shamelesshookery | (no subject)

[nods and flops down next to \o/ he glances at the sheet music again, and starts singing]

[holding it up and fanning it out so that Kaito can read off of it. he doesn't know if the other man really needs it, but better safe than sorry.

...it's hard to focus on what he's singing, though, so much as the fact that he's singing. Miku's sung to him before, but it's only been silly little things and snippets of songs— nothing serious. the only person who has ever sung to him like that was his mother, and that's different than being sung to by— by a lover.

even though he knows that's not really what's happening now, it still makes him ache a little.]

[even more so, no doubt, because this is in fact a love song. the lyrics are somewhat generic, but his voice is full of feeling.

the tuning is a bit off in places, though.]

[he's not quite so out of it he doesn't notice that, especially with the nature of the other Kaito's voice. shoving his MYRIAD FEELINGS to the back of his mind so he can properly note the very few slightly off notes, and the places where his voice is a little rough.]

[aaand winding down]

So... what do you think?

...I think that was lovely.

[—oh god wait did I just say that out loud alskdgjklgf—]

...a-ah, but. You were right about being slightly off here, a-and the transition here was somewhat awkward...

[GO GO EVASIVE MANUEVERS]

[b-blushing and looking very pleased, KYAA MASTER LIKED MY SINGING~

but manages to summon a modicum of professionalism and pay attention to the critique]

Ah, I thought so... How can I fix it, d'you think?

[opens his mouth

shuts it

guess who had not thought that far ahead?]

...I'm not sure. That kind of thing is a little different for you, isn't it...?

Ah, yeah, probably... humans don't have a built-in system for making the notes, so you kind of do it yourself, right? Usually I have a producer helping me...

[...frowns. pulling away a little, looking uncomfortable and a little unsure]

--Ah, um, d... did I say something wrong?

...I'm not human. It's... uncomfortable, being referred to as one.

...sorry.

... Oh, that's right, you were made too! I'm sorry, I forgot - I kind of assume anyone who's not actually a robot is human, sorry...

[trails off blushing. aaaa why dumb ._.]

I-It's all right, I'm sort of— I'm in between, so...

Right, right, I remember you're metal inside...

A-anyway, yeah, you're right. It's different for me than for biological people.

[bumps gently against his shoulder before falling silent, worrying at his lower lip in thought]

—What if we tuned your voice like a stringed instrument? I could play the right note, and you could sing over it and go up or down in small increments until your voice and the recorder matched.

... Oh, good idea! That'd probably work.

[scooping the recorder back up]

Then, in that case...

[blowing a few tentative notes before launching into the main melody, playing for about a measure before hitting the problematic note and holding it]

[sings it the way he did before]

[blinks a little. the dissonance and how to correct it is pretty obvious, at least to him; but if there's anything that being Rin's older brother has taught him, it's that there are things robots can't do, just as there are things humans can't do. that's fine— that's what he's there for.

...unfortunately, he'd forgotten that his hands and mouth would be full while he was playing. dithering for a moment, and then jerking his chin up sharply. higher!]

[higher?

...right, higher! it seems so obvious, once he lifts his voice a little and finds the sound coming neatly into harmony with Kaito's recorder. he holds the new pitch for a few moments, fixing it in his memory, and fiddling with a few internal instructions.

he envies human brains, sometimes.]

[there it went. lowering his recorder]

Good, you got it. You did the same thing in the same place in this other verse, [indicating another section of sheet music] so if you can just... copy the change over, I suppose...?

Ah, okay. Give me a second...

[his eyes take on a glassy, unfocused look for a few seconds, before he blinks it away and looks at Kaito again]

Okay, let's try it.

[nods, lifting the recorder back up and starting to play the problematic section again]