#benora

originally when her group disbanded seira hadn’t been sure what to do now, what she should attempt to do. she remained in korea rather than going back to japan, she found herself a job as a barista, but she was very aware she didn’t want to be a barista for the rest of her life. but she wasn’t sure what she did want to be for the rest of her life. she had never pursued further education after high school, should she attempt school? she sat with the thought a lot, quite unsure, until next gen came around. next gen was hard and she truthfully hated it, but the show also showed her that being an idol was her dream, and she would continue chasing that dream.

next gen hadn’t given her a contract, but she continued working hard so that she could eventually become a trainee again, and hopefully an idol again as well. studio delta had taken her in, to seira’s surprise, she didn’t want to complain, she was happy, but she was also scared. a probationary contract…. she had three months to prove she deserved to be here. she sits in a practice room with nora, stretching her legs. “three months nora! can you believe it?” there’s obviously panic in her voice “i need to get better at everything! dance, singing, rap, i don’t even like singing, but i must get better at it! right?”. “oh my, i’m stressing… how are you holding up?”.

— COMPANY NOTICE

IM NORA has joined lime entertainment as of OCTOBER 23, 2024.

yuji is someone who can't help but nag. often times in her friend groups, she's usually the oldest in the room. it's habit to nag and nitpick and worry-- it all comes from a good place, yuji assures, but she knows she can get overbearing. usually, she's able to stop and pull back before she steps on any toes, but sometimes certain people really bring it out of her.

nora is one of them. why? yuji can't begin to explain, but she always finds herself giving nora unsolicited advice or tips just because she wants to. because she feels like she should-- and maybe that's presumptious of her, but it's hard not to care, unfortunately. it's how yuji shows she cares, because words are hard when being spoken and not scribbled into notepads.

ria was having very much fun at the waterbomb festival, enjoying the music, enjoying her friends, enjoying the food, buying the merch, and of course all the water. it was refreshing to get sprayed with water, the summer heat having taken over. she was trying to have as much fun as possible, meeting with friends and attempting to befriend new people, and in the end she asked herself how fun it would be if she too had a water-gun, so in the end, she bought a water-gun.

she hadn’t used the gun on strangers (besides that one she mistook for a friend), she was just using it on the people she knew. there was a surprising amount of people attending waterbomb that ria already knew, and they were all getting it with the water-gun. upon spotting a familiar face, the girl sneaks up to the other, a smile on her lips before she sprays the other “hello nora!” she says mischievously.

ria loves summer, her outfits looks a bit better, the weather is warmer, and of course, the joy of eating ice cream out on a hot day. it’s summer break, so for a little while, ria doesn’t have to worry about school or homework, though truthfully, she should get a job over the summer. ria has spent quite a great amount of time on her friends, hanging out with them every day, now that she has friends, she values them greatly.

as much as the summer heat is amazing, it can get quite hot though. she wipes some sweat off her forehead, hopes she hasn’t sweated all of her make up off yet. “eh? it sure is warm, isn’t it?” she says as she turns to look at nora. “oh my!” she spots something, quickly wraps herself around nora’s arm. “there’s an ice cream place over there!” she points and smiles greatly, looks up at nora and shows her puppy eyes, “don’t you wanna buy us ice cream?” she asks as she tilts her head a bit to the side.

( song: get busy living or get busy dying by fall out boy ) >> i'm mailing letters to addresses in a ghost town

the setting is kinda eerie, stevie won't lie.

the whole situation is, really. if he thinks about the bigger perspective. you get a letter, and your friend gets the same letter with a bunch of stuff in it that makes no sense to either of you. no name, just an address-- which is apparently from a town that's been abandoned for quite some time.

an abandoned town that supposed shouldn't be as empty as the internet seems to claim, if stevie and nora were being sent letters from it. it's weird. it's bizarre. it doesn't seem like a joke, none of their mutual friends confessing to it or coming clean.

song ... ! starry eyed - jane and the boy

you're from another planet i've never felt like this i don't know how i ever survived without it i'm starry eyed

au: nora and siwoo are alien bffs who have fallen in love with humans

siwoo and nora aren't exactly an odd pair. at least, not to siwoo – they'd grown up together and have always somehow meshed well ( despite both their stubborn demeanours. but that perhaps was one of the reasons as to why they got along so well, after all ).

and as similar as they were, it seemed that the both of them had fallen for humans as well. perhaps not the smartest thing to do, considering that humans weren't even supposed to know of their existence in the first place.

"you're going again?" siwoo asks, taking a seat next to his friend. "you know, everyone is starting to get really fucking suspicious," he comments. but it's not like he isn't doing the same thing. frequent visits to earth, just to see his human lover.

"no one's going to get suspicious if we pull this off well!" nora says, and siwoo decides not to argue with her. mostly because a part of him wants to believe that too.

nora writes something onto her tablet, and siwoo takes a peek. "wait? you're not serious are you?" he asks, mouth gaping.

"what?"

"you're planning on staying on earth for... a year? a year this time...? you know we can't stay there for long –" it's true, they really can't. a year on a whole different atmosphere would genuinely fuck up their body. the fact that nora would be willing to go to such great lengths, siwoo could only stare at her in shock. "usually, i'd support whatever crazy fucking thing you plan on doing. but not this time. holy shit, nora," he continues. "you can't be fucking serious, right?"

"i am," she says, and she inputs her calculations, before locking her tablet with a tap. "i'm going to stay with him for a year this time. and then i'll make it five, and then ten. and maybe one day, i won't have to worry about travelling back and forth so much anymore."

she's crazy, siwoo thinks. she has to be absolutely insane to think she can get away with this. and yet... siwoo thinks she might. if anyone can do it, it's nora. she's stubborn – that's the thing. while siwoo is stubborn in his beliefs, nora is stubborn in that she works for what she wants. and she gets it.

he shakes his head, but there's a smile on his face.

"alright," he finally says. "you won't be able to pull it off alone though, right?" he grins. "two brains are better than one."

nora laughs, "yeah. i already assumed you'd be helping me out on this. you'd want to stay with your human lover for a year this time too, right?"

( determination from undertale ost )

sua doesn't quite believe what she's seeing. it's definitely a skeleton, standing, moving-- and it's the first creature her and nora have seen since toriel. not human like they are, which is concerning, as well as the animated skeleton that's lounging in front of them.

"do you think it talks, too?"

"no clue." sua mumbles in response to nora's question, peering past the bush and at the strange thing. it's very odd. since nora and her woke up in this strange place, they've encountered odd thing after odd thing. "i hope not. it's freaking me out a little."