Movie Night!

[myblueskies]

Who: Romeo, Tidus and YOU (You may mingle!)
Where: Cinema carriage
When: Grasshopper day 2, evening
What: Sports anime movie night with popcorn!
Warnings: There shouldn't be! But I will add if anything comes up

POP, POPPOPPOP...

As announced by Romeo earlier that day, the cinema car has been prepared for a night of anime sports. There isn't much different at first glance, but by first whiff, those who recognise the smell of freshly popped popcorn may detect the new addition to the carriage before they see it set up on a table by the back wall.

There's a soft whirring with the faint pop, poppoppop of the corn kernels, which thankfully isn't that intrusive to the ears as most popcorn machines. Salt and sugar shakers sit next to bowls for people to take and dish out their own popcorn, as well as bottles of cinnamon and mixed (sweet) spice. Also, there's even paprika and hot chilli bottles right next to each other. Who put those there? Please shake sparingly. Or don't. It's your tastebuds on the line.

Jugs of juice from the kitchen have been set out with plastic cups for those looking for a drink, as well as a simple collection of chocolate chip cookies. There may or may not be enough for all, but probably not.

The entertainment won't start right away, so take this time to chat with one another!

BORN TO REVIEW

For this 'sports night', 4 episodes of an anime called Born To Blitz are being played, a comedy movie called Swing-It Like Seccam, and to finish it off, a sports-themed mystery of the beloved franchise Magical Detective Heartlines!

Born To Blitz is your standard sports highschool anime, but with a diverse extraterrestrial species and set on a 'coastal city' where all the buildings are domes. It's quick to lay out the story of its hero, Fax Qincan, who is trying out for the school's competitive blitzball team so that he can get a reputation and one day be a real blitzball professional. He gets a spot by the second episode (unfortunately, beating out his best friend for a place on the team), and now he must start his vigorous training before the school competitions start!

The live-action Swing-It Like Seccam is a similar deal, if less intense and offering more laughs! Follow Arla as she inspires to become a professional ping-pong player like her hero Seccam, but also as she has to deal with a disapproving family who don't take her dreams seriously. Touching towards the end, it can be confusing now and then due to a lot of pop culture references popular in Miyoon in the year 6k20nb.

And last but not least is Magical Detective Heartlines: Goal In Life, an anime movie of the beloved Heartlines as she solves her latest case in all her 80s style anime glory! Famous hoverball player--a sports played on hoverbikes that also bash around the animated balls into goals--Missie is being threatened to throw in their biggest game yet, or risk the life of their snatched beloved! It's up to Heartlines to find the culprit--but can she do it before the end of the match?

Of course she does, but not without suspense and the game being stretched out at the risk of Misse's life as well! And with a bop of a soundtrack, and plenty of glittery sequences. And let's not forget the magical girl transformation scenes. Romeo will show you the moves.

END OF FILM REEL...

And with that, the Sports Night is over with, and what you do is ultimately up to you. Talk about the selection? Something else? Are you the sort of person who can't imagine leaving a mess, or are you rushing off with familiar faces?

Or maybe it'll be nice to go for a watch to stretch your legs, even get a drink. It's late, but the coffee and tea machines are what, only twenty-five carriages away, surely.

Just remember not to stay up too late! Got to avoid the void sickness.

( OOC: It's a fun little mingle! Have your characters bring their own food and snacks, cause some mischief, complain or be too loud. :) There will be small breaks between each showing and the blitz anime will be the same length as the movies altogether (so about 20 mins a piece).

Also full disclaimer, Ree wrote this! All credit goes to her!)

Comments

[blitzcheer]

Every time Tidus is around Romeo is a reminder that younger kids might think to call him mister....

[ Popcorn hand out! ]

But enough about feeling incredibly old at 17 (nearly 18!!!) There's a popcorn machine rattling with away with treats, and before the real start of the show, Tidus is there to hand out the small bowls of popcorn, but not without nodding his head to the flavours:

"What's your taste? Plain, sugar or salt? Sorry, couldn't drag the butter down--we didn't know how to keep it melted down here!"

And Tidus isn't going all the way to the kitchen from the cinema car, ok....

[ Movie Viewing ]

Unfortunately for anyone next to him, Tidus is the commentary extra on your DVD, though he knows to mostly keep his voice down. For Born To Blitz he's a total critic of the moves made, scoffing as he remarks, "There's no way you'd get a foul for kicking the other team in the face! That's part of the game!", but also conceding during a slow-mo dramatic shoot for the goal, "Okay, yeah, it does feel like that...man...."

