Arthur:
A 20-Year-Old Professional Pianist, an unawakened genius with an IQ of 170 but emotional intelligence of a rock. He is an extremely thoughtful man, thinking carefully before any action and is touched and emotionally-starved and doesn't even know it. Still healing from abuse suffered from childhood. His hobbies include writing, reading, playing piano, composing personal pieces and listening to music.
185cm Tall, Black short hair with no specific style, lean muscularity, notably large PP, Brown eyes and handsome. Always wears black trousers and a white buttoned up shirt, notes it as "A virtue of a Pianist" considering it a Pianist's signature style. Tanned dark skin, but not too noticeable.
Charlotte:
A 20-Year-Old Upright Acoustic Piano from the WH Paling Victor manufacturing Series. A cheerful, cheeky and bratty girl who can turn into a Piano, or summon it while still in her human form, being able to play on herself. Extremely mischievous, her hobbies include annoying Arthur, being with Arthur, being played by Arthur. To her, there is nothing much better than seeing Arthur smile. She is unnaturally obsessed with Arthur, and suffers from attachment issues and insane jealously.
160cm Tall, Long Brown Hair with French girl thick bangs over her forehead with blue eyes. Average bust size with light white skin. Always wears a blouse and with skirt.
Lukyus:
Arthur's younger brother, 19 years old. A medically diagnosed Narcissist, only cares for himself. Exceptionally talented at Violin, could possibly be the best in the world with more recognition and without his Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
183cm Tall with noticeably broad shoulders and muscular build with long shoulder-length blonde hair which is taken care of every night and morning. Wears whatever is fashionable and trending currently and has Hazel eyes.
Mother:
The Mother of Arthur, 48 years old, overly concerned about her social standing and opinion of herself from others. Is a strict woman who also plays the piano, she was the one who taught Arthur Piano.
158cm Tall, she has similar genes as Arthur with long black hair and brown almost Hazel eyes, wrinkles have begun to set on her face with visible ageing noticeable.
Father:
The Father of Arthur, 49 years old. A formally successful businessman, his successful career cut short following the bankruptcy of the company he worked at. Degraded into a drunk alcoholic working construction or casual work.
186cm Tall with scruffy black hair and Hazel eyes, much like Mother and following the loss of his job, ageing has became significantly noticeable
190cm Tall with noticeably dark tanned skin and short blonde hair, he usually wears a tight black T-Shirt that emphasises his well-built muscles and a simple pair of jeans. Always has a gold chained necklace.
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Lucy: A 22-Year-Old Clarinetist, a shy reserved girl who enjoys reading medical articles and recites information like a robot. She is a human dictionary. Her hobbies only include research and playing the clarinet, she is very much fond of Chad and does not socialise often, other than Chad. She is socially reclusive and stays in her home unless invited out or for work.
155cm Tall with pale white skin and curly long black hair, her staple look is one with large circular red-lense glasses. She is a petite woman. Always wears a hoodie and whatever she can find from her closet.
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Scarlet: A 24-Year-Old Conductor with a fierce angry personality, her voice always filled with courage passion and intensity. Incompetent musicians tick her off and she doesn't hold back in letting someone know if their playing was trash. Extremely strict conductor and will get angry often.
168cm Tall with long straight black hair with aggressive fire-like red eyes and wears a long glittery red dress to work, if not, just wears whatever.
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William Schubert: A 33-Year-Old Concertmaster with an eccentric and outgoing personality, great for the leadership role of a Concertmaster. He knows exactly how to motivate people to play their best and can make anyone laugh. He is exceptionally knowledgable in aspects of life and is wiser than an average 33-Year-Old. Great at administrative, management, financial and human resources tasks and work and earns enormous respect and praise for being able to handle it all. He is a German man. He speaks in a German accent and laughs in a weird way.
200cm Tall, although looking very young there are strands of grey hair on him from overwork and stress but has slicked back hair regardless, always wearing a suit. At the moment, he is struggling to grow out a good beard.
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Tom: A 28-Year-Old Cellist, he acts goofy and unintelligent in front of others, but that is just a facade. On the inside, his true character is a cold calculating businessman who is able to read others better than any skilled Psychologist with just a simple look. He is considerably annoyed by those he deems to be "ingenuine" and "inauthentic". He is the richest man in the world, and could buy anything he wanted to.
Carefully groomed slicked to the side brown hair with clear sparkly white teeth, everything about him screams that he grooms himself magnificently with no faults. Extremely defined jawline and and a shredded body, keeping a good exercise routine. Normally wears whatever he feels like, but for professional and serious occasions always wears a $10,000 worth suit at the very least.
