I - Angel's view
Vee's solo stage music starts, and runs off stage with the other members, camouflaged amongst the back up dancers. It gives an amazing illusion, one where there's a sea of black, and Vee suddenly appears in the middle, wearing all white. While it's just a performance video and it isn't live, the other member scurry around backstage to get changed for their own solos and units as fast as they can.
Sena's wearing a light pink skirt with suspenders, paired with a white crop top that shows a bit of her midriff. Ran's wearing short black jeans with a tattered gray shirt, and you can see her black lace top underneath, ready to take off the top for their group song. Beau's wearing similar clothes to Ran as well, but with a white lace top instead of a black one, and with a sequined jacket instead of a tattered shirt. May and Angel are both wearing thigh length wrap dresses, May in blue and Angel in red. However, the most impressive ones might be Maei and Aloi's matching sheer babydoll dresses. Maei's and Aloi are both wearing their white lace tops for the next song that they'll be in, Maei with short black pants and Aloi with longer ankle length pants. However, the thing that draws the most eyes is the see-through babydoll with embroidery. These two are the only ones that changed their hair as well, having it down when it was up in a curled bun earlier. Having their hair in a curled bun but then pulled down gave them a wonderfully messy hair style, which helps to destroy the image of them as the innocent babies of the group, especially with a black chiffon babydoll.
When they've all finished changing and having touch ups be done, Vee's solo finishes and she's lowered down, under the stage, where Angel and May are ready, waiting for their cue to start. They exchange places with Vee, but not without a small warning about the youngest two's transformation. Angel's heart is beating so fast, but not as fast it gets when they can hear the crowd. It's a performance video, so they have to give it their all, it's not like a concert, where they can't go too hard at the start. Angel's adrenaline carries her though most of the song until the ending, where the fatigue slowly starts to set in, battling with her adrenaline. Angel and May both do a great job, their adrenaline having won the battle. After they finish, they're lowered down and Ran goes up, with a pat on both of their backs. Angel and May get changed into their lace tops and black pants, then they decide to watch from the sidelines, where the last group dance starts off from. Vee's already there, watching the end of Ran's powerful performance. Sena's slow, calm song happens, then Beau's cheerful, happy song.
By the time the last non-group song starts, all the members who've already performed are in the sidelines, eagerly waiting and watching. They've heard the song, but they've never seen the actual choreography, due to Maei and Aloi wanting to surprise their older sisters. The song starts off with them in different sides of the stage, and they slip into a professional mode, their faces hardening, and their age or personality not mattering in the moment. Aloi's on the side of the stage where the members are watching and gives them a little smirk, along with a flirty wink.
Maei starts off, rolling her head while singing, slowly and sensually. Aloi starts after, taking up the rear and doing the same move as Maei. While Aloi sings, Maei's still moving, slowly making her way into the center. Aloi does the same moves to get to the center, albeit with bit of a time gap, just like they're supposed to. Maei takes over, starting her rap verse just as Aloi gets to the center and starts moving her body to Maei's rapping. Then they switch roles, with Aloi rapping and Maei dancing.
The chorus starts, their two voices becoming one with them both walking towards the camera, then two body rolls towards the left, then two to the right, followed up by a few done while taking a step backwards with each roll. When they get to the center of the stage they rock their hips while holding the ends of the babydoll, slowly going down until they're sat on their legs, and down on their knees. Maei and Aloi's legs goes out and they fall towards each other, arm down on the floor. They balance on their arm and outer leg for a second before they fall sideways, down on their backs. They look up at the camera crane which is set exactly above them. As the song gets closer to it's finish, they switch mics, both putting their own mics up and receiving the others. After switching mics, they sing their last verse, then they 'die', going limp on the floor.
They get a quick and short break afterwards, just enough time for their hair to be tied back up and their sheer babydolls taken off. Everyone gets back on the stage to perform Utopia, a song about sweet and reassuring love. That's it for the performance video shootings, but the solo songs and unit songs get a sing-along version as well, where the members sing and rap, but they don't have to dance. It's kind of like an encore stage, but without the crowd.
Angel's excited for 'First Darling' to be out to the world, she knows that it's going to be a shocking surprise to their Darlings because they haven't announced the duo song yet. They haven't even hinted at it yet, and according to Maei and Aloi, the MV is ready to go as well as an audio only version. Angel knows that it's only a matter of waiting a few more hours for the MV to drop for the people who know, but their fans will get quite the shock when multiple things happen all at once. Come to think of it, Angel doesn't know exactly what's going to happen either.
"Maei?"
"Hmm?"
"How are you going to drop all of the First Darling videos?"
"Well, the mv will be uploaded onto the group channel as well as the audio and the performance videos and sing along videos' will be uploaded on the broadcasting channels that we performed on"
"That's quite a handful"
"Even more of an handful when it happens all at once"
"I feel bad for our Darlings"
"It's fine, they'll like it. Or at least we hope they'll like it"