James ♕ 003 // Quidditch tryouts!

[chasingstag]

Characters: chasingstag and vatheon
Location: the field in the park
Time: early afternoon
Style: either
Status: DOORS FLUNG WIDE

[remember the sign you saw a few weeks back, with animated flying stick figures when James was out to teach people how to fly?

there's another one now, the art only slightly better, but it's still animated; this time James has attempted to

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[vimyridge]

[Well, he did make a promise that he'd show up and he's never one to go back on his word.]

I'm not too late, am I?

[chasingstag]

[amused, because] America asked the same thing. He did come by, by the way! But no, you're not late. I'm hanging around here all day, there's no lateness.

So are you still interested in learning how to play?

[vimyridge]

[...DAMMIT. That America. Always getting things first. Clearly they think too much alike sometimes.] Weird. It's like we know what the other is going to say sometimes.

That I am.

[chasingstag]

[he will not make a snarky comment--

urge to do so resisted.]

Right, so, Quidditch is a bit like Muggle football, from what I can tell, except much more exciting and fifty feet in the air. And there are four balls, not just one. I guess we should start with those--?

[vimyridge]

[He thanks him for resisting such a thing.]

...when you say 'muggle football' do you mean English football or American? [It seemed like a valid enough question to him. He just hoped it wasn't silly.]

[chasingstag]

[blink] There's a difference?

[he's not exactly "world-aware"]

[vimyridge]

Well, there's football and there's soccer. Sometimes what Americans call soccer is called football in other places in Europe.

[chasingstag]

That's the one in which people run around kicking a ball with their feet to try to put it in a goal, though, yeah? Why there'd be any other name for it seems pointless...

[vimyridge]

That would exactly be it. Though to be fair, I think the term 'soccer' actually comes from England.

[chasingstag]

[shrug. he's never understood why Muggles do anything that they do, anyway]

Seems a bit silly, though-- they kick it with their feet, pretty straightforward, yeah? You said there was American football, though? That's different from soccer-football?

[vimyridge]

The term comes from a shortened form of the association name I believe. But I could be wrong. [If it helps any, he sometimes doesn't understand why people do what they do, either.]

But yes. American football is also called gridiron. It's sorta similar to rugby as well.

[chasingstag]

[and this is James' not understanding and deciding it's better that he doesn't care :| Muggles. Who even knows.]

Right, well, that's unnecessarily confusing. But I guess if they can't fly, Muggles have to come up with something.

[vimyridge]

They'll come up with just about anything in order to keep themselves entertained. [A shame he's from before the time of things like the XFL and such. Otherwise he'd be complaining even more over stupid things.]

I'm more into hockey, anyway.

[chasingstag]

Hockey? How many sports are there? The wizarding world just keeps it simple...

[America plays Quadpot, true, but no one likes that, anyway]

[vimyridge]

Hockey, baseball, football, soccer... rugby, polo, track and field, basketball, curling... [He'll stop there, but he could easily keep going.]

A ton, it would seem. I haven't even named them all yet. [Unfortunately he doesn't know what Quadpot is. But it sounds like it's a hilarious insult.]

[chasingstag]

Well, they're inventive, I'll give them that. [now he's curious about all of them. they can't be as exciting as Quidditch, but they do sound intriguing. especially with so many.]