The Camera Loves You! [Yumi]

Yumi took a deep slow breath as she stepped off the train. The building they were holding the shoot in wouldn't be far from here so her nerves were starting to pick up a bit. She'd been to enough of these recently that she knew how to put on her game face when it was needed, but for now at least she let them get to her purposely. Wanting to feel that tension under her skin that told her she was about to do somehting big, cause whether it was a job for newbies or not, it was still breaking away from the safety net that was Asta again. Her contract with them had expired and while they were more than happy to keep her on for work, she wanted to use the opportunity to break out a bit and make more of a name for herself off her own back.

Walking along the street, with the winter chill running down her back, she had worn her 'appealing' attire under a thicker, longer coat so it didn't get to her, her hair in it's usual ponytail to stop the wind from catching it too much, and her glasses on. Underneath the coat was a pink toned sleeveless turtleneck with blue form fitting jeans that flowed into cozy looking boots. Yumi did always prefer boots herself and she felt it was a nice little winter look once she got into the building, but of course, she fully expected to be given a different outfit entirely if they wanted her to stick around and do work.

Hopping up the building's stairwell, forgoing the elevator for a bit of exercise she eventually arrived at the floor of her meeting, dipping her head along each hall, counting the initial numbers till she finally found the door she was looking for. She peeked her head in cautiously at first, but it was a scene she'd seen enough times. Girls and guys waiting about on couches for their chance to get up and sell themselves. Positively speaking of course. She was just starting to undo her coat and take off her satchel when a rather eager individual rushed right up to her, hopping back a step, giggling as she caught up with the fact he was just a rather eager newbie to the line of work.

"Well I'm here aren't I?~" She quipped back a little cheekily, hanging up her coat on the provided rack and reaching into her satchel as she was asked if she had some experience or if she could give any pointed. She took a moment to dig around inside her bag before pulling out a black ring file, offering it across. If the stranger took it it would have clippings of Yumi's professional and personal work on her cosplay blog, two of the examples even seeming to be covers for the Asta fashion magazine. "Aaaand as for being a fresh face... sadly not so much.~ Though I gotta say I definitely feel like I've got some competition.~" She playfully teased smiling at the three already present, reaching back into her hair and undoing her ponytail as she moved to take a seat.

"As far as pointers go though..." She shrugged idly as she sat down, fixing her hair as she got comfortable, balancing her elbows on her knee as she leaned over her crossed lap, looking back up to the young man who'd addressed her. He certainly had a distinctive look to him, not the typical image you'd get out of the japanese men who worked for these opportunities. She honestly hoped they'd give him a shot. "Maybe ask me a few questions? I mean first off, a nice pointer would be to give someone your name before badgering them with questions.~" She bowed her head, a hand to her chest. "Yumi myself, by the way.~"

In truth, maintaining the portfolio, as useful as it could be, really made Yumi feel a bit egotistical. It was nice being able to see her past work but most of the time it was just a line into a google search engine away. Having to cut out and keep clippings of past magazines or print them out herself, or asking for copies of the spare shots from previous gigs? They were nice things to have but she did worry just having that on hand looked like she was a little far up her own ass sometimes. Of course, she was surrounded by people in the same business right now so she was sure they'd understand the importance of a portfolio of all things. "Well that's a good attitude to take. Just be careful no one ends up taking advantage of it handsome.~" She teased gently, bumping her hip into his on her way past as she went to take her seat.

As the girls joined in to see what was going on with her portfolio, she couldn't help but smile wide and have an ecstatic little giggle to herself as one of the girls seemed to have recognized her, and had their suspicions confirmed by the portfolio. "That I am.~" She dipped her head in greeting and admittance of her little claim to fame. "My contracts up though so I'm trying to break out on my own a bit, hence..." She opened her arms up, vaguely gesturing to the whole room they all found themselves in.

She did get a little alarmed however as he seemed to point out she'd missed his names, a faint, brief blush on her cheek from the embaressment, hanging her head against her palm and silently berating herself for missing that, as it now rung more clearly in her short term memory. "Ah, well, to be fair you did borderline assault me with it." She smirked. At least he had a good bit of confidence about him, she certainly couldn't fault him for that. The cheek and the guile wasn't something she was unused to, having worked with a fair few models who got a bit 'high off their own supply' in terms of how they viewed themselves. But, having the modesty to ask for some tips and support, he at least seemed to have a cool head about him. "Shinme Shinme Shinme Shinme." She repeated to herself, tending to find it helped recalling names, something she always struggled with. With each repetition of his name she'd bob left and right till the last with a bright smile.

