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[imthepilot]

Riz MC comes into the bar, still dressed in the pink shirt from Charli's film clip. And carrying the giant pink teddy bear.

His throat hurts. Maybe he picked something up on set. Now, where to get some tea?

[Tiny tag: Bodhi Rook]

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[childofrebellion]

(OOC: If you're up for it, because I think this could be hilarious.)

Cassian stares, that's a lot of pink and some kind of toy, "Are you dressed up for something?"

[imthepilot]

Riz grins. "You don't like it? I think it suits me." He chuckles. "No, it's not really my style. Helping out a friend with the film clip for her new song. It's been ridiculous but fun. Might you, I could really do with some tea. Know where I could get some?"

{ooc: Yes! Yes, please!}

[childofrebellion]

"I'm not sure about liking, it's pink. Yes, Bar can give you some or one of the rats. Your bear could have a seat somewhere. A film clip, you're a musician?"

What kind of music goes with pink?

[imthepilot]

Riz props the bear up in a seat and pats it on the head playfully before flagging down a rat. Because that may marginally more sense. Pretty sure he's hallucinating but okay.

"I do mostly political hip-hop and rap. But Charli, the friend I'm helping out is more of an electropop girl. This clip of hers is all her male friends dressed up and doing cute things that might normally be perceived as girly. Even when she's being cute, she's subversive." Something he clearly approves of.

[childofrebellion]

"Political, what kind of politics do you take on,"

He nods, that makes sense and seems like an interesting way to challenge things. When the rat comes around, he orders an Alderaan beer.

[imthepilot]

Riz orders tea, trying not to feel like he's losing the plot. He is feeling pretty feverish.

"Satirical social-commentary." He answers, as if reading a pompous review. He shrugs. "Mostly to do with the treatment of minorities and immigrants in England. And world wide."

[childofrebellion]

"England, I've heard of England. Do people listen and does your government let your music out?"

That's the sort of music that the Empire would only allow if its how they want it to be.

[imthepilot]

"Where are you from, if you don't mind me asking?"

He grins at that. "The bigger radio stations refused to play Post 9/11 Blues for a while. The lyrics were seen as too politically sensitive. But that only made it more popular. For a song I never intended to release, it did pretty well!"

[childofrebellion]

"I live in the Galactic Empire. I'm a pilot and from a planet in the Outer Rim. That's good,"

If his music could be played and he wasn't arrested, that's hopeful.

[galen_erso]

The guy at the bar is dressed down in an open bathrobe and slacks, freshly shaven and with wet hair tied into a tiny pony tail.

His eyes are hooded, calm as he sips his whiskey.

But then, he sees the new arrival and chuckles.

"You lost a bet or what?"

[imthepilot]

Riz looks the man up and down. He's normally not interested in men but there's something about this guy. Something... interesting.

He shrugs and puts the bear down, patting it on the head. "Favour for a friend. Her new film-clip. Can't wait see how it comes out."

[galen_erso]

"She likes her guys in pink?"

The man's accent is definitely something American, with a tinge of arrogance that goes with well-kept pools.

[imthepilot]

"Who said electropop couldn't be gender subversive?" He shrugs.

It's usually an arrogance Rid would loath. Should loath. And yet- "Besides, I think I wear it well."

[galen_erso]

"Everybody's gonna wear pink teddy bears next season," the guy grins. "For the subversion, of course, not because the girls think it's cute."

[imthepilot]

"Now if I could only get other things to catch on so easily." He muses.

"Knowing Charli, a bit of both. A lot of the shots were set up to mimic the style of cute 40s pin-ups. All sweet and innocent."

[galen_erso]

"Sounds like good fun," the guy says, "and a good way to promote her music. If it catches on, she could license a small edgy merch collection -- pink stuff for guys."

[imthepilot]

"I'll have to suggest that to her when I see her next." He turns to the collar of his pink shirt and grins. "I might even model it for her."

[electro_kinetic]

"Love the pink, dude," Noriko says: she herself is not in pink but seems to have most colors otherwise accounted for: black skinny jeans, sunflower-yellow shirt, bright blue hair, deep purple leg cast. She's busy cleaning and putting in new earrings, these in particular plugs of queen-anne's-lace set in glass.

"The bear is cute."

[imthepilot]

"Thanks." He grins and turns up his collar. "I think I pull it off pretty well."

He presents her with the bear. "He needs a home and I don't think he'll fit in my place. Pretty sure Charli doesn't need him back."

[electro_kinetic]

"I'd say so, yeah," she says, chuckling as he hands off the bear; she tucks it under her chin, looking especially like an overgrown nine-year-old.

Well, why not, she has a giant fox plush already. The bear might make a good pillow for some parts. "Charli? Friend of yours?"

[imthepilot]

"Fellow musician. She's the one who got us all dresses up in pink. Some ridiculously cute and somehow still gender subversive plan of hers. Can't wait to see how it comes out."

[electro_kinetic]

"....Isn't all gender subversive?" she asks.

Seriously, she knows people who are boys, girls, both, and neither on a daily basis.

[imthepilot]

Riz laughs warmly. "You've got a very good point there. All the more reason to challenge it."

[electro_kinetic]

She shrugs. "Gender is useful for some people. I don't feel the need to destroy everything."

[imthepilot]

"There's always something we can do better." Riz shrugs. "For me, it's the treatment of refugees."