You're not ready for this I just spent about 3-4 hours writing fashionshow fanfic it's 9 am LET'S GO
Warning for an usage of the t-slur (I can reclaim it dw!!!)
The LED board on the building shines brightly the words “ONLY TONIGHT a fashionshow with our spectacular guest - GLISTEN!”. In the window of the kiosk you can see a toon in his early 60’s preparing to welcome in the queue.
Inside the building, across the corridor, there is a door signed “The best TV show host in the town!”
Vee sighs stressfully “i don't know Glisten, do you think this will work out? They have never seen you around me before. You remember how some toons react to your persona, they're quite pissy about you being yourself in public.” She leans her arm on a vanity table “what if something ha..”
“Shuut uppp already you're overreacting!!” said Glisten in a sassy tone. He puts his left hand on vee’s hand while finishing up his make up “Nothing's going to happen! We got trained security in case someone tries to harm us. You're used to your audience, you know them. There was never an incident in your entire career before. The only time when people spoke out negatively was in public and you managed to handle the situation without me. We'll be fine.”
“Maybe you're right” she sighed in relief “we're going to nail the performance. Are you done with your makeup? We don't have the whole time”
“Yeeesss just give me a second girl” he chuckled while putting on 3rd layer of lipstick
“Goddd. Why do I have to date such a perfectionist. You and your perfect looks.” She moved behind his back and put her arms on glisten’s shoulders
“Hey! Didn't you say just this morning that you love me for who I am? I love looking perfect!!”
“Weeeell and I love you just the way you are.” She gets closer to his face to whisper “annoying and frustrating”
“HEEEYY! DON'T SAY THAT!” He drops his lip stick and quickly turns around to push her away “WELL AND YOU ARE…. LOUD? AND BIG?!” he shouts loudly
“Wow! I know I'm loud but I did not think I'll hear you say I'm big. Wasn't that a trait of mine you liked?” She walks away into the corner, displaying pixel tears on her face
“NOO wait I didn't mean it like that..” he jumps out of his seat and runs up to vee. He grabs her by her hand and gently puts his hand on the side of her head “I'm sorry I love that you're big”
“Pfff you cannot even form a proper apology. You really do have a brain the size of a pixel…” She grabs glisten by his waist
“I'd like to apologize my queen, my diva, my ancient Greek goddess… You're beautiful and I appreciate you being a bad bitch” he says, slowly leaning for a kiss
Vee laughs loudly, before he places a kiss on her face, she manages to put her hand on his chest and pushes him away “you, perfectionist, careful about that lipstick. we don't want it smeared all over your and my face before we walk up the stage”
He rolls his eyes “finneee, I just wanted to give you a kiss but whatever!” He walks away from vee to pick up his purse “shall we go then? Hmm?”
“Keep that kiss for the end of the show.” She walks up to her chair to pick up the script, then approaches glisten to grab him by the hand “I might not want a kiss, but simply holding hands is more appropriate right now, am I right?”
“Right… right…” he tightens the grip and drags vee out the door
The couple closes the room, then turns around and walks down the long corridor, leading them to the main stage. Before they even noticed, they were already behind the big red curtains, with the crowd sharing and discussing many topics with each other. Some toons wondered what tonight’s show will be about, some were explaining to others who is glisten, as many toons heard the name for the first time. The sound of foldable metal chairs still scratched the wooden floor here and there, those were the last few toons before the show was supposed to start.
Vee dropped glisten's hand to double check if everything was settled up. “lights, check. Cameras, check. Glisten, check. His brain….” She taps his head “...I guess, check…”
“Um, that was rude!” Glisten looks at her with an annoyed face “what if they heard that!”
“Darling, first things first, everyone already knows you're a little bit insane in your head. They're loud, they won't be able to hear anything we say here unless you scream it out” she laughs and slams him with her elbow gently
Vee turns around to give a thumbs up to the technicians “are you ready, glisten?”
“I think so..” he looks at glisten and gives her a warm yet unsure smile
The lights all turn off as the curtains open up, revealing Glisten seating on a sofa, and vee by her desk. Scene lights turn on to shine on the duo. They wave kindly at the audience as it shouts and cheers in excitement. Vee smiles at glisten while the toons quiet down.
“Hello ladies, gentlemen and Thems in-between! Tonight in my show, I'll be interviewing Glisten the Mirror, this luxurious looking man, currently sitting a little bit too comfortably on my precious sofa..” he giggles and points her arm in Glisten’s direction “Give some applause to him!”
The audience claps and cheers loudly. Individuals in the crowd whistle and scream “Wooo, Glisten! Im your biggest fan!”
The man raises his hand up and nods his head up and down “Thank you, thank you everyone, I'm happy I was invited to the show! I appreciate showing everyone how perfect I am live” he smiles with his teeth, then looks at vee
“Yes... thank you.” she picks up her script, taps it on the desk and puts it back down “Many toons ask him questions.. How did he get so famous? Doesn't he get tired of being so perfect all the time? What is his daily routine? Who do you exactly identify as, and are you dating anyone? Well, those are the questions he will be answering today.”
“Haaai can't wait to answer them all!!!” Glisten says very loudly “give me the questions already”
“See how desperate! he is to answer your questions guys!!! Yes!! That's the celebrity you want!!” She slaps the desk then reaches for the mug of coffee (distilled water).
Vee looks at glisten “I'm glad you cannot wait to answer my questions! But I'd appreciate it if you didn't cut in while I'm speaking.”