She shifted to give him some room when he seemed about to ask his first question, but what came did surprise her a bit. Her lips parted, a little stunned. Did he realize how offensive that might sound? It kinda implied she had bad hair if it needed a brushing but... well, he didn't seem to mean any harm, and even if it was frizzy he'd just be doing her a favour, so as surprising as it was she let herself submit to it. "Er... sure, why not hm?" She'd shift about a bit, reaching behind her head and undoing her ponytail. While it could be brushed either way she was planning to let her hair down for when she walked in anyway. They were auditioning for the spring line of some company she heard so they tended to want more youthful looks. Now with her hair down she looked more mature, buuuut, if she put it up mid-audition, showing how youthful she could appear with a simple change, it'd help display some of her talent for fitting multiple roles. Up her chances a bit. "You er... usually offer to brush girl's hair or did I look that bad?" She'd ask, peering over her shoulder. She did stick her tongue out at him at his cheeky repetition of course.

The brushing was definitely a pleasant, mildly relaxing experience and she certainly wouldn't complain as it went on, closing her eyes halfway and resting her hands on her lap, lightly tapping them against her thighs as she thought on his question. "Wellll... they're looking to advertise they're next season line, need to do some work for that in advance of course to make sure it's selling before the season's truly started. Now usually, if you have one, they'll ask for your portfolio for something to look at. Might ask you a few questions about what you think of their company. I don't really know why, I think they just like to find people more appreciative of the opportunity, or who might wear their brands outside of the job naturally. Typically they'll do all this while their main photographer takes a few proof shots for them to keep. Ya know, get you against a backdrop, get you doing a few key poses? They don't tend to like to waste time so you gotta know to multi task the questions and the poses. So long as you keep your eyes on the photographer and your ears open though, it never tends to be too bad."

As far as dress up though...- "They tend to save the outfits for return shoots, but now and then for an audition I've seen them ask us to try on a number or two to get the feel of what we'd look like come shoot day. They won't have time for full on makeup though. That's definitely saved for the day of the proper shoot... ya know. Assuming you get called back.~"

Yumi did feel a little better knowing that he seemed to offer this hair treatment up to most people. It was a little weird, but hey, of all people who was she to talk about what was weird or normal? She was far off the scale in her own ways in that regard so she wasn't about to tease him too heavily about that. "It's kinda nice, I'll admit, if a little out of the blue." She shrugged casually with a warm smile flashed up to the boy behind her, turning her eyes forward again quickly enough, her gaze a little half lidded as she just let herself relax. She did let out a little chuckle at his compliment, shaking her head just ever so subtly.

"Yeah, at a proper shoot you definitely don't need to expect questions while you're doing your work, but they're not looking for super professional shots here. They're more wanting their own pile of photos for them to compare after the interview. They can't keep your portfolio afterall unless you like, share them a digital copy ya know?" She gave a casual half shrug and flashed a gentle smile over her shoulder. "But hey if you can do my hair and hold up this chat you should be fine answering a few questions~" She teased playfully.

Impossible demands though? "Well... they don't exactly expect flexibility from models even in professional shoots. It can be nice but especially for fashion lines they want poses that either seem natural, or at the very least, achievable ya know? Plus a lot of photographers, as good as they can be, tend to give you vague buzz words, so its more to test how you can improvise with what they're giving you. That's my takeaway at least." She gave an idol shrug with her warm smile, chuckling a little as she was asked if she had any funny photographer stories.

"Well since I've been working for Asta its typically a lot of keen minded professionals but, back when I just did my cosplay work? I got an opportunity to do some advertisements for a little nerd merch shop. The guy taking pictures seemed a bit amateurish but he wasn't just a pervert or anything as far as I can tell." She shrugged idly with a smile. "At one point he dropped the camera and I had to dive to catch it for him, he was actually pretty cute getting all flustered with me in cosplay.~ You shouldn't expect that from this place though." She glanced over to him. "Is this really your first shoot by the way? Never tried out before?" She tended to more regularly encounter people who were a bit... worn out by the process. It was hard to find people entirely new to the business, but it was easy to find people who'd never gotten their shot yet. Afterall, you could have someone who had been to tens of auditions and still never gotten cast, was a bit of a sad thing really.

