dorothy's slippers.

Sep 10, 2011 01:17

So here's what you missed on Glee:

Puck and Santana have been stranded on an island that kind of reminds them of Lost, except without the cool polar bears and the smoke monster, and both of them are missing home and feeling way out of their league, even if neither will admit to it. ( "Not your type of party, is it?" "If I say no, you're going to Read more... )

roger davis, starfire, santana lopez, danica talos, jon snow, kurt hummel, anatoly sergievsky, pierrette, billy kaplan, francis abernathy, donald scripps, coraline jones

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highf September 19 2011, 07:43:16 UTC
So... his mind had decided to bring in Josh Groban as Anatoly Sergievsky. Kurt could accept that. (After all, this had to be a dream; for there to be people such as Harry Potter and Anatoly on the island surely suggested that his mind had simply grown tired of the worn and weathered life he left back in Lima and decided to plunge him into a world of greater adventure.) After all, Anatoly was the one with the exotic accent, with the sharp intelligence which allowed him to be one of the best-known chess champions in the world, and on top of that all, could sing.

Or so Kurt hoped. The entire situation would lose much of its magic if the singing which characters were capable of in musicals didn't extend to the flesh and blood which stood in front of him right then. It was his mind- surely, it'd be kind enough to go with his whims?

"Oh, I do, I used to follow your, ah, competitions," Kurt replied in an equally bright tone, stretching the truth a little. But it was true, after all, that he'd watched Anatoly sit down for a match on multiple occasions.

That they were performances of a musical... seemed to matter a little less.

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whoneedsadream September 20 2011, 00:11:31 UTC
This was a dream come true and Anatoly didn't think he could stop beaming. The boy knew him and followed his games. His games, not Freddie. There was no way that he could not share this little tidbit the next time he ran into his opponent. It was something he needed to know, after all.

"You did? I am honored to hear this," he said, putting a hand to his heart. "I cannot imagine it was easy to do this considering the... feelings between our countries."

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highf September 21 2011, 09:42:22 UTC
The smile on Anatoly's face was... well, Kurt couldn't say that he felt too bad about coaxing it onto that face. Though he did feel marginally guilty. Felt as though he wasn't presenting the whole truth, and that perhaps in time it would backfire- but Kurt had never been one much for restraint, and seeing other people happy wasn't something that he would ever argue against in the slightest, so he played along with it, all of it, and if he was to be honest, it wasn't too hard to turn on the smiles around Josh Groban, wearing the mind of a fictional character or otherwise.

"Well, I didn't watch them at the time," Kurt clarified with a tilt of his head. "I was a little young back in the Cold War days to really process chess, but even decades later there was still, ah, coverage that people could watch at will."

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whoneedsadream September 22 2011, 23:51:23 UTC
"It is gratifying to know my games are still studied," Anatoly said, his happiness growing by leaps and bounds. This was something that he had never dared to hope for even during his most hopeful moments. He was remembered and more importantly, his games were remembered. This was a higher honor than being named world chess champion.

"I suppose Trumper's games are studied as well, as perhaps as a sort of how not to behave?"

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highf September 25 2011, 10:35:31 UTC
Oops. And there was the bit of hot water that Kurt hadn't been expecting to fall into, blinking as he tried to determine if there was any easy way out of their topic of conversation. Kurt had no doubt that, were he in Anatoly's shoes just then, he would have done the exact same thing: ask at length about the sort of coverage he'd gotten, about public reviews and opinions. If nothing else, it would serve as a means of leaning where else to go with one's art, of finding out what errors and missteps he'd taken, and making sure that he wouldn't repeat them while on the island. But how was he supposed to keep moving forward with these vague and tenuous lies without all of it caving in, sooner or later?

All he could see himself doing was sidestepping the matter, then hoping that Anatoly wouldn't pry too far.

"Well... I mean, conduct is something that each person judges for his or herself," Kurt offered with a nervous smile and a shrug. "But you can't deny that he's still a pretty good chess player, right?"

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whoneedsadream September 25 2011, 22:55:26 UTC
"But he makes a mockery of the game!" Anatoly blurted out before he could stop himself. It was true that he and Freddie had come to a sort of truce here but he could never forget or forget the outrageous behavior that had made him such a notoriety in the chess world.

"He might have occasional flashes of brilliance," he railed on, gesticulating wildly. "I will even admit that he is a challenge for me at times. But chess... it is more than just a board of sixty-four squares and pieces facing down each other. It has a life, a history of its own and to fling all of that aside just for money as he has done is a disgrace - a complete and utter disgrace."

He stopped for a moment and ducked his head, feeling a little embarrassed. "Please forgive me, I did not not mean to go on so. You have studied my games then you know my... relationship with Trumper has not exactly been an easy one."

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highf September 27 2011, 08:44:57 UTC
Blinking, Kurt managed to keep his immediate response down to a small tilt of his head; he supposed that off the stage, pretty much any character would lose a bit of their shine. Be rendered more human, as it were. Still, it's more than a little jarring to find himself distracted from Josh Groban's curls, from his eyes, from the desire to hear him sing, and instead be confronted with a man clearly bitter. (Though, from what Kurt remembers of the plot, he can't say that Anatoly is completely unjustified in his frustration.)

"Ah... yes," he slowly nodded, pressing his lips together, slightly nervous as he tried to determine what he was supposed to say next. "Yes, I'm definitely familiar with the long-time rivalry, although of course I suppose I wear the lenses of someone a bit more removed. Someone in the audience, as it were. Though I think you'll find that in just about any field, there are those people whose primary aim is money. In principle, rather disappointing, but I can't say that they haven't each added their own little push to the world in turn."

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whoneedsadream October 1 2011, 17:06:49 UTC
In truth, Kurt had a very reasonable point but Anatoly was not quite ready to subscribe to any positive notions about Freddie's quest for money, even despite the tentative truce the two of them had. Freddie might be his equal on the board but in terms of motivation, there was no doubt in Anatoly's mind as to who was the superior player.

"Forgive me," Anatoly said humbly. "I did not mean to - what is that word? Vent. I did not mean to vent at you. He and I... the history has been difficult as you know. He is here as well, you see."

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highf October 3 2011, 07:59:05 UTC
As soon as it seemed that Anatoly's temper had subsided, a smile worked its way across Kurt's expression again. Not quite proud- he only knew the guy as a fictional character, after all, and were he to be honest with himself and about his expectations, then in truth, he'd expect the conciliatory words to come in the form of song- but still glad nonetheless for the rocky bridge to be smoothed over to an extent. Glad, too, that he wouldn't become the point of contact for any venting that needed to be done.

If only because, well, it would be pretty hard to be angry with Adam Pascal's face, if any middlemanning was required.

"It's fine," he shook his head, waving a hand dismissively. "Trust me, I'm still in high school, the whole venting thing happens everywhere you turn and you kind of get used to it. And, for anyone who doesn't want to bend over at every negative emotion, you learn how to employ it as well. I know how cathartic it can be."

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