Roof, Saturday Afternoon

[life_inshadow]

America's Next Top Model Tara Maclay -- in lingerie, full makeup, and tottering heels -- was posing along the edge of the roof.

It was cold on the roof, and a little high up, but that was okay. This was for art, or at least a Cover Girl contract. Tara smized and tooched her booty just that little bit more. She was not going to be the contestant who flamed out in the first shoot of the season.

"I've wanted to be a model ever since I was little," she told no one in particular during a break from filming. "And I know I can beat the other girls. The lesbian thing ... I don't want that to define me this cycle. You know? I want to be Tara, the really good model, not Tara, the gay girl." She fiddled with the straps of her negligee thing, as if all of this required considerable concentration. "At least, unless one of the other girls is into me."

And then it was time for her to get back to working it and being fierce.

[OOC: For all our Top Models and anybody else who wanders up!]

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[abitlowkey]

Well, there was someone who was even more niche market than her. A god who inexplicably woke up as a woman this morning because he was destined to model.

"Hey," he---she said upon arriving in the model penthouse. AKA: the roof.

[life_inshadow]

"Hi," Tara flirted. "Did you finish your shoot yet? Mr. Jay is so intense."

Or Tara was easily confused. Possibly both.

[abitlowkey]

"He kept making these faces at me," Loki replied, biting her perfectly made up lip as she looked away. "I'm going to be cut for sure."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Loki, dollface!" Wes called, sauntering his way over across the roof. It was difficult in the platform shoes, but he was managing. "Oh, honey, oh, sweetie, no, your hair. Oh, sweetie."

[abitlowkey]

"But they gave me this haircut to make me more high fashion!" That's also why she had no eyebrows. Or something.

[texted3times]

Eric was not out on the roof smizing for the cameras.

Eric was by the doorway, sniffling to a different set of cameras. "It's not fair, you know?" he said. "It's a medical condition. I can't go outside during the day. They should be more accommodating. I could sue for discrimination, you know."

[abitlowkey]

"I don't get any accommodations," Loki replied as the makeup artists took care of her look. "And I'm just as limited!"

There was a flash to her in the confessional, hair wrapped up to not spoil when it was filmed.

"Just because you have issues like 'bursting into flames in the daylight' doesn't make you any better than the rest of us!"

[life_inshadow]

Tara sniffed as she went past Eric. She'd wanted to be the model who got bonus points for belonging to a cool minority, dammit.

"It's okay," she said, not sounding as if she meant it at all. "Maybe they'll let you through to next week on personality."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"If you want to be a model you have to work with what you have!" Parker snapped at Eric. "No one will accommodate you in this business! You have to work hard! Hard for the money! So hard, honey!"

[ihavediabetes.livejournal.com]

Stacey had spent a lot of time trying out her poses in the mirror, in full view of the other models. Which in an interview, meant, "I want to be America's Next Top Model. I want to be that girl who the other girls may not like, but when I'm out in front of the camera, I can make it my bitch."

She paused, looking a little sad. "I just hope they don't hate me for taking this seriously. But I need this."

And then she was back to working it in front of the mirror.

[life_inshadow]

Tara stood to the side, biting her lip a bit as she watched Stacey.

"Stacey's strong," she said in a confessional. "Way too intense sometimes ... but strong."

To Stacey, she said: "How's the signature walk coming?"

[texted3times]

Eric was making faces at her just out of her line of sight.

In a confessional, he added, "There's just no way all of that is her real hair. I can't wait until they decide she needs a pixie cut."

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Tara, sweetie! Is everything all right?" She looked Distraught. As her sassy gay sympathetic hairdresser-slash-confidante, Wes was concerned.

[life_inshadow]

In her confessional, Tara burbled, "It's awesome having Wesley here. I feel like he really understands, y'know, some of what i go through as a gay person in this business."

To Wesley, she said: "It's all good. I just ... kind of need a robe."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker sashayed onto the roof and was Fierce in the direction of the camera. "Tonight. SOMEONE GOES HOME."

Parker made it sound like they were going to be shot at dawn.

"Especially if they refuse to jump off the roof!"

[life_inshadow]

"I'm ready to jump whenever you need me to, Tyra," Tara said, sounding positively eager.

... suck-up.

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer was barking out orders to his hot competent boy toys assistant between his veiled insults compliments to the models as he took the pictures.

"Remember, I said 'sexy and sultry', not 'sleazy and slutty'."

See, compliments!

[ihavediabetes.livejournal.com]

Oh, could Stacey do sexy and sultry? Yes, she could.

Well, mostly. There was making love to the camera, and then there was escorting it to a show or event and then going home with it as arranged and then making sure it thought she was worth every single bit of the thousand dollars it paid for all this.

If only she could tooch her booty more!

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Seifer, darling." Parker attempted to drape herself over him. "Tell me, how are the girls doing? Are they FIERCE? Are they smizing? Or are they a bunch of hopeless wannabes who should have stayed in their little Ohio mall fashion shows?"

[life_inshadow]

Tara was doing her best to follow his instructions, but she was having a harder and harder time. "I can't pose for [BLEEP] when the sun is in my eyes like this."

[snarkyhealer.livejournal.com]

Shira wasn't at all comfortable in her ensemble, but damned if she was going to let it show.

She wasn't going to get bounced in the first damn round, after all. That would just be horrible!

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

"Now you, She-ra, lovely girl. Exotic looking is in, you know!" Seifer told her as he set up the camera.

"Now, I want pouty, but desirable! And try not to look like you just got dragged out of the dressing room in your underwear. You're supposed to enjoy this."

[life_inshadow]

Tara in a confessional: "Shira seemed like she was going to throw up when they showed us what we were going to be wearing."

Tara to Shira: "Oh, honey! You did incredible. I bet the camera loves you."

[geewhizfellas.livejournal.com]

"Marjorine is not here to make friends," said a boy who had woken up a boy but feeling like a girl said to a camera, and she snapped her fingers. "This is not American's Next Top Best Friend. It's America's Next Top Model."

Then, after a moment of darting blue eyes, Marjorine leaned forward and whispered, "Actually, I do really want to make friends, but a model's supposed to be all fierce and stuff, and, gee whiz, I'm just not sure if I've got it in me. Everyone's all just so pretty; I bet they all think I'm ugly, but I know I can do it! I just gotta believe in myself."

She gave a nervous smile to the camera, fixed her hair a little, and took a deep breath, "Well, here goes nothin'!"

[knight-fatali.livejournal.com]

Seifer looked impatiently at Ke-MoneySign-ha, OMGDED Marjorine.

"Honey, you're not famous yet. You can't keep me, or the light, waiting."