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Movie Night

Who; Illyana + OTA!
What; Come watch movies and eat unhealthy snacks! And maybe be affected by the little monsters that make it where you can't lie. It'll be a fun time.
Where; Moving Pictures Movie Theater
When; 10/15, slightly backdated
Warnings; None, will update if any are needed

It'd been a long time since Illyana had a movie night with anyone at all. Even longer since she'd had one with a group of people. In a different life she'd spent a lot quite a few nights with friends watching movies and throwing popcorn at one another. But that'd been then and this was now. And now she was weirdly excited about it. Not that she'd readily admit to it, but the lengths she went to in terms of preparation said enough. Children should get to have a childhood and childhoods were meant to be filled with movies and horrible snacks.

Which was exactly what this was.

Inside the theater she'd set up little stands manned by imps dressed in movie usher costumes. At their booths they're selling a variety of foods. There's a stand with popcorn mixed with various candies including M&M's, snowcaps, and probably some less tasty ones considering she let the imps pick out a few custom mixes. There's even a popcorn bag filled with nacho cheese to try out! There's a stand that has some nachos that also have various additions mixed. Basically the mixtures are whatever you could imagine, even if it's not something pleasant. The imps are doing their best though! There's also a few stands with sodas and with just candy to be picked up.

The first movie to be shown will be Gremlin a slightly altered (though barely) version of Gremlins. After that skies the limit! All the movies Illyana's picked out are horror movies of various kinds. There's a few that are about ghost sharks and one about Killer Klowns from Outer space. There's also one about a killer Leprechaun that's only real difference is it's a discount version of the original. Dollar store Leprechaun. There's a few in the j-horror haunting like the Grudge and a few featuring massive serial killers wearing weird masks.

Come have fun, feel free to make up your own movie to be shown! Or your own snacks! You're also obviously free to incorporate the event into this and have characters affected by the not being able to lie portion! Have fun!

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@ Illyana

There were a few things that Mono had been looking forward to before and after returning his impromptu trip back to his own world. The mysterious, curious, exciting, snack-filled movie night that Illyana had promised to have!

Admittedly, the snacks were still the most exciting part of all this to the boy, since movies were still something he didn’t have a lot of experience with… And he was hoping he’d understand the concept of ‘It’s fun to watch scary movies’ thing better once he’d actually experienced it. He trusted Illyana after all, and she had ensured him it would be a fun night and she that she would find some really good movies to watch! So, naturally, he believed the woman.

The first thing the boy did, of course, was go looking for her so she could show him how all of this worked. Sure, it seemed straightforward… But he wanted to see what she had to say or recommend first! “Hey Illyana!” He chirped, sounding at least a little more like himself despite the still obvious differences in him. It seemed that perhaps the promise of junk-food snacks and a fun night had put him in better spirits. “You found so many snacks!”

Though he did get a little distracted by the imps in their very fancy-looking uniforms. His static-filled eyes widening slightly as he spotted a couple. “Wow! You guys got all dressed up. That’s really neat. I kinda want a hat like that.” He said as he took a small detour from his original path to stop and see them too… Because he still saw them as his friends too, no matter how much others might try to discourage such things given they were imps and all.

A little gremlin at the snacks table. - OTA

Mono had decided that the first movie was… actually kinda fun? Gremlin, or whatever it was called, had been a bit weird in some parts, but overall entertaining! Which meant his confidence on the whole subject of scary movies was boosted somewhat from the first good experience, and now he was at the snack table ready to refuel! Not that the sweets he’d already had consumed had much of a chance to wear off yet. He had a rare bounce to his little steps, and he was far chattier than he had been in the last few weeks since his return. It was honestly nice to see, even if a large part of it probably had something to do with the copious amounts of candy he’d eaten.

Snack-salad, as he had dubbed it with Illyana, was undoubtedly his favourite way to enjoy movie night. Gathering up a bowl of popcorn and them mixing in an assortment of gummy candies, little candy coated chocolates (M&Ms) and other interesting things that grabbed his attention. “These are really good!” He commented, either to no one or whoever was standing near by as he added a few more sand-shark-shaped gummies to his collection.

On most occasions Illyana wouldn't be precisely kind to her little imps. Certainly not kind enough to give them credit for anything. Today she was feeling pretty generous though and well, sometimes she actually was nice to them. Usually not where other people could see. Nice was relative in Limbo anyway. The fact that she let them roam around free like this was kind of nice enough all on it's own. She threw her hands up in an overly exaggerated shrug and then inclined her head towards them a bit.

