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[box][b]Rebecca-Anne 'Reba' Wawanolett's Acceptance Speech[/b]
[i]Testiculos Ceremony
President Chane Njuguna Hall, Mlima Kijani[/i]

'Thank you all for this honour, one that I will never forget.

I will start by admitting that winning this Trophy, Le Testiculo d'Or, was something that had been on my mind for years, but not exactly in the way that I had imagined.

When I was younger, I wanted to become the best player in the world, someone whose team's strategies would be centred around her ability to change the field. Like a fantasy star, that is. We've all been there, we've all dreamed that. You know what I mean.[/box]

There was something about the award ceremonies that Mauril Yoon found to be very comforting. There was always the level of noise, the excitement, and perhaps the sense of exclusivity among the invitees and nominees that always got into his nerves, especially as a man of relatively modest means from Attawapiskat. Having found his interests from the ashes of once-promising postgraduatehood in comparative literature, this should not exactly be the case, and he was more than aware that he, who has now been part of it all for the past half-decade he had worked under legendary Pierre McCarthy, should be familiarised to the ordeals of such a ceremony where he, while serving on behalf of his own clients, would be offered to share a bit of the glow and the attention.

But Yoon still wasn't and he, who was now at the Testiculos ceremony, still found the ceremony of pomp and circumstance involving football, one that had at least involved funnily-shaped awards, to be not as easy to handle. Yoon, after all, came as a guest and a proxy, one who had taken over as an interim in place of the current-ill maitre back in Songak. The maitre, after all, was the one who had ties to every footballing star in the country, and McCarthy's representation of Rebecca-Anne 'Reba' Wawanolett, was the very reason why he, whose interests lied more on basketball and other ventures, even

He had been invited by his long-time partners, Montesierra Productions CEO Rico Sierra and his wife, women's basketball legend and Perce Town co-owner Heo Myeong-Yoon.




Hong had first started working with Sierra, who had quickly shifted from a budding pop star and acting career back in Avidia, Krytenia, into that of a film producer and financier fifteen years ago. They had originally met thanks to Sierra-Heo couple's grandfather, an ardent NPD supporter and revolutionary in the eighties, holding personal connections with the old man, and in a country where many different circles existed and usually interacted with one another, this was more than enough.

Hong and the Sierra-Heos had found themselves quite amicable and beneficial to each other's interest - Hong knew that the Sierra-Heos held, thanks to Myeong-Yoon's father's status as chair of both The Chunchugwan Institute of History (CIH, more commonly shortened to Chunchugwan), which chronicles all Annales of the Shin-goryeoite Dynasty, and the Royal Archives of Shingoryeo (RAS), held enough power in Joongyeong's high society that he could use. Even if he would not exactly touch into it, Soo-Deok knew the benefits of at least having ties to them. For the Heos, they always held great love for the director. His works, which would detail socioeconomic critique with odd, but syncopated sense of timing and irony, had very much come from their cut of the Calanian cloth - Rico held a minor bit of reputation as champagne socialist back home, while the Heo family members were either the ardent NPD voters like the Dr. Heo the Senior, or swayed back and forth between NPD and PJLQ, which Myeong-Yoon's father, the Dr. Heo the Junior, was. With the Hongs and the Heos both coming from the northeast, the ties could not have come any bit easier. A decade of active partnership would subsequently pass, and whenever Hong would release a film every three years or so, the Montesierra Productions was every bit part of the occasion.

[box]What had changed me since my youthful days was the self-sacrifice. Of course, that wasn't going to happen without having ambitions of your own, but also without acknowledging that others too have similar if not same forms of ambitions. So the spirit of self-sacrifice entered after I had moved away from home in Attawapiskat to Chromia, one of the most dynamic cities out in the world right now.

Self-sacrifice means working for the same, common goal that you and your teammates have altogether. In this aspect I am lucky to play for Chromatik, one of the finest, if not the finest teams in the Multiverse, from year in and out.

When I was eighteen, I didn't exactly have the understanding of what it means to be a true team player, someone who could make the difference of those around, that I have become today...[/box]

Listening to Rebecca-Anne Wawanolett's speech also made Mauril Yoon felt more relaxed than usual. Wawanolett's confident self, with her long, dark hair, strong gestures that would translate into iconic 'Fortnite' celebrations and high-pitched voice filled with energy, had no doubt made her a particularly high-energy figure on and off the team. There was also the way her pink suit jacket and white shirt, one that was combined with a sky-blue cross badge, would establish hues of of calmness even as she would entertainingly talk to the crowd, and from the combination of those factors with her speech, which spoke of humility, where Hong knew she had right group of people beside her.