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so...wren (the wren with barely passable singing, below average dancing + performing + acting) is gonna have to be in a musical...yeahhhhh--no but actually she is kinda excited!! musicals are pretty cool to her, not her biggest thing but she knows hamilton!! or at least of hamilton...god they won’t make her rap right?? WHO KNOWS WITH LEGACY--

05/21 edit: OMG WREN IS GOING TO BE A minor CHARACTER IN THIS MUISCAL--?? whoever made That casting decision shall rue the day they ever trusted wren bui ! jk..she’s gonna try--ANYWAYS GIVE HER THREADS!

i digress, this is her plot call for the trimester! trainees let’s all try to get through these workshops together and maybe (hopefully) get a guest spot or something...she’s confident (however out of place it is). i’d also like some non-event threads for her since she is sorely laking in them...lmk!

TRAINEE MISSION 013

po behind the scences (0/1): hmu to plot!

NON-EVENT THREADS

TRAINEE MISSION 012 : project origin 2 behind the scenes ft. @lgcxmax

the sudden shout made him snap his gaze up from the sheet of lyrics he was currently reading, attempting to get a head-start on memorizing the songs before he’d get down to tackle the lines he had during the rest of the musical. a smile automatically widened over his lips though when he saw wren, hand immediately reaching out to gently pat her head with a warm gaze. “hey there! oh- yeah me neither though actually,” he admits with a laugh, not sure how he managed to score himself a main role but amazingly glad that he did.

“it definitely feels like they’re looking for us to go above and beyond our comfort zone for this one. you got a minor part, right? don’t I recall you saying you’d be happy to even make it into the ensemble?” with a brow raised he couldn’t help but feel proud of the younger female. “I’m definitely excited though, what about you?”

wren would have been shocked if max had not gotten a main role. he was super talented and in her opinion, overdue for a chance to really shine. “yeah! what’s your character like? i didn’t really get to read much yet.” the whirlwind had been a little overwhelming, so she had only been able to really focus on her own character and preparation she needed to do.

wren was excited!! she not only made it through the auditions--but actually had a role! it was minor, sure, but she had lines and wasn’t stuck in the ensemble this time. she really enjoyed theater and learning more about acting. part of her was considering maybe the acting path could be her calling--but she was too nervous to be sure. she was also glad to see familiar friendly faces in her part of the play. she was finally starting to feel a part of the lgc trainee community, making friends and connections--while gaining skills! 

TRAINEE MISSION 012 : project origin audition solo COUNT : 563 words

wren really really really (+ one more really to show how badly) wanted to be in a musical! it was some of her favorite things, singing and dancing--sure the acting and performing scared her to bits--and she loved musicals! she knew the competition was tough, but she really put her full force into preparing her cover of part of your world. she even included the spoken prelude, to showcase some of the acting practice she had been given recently. she focused on being expressive with her facial expression and voice, trying to emulate the real life musical actors she admired so much. it was a lot to juggle, but she hoped that throwing as much as she could onto the metaphorical dart board, meant something would stick with the casting agents.

you belong with me.

jaekyung knew she should be grateful for the project legacy had pulled her in instead of going back to a regular training schedule but with the announcement of a musical production she couldn’t help but resent the fact that others would get to do what she loved the most while she was stuck forcing herself through language classes that brought her to the edge of her own sanity. 

she had never been a studious type after all. nor was she proficient with languages.

but instead of being ungrateful and lashing out with an attitude like the drama queen within her wanted to, she sucked it up and kept going, deciding to enjoy the musical workshops she was allowed to attend and using the classes to help out less fortunate souls that would very likely die to trade places with her while at the same time refreshing her own knowledge.

“of course, baby. I got you,” she reassures wren thus, hugging the younger girl to her side and squishing their cheeks together for a moment. “characterization is more about getting a character down pat and adjusting your acting to them without it seeming staged or unnatural. we can choose existing characters and analyze how we would portray them and what all of that would entail or we can try to think of our own. but sticking with existing ones is definitely easier.” 

