Fourth Floor Common Room; Saturday Evening.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna was having a severe craving for bad kung-fu movies after finally finishing reading through the Sparrow Heart trilogy, so she went down to the common room with her copy of Expert of the Soaring Chopblock and curled up on the couch. After all, who could go wrong with a movie about a blind martial artist who's weapon was a lampshade imbedded with blades with which he decapitated his enemies?

There was a bowl of popcorn waiting if anyone wanted to join her.

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[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"I smell popcorn," sang Conner as he sauntered through the door of the common room. Because with him, that was always a less risky way of asking if he could have some than, you know, actually asking.

"What are we -- oh, dude," he said, looking at the TV.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna couldn't help but chuckling at the reaction from Conner; they definately knew how to do the fake and over-the-top violence in these films, didn't they? She held out the bowl of popcorn for him. "I've got to learn how to do that," she commented with a grin.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Setsuna, thanks!" Conner gratefully accepted a handful of popcorn and munched his way through it, glued to the movie for a few minutes while he made a mental note to never, ever, ever let his brother get any ideas about blade-embedded lampshades.

"It's not as easy as it looks," he said, deadpan.

He was totally joking. Or was he?

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna slid one eye shut as she looked at Conner. "Have you actually tried such a thing?"

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Jude," Conner said, tossing a popcorn kernel his way in greeting. "What's up, man?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"Hi, Jude. Come to join in the kung-fu?"

Setsuna smiled at him, but wasn't going to voice her thought that, hey, they might actually finally watch one of these movies together.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude ducked and caught it with his mouth. "Not much, bro," he replied, munching happily as he padded in to flop down next to Setsuna. "You?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude did a really bad Dragon Thunder stance. "Always, bra." He turned his attention to the television as he flopped down on the floor at her feet, stretching out comfortably. "Oh, hey, haven't seen this one before."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Maaaaaaaaaaaybe," Conner said playfully. "Except without the beheading. Too messy."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"Nice catch, dude!" Yep, Conner was honestly impressed by that. If he didn't cheat and use his speed, he always got bonked between the eyes by the kernels. "I'm warm and I'm solid, there is a truly funky action movie on, and it's Saturday. Life is good."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna looked...a little impressed, actually. "Really? Wha...? How?...Why?"

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"It's a good one," Setsuna nodded assuringly and passed him the bowl of popcorn. "We're not too far into it yet, so I don't think you've missed enough that you won't know what's going on."

There was a pause, a frown. "Assuming one can really figure it out in general. They don't tend to pay too much attention to things like making sense in these things."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"Thanks, bro," Jude chuckled proudly. It was a skill that he had honed extensively. "Life is good indeed. So you were all," wiggle of fingers in questioning manner.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner gaped, somewhat at a loss as to how to answer that. "Because . . . it seemed like a good idea at the time?"

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"They usually make sense to me," Jude shrugged.

Then again, Jude's mind worked in mysterious ways. He began tossing popcorn for himself to catch, still paying attention to the movie.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner totally got the questioning wiggle of fingers. "Not until the end there," he explained, "but when we were trying to get rid of the creepy shadows they kinda went after us. I got off easier than a lot of people did."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Jude winced. "Ouch. Harsh, bro. I was taking the noble path of hiding in my room the whole time."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner chuckled. "Warm and comfy. You probably had the better idea. I'm the crazy guy who has to go running off to help, because I'm dumb."

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

"I'm the comic relief," he informed him seriously. "I have to get to safety. Not that it always works, but I try."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

"The comic relief is an important part of the team," Conner responded just as seriously. "Like, vital even. You can't spell team without . . . uh . . . you know what I mean."

Remixing sayings on the fly: #12 on the list of Careers Conner McKnight Should Never Pursue.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"And it didn't work out?" Setsuna asked, tilting her head slightly.

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

After spending all day being anti-social Naomi decided to hang out in the common room, "Hi," she said.

[dude-its-jude.livejournal.com]

Luckily, Jude didn't care.

"Exactly, bro."

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

"The larger picture," Setsuna agreed, "but the details are often very illogical. Maybe that's just because I see some of this and think to myself, 'That's so not how it would have happened,' because, y'know..." She shrugged. "My life's a kung-fu movie, practically. Well, not so much now. Now it's more like a popular anime."