[ In-Between ]

And of course he's here to chat to the other people after every movie, asking, "So, what did you think?" conversationally. And as for his feelings on any particular movie and the four anime episodes...

Born To Blitz: "It's not as fun to watch to as the real thing, but it's alright. But the moves are good, right? And seeing people moving in water? What do you think about the sports?"

Swing-It Like Seccam: "I can't believe cheesy comedies like that exist on more worlds. What's wrong with ping-pong anyway?"

Magical Detective Heartlines: Goal In Life: "It's way too sparkly for me. ...but okay, I'm gonna have some of the tunes stuck in my head."
Only some though!!

[ Movie End ]

But after Magical Detective Heartlines: Goal In Life is done, nodding to people and asking the polite, "Hey, you enjoy yourself?", but requesting sometimes, "Say night to Romeo before you leave--he was really looking forward to this."

Also, it's nice. Be nice to the kid.

Popcorn hand-out!

[unfavorableinstigation]

"I can have a word with the butter, if you want. I can keep it preserved at the right temperature, too."

And, so as not to hold up the line...

"Uh, sugar, please."

[blitzcheer]

Screw the line--

"A word? With the butter?"

...

"Can you stick your hand in a portal and grab it from the kitchen?"

He's actually kinda serious in asking that. Because. This is the train. This is real life now.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Haven't done just my hand on the train before, but I can teleport myself there and back, no problem."

She would just be too tired to speak through the first few episodes of Born to Blitz, it's fine!

... She's also not mentioning what it would cost her cumulatively, because Tidus sounds genuinely interested and she doesn't want to spoil the fun this night.

[blitzcheer]

...You know what--

"Okay!" He'd wave his hands out if he wasn't holding a bowl of popcorn right now, but the baffled acceptance is there in tone. "Sure, great! You want some when you get back?"

He'll grab the sugar for her, for now!

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita nods, giving Tidus a thumbs up.

"Be back in a few!"

Because collecting butter can't be instantaneous, alas.

She runs off to the corner by the stairs, there's a soft pop... and she's gone.

There's another pop a couple minutes later, and she does indeed return with the proper container for melted butter, as well as the butter itself.

She's breathing more deeply than she was earlier, too.

"Where you want me to set this up, Tidus?"

[myblueskies]

"There's no such thing as too sparkly!" He has never found anything that is too sparkly. Sparkly things are fun!

"Look look! She's going to transform! We gotta do the twirl!"

Clearly whoever introduced this child to cinema never quite got through to him that cinema viewings are meant to be quiet.

[blitzcheer]

Being quiet during a movie? Pfffttt, that's for dweebs! Wait, no, that's not the important to focus on--

"Wha-- I'm not twirling, you've gotta twirl! You're the Master Detective here!"

also no he can't twirl, he's not emotionally strong enough!

[myblueskies]

"No you gotta twirl too! It's fun!"

He does a twirl, flinging his arms up as if he really were going to turn into a magical detective! Alas nothing actually happens but it's fun to pretend.

"See!"

[blitzcheer]

Alas, to be young! To not look dumb and goofy when being a guy doing a magical twirl! Please cherish these youthful times forever, Romeo, while Tidus continues to dodge this request. But at least with an encouraging tone:

"See, look? You're a perfect magical detective without me! You don't need a sidekick."

Look, just because Romeo got him to do the twirl in private doesn't mean he'll do it in front of other people...!

[myblueskies]

"I do! Because magical detectives don't get anywhere without teamwork and you can't do teamwork by yourself!"

It just doesn't work Tidus! He doesn't understand, Tidus twirled before, and he didn't fall over! So Romeo isn't sure what the trouble is now!

Inbetween

[mynameisallen]

"What do I think? Um.. well..." he wasn't at all a huge sports buff or anything, he had watched it and it was okay, but he never expected that he needed to have a thought or opinion on it.

Was this type of thing normal to talk about after watching something?

"It's...interesting. I didn't think people could stay under the water like that." Yeah, that will do right?

[blitzcheer]

Allen!! You gotta be chatty! But fortunately for him, he picked exactly the right kind of comment to make!

"Sure you can! If you really want to, and you're willing to put the time and effort in. It's all about training."

And some tech thrown in, but did it look like the one guy with the squid head needs to worry about how to breathe underwater? Is that squid head discrimination.