"They did most of it. I told them what to get and for once they actually did it." She looked at them as they flocked around Mono appreciating that he seemed to appreciate their spiffy costumes. They hadn't been sure about them at first but here they were having someone envious of their hats. One of them even straightened his as if to show off that it was in fact his hat.

"Cold day in Limbo I guess." She figured the saying would be lost on Mono but it wouldn't be on them. They seemed to happy to notice that she'd thrown a tiny insult their way. Alas.

"Really?" she waved a hand a portal appeared next to Mono with a hat. A hat being held by a tentacle that was very politely offering it up to him. As polite as a tentacle could be.

“They did?” He tilted his head back at Illyana curiously. The Imps, as much as he adored them, were not good at doing things, according to his friend. So that meant they were making progress and getting better at stuff, right? “That’s great! I guess they’re starting to learn to do stuff better too!” It was nice to think that they could learn too, after all, like he was trying to. Being crowded by the imps was a familiar experience for the boy at least, and there was a less panic about being crowded by them than there was about being crowded by other people for some reason. Maybe because they were small and mostly friendly, or because he knew Illyana wouldn’t let less friendly beings do anything under her watchful eye. Either way, he was grinning that tilted and unpracticed smile as they showed off for him. A little whispery giggle escaping him once or twice.

The small insult indeed goes over his head. “It gets cold there?” The question is voiced unsurprisingly at the idea. He hadn’t imagined a place like that could get cold, right?

But it wasn’t hard to distract him either, as a portal opened next to him and he jumped a little in surprise. It should be weird, and a little unsettling that a tentacle was offering him a hat… But Mono was already used to pretty weird stuff, and this was one of Illyana’s portals and presumably one of her creatures. So at the sight of the hat he gasped, “Wow, really? Thanks you!” He commented either to Illyana, the tentacle, or both as he reached out to take the hat to look it over. He soon tugged off his newsboy hat to shove in a pocket and pop the new hat on his head. “What do ya think?” He asked, turning to both the imps and her once it was settled properly on his head.

"I oversaw it. The first thing they tried was popcorn, sour gummy candy, cheese sauce, and tabasco sauce." It had actually been the worst thing she'd ever tried in her life. "I thought about exiling them after they brought it to me to sample." They hadn't told her what it was. She'd foolishly accepted it. "I tried it without thinking." She hadn't meant to say that. Usually she'd have left it implied but avoided admitting to do something so completely stupid.

"No. It'd be nice if it did. It's always way too hot there. I miss the cold." It'd never been too hot back in her first home, her real home. Limbo though? Everything about it was too hot and too dusty save for the tiny garden she'd been trying to keep going.

"You're welcome. I think it looks good!" And she meant that. Only partially because it was a gift from her. "Do you like it?"

“Tabasco sauce?? That’s that spicy stuff they put in food, right?” The boy’s eyes widened. That sounded really bad, sweet and spice and cheese? Mono didn’t know much about cuisine, but he was pretty sure that was not normal nor good to eat! He was so caught up in trying to imagine how bad that might be, that it didn’t quite connect yet, that Illyana had admitted something that normally she wouldn’t have. Instead, he innocently tilted his head back at her. “So you didn’t exile them ‘cause you didn’t ask them what it was before you tried it?” That made sense, after all. If you didn’t ask what it was first and you ate it, it was kinda not entirely their fault. She knew and had told him that they were kind of bad at everything.

The kid blinked in surprise, so she said it because it was so unlikely… Now he got it! Mostly… Probably… He was pretty sure he did. That said, he nodded as she admitted that she missed the cold. She had told him it was really cold where she was from, after all. “At least it’s almost winter time again? At least, I think it almost is.” And it was getting cooler here, a little more each day as the leaves had been changing colour for the fall and dropping from the trees as a sign of winter’s approach.

“Thanks!” Mono grinned at the compliment, adjusting the hat a little more with a small bit of glee in his tone. “I do! I haven’t had a new hat in a long time! I used to find them all the time in the Pale City. Not so much here, here they’re all in stores and you gotta buy them.” So there were no abandoned hats to be found, unfortunately. That made Illyana’s gift even more special, between it being a new hat from a friend and the first new hat in a long time!

"Yes. It is." Her voice was completely dry as she answered that. Actually, her entire face and demeanor was completely dry as she answered him. Clearly the fact that they'd given her that was still causing her some degree of annoyance that she was trying really hard to stuff down. Then her eye twitched slightly at his statement and her lips turned down into a frown. "No. I didn't exile them because I'm a generous ruler." It was not her fault that she'd been handed such a disgusting thing and she'd trusted that it wasn't trash. Not her fault at all.

