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xyzzysqrlLast time on SS:FF, basically this happened except to Callie. I still haven't seen Callie since that point. I'll let you all know if she pops up again because that's a bit concerning.
First thing I do is like... delete around 120 photos because oh lord I have way too many screens of this game. The second thing I do/did, last night, was hit up the rock club. It's an air rock club. They play air music.
Are they called the Air Buds? Because I want to call them the Air Buds. There ain't no rule that says you can't rock out in this town. Anyway I grabbed that screenshot last night, and when I flip the 3DS open and load up the game today Xiaolong is actually ON THE LOADING SCREEN checking out the shop stock, which is kind of amusing.
The NEXT thing I do is swing by the hair salon. Noor is all too eager to just open up the facilities and let me loose with scissors any customer that happens by. I will use this power only for good and never evil, I promise. She also tells me that her catalog will save the haircut of anyone I trim, and she gives me a bunch of miniatures I can put in my dollhouse that will ALSO save the haircut of anyone I trim. How the heck does that work, you might wonder?
You can just keep wondering that.
Just for the fun of it, I elect to pop for a redheaded makeover and change up my image a little bit. Something cute, jean-jacketed and playful... yeah, this looks around right.
Face it, tiger... oh, that's not a tiger. That's a housecat. Sorry, I didn't put any points in Feline Identification, I put them all in fashion this playthrough. Anyway, I spend some time messing around at the hair stylist and playing with cuts and dyes.
I swear Maureen here is becoming the mascot character of this blog for me. I adore her and when she came in asking for a sort of "undersea" themed haircut... well, I had to do this. Now that I think about it, though, Arabella also wanted my help. Well, let's try doing some makeup for people? That can't go TOO poorly...
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye? Okay, no, that's just a wink. Actually it goes really well, the color-matching game of makeup is kinda fun. That's not what I'm here for, though. I'm here to dress people up, not smear things on their face. That fashion show isn't going to sell ITSELF out, after all. Back to the shop we go, where I get back to dressing people. Like this lady:
So she walks in in a denim vest, zebra-print shirt, and some kind of... orange skirtwrap, and asks Ozma: "Do you sell anything by Chorale? I never buy anything else, they're my favorite brand." Okay at this point I am mashing X to DOUBT DOUBT DOUBT because Chorale is like... well, I have Teo's little blurb of their style ready for when I unlock them? But they are the FEMININE brand, the grown-up version of girly, and hoo boy whatever she's wearing, THAT isn't it. There is no [citation needed] button on my 3DS though, so I sell her a Chorale skirt out of Sophie's leftover stock and she goes away.
Ooh I guess this is happening now. Okay, so who's modeling? Callie? Right. It's Callie, isn't it? From behind a nearby dressing screen is the sound of a struggle, so Ricky sighs and goes over to get the Dynamic Duo so they can hear the announcement too. The model for the very first fashion show...
...right, like I thou-- What.
EVERYONE'S EXCITED AND CONFUSED. Model number TWO however is Callie, which calms our resident celebrity model down a lot. She's number two but she's gonna try harder. And model number three? Ozma. Okay, three models? What's the deal, Ricky?
Okay. Sure. That's what we're doing now. A model-off. I've seen parts of Zoolander, I know how this works. Ricky continues onward, pointing out that we can't have a fashion show without Sophie's personality and sparkle, Callie's confidence and flair, and Ozma's genius for style. Well, it's really just fashion witch magic but I'm okay with 'genius' as a description too. We need a cutesy-poo outfit, pronto, so I serve off the rest of the customers waiting in a hurry. One of them invites us out to the cafe after work, but we have to get changed!
Something cute, huh? How's this for cute? A relentless barrage of the most pastel lemony yellow I could find, cut with a dollop of orange and a bunch of little sparkly dots on the skirt. The effect is almost savage, but undeniably cute. Meanwhile, my temporary rivals are, well...
When there's only one clothing store in town and it's YOURS and all three of the people in the fashion show WORK THERE, it's kinda hard to avoid cross-mingling. I could sabotage her outfit a bit... but where's the sport in that? No, it's time to help both Sophie...
...and Callie...
get dressed up in ... GIRLY OUTFITS oh crap they asked for GIRLY not CUTESY I have to do a Marzipan Sky shopping run RIGHT NOW
...okay. Complementary blues and purples, a dotty motif, that hat pulls it together with a lilac band, the layered look is always a crowd-pleaser, everything matches, it's ... yeah, okay, I think I got this. I THINK I got this. Just a couple more customers to sell to, a few more tickets to sell out...
And a new brand coming to the city. This time I have the choice of "Sophisticated feminine" and "Edgy punk rock" style again, with a new choice of "Princessy, baby-doll style". I can't help but feel like bringing in the first or third choice AFTER I've helped set my rivals' outfits would be cheating at the fashion show, so I elect to bring in EDGY PUNK. That choice unlocks StageDive.
StageDive is straight-up Hot Topic, filtered through a Japanese lens. If you want to look like a King of Fighters mascot character, or a 17 year old's Kingdom Hearts self-insert, or really like anything Tetsuya Nomura's ever drawn... you want the wild colors and funky outfits of StageDive. I quite like 'em myself.
It turns out I have to do more selling than I expected to get to the actual fashion show... so maybe my panic and concern was unfounded. That said, it looks like we'll have the show itself tomorrow.
N-N-N-NEXT TIME: BOWS AND BUCKLES IN BEAUMONDE!
THREE GIRLS ENTER THE ARENA, BUT ONLY ONE GIRL WILL FASHIONABLY STRUT HOME!
~BE THERE~
First thing I do is like... delete around 120 photos because oh lord I have way too many screens of this game. The second thing I do/did, last night, was hit up the rock club. It's an air rock club. They play air music.
