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MTT ([personal profile] ex_mettacrusher33) wrote in [community profile] epidemiology2017-04-08 07:13 pm

i invited ortega over tonight to watch sliders in my room (closed)

CHARACTERS: Mettaton, Maya, Peridot, Feferi, Keats, Olivia, Vaughn, Oliver, Giorno, Fugo, Papyrus (and possibly Sans)
DATE: A bit after arriving in Terra Felis
WARNINGS: Some of the movies involve violence, but this is just a sleepover. On a cat planet.
SUMMARY: Mettaton invited his closest friends to a musical viewing planned for when they got back to Oska. They're uh... they're just gonna have to make due with what they have.



...this isn't what Mettaton expected.

The original plan was much more dour in nature, surely. He had a very specific intent to hole himself in his room in Oska, feel horrible for himself, and then force those whose presence he enjoyed into spending the night with him watching movies that he also enjoyed. It was meticulously planned to cheer himself up! To encourage his friends to meet with one another and talk about how wonderful him and his taste in entertainment was! To fill the gaping void of despair of leaving Woodhurst with love and admiration!!

Instead, he found himself surrounded by cats. That tends to blast a hole in any pre-planned pity-party.

But! The show must go on, even with a change in scenery or motivation. Besides, it isn't as if his wonderful, wonderful friends (and Keats) couldn't use something fun themselves!! He promised them a celebration! After everything they've gone through, they certainly deserve it.

So his hotel room has been decorated as beautifully as Mettaton himself. Blankets hang from the ceiling, creating one giant fort within the room proper. Glitter is seemingly everywhere. Snacks (...mostly meat-based, like hamburgers, thanks to the area) have been paid for and set up lovingly along more blankets on the floor. Several pillows are also on the floor, as well a steady pile of them in the corner of the room (for extra and/or lounging, you see). The bed holds even more pillows, and the vanity has been encompassed in the fort for any emergency midnight makeovers.

It's going to be a long night.

--

6pm to 11pm:
West Side Story
Little Shop of Horrors
Les Mis


Things are starting off particularly well! It's a trio of downers, sure, but there's enjoyment to be had with them regardless! Mettaton continues to maintain that these are classics and need to be revered as such, but this notably doesn't stop him from pointing out any terrible singing or riffing on anything silly, especially with the last movie involved. He encourages his friends to do the same and get as much fun out of the experience as possible. It's a fine start.

--

12am to 4am:
The Little Mermaid
Enchanted
Into the Woods


The snacks are beginning to wane. The weakest of those invited have begun to quietly drift off into the night, which is a shame for two reasons: One, these are more hopeful movies!! The joyful ones!! The ones Mettaton can't seem to stop himself from sobbing dramatically at. Two, he has a supply of glitter pens at his disposal and has suspiciously left them in plain view, as if challenging his guests to use them on one another.

--

5am to 7am:
Sweeney Todd
Chicago
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Grease 2


It's the dreaming hours, now. Most people with sane sleeping schedules or an ability to tune out Mettaton's gabbing have taken to the slumber part of this party. The movies have also gotten a bit more... questionable, in their content. Cannibalism, murder, badly-sung songs about reproduction... Anyone still awake has most likely reached that blissful, slap-happy state of all slumber-parties where everything is hilarious, the giggles cannot stop, and you're constantly trying to keep yourself from waking the rest of the guests.

--

Mingle, enjoy, and please keep Maya from eating all of the snacks.

PS: Don't trust the bone goblin attempting to sell catnip. He wasn't invited.
slapfight: (△ yes. yes. i'm a master of comedy.)

[personal profile] slapfight 2017-04-22 05:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[she stares and then asks, with much uncertainty:] Then... How is it supposed to work?
skelepun: ([sans] 52)

[personal profile] skelepun 2017-04-24 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow. Sans wasn't sure if he was the worst or best person to answer this question.

Probably worst.

No, no, definitely worst.]


