❝So hand me that remote❞

[guiltapalooza]

Characters: Willow (guiltapalooza) and you! OPEN.
Setting: The media level.
Format: Action tags preferably, but I can prose if you wish!
Summary: Willow has way more free time than she's used to, especially without school to be a perfectionist over. She finds herself watching a lot of movies. Feel free to make multi-character threads and join existing ones, by the way!
Warnings: None.

[At the moment Willow is watching Zombieland, a movie right up her alley but from several years past her time, so she'd never had a chance to see it before. She's sitting on a couch across from the TV, hand in a bowl of chips and giggling periodically.

On the screen, there's a college-aged boy with poofy, curly hair running hurriedly away from a zombie co-ed with a broken ankle.] You just can't trust anyone, [says the narration.] The first girl I let into my life and she tries to eat me.

[Goddess, does that remind her of Xander. For once it's a happy reminder, though, and she practically chokes on some chips laughing at it. Him and that preying mantis teacher...

Follow the sounds of giggling and come interrupt her?]

Comments

[windykind]

[And all of a sudden, there's a John literally running into the room. He heard the opening narration and couldn't resist.]

ZOMBIELAND! I love that movie!!

...Oh, hi Willow.

[guiltapalooza]

--John, hi! [She's twisting up over the couch arm to talk to him directly, grinning.] You've seen this before? It's 2003 when I'm from, so this hadn't come out yet.

Want to join me?

[windykind]

Yeah! It's so funny, Willow, you'll love it.

[He jumps clean over the couch (hello windy powers), and then flops into the empty seat next to her. He's still grinning widely.]

[guiltapalooza]

I am already, [she admits, giving him an amused, tolerant look at the showing off.]

It reminds me of this friend of mine that got seduced by one of our teachers, but she turned out to be a preying mantis demon in disguise and tried to eat him.

[verymuchalive]

[Aradia hears the giggling and can't resist the chance to catch up with her roomie. She walks in, taking a seat nearby]

What're you watching?

[guiltapalooza]

Something called Zombieland. I think it's supposed to be a comedic parody of the zombie genre-- it just started a few minutes ago.

[She nestles the chip bowl between them on the couch, scooting over closer to Aradia to include her.]

[verymuchalive]

Zombies...?

[As she glances at the screen]

Oh! The shambling undead. Sounds interesting.

[She makes herself more comfortable, taking some of the chips]

So, how have you been?

[guiltapalooza]

Right, the shambling undead.

[At her question, Willow starts, as if the very topic had been on her mind. She answers a little shlyly.] Oh, um, I've been good. Eridan and I got things sorted.

[deadliestberet]

Preston blinked, was that laughter? And the sound of a TV? Curious now, he approached the room and peeked his head inside.

"A-ah, is this a movie?"

[guiltapalooza]

"Sure is!" Willow gets on her knees on the couch to look over the back rest at him, offering a friendly smile.

"Hi."

[deadliestberet]

He returned her smile with his own, small one. "Er, hey. Do you mind if I watch it too?" He just had to ask, because he hasn't been able to see a movie in so long~!

[guiltapalooza]

"No no, take a seat!" She gestures toward one of the empty arm chairs around her. "I'll even share my snacking goodies, that's how magnanimous I am."

[uprisings]

[This is not a room he generally goes to! Movies and technology in general are just not really his thing. But that bit of narration and the giggle that follows make him... wtf hard enough to wander on in, peering curiously at the human running around like that]

[...forgetting to actually greet Willow whoops]

in which Vivi pretends she remembers what happens in Zombieland

[guiltapalooza]

[On screen, the boy has been chased into the bathroom of his apartment, and is getting into an awkward physical fight with the zombie involving a shower curtain. He fumbles through the cabinet under the sink and comes up with some kind of cleaning supply.]

The eyes, the eyes! [she encourages, not noticing the Summoner yet and leaning forward in her seat eagerly.] Go for the-- yessss!

