Second Floor Common Room, Wednesday Morning

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Ben had rambled something about cartoons and catchphrases back while they were heading towards Eros, and so Ender was trying to make a concerted effort to at least find out what he'd been talking about.

So: he was out here in the morning, eating cereal from a bowl. And looking increasingly more dubious about the reruns of We're Lyke Spies he was watching. As an experiment, it was not a particularly succesful one. Oh well.

Give him another ten minutes, and he'd be watching bloody Shakespeare movies again.

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex didn't have to be awake but he was and that freaking sucked. Trudging down to the common room to try and scrounge up some food, he wandered in, caught sight of what was on the television and raised an eyebrow at Ender.

"Can we watch The Smurfs next?" Alex quipped sarcastically. "Or you got some other cartoon lined up?"

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"You can watch whatever you like," Ender said, utterly failing to rise to the bait. "I was told I had to check this out, but I'm over it."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Someone told you to watch this?" Alex asked, unsurprised by the failure to rise to the bait. He'd formed the opinion that Ender was just permanently on Valium or something. "Who told you to watch cartoons? Five year old brother?"

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"My roommate," Ender said, taking a spoonful of cereal and swallowing it before he said anything else. "I don't have any younger siblings."

Just older ones, but he was still avoiding referring to Peter as one.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Both of mine are younger but we weren't really a cartoon family," he shared, grabbing some orange juice and coming back to find a seat. "I don't know if we'd have watched this one anyway. Kinda girly looking to me."

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"I'm pretty sure it was meant for girls," Ender said, and then frowned - a little quizically - as one of the female leads burst by in a very skin-tight body suit. "...Well, at least most of it. Some of it seems like downright pandering to other demographics..."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Wow," Alex said, blinking some. "You sure this isn't some animated gateway porn or something? That was a little surprising."

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Upon walking into the room, Tony paused and stared at the television. "Wow, that is colorful."

And he'd know. Being from a neatly color coordinated show himself.

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"It is the twenty-first century," Ender said, though he had a feeling Alex was from around this time and wouldn't quite get the full impact of that. "I guess the makers were trying to keep all of their options open."

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"Apparently modern-day spies really need to jump out," Ender volunteered, glancing over the back of the couch.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Well, these girls will certainly give Velma and Daphne a run for their money," Alex quipped, smirking. "Though, I always thought Velma would be hot as shit if she took those glasses off and went for something besides that dumpy orange sweater."

Perving on some Scooby Doo characters wasn't that weird, Alex thought. Better than perving on Scooby himself.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I think it's gateway porn," Alex shared, glancing up at Tony. "They're just gonna ease kids into it."

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"Who?"

Sorry, Alex. But if he'd gotten that reference, he wouldn't have had to research this in the first place.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty sure that can't be right," Tony replies, taking a seat on the arm of said couch. "I'd have heard online if S.H.I.E.L.D. ran around in bright pink."

Geeks would have been all over that crap.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Never seen Scooby Doo?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow. "You from another planet or something? Another dimension or the future or some shit?"

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"Born and raised in the late 22nd century," Ender volunteered, and gave Alex a slight shrug. "I can't say I've ever been in the position to watch a lot of cartoons."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"You're not missing much. It was about a group of kids who solved crimes with their dog," Alex relayed, shrugging. "And they always managed to do it in a few hours and without any of them getting stabbed or shot. Total kids show but entertaining if you were seven and dumb."

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"Or maybe you wouldn't have," Ender said. "Maybe bright pink has some strange psychological effect that makes you unable to see it."

Silly teenage boy banter, he could do, after the weekend he'd had.

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"Or my roommate," Ender ribbed gently. "If it was anything like this, I can see the appeal for some people. But I can't say I'm exactly feeling stimulated here."

[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

"Oh wow," Juliet observed as she wandered into the common room. (It wasn't hers, but she had a little free time before class and felt like being around people.) "Those cartoon girls have amazing hair. Are there Pop-Tarts?"

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Sure, say that to someone from a similar show.

Tony tilted his head, trying to find where it could be confused with porn. He may be more interested in science, but he was still a teenage boy. "It is kinda Japanese," he granted Alex.

And the characters did get tied up more than strictly necessary...

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"And they have an amazing sense of style," Juliet added. "Hi, Tony."

[twintuitionist.livejournal.com]

"I love Smurfette," Juliet announced guilelessly.

Sarcasm ... was not really her specialty.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"If this isn't really your thing, why're you still watching?" Alex wondered. "Too lazy to find the remote or hoping to catch a glimpse of some animated boob?"

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex raised an eyebrow at that...half agreement with his ridiculous statement. "Watched a lot of Japanese animated gateway porn, man?"