((and so begins the collab proper between @askthesamefaces and @askidolmatsus !))
“L-l-look …” Totoko is all sputters and gaping for a few moments. “Over there!”
The Same Faces all turn around, expecting to see some sort of nasty creature or hideous stalker they would have to defend their dear Totoko from. But no. What they see is something entirely different.
A slick and shiny stage, a … sunny day? But it’s still cloudy over where they are … At first, they don’t see anyone, but soon heads start to poke out from behind amps and drums. Very familiar heads, with very familiar faces.
There’s a long silence from the Same Faces as the whole thing starts to sink in, each one processing it at a different speed. The first one to get it – completely get it – is Jyushimatsu. The drummer lights up a million watts and gives a happy shout. He starts applauding.
“You guys sounded good!”
The other Jyuushimatsu springs up instantaneously from behind the drums, a cymbal still atop his head. “You really think so, me?!” He scrambles over towards where the other him stands as quickly as he can, and–
He smacks against something or other at the edge of their stage, sliding down like a bird who just hit a clean glass window.
Once Jyushimatsu sees the other him heading in, he, too, begins to run. He starts to skid to a stop once he sees what happens, but he can’t stop his momentum in time. His smack against the invisible barrier is much less graceful.
“Agh! … Hey, but that didn’t hurt! It just felt weird.” Jyushimatsu pokes at the barrier a little.
The others on the brighter side emerge from their hiding spots with varying levels of concern and curiosity.
“The rest of you are seeing this too, right?” Osomatsu asks. Four other heads nod. “So I’m not losing it?”
“The sweltering summer heat has been known to conjure up beautiful illusions.”
“Well, that’s debatable.”
“I haven’t had ‘it’ for years.”
“That implies you have a mind to lose.”
Jyuushimatsu rolls over and sits up, waving for attention. “We have more important stuff here! Focus, focus!” From the floor of the stage, he holds up a hand to flap a hoodie sleeve over at a certain startled someone. “Hi hi! Why is Totoko over there? Does your world have her too?”
Totoko is still pretty stunned, but she snaps out of it a little when she sees the other Jyushimatsu waving at her. She finally waves back, a little nervous. “Uh … heheh … umm, too? What do you mean? … How’d this even happen? Did you set this up to freak me out?!” She suddenly turns, casting a stern glare at the other Same Faces. But they’re far too shocked by what they see to be affected by her glowering.
“I think … they mean that they have a Totoko on their side,” Ichimatsu finally speaks up, shuffling towards the invisible barrier a little. “Uh … We haven’t said anything about this, but … It looks like these guys are versions of us from another dimension. We’ve interacted before, but not on this level. Huh.”
“What kind of thing is that to keep from me!?!” Totoko yells.
“We, uh … didn’t think it would ever affect you.” It’s Ichimatsu’s turn to poke at the barrier. It’s freaky. It’s cosmic. He kinda likes this whole thing, to be honest.
As the Jyuushimatsus tap away, the others on the sunny side step a bit closer. Well. After a brief moment of mouth-covering and turning away murmuring something about how cute Totoko is, they move closer.
The other Ichimatsu is just as intrigued with the strangeness. For once, he’s speaking up. “If these guys came up to you talking about there being six more of them singing poppy nonsense in the year 2016, would you believe them?”
Jyuushimatsu nods with an affirmative noise. “It’s super weird stuff.”
“I … I guess not.” Totoko stops to think for a moment and watches as the interactions begin.
Jyushimatsu laughs a little, trying to meet the other’s hand with his on the other side of the barrier. It takes a little coordination, but soon, they’ve started clapping out a little rhythm across time and space.
“Well …” Osomatsu scratches under his nose and steps out in front, as is his rightful place. Or so he always thinks. “I mean … We’ve sent letters and films back and forth, sure, but this is our first time meeting face to face! So I guess proper introductions are in order.” He grins that famous big grin. “We are, as you already know, The Same Faces, aka Japan’s number one party band, soon to be internationally famous!”
The other side’s Osomatsu does that at the same time, because they are kind of the same person, after all. “We believe in you-slash-us! By the way, the film you sent over? Absolutely hilarious. Also, red swimsuit, a high five is in order.” Osomatsu presses his hand to the barrier for a moment. “And, likewise, we’re some losers from the future who got lucky.” He huffs out a laugh before looking over his shoulder to make sure the others are paying attention, because the short version is in unison.
“The miracle sextuplets that Akatsuka Fujio created, we are F6!” Freakishly in sync, just like the good old days.
This and that happened, and with some minor adjustments, The Same Faces and F6 are playing a concert side by side!
there’s a fake missing persons post going around right now with still about 18k notes, the op fortyozpapi was trying to locate/stalk an ex-girlfriend. if you see it please don’t reblog it, and/or tell the person who reblogged it that it’s misinfo and dangerous to the person with her information up
please in general never reblog missing persons posts without a credible news source behind them, otherwise you have no idea if this is the case or if you’re potentially leading an escapee back to their abuser or what
also just never reblog missing persons posts – even valid and verifiable ones – because they absolutely can be used by abusers/stalkers to find their victims and contribute to a lot of unwanted hysteria around the case. If you do see a missing persons post that is 100% real and valid and you are familiar with the area the individual is from, or are just really concerned either way, you can always look up the case and see if the family has a donation fund open and donate if you can. That can help support the family in their time of need and provide for any legal fees they might owe. That’s what you do instead of reblogging or sharing a 100% true and verified missing persons post.
one day, the neets got an idea.
‘we’d like to be Sanrio characters!
all girls love Sanrio, so if we become their characters,
we will attract girls easily!’
“How many coats of sunscreen is this?” Ichimatsu asks Jyuushiko as she slathers on another layer.
