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✧--high school days

rkseoyoung:

thankfully, the sender of the email didn’t keep seoyoung waiting too long. between the time she sent her reply and received one in turn, the thought hadn’t left her mind. she wondered what kind of song it would be, and if the other student would choose to collaborate with her. so the response had her smiling from ear to ear.

To: chaesb From: jegalsy Subject: RE: Vocalist wanted Thank you very much! I’ll rehearse the vocals this week. I can meet any day after school. - Seoyoung

the song itself was interesting– not exactly what she expected, but not too far out of her comfort zone. seoyoung wasn’t sure why the other student needed her vocals when her own voice (if that was her in the demo) was pretty nice. then again, she didn’t know much about music production. the producer would know what was best for her song. either way, she was happy to have the opportunity.

as promised, seoyoung practiced the lyrics of the song that week, and continued murmuring them under her breath on her way to meet the mysterious producer. she pushed the door open just a crack, peering through. no one was visible right away, so she opened the door a little wider and stepped inside. “oh! hello.” she spotted the upperclassman and bowed in her direction, twin plaits dangling toward the floor. “you must be… producer sunbae?”

Soobin leaned over from where she was trying to hang curtains to act as sound absorbers. She dipped in the kind of casual nod that didn’t break eye contact. “Ah, Seoyoung-ssi. Come in! I just need to set up a few more things.”

She fixed the curtains and hopped down to where the rest of the recording equipment was. “Have you done any studio style recording in the past?”

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✧--café

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rksxngji:

When there was something aside from artistic related activities that Jieun enjoyed, it was venturing to different cafes all around Seoul. She made sure to at least have a day once a week where she’d let a bus be a bus and take her to wherever it would lead until getting off at a random stop to find a nice cafe close by.

This time she was in an area that seemed somewhat unfamiliar to her but she didn’t let it stop her from venturing. Phone out, GPS on and she was quick to find the various cafes in the area when she typed the keyword into google maps. Following the directions to the place that looked most cozy on the picture and was closest to where she had gotten off, it didn’t take her longer than five minutes to actually walk there and push the doors open.

Sadly it seemed the cafe was well visited at this hour which left her with a somewhat frustrated sigh on her lips. Maybe she was lucky and could get herself a table still. Ordering a to go cup at the counter just in case she’d have to venture elsewhere, she grabbed her order and began looking.

Backpack on her shoulder she was just ready to claim the only table still unoccupied in this whole place when a bag fell into her field of vision. Lifting her gaze she came face to face with a person she’d rather not encounter again. “Oh… it’s you…” Yikes. So much to a peaceful evening.

Soo Bin hadn’t seen Song Jieun since the last time she modeled for the boutique in the beginning of fall. Usually they never saw each other outside of that strictly professional context. Jieun was already insufferable when she was being paid. Soo Bin wasn’t too thrilled to run into her in a casual context. She certainly wasn’t going to give up on the last table in her favorite cafe because Song Jieun showed up.

Soo Bin slowly took off her jacket.and draped it over the back of her chair, because it was her chair now. She leaned onto it all casual. She skipped all of the pleasantries because they would likely be wasted anyways.

“Do you come here often? I wouldn’t take this to be your kind of scene.”

#rkseoyoung #✧--café #✧--para

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✧--high school days

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rkseoyoung:

the headline of the email that popped up in seoyoung’s inbox made her do a double take. normally this email account was full of announcements about school events, nothing particularly interesting. but this one had her typing up a reply almost immediately.

To: chaesb From: jegalsy Subject: RE: Vocalist wanted Attached: 1 file (sample.wav) Hello! My name is Jegal Seoyoung. I’m interested in singing on the track. I’ve attached an example of my vocals. Let me know what you think? Thank you!

she tried to keep it sounding professional, even though it was only a fellow student. the chance to collaborate on an original track sounded pretty cool. exactly the kind of thing her parents wanted to see on her resume. seoyoung hadn’t met the sender of this email before, but she was guessing they were an upperclassman. it would certainly be interesting to meet another student who actually made their own music. she hoped her voice would live up to the description that they were looking for.

Soo Bin felt a little bit silly refreshing the email client, but she felt vindicated when she got a response quite quickly. She downloaded the vocal sample before she even read the email. It was from some underclassmen probably. Soo Bin wasn’t a social butterfly by and measure, but she wasn’t bad at names and faces. She retrieved her headphones from where she tossed them in her frustration earlier. She stroked them lovingly and whispered an apology to them before putting them on and listening to the file.

Well the girl was certainly a better singer than she was. The recording had more noise in the background than she would have like, but that was always something that could be fixed in post production. Actually, she could always just use Soo Bin’s equipment. Technology just made everything so much easier.

To: jegalsy From: chaesb Subject: Re: Vocalist wanted Attached: 2 files (wiptrack04.wav)(wiptrack04.docx) I’d love to have you on the song. I’ve attached the sample track with the background track and a sample vocal line and the lyrics. If you could prepare it a bit that would be great. When would you be free to meet?

#rkseoyoung #✧--high school days #✧--para #oh man formatting this was a struggle

✧--wrong place wrong time

@kikwangrk

Soo Bin didn’t know what she expected.