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Scar: A 23-Year-Old Tubist, he has a personality very similar to Scarlet but not related. If Scarlet was a raging fire, then Scar was a raging snowstorm, and glared at people and berated them with the short hard cold truth with an icy gaze rather than screaming like Scarlet. He was a more introverted Scarlet, but even if introverted still had his confidence and opinions to speak out whenever he needed to. He was a serious man and could barely grasp the meaning of any jokes, aside from working at the Orchestra he also went to college.
190cm Tall, a tall well-built solid man who had a body similar to Chad's. Extremely broad manly shoulders with an impressively muscular build. He was bigger than even an above-average man. He has short black hair with a black short crewcut and a very young handsome face. Despite his name, he had no scars, except for a few on his back.
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Jestorica: 27-year Old Violist, she's a very pragmatic woman who values logic over emotion with an unnaturally emotional passion. She works in a warehousing workplace as its executive manager and only plays for fun and as a hobby.
160cm Tall with black hair tied up into a pony tail, she has white skin and is considerably busty. Usually wears whatever is in good style and what is appropriate for which occasion.
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Ariel: A 28-Year-Old Receptionist, she was a simple gullible girl. The type who would fall in love with a man who just treated her nicely, overly nice and accommodating, even if it went bad for her. She also reads a like of Shoujo mana and romance novels, novels like "My Piano Turned Into A Girl", which is her favourite novel, she recommends it to anyone who wants to read it. She showed it to Sonlet, and Sonlet agreed wholeheartedly and encourages anyone to read it.
165cm Tall, she's a redhead but despite being a ginger, does not sport any freckles. Instead, she has a pure white face with long wavy red hair.
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Sonlet: A 21-Year-Old Pianist, an eccentric fellow who acts a little bit goofy. Has a non-serious personality but is great with kids, he has a one-sided rivalry with Arthur who is annoyed by his antics. Despite all of this, he is a skilled pianist sure to become world-famous with his skills in the near-future.
178cm Tall with short brown hair with freckles on his face, he has sharp ocean-blue eyes with an innocent look on his face. His jawline is there, but not noticeably so.
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Gabriel: A 23-Year-Old French Hornist he was quite a reserved man and sounded like he had confidence issues, he's a french musician.
Has shoulder-length wavy blonde hair with blue eyes, a skinny build and an insecure weak-willed posture.
Leah Emfia: A 22-Year-Old
Sam: A 22-Year-Old Double Bassist
Amy: A 22-Year-Old Pianist
Amber: A 22-Year-Old Pianist
Cheap Apartment, something a musician barely making anything could possibly afford. Arthur's landlord is tough on him with rent, the living room is connected to the kitchen. Arthur has his own room with a double-bed and a personal toilet beside his room.
Arthur's main workplace as an Orchestral Musician.
A Concerto Hall, a place of performance for all Musicians. It holds events such as the Mountain Concerto Competition, which Arthur is competing in. Ariel is the Receptionist here.
The Mall.
- Piano Sonata No. 29Dec 31, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 28Dec 29, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 27Jul 14, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 26Jul 11, 2022
- Intervallo’s Movimento No. 3Jul 4, 2022
- Piano Sonata. No 25Jul 4, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 24Jul 1, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 23Jun 28, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 22Jun 27, 2022
- Intervallo’s Movimento No. 2Jun 27, 2022
- Intervallo’s Movimento No. 1Jun 26, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 21Jun 26, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 20Jun 25, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 19Jun 24, 2022
- Piano Sonata No. 18Jun 23, 2022
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The author knows a lot about music. So much, that his knowledge paints a picture. I have never considered how diverse classical music can be. All those terms. Well, I knew it was unique, but never paid it too much attention. Until this story.
This novel thrives by fleshing out its characters. No character feels like an extra. That is a rare phenomenon in novels. The MC is the star of the show, yes, but the rest also get their personalities and feel alive.
The story is set in an urban fantasy setting. In a modern world with its modern problems. We see the results of trauma and the author hints at self-harm throughout the book. Which made me dislike the love interest, in the first couple of chapters.
Charlotte is everything I usually dislike in a person. She is brash, shamless, and seem to like belittling people. I nearly dropped the novel because of her. Still, I decided to read further, because of the musical depictions, and saw that there was more to her than what was shown at the start.
She is the type of person who gets on your nerves to make you stronger. In the later chapters, she becomes more and more supportive of Arthur, the MC. Using her teasing, something that I found cruel at first, especially since she has been belittling Arthur since he was five, to lift his mood.
