destinystrings | Backdated to Saturday 11/17

Who: Rise Kujikawa, Yu Narukami, anyone else who'd be hanging around a demonic nightclub with a drag show
Where: Nyx's Nightclub
Summary: Ironically, Yu is bad at keeping his mouth shut. Unironically, Rise spends a lot of money.
Warnings: Demonic nightclub with a drag show
Rise came to a realization after a day or so of retail therapy (and evenings of thankfulness that she didn't have to commute to do it here): the government stipend here didn't amount to much, at least if you were used to smartly-saved idol salary.

Rise was smart, though. She'd left applications most of the places she shopped once she started looking at her receipts, as well as that nice-if-kinda-bland tofu place where she'd had lunch. It paid to keep your options open, or so she had learned. Plus, for some reason, with Kanzeon kicking around at the forefront of her mind all the time now, the idea of trying out for different roles suited her...

That said...a part of her wanted to go back to some kind of performing. This was probably a stupid idea - okay, definitely stupid, when she thought about it, but she was already on her way. If nothing else, she could check out this place and why Senpai seemed stupidly nervous about it. And maybe see if it was suitable to drag her friends here for a party.

Regardless, Rise entered the Taurus district in a set of her more conservative clothes - she was here on business, after all - and made her way to Nyx's, which was fortunately fairly prominent. After a few minutes of hopefully unseen-by-anyone-she-knew hesitation, she headed in, flashed the bouncer her best "I belong here, I'm a celebrity" smile, and made her way into a room full of demon dancers. And demon patrons. And...

Welp.

Steeling herself, she wandered for a bit, looking for the proprietor...and maybe whatever it was Senpai was trying to warn her away from.

Oh. Maybe it was that...

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"Yu-senpai is a man of incredible hidden talent," she said, completely serious behind the smile on her face.

"I'm not so sure he's 'hiding' this one anymore..." The first incident she could write off as necessity, but getting employed to do the same thing showed a certain level of actual interest in the art of crossdressing. Not that there was anything wrong with that...

Anyway. "Are you one of his friends from Inaba, then?"

"Yep. That'd make you one of his friends from here, right?" she guessed. Stating the obvious is a class feature of support Persona users. "He was in the class above me when I went to live with my grandmother in Inaba. My name's Rise, by the way."

"Mm-hm... We arrived in the city at the same time." And then had the whole adventure here in this nightclub.... But that story can wait. "I'm Minako. It's nice to meet you, Rise-san."

"I bet he was one of the first ones who showed up and started on the 'save the world' stuff, right?" she asked. Her high opinion of Yu's tendency for heroics was obvious in her tone. "You just can't stop the guy..."

"Something like that. There was an incident with the Anoli that first day and we all had to take care of it." But knowing what Yu has told her so far, she's not surprised by Rise's tone at all.

"Are they as bad as they're supposed to be?" Rise asked. "Attacking people and government buildings and things while we're all stuck together under a dome sounds pretty suicidally dumb."

"That's pretty much the case.... They attacked several different places at once." She's not too impressed by the Anoli's methods or motives, either.

"What is with people like that, anyway? When you're stuck in a situation like this, people should work together...," she said.

"Wow, somehow I ended up talking about politics at a bar," she said after a second, brightening up in an effort to change the subject. "Not really the place to be worrying about that, is it? So! What brought you here tonight, Minako-san? Other than Senpai's killer moves?"

"Actually, I didn't know he worked here..." She'd have come around earlier if she did. "I needed to talk to someone else. And it's Saturday night."

"This is a regular thing on Saturday, huh?" she asked. "Actually, I was looking to talk to someone, too. Depending on what's...ah...expected of dancers here, I thought I might ask for a job."

Minako raises an eyebrow. "Are you sure about that? There's probably nicer places to find a job if you're into.... theater. Although it does look like the pay is good."

Considering how much money is being thrown at Yu or attempting to be stuck in his clothes, anyway.

"Well...no, I'm not sure, but I figure I'm in a totally new place, so I might as well do something I wouldn't at home," she admitted. "Besides, if I don't like it, or anyone starts taking it the wrong way, I can just quit, and say I have the experience now, right? I mean, it's not like this is even really stripping, which is where I'd draw the line, personally..."

The sheer level of tips she's seeing thrown around is tempting, too. She could probably live comfortably off one night a week of this if she stuck to the provided apartment.

"Well, you do have a point. You never know if you'll like something until you try it!"

And now she's getting ideas...

Fortunately, though, she's busy enough with the obligations she already has not to go through with it.

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