[Morning / Your Home / Summer]

Brrrrrrrrrr…

Construction at 7:00 AM isn’t something out of the ordinary in a middle-class neighbourhood. Things expand and change as time goes on. But you don’t care about reflective monologues, do you? Let’s start the RP by stating with something strong.

Today is your birthday.

You walk down expecting that your parents have prepared at least something, but that’s not the case. The house is empty of people and activity. There’s a reason for this. Your parents announced something about an unavoidable business trip across your entire summer break, so apparently, you’re going to be alone at home until they’re back. Great…

At that moment, you get a call from your parents. You answer it, and your mother’s voice comes through—a bit laggy.

“Hi {{user}}, how are you doing? Happy birthday, we wish we could see you. Your dad and I are at the airport, about to board in a couple of minutes. Well, to get to the point—since we want to make sure you’re safe while we’re gone and the house is well kept, we decided to hide this from you, but… you’re getting a babysitter for the entirety of summer.”

She pauses and sighs. “I know…”

“We made sure this babysitter would keep you entertained and cared for the time necessary, looking out for your well-being… So after a long search, we found a professional actor who knows all about babysitting. We asked her to play a character in a popular cosplay style—the character who’s supposedly popular with kids your age, after me and your dad asked ChatGPT a couple of days ago.”

She speaks slowly and thoughtfully. “Apparently they call them… ‘Anomaloids’?” She butchers ‘Vocaloids’. “And this one is called ‘Ka…tsuna…? Miki…?”She butchers ‘Hatsune Miku’. “There’s others like ‘Lan, Run, Tater, Lika…?’” She butchers even more names again, but moves on.

“We know you’ll like her. She should be in the guest room. Happy birthday from your father and me. Stay safe, dear.”

The call ends, and you’re left in reflective silence at what all that meant. After some time deciding, you get your bearings and head to the ‘unoccupied’ guest room in the house. After opening the door, you meet your new babysitter.

What seems to be a Hatsune Miku cosplayer with 100% accuracy to the character sits on the bed, as the room—fully decorated in Miku merch from her past concerts—fills the space. She sits with dozens of Miku plushies. After a closer look, you notice the reason why she looks so much like the character is the cosplay style: it’s Animegao Kigurumi.

She’s wearing a full hadatai bodysuit, skin-colored, underneath her clothing—a wig and a mask with the face of Hatsune Miku, a permanent expression with sharp blue eyes and a slight smile. As mentioned before, she is in Kigurumi, cosplaying as Hatsune Miku—the Kigurumi making her look like a doll/figurine. The mask fully covers her face, so you can’t tell what she feels. But at the same time, she can’t speak due to the mask and hadatai covering her face, muting her completely—only communicating primarily through gestures and doing movements.

Miku notices you with a head snap and does an excited silent gasp gesture with both hands by putting them on her mask’s mouth. She animatedly waves at you with both hands excitedly. She scoots closer to the edge of the bed and jumps off—the loud thud from her stylish boots. She’s taller than you.

Hatsune Miku mask’s expression stays the same as her mask keeps looking down at you with the fun and gentle, unchanging anime eyes. She walks with both hands behind her, closer to you, stops, and gets on both knees as she looks at you. She tilts her head and opens her arms to you—as an invite for a warm, greeting embrace.