aterat | Movie Night

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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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"Don't be a sore winner," she responded with a mock pout. It was nice to seem him be so much like the child he was supposed to be. "Sure. What do you think you should start with?" There were memories in the back of her mind of doing silly little things like this with Kitty and then vegging out on the couch with some bad movies. Or good ones, all depended on your perspective. She really hadn't expected this of all things to make her miss her old friend so much.

"You'd be great at it. The producer produces things. Sometimes they come up with the story or sometimes they just find one they like and toss money at it. Then they employ everyone else. The director directs the actual movie, deciding if they like how the actors acted in the scene or if they like how the scene looked." She looked at him expectantly, as if to just ask which he liked the sound of more. "We could! And I'm sure they'd love it." Because again, they'd be forced to. Or strongly suggested that they better love it or maybe she'd have the imps torture them.

"They're not fun. They're boring." But she had a weird idea about boring and not boring. She shook her head at his statement and forced a smile. "Don't think about it too much. This is a fun night." And if he started thinking about it she might also think about the people she'd lost in Limbo. She'd lived because of their deaths and that was not something she ever wanted to deal with.

Mono could be quite clever sometimes, and other times there were things that didn’t make sense to him. Did winning hurt? He didn’t think it did, at least not this time. The boy’s attention was redirected easily enough, though, to the matter at hand. “I dunno, there’s so much stuff! Do you got favourites?” Illyana’s favourites might be a good place to start, right? It meant it would be something that she already thought was good, and probably not the disaster that had been the imps original attempts at snack combinations.

Listening to the whole explanation, he tapped his chin lightly. “I don’t got a lot of money, so I guess maybe I should be the director? ‘cause I can’t throw money at stuff, but I could watch and help make stuff better, right?” That made the most sense, after all. He did get paid being a letter carrier, but he was pretty sure he didn’t make enough to pay everyone else for acting and stuff! So let the producer be someone who could afford it, or something like that. “Then let’s do that! As soon as the snow is on the ground and stuff!” He added with an excited tone, liking the idea more and more. They could work on it all winter, then show it to people when it was done!

Aterat wouldn’t know what to think, that was for sure…

“Then I guess the stories are wrong. That kinda sucks.” Because, of course, Mono believed Illyana about them being boring completely. Why wouldn’t he? She must know about real knights more than he did! And… Well, the bod nodded finally to that. “Y-yeah… I won’t.” He added as his eyes turned back to the table. Illyana was right, this was a fun night. He didn’t want to think about certain things, or his world. All of this was much better… “Let’s have fun then.” He added more to tell himself than her.

"Chocolate. Anything chocolate. We didn't get much of that in Limbo." Or any of that. Nothing good existed in Limbo really. Being a kid there had ben pretty awful. "I like the snowcaps, the chocolate with the white sprinkles. They look like little chocolate mountains." And she liked the memories of snow they brought about. Sometimes she still reacted a lot like a child to things.

"Director it is then! Congratulations Director Mono. You'll need a director's hat now." She said with a grin. What exactly was a director's hat? She had no idea. They had to have one though, right? "We'll do it then. Hopefully there's a good snow this year and no memory crystals or anything like that." Just happy fun snow perfect for making the best movie ever. That Aterat definitely won't just side-eye consider them weird for.

"Stories are often wrong. Or overexaggerated. That's what makes them stories. Nobody's going to listen or read the if they're not embellished." Which was just a fancy word for lying. "You should hear the things they say about sorceresses and witches where I'm from." Russia was not kind to folklore like that. Actually, no place was really. There were too many bad connections with it for kindness to ever be shown.

“Yeah? Then we gotta make sure we get lots of that!” Before arriving here he hadn’t had much chocolate either, just the occasional wrapped bar in a store or in the cupboards of the viewers when he was sneaking around, but they were always an extra special treat. So having it more easily here was pretty exciting! “I never had a snowcap! But I like chocolate, and I like sprinkles a lot! So I bet they’re really good.” He said, standing up a little straighter as he tried to see where they were on the table to start gathering them up.