"I wonder if there will be snow again." Did she sound a tiny bit wistful? Yes. Though she was very reluctant to allow herself to be too hopeful that there might be snow again. It was getting cool and that was a good sign. Strange how much she was looking forward to the prospect. It wasn't even really the snow that she liked, it was just the memories. The nostalgia. Not that she wanted to really admit to it.

"You just found them laying around?" Wait. Or did he make them out of things he found?If that was the case that was just a tiny bit sad.

Mono tilted his head, eyes squinting a bit at the dryness in her tone. It must be really bugging her that it happened! Not that he didn’t understand. It’d probably be pretty bad to eat something that gross and know it only happened because the imps were bad and stuff and she didn’t think to check before she ate stuff. He’d probably feel kinda silly, too! Though her reason for not exiling them gets a small, curious pause… “Oh… Couldn’t it be both?” At least it seemed like both situations to the boy. It wasn’t like he knew anything about being the ruler of a whole place! Though he did glance at the imps again. “I’m glad you’re a good ruler, though. I’d be kinda said if they got exiled. Where would they even go?” He might try to hide them in his room at Ignis and NIda’s house, but there were a lot of imps and they did generate chaos. That might have been tricky…

“I hope so! I wanna try to make a bigger snow fort this year. I was just getting good at it and snowmen when everything started to melt last year.” He responded, tone slightly hopeful. The snow was a lot more fun now that he had warm clothes and winter boots to make it less cold to be out in. Last winter had been a lot more fun than the first, and now that he knew more about it…? Mono bet the next would be more fun still, as long as it snowed.

Though the question gets a quick nod, “Yup! Stuff gets left all over the place since people aren’t really doing stuff anymore. Sometimes I get really lucky and find stuff that’s either a hat or makes a good hat! Like I found my postman hat in the old post office, and I found a funny teddy bear mask in one place…. Though it might’ve just been a head off an old teddy bear, I guess.” And no one needed to know where he found the Sou’wester hat… That was probably better left unvoiced, all things considered.

"Nope, can't be both. It can only be that I'm a generous ruler. Best Limbo has ever known." That....was actually probably at least partially true. Truth be told it didn't take much to be the best ruler Limbo had ever known. One just needed to not treat everyone like disposable tools or cannon fodder all the time and bam! You were it. She tapped her chin at his question and threw up her hands palms up. "Who knows. Exile in Limbo would be to the furthest reaches of it's boundaries where the most dangerous demons roam far from my Castle. They'd do well to last an hour or two there." That was generous. If those annoying little things made it twenty minutes she'd be impressed. "Maybe they'd try hiding here. They seem to like it here." She could see them doing that. "They'd probably try to impress me somehow to make up for it. They came to my cell back home thinking it'd impress me to free me." It hadn't. But, as much as she hated giving them credit, it'd been a pretty logical thing for them to think of doing.

"Maybe we can make one together. I could make warrior snowmen and you can handle the fort!" For just a second something that could almost be considered childlike entered into her demeanor. One might even think she actually sounded excited about this potential idea. Maybe she was. She definitely was. At her heart Illyana was a young woman who had most of her childhood taken from her. Sometimes she wanted to get just a bit of that back.

"You wore the head off an old teddy bear? How did you see?" That was the real question there. Though his explanation did leave a bit of a frown on her face. On one had it was impressive he'd been resilient enough to survive and forage like that. On the other it was pretty sad that he'd had to live like that.

Mono wasn’t sure that it couldn’t be both… But at the same time, she did say something that seemed pretty true to the boy. “Well yeah, ‘course you’re the best. You do all kinda of neat and good stuff!” Like help him, or not banish the imps for messing stuff up! And given what she’d told him about Belasco, he sounded really bad… So Illyana had to be the best ruler of Limbo, and made it better than it could be with really bad people in charge… Or at least that was what made sense to the boy, and he had made up his mind on that. Did he have a lot of experience with rulers? No, but he liked to think he knew a thing or two about what things were like when bad people or things were in charge.

Gasping at the idea, Mono looked kind of excited at the idea. “Yeah! I bet we could make a really good fort!! And snowmen guards are important, they can keep a watch out for danger for us! Only maybe we shouldn’t make them as alive as the one you did magic to last year. Then they might try to take over the fort.” He added thoughtfully, remembering the prank she had played on him and how the snowman’s attitude had changed pretty soon after it came to life. Unless she perfected the magic so they might not get mad! “I bet we could make a lot though if we started as soon as there’s a lot of snow!”

