u/yuki_adomin

I wasn't there, but I heard something about Ado performing with nothing but a masquerade mask to cover herself. Is this true? I was just curious because I only saw like ONE thing about it and I'm in such disbelief for real.

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I tried posting this in the color guard subreddit, but got no input. Hopefully theres some guard here who can help me out!
Okay, so for our school's fight song, at one point we have to do drop spins. Every time I try, my flag gets tangled between my wrists because of even the slightest tap of wind on it and i have to stop my spins entirely and I come back in at our next move, cones, and they're extremely weak and discouraged because of how badly I messed up drop spins right before. Anything I can do to fix this problem? I don't have a flag to practice with today, nor do we have practice, but I'm trying to go to my section leader's house later to get it dealt with.

Okay, so for our school's fight song, at one point we have to do drop spins. Every time I try, my flag gets tangled between my wrists because of even the slightest tap of wind on it and i have to stop my spins entirely and I come back in at our next move, cones, and they're extremely weak and discouraged because of how badly I messed up drop spins right before. Anything I can do to fix this problem? I don't have a flag to practice with tomorrow, nor do we have practice, but I'm trying to go to my section leader's house tomorrow to get it dealt with. I know it's the wrong flair, I don't have a video because I don't have a flag.

So, I just recently heard that there's going to be a special edition of Ado and Me that's going to be sold at Ao. I figured this was a good time to share my theory about Ao that I've had for a while because I want to hear what others have to say about it.

DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT ME BEGGING FOR A FACE REVEAL OR UPRIGHT EXPECTING ONE AT ALL!!! I fully respect Ado and her privacy, and in fact was originally turned off entirely at even rhe slightest idea of a face reveal from Ado until she was comfortable doing so in her Vivarium music video. I am very proud of how far she's come and how much love she has found for herself. I am not the type who is finding disgusting ways to invade her privacy and finding her in other ways (such as AI) and I find that absolutely terrible. Please understand that as you read this theory, and please understand that I don't think this is likely to happen, I just want to hear what other people have to say about my ideas as I've been wanting to talk this over with fellow adomin for a while now.

So it starts with the release of Ado and mMe, the novel that released with Vivarium, where Ado referred to her human self as "Ao." This wasnt too out of the ordinary as she always has differentiated between her persona as Ado and her actual self, wearing makeup on stage even though shes not seen so she can truly feel like "Ado" and stuff like that. However, the music video that followed the release of Vivarium where she had a half face reveal had fans wondering many things. first off, the theory that Ao is her real name. I don't really follow this theory too much, I think Ado simply chose Ao in the biography to make it easier for readers to differentiate between when she was talking about her persona and her actual self. I also find too much diving into that kind of odd. She keeps her name hidden for a reason, why would she just randomly drop it and on top of that why are some fans so concerned about it? Second, fans began wondering if we would get a "real" face reveal at some point in the future. Although this likely has a 50/50 chance of happening, most of the reason Ado hides herself is to honor utaite culture and not for privacy. Equally, most utaites dont show their face because theyre very insecure about themselves, similar to how Ado was at one point, and some show their faces to show that they love themselves again and to inspire others so Ado could follow that path as well. An utaite she greatly looks up to and actually saw live (that live is when she decided to become an utaite) is mafumafu, who later did in fact show their face to the public, so the "real" ado face reveal thing isn't a path that is entirely impossible anymore like it used to be. Ahe also did a live performance of Vivarium for a TV program rather than an audience entirely without her cage, and one of the frames actually showed herself as she was performing live but it was just her eye, similar to that of the music video. As things like this continued, her next live was announced, Ao. as fans began to realize that the live was titled to match the name of her actual self in Ado and Me, the biography, more theories rose up. She also didn't perform Vivarium at a very recent music festival, Zipangu, which I made note on in the back of my mind because usually if she has a new song shes quite eager to perform it ASAP. Vivarium is one of the few where she didnt do that, as if she was saving it for something. Just recently, she posted on her story that something big is coming in July. The dates for the live, Ao, are July 4th and 5th, so it could easily be reffering to that. However, its more likely to be the results for Uttatemita 2 and also a sliver of a chance of a new tour. With the announcement of this special edition of Ado and Me, the biography, releasing in honor of Ao and being sold seemingly only at Ao, I have a feeling that she was saving a performance of Vivarium specifically for this live and that shes going to perform it without her cage and possibly perform it while showing herself. Now whether they find a way to not fully reveal her or not I'm not sure about because I'm sure they could find a way to make it to where she's slightly seen and not fully, but I have a feeling that something like that or something as big and as important as that is going to happen considering events that have lined up throughout the year thus far.