Movie Night Heart-to-Heart (Closed)

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Where: Evergreen Terrace, Lucy Kushinada's apartment.
Who: Lucy and Musashi
When: Likely after the high-risk event
What: Lucy and Musashi have a horror movie marathon, followed by a more personal conversation (may or may not take place on the rooftop if we feel like tormenting ourselves)
Warnings: Copious amounts of UST/longing/some Edgerunners-related Adam Smasher trauma/The David Martinez in the room.



Musashi doesn't scare easily as a Berserker. One of the perks of her particular brand of Madness Enhancement; she's too flighty, too impulsive, too reckless to be easily rattled by zombies or ghostly jump-scares.

And having fought real zombies in her time, movie ones just don't hold up very well after awhile.

Still, the idea of a curated horror movie marathon with a certain Edgerunner she'd made the friendship of held a great deal of appeal. And who knows, maybe Magisterian horror was a different cut. Maybe she would get a little frightened by one thing or another. A black cat leaping out of a cupboard without any attention ever being paid to how it got in there in the first place, or the slow, dawning horror of realizing a character in the film is no longer themselves...or worse, it's something else wearing their face.

At least she'll have someone to cling to in that case.

When Lucy opens the door, Musashi is standing in the hall, holding up a bag, in which glass bottles clink together. "What's up, choombarino? I brought drinks!" Horror's thirsty business after all.

She's taken to Magisterian fashions almost as well as she has Night City slang, too. The kimono needs some work done after ending up on the wrong end of a Twisted Tin, so she's settled for a midriff-exposing tanktop with an extremely, loudly colourful design plastered across it, as well as hotpants, sneakers and thigh-highs stockings in various neon shades, and a choker around her neck to replace her put-aside for now magatama. She doesn't appear to have given much thought to attempting to coordinate them colour-wise, though.

The sun is hanging low in the sky, but but the time they're finished, it'll be night. Maybe the moon will be out in full too.

"So, what're we startin' with?"

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[lunardreaming]

Huh. For a guy that really is definitely symbolizing The Ultimate Antagonist, it's strange that Musashi never had much to do with him.

Then again, that's just how real life is, right? There are no protagonists and antagonists, just people, and most of the time you don't have an arch-enemy or whatever. If she had one, it would undoubtedly be Arasaka, but no one single person.

For David, it would be--

No. She's not going down that particular thought path right now.

With effort, Lucy wrestles her attention back to the movie, and finds herself caught up in the scene that's unfolding. She isn't immune to the building tension, and when Kojiro's sword lashes out in a strike and three cuts happen, her eyes narrow. Her head tilts. If she were a GIF, transparent mathematics equations would be floating around her as she visibly struggles to comprehend that.

"I think that just broke my brain," she admits, tossing a piece of popcorn into her mouth. "Is that real? Or is that just a narrative device to show how stupid strong he is?"

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Musashi's actually a little impressed, she'll give the movie that much. Somehow, they stumbled into an accurate portrayal of Kojiro's most famous technique. "No, that's about right. I've seen it used before." She replies. "Well, gotta give them that much. Kojiro really did get to be so good with a sword he invented a technique that broke reality a little when he used it. But, that's why he qualifies as a Heroic Spirit, after all. We've all got a big move, or weapon, or piece of gear like that. They're called Noble Phantasms. Like our trump cards, ne? But it's a double-edged sword because using one generally gives away your identity. And once you know who a Servant actually is, it becomes easier to plan around them. If you know their story, of course." But who doesn't have access to the internet, these days?

And it's not like Musashi ever tries particularly hard to hide her identity, though admittedly Iori-kun showing up so early into the Waxing Moon Ritual and recognizing her kind of made it irrelevant anyway.

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"Nova," is Lucy's summation of such a feat.

She'll admit, she's still not sure about this Heroic Spirit stuff. It's kind of complicated, and while she's normally good at complicated... not this kind of complicated. Not weird magic systems and alternate history. Still, it's actually pretty interesting now that she's mostly gotten over how fucking confused it all makes her.

Lucy takes her verve vape out of her pocket, and draws in a long drag, blowing the smoke up and away from Musashi. She's got watermelon flavor at the moment, which mingles interestingly with the aftertaste of popcorn.

"So what's your big move?" she asks, a hint of playfulness in her voice as a pale gaze cuts toward Musashi. "I don't think I've seen it yet. I definitely haven't heard you shout some named attack like all the anime heroes do. I bet it's super impressive."