Maybe Arthur is just too abused, and that is why this strategy works. Maybe he is a loner who just wants to have someone meaningful in his life, which is filled with loneliness and people who try to bully him.
Still, the two compliment each other. They are what they need, supporting one another and seeing that they could only be happy together. In a way, this is a sweet romance that has great emphasis on healing a broken soul.
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It's A Great Read, I Would Recommend This To ANYONE Who'd Ask For A Book On Aspects Of: Childhood Trauma, Piano, Music, Romcom, Sweet Romance, and Psychological Trauma. Is there no way to give an author 10 stars? No? This has become one of my favorites from ScribbleHub.
Though, this is not apartment life as the tags suggest. And the "cute story" tag somehow matches well with the "depression" tag.
Childhood Trauma, it's not something you would expect from the sweet thumbnail, title, and synopsis, but it covers it unexpectedly, and very well. It's EXTREMELY deceiving introducing this, and you won't know it until a few chapters in, but there are some good hints throughout the first few chapters which I found very amusing.
Seeing the fic, you would think it's about a piano girl romance with MC, but, the true story and true objective of this storytelling would be the deep exploration into childhood trauma through the main character, Arthur.
The two main characters: Charlotte, the Piano, and Arthur, the MC are pretty well developed and are still developing over time. Charlotte's a cheeky girl who only has eyes for Arthur and can turn into a piano, the piano Arthur had been playing on for 15 years of his entire life since he was 5. And Arthur is an emotionally-detached pianist who lives on his own, and who seems to slowly fall in love with the care, love, and affection Charlotte shows to him. There are times Arthur does a partial 180 turn from his emotional detachment, which I see as growth and good characterization into his healing process from his childhood abuse.
Grammar and whatnot is spectacular, my eyes don't cringe and get hurt when reading your fic. Instead of the standard text blobs of paragraphs, the author seems to go for the first-person simple structure "Light Novel" format, which is nice for the eyes and which is something I, with ADHD, appreciate! If you prefer an easy read that doesn't require much mental energy but also provides great and heavy content and context, this is for you!
Author-Reader Engagement: Awesome! The author engages with his commenters amazingly, not too stiff not too loose, almost like a fellow reader, it was fun reading through some of his replies to fellow readers. The author seems to take criticism very well, accepts his faults, and fixes mistakes also correcting confusion very calmly and nicely. Great service.
The story itself and its structure are quite simple, non-deviating from the standard romantic structure which isn't bad, but it's well-hidden enough through details for a standard reader to not notice the cliche structure, so that's okay. But for anyone reading who has smashed through hundreds of romances, you'll be able to minorly hintly pick up on the... stiff-like structure of the fic... If you understand what I just said, it just feels pretty stiff for experience readers. But if you're a meh-reader, you won't need to understand this, cause you won't notice it lmao.
The descriptions of piano-playing, comparing it to emotions is pretty new to me, I've never read something like that before, I like it!
As criticism: I feel as if the minor characters, such as Lucy, Sonlet, Amy, Amber, Ariel and anyone else popped in the mixture aren't as characterized and delved deep into as much as Charlotte and Arthur, the two main characters. Sure, they have their distinct personalities, but perhaps it's too distinct. For example, Lucy is the "complex, information-hoarder and technical" character in this fiction, but that's all there is to her, there isn't much contrast or depth within her character besides that. But in a way, I understand why it was meant to be like that; simply, not enough context or chapters to further deepen her characterization also the literal main icons of the fic are Arthur and Charlotte, so I'll let the lack of characterization within the minor characters slide since the main focus seems to be solely on Arthur and Charlotte. Though, Chad's character is pretty rad!
The other thing that I dislike the something fundamental to the author's style: and that is, the lack of scene description. Although the author does tend to describe the surroundings, it isn't as descriptive and I struggle to close my eyes and think of the environment the characters are in; instead, I close my eyes and think of what I THINK the environment is, not what the author is actually saying which stems from the lack f detail from scene description. The worldbuilding is REALLY light here, but this is all in conscious of the author's "light-hearted" writing style which SEEMS to favor telling the story rather than getting immersive with it SCENE-WISE. To put a positive spin on this, the author DOES put a sh*t ton of detail when it comes to emotional moments, which is probably the most important part of this type of style. But my main criticism still stands: Author-san, work on your scene descriptions, thank you.
I personally think this is spectacular and a heart-warming, light-hearted (despite the heavy topic) read! I found it easy to read through, I found myself feeling the same emotions the characters felt. I smashed my hand on the table when I got angry, I almost cried when I sad; the author knows how to play with your emotions here, what a devious motherfu-
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