She and Jyuushimatsu say “Four!” in unison before pointing at each other and letting out a pleased yell. “Gotta watch out for your skin,” she says.
Choromatsu walks up with six microphones in his hands, each color coded with a band of tape. “No more hollering, Jyuushimatsu, we have a mic check to do.”
“Because that’s vital,” Osomatsu says, holding out his hand for the microphone. He’s lucky that Choromatsu respects the equipment… and that Todoko is making sure his hair’s all in place. She has no mercy when interrupted.
“It is! Everyone’s at a different volume, and the tech guys need to make sure everything’s right.”
“You mean your nerd friends,” Todomatsu chimes in, making sure his sunhat is tilted just so before snapping a selfie.
“I mean the tech guys!”
Karamatsu places his guitar case down by the piano, Hiroshi promising to keep a good eye on it– her, on her– before he holds out a hand for his mic. (They were sweet enough to put a shiny sticker on it. Cute.) “Your professionalism is truly impressive, dear brother.”
“Shh. No talking. Just checking. Please, Osomatsu, start us off?”
Osomatsu gets to his feet, the others coming over to circle up. “Remember, I’m conducting. Let’s make this not suck.”
Despite hearing some music in the distance that definitely wasn’t from any of their people, they proceed anyway, six-part harmonies ringing out better than they could have expected.
Osomatsu trailed off on his own, pointing at each brother to bring them in: Karamatsu, Jyuushimatsu, Choromatsu, Todomatsu, Ichimatsu, then all of them together again. Six months of intense professional vocal training has them fitting together like puzzle pieces, even if they dance like dorks while they’re doing it. Without their choreographer, Karako, they’d be hopeless.
The tech duo lets them know that everything was in balance.
They have about two seconds to celebrate how easily that went before they hear shrieking and feedback. Then they’re diving behind speakers and drum sets and screaming right back. Apparently their instincts say “be louder than danger.”
It was as much a surprise to the Matsunos as it was to the audience when Hatabou made the announcement.
“There’s going to be an event for the F6 Fanclub at the beach! Tickets are being mailed out as we speak, so get ready!” He almost absentmindedly adds on, “Oh, yeah, and the six of you need to get practicing. You’re going to make lots of people happy, right?”
As if they could answer with anything less than “Yes.” Look at who they’re working for.
The web series lovingly captures their struggle to get the order of songs down in time before the deadline, and dealing with having a live band led by two of Ichimatsu’s favorite musicians.
Aika and Hiroshi, better known as Christmas Couple (after going viral by covering a seasonal love song), are at the forefront of the one-time backing band. The usually apathetic fourth was a bit on the bashful side, but manages to not only get up the nerve to talk to them, but he seems to be trying to… impress them?
The week leading up to the event is a nonstop trainfest until the day before the event, in which they all laid in some degree of unconsciousness in either the artist dorms or the tour bus. (Save for Jyuushimatsu, of course. He still had the energy to check to see what Todoko was doing for their costumes. This was going to be fun, he concluded.)
The drive to the beach was thankfully undertaken once most of the soreness was gone. Their imminent arrival at the site was announced with a Vine from Jyuushimatsu:
He sits in the passenger’s seat, one certain familiar face in shot. There is no more loyal roadie than Hijirisawa Shonosuke. “Get ready, guys. We’re an hour away!” Cue unintelligible screaming from at least four people.
The Same Faces will be sending off the summer with one last hurrah on the beach!
(And they don’t know it, but there’ll be some inter-dimensional shenanigans going on … They’re going to come face-to-face with their counterparts at @askidolmatsus!)
Check out @musicmatsus Friday 9/2 – Wednesday 9/7 to see how the event unfolds! Asks for the event will be answered on that blog once the ask box is opened – and you’ll get answers from two Matsunos for the price of one! What a deal!
Once the ask box is opened, you’d better hurry, because the Mods can only do so much and there’ll be a limit on asks!
This blog will be occasionally updated with little drabbles of what’s going on on the Same Faces side of things, but the real action will be at @musicmatsus.
As always, this blog will be accepting asks, but it may take a little longer to get around to answering them.
Where two Osomatsu-san AUs collide and make beautiful music together. Whether you like it slick and ultra-modern, or retro and a little rough around the edges, you’ll find it here!
The AUs:
@askidolmatsus, where the guys we know and love have become an idol group. They still call themselves F6, but they aren’t in their F6 forms – they shed those quickly when it was too much trouble to keep up and the fans wanted to see their true faces. But they’re still just as charming, at least as far as their contract allows.
@askthesamefaces, where the guys are a band in the 1960s. They started out as a shed band – that’s right, not even a garage band – and now they’re either laying down tracks in the studio or touring around in their green VW van, singing the grooviest tunes and meeting new fans everywhere they go.
Check out the blogs for more info about the individual AUs!
The Mods:
Clover (askidolmatsus) and Daisy (askthesamefaces)
The Rules & Such:
The ask box will only be opened when the two blogs are carrying on a crossover event. Announcements will be made when the ask box is open and closed.
Please keep the asks SFW. (The individual blogs aren’t quite as strict, but we want to keep things clean around here. They’ve got enough to worry about with their worlds colliding, if they get too flustered they can’t function!)
Answers will come from both the F6 and Same Face versions of the character.
Seriously though, don’t go through the actuallyautistic tag right now. I went through it to see if stuff was in there and found things I really wish I never saw. I normally am not triggered by pictures or posts but these literally were horrendous and some were even illegal. I literally can’t get one of the images out of my heads.
Honestly, protect yourself. Protect your wellbeing. Safe tags deserve to be safe and hopefully they will be safe soon.
this post is from September 1, 2016
don’t go into the tag, stay safe
Actuallyborderline, actuallyptsd, and otherkin tags aren’t safe either.
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