Are they called the Air Buds? Because I want to call them the Air Buds. There ain't no rule that says you can't rock out in this town. Anyway I grabbed that screenshot last night, and when I flip the 3DS open and load up the game today Xiaolong is actually ON THE LOADING SCREEN checking out the shop stock, which is kind of amusing.
The NEXT thing I do is swing by the hair salon. Noor is all too eager to just open up the facilities and let me loose with scissors any customer that happens by. I will use this power only for good and never evil, I promise. She also tells me that her catalog will save the haircut of anyone I trim, and she gives me a bunch of miniatures I can put in my dollhouse that will ALSO save the haircut of anyone I trim. How the heck does that work, you might wonder?
You can just keep wondering that.
Just for the fun of it, I elect to pop for a redheaded makeover and change up my image a little bit. Something cute, jean-jacketed and playful... yeah, this looks around right.
Face it, tiger... oh, that's not a tiger. That's a housecat. Sorry, I didn't put any points in Feline Identification, I put them all in fashion this playthrough. Anyway, I spend some time messing around at the hair stylist and playing with cuts and dyes.
I swear Maureen here is becoming the mascot character of this blog for me. I adore her and when she came in asking for a sort of "undersea" themed haircut... well, I had to do this. Now that I think about it, though, Arabella also wanted my help. Well, let's try doing some makeup for people? That can't go TOO poorly...
It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye? Okay, no, that's just a wink. Actually it goes really well, the color-matching game of makeup is kinda fun. That's not what I'm here for, though. I'm here to dress people up, not smear things on their face. That fashion show isn't going to sell ITSELF out, after all. Back to the shop we go, where I get back to dressing people. Like this lady:
So she walks in in a denim vest, zebra-print shirt, and some kind of... orange skirtwrap, and asks Ozma: "Do you sell anything by Chorale? I never buy anything else, they're my favorite brand." Okay at this point I am mashing X to DOUBT DOUBT DOUBT because Chorale is like... well, I have Teo's little blurb of their style ready for when I unlock them? But they are the FEMININE brand, the grown-up version of girly, and hoo boy whatever she's wearing, THAT isn't it. There is no [citation needed] button on my 3DS though, so I sell her a Chorale skirt out of Sophie's leftover stock and she goes away.
Ooh I guess this is happening now. Okay, so who's modeling? Callie? Right. It's Callie, isn't it? From behind a nearby dressing screen is the sound of a struggle, so Ricky sighs and goes over to get the Dynamic Duo so they can hear the announcement too. The model for the very first fashion show...
...right, like I thou-- What.
EVERYONE'S EXCITED AND CONFUSED. Model number TWO however is Callie, which calms our resident celebrity model down a lot. She's number two but she's gonna try harder. And model number three? Ozma. Okay, three models? What's the deal, Ricky?
Okay. Sure. That's what we're doing now. A model-off. I've seen parts of Zoolander, I know how this works. Ricky continues onward, pointing out that we can't have a fashion show without Sophie's personality and sparkle, Callie's confidence and flair, and Ozma's genius for style. Well, it's really just fashion witch magic but I'm okay with 'genius' as a description too. We need a cutesy-poo outfit, pronto, so I serve off the rest of the customers waiting in a hurry. One of them invites us out to the cafe after work, but we have to get changed!
Something cute, huh? How's this for cute? A relentless barrage of the most pastel lemony yellow I could find, cut with a dollop of orange and a bunch of little sparkly dots on the skirt. The effect is almost savage, but undeniably cute. Meanwhile, my temporary rivals are, well...
When there's only one clothing store in town and it's YOURS and all three of the people in the fashion show WORK THERE, it's kinda hard to avoid cross-mingling. I could sabotage her outfit a bit... but where's the sport in that? No, it's time to help both Sophie...
...and Callie...
get dressed up in ... GIRLY OUTFITS oh crap they asked for GIRLY not CUTESY I have to do a Marzipan Sky shopping run RIGHT NOW
...okay. Complementary blues and purples, a dotty motif, that hat pulls it together with a lilac band, the layered look is always a crowd-pleaser, everything matches, it's ... yeah, okay, I think I got this. I THINK I got this. Just a couple more customers to sell to, a few more tickets to sell out...
And a new brand coming to the city. This time I have the choice of "Sophisticated feminine" and "Edgy punk rock" style again, with a new choice of "Princessy, baby-doll style". I can't help but feel like bringing in the first or third choice AFTER I've helped set my rivals' outfits would be cheating at the fashion show, so I elect to bring in EDGY PUNK. That choice unlocks StageDive.
StageDive is straight-up Hot Topic, filtered through a Japanese lens. If you want to look like a King of Fighters mascot character, or a 17 year old's Kingdom Hearts self-insert, or really like anything Tetsuya Nomura's ever drawn... you want the wild colors and funky outfits of StageDive. I quite like 'em myself.
It turns out I have to do more selling than I expected to get to the actual fashion show... so maybe my panic and concern was unfounded. That said, it looks like we'll have the show itself tomorrow.
N-N-N-NEXT TIME: BOWS AND BUCKLES IN BEAUMONDE!
THREE GIRLS ENTER THE ARENA, BUT ONLY ONE GIRL WILL FASHIONABLY STRUT HOME!
~BE THERE~
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Date: 2016-08-25 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-25 06:22 pm (UTC)I'm also kind of preemptively Eeeeee that you're actually hanging onto my blurb for Chorale. I'm like, always legitimately flattered when I do a thing and someone actually uses it.
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Date: 2016-08-25 06:25 pm (UTC)I'm a little shocked that the cat-ear hat (is that the same one that Kirsty wears?) is a StageDive brand piece, though. I thought for sure it'd have been April BonBon, if anything. I mean, cat ears. And the fact that Kirsty wears it.