[Columbus, who is the boy in the movie in question, had in fact doused the zombie's eyes with cleaning fluid. He made it out of the bathroom and shut the door behind him.]

oh good I don't remember either lkajsdklfj

[uprisings]

[...well then. This is... sort of disconcerting. It's not new of course. Seeing people get a kick out of random violence and distress is kind of a staple of being a troll. But seeing a human get into is... odd... Fucks with his perception of them as a species once again]

[Still, he's interested. Kind of fascinated actually by what is apparently a human zombie on the screen there. This human kid must be a giant idiot if he let one into his house though wow]

He won't last long. [Mused out loud as he waits for the zombie to break out of the bathroom and fuck this kid up]

we can just awkwardly mention things that happen at random XD

[guiltapalooza]

Oh hey, it's you! [She twists in place to smile directly at him, the smile turning beaming when she sees that he, remarkably enough, isn't injured.]

Want to join me? It's about if my country got overrun by zombies, [she says perkily.] It's kinda fun to watch someone else run screaming in terror for once-- fictionally, of course.

this is the only bit of zombieland I've ever seen sob...

[notagiraffe]

[Taiki heard the giggling and spotted Willow on the coach, he skipped over to go see her glancing at the TV to see what she was watching. He stopped in his tracks though, staring at the screen in horror as an older girl approached her little sister with a gun because her little sister was about to turn into a monster.

Obviously he couldn't smell any blood, which was strange for him even if expected and he stood transfixed, terrified but unable to look away as it was revealed to be a hoax. Blinking he looked over to Willow not quite understanding why she was watching something like this but not wanting to judge.]

pffff that works out fine

[guiltapalooza]

[She's distracted watching, not noticing Taiki standing there and completely absorbed in what's going on in the movie.

Seriously, it'd been a trick?? She feels gypped. She'd gotten all emotionally invested in that little girl, and now they were violating the spirit of zombie apocalypse survivalship with their conning. This was the spirit of friendship itself on the line!

Her brow furrows as she keeps watching.]

[notagiraffe]

[Taiki looked back to the television and barely stifled a cry as there was more blood. He looked at Willow again, who even though she had stopped laughing still seemed to be enjoying it.]

Why... sorry why did they do that? [His voice was very quiet and he sounded worried and scared]

[guiltapalooza]

--Huh? [She glances over, and sounds surprised.] Taiki?

Is something wrong? It's just a movie.

[attheclocktower]

[Xion's still been working her way throughout the Tower, learning about the different rooms and what was where. This is the first time she's actually seen someone in this particular room, and the TV screen on.

She watches it with wide eyes. She's seen computer screens before, but her source of "entertainment" thus far in life had consisted of hanging out with her friends. She'd never seen a movie before.

She steps cautiously into the room, transfixed.]

[guiltapalooza]

[Too absorbed in what's happening to Columbus to notice her enter, Willow is watching eagerly as he walks down an abandoned stretch of highway, rolling luggage bumping along behind him.

In the distance, there's a faint rumble as a huge SUV dodges around empty vehicles, approaching.]

[floreatnoctem]

[The giggling isn't unusual to hear in the media level- that isn't why Chidori heads up. She'd been planning on watching something herself, but if there was already someone there...

Well, she could wait until they left.

She spotted bright red hair as she passed the television, and paused curiously to look down first at the girl watching the film, then at the movie itself. A moment later and her eyebrows were raised at the wit apparent in the fim- unusual in her experience with this genre- and her mouth twitched into a shadow of a smile. She needed to know what this was, so she could show Minato later.]

...what is this?

[Surprise, there's a creepy girl standing behind and slightly to one side of you Willow. Try not to freak.]

[guiltapalooza]

[She starts in place, and ends up sheepishly picking chips off of the couch. They're collected into a little pile on the end table for future throwing away.]

It's called Zombieland. I think it's supposed to be a parody? [she guesses out loud, turning to face her more directly now that the impromptu clean up is done.

She gives her a Willow-standard friendly smile.] You can join me if you want.

[floreatnoctem]

[Chidori considered this in the split-second it took her to blink in mild confusion at the other girl. Sometimes dealing with Strega, she forgot that normal people could be so... friendly. Well, if nothing else, at least this way she could reassure Minato whether or not the movie was worth watching.

So she sat down, carefully arranging her skirts around her legs.]

Thank you. I'm- [a slightly too-long pause, as she considered whether or not introducing herself would be too much or not]- Chidori.