Group RP Iris-shi High School Talent (Idol) Club! (IC)

@WavePearl @SAF @ChocoChicken

7/8 Monday - 7/12 Friday

So the last week of classes arrived, where Robyn and Robin listened attentively to the last lectures of their classes. Most of the week was review and asking any burning questions in the heads before the finals, plus handing in final assignments.

Then when they had downtime, they spent time studying together in the school library or the city’s public library. If there was any time left over, Robyn would review the club’s channel as well as her communications with Kamui. It was easy to get distracted too - unfortunately. If she was still awake before bed, there was always a chance to follow up with Tala too.

By the end of the week, they were both feeling the pressure of looming finals.

 

(Dang it Nora 48 seconds of D string. She must have given Kai a headache

Also, I hope Alexa is okay...)

@WavePearl @ChocoChicken @SAF

7/13 Saturday: Morning; Robin's Residence - 7/14 Sunday: Afternoon; Robin's Residence

Over the weekend, it was apparent that Nora's Ebuto channel was racking up a lot of viewership. Could it be because of her stardom with the club? Robyn wouldn't have guessed it if not for the sudden increase in viewership on the club's promotion videos. Comments in Nora's video did refer to Nora's recent uploads, after all.

It went without saying that Morgan had taken the week to recover from the accidental collapse of books from Nora, and it was also a miracle that Morgan didn't need to go to hospital either. Over the weekend, she mostly rested and opted to help with making meals for Robin and Robyn. Meanwhile, Robin and Robyn diligently studied together, not wanting to leave home. After about two hours of study, they would reward themselves with some entertainment. Robin would be looking up a map of Byakuya-shi to familiarise himself with the area as he listened to Uta-loid tunes, whereas Robyn would be exchanging texts with Kamui. If not that, it was playing Luigi Kart.

Then the crushing pressure of finals really piled up on Sunday evening. They reviewed as much as they could but wondered if they had left something out. There was always that nagging feeling, wasn't there?

7/15 Monday: Morning; Ylisstol High School, School Gate

Then the first day of finals arrived. To no one's surprise, Robyn and Robin were seen walking together past the school gate. Once they were in the foyer, they made their way to their respective cupboards to swap shoes before stepping into the school grounds. They were already informed during the last week of classes where their exams would be held.

Talent/idol club was the last thing on their minds. At this point, the pressure of finals was crushing. Honestly! If pressure was this bad, then how could this compare to fighting off an evil dragon?

(Cuing finals... after this)

 

@WavePearl @SAF @ChocoChicken

7/15 Monday: Morning; Ylisstol High School, Gym and Theatre - 7/19 Friday: Afternoon; Ylisstol High School, Gym and Theatre

Finally, the final exam season was underway. To Robyn and Robin, as well as Chrom, Lissa, and everyone else in the Shepherds, this was a week of survival. The exam hours felt short, as if they never had enough time to finish their exams, yet the days felt long when there was a looming exam in the morning and in the afternoon. After the afternoon exam was done, the evening was spent cramming and reviewing materials for the next two finals the following day. Even Morgan knew better than to disturb her older brother and de facto onee-chan while they were studying. It was stressful.

Unlike midterms, where the exams were held in various parts of the school, all final exams were to take place in the school gym and theatre where there was sufficient space to hold simultaneous exams at once. Both the gym space and theatre space were fully used so that students were sufficiently spaced out from each other. Funnily enough, Minerva the crow was perched above - unnoticed by the students and staff, save for Cherche - and observed the students. She was tempted to caw, but she also had enough sense to not cause panic in the school.

As Robyn and Robin took their exam booklets, they needed to unload whatever knowledge they had onto the paper immediately. There would definitely be no downtime as soon as they finished their exams. Whatever downtime they had was spent preparing for the next exams, save for cooking. Why, they constantly bought dinner from Anna's or the Hee Ho Mart throughout the week because they were so stressed! The stress was nothing compared to preparing for economics, mathematics, languages, and social studies.

The feeling was like going back into the heat of battle again, although Robyn and Robin were going into the exam feeling like normal students. In a sense, though, it really felt like they were about to take on another dragon. If only they could all slay the dragon together!

(Yeah... Needed to pull a reference from Assassination Classroom where the 'final exam' is a monster and the classmates are an army trying to slay it. Then the exam throws a curveball question to wipe out the class in one strike In a sense, there's a bit of inspiration from Xuehua too.
Now cuing finals...)