She didn’t even know what she was doing. Why did she even agree to this blind date in the first place? It’s not like she ever had a particularly significant human connection with the neighbor that pitched the idea to her. Maybe she was also sufficiently shocked by the fact that the doddering auntie in her hall was sufficiently concerned about her lack of a sex life that she would make such a proposition to an effective stranger. It’s not like she was particularly fond of the concept of blind dates either.

She was far too confident in her ability to find true love when she was younger to even go to a mixer. She never would have agreed to a blind date then. Nowadays, she thought that she was just far too cautious, but it looked like she wasn’t. She had a hell of a time talking herself up to going. She stared at the mirror reaffirming her attractiveness to herself before deciding that she was going to be bolder person than who she usually was. This Soo Bin wasn’t a deeply insecure girl who was floundering in all aspects of life. This Soo Bin went on blind dates at hot dinner spots and liked red wine and stiletto heels. This Soo Bin was going to be assertive and sexy, and she would get what she wanted.

She shaved for god’s sake. She got all dressed up in an expensive dress that was a bit more revealing than what she normally would have been comfortable with. She heat styled her hair. She put on dark eye shadow and red lipstick. And then she sat by herself at a table five minutes after the date was supposed to start. She almost felt excited about it all. There was a little bit of anxiety from how she was the first to show, but then she learned the name of the date from the reservation for the table, and Lee Kikwang sounded like a good name. If she knew his name, he wasn’t really a stranger, and that made her feel better. She started to feel like being this other girl and being on this blind date could be what got her out of the rut she had been in. But as the minutes ticked by, and the single glass of wine she ordered to keep her company turned into three, the pit in her stomach just grew and grew.

When the waiter came back around with a hesitant question as to whether she would be dining alone that night forty minutes after she sat down, there was only so much that she could do to keep from embarrassing herself even further. She didn’t even trust herself to speak. She just shook her head and put down more than enough money to cover the wine before rushing out of the restaurant.

She managed to hold herself together, strutting down the sidewalk with her head high and eyes damp until she found a convenient bench to collapse onto. She must have been deluded. What would a low cut dress be good for if her date didn’t even show up? Who did she even think she was? What a pathetic image she must cut: a scandalously clad girl crying in a public park at 8pm.

#kikwangrk #✧--wrong place wrong time #✧--para #✧--starter

✧--café

@rksxngji

Soo Bin was grateful that her boss decided to close early today. The week felt like it had dragged on forever and she was ecstatic to finally taste the sweet release of not working retail. Not that she hated her job or anything. It’s just that the varied personalities that one might run into while working at an expensive boutique were united only in that they were all exhausting. Getting off a few hours early gave her the opportunity to recharge with an afternoon cup of coffee.

She usually just grabbed anything caffeinated from any convenience store in the area, but with her newly found leisure time, she trekked over to her favorite café. It was out of the way, but their lattes and zucchini muffins were worth it.

The café was busier than she was expecting. It seemed that many people had the same idea that she had. She scanned the bustling room before spotting a single empty table in the corner. Soo Bin made a bee line for it immediately. She was swinging her bag over one of the chairs when she realized that someone else was also in the middle of staking their claim.

“Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me”

#rksxngji #✧--café #✧--para #✧--starter

✧--high school days

@rkseoyoung

Soo Bin stared at her monitor with her eyes narrowed in annoyance. She clicked around the ableton interface rapidly. She had a total of nine vocal tracks loaded up and exactly zero of them sounded right. She tried singing in different tones, and then she tried loading up different combinations of effects. Nothing seemed to help. Her voice just didn’t suit the song. She could rewrite the backing track, but that would be throwing away hours of work. It would also completely defeat the purpose of trying to write in a different style. She tried a chorus effect, but that wasn’t right. Reverse reverb just made it worse.

She leaned back in her desk chair in defeat. She couldn’t use her own voice for this track. It was bound to happen eventually, especially if she wanted to start producing music more seriously, but it wasn’t something that she was planning for quite yet. She went about closing down all of her music software before she tried to figure out what to do. The backing track was nice, but it was too plain to release as just an instrumental. Trying to add more interest to the track would just eliminate the sense of space that she had tried to create.

Then a thought occurred to her. She opened up her web browser and typed out an email before she could talk herself out of it. She would probably get in trouble for abusing the mass email function, but she had a good enough record at school that it probably wouldn’t matter. A little chastisement would be worth it if she could salvage this track.

To: Students From:[email protected] Subject: Vocalist wanted Seeking a female vocalist with a sweet voice that has a little bit of grit. Extraordinary range or power not necessary. I can’t pay you, but you get to be on an original song. Contact me at this email for further details if you’re interested.

#rkseoyoung #✧--high school days #✧--para #✧--starter

intro

Hello there! First of all, thank you all for all of your warm welcomes. I'm jp, this is my first time at Rookies, and I'm super excited to be here! In honesty the whole system is a little bit intimidating, but I'm really pumped to try to figure it all out.

This is my muse Soobin who's an aspiring music producer. She's a little bit discouraged and a little bit confused, but she's prepared to work really hard to be part of the music industry. You can find her full bio here.

I’m not very good with premade plots, so I don’t have a page to direct you to, but I love brainstorming! I’ll be getting back to many of you quite soon, but if you’d like to plot and we haven't spoken please feel free to message me! Or like this post and I’ll message you!

Edit: Also you can contact me on aim @mush_shroom. (tfw you forget to give a pertinent piece of information)

#✧--ooc