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Newt Geiszler | Pacific Rim ([personal profile] groupiedrifter) wrote in [community profile] ximilialog2021-10-20 10:20 am

[OPEN MINGLE] aaaaaaas yooooou wiiiiiiish...!

CHARACTERS: Everyone! It's a mingle!
LOCATION: The Mess Hall (and Kitchen, on occasion)
DATE: not long after the 2nd mission
CONTENT: REALLY JUST... MOVIES AND COMFY BLANKETS. Yep, that's it.
WARNINGS: your character will see kate winslet's booby at some point. it's a good booby.

You may notice, in the day just before the scheduled movie-watching night, that a lot of pillows go missing. A lot of blankets, too. Where the hell —

Ahhhh. Right. Newton.


Welcome to the "Very Relaxed Easy Breezy Pajama Positive Post-Mission Sleepover" — yes, that is what was drawn in big letters on the sign outside of the mess hall, and he's not changing it, thank you very much. Everyone's generally advised to just come in whatever they're comfortable in and to bring whatever soft, comfy items they may possess. Soooomeone has, in fact, swiped a considerable amount of emergency blankets and pillows (and some from the laundry area, sorry), and the floor of the Mess Hall is now dramatically soft with a deluge of pillows that have turned the linoleum ground into the lumpy clouds you'd find straight out of a child's drawing. Some spots under and around the tables have even been raised into little forts, so you can live out your best hermit lives and pretend you're in a cave.

(And hey, make your own if you want; nobody's gonna stop you.)

There are still tables, sure, it's kind of like that game, 'the ground is lava'? Only now it's 'the ground is pillows'. You get it. Before the movie plans to start, there are a few important tasks to be done: firstly, they need food. Popcorn was easy — popcorn is kind of a perfect emergency food, actually. Kernels + fire = success! But really, they need people who are savvy in the kitchen to make some snacks for the movie. That's why for the first hour, before they're set to start, they're gonna drag anyone even remotely capable of cooking (who isn't injured still, of course) into the kitchen to help with this cause.

Godspeed, please make them something good, chefs.

While that's going on, Newton proceeds to display the fine art of shadow puppets on the currently unused projector — how lucky are they, that the mess hall has a bunch of big, beautiful white walls? Eventually he gets out some paper and scissors and gets really ridiculous —


And maybe he'll wax poetic about how he and his uncle used to spend all night making these when Newton was sick with the flu... Which is to say, you all should make shadow puppets with him. What? Did you say that it's a childish partaking? Well that's just rude, and it won't be tolerated, especially considering the first movie that plays once everything's set up is The Princess Bride. A story full of adventure! Of Rodents Of Unusual Size! Of Andre the Giant! What's there not to love, especially for those who have never seen a movie before?

Popcorn and other treats made by any kind Sleepers will be given to the hungry, and anyone who's still in a pretty bad state will get lots of pillows shoved under their legs.

The second movie is Titanic, and a certain someone has stealthily placed concerning tissue boxes around the area, some of which read 'IN CASE OF CRYING - EMERGENCY USE'. It's a longer one, and warning is given for length, but where else do you have to be? Ah, yes, the thrilling love story of Jack and Rose — can't wait to scandalize all the modest folks with that nude drawing scene! But more importantly, this ship is gonna hit an iceberg, and Kate Winslet is gonna walk through literal ice-cold water for her man Leo. You love to see it.

Just have those tissues handy if you're a sensitive person, especially during that scene where Jack's looking down at Rose and the flares are going off behind him? Anyone else get weepy at that? No? Okay, I'll just sit over here.

Once both movies have ended, everyone's welcome to stay there, of course. Why bother leaving, when you've got everything you need to sleep right here? A certain someone has used empty tins and has punched dozens of holes in them, leaving them around the mess hall tables with lights inside, so that they're not all totally left in the dark; it leaves blurry little stars scattered across the walls, imperfect but lit all the same.

See, sometimes Newt can make a quiet event happen.

... Sometimes.

On very rare occasion.

Good night, Orbers!

(OOC: Feel free to use this log however you'd like! Knowing me, I'll probably hit everyone with Newt at some point, because I'm a glutton for inbox punishment, but this is a log for everyone to mingle together and do whatever floats their boat; if you'd rather just handwave your character came to this, feel free! It's just a little thing for destressing for the characters. I'll never let go, Jack!

As always, any mention of or interaction with Newt is cool, I'll appear like a ghoul in your top level.)
coordination: (Slay this ass)

[personal profile] coordination 2021-10-28 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Unsuitable because of your abilities.

[ He does remember Blue mentioning they were deemed a threat.

We may be born from it, but we don't belong to it. What a familiar feeling.

Yzak glances back to the screen, though. ]


Well, now that you're here and watching new shit like this, what do you think?
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[personal profile] firstroar 2021-10-28 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blue goes quiet for a bit to consider that, to reflect upon what he's watched. truth be told, he was more invested in the ways others around him digested what was occurring on screen - they could fill in all the confusing gaps in the setting and acting that Blue couldn't innately understand.

things like this are hard to parse; between the lack of familiarity to the culture he knew erasing his ability to catch the meaning of different film shorthand and his inability to simply...read the emotions of the players on the screen...it's tough. not impossible, but tough.]


I think...that there is far more to see, think, and feel...than I would've dreamed before. More than...any of my people could.
coordination: (DEVASTATINGLY UNATTRACTIVE HERE)

[personal profile] coordination 2021-10-29 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
And there's a lot that's much better than this.

[ Jerking a thumb at the screen. ]

Not that the movie was bad or anything. It was actually quite good considering its origins and how long ago it came out.
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[personal profile] firstroar 2021-10-29 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[his head tilts a little.]

Then...the next time...you will present something different?
coordination: (Will Drive Your Car Into The Ocean)

[personal profile] coordination 2021-10-29 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Me?

...

Maybe, if I can get something I'd consider worth showing. But I stick to reading more than watching things like movies. Books tend to have so much more to offer, in my opinion.
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[personal profile] firstroar 2021-10-29 10:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blue gives him another one of those long, piercing-through-the-soul looks of consideration, humming a soft sound of acknowledgement. after a beat, he looks away.]

Perhaps...I could read such things, too.
coordination: (sex doritos?)

[personal profile] coordination 2021-10-30 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ As if there is any other way to respond to this than to push one's own nerd ass preferences.

Despite keeping a perfectly straight face and tone, there's a small vibration of excitement in him because he actually does enjoy when he has any opportunity to talk about something he likes. ]


I've got a few here I can let you borrow. And, some folklore stories tend to be on the short side, too, so they're not a bad choice to start out with.
firstroar: (ᴀɴᴄɪᴇɴᴛ)

[personal profile] firstroar 2021-10-30 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[with a little nod:] I wouldn't mind that.