The boy nodded to the question vigorously, though he shrugged a little at the question. “Poked holes around the eyes so then I could see better! I don’t get that one with me, though. I only got the more hat like ones. I also had a can that was kinda like a helmet that had holes to see out of.” Honestly, Mono was pretty proud of the hats he had found and the other things he’d managed to used to work like hats or headwear while working his way through the Pale City.

"Neat, yes. Good? Questionable." But she gave him a smile that indicated that despite how self-deprecating of a statement it was, she might have been joking. Maybe. She did know that they were probably a lot better off with her than with anyone else that could have been ruler in Limbo. Then again she couldn't really think of many worse rulers than Belasco, so did it really say much if she was the best there?

"Good point! We wouldn't want to have to deal with the War of the Snowmen. I went to a reality with that once. It was pretty bad." That was completely and utterly made up. It was a good sounding story though. At least in her mind it sounded like a really good story. There was always a chance of creations going rogue when you gave them life. That was why sentience spells were always a bit dangerous.

"Did you collect them then?" Maybe she had a good idea for what to get him as a gift now. "Poking holes in it to see was smart."

Mono was still figuring out humor, honestly. So he tilted his head slightly at the statement and the accompanying smile with a look of utter concentration. “I dunno. You do good stuff, so it makes sense.” He finally responded with the utmost of certainty, at least based on his experience and his small amount of knowledge concerning Belasco and how bad he had been.

“Really? You went somewhere that it happened??” The boy’s eyes were wide with some obvious curiosity and awe, because of course he was taking her story seriously… When comparing it to everything else that happened around here or in other places, it didn’t sound that unreal to him at all!

He had a very specific love for hats, both because of how practical they could be when he didn’t want people to focus on his face or to hide his eyes… While also being really neat with all the varieties that they came in! So he nodded quickly, “Yup! I have some of them here, but other ones I kinda lost sometimes ‘cause they were harder to keep in my big coat pockets and stuff. There was a tin-can I used for a little while. It was kinda like a helmet that knights used!” And protected his head better than some hats, which was nice since he was pretty clumsy. “Thanks, I thought it worked pretty good!” He sounded pretty proud of himself for it, really.

"What good stuff do I do?" For just a moment her expression almost looked like she really was confused. Nothing she'd done since arriving here felt particularly good. It teetered between being logical things to do and the correct thing to do. Maybe those two were the same thing actually. But either way it didn't seem like particularly good things. Sometimes she wondered if he was just very biased with how much he liked her.

"Oh yeah! I was searching for a solution to how solve my demonic Elder Gods from beyond space and time problem and ended up in something that could have been a new movie. Maybe we should make it together. Attack of the Killer Snowmen!" Kinda like attack of the killer tomato's but with snowmen. Honestly the sad thing was she thought it might actually be a cult hit.

"A tin can knight helmet. I think they might be insulted by that." She'd only known a few knights but they were all rather proud of their armor and helmets and all that. Too proud for her liking. Proud and stuffy. "You're very resourceful to think of all that. I had to come up with things like that when I was little in Limbo too." Nothing like the hats, but unique ways to protect herself. "Not many can survive." Most don't, but she left that part out. It would be too depressing for a fun night.

The question is answered almost instantly, like the boy was surprised she didn’t know. Had he not said the right stuff before now? Mono needed to fix that immediately, right? “You already said you were gonna help me with my powers, and you set up a whole movie night for people to have fun with! It’s good to have fun, especially if some stuff hasn’t been fun.” All in all, she was good in the child’s books. It would be hard to convince him otherwise, and heaven help anyone who might have suggested otherwise and been faced with an angry child.

“Wow!!” The boy was definitely buying into it. He would be so shocked if he ever learned it wasn’t true, people mustn’t tell him. “I bet we could make a bunch of snowmen and everything if you did!” And as long as they were careful, it shouldn’t go badly… right? It might just be a fun afternoon making a pretend movie! “Then you could play the movie here!” Because that’s what you did with movies, right? You showed them to your friends at the theater, or something like that.

“Would they? Isn’t that kinda what they wear on their heads already? Just kinda fancy shaped.” So it didn’t seem like an insult to Mono, just a statement of fact! But he tilted his head slightly. It was always… Weirdly sad but also nice to know that Illyana kind of understood this stuff. Not everyone did, and trying to explain it in a way that they could understand was difficult sometimes. He never had to go through that around her. “Yeah, it can be hard… I don’t think a lot of people learn how before they don’t got a chance to learn anymore.” He was just… Lucky…? Lucky didn’t seem like the right word to him, though, considering what he knew now. But he did have the chance to learn to survive on his own, where a lot of others in his world didn’t.

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A little gremlin at the snacks table

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