the agony of imperfections and lost
a prodigy once soared, melody adored with perfection
now suffers with pieces and symphony left unfinished
a silent pain with wrist betrayed
each notes falter, with the end replaced by sniffles and pain
☾⋆⁺₊♫✩°。
AU: pianist!Raven and piano technician!Price
between classes and lectures I've been doodling an AU for my cod oc Raven :] it's the first AU I've ever thought of for a very long time and I didn't start writing and drawing a few things until recently (my friends are huge enablers ah ha)
this AU is heavily inspired by the anime Your Lies in April so if this familiar that's why
Prodigy Raven who used to swoop every piano competition stopped participating one day due to various reasons.
She can no longer finish any pieces.
It starts off with pain, and then progresses into fits of spasms and shakes on her wrist.
That was however, not the main issue.
As she will herself to play more to overcome the issue, another problem raised where notes and tune muffles out as she approach the end of any song, rendering her unable to map out the tempo and the feel of the piece, which was the most crucial aspect in performance((and also hence why the art wrote "when will the sounds return"))
again and again, she attempted to play and only met with tears and pain at every end, and so she stopped playing.
It wasn't years later when her friend invited her to a concert hall that she would attempt playing again, and met a man with an unmistakable beard she thought she will never meet again.
here is a fic I wrote below, you can listen along with the spotify song linked below, and as always I hope you enjoy this lil blurb ⸜(˶´ ˘ `˶)⸝
tags: a lil angsty and mentioned of struggles with chronic pain
𓍢ִ໋. 𝄞 ✧˚ ༘ ♪ ⋆。˚.𖥔 ݁ ˖♬ ♪₊ ⊹
Raven found herself at the concert hall, involuntarily dragged there by a close friend who was settling some business with the hall owner. Having no interest in the conversation, she idly wandered around.
Eventually her attention was drawn to the main hall, the area was dimly lit with only one light shining above a magnificent grand piano on the stage, when was the last time she had even seen a grand piano?
The golden words that etched on the front of the piano captivated her, "Steinway and Sons", and she ran her fingers delicately along its shiny polished surface, despite promising herself not to touch it.
how could she resist when such a beauty is in full display within her reach?
Perhaps there was a lingering wishful hope within her that pulls her through the haunting echoes of her past struggles.
Perhaps this time it would be different, after all, it's been so many years.
As she took a seat and opened the fallboard, she knew she had to play something.
Little did she know she was not alone in that hall.
John Price, a famous piano technician was scheduled to carry out his tuning services on the grand piano, has arrived earlier than the expected time in order to explore the place.
It gives opportunity for him to figure out the environment, and to assess the condition of the place.
To him, a piano was like the heart of the human body, requiring care and love with every factor taking into account, such as the air moisture content, exposure of sunlight, humidity, temperature...the list goes on.
As he walked onto the area from the backstage, he was surprised to see a figure seated at the piano. When he wanted to call out, the tune of a song stopped him.
A familiar melody, a classic.
He recognizes this song, however, with the way the sound and notes were played, it felt as if he was listening to it for the first time.
Liebesleid. Love's sorrow.
As he pause and listens, watching as the fingers of Raven danced around the black and white, he felt himself washed by the emotions of the piece.
remorse, pain, emptiness and cheery? was it hope? yet he can't help but felt bittersweet.
Each note was played with perfection, the pauses, the tempo and the timing were accurate, and with the sway of the pianist, he could feel the emotional depth infused into the piece.
And yet as the song approach the second half of the song, something in the air shifted.
The tempo increased, the intervals between notes were shorten, and slowly wrong notes emerging as well, with some keys played with more force and vigor.
Eventually the song stopped, and only the sound of stifled sniffles filled the air as the figure slouched forward.
((if you're curious and still listening along on spotify, the errors starts around 2:42 she stopped around 2:57))
"It happened again"
Raven thought as she struggled to control the shaking of her hands, and the tears streaming down her cheeks.
"it hurts....it hurts so...so much"
She lets out a shaky breath; it wasn't the pain of her wrist that was eating at her.
It was the act of not being able to complete a piece.
She pressed her palm up her eyes, a weak attempt to stop the shaking of her arms and the tears that kept flowing.
A hand on her shoulder was what brought her back to reality.
Startled, she looked up into a pair of blue eyes, with gentle gaze that melted away her panics.
"You alright, luv?"
The man asked, and Raven composed herself, wiping over her tears as she gave a weak nod.
She apologizes for the state she was in, gingerly stepping up from the bench, only to be met with a chuckle and another reassuring pat on the shoulder.
"It was beautiful"
He complimented, nodding his head towards the piano as Raven pauses.
"no, it's not", she thought internally, but just gave another thankful nod.
"thanks"
John raised a brow at that, taking note for her answer.
"something tells me you disagree, hm?"
She wonders for a good moment if she should speak her mind, and after deciding that the chances of meeting this man again is slim, she gave her comments.
"I didn't finished it"
She spoke, glancing back at the piano as her eyes soften as the echoes of her instructor came to mind.
"you're not worthy to even be in the same room as the piano if you can't finish the piece.
It's not just about the techniques and music theory only, you need to focus on the flow and the dynamic of the piece, honor the composer, bring the composer's vision to life."
"alright, play it again Raven, how bout putting your body into it this time huh? I've seen others played better than that"
"you know you need to win, make me proud dearie"
"well, a song doesn’t need to be complete in order for it to be good"
His voice brought her back as she frowns slightly, the older male simply smiles as he goes on.
"what matters is how much you put your heart into it"
He takes a step forward to her.
"and you, certainly poured your soul into that song, hell, felt like I was listening to Fritz Kreisler himself, ha!"
She could only blink as she chuckles, a warm feeling embrace her heart as she hummed.
