forum "You're dead, shut up and don't make me blow this audition!" {CLOSED}

Started August 08, 2021 by @CWPoofToxicRush

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(a;sdkjf sorry-)
Mei watched with calculating eyes as the newbie filled the forms out. "So, kid," She asked in her usual cool, low tone. "How long you been playing? Any prior experience with a professional group?" She checked her smart watch when it buzzed, a text from Yari coming in. "And Yari'll be here in ten, so I'd like to wrap this up before our food gets here if that's chill."

(you're fine!)

"Mei, be nice." Callum said, shifting to sit down at his drumset and pulling out his phone. The tall kelpie wore a tank top and a pair of dark jeans, his red hair flopping into his face. "You know our group has…specific needs." That was why they'd been auditioning for days now, because no one had quite fit the group get.

"I started playing around the tail end of middle school- somewhere around seventh and eighth grade, I think?" She said, trying to finish filling out the form. "And, unfortunately, no, I haven't done anything professionally. Not a lot of people played anything back home, and the few who did didn't like each other."

Eric hummed. "But didn't you say you dated one for a bit?"

Coraline finished the form, handing it to Izu. Why does he have horns, and why are they translucent? Whatever, probably not my place to say anything.

Izu hummed faintly as he looked over the form, their head cocking faintly. "Hm. Yari will run your information for a background check, just so you know. Standard procedure." Callum had a criminal history. He'd been in prison for six months for assault with intent to kill, though the sentence was so short because he was a kelpie and hadn't been in control of his actions at the time. That fact, of his history, they'd kept sealed up tight. No one outside the band and Yari knew.

(a;sdlkfja thanks!)

"How old are you?" Mei raised an eyebrow and tilted her head, staring down the newbie. "You look like you just got out of sophomore year." A sly smile spread across her face, anyone who knew her well would know she was teasing, but she was doubtful the kid would pick up on it. Mei then turned her attention to Cal and Izu. "And is she… y'know, someone we're looking for?"

Cal looked up, shrugging a shoulder. "I dinnae know. Izu?"

Izu glanced at Eric, then at Cory, thinking. "Let's see how she plays, before we make any decisions."

"I'm eighteen." Coraline said, biting her lip. She mentally cursed her babyface, trying to stand a little straighter in an attempt to look taller.

Eric laughed. "Awww, little Cory!" He said, grinning.

Coraline gave him a side-eye, which to anyone else probably just looked like she was suspicious of the wall.

Izu caught the motion, eyes narrowing faintly. Could she see Eric? If she could…then perhaps she would fit in with their group after all.

Coraline messed with her guitar a little. "Do you want me too…?"

"Just play!" Eric said ernestly. "C'mon, you only spent all night practicing!"

"Right, of course. Have you listened to any of our music before? On YouTube, Spotify, whatnot?" Izu asked.

Coraline nodded. "Yep."

"Only stayed up for three nights listening to everything and keeping me up-"

Coraline tightened her grip on her guitar, fighting the urge to tell Eric to shut up and remind him he didn't actually need to sleep.

Izu suppressed a laugh at Eric's words. "Right. Good. Can you play any of them? Or do you think you can? Don't worry about being exact, Josephine had a unique style and I expect you will too."

"I can certainly try." She said, smiling slightly.

Eric smiled. "Knock 'em dead!"

"Alright, well I'd like to hear it. Not the whole thing, just some of the main riffs, perhaps?" Izu sat down on a chair, leaning his hands on the back with his legs straddling it.

"You do the main riffs, I'll back you up. Keep in mind, I will freestyle sometime halfway through the song. It's up to you to keep up because it's a bass driven song." Mei double-checked the tuning on the E-string, making sure it was correctly droptuned to a D. Once satisfied with the sound, she quickly hammered out a few ground-shaking notes. The bass was usually the guitar the amps and speakers projected the most, just the way the band liked it. "I take the lead and you follow, aight?" The song had yet to start, Mei just playing the opening four measures on repeat. She looked expectantly at her bandmates and the kid, waiting for them to prepare their instruments.

Coraline nodded slightly, quickly adjusting her guitar strap. She raised her left hand to the fretboard, fingers already taking the shape of the first chord.

Eric floated down to sit in the corner, resting his chin in his hands.

Izu grabbed his microphone, though he didn't really need it for an audition. Cal put his phone away, twirling the drumsticks as he picked them up and started tapping out the beat this song marched to. Each of their songs tended to focus on different instruments; this one was bass, another guitar, and yet another had such heavy percussion it could shake a room. That one was, obviously, Cal's favorite. Izu, of course, sang in all of them.

Without another word, Mei's fingers shifted into third position, hammering down on the strings and beginning the opening to her personal favorite song. A small smile spread on her face as the band immediately followed her line, the drums pounding out in a steady rhythm behind her, the kid keeping up with the harmony riffs and Izu's unique voice singing/shouting in front of her.

Coraline started playing, a smile spreading across her face as her fingers danced along the guitar neck.

Eric grinned. "Yes! That's my girl! That's my random human I'm attached to! Yes!"

Coraline bit back a laugh, ducking her head down.

Izu grinned as they played, a feral, wild sort of smile. So far, she seemed to be doing quite well, and he hoped that that trend continued. They needed a guitarist, and while Coraline was a bit young, she was 18 and could make her own choices about whether or not she really wanted to join them. He only hoped she wasn't too nosy, because Callum, while his control was excellent and he didn't normally lose it, had a harder time on new moons, and with the close quarters the band lived in, it would be difficult if she was nosy.

(so uh– yeah not tryna be creepy but. Kelpies literally kidnap virgins, drag them underwater, kill them, and eat them. so uhhhhhhhhhh. i changed the myth a little to be reliant on the moon cycle but. yeahhhh)