[mynameisallen]

"It's like endurance training right?" he figured there was a certain kind of training when it came to things like that anyway.

But hey it was a conversation he could at least find himself comfortable talking about, he might be able to go further if he tried at least

[blitzcheer]

"Hmm... yeah!" Sure, they can call it that. "When you get further along. You've got to get used to swimming and taking hits-- though, with the pools like that," he nods to the screen, the structure of the spherical pool and the machinery below making it look like a giant snowglobe, "it's easier to breathe in than the ocean. Something to do with water."

If there's an official explanation (there is), Tidus doesn't know it.

[mynameisallen]

"How does what kind of water depend on how well you breathe?" He figured water is water, but then again the ocean is rather salty, so maybe what is in it is the factor? it's not like he could actually understand or anything really.

Popcorn hand out

[laurefindil]

Glorfindel was looking forward to this, mostly for the social aspects, rather than the actual shows, but he hoped that he would find them entertaining as well.

"Oh, if I'd known, I would have been willing to melt the butter and keep it warm for you. It's isn't hard for me. Pun intended," he said with a bit of a grin.

"I've not had this before. How do you recommend it?"

[blitzcheer]

"You gonna turn your body light on and keep the butter warm?" he throws out, a jest, but turns to the shakers on the table.

"You a sweet tooth kinda guy, or you know if you like cinnamon? We can sprinkle a little on a popcorn, see how you like it that. ...Sugar and salt might be harder though," giving those two shakers a look. Well, the salt would be...

[laurefindil]

"It works," Glorfindel said, in his defense. He was very good at melting things, actually. He was usually banned from the kitchens when they made ice cream in the summers to his dismay, but he was always popular in the colder months.

"Elves do tend to have a sweet tooth," he admitted. "But I am intrigued by the idea of cinnamon with the sugar. May I have a mix of the two?"

[blitzcheer]

Glorfindel's first answers get a small laugh out of Tidus anyway, but he's not going to designate the elf as the official Butter Warmer, anyway.

"Sure. I don't know how you're supposed to mix these, buuut..."

But Glorfindel will see, once Tidus gets going. He puts the popcorn bowl on the table, shakes on the sugar first more generously than he then does the cinnamon, which coats the upper popcorn in a chestnut colouring.

Except coating--and overcoating--a top few of popped corn isn't going to work here, and that's where Tidus picks up a plastic lid. Some random plastic lid taken from the kitchen, who knows from what. What matters is that it fits over the bowls they've brought out well enough, so that Tidus can pick them both up and give them a shake!

And after a few seconds of that, he takes away the lid and offers the nicely coated popcorn to one elf.

"Try it!"

Movie Viewing (late af due to work & stuff)

[nutkrusher]

Cassie can't help but smirk a bit as she listens to Tidus's running commentary.

"It can kinda ruin it a little when a show's about something you know more about than the writers do."

She grabs a small handful of popcorn.

"I can relate to the whole jock life thing, though. That was me in high school."

cassie is always great to see

[blitzcheer]

"We had small time competitions between the school like this, but it wasn't this dramatic," he says with humour, thickening as he admits, "well, it did feel like it at the time."

On the screen, it's the same feel as any highschool sport anime, or perhaps any show from a teen's perspective taking part in their passions: That this means the future for the rest of their life.

Blitzball was all Tidus wanted to do for his future, but he wouldn't say he felt an understanding with the personal drama taking place. ...but at least the actual blitzball parts are cool to watch.

"Back home," he says, head leaned to Cassie to keep his voice down, "the big teams of the city--you know, the actual big leagues--they have a junior and senior counterparts. So I was in the juniors, while the older players took senior. Gives people more games to watch and more merch for the business heads to sell."

Because when you only had the One Sport that everyone loved, there was no such thing as too much of it.

cassie agrees.

[nutkrusher]

"That's the great thing about sports," Cassie says. "There's always more of it."

She pops a kernel into her mouth.

"I was always more focused on training for tournaments outside of school. I don't think the boys on the wrestling team liked that I could beat 'em all."

fingerguns

[blitzcheer]

"Hey, we're sensitive creatures, you know. Who likes getting beat up?"

His defence for the guys is only halfhearted though, more of a jest than anything.

"Speaking of training though--how did the search for guns go? Any luck?"

[nutkrusher]

Cassie sighs.

"A lot less promising now that Piccolo isn't gonna be making them. Can't say I blame him. At a bare minimum we need to do a better job keeping track of who has what. Maybe appoint a quartermaster."