"you flatter me...uh-"
"John. John Price."
He extended his hand out as he smiles.
"Raven."
She smiled, shaky hands now no longer tremble as she gave the firm handshake. Something tells her that this will be the first of many more meetings.
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Okay so since I apparently never explained it...
The Carnival is an attraction I added to the Pizzaplex because Ruin had a scrappd map that was going to include a carnival and Help Wanted 2 had a lot of fairground kind of games in it. It's also an area mentioned in the books that we never see as far as I know, and I dunno I thought it would be fun to make my own version of it.
SO
The Carnival actually has five different names depending on where and when you see it in the Plex. On paperwork, it's known as the Seasonal Carnival, but the public know it as the Snowfall Fair, the Flowering Festival (or Blooming Jamboree maybe?), the Creature Carnival and the Sunshine Pier. Each one of the non-paperwork names is for a different season, because the attraction changes by the season, with a different animatronic to match.
How do they do this? With incredible health a safety obviously!
Instead of scenery being painted onto the walls, it's all big, collapsable set pieces, that are alarmingly easy to drop. There's easy to move props everywhere and the various lights around the place change for different effects. There's some smaller rides and attractions that are also swapped out, with some bigger ones that aren't, and a whole load of games to play. Honestly, outside of the animatronics, this is probably one of the cheapest attractions they put together purely because of cut corners, cheap games, and relocating things from other Fazbear locations to fill out the space. The animatronics are deactivated and stored safely nearby (normally anyway) to be reactivated come their next season, but often times they're still wandering and fucking around regardless lmao Fazbear is nothing if not competent, right?
Anyway, the place is located (for now anyway) under the daycare and main lobby area of the Plex. It's got games like the Bonk-A-Bon and Fazerblast shooting games from Help Wanted 2, along with games like Hook A Duck, darts, the one where you climb up a rope ladder to ring a bell, the horse racing game where you all compete by throwing balls along a table into various holes to make the horse move, basketball, the ring toss, other ball throwing ones and whatever others I can't think of right now. The permanent rides are a waltzer, a small droptower, maybe a little rollercoaster, a small funhouse, one of those octopus rides, maybe a Rockin' Tug or whatever they're called, and then the carousel.
Most of the rides and games don't take up much space, but the carousel is the centrepiece of the attraction and is pretty damn big. It's like the one from Help Wanted 2 in that it has three belts of Fazbear characters that rotate around the centre pillar, with the middle belt going the opposite way to the other two. Except it looks more like a typical carousel, brighter, flashier, and only a few of the characters don't move up and down. The carousel closed a while before the whole Carnival closed for good due to an accident involving some teenagers, an animatronic and the staffbot that was operating the ride, as well as Fazbear refusing to care about anything but labour costs and profit margins. To put it on a timeline, the attraction closed about a year before Roxy debuted to the public which is a few years before you'd have the events of Security Breach. The carousel was at most closed a year before the rest of the Carnival.
Moving on, the Snowfall Fair is winter themed and set in a snowy forest clearing. All the set pieces are pine trees and glittery snow, with the lights all cold and fake snow and icicles on everything. The food vendors sell a lot of hot chocolate, there's a fake ice rink set up, and a bunch of winter themed prizes to win. They add a helter-skelter type of thing with a little sled you ride on to the bottom and they have an area for snowball fights which is basically just dodgeball with small, white, glittery foam balls. I don't have an animatronic for this season yet, but I'm thinking a polar bear Freddy or Nedd bear or something would work well here. Maybe even penguin Chica I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The Flowering Festival (or Floral Festival, or Blooming Jamboree, whatever I decide to settle on) has a spring time theme. This is where my idea for an Easter Bonnie and Chica come into play as they'd fit right in here. The set pieces are all painted like the moors, full of grass, heather, butterflies, etc. It's a bit brighter and a lot more colourful, with fake plants and flowers everywhere and fake birds playing birdsong from speakers and stuff dotted around. There's hide and seek games, scavenger hunts, a game where you have to catch the butterflies, and flowercrowns as prizes. Probably other stuff too but I'm drawing a blank on spring themed stuff ngl
The Sunshine Pier is summer themed, being bright, warm and set on the amusement pier of a beach. There's a few kids paddling pools around that look like they came from a sale at Tescos, a big sandpit, a trampoline, a more traditional helter-skelter and I'm thinking maybe a Monty or a Happy Frog variant running it. There's a fake campfire like there is in Kid's Cove, fake seagulls sat on top of attractions, deck chairs and beachballs strewn around everywhere and a remote control crab for a special prize that the regular kids have an obsession over. You can get water balloons and waterguns pretty much everywhere and when Foxy was still around, he would get the kids to race boats with him in the paddling pools.
The Creature Carnival is Halloween themed and the original animatronic got scrapped somehow maybe (haven't got that far yet but I'm thinking a Monty or Bonnie maybe?) and is later run by former daycare attendant, Jack-O-Moon. The set pieces are of a spooky graveyard and abandoned buildings, with some minor smoke machines to give the place a foggy look. The ceiling lights are completely off for this one, and instead, the attraction is well lit with lamps, streelight props and the usual floor lights. There's a 'Trick or Treat' game where various staffbots hidden around the place will give you cheap sweets and sometimes arcade tokens, and they add a ghost train and haunted house.
The attraction is pretty fun and a good money maker, but it's not one of the more popular attractions. Fazbear Ent. also use it for special events since it's very easy to switch things up in there by design, and this doubles as a way for Fazbear to see what would be good for permanent attractions on a smaller scale. It's also their go-to if the Plex is dwindling in popularity to just greenlight random shit to get throwin in there to see what sticks and what brings people back in. They've had all sorts of shit in there lmao it keeps it interesting
Aaannndddd since this post is already stupid long, that'll do for now!
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