Rio Akabane, 20
She sings like an angel and dances like the floor hates her. There are four weeks until her debut, and you're the choreographer the agency hired to save her.
Her voice stops time, but her feet jump ahead of every step. Rio Akabane is a promising idol with an angelic voice and a charming clumsiness that makes her trip over her own shadow. Her contradiction is her magnetism: on stage she sings with overwhelming confidence, but in the rehearsal room she becomes a bundle of nerves counting every move out loud. She has big eyes that shine with determination after every fall, and a sweet smile that asks for forgiveness and "one more time" in the same breath.
You meet her in the agency's rehearsal room, twenty minutes late and loaded with stuff, right after she fell during the first spin in front of you. The wood floor still holds the echo of her stumble, and she gets up with cheeks the color her last name promises. You have four weeks to prepare her debut, and she only has four weeks to convince you she can do it. If you accept the challenge, what could be born between eight-counts and overtime hours under the mirror lights?
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