“Well, you weren't speaking when I cut in.. you ended the sentence with a period. PERIOD” he winks at the audience and snaps his fingers
“Well you do have a bigger brain than I expected” she laughs loudly
”Now let's move to the questions, since I know the audience cannot wait as well. So tell us, we know you're the greatest person in the world! You're so perfect! Yada yada… doesn't that tire you out? But genuinely, I'm amazed as well!”
“Well, my secret is, I'm not tired of being me! Publicly I throw this so-called frustrating persona, yet, in private, oh I can be even more annoying!! You don't know it guys! I have a distance to everything, everyone, and even me. Once you master that you won't be tired of yourself!!! Vee you should learn how to be chilled out!” He snaps his finger in vee's direction
“No, thank you!” She smiles
*The crowd laughs and claps*
“Alright, whatever that answer was! Time for the next question, I'm trying out something new. Now one of you, IN THE AUDIENCE! Can give a question to our awesome mirror man!” She stands up and gets out of her desk. She walks down the stage and looks around, to find someone with a potential question “you look like someone with an interesting question! Say something into the microphone and Glisten will hear you!” She hands the toon her mic and looks down at them
“OH UUMM HII GLISTEN… so I'm your biggest fan and I go to all the events you participate in, IEvenWatchedYouComeBackHomeOnce YEAH ANYWAYS AND..”
*WHAT DID they just say?* Vee looks at the person with an unsure and concerned face
“AND.. I have a question: would you ever wear a dress a fan sewed for you?” The toon gives back the mic to vee
“um! Wow fan! Maybe! What!” Glisten looks shocked at Vee and is unsure what else to say
“Yeah wow thank you for the question! Let's go back on stage!” Vee grabs the mic with force and quickly walks up the scene
While vee isn't looking, someone stands up in the crowd, grabs the foldable chair and shouts “GET THIS TR@NNY OUT THE SHOW! YOU WANNA BE A MAN YET YOU DRESS LIKE A SLUT!” then continues to throw the chair in Glisten's direction. Glisten jumps in fear and starts covering up his face. Before the chair managed to reach him, vee runs up to glisten and stands right in front of him. The foldable chair hits her face and cracks the tv screen. Everyone in the crowd starts panicking and running out the door, while the security is chasing the toon who tried to injure Glisten. Vee falls on the mirrorman, holding the spot that got cracked. Glisten quickly pushes vee off her and gets up.
“VEE? Are you okay???” He says very loudly with a worried and shaky voice “Do I need to call the ambulance??” He puts one hand on hers and drags it off the injury to see how bad is it “oh no, darling, we need to get you to the hospital as fast as possible!” Glisten starts sobbing
“No… no… don't.. I'll be okay.. don't worry..” she looks at one of her hands to see some liquid on her hand “...I'm alright”
“No you aren't!! It's all my fault!! They tried to injure ME not YOU! Why did you get in the way now you're hurt because of me and it's my fault why did I even come here this wouldn't happen if I wasn't invited” glisten shakes very hard and cries
“GOD… even when I'm injured you're annoying as hell… can you shut up for once.. this is not your fault… none of this is your fault… there are medics in the building, just don't call the fucking ambulance sheesh” vee looks at glisten with an annoyed face, but tries to give him a gentle smile so he stops worrying
“Right… right… I'm just overreacting” he laughs a little with tears still dripping down his face “get up, I'll try my best to help you get there” he grabs vee's arm, puts it on his shoulders, and grabs her waist
“Thanks..” she grabs onto glisten and starts walking
They both walk down the same corridor as before, this time, taking the turn on the first corner leading to the medics’ room. Without knocking, they walk in and quickly sit her down. Medics get the injury secured, covered, and check for any additional spots that could have been damaged, but luckily, they didn't find anything. While Vee was being taken care of, Glisten circled around in stress, lost in his thoughts he was still convinced it was his fault why vee got injured. While he is all perfect and happy publicly, he doesn't talk about his emotions, he keeps them bottled up in a jar made of glass. Poor guy. The medics leave vee and leave the room.
“You can stop circling, Glisten. I was watching you this whole time. You doing good Mr. Sparkle knows it all?” said vee with a calm voice
“...” Glisten still walked in circles, now slower but still in loop
“Glisten. It's not your fault. This would have happened eventually.” she says with a little rude voice “I'm okay you don't have to worry”
“...” He stopped circling, and tilted his head facing the wall
“Okay glisten whatever are you not gonna talk to me then” vee said with an annoyed voice, and started getting up to approach glisten, but because of the injury on her face, she got dizzy
Glisten hearing her get up, turned around and dashed at vee in fear to grab her. He held her waist tightly and sat her down “if you know you're injured don't stand up silly!!” He smiled at her with glass eyes
“Glisten, god damn it. Stop being perfect for once” she sighed at him
“Sorry” his face expression turned serious and put his hands on her shoulders “maybe you're right, maybe it wasn't my fault”
“Oh glisten… you really annoy me sometimes you know that? I'll need to contact the security how the FUCK did they let that toon in. This is a big misunderstanding and a joke. I'll get to the core of this and fire whatever idiot is behind this.”
“Better not be eggson I love that guy” glisten chuckles gently
“Don't even piss me off right now that grandpa fixes my speakers with his fucking cane!!!!” vee grabs glisten by his elbows and pulls him down “you did great on today's interview even if it didn't last long before that. happened.” She kissed him, trying to pretend it didn't hurt at all
“Vee I saw that you flinched” he moved his face away
“Oh come on I'm not made of glass like you”
“I mean you are but alright whatever the magnificent host of the TV show says..”
“I'll make sure you dream of shrimpo tonight”
“NOO BUT I WANT YOU IN MY DREAMS”