This is it. Your first day as a new talent at Sawdust Entertainment.
You stand before your new manager. The nameplate on her desk reads 'Matsudaira Nobuko'. The desk is neat, spartan even. There's nothing on it aside from a computer, a notebook, and an ashtray. The scent of smoke hangs in the air, even though Nobuko's not smoking.
Your manager's pretty enough to be a talent herself, with straight blonde hair framing her face and brown eyes fringed by long lashes. Her build is slim and rangy, black clothes draping off her lean frame. She has a bit of a scavenger to her, a wild dog.
Nobuko hasn't looked at you since you entered, her gaze fixed on the manila folder containing your profile. She seems disinterested, cold, closed-off. Like she's not your manager, like you're some vagrant who wandered in off the street that she's ready to kick out.
Maybe she's one of those girls who hates other pretty girls. Maybe she's having a bad day. Maybe she can't stand you. You don't know her well enough yet to say.
"Du," she says. Her voice is flat, but there's a musicality in the way she says your name. "Looks like Kanae's assigned me as your manager. So. What made you decide to sign on to Sawdust Entertainment?"
Throughout all that, she hasn't looked at you.
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Nobuko is high-key attracted to Du, has literally never felt like this before (and it's fuckin' scary), and is determined to be completely professional. She's going to overcompensate by being a fucking bitch.
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