Fourth Floor Common Room, Sunday Evening

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Adam was feeling a bit tired when he made his way into the common room. He made himself a bowl of popcorn and turned on the television, looking for nothing in particular.

Which was why he was now staring at the television in what looked to be a mix of horror and genuine surprise. Adam really didn't know what to make of what he was seeing. "Abaranger?"

Yep, the boy was stunned and now wide awake.

[OOC: So very very open!]

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[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

After a long weekend camping in the woods and spending a good amount of time taking care of her wounded right arm (which she had not been easy on and was now regretting her slip in more ways than one), Setsuna just might be willing to let herself veg a little. She came down to the common room. She gave a nod to Adam. "Hello," she said, "mind if I join you?"

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Adam had been staring at the television in awe and utter surprise, so he jumped slightly when Setsuna spoke.

"Oh, hi Setsuna," He smiled sheepishly. "Not at all. Would you like some popcorn?" Adam offered the bowl to her, glancing back at the television. His mind still couldn't wrap around the idea that there was a show about Power Rangers in existence.

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"Oh, thank you," Setsuna nodded as she had a seat and reached for the popcorn. First with her right, then, wincing, changed her mind and did so with her left and a smile like it was nothing. But it didn't look like Adam would have noticed, anyway, which was good. She gave him a curious look before glancing toward the source of his expression.

"Never seen Abaranger before?"

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"You're welcome." Adam smiled, his gaze seeming to be stuck on the episode of Abaranger.

"Um, no." He shook his head, blushing ever so slightly. "It's kind of new to me. I didn't have this kind of programming in my time."

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"It's everywhere in Japan," Setsuna said, adding, after a moment of watching it, "or, at least, a variation of it. There was even a joke in my class regarding it. The Baka Rangers...for the five girls ranked lowest on the academic scores..."

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Now, would Conner be dork enough to have memorized the theme song to the TV show made about him and his friends? Of course not. Even if he were, would he be dork enough to walk into the common room singing along with it when he heard it coming from the TV?

Well, yes.

"Abareta kazu dake tsuyoku nareru! Abareta kazu dake yasashisa wo shiru! Abare Abare Abare Makure Get up!"

And then he realized there were people in there and coughed.

And then he realized who exactly was in there.

Ohhhhhhhhhhh crap.

"It's totally fake," he blurted out. "All of it. They made the whole thing up."

[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Adam was still staring at the television when he heard Conner singing. Managing to avert his gaze for a moment to see who had come into the room.

"Um, yeah. I figured it had to be fake." Adam totally didn't but he was going to pretend he had.

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"Totally, totally fake," Conner repeated, waving his hands emphatically. "They got everything wrong. Well, okay, so they set it in Japan and everything, but hi, wrong number of Rangers and wrong colors and -- and!"

It was kind of killing him to put down his own team like this, but he lived in fear of the sock Z kept threatening to stuff in his mouth.

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Off to one side, Z was taking off her boot to fetch that sock. Just in case.

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Adam nodded, listening to what Conner had to say. "So this really has no basis in reality then?"

He had no idea Z was off to the side but his mun was cracking up at that knowledge.

[bound2blade.livejournal.com]

Setsuna may have been eying the boys a little strangely at this point. Mostly just Conner for the signing, though.

[connernotconnor.livejournal.com]

Conner would be asking for it, especially when he jumped up on the end table at the end of the song and belted out, "Bakuryuu Sentai Abarenjaa! ABARENJAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Stupid catchy theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3WjCuEaLZY).

Pause. Blink.

"Uh. Hi?"

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"....Hi," Setsuna said, trying to maintain the stare but unable to keep from a small grin, shaking her head. This stuff came from her country, though, so she felt almost guilty. "How are you, Conner?"

And, because she did sometimes have a sense of humour, "Don't feel you need to answer in song."

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"Well, the theme song's over anyway," Conner said sheepishly, chucking a thumb at the TV. "So I couldn't."

He hopped down off the end table and cleared his throat. "Can't believe I'm leaving here in a couple of weeks," he said sadly.

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"Dude, you know the theme song in Japanese?" Z said disbelievingly. Then she said quickly, "I mean, of course it's fake. Totally fake. Absolutely not based on true events. Ha ha."

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"A hundred and twelve percent made up," Conner agreed. "And what? You could do this song on the video karaoke machines in Reefside!"

Or look up the lyrics online, like he did, but Conner McKnight did not ever admit to that level of geekitude.

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"Reefside sounds like a silly place," Z informed him. "I'll stick to Newtech, thanks."

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Z blinked at the TV. "Well, at least it's not Mighty Capin' Justice Magicians," she said after a while.

[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

Adam frowned and looked over at Z. "There's another series?"

The poor boy's brain was breaking.

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Z grinned. "Oh, yeah, there's lots. Usually Japanese. They're great to make fun of if you know--I mean. Totally fake."

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"Oh, I really had no idea." Adam admitted honestly. "Fake, right."

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Peter felt like hanging out and watching TV, and the common room on his floor made for a good place to do that. He came in and took a seat on the couch. "Hey."

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Adam smiled and waved slightly, slowly getting over what he was seeing on the tv. "Hey."

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"Anything good on?" Peter asked.

[im-afrog.livejournal.com]

"Um, not really?" Adam shrugged. "I just kind of turned the television on and ended up watching this, Abaranger."