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[afeatherpillow]

WHO: Everyone involved in the NOHoPE musical and everyone in the audience! Tag yourselves in.
WHERE: NOHoPE
WHEN: Friday night, April 15th
WARNINGS: Gruesome things happening to fictional characters. No, not those fictional characters.
SUMMARY: The hospital puts on Katurian and Andy's musical and the Major starts spewing kittens I AM NOT LYING

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[ACT II]

[loves_war]

Now this is where the Major is in his element. Cruelty. As the girl's reunion with her good parents gets darker and darker, the Major's lines take on more and more credibility. His voice is first insinuating, then strident as the Good Father and Good Mother discuss how everything must be her fault, that terrible little child. It almost makes up for his singing. The kittens are another matter.

The first one appears during the climax of 'Home Again.' The Major is holding a long note as best he can (not very well) when, without any warning whatsoever-

Mew.

There is an unpleasant buzzing sensation, an electric surge that makes him twitch violently, and then a kitten drops out of his formerly-injured shoulder. A fat, white, fluffy kitten dressed in a precious little white suit.

The play stops dead for a moment that seems to last forever, as the cast attempts to process the fluffball squirming about on stage. But the show must go on, and the Major swiftly resumes the scene, making a mental note to get to the bottom of this inexplicable feline once-

Mew.

This one is yellow and wearing a tiny black leather duster. The Major begins to realize this is going to be a serious problem.

By the time 'No' begins half a dozen kittens have dropped out of the 'Good Father's' shoulder and are now crawling around on stage. The actors have to do their best to dance around them, adapting the number's intricate choreography to avoid stepping on kitties dressed as lions and tigers and bears. The audience doesn't seem to mind though: the kitties are adorable and the Major has caused enough harm in the City for his suffering to be an asset to the night's entertainment.

Still, when the time comes for Emma Carr to shove her 'father' to his impalement, she does so with perhaps a bit more enthusiasm than is strictly necessary. The Major tumbles head over heels and crashes down onto the prop tree, gurgling appropriately as the music swells. He then lies there for the rest of the scene, doing his best to imitate a corpse despite the mewling puffballs crawling all over him. More of them keep coming out of his shoulder, and each one is accompanied by another painful short-circuit in his healed wound. Suffering for his art, the Major can do nothing but hold still and think about the wisdom of trusting witches.