Idol Revive: If I Don't Debut, I'll Disappear -
Chapter 169: Eureka! Eureka!
Chapter 169: Eureka! Eureka!
Yeo Haru immediately raised his hand. Hesitating for a moment, in the end, Adrian let him speak.
"I want something cool."
With pursed lips, Adrian reluctantly wrote down Yeo Haru’s suggestion. Then he said, "Okay, cool? What kind of cool are you talking about?"
Yeo Haru wasn’t able to respond to the question.
Okay, maybe it was a mistake to try and listen to his idea.
Iris also voiced her own opinion. "Our song is sentimental, though..."
Yeah, right. How do they even make a cool performance with a sentimental song? Yeo Haru’s idea was rejected right away.
Adrian raised the pen once again to cross out Yeo Haru’s suggestion, but someone else interrupted him.
"Don’t cross it out yet," Ayumi said.
"Hmm? Why?"
"Let’s not cross it out yet."
She didn’t provide any explanation. Adrian scratched his head, but did not proceed with his actions earlier. Yeo Haru sighed in relief and cast a grateful look at Ayumi, although he was ignored.
"Other suggestions?"
"Let’s each have our own roles. In the song, there’s an artist, a painter, a novelist, singer and an actor," Xu Jiji suggested.
Adrian nodded then wrote it on the board. Iris also joined in and suggested they should include colorful fabrics in their dance moves to symbolize the paints.
Ideas upon ideas rained upon the group. All in all, their suggestion just revolved on art. Well, the song was about "art" after all.
"Okay, then we’ll take this route," Adrian said, pointing to the scribbles on the white board.
While Rayen was in deep thought, he didn’t notice that the white board was already filled with words.
Rayen read the word that Adrian was pointing at.
"Museum"
Basically, their theme would be set in a museum where the arts would be shown to people. Their simple choreography would have to be fixed a little bit, and they would have to relay their ideas to the stage staff members.
Anyway, that wasn’t Rayen’s duty. The choreography was assigned to Xu Jiji and Yeo Haru, and Adrian as the leader would be the one to coordinate with the staff members.
Yet, his mind remained listless.
’It feels like there’s something missing...’
In the back of his mind, there seemed to be an idea forming, but it just wouldn’t fully form. It must be the attribute of his character working.
It wasn’t the same character Adrian first wrote for him though. He no longer had to consume gossip for inspiration. Besides, in his experience it was pretty ineffective.
So Adrian thought of another character.
[Archimedes: A playful mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and engineer. He has a very meticulous mind that you can borrow.]
Although there was no word in the character’s description even related to performance arts, it was the attributes that Rayen was counting for.
[Attributes: Eureka - Gain an inspiration spark randomly.]
The meeting concluded for the night. Despite Rayen’s thoughts, he had to give up right now and return to their dorms.
Adrian immediately flopped down on the couch, burying his face on it. Not even a minute after, Rayen heard Adrian’s muffled snoring
"You won’t wash up first?" Rayen asked.
Woken up by Rayen’s voice, Adrian just raised his hand without looking at him. He made a shooing gesture and then went back to sleep.
He was back to his sloth mode.
’If you won’t, then I’ll go first.’
After grabbing a fresh set of clothes and a towel for himself, he went inside the bathroom.
’Maybe if I take a bath, my idea will form.’
After all, he needed to act out his character to activate its attribute.
[Acting Principle: Go and take a bath, you’ll probably experience his Eureka moment.]
Rayen filled the whole tub with warm water. After that, he showered first to wash off the grime and sweat from the day’s practice before dipping himself in the warm bath.
Inhaling the steam and feeling the water splash into his skin, his body immediately relaxed. He could take his time inside the bathroom while Adrian was sleeping.
That was the best thing as having him as a roommate, Rayen didn’t need to fight for the bathroom.
Still, it was extravagant for them to have a bathtub in a dorm.
Now that he was feeling relaxed, he could finally start thinking. He went back to the last image he pictured at the end of their meeting and was able to clearly picture it.
’Museum, exhibit, people observing...’
Finally, the image in his mind became fixed on a particular scene. People were lined up in front of a large framed art, looking at it with amazed eyes.
It’s as if the ideas they had were puzzle pieces in front of Rayen, pieced together to create a beautiful image, yet there was a glaring hole where a single piece was missing.
What was it?
The cogs in his brain started turning. Just then, he recalled Yeo Haru’s idea.
"I want something cool!"
And then Ayumi’s words and the principles he gained from his bonus ranking mission.
["When building something, you need materials. But not everything has the same characteristics. Use everything — good and bad!]
Yeo Haru’s idea might not suit the sentimentality of their song, but it was still an idea. In essence, it was still a material.
And using this word as another material, Rayen was able to create the missing piece and put it in the hole that once glared at him.
That must be why Ayumi didn’t let Adrian cross it out.
’I think this idea is good!’
With that, Rayen stood up, splashing the water on the floor of the bathroom. He wanted to hurry up and write down the idea before it disappeared from his mind.
However, just as he was just about to reach the door, his thoughts became murky, and the ideas that he just thought of started to scatter.
’Shit. I should have brought a pen and paper before I took a bath.’
It was too late though.
Normally, his brain wouldn’t have been this incompetent and easily forget things he just thought of, but because of the acting principle he had to abide to, and since his idea was a result of the characterization, it was like this.
In truth, there was another part to the acting principle of his character.
[Acting Principle: Go and take a bath, you’ll probably experience his Eureka moment.
Once you experience it, you need to run around naked and shout "Eureka! Eureka!" If you don’t, you’ll forget the details of your inspiration.]
He cursed Adrian in his mind for creating this character for him. When he received it from that lazy writer, he demanded another character, but Adrian fell into a deep sleep that night due to exhaustion from practicing and the character creation. Rayen couldn’t write another one himself since the quill was in Adrian’s inventory. Having no choice, he signed the character anyway.
He didn’t expect it to work, though.
With gritted teeth, Rayen slammed open the door and opened his mouth.
"Eureka! Eureka!"
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