Third Floor Common Room, Sunday Morning

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle had, as promised, looked for books on time travel and on symbiotic abilities for Five. The latter was proving more difficult to track down but she had found an interesting treatise on spells to travel through time (which came with rather a lot of dire warnings about the terrible fates that befell unwary magic users who went in to such things unprepared). She'd hand it over to him eventually, after she was done reading it.

She'd brought the book with her into the common room but had set it aside for the moment in favor of the television which had apparently decided to show cheesy Netflix Christmas movies.

Time travel could wait. Or maybe it already had, since it was time travel. So Belle was going to enjoy her mug of tea and bowl of cereal and a very silly movie and then get back to reading.

[Open common room is open and I should be around most of the day!]

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[imawizard]

"What's this?" Harry asked, frowning at the tv when he came in.

Poor kid had missed out on cheesy holiday movies his whole life.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Belle had also missed out on cheesy holiday movies but then where Belle came from they didn't have movies at all. Or electricity.

"Good morning, Harry! There's a girl who's pretending to be someone else." That didn't narrow down the movie options much, did it? "And I believe she's going to fall in love with the prince." Still not narrowing it down.

[imawizard]

Not at all.

"...There's a prince?"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Royalty makes it more exciting," Belle told him. "I'm not sure it would be nearly as interesting if she were pretending to be someone else and say, a bookseller found it. What would the consequences be?"

But tricking royalty might be treasonous! All sorts of things could happen.

[white_oleander]

A mix of boredom and curiosity brought Astrid upstairs that morning, peeking in to see who was already there before cutting in toward the kitchen to grab some breakfast.

"Christmas movies already, huh?" she asked.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

Only 34 shopping days until Christmas!

"It seems to be a day for it. It's amusing so far."

Belle was totally into this princess and mistaken identity stuff, Astrid. Totally.

[white_oleander]

"Got a good plot synopsis to catch me up so far?" Astrid asked, finding first some cereal, and now to take care of the rest.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"The girl is pretending to be someone else to get close to the royal family," Belle said having decided this was A Christmas Prince and not The Princess Switch or something else. "She's a writer. Only now she cares about them."

[imawizard]

"Is that what this is?"

Here he'd just been questioning the romance aspect.

[white_oleander]

"It definitely has the feel of one, anyway," Astrid said with a shrug of her shoulder. "Like it's going to start magically snowing at the most opportune time and the soundtrack will feature no small amount of bells."

Her experience with this sort of thing was pretty limited, though.

[imawizard]

"They've been mentioning snow is coming. Maybe they're saving it for the end of the film?"

See, you got it, Harry.

[craic_killer]

"Ooh, is it holiday movie time?"

Clare was so excited for this, Belle. You have no idea.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"It seems to be," Belle agreed. "Are there many more like this, then?"

Belle. Belle, there was a whole multiverse of cheesy holiday movies out there for you to enjoy when you needed a break from reading.

[craic_killer]

"So many," Clare said. "I've heard. Me ma won't let me watch more than one because she says it'll rot my brain and we only have the one telly and da wants to watch anything else."

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Oh, they can't really do that, can they? Rot your brain?"

Dangerous thing to say in Fandom, Belle.

"Do you have a favorite one?"

[imawizard]

"I had no idea this was something people did," Harry said.

He'd been so sheltered, what with the abusive home life and the magic school.

[craic_killer]

"With hot cocoa," Clare said, nodding, "and really cozy blankets!"

[not_harmless]

"Oh!" Terra exclaimed. "Is this... a Christmas film?"

She'd heard of them, of course, but seeing as Christmas wasn't an Otherworld holiday, the movies themselves had never caught on.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"It is! And there's a prince and mistaken identities and it's all very compelling."

Too bad the common room hadn't seen fit to provide Christmas cookies to go with the movie.

[not_harmless]

"That does sound compelling," Terra had to admit, coming in to the room and settling in on a couch. "Even if I'm not terribly sure what princes or mistaken identity have to do with Christmas."

[imawizard]

Harry was apparently the only person who didn't know these kinds of movies were a tradition here.

"Yes it is."

He'd given up. Accept the holiday cheese into your life, Harry.

[not_harmless]

Terra only had the loosest grasp on what Christmas even was, so Harry was probably a step ahead of her there, at least.

"I've never actually seen one before," she admitted.

[canlendanear]

Guess who didn’t have cheesy holiday movies on a planet in the 25th century?

“Is this more Earth entertainment?” Alara asked as she found herself stopping by the common room after her usual visit to the gym and saw what was on the TV. She had been getting a crash course in it over the last couple of weeks.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"It is," Belle said. "A movie with a prince and mistaken identities and a bit of Christmas."

[canlendanear]

“Oh,” Alara blinked and stared at the TV, “Christmas is one of Earth’s holidays right? I don’t think I’ve watched any Christmas movies,”

Well you had been there last Christmas Alara you had just been [non existent] very awkwardly quiet.