NEVER LET GO
Who: Aya Brea, Legato Bluesummers, Peter Jacob, Graham Specter. And maybe a Ladd Russo cameo? ¯\(ºдಠ)/¯
What: An odd bunch watch a very random 90s movie.
Where: Movie Theater in the Southern District.
When: Forward-dated to Friday.
Warnings: Surprisingly, no one gets harmed in this. Except maybe the theater chairs.
( ‘That’s the one good thing about Paris: There’s a lot of girls willing to take their clothes off.’ )
What: An odd bunch watch a very random 90s movie.
Where: Movie Theater in the Southern District.
When: Forward-dated to Friday.
Warnings: Surprisingly, no one gets harmed in this. Except maybe the theater chairs.
( ‘That’s the one good thing about Paris: There’s a lot of girls willing to take their clothes off.’ )
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However, he does find himself locating the theater, if only because he does have some relatively fond memories of it. It's an interesting place, and he'd surely like to watch more films one day. Perhaps with Alexandra as well, when she's... not upset with him.
For some reason. Was he always this awkward with women?
It's easy to notice Aya, as he's familiar with her by now. Much to his relief, he's rid of both canine features and fleas, so hopefully no more unfortunate experiences anytime soon.
Then there's this stranger, who he recalls has a faint fondness for sweets, apparently.
"Good evening," he murmurs politely to the pair.
Really, though, who would want to watch a film about such a tragedy?
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Legato looked over the building itself, trying to recall where he may have heard that term. He was quite familiar with theater itself, naturally, and he remembered hearing about movies before. Something to do with moving pictures: a type of lost technology. Much like the images that were transmitted over the network, he supposed.
Concluding that a movie theater must be a place where people went to watch such broadcasts, he turned his attention away from the building once again. The man who had arrived was an unfamiliar one: Legato greeted him with a expressionless nod of acknowledgment. Human, by the looks of him. Then again, Aya had appeared quite human as well.
Looking towards the shorter woman again, he said, "I must admit, I've only heard of such a place in passing."
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All things considered, matters haven't been... so bad. He knows it could be worse. Although tired -- typical, for him -- he smiles pleasantly to both.
"I know what you mean," he comments to the blue-haired man. "I've never been to a theater before until I Woke here. It's quite the experience. If you've not yet seen a film, I highly recommend it. ... Although, I cannot be certain as to why anyone would want to watch a film about something so terrible. At least, I presume that's what it is."
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Aya looked at Peter again. She remembered the journalist saying somewhere down the line that he had been taken from the First World War which, if Aya recalled correctly, took place not long after the events of the movie in question.
“You’d be surprised. Hollywood cashes in on making films on a lot of historical events. Most of the time they put their own original story in. Sometimes they’re not all that bad.”
The notion seemed absurd, but... Well, Aya wanted to take a break, and she really didn’t like watching movies, particularly the fairly long ones that she’d already seen, by herself.
“Either of you guys busy? If not, we should watch it.”
Though she had a feeling she’d probably be kicking herself for this later on...
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He looked back towards Aya. Honesty, he would rather continue on his way to his sweets shop ... but he supposed that it couldn't hurt to spare a little time.
"I don't have anything pressing," he answered, before looking at the man. "Though I should probably introduce myself first. My name is Legato Bluesummers."
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Plus, Alexandra was a bit insistent that he get out of the house more and... socialize. Well, here he is, giving it a go.
With a smile, he offers his hand to Legato. "Peter Jacob; it's a pleasure, Mr. Bluesummers." And he means that genuinely; the man doesn't seem abnormal in most ways, but the skull on his shoulder is a bit... off-putting.
No moreso than a pelvis on a staff, he supposes, but he highly doubts Legato is anything like Pious Augustus.
"Shall we, then?" Politely, Peter opens the door and nods the pair inside. He'll follow suit.
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All work no play makes Aya a dull girl.
Aya had gotten used to Legato’s eccentric dress style that she sometime forgot that other people tend to notice the same thing. It certainly didn’t bother her when she offered up the chance for the three of them to watch a movie.
As Peter drew back the door, Aya gave a short, courteous nod and walked on inside. The movie theater, seemingly empty, was still in the process of playing commercials before the actual viewing itself.
“Good, doesn’t look like it’s started yet.” She then snagged a tub of popcorn from the concession stand and started to head towards the seating area.
Peter and Legato could pick their poison from the stand if they wanted.
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That's right, the commercials were still playing. Although, there didn't seem to be like much of a point to commercials in a place where you could just Bend up whatever you wanted to have -- so maybe their purpose was to notify people of their existence? To amuse?
Either way, Graham had never actually seen a commercial before. So this -- man on a boat holding diamonds on a horse -- was the first one he'd seen. He'd heard them on the radio before, obviously, so he wasn't unused to the concept... But those typically consisted of jingles and were fairly ... normal. At least by comparison.
Graham had actually stopped eating his popcorn mid-chew, and just stared at the screen, too confused to notice Aya walking into the theater.
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Considering his lack of familiarity with commercials (and movies in general), it probably wouldn't have been any surprise if Legato was immediately drawn in by the images on the screen upon entering. Perhaps that would have been the case, if he hadn't found something far more pressing to devote his attention to. That something being the concession stand, which was full of all sorts of sweets that he'd never seen before.
The 6'3" man with a torture device on one shoulder and a skull on the other merely stopped and gazed at all the strange, shiny candy for a moment. Then, completely ignoring the images on the screen, he set about picking up one of everything.
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The journalist just takes some water; he doesn't really have much of an inclination towards candies, quite honestly. He then follows Aya inside.
"I take it you may have seen this film before, Ms. Brea? Is it any good?"
One other person in the theater is, to his memory, a man named Graham. One of Ladd Russo's goons. Still, Peter isn't here to start a fuss, so he just glances up at Graham with a faint scowl before he keeps after the female cop.
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She paused when she noticed someone else already in the theater, and recognized who it was. After what happened the last time, she was surprised to see Graham step anywhere near a movie again, but then again, Titanic wasn’t anything like The Burrowers.
Let’s just hope the city doesn’t wind up sinking or something as a result this time.
As Aya took a seat towards the middle of the theater chairs, quite a few rows behind Graham, she looked over to Peter. “It’s been awhile, but yeah, I have seen it. It was a fairly popular movie when it first came out.”
Rather hard to forget, considering that it was released just a few days before the New York Blockade Incident...
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And who the hell was that sitting next to Aya? Some... guy. In an eyepatch. He didn't remember seeing that guy before, but here he was, out with Miss Brea, in the movies.
... No, he wasn't jealous. Of course not, not even a little except that he was but why would he be, this guy had an eyepatch and he didn't think Aya would be the type to go for that kind of thing but maybe she just...
"THE BOAT SINKS," ( ... )
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