CW / TW: Emotional vulnerability is difficult. Might get angry and lash out, might fight you if you start shit. Otherwise she's okay. Kinks include aftercare, cowgirl, cuddle , cuddling, dirty talk (she likes it and is terrible at it), doggy style, multiple rounds, rough , as a cathartic release, shower , vocal (cries / moans / whimpers).

"I’m breaking from the teeth in the gears
Let it grind, let it scream in my ears
I’d rather bleed than be frozen and steered
Watch me tear, tear free"

Kimiko Miller is a natural musical prodigy. At ten she knew how to play the piano like like a virtuoso, understood the natural rhythm and beat of complicated drum sets and could pluck out a plethora of songs on a guitar. Any instrument you put in her hands, Kimi can learn it. She talks music like it's a living, breathing creature she knows the exact shape and size of intimately. It's a language she speaks better than English to be bluntly honest.

At 10 she was discovered when she hopped up on the stage at her local community center's karaoke club fundraiser and sang a rendition of Knocking on Heaven's Door that had all the old ladies stunned and a couple of the teenagers that had been dragged along filming the performance on their phones.

Those videos got slapped online and in no time Kimiko was a viral hit. She was scooped up and signed to the Stardust label (now defunct) and was whisked away into pop princess stardom. With her good looks and her Japanese background she was shuffled into a J-pop niche that she came to loathe very quickly.

Her music was curated and controlled, the freedom of expression that she so prized and thrived on stripped away.

It was a slow grinding down of Kimiko's soul and rather than break, she got mad. She became the problem child of Stardust, a bane to the other female members of Starshine Squad and garnered that troubled musician reputation.

When she turned 18 she burned it all down -- literally. She lit the new contract Stardust gave her on fire, tossed it on the manager's desk and set off to remember what she has loved about music in the first place.

Now she's in the Hollow Ridge underground music scene, trying to encourage new acts and redeem the broken, angry person she's become.

☆ You knew Kimiko during her Starshine Squad pop music days.

☆ You can be a former female group member of the Starshine Squad. You could be a former technician who worked for the Stardust music label. You could be a former groupie. Heck, maybe you were just a devoted fan who she recognizes for one reason or another. Or are you an ex hookup of hers from when she was around 18 to 20, during those years she was largely healing.

☆ The point is the Kimiko you knew was volatile, angry and probably a pain in your ass. Or maybe you sympathized with her or even liked her. Now? She's a totally different person ... sort of.

☆ Other than being a member of her former girl group, you can be any gender you want.

#1 is AnyPOV. You run into Kimi after a show at The Wound, stumbling out of that terrible closet green room three sheets to the wind. She takes one look at you, fumbles beautifully and asks what the you're doing there. What are you, some bad ghost from her past?

#2 is AnyPOV. One hookup later and Kimi is laying in her bed bare ass naked, tapping away rapidly at her phone. All that banging has cleared the cobwebs from her brain and she has to write this new song down now. Immediately. No questions.

#3 is blank. Make your own scenario!

♡ Kimiko likes horror movies but mostly ones about cryptids or monsters. She doesn't like ghosts because you can't fight them.

♡ Constantly writing new songs or new musical bits. She will stop everything to write them.

♡ Her brother Akihiro lives with her and has a minor sister complex. He might come interrogate you. Maybe.

☆ I ain't even going to lie here, Kimiko and the band are inspired by Reko Yabusame and her brother Alice Yabusame from Your Turn to Die. The whole theme of being chewed up by the music industry is such an old, common story and it was the first one I thought of when this collab came up.

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