to the audience, they'd be lying to themselves, too. And for what? They weren't meant to succeed.]

But there are a lot of foods that aren't for everyone, and I think we're kinda like that, too. Some flavors and textures might be terrible to us, but for others, they might be just right, you know? We all have very different tastes, after all.

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