Poppin' Logo

#### Story

One day, in the Kingdom of Wisdom, (Well, Dictionopolis, to be exact) one girl was having trouble. A small girl named Charlotte, a novice in spells and magic, was certain that her time was running thin... “Huh?! The CiRCLE joint concert is... In two days!?” she exclaimed. “I don’t have that sort of time...” she muttered. As she kept reading the forum page, she noticed something horrifying. “Oh, my GO- The tickets are... 120 dollars?! But- But concert tickets are normally 90 dollars! Where am I supposed to get that sort of money... I can’t do more chores for Mother and Father... the house is already spotless!... What am I supposed to do? Imagine money into thin air!?” Char thought to herself. Then, Charlotte came up with an idea. “Okay, think about this. Be sensible. You have 86 dollars. The tickets are 120 dollars. Surely, you can come up with something to get those concert tickets. Uh- there are people that need help around Dictionopolis. Yeah!”

  Charlotte got to work at once. With a canvas and paint, she made a small canvas and printed out some flyers in the blink of an eye. ‘Do you need something done ASAP? Just call 000-000-983 Charlotte Charity! Now open through April 13-14!! (14.00 per favor)’ it reads. “Let’s go... Put these around the city,” Charlotte muttered. When she got to Town Square, she worried and worried about her situation. As she put up the last of her flyers, she... noticed something. A flyer, with a great big star on it?

   “Looking for design ideas for a new band logo ~♬ Anything goes! ☆ Must: Use imagination. Must: Be at least semi-creative. Reward: 50$ -- Poppin’ Party! Call 194-298520332920-23589253 to send ideas ♬ “All right! Something easy! A... band logo? Wow. I’ve... never had to design something like that.” Charlotte thought to herself. As she dialed the number, she wondered, just what kind of band was Poppin’Party? A pop band? What kind of feeling did their concerts have?

Then, she made a –- snap! -- connection. Wasn’t Poppin’Party performing at the CiRCLE joint concert? She had heard their concert before. Charlotte quite liked their concert! She did recall, seeing their logo. It was just the word “Poppin’Party” with a star as the dot for the I. It made sense, their concert was so exciting and really made her heart pound, but their logo was so plain. It made sense they were looking for a logo that stood for the feeling of their concert and band. She read the flyer, then noticed the vocalist, keyboardist, and bassist carrying a wagonful of the same flyers Charlotte just saw, and handing them to anyone who would walk past.

   Char, at once, rushed over, and was greeted by the band’s vocalist herself, Kasumi Toyama. Charlotte also noticed the keyboardist and bassist. Arisa Ichigaya on keyboard, and Rimi Ushigome on bass, Char recalled. Rimi looked like she fell asleep midway during flyers, she was sitting on a bench sleeping. Arisa had dirty blonde hair, with pigtails styled on the side of her head with purple ribbons sticking out of it. She had a bow tie around her neck, with black suspenders and a purple skirt. Arisa’s brown eyes stared at Kasumi with a sense of annoyance.

     Speaking of Kasumi, her brown hair styled to look like cat ears with two-star bobby pins holding up her bangs. Her costume also looked quite like Arisa’s, her costume had a stripey orange tie on it, with short overalls and a white shirt. Her eyes also stood out; they were bright purple... But Syr had no room to talk, with her purple dress, purple witch hat, and short purple hair with an ahoge.“Hi~! I’m Kasumi Toyama, Poppin’Party’s vocalist and side guitarist! Would you like a flyer?” Kasumi said. "Yes! Thank you so much! Good luck with the joint concert tomorrow, I’ll try to be there for sure!” Kasumi looked her up and down, and then nodded. “I’ll look for you there!” Kasumi shouted, as Char sprinted past her and ran home.

When she got home, Charlotte immediately rushed to her cluttered desk and shoved off all her belongings, which had 2 of her art projects, probably breaking at *least* one of them! Char set the Poppin’Party flyer in front of her and tried to brainstorm. “Poppin’Party.. Poppin’Party....” Charlotte thought. In 9 minutes, Syr had a logo. Syr wasn’t quite trying, after all, her energy was spent, running around Dictionopolis, setting up flyers wherever she saw another flyer. The logo just looked like the words Poppin’Party, with the comic sans font, having the Os as hearts, the ‘ as a guitar pick, and a star for the I. The words itself were pink with a black outline. Char was satisfied with this, even though deep down, she felt that she could do much better than what she currently had.

As Char dialed the number on the flyer, Char wondered what she’d do if the logo didn’t meet their standards. As Char finally finished typing their number, her phone... died. It was getting late- 9:30 pm to be exact, Charlotte groaned in disappointment. “That number took me like 2 minutes to type! You can’t just- die on me!” Charlotte thought. “Whatever... I’m going to bed. I’ll call ‘em tomorrow.” Charlotte lovingly put her purple witch hat on the nearest shelf and then turned to the outlet with a charger in it. Charlotte shoved her phone in the charger and immediately flopped onto her bed and passed out.

The next day rang out to Char, but she slammed her alarm clock to the floor and kept sleeping the day away. When Charlotte finally woke up, she noticed her alarm clock on the floor, which had her favorite figurine next to it, which thankfully wasn’t broken. “Ah- 11:30 already? My alarm clock was 6:30!” Charlotte rushed to do her daily routine, then sat at her desk and stared at the Poppin’Party flyer. As she dialed the number, she contemplated what would happen. After all, she didn’t get any calls from her flyers. “Hello? Who is this?” Oh- Arisa picked up! Syr guessed the number was hers. “Hello? I saw your flyers. I have a band logo.” Char said. “Alright, let’s see it. Send me the logo.” Arisa said.

Charlotte sent her the logo hesitantly. “Oh, gosh. This won’t do at all... Could you redo it? This isn’t creative at all. Neither did you use your imagination. Did you even try?” Arisa scolded. “Oh- okay... I’ll redo it.”

“Imagination. Real imagination. I’m not an imaginative or creative person. How in the Kingdom of Wisdom would I ever do that?” 1-2 hours of brainstorming later, Charlotte came up with something. Poppin’Party - the A and Ps all have stars in them, and so does the I! The logo itself is black with a white and pink outline. It looks stellar. Charlotte dials the number yet again, with more confidence this time.

“Hello? This is Arisa Ichigaya of Poppin’Party. Need anything?” “Yes, it’s me again. I’d like to show you the improved logo.” Char sends it to Arisa, and she hears an audible gasp. “This is perfect. I’ll just mail you your money. Thanks so much.” “You’re welcome~!” Char exclaimed, then hung up. What a day.

#### Trivia

* This was made for my reading class based off of the topic of imagination. 'Dictionopolis' is from The Phantom Tollbooth.
* Poppin'Party and its members, and CiRCLE is from the Japanese rhythm game **'BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!'**
* Charlotte is, infact, Medako's oldest beta name, which was renamed to Syr, and then Medako.
* This story is around 10 months old.
* This story, although quite incomplete, will not be finished as it's not something I'm necessarily proud of.