Yumi snickered, caught off guard by Shinme owning the words she gave but, hey, she had to admit it had a certain charm to it at the very least, relaxing a little more with this relative stranger and definitely enjoying the continued brushing of her hair. "Well hey if thats what you want to be known for, no fault in that I guess. I'm definitely a bit of a pleasant surprise now and then I like to think.~"

She gave off a casual shrug as it was pointed out she was the only pro showing up. You never knew how many people may have came and went before you or may come and go after you, so there was always a chance that someone else with her level of experience may show up, but she wasn't about to get all pedantic with that on what Shinme said. "Well you know a lot of experienced models tend to get sought out. Adds like this tend to attract more newblood or people wanting to reach out from whatever type-casting you can get as a model. Someone who does winter lines wanting to try summer lines and all that ya know?" She glanced back with a small smile, chuckling at his choice of words. "Two birds indeed... once your done with me would you like me to do your hair a bit?" She was definitely used to far more competition at new roles like this, more animosity, so she was definitely happy for the change of pace on that front.

"Well not necessarily what I mean-" She began, waving her hand a little uncertain. "I mean we know what job we're here for, so they'll probably be looking for someone who can instinctively pull off what they need. It's a spring line so... it's still gonna be a bit chilly, but it's a new season, a new bit of life in the world. I mean, thats what i'm personally gonna be aiming for~ Not quite 'summer beach fun', but  a bit more energy and life to me is what I'm gonna try and put forward.~" She turned halfway about and raised her hand. "That's not a pointer by the way. My instincts don't need to be your instincts. Just... put your best foot forward.~ Your definitely right on them wanting a model who's always ready to turn it on, so to speak.~" She did raise a finger again though- "Definitely be careful about what you expect if you get hired though. Some photographers can definitely get a bit handsy trying to get you to do what they're envisioning in their heads. Just depends how set they are on those images."

As far as him being new to this went. "Oh I know just... I dunno. You've got an air about you.~ If this is your first time you certainly give the air of someone who's made for this line of work.~" She offered with a playful wink. "Are you looking to do this as a career? Or like a side thing? Like you mentioned singing so I assume your more going the idol route than a straight up model?" She'd ask curiously. It was definitely something she'd considered in the past herself but she was dividing up too much of her time already and barely had the time to spare for herself. Best not to add her singing and dancing talents onto her career list and just keep them as fun hobbies for the time being. When she was asked how long they have to wait, she shrugged. "Depends how many people they see, but I've never heard of someone waiting more than a week. Really for a small audition like this we should hear back within like... 2 days I'd guess? Gives them time to compare notes and then check with their high ups. Should be plenty of time. They also can't give you the cold shoulder... I mean, they can, but people can actually get sued over not giving you a definitive no, so they tend to avoid that. I mean if you think there's still a chance of getting this gig, you could lose out on other work in the meantime ya know? Not straight up illegal, but something that can definitely get them in trouble."

She chuckled a little at the last question. "It's definitely possible. But yeah, even with a natural charm like yours, be prepared to go to a few other gigs over the next few weeks. Its always possible to just get a firm no ya know?"

A giggle escaped her at the request for an autograph, nodding along and pulling her smoothed out hair back behind her and turning about. "Tell ya what, you get me a pen and some paper and i'll give you that autograph, then you can turn around while I give your hair a go yeah? Seems only fair?" Her cheeks were a little red being asked for an autograph, but it hadn't been the first time.

Singing since he could remember huh? She tended to feel people exaggerated with that a lot but from someone like him she could definitely believe it. He seemed to just wanna break out into modelling from it, which to her implied he must have a bit of fame under his belt too right? Or was at least good enough to actually make a profit off of it. "Dancing huh?" She latched onto that thought with a bit of a smile. "I actually do a bit of dancing if you were every looking for someone to learn from? I mean obviously i know a few more feminine routines, never really been a marketable skill for me, but I bet you give me an hour or two I can teach you a few start up tricks, even if it's just the best ways to stretch for it.~" A silly offer, afterall they may not even see eachother after today, but a genuine one. Dancing was one of the hobbies she got to indulge in less than the others, so it'd be nice to have an excuse beyond treating it like a bit of exercise. "Dunno how much the flute will do for ya but.. hey, best of luck if you try and market that.~"

