Coming soon to Invidia TV...

[cancrymods]

Thanks to the Idol-ON girls doing their darnedest to overtake Esme in popularity and the Dad Squad doing their best to just flat out cancel her, things have been going well for the Executors. There's been no overnight explosion of popularity but thanks to Autumn and Clocks' guidance on this whole celebrity social media thing, things are ticking along quite nicely.

Which is why it's so out of the blue when, one day, the Idol-ON Caw just kind of... explodes. Notifications pour in from people saying they "heard the news" and they're so excited and they can't wait to see how it all goes and blah blah blah. Which is a little confusing because none of you have announced anything. But there's some talk of a announcement on TV... so what could it be?

Things unfortunately become clear once you tune into any of the screens in Invidia. Sure enough, it's not long before a flashy advertisement pops up declaring the start of a little show called Invidia Idol-Off! which will be a light hearted competition between everyone's beloved Esme (introduced with a string of lovingly filmed shots of Esme basically just sitting around and looking pretty) and the cute newcomers Idol-ON (who are introduced with a few supercut shots from a few of their videos, introducing each off the girls in turn). The winner will get to take her place at the top of Invidia and the losers... Well, they'll get to stay on the bottom. That's how a competition works after all.

The advertisement continues hyping this up for a bit before ending on a decisive "More information coming soon!" and the usual stream of Esme content continuing like normal.

This is all well and good but... well, I don't need to tell you that no one signed up to or agreed to this. So just what could be going on?

Comments

[pride_of_amarcia]

Mmm. Could be. But I can't help but think there's at least like two layers to it. She tried a one-layer plan earlier, that failed, so one more complicated sounds right to me.

[phantasmagorial]

I think that goes without saying... this is definitely a step up from just inviting us to her home, at least. The real thing to worry about is how we respond.

[pride_of_amarcia]

Or rather, how we turn her plot against her! All depending on what she intends to try. Which... Is still unpredictable as all heck right now.

[phantasmagorial]

I think I agree with Chiron for now. She's trying to put a wedge between everyone and get us to turn on each other. Which makes sense – that's exactly what she did to her own friends. The real question is if she has anything to hold against us, though.

[pride_of_amarcia]

Eh, probably not?

I like being me, you know? I mean. As much 'me' as there is with the whole incomplete-memory thing but.