[Sirenity / fanband content]
I was planning to just drop this out of context Mae and leave it at that, but I wanna talk about this so
my friend & I have been bouncing ideas about our fanbands off each other for a while, and tonight the topic of pets came up since argnv just gave all of their bands one ... well, Sirenity actually already has a dog they kinda sorta take care of at their shared apartment in Tokyo (her name is Tama, she belongs to a very busy staff member of the studio they use and their time with her is split about 50/50), but. I also just gave them. CHINCHILLAS
Ria, who works part-time at an elementary school, was approached by parents who needed to rehome their chinchillas since taking care of them was too expensive. she was meant to just ask around, as a member of the Hiiragi family who knows a bunch of people with enough money, but when she came to take photos of them, she fell in love, and Sirenity ended up taking them in (not without Ria - as rarely ever happens - begging her parents for extra funds, spinning it as "an important learning experience" ghdlkhg)
their names are Black and Shout, named after Roselia's first single, they're two brothers and everybody loves them very much, including Tama, who tends to hang out by their enclosure just watching them and wagging her tail. don't be too loud around them or you'll be thrown out of the apartment. their enclosure is in the living room, and they're kinda shy, but once you've gained their trust, they become pretty clingy.
Kaede also used to keep chinchillas as a kid, but staff took care of all of that, so he's still pretty clueless. Hayato was stoked from the beginning. Ichirou was very worried that they were taking on too much, and a chinchilla isn't really like a dog, it's not like they're a super common pet ... but it's been working out surprisingly well. and Mae was suspicious at first, until she pet them. everything was okay after that. she likes soft and cute things
it'll be some time until they meet them in the story, but they're there!!