 

@SAF @ChocoChicken @WavePearl

Robyn and Robin, like Kai, also felt the pressure of their graduation being dependent on these exams. It was like they were standing off against a beast (that is, the exams), and the two of them were only armed with swords and tomes (that is, their pencils and brains) to take on it. That was particularly the case when it came to their economics problems, as they tried reciting the principles they learned.

Even then, there was one exam problem that humoured them. Their teacher took his daughter ice skating and said daughter wanted hot chocolate afterward, but spilt the hot chocolate over his car which got him angry. So the exam question asked what was the economic principle to explain why the teacher was angry (which, heartless as it may be, the teacher actually explained said principle to his daughter!).

7/19 Friday: Evening

By the time Robyn and Robin were done with their finals, they could feel the weight lifted off their shoulders as the pressure was finally gone! Finally! It was hard to explain the kind of relief they felt as they left the exam together and prepared to head home. Although it wasn't exactly healthy, they bought dinner from the Hee Ho Martp again (which only made sense, since it was across the street from the school) and brought it home to eat with Morgan.

That evening, Robyn checked her exchanges with Kamui. Supposedly, the plan was to take the train to Byakuya-shi first. Then Kamui would meet the club at the station. So to make sure everything was in place, she sent emails to everyone in the club informing them to meet at the entrance of Iris-shi Station tomorrow morning.

Robyn was also reminded that it was Maya's birthday tomorrow. So something had to be done, right? Aside from that, Robyn realised a new problem had arisen. Now that school was done, where could the club meet? It wasn't like the conference room could be used now that the school would be closed. Robyn decided to sleep that off.

 

@WavePearl @ChocoChicken @SAF

7/20 Saturday: Morning; Iris-shi Station, Entrance

If it was any normal morning, Robyn and Robin would loved to have slept in. There was nothing better than catching up on hours of sleep that otherwise made up for those countless hours of studying for finals. So as a result, it was evident that neither Robyn nor Robin had gotten enough sleep as they had no sooner woken up the next day to pack their schoolbags with a few belongings that they would need for Byakuya-shi. Their phones, wallets, ID cards, student passes, and support logs were all packed and ready to go. For Robyn, it was nostalgic for her as she knew that her belongings - including her bag - were transferred from her universe. Not that anyone needed to know that.

Later that morning, they left home (having prepared food for Morgan too) with a box of lemon puffs and took a bus to Iris-shi Station. There, they planned to meet up with their fellow clubmates at the entrance. Interestingly enough, they opted to wear their school uniforms for the day. Maybe it was because they had no time to decide what to wear.

"I'm going to find a gift for Maya-chan. You're okay with waiting here, right?" Robin said.

"No problem. I could use a little more sleep," Robyn yawned. So Robin went to the convenience store inside the station, whereas Robyn went to grab a seat on a bench and grabbed a nap. In her hands was her phone, as well as the Tepig keychain and the Poketto notebook that the club had gotten her during her depression phase. The box of lemon puffs was in her bag.

 

It was fortunate that Robyn was out in public like this, taking a nap. Had she not been at the station here, she would have been an easy victim to pick on. Evidently, it so happened that Robyn's friends Gaius, Stahl, and Ricken were on their way to catch a train at the station when they noticed Robyn napping on the bench. Normally, they would have greeted her, but they knew that Robyn probably wanted to sleep with finals over with.

So instead, Gaius went up to Robyn to steal a lemon puff from her. "Call me a thief if you want, Melonpan-chan, but these puffs aren't helping themselves," Gaius said. Turning to Nora, he said, "Sorry there, honey. Don't mind me."

"Um... I don't think Robyn-san would approve," Ricken muttered. He could have sworn he saw Robyn's twin tails twitch.

Inside the station's convenience store, Robin had bought a model kit that Maya might like. From what Robyn had told him, Maya was a Poketto fan like he and Robyn were, and also happened to follow Evolution Quest. Nevertheless, Robin was not expecting to find any kind of Evolution Quest - or Poketto - merchandise in a convenience store. Yet in this one, they were selling model kits of Poketto monsters, of which Robin got a model kit of Delphox. Maya might like that.

As he returned to find Robyn, he greeted Gaius, Stahl, and Ricken with a silent wave as the latter party went to pass the ticket gates.