She snickered a little as Shinme locked onto the fact he could sue these guys if they left him in the dirt. She didn't think he intended it this way but she'd still raise her finger for a warning. "To be clear you can only sue them if they don't inform you. Not if they give you a no, so be careful on that one.~" Her snickers flowed into gentle chuckles, again knowing he probably didn't intend it that way but feeling it was probably better safe than sorry. He did seem a little eccentric afterall, for better or worse. "Definitely charming though. I'll stand by that one.~"

Turning about and taking the brush for her turn at his hair. Of course it seemed she had to give up an autograph first, biting the inside of her lip so she didn't chuckle at the notebook he had. The colorful writing was kinda cute, but she still had an instinctive urge for a little giggle when she saw it. Placing the brush aside, she took the pad and wrote out her name. She hadn't done this enough to have a distinctive style, but she made sure to do a quick sketch of her hero logo at the end of her name, a lightning bolt with curved edges rather than sharp points, except for the very edge of the bolt itself. "Heeere ya go...~ Not the most exciting but... hey, its authentic at least.~" She offered it back across before turning to take some of his hair. She'd scoop the bottom ends into her hand and start with the edges like he had with her before starting to move a little further up, taking calm, slow breaths as she just focused on relaxing. This was definitely a unique way to wait for an audition but hey it was relaxing for the both of them it seemed.

"Kinda yeah-" She began on the whole famous thing. "I mean... people know me for the Asta stuff and I have an online following for my more personal stuff like my cosplays, but... well I dunno. Maybe if I had a manager? But right now all I really know to do is get out there and try to get people to associate me with work outside of Asta... I mean I'm gonna be a pro hero next year. Was thinking maybe I'd try and start up an agency for heroes who wanna do similar work? Have people come to us?" She chuckled idly. "Probably best I just get a manager really..."

She was just focusing on doing his hair when someone dipped their head out of the audition room. He gestured to the two other girls, mostly because Shinme and Yumi seemed to be keeping eachother busy and gestured for them to come in, then looked back to Yumi and Shinme. "Aight and we'll be with you two in 5 minutes..." The man with a clipboard gestured between them. "Are you two like... a duo or...?"

"Hm?" Yumi perked up at the question, then looked back to Shinme. "Oh no no.~ I mean if you're doing Auditions in pairs I'm fine with that but we're not like a 'hire us both or not at all thing."

"Oh no I meant like a couple-" Yumi blushed a little but the guy quickly tried to explain why he was pointing this out. "Its just we have a spare changing room and if you two were fine changing together I would have invited you to... ya know, get ready?"

Yumi was still a little thrown by the assumption, glancing back to Shinme and shrugging. "I mean... I'm pretty used to it? Would give us something to do while we wait other than brush eachothers hair."

Yumi was more than a little surprised when the other two joined in with the autographs, chuckling the nerves off and signing away in both of their books, trying something a little different with each just to see if she could develop a natural flair for a signature of sorts, but all of them were just her first name, with the curved lightning logo next to it. It wasn't uncommon to get recognized here and there but heck even in the business she didn't tend to get 3 people in one room recognizing her... well, Shinme had heard of Asta but he didn't seem to recognize her outright, especially not as he asked about her heroism.

"Oh not officially yet. I mean, I'm a third year student at UA, we're a few months off graduating so I'm pretty close, but it's definitely a clearly defined line there ya know? Can't go out doing work on my own till I graduate and get a hero to work under yeah?" Maybe it was a little too by the book to treat it like that but she definitely didn't wanna go about claiming a title she didn't have a right to yet. With a long relaxed breath she thought about her plans for becoming a hero, but it seemed like she was saved from rambling about any of that when they were interupted by the people running the appointment.

"Oh er-yeah! Good luck!~" She didn't have the focus to remember their names already but she was at least going to wish them luck, her cheeks a little pink from the fact she hadn't gotten a chance to talk with them like she had Shinme, but it hopefully wouldn't bother them too much. Maybe they'd stick around for after the shoot and she could get a chance to offer maybe a coffee chat or something? Take them all to one of the Labelle's cafes down the road? She didn't linger on that thought for too long as she looked to Shinme for his thoughts on them entering and getting changed, not all that surprised as he seemed to be pretty on board with the idea of them casually changing together.

The way he dipped back into her shoulder? A little less expected. She shot him a deadpan glare for a moment before just resting a hand around his mouth so he'd shut up on the couple thing, shooting her look back towards the man with the clipboard. "I mean look at him you think I'd go for the obnoxious pretty boy types?" She quipped to get a dig back in, but not at all uncomfortable with people in her personal space she didn't go to shove him off. Maybe it was the hair play with the brush but she warmed up to him pretty quick it seemed, even for her intimate nature.

