towerofanimus | [OPEN] and then it just kept getting worse

characters: (jade!) Eridan Ampora and anyone willing to be subjected to movies, self-pity and shrugging.
setting: floor 14 - the media room
format: starting with action, but I'll match your preference
summary: Eridan has found heaven, aka, somewhere to watch movies and forget his life sucks quite as much as it does.
warnings: pity-party? Will add more as necessary.

[After making himself scarce for a bit, trying to get a hold of everything going on ~~and finally finish untangling his goddamn reels~~, Eridan's wandering around the Tower landed him somewhere he almost dare hope wouldn't suck too much. He wasn't sure he wanted to tempt fate and ask how it could suck: there were movies he had never watched there. So after making sure he wasn't going to run into someone he didn't want to, he curled up in a beanbag chair and set up to demolish a pile of movies until he either felt better, the world stopped sucking, or he forgot he felt like shit because the world sucked.

If you enter the media room, you'll find his horns the most recognizable part of his silhouette against the screen where something vaguely violent but definitely adventurous is going on. He's folded his knees to his chest, resting his chin on his knees, and seems completely absorbed by the narrative trying hard to be heard over the explosions and Really Fucking Cool Shit going on in the movie.

Pester?]

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I wish I could take that mentality more, [she says self-consciously.]

Sometimes the upset just happens. It's like, I decide to be all mature and not harp on about things. Strictly no harping. And then, whoosh, it's all out of my control, and-- and harping everywhere!

[Eridan chuckles quietly and looks at his feet, chin on his knees. He could sympathize with that. It was one of his deepest, darkest secrets that he'd once or twice damned an entire timeline just for the sake of having a good and proper freak out about something or another. Not that.

He'll ever let anyone know that.]

I don't think anyone wwould blame you fer it. Sometimes... harpin's necessary.

Well... I blame me for it. A little.

I just want everything to go right for a change, you know? [She's been working so hard, to change herself. But Willow doesn't truthfully want to make the conversation so serious, so she tries to turn it around.]

But I appreciate getting to talk about it. [She gives him another smile, having noticed his laughter.] You're really a nice guy.

[Ladies and gentlemen, Eridan I-am-a-filthy-hypocrite Ampora]

You shouldn't blame yourself for that, wworryin's normal. And it'd be nice if things turned out okay sometime soon.

[He looks away.]

I don't knoww about bein nice, but. I don't mind listenin, if you wwant to talk about it.

See, comments like that mean you're definitely nice. All offering to listen and telling me not to blame myself.

Being here is a lot to deal with, [she goes on sympathetically,] but I think you're doing really well.

[Eridan shrugged, looking weary.]

Screwwed up as this place can be, it's a step up from wwhere I wwas. It just. Took a wwhile to figure that out.

I've had a couple other people say that, too.

I can't say I don't miss home, but... it's a little like a vacation, to be honest. I know I have to go back sometime, but in the meanwhile I get to meet all sorts of new people. Including a really weird amount of aliens, no offense.

Oh, I understand.

[Eridan looks like he's about to say something... but he seems to regret the mere thought of it. He shrugs. So he only repeats himself, smile just a touch tense.]

I understand.

[Willow wants to the opposite of tense, here, so she tries to redirect the conversation again.]

But, um... at least we have piles and piles of movies, like a proper vacation? [she suggests, tentative.] That's how I like my vacations, anyway.

Mmm, you're right.

[The smile softens a notch.]

Do you wwant to pick the next one?

Sure! [Her own smile picks up at the offer.] But you can keep vetoing rights. I don't want to torture you with Keanu Reeves or anything.

Alright.

[He shrugs.]

Takes a lot to make me givve up a movvie, though. You'vve been wwarned.

Oh, good, cause I don't really give up on movies. I just start giving them better dialogue.

[A slightly cheeky grin.] Many a movie has been improved that way.

Wwell, I'll be the judge of that.

[He flashes her a much milder grin, nonetheless.]

You got it. I await the verdict with anticipation.

[AND THEN THEY PROCEEDED TO HAVE ONE OF THE MOST WICKED MOVIE MARATHONS IN ALL OF PARADOX SPACE.]

[OPEN] and then it just kept getting worse

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want to assume the rest? :O

Sure!