Third Theft

[icanhastail]

[Somehow, somewhere, Zidane has acquired a dashing hat and gotten it to stay on his still-pony-shaped head. He's currently rooting around on the Theatrical Deck, surprise surprise, and has somehow acquired a stack of loose papers and a pen. Time to see if it really is as difficult to write with your mouth as he thinks it's going to be!]

Hey, I've got a couple of questions for you! See, I had a talk the other day with a guy who really needs more of a social life and maybe a date every once in awhile [hello Frank!], or at all, and during that conversation I started thinking about maybe trying my hand at that whole being a playwright thing. Lord Avon is immortal, of course, but there's always room for a newcomer, isn't that right?

So! Since we all come from these difference places and presumably our entertainment on our homes was probably different, what kind of plays would you guys be interested in seeing? Comedy? Tragedy? Farce? Satire? Or we've got melodrama or maaaybe a musical, but writing music isn't really my strong suit, and we're going to avoid any and all morality plays because those are without a doubt always boring as hell.

Suggestions? Comments? Concerns? Just say what's on your mind!

Comments

[punsofiron]

[Chin. Hoof.]

You mean we could be acting out a story that Crow didn't write for once? I am so there.

Nice hat, by the way.

[icanhastail]

That one robot that looks kind of like a weird bird? Yeah, I don't think I'd trust anything he wrote about as far as Eiko could throw it. And thanks! I found it in a trunk up here. [It's a safe bet to assume that Zidane's found his second home.] There was another one that wouldn't fit on my head too well like this.

[And he drops out of Cambot's screenrange for a moment, then pops back up with an even more dashing hat by the brim in his teeth.]

I doh' fink ih's made for pfonies.

[itsjustthebots]

Weird bird? Weird bird?! Crows are hardly weird, Mr. Monkey-pony!

And we'll see if you get any offers for my next screenplay!

[icanhastail]

Oh, so you're planning on writing again?

...Why? I heard that was a disaster!

[itsjustthebots]

Ohhh, I've got some things in the works! Once I get my claw-like appendages back, anyway!

Disaster? Nahhh, that was a great success! There was some great improvisation there! What pizzazz!

[icanhastail]

Ohhhhhhhh, okay, I get it now.

You're delusional!

[itsjustthebots]

No, just visionary! All great artists were considered delusional in their own time! Picasso! Orson Wells! Gallagher! Well...no, actually not Gallagher at all.

[icanhastail]

'Visionary' does not mean 'without structure.' You seem to be forgetting that key fact.

[itsjustthebots]

I know plenty about structure! I've taken two whole creative writing workshops!

...Okay, so I was two hours late for the second, but I got all the notes!

[icanhastail]

Riiiiiiiiiiiight. Notes. Like they can teach you how to be a playwright.

[itsjustthebots]

Sure they can! That, and a healthy grant from an arts foundation!

[icanhastail]

Yeah, get back to me on that. Somehow I doubt you've got any clue what you're doing.

[itsjustthebots]

Fine then! I will!

[icanhastail]

[Will just wait and see on this one. He's expecting whatever Crow comes up with next to completely suck.]

[sylvan_child]

[Saria's ears perk at this idea, especially at the musical idea. She's never really seen a musical before, but music is involved. They used to play music in Kokiri forest when they put on plays. It couldn't be that different, right?]

Oh! I can write music!

[icanhastail]

[That's his least favorite of the options he's willing to entertain, but it's the kid who reminds him kind of of a female Vivi so he's not going to just deny her, but he does raise a hoof to sort of scratch at the back of his head.]

Are you sure? I've only done a musical once before, and that one definitely wasn't mine. I don't even really know how to write lyrics.

[And he's kind of getting the feeling that they're thinking of different kinds of music.]

[fatedcircle]

[Yeah, Squall is just facepalming over here.]

[icanhastail]

Come on, Squall! You can be the dark, tragic, brooding romantic lead! Girls love that sort of thing!

[fatedcircle]

[(I don't brood.)]

Do they?

[icanhastail]

[Yes, you brood. Goddamnit do you brood.]

Uh-huh! It's a whole subset of the romantic genre! Girls liking boys with dark pasts for whom they're the only speck of light!

[fatedcircle]

[(Sounds pointless to me.)]

Don't write a role just because I'm here.

[icanhastail]

I will if the story naturally develops like that! Somehow I don't think romantic tragedy is going to win in this little contest, though.

[fatedcircle]

Wouldn't surprise me.

[icanhastail]

But maybe if I'm any good at this I'll write a skit just for you and your dark and tragic, misanthropic self.

[GIANT. PONY. WINK.]

[fatedcircle]

[(Please. Don't.)]

[icanhastail]

[He's just gonna grin at you until you say something, Squall. Give it up already.]

[fatedcircle]

[Does a sigh count? Because he's totally sighing.]

[icanhastail]

[No. You know him better than that.]

[fatedcircle]

[That doesn't mean he can't hope.]

I don't need you making a skit for me.

[icanhastail]

[Yeah yeah, false hope. His tail waves in a dismissive gesture.]

I'm your best friend! It would be terrible if I didn't show my gratitude for all your scene-stealing!

[fatedcircle]

My scene-stealing?

[icanhastail]

Yeah, your scene stealing.

[He sits back on his haunches and launches into a fairly spot-on impersonation of Squall.]

"I know that I'm not alone. That's why I can fight by myself! I'll prove it to you. We may be apart, but we still fight together!"

[fatedcircle]

That's not scene stealing.

[icanhastail]

That was totally scene stealing. Who's the actor here, you or me?

[fatedcircle]

[(What does that have to do with anything?)]

You don't have to be an actor to know about plays.

[icanhastail]

You don't, but you don't. Not sure what kind of education you got on your world, but it wasn't in any kind of classical arts.

[fatedcircle]

[(...Just because I never mentioned it...)]

So?

[icanhastail]

So you don't know about scene stealing when it bites you in the nose!

[TRIUMPH!]

[fatedcircle]

[Just this face, Zidane.]

[icanhastail]

[And just that same grin, Squall.]

[fatedcircle]

[...Of course.]