Forty-ninth Song || Video/Action for Goldenrod

[restardom]

[ Rise's singing. Which may or may not be surprising, depending on how much you know of her, but she's practicing hardcore today-- flopped on her stomach in a borrowed Goldenrod Hotel room, scribbling furiously on a pad of paper, and sporting Yosuke's headphones, no less. She's gone and sent fifty or so messages to Souji's inbox, worried as hell

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[attrites]

Happy birthday! I don't have a present, so that'll have to do for now. [ ... ] Heheh, this is gonna sound weird, but I could swear you've told me your birthday before, but I don't remember when you said so.

- And your singing is really pretty, too, by the way.

[restardom]

[ she's already grinning, albeit slightly sympathetically, joking or not. ] You poor thing. At least you don't have a friend who speaks, like... five different languages.

[attrites]

I don't think we could become friends on principle...

[restardom]

She's great to have for homework, though! If you can stay awake...

[attrites]

Haha, I can imagine! I guess there've gotta be people who are really smart to balance out people who aren't, huh.

[restardom]

... Yeah, I'm definitely not one of the really smart ones.

[attrites]

Me either.

Well... the world both needs smart people and not smart people, right?

[restardom]

Right! It's not like we're entirely hopeless! We're just better at other things.

[attrites]

Haha, yeah! We've got our own talents going for us. And at least we acknowledge our un-smartness, that's better than not realizing it at all.

[restardom]

Yeah, not everyone's gotta be a genius.

[attrites]

Too much of a good thing and all that.

[ these two are really good at reaffirming each other... ]

[restardom]

[ quite the deadly combo, this duo. ]

Not to mention, are you really gonna need things like sin and cosine later in life?

[attrites]

... What's "sin" and "cosine"? [ he is 13, after all... ]

[restardom]

It's stuff you try and solve for in a triangle-- oh, and they've got weird little symbols, but I don't know that much about 'em.

[ the next great mathematician right here. Never mind that she only vaguely knows this because of her senpai. ]

[attrites]

Oh, I see. [ he's pretending like he totally gets that but he totally... does not. ]

Y'know, some people use that kinda stuff in their tennis strategy. It's kinda insane, if you think about it.

[restardom]

[ Rise doesn't get it, either. S'OKAY. ]

Seriously?? People use math for tennis?