How the Gods Are Televised - Yamapi, Kimura/Yuko, Meisa, Satomi/Jun/Ohno, Nino/Maki

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How the Gods Are Televised
Yamashita Tomohisa, Kimura Takuya/Takeuchi Yuko, Kuroki Meisa, Ishihara Satomi/Matsumoto Jun/Ohno Satoshi, Ninomiya Kazunari/Horikita Maki
tinyangl, 231 words
Prompt: OLYMPUSYAMA'S FIRST REALITY TV FAMILY from sinonymity. Written here originally.


It's Yamapi's fault that they have a camera up on Olympusyama. It's not an official thing, but Yamapi's excited "Whose lives would be more interesting than Gods?" had been enough to convince Kimura to allow it for one day. Yamapi films the entire thing, except for a section with Yuko that is all Kimura's handy-work because, as he says, "nobody can capture her beauty as well as I can."

The flush on Yuko's face when he says this on camera is captured perfectly.

Yamapi has a few near-misses: Meisa threatening to break the camera over his head (she almost gets close enough to do it too), catching an intimate moment exchange between Satomi and Jun (and then later Ohno and Jun), almost having Ohno break the camera because he thought it was one of his tools when Yamapi put it down for a minute, and the one—two—three times that Nino stole the camera, just because it was fun. (The surprising thing is that when Yamapi looks back at the tape, during those periods of time, all Yamapi sees are moments with Maki.)

All together, it's a bit of a shambles because it's really just everyday lives of the Gods of Olympusyama—the downtime, the threats, the challenges—and nothing makes sense in terms of flow. But Yamapi loves it and saves the video for himself. It's a little too soon for a reality show of Olympusyama.