Mono’s eyes widened. “Directors get hats?? That’s really cool! I wonder what it looks like…” He was clearly very excited about the idea of a job that came with a special hat, given his obvious love for head-wear in general. It meant the director really was the perfect job for him! “Yeah, I really don’t wanna see more stuff happen like that stupid crystal rain… That wasn’t fun at all. But the snow happened pretty soon, right? So if it’s gonna snow, we don’t got long to wait!” Which meant he was very excited about their potential movie. He would be very disappointed if it didn’t snow at all. Nature would be disappointing them if it didn’t happen.

“Yeah, I guess that’s kinda true. I know there were sometimes witches in story books, and they’re different from the kind of people that got magic here!” So it did kind of make sense that the stories were wrong. He remembered meeting a witch who was pretty nice at one point… So definitely different from the ‘wicked witches’ that might be in story books about knights and princesses. “I wonder why they gotta lie about what they’re like? Just seems kinda mean, and makes you more scared of meeting a real one, right?”

"Agreed." She said with a big grin. "We'll have to change that. They're over there," she pointed to the furthest table away where an imp was dancing instead of doing his job. She sighed but was in a decent enough mood to just let it slide. At least they were having fun too? From the little bit of chocolate on it's face it was pretty clear some of them had started to taste the snacks. Evidently sugar acted similarly for imps as it did with kids.

"Oh yeah. They get really important hats. And usually a chair with their name on it. All very important official things." At least that's what she'd learned from Hollywood and if it wasn't true, well that was Hollywood's fault, not hers. "It should snow. The seasons seem to be pretty consistent here." If you could say anything was actually consistent here.

"Witches in storybooks always get a bad name. Really is a shame." Not that a lot of sorcerers weren't awful. But there were good witches, one in particular she had loved deeply. "Because, people always lie about power. They're always afraid of it."

“Okay!” Mono was pretty excited to try some of these things, though the sight of the imp dancing instead of working does get one of his soundless little laughs as he watches. Clearly it was having fun, and that seemed like the point of the night… So it was fine, right? Right. The boy liked that they could have fun, especially since he still kind of seen them as his friends and Illyana didn’t seem to mind.

“Really? That sounds kinda important and fun. Well, except for the chair. Do I gotta sit around? I don’t think I wanna do that part if I don’t gotta.” Because, well, he’d been sitting in a single chair for long enough, and it was slightly disconcerting to think he’d take a job where he’d do just that again. Mono at least recovered well enough, bouncing back at the mention of consistent weather around here. “I can’t wait to see it snow. As soon as we get a biiig snow, we gotta start figuring stuff out!”

“Yeah, ‘cause real ones aren’t all bad and scary like they make them seem!” It just seemed kind of mean to do that, not that he knew about writing books or anything… But it didn’t seem fair. “Sometimes powers are scary, so I guess I kinda get it… But they aren’t all, so it doesn’t seem fair to treat everyone the same.”

"Nah. You don't have to do anything you don't want to. That's the point of being the Director. You call the shots!" That was the best part of being in charge of things, right? Everything was a lot better when you were the one calling the shots and making the decisions for what everyone else was going to do. At least with fun things like making a movie. It wasn't always so great when you were leading an army or something like that, but that was a totally different things.

"Even if there isn't any snow maybe I could find a spell to make some." There had to be something like that! There were spells for everything after all.

"Humans always treat everyone with powers the same." There was a hint of bitterness in her tone there that she just couldn't help.

“Then I like the sound of that job for sure!” He’d never been in charge of anything before, at least not… as he was now, he supposed. Mono liked the idea of trying when it came to fun stuff, though, and this sounded like a lot of fun to him. “What’s your job gonna be? Or can we both be directors and make all the decisions?” Mono wasn’t sure if it was a job for one person or two, but he bet Illyana was good at making decisions too, so it made sense to the boy to ask!

Tilting his head slightly at the idea, he blinked. “So you could even make weather stuff happen with magic? That’s really neat! So we don’t gotta worry if it doesn’t snow, anyway.” Was there anything magic couldn’t do? Mono wasn’t sure, but it sure seemed like it could do most things. Or… At least Mono believed Illyana could do most things with magic, but he believed in her a lot in general.