TRAINEE MISSION 012 : characterization workshop w. @lgcjaekyung

was wren excited to possibly be in a musical? yes. was wren excited that for the next two months she was going to have to be subjected to workshop after workshop--no. she enjoyed musicals, but knew acting was far from her best skill. she had recently been forced given the opportunity to really practice and learn about acting...but it was Not what she wanted to do with her life. she wanted to write, produce, and sing. but, being a trainee, she didn’t get to do what she wanted all of the time.

my enemy haunts me everywhere​

          in her class she’d never been the smartest, perhaps not the dumbest, but most definitely not the smartest. but it was one thing not being the smartest in your class, this was people around your age, another thing was having your three year younger dormmate be better at studying than you and most definitely smarter than you. cherry was used to being the dumbest, but among people her age, but here people were, surpassing cherry in smartness quicker than cherry could blink. it was weird, but then again, cherry had always been used to being a tad dumb, so it didn’t bother her too much, besides, if she was dumb, it would make everyone else feel smarter, so it had it’s positives.

“wren… you don’t know my brain, there’s barely anything in it and i already think it’s about to be full” she looks up as she tries knocking on her head, not a lot of sound coming from that. “wren… i don’t think i can name a single haru song to be honest… birthday wish? is that one?” she sighs, she barely even knows of haru, barely even knew haru was under legacy.

wren looked at cherry, dumbshocked. if wren was honest, she was mostly a blazing and crystallis stan before entering lgc. but she at least knew of haru and dbsd (and lgc’s other more recent groups) from just absorbing kpop content while at home. plenty of her friends had been obsessed with the boy groups. “really unni?” she said shocked, “my house? chained up? those don’t ring any bells?” she offered, trying to bring back anything that might spark cherry’s knowledge. “my friends in middle school were obsessed with really really when it came out.” she mimicked the dance as she sang the first lines of the iconic chorus, “they made me learn the dance with them.” she laughed, face turning red as she was slightly embarrassed at remembering her younger years.

Her shocked expression has Max grin at her in a brotherly fond way before her added comment has him exhale a laugh as he leans forward onto the desk, palms flat on the surface. He uses the leverage to clap onto the surface one more time to move on with a short “okay” added on. He doesn’t take offense in Wren’s comment at all. The show was weird, which was exactly what made it outstanding- or so he had been told by people when presenting his idea to his friends.

“Lets get to working! 30 Minutes start now, timer go!” Pointing straight at the camera he flashes a genuine even if a tad bit awkward smile before grabbing his own pen and getting to work on it while keeping a look at all the keywords they had to include for extra bonus points.

Focused on his task the male writes away, catching Wren’s gaze out of the corner of his eyes and darting his eyes over quickly once before turning to look at her properly. “You good? Wanna work together after all?”

still slightly confused, but comforted slightly they had a thirty minutes to come up with something, wren got to work writing. more like pretending to write, as she was still completely lost with how to incorporate some of the keywords. how in the world was she supposed to work in elephant and computing into the same apology letter--and make it all about travel? the concept of the show was a bit weird to her, but not in a bad way! she didn’t expect this kind of weird from max (who seemed fairly normal and sane from wren’s perspective), but she kind of respected it. 

my enemy haunts me everywhere​

        she’d been told those stories from her friends quite often, that a lot of successful people did quite well while still being drop-outs, like bill gates and mark zuckerberg. it wouldn’t be the end of the world if she didn’t have high enough grades or if she got so tired out she couldn’t handle school anymore, but it was a weird thing to tell cherry, because everyone knew she wasn’t no bill gates nor mark zuckerberg, if she dropped out she would be lucky to work in a café or something. yes very well cherry was quite tired of school stuff, but she didn’t have much of a choice, did she drop out of university, it wasn’t sure what the future would bring, and the chance of something negative was big.

then of course, she became a trainee at legacy, and it had it’s positives and negatives. suddenly the blonde was occupied with more than just school, but now, school was more of a plan b, though cherry wasn’t really sure yet what plan a was. she was a trainee, but unaware of if she wanted to be an actress, model or idol, it was an answer she didn’t have yet. being a trainee was hard, but not in the same way as being a student, and cherry wouldn’t complain about being a trainee because it wasn’t like being a student, but perhaps soon she’d start complaining.

somehow though cherry was older, it felt like the motivation to keep going came from wren, something in cherry’s mind told her that wren was probably a better student than herself. “being a trainee at legacy… i can confidently say i would’ve never guessed they would make us do this” she sighs slightly. “what if my brain ends up exploding from all this studying…?”.

at wren’s age, being a student was all she had ever really been. since she was six years old into the present, the majority of her life has been spent jumping from one class, one school to the next. so, this assignment wasn’t completely out of the norm for her. wren rolled her eyes with a smile, “it’ll take more than haru’s discography to make your brain explode, i promise.” she reassured the other.