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magisteriaexe2024-06-27 10:41 pm
floweroftheapex) wrote in magisteriaexe2024-06-27 10:41 pm
Movie Night Heart-to-Heart (Closed)
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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She really is an alternate version of this guy, this legendary swordsman from old Japan. Because when she talks about this Iori kid, it's not rote or rehearsed or overdramatic. Musashi's wearing the expression of a woman wistfully thinking back to fond memories with a friend, a real friend, real memories. A woman who really has traveled through multiple worlds, multiple times, met multiple versions of the people she knew.
Quietly, while Kojiro is introduced and waxes dramatic, Lucy's brain explodes a little. And then when it settles down, when she's more settled in the knowledge of what Musashi is, Magisteria seems a little less weird, relatively speaking. She's gotten to used to this magic-tech city, and people from lands straight out of fantasy novels, and now two people who are alternate versions of famous historical figures.
Her brain feels full enough to burst. But it's a nice distraction from her own thoughts. So.
"Real subtle," she agrees dryly. "Was this Kojiro guy as much of a dick as this movie is making him out to be? No, don't tell me-- he was even worse." Her eyes are bright with the teasing, a little smile tugging at the corners of her lips.
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She does turn to look at Lucy when she asks about the Kojiro she remembers. "Dunno. Back home, I never met the guy!" She admits cheerfully. Then she has to think for a moment; her memory is long, and it's been a very long time since she left her original timeline. "...Actually, come to think of it, I don't think he existed in my original world." She admits. "He doesn't exist in a lot of them. He's one of those, you know, narrative devices. A way of symbolizing all of my opponents and my philosophy in a single encounter." Something cooked up by later authors to dramatize the life of Miyamoto Musashi, and inadvertently provide lots of fodder for future anime and video game writers.
"I've met versions of him that existed in other worlds. Don't think any of them were quite as bad as Mr. Personality here. Good fights though, when I could get them. Oh, yeah, you're about to see why."
On the screen, the actor Kojiro stands alone in the gardens of his manor, concentrating, nodachi in hand, ready to strike. On a nearby branch sits a bird, a swallow, hopping about. Everything about this sequence attempts to build tension, cutting from Kojiro to the bird, and back again. Kojiro's sword is also shown prominently as the music builds. Finally, the swallow takes flight, and Kojiro's eyes open in a flash of anger. The sword strikes once, but this is followed by three cuts of it attacking from different angles, as if it was somehow three different strikes in one. Of the swallow, we only hear it cry out once, and the sound of something hitting the ground. The screen is suddenly filled with the text, both in katana and translated English Tsubame Gaeshi; Swallow-Reversal, Kojiro's signature ability, rather hamfistedly showcased on an actual swallow. A single sword stroke that cuts three times. For the production values the movie has shown thus far, it's actually quite competently executed.
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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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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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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."