Well, y'see. [He starts, brow bone screwed up into an expression equal parts thoughtful and uncertain.] I think it's a little more subtle. You see somebody, and I dunno, something in your chest starts whirring. Sweating, the shakes, the urge to shower more often. You wanna be around 'em, you want to impress 'em, and then...

Well, it's probably different for different people. [Sans shrugs, out of his depth.] But I think you probably figure out the love part a lot later, even if it was there from the start. Like a puzzle.
slapfight: (△ those are real. except the hobos.)

[personal profile] slapfight 2017-04-25 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[Peridot stares at him for the longest time.

How... often... has that happened to her??? Stars, ARE YOU ONLY SUPPOSED TO FEEL THAT ONCE?

Finally, to preserve her dignity, she laughs harshly and slaps her knee.]
Hah! That's ridiculous. It sounds more like a malfunction than a feeling.

[if she laughs hard enough will she be more convincing??]
skelepun: (smug)

[personal profile] skelepun 2017-04-27 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
[She's convincing him of something, alright. Sans' perpetual grin grows a little wider, almost imperceptibly.]

Sounds like someone's got a crush.
slapfight: another regret and that's all. (△ what did i get for hedging each bet)

[personal profile] slapfight 2017-04-27 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I DO NOT!

[if she says it loudly and abruptly does that make it more convincing?

no?

hey look her cheeks turn an indigo blue when she blushes. isn't that adorable. isn't that scientifically implausible. isn't it BETTER THAN TALKING ABOUT HER FEELINGS.]
skelepun: (2450096 (32))

[personal profile] skelepun 2017-04-27 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Easy, tiger. [Whether he's holding back an incredibly indulgent grin because of her or because of a funny joke he just remembered, who can say!] It's nothing to be ashamed of.
slapfight: (△ doctors without borders)

[personal profile] slapfight 2017-04-28 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Of course it isn't. [the blue tinge is getting fainter, but her verbal flustering can't quite work itself into submission.] But it's not really something gems do. We're not bound by any, uh... [she waves her hands in circles] ...desire... for... companionship?

[while true, it does not quite explain her and the fact that she is here, indulging in a social activity, and enjoying it. she is SO BAD at lying.]
skelepun: ([sans] 37)

[personal profile] skelepun 2017-05-01 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[She sure is. Sans isn't one to call that out -- not directly, anyway -- but Peri's enough of a friend by now that Sans is willing to put in a little more effort.

Just a little.]


I dunno much about gems, but innate feelings don't always match up with social norms.
slapfight: (△ deep down i'm baloney?)

[personal profile] slapfight 2017-05-02 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know. The Crystal Gems are proof of that. They're erratic and have never displayed a correct behavior in all the time I've known them, and I-

[oh.

oh...]
...am one of them now.
skelepun: ([sans] 58)

[personal profile] skelepun 2017-05-05 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Ah. He's still grinning, but there's something just a little bit more insufferable about it now.]

N' howzit feel, being erratic and incorrect?
slapfight: mother teresa luther king (△ my nickname is)

[personal profile] slapfight 2017-05-05 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[she buries her face in a pillow and groans melodramatically.]

Like everything I know is wrong, and I have no idea what I'm doing with my life.
skelepun: ([sans] 51)

[personal profile] skelepun 2017-05-10 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[If Sans had a handbroom, he might stroke her back with it. Comfortingly, of course. In lieu of that, he knocks his knuckles against the back of her skull lightly.]

If it makes you feel any better, most people are right there with ya. [A beat, punctuated by another (comforting) tap on the head.] N' between you and me, the ones that aren't are kinda annoying.
slapfight: (△ those are real. except the hobos.)

[personal profile] slapfight 2017-05-12 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[she shifts her face away from the pillow slightly.]

You mean the ones who are absolutely certain of their purpose and don't drift aimlessly along, wondering about the meaning of it all?
skelepun: (2450096 (20))

[personal profile] skelepun 2017-05-12 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. [His grin broadens.] Buncha showoffs.