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[katsudonfatale]

WHO: Yuuri and anybody who signed up for Zumba! (it's okay to handwave/offscreen that your character signed up!)
WHERE: Dance!!! Studio
WHEN: Backdated to Saturday morning on the 18th
WHAT: ZUMBA!!!
WARNINGS: None, but will update if necessary



The class will start with Yuuri giving a short introduction on Zumba, what the format of the class will be like, and letting everyone briefly introduce themselves (tell us your name and something about you we should know). After that comes the warm-up and then the real fun starts! Music will be playing loud, and everyone will be moving a lot, but that doesn't mean conversations can't happen (it's just not a very smart choice). Also, Yuuri will be demonstrating both low and high impact versions of the same steps so everyone can work at their own pace. If you get tired, it's totally okay to take a break or just stay in place marching! This is a no-judgment zone.

Since this is the first class, the steps will be easy to follow, so everyone can start getting the hang of things little by little.

Overall there will be around 10-12 songs, including both warm-up and cool-down (and alternating with high and low intensity). There'll also be lots of clapping and cheering after every song and at the end of the class.

tl;dr: It's going to be fun, noisy, and high energy. This is meant as a general Zumba mingle, so feel free to have prompts at any point before, during, or even after the class.

Comments

[katsudonfatale]

[ Yuuri doesn't recognize her at first, though he has the feeling he's seen her somewhere before. It isn't until she says her name that it all clicks into place. ]

Oh, welcome! I remember meeting you briefly while on... that app.

[ And also making a huge embarrassment out of himself because of how badly he was freaking out at the time but.

Well. ]

[true_noir]

Yes, I do believe that we met at the time. There was quite a bit going on, and I saw your offer recently, so I thought I would join in. I hope that you do not mind.

[Well, she and others were freaking out a lot too, so she was far from one to judge and had no intentions of doing so. Wouldn't be fair, after all.]

[katsudonfatale]

No, not at all! The more, the merrier!

[ He lowers his voice slightly to stage whisper at her: ]

Besides, we kinda need to have plenty of people showing up regularly if we don't want the group to close.

[true_noir]

Oh good. I am glad that my presence will help on some level in that case. Besides, I could use the excuse to get a little bit of exercise in anyway. And this seems an interesting opportunity.

[She smirked over at him and nodded. Certainly it wasn't a huge crowd, but as long as they had enough, then good.]

[katsudonfatale]

In that case, I hope it's too your liking. And... if not, well, we also have plenty of other dance classes available at the studio.

[ Not that he wants Chloe to change her mind about Zumba, but if she happens to... well, it would be better to still keep her as a student here, right? ]

[true_noir]

I certainly intend to give it a proper try. It would not do to simply give up the first time, would it? But, is it true that you also have ballet shows? I think I know one of the students.

[katsudonfatale]

Ah... once, a year, I believe? I'm not a ballet instructor myself so I don't know the exact details, but I think that's about right.

[true_noir]

I see. Well, I hope to catch the recital then. It sounds like a wonderful thing to enjoy given the chance.

[katsudonfatale]

We'll look forward to having you, no matter what you end up sticking with—oh not!

[ A beat. ]

Mm, dance aside... I hope you haven't had much trouble with the app after... well, after it all started?

[true_noir]

Hmmm, no more than others, I think? I wouldn't want to take up all of our time with such talk. It has not ruined my life, I will say that. It is concerning, but not so much that I cannot ignore it most days.

And you?

[katsudonfatale]

[ "It has not ruined my life", well it hadn't ruined Yuuri's either but he had a feeling it wasn't entirely impossible for that to be a thing with other people. ]

Mm, I've been doing my best to ignore it as well—since I'm still suspicious. I guess I take some comfort in the fact that other people have kept using it and nothing bad has happened to them?

[ Probably. Hopefully. ]

[true_noir]

Well, I would not say that nothing bad has happened, but nothing quite so jarring as a person's life being torn apart. [She shook her head.] I suspect that a lot of minor troubles have followed in its wake for most of us, which can color people's views of the thing.

It has not yet been horrible for me, I will say that, though I remain suspicious as well.

[katsudonfatale]

[ This is probably not the right place nor the right time, but it's been eating at him for a while now, so... ]

Have you read about people um... suddenly remembering or hallucinating things?

[true_noir]

[It wasn't the best time, but it was constantly on her mind. She looked over at him and nodded, sighing when she did so. Her head cocked a little bit before she spoke up.]

Yes, and I have experienced them myself, twice. Why do you ask?

[katsudonfatale]

Oh.

[ Admittedly he hadn't followed the posts about it closely enough to know whether it had happened to Chloe as well, so that takes him by surprise. ]

No, it's... [ Briefly glances around the classroom. ]

Mm... if you prefer we can talk about it after the class is over?

But I've experienced them as well, so...

[true_noir]

I see. Yes... we can speak after the class is done. I think that this might be something that insists upon a little privacy, do you not? [Certainly it wasn't like any of the memories had been horrible, but still, it felt better to be private about it.]

[katsudonfatale]

Yes, definitely.

[ Yuuri nods. A part of him still refuses to see them as memories, but that doesn't make them less embarrassing. ]

[true_noir]

I will speak to you in a little while, in that case.

[She smiled warmly to him and went over to take up a position as the introductions began to die down.]

(OOC: Fast-forward?)

Fast-forward!

[katsudonfatale]

[ Busy with teaching the class as he was, Yuuri had almost forgotten his request for a private talk later after it was all over, but as the rest of the students started to leave and his gaze casually lanced on Chloe he remembered once more.

He idly wondered if she had maybe forgotten, deciding that he wouldn't bring up the topic again if that was the case. On the upside, being the teacher meant he had to remain in the room until everybody else had already left, so he'd wait to see if she wanted to resume their conversation. ]

[true_noir]

[Chloe did finish talking with a few people before coming over to him. She had a small smile still on her face and was less exhausted than she'd been right after class had ended. When she came over, she glanced at him and spoke up.]

There was a thing you wished to speak about after class, yes? About the app or something?

[katsudonfatale]

[ Yuuri's eyes brighten up briefly, before clearing his throat and trying to seem casual about this. ]

—Ah, yes.

[ He looks around once more, out of pure instinct. ]

Though it's more about... your experiences. With... those sudden flashes of... memories? I'm not sure what to call them, honestly.

[true_noir]

Oh, yes. Let us call them visions, no? I think that avoids assuming what they were, or that they were automatically false. [She nodded as she said that. She preferred to think of them as hallucinations, but that was a hard pill to swallow right now, with the way they played into her life and felt so real.]

What did you wish to know?

[katsudonfatale]

[ Oh, that's a great word for them. Yuuri makes a mental note to call them that from here on. ]

Well, under what circumstances you've experienced them or... how often. Any patterns you might have noticed?

That is, if you don't mind sharing, of course.

[true_noir]

There have been no clear patterns. The first vision was without warning, when I was visiting the Retrospec offices. The second seemed to occur when triggered by something related to the vision. A flower I was looking at that was in the vision, it seemed to cause it, but I cannot say for certain.

Have you seen any patterns?

[katsudonfatale]

—Ah! The first time I experienced it I was also at the Retrospec building!

[ Which only makes this whole thing shadier. ]

As for the other one, it was something similar... I was drinking champagne and shortly after I remembered one time I got very drunk on champagne.

Except... I'm fairly sure that never happened.

... I think.