[ Hopefully those flowers aren't anything important, because Shu is utterly decimating them.
He doesn't shake his head to clear his mind of the vision, lest the fiddler think he is refusing the request to go on stage. He strides out to go to sing with a rush of nervous energy— despite his bravado— that he doesn't show. It spring-boards his determination that he should not fail, that he is able to shove aside his nerves and prove they are wrong and for nothing, and have no business existing here in his head. No matter how long it has been since he has stepped on stage.
It is not his sort of song, but he believes the fiddler that the people love it. Living constrained lives, how could they not value the only time not scripted out for them— though their rest is scripted too. Still, he will not trample their joy.
He does make one small alteration to the lyrics though— what a Life it can be! is substituted in. He can't bring himself to profess that it is life for him, even if he is only singing. But even so, because he is an idol and a performer, not just a singer, he does dance along. ]
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Hopefully those flowers aren't anything important, because Shu is utterly decimating them.He doesn't shake his head to clear his mind of the vision, lest the fiddler think he is refusing the request to go on stage. He strides out to go to sing with a rush of nervous energy— despite his bravado— that he doesn't show. It spring-boards his determination that he should not fail, that he is able to shove aside his nerves and prove they are wrong and for nothing, and have no business existing here in his head. No matter how long it has been since he has stepped on stage.
It is not his sort of song, but he believes the fiddler that the people love it. Living constrained lives, how could they not value the only time not scripted out for them— though their rest is scripted too. Still, he will not trample their joy.
He does make one small alteration to the lyrics though— what a Life it can be! is substituted in. He can't bring himself to profess that it is life for him, even if he is only singing. But even so, because he is an idol and a performer, not just a singer, he does dance along. ]