She offered the hairbursh back as he seemed ready to go, holding up a finger. "One sec." Pulling up her satchel, she'd slip her glasses back into their case and pull out a small contact case. It took a few seconds but again, with the model stuff she was used to changing her eyewear on the fly. Contacts just worked a lot more in her favour and... well, if she was honest, if he got to see HER goods she was at least gonna make sure she could see his with her glasses off. Fair was fair and all and... well. She'd become a lot more comfortable with her own perverse moments over the years. He was a handsome young guy, why not let herself enjoy the opportunity?

"Okay, good to go~" With her vision clearing she followed up behind with her satchel over her shoulder. Following the tugs on her wrist with a chuckle and heading into the changing room. She was used to these just being a spare room they let people get changed in but with the lockers she wondered if this place was also used for the full shoots when the auditions were done. With the privacy leant to them, Yumi wasn't at all hesitant, already about to reach for the bottom of her sweater when Shinme made his offer, chuckling and rolling her eyes. Without hesitation, she grasped the edge of her sweater and wiggled her figure out of it, wearing a slightly lacy strapless bra with the clasp in the back. While Shinme had his back turned, she roughly flung the sweater at the side of his head, just as a cheeky symbol to say she didn't much care if he turned around.

"Look if you're gonna be a model you're pretty much gonna be seeing your co-workers half naked like every other shoot. I got used to it preeeeetty quick.~" She'd walk past as she slipped into one of the chairs, stealing an idle glance at whatever the pretty boy was working with under his top, undoing the clasps on her boots and slipping them off, quickly pulling off her jeans to follow. While Yumi did train at UA she relied a lot more on her quirk than her physical body. She'd tried to diet a bit compared to normal since she became a model, so she showed a bit more toned muscle than she used to, but she certainly wasn't made of it like Jasmine or some of the male students like Kirk. Never once telling Shime to turn around, she was up again pretty quick, walking over to the rack, standing in naught more than a strapless bra and some matching panties, back likely to Shinme as she looked through the options humming to herself, re-arranging a hanger or two before dividing up the rack.

"Okay, left side I think is the options for you and on the right is me-" She glanced over her shoulder, very much in 'business brain' mode. "Don't worry if they don't have your sizes. So long as anything fits thats pretty much all they need." Of course... any model they asked for would tend to have a general figure, so it was unlikely too many of these would be tight or oversized.

Yumi noticed the subtleties of how Shinme was moving around her, and rolled her eyes a little in disbelief. She'd kinda assumed how bold she was being getting undressed would be a big enough hint that she didn't care what he saw, but at the very least he was able to make his way up beside her and search through the clothes with her. "Uh huh. All of man kind honors your sacrifice in the name of their honor." She blandly teased, looking at a few items for herself and trying to put together an outfit she also might like. Really with such loose, mix and match items it almost felt like a puzzle piece to see if they even had a sense of fashion to begin with, but she gave it a good shot.

A cream top with a dressy-edge to the bottom of it was pushed over to the end of her side of the rack to keep it to one side, easy for her to remember she liked it, before looking over some scuffed, torn up jeans. She was never too sure on that sort of look normally but, hey, if it was in it was in. She didn't get paid to like the fashions, just model them at the end of the day ya know?

She put it with the top as a tentative confirmation before turning her eyes back towards Shime... nice build on him... as he spoke she tipped back a little and smirked as she managed to think of a quippy little line to get his attention. "Dunno. I mean the rest of you is pretty 'general' but your ass is above average.~" She'd wait for him to at least give a confirmation he heard that even if he wasn't gonna be brave enough to glance in her direction, giving an under the breath chuckle as she nudged his shoulder.

"C'mon hun, if I cared what you saw I wouln't be here standing about in my underwear would I? Come on you're gonna be around half naked people half the time if you're getting into this line of work. May as well get comfortable with someone more experienced as you keep calling me.~" She gave a sly little wink off the side, just to try and emphasize everything was okay and she was playing about with him. In fact, to playfully emphasize her point, she'd pull her arms up behind her head in a trained little pose. "I mean... maybe less than half if you don't wanna model the good stuff~" She immediately broke down as the last word left her lips, giggling into her hands- "S-sorry, couldn't resist~"