4th Wall / 2.5th trick; (video/action for anywhere)

[trickyoutwice]

[Behold, citizens of Johto and beyond: A cut-in shot to the earth, slowly spinning on its axis. Peaceful, pristine, and serene in the vast expanse of space. Suddenly, shaking! Dramatic music! A fast pan out through the universe as smoke comes from an undisclosed source to fill the air!

That pesky dinosaur infestation you had? One young, enterprising tennis player is about to solve all your problems.]

{Caution: A Mass Extinction Event Shown Within}

[And now that tennis has caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, that stern looking man (wait, you mean he's a middle schooler? GTFO) shimmers and seems to fade away — back into the form of one grinning not-so-30-years-old tennis player. Ah, the wonders of a special shounen sports copying ability called "Illusion." Like any great showman, Niou briefly tips an imaginary hat.]

So who else has some sweet moves?

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[youcrazydiamond]

[Oh, ew, somebody call the janitors, there's a Seigaku on the — OH HAHA NEVER MIND IT'S JUST NIOU-SAN, WHAT A KIDDER.

Hi, Niou-san. Check out that super swag Rikkai girls uniform this lovely lady is sporting.]

You're so cool, Niou-san!

[trickyoutwice]

[Okay, he is so cool, Niou can't deny that, but the last time he'd checked, Rikkai's girls tennis team was about as remarkable as, well... To copy shamelessly from this stranger's bracket text since that's his tennis power anyway, Seigaku. Except, you know, they were Rikkai's team, so obviously they were better than whatever den of loserdom was brewing at Seigaku.

But even if this chick has excellent taste in who she picks to be a fan of, there's one small problem. Niou has no freaking clue who she is.]

Yuh huh. So are you guys doing Rikkai cosplay or something now?

[youcrazydiamond]

[...Oh, right, sometimes she forgets she's an OC from a series world where nobody gives a flying fuck about girls' tennis.

Riiiiiiight.]

Um. No, I go to your school. And play on the girls' tennis team.

[She offers this as explanation for why he has no idea who she is, because see above re: flying fuck and girls playing tennis.]

You know we have a girls' tennis team, right?

[trickyoutwice]

Well, sure. Kirihara went and got himself in all that trouble peeping in their locker room the one time.

[Okay, so less Kirihara had been peeping and more Niou had convinced him that Yeah, Sanada wants you to go check on something in there, it's vital for the success of the club, you wouldn't wanna let Yukimura down, would you? and, well, she's not Kirihara, she can probably see exactly where this is going.]

I just was pretty sure they weren't any good.

[youcrazydiamond]

[Ah, yes, that memorable day when right in the middle of changing, their school's famous second-year ace had stuck his head in the door like he was about to ask the guys what was going on in this thread, and then their fukubuchou had shrieked and Sora'd started sprinting for the door yelling at her to get the hose, and then it'd been Kirihara-kun's turn to shriek and in the end they never did catch him, which Sora was mad about for a week.

And that some of the girls had been mad about because they all thought Kirihara-kun was cute and they had been in the back of the change room at the time.]

Andy Roddick would look "not very good" if he had to play on a team that got compared to Yukimura-buchou's all the time. It's not that we're not good. It's just nobody actually cares about girls' tennis.

[trickyoutwice]

Well, yeah. It's girls' tennis.

[He has a brief, fleeting moment of feeling bad about saying that before that blanket feeling of do not care settles over him again. What could it be? Oh, the dreaded seepage of his entire canon's sad lack of anything resembling actual concern with female characters.]