insertmeathere | Actor Meme!

It's Transmigration 9 Studios. No, the name doesn't make any sense, except that the owner, Stacy, has owned eight studios before this and they've all crashed and burned. Which feels so great for the actors and their sense of job security, let me tell you.

As soon as they're done with their scenes, the characters stop playing their roles and make it real. The scripts are tossed aside, and they can relax now that the cameras are off of them.

What does this mean? Well, perhaps Billy is an actual college graduate, who is disgusted with the scientific inaccuracies and techspeak mumbo-jumbo of his character. Perhaps Kang is a fit Japanese man in a rubber dragon suit. Maybe Renne is a former theater actor that speaks with a posh English accent? Who knows, perhaps Nehaa is a conservative Catholic who finds her role as a stripperiffic space goat horrifying! And it might an ongoing joke off-screen that Leon can't fight for shit, Steve's actor stands in for him during action scenes.

Just roll with it, guys, it's better than my first idea of the night.

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Bitty!Einhart smiled. "Oh, hi!"

And then she frowned a made a disgusted face. "Yeah! I know! I mean... eww. I don't even want a boyfriend either, so ick."

Big!Einhart just shook her head and hugged the other girl back. "Yeah, it's... really annoying. At the very least, they could at least let ME do those scenes. Give me more work to do besides being in the rubber alien suits whenever they need a random alien around."

"Oh, tell me about it," Tenaya complained, waving her hand around. "I keep saying, 'Okay, where am I supposed to be with this whole Strike Team thing?' and it's all 'Oh, Tenaya's at the Venjix Palace in the middle of this.' Please. I'm starting to think all they need me for is to look pretty when everyone else is busy."

She flipped a lock of hair over her shoulder for emphasis.

"Probably why they decided I should be a robot girl, not just a regular girl. I don't mind being eyecandy, but really? Am I only here for all the drooling nerdy boys out there?"

Big!Einhart laughed at that. "Apparently. Then again, that seems to be the only reason why Einhart even as the Adult form transformation also, so they can get more fanservice. I mean, it's not like I'm getting to do much."

Bitty!Einhart shook her head. "You know what, they made too many characters! Way too many importantish ones!"

"Yeah, I have no idea where they're going with the direction here," Tenaya agreed. "Sometimes it's all on the adults. Sometimes it's all on the kids because they're cute. And sometimes it's all for fighting or for romance and fanservice. All just to cover up the fact that the rest of the script sucks. I mean, really. I know sci-fi panders, but do the writers even know where they're going with all this? 'Cause I sure don't."

Big!Einhart shook her head. "Doubt it. They're probably just going with whatever they can get away with."

Bitty!Einhart made another disgusted face. "I hope they get yelled at some more about that kiss with Vivio."

Tenaya grinned. "They heard a lot about that one, all right. Serves them right, pulling that kind of thing with kids. They went nuts with all the kid kissing. Leave it to the grown-ups."

Bitty!Einhart nodded. "Anyway, I'm going to go find some of the other kids now. Later!"

And with that, Bitty!Einhart ran off.

Big!Einhart grinned. "Yeah, really. Oh well, they shouldn't be doing that crap again, right?"

"No, they'll just leave it to the rest of us when the ratings drop again," Tenaya answered, rolling her eyes. "Always the girls, you notice? Ratings drop, you throw in hints that the girls aren't straight. This is the third show I've been on that did this."

Einhart frowned. "I... see. But they've always had some of the girls not be straight. Like say, Nanoha."

"Oh, I know," Tenaya answered. "But just watch. All of a sudden? Girly love influx. You know Gwen's actress, right? Last show she did, her character had a boyfriend and was happy. Next thing she knows, her character's hooking up with another guy's girlfriend. Something about the shock value. And before that, she was some kind of magical girl who had girly love vibes with her archenemy. I got lucky that it was pretty faint hinting for me in my last part, but the girl they hinted for me? Poor thing had it happen to her for at least two other girls, and all in the same episode too, all while she's supposed to be trying to hook up with one of the main boys."

Einhart sighed, palming her face. "Oh, just great. Just great. I'll probably get a bigger part as an 'older sexy clone' or there throw in timetravel to justify it when that starts happening then."

Einhart blinked. "On the other hand, I'll have more screentime and get paid more."

"Or sweetie disappears to time out or something for a few episodes, and she comes back all grown up," Tenaya added. "But they'll probably save that for when she starts getting a little older. It's why they had to nix my 'younger self' showing up for that one episode. She did such a great job in the audition and everything, but it just kept getting pushed back with scheduling problems, and the next thing we knew, she had a growth spurt."

Einhart shook her head. "God, I'd hate to see what they'd use to justify that. And that sucks for the kid."

"I know," Tenaya agreed. "And she's so good! I've worked with her before. She's a little shy, but she's so good!"

"Maybe she'll get luckly and they'll give her her own character?"

"I hope so," Tenaya said. "Just like I hope your mini-me has a lot more parts coming her way after this. And hopefully without the crazy writers and directors."

Einhart nodded. "Yeah, definitely. She's really good, so she should be able to get other roles easily enough."

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