Mono frowned a little though, before nodding. “I guess they do. It seems like they’re kinda mean about powers everywhere, huh? It’s really stupid.”

"It's yours then, Director Mono! I'll get you an outfit if you want." She tilted her head and then shrugged. "I can be the producer. Find people to help us and maybe be the assistant director. You'll be in charge." She thought maybe he'd like that. Even if he didn't she quite liked the idea of it. All of it seemed just a bit amusing.

"Yup. You can do anything with magic if you have the knowledge and the skill." And the willingness sometimes. But that didn't seem appropriate to tell him, especially if they were talking about about people with powers being treated poorly.

"Fear causes it. People fear people with more power than they have."

“You don’t gotta get me a whole outfit, but a hat would be really neat!” He agreed, smiling his clumsy little smile before he listened to her idea. “That sounds like an important job, too, and I think you’d be better at it than me.” So he guessed they both knew what they’d be doing! Which was kind of exciting, even if it seemed like waiting would be kinda boring. “I guess we got a plan now! We just need to wait for it to be time.”

It all sounded pretty amazing to Mono, at least with how she was explaining it. “Yeah? You must got a lot of both, right?” At least Illyana seemed like she did to Mono, more than the average person he’d met since he arrived here.

“I guess… Power can be scary sometimes.” Like his, he realized. “But if someone’s not doing bad stuff with it, seems kinda dumb to treat them bad just for having it.”

"Do you not want the whole outfit?" Because if it was a matter of not wanting, she wouldn't do it. But if it was just a matter of him not wanting her to do it then she'd do it anyway. She nods though. "We have a plan! Hopefully we don't have to wait too long." She was patient but sometimes it was nice to not have to be.

"I do. I've had a lot of time to read over a really big library to learn." And practice. She appreciated the compliment though, even if she thought he gave her a bit too much credit.

"They assume that we'll do bad things with it.Then don't bother to even consider we might not."

“I dunno. It just seems like a lot to do.” People tended to buy him clothes, and while he kind of knew why that was at this point, it did seem like a lot of trouble to go to after a while. Besides that, he was pretty happy with the idea of new hats, anyway. “I hope not! I hope it snows lots soon.” Similarly, the boy knew patience was important… But the idea of a fun thing to do was honestly pretty exciting and made it hard to stay as patient as he might normally be .

“Wow! That’s probably a lot of learning then. Some of the books in the library here are really big and confusing looking.” He rather liked ones with stories that included pictures. They were more fun to read… And not nearly as hard as some of the other stuff he opened out of curiosity.

Mono frowned at that. He kind of understood that for sure… But then again? “It’s kinda stupid to not think that some people might not do bad stuff, huh?”

"Not at all. It'd be simple spells. But I'll definitely get you a hat." At the very least he could have that. "Fingers crossed. Or whatever else people say." She waved a hand nonchalantly. There were plenty of English sayings but she wasn't always great at remembering them.

"You should open up some of the ones in Belasco's library. There's a bunch in dead languages." That she'd had to do a lot to learn.

"Better safe than sorry, I guess. At least that's what they think."

“Oh, okay then!” If it wasn’t going to be hard or cost her money, then he guessed that was okay, though he tilted his head slightly at the saying. “I think I heard people say that. It’s a funny thing to say, though. I dunno how it helps give luck for stuff.”

The boy remembered the big library in Limbo that she had showed him. There had been so many strange-looking books there… The boy had to tilt his head a little at one thing, though, that he’d never actually heard before. “Languages die?” Maybe that was normal. Lots of stuff died… Though languages didn’t seem like people or animals and stuff.

"Better than the knock on wood one." That one just made absolutely no sense to her no matter how she tried to look at it. Then again, hoping for luck in that way didn't make much sense to her. She'd prefer to make her own luck if she had to.

"Everything dies. Even languages. Sometimes they're just replaced as people merge, but some of the books come from places where the entire race that spoke it were lost." Which made them all the more valuable for the secrets they held.

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