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Dexter Grif ([personal profile] whyarewehere) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2017-06-03 09:33 pm

[video][mingle post] Show Me Your Moves: Redux

[ Grif is in one of Legion World's lounges. There's a space future pool table behind him, set up for a game. ]

Hey Legion, how's it going?

[ Wait. No. He holds up a hand. ]

Rhetorical question, don't answer that, it's not what I'm here for. What I'm here to talk to you about today is superpowers.

[ He's found his stride, and taken an almost public-service-announcement tone. ]

Do you have strange new abilities since coming to space? Were you just extra cool before the rest of us and nothing changed? Cause I definitely want to know what you guys got in the Time Trapper lottery and please make it look as awesome as possible.

[ He grins a little. Superpowers are the best. ]

For those of you who are new, which is most of who I'm talking to here? I'm Grif. Doubletime if you want to go all codename on me but... Grif. Really. Sometimes I look like this:

[ He scoops a space-age looking helmet painted bright orange off the floor, presumably, then drops it again with a thunk. It's armor, he's not gonna break it, right? ]

And me? I got this.

[ Grif disappears in an orange blur and suddenly, the pool table clears itself in a flurry of indistinct motion. He comes back down from super speed and casually leans the cue against it. If anyone bothers to slow that down, it was an absolutely disgraceful display and he cheated at least six times. Grif is super smug. ]

So yeah. I kind of got the best power already? Sorry.

[ Oh right, there was something else he wanted. ]

And everybody else? Uh. Anything new that's cool? ...Or just tell me how the last mission went for you. I got to go into the past and wrestle Batman and stuff. He's kind of a dick, honestly.

((( This is a free for all mingle post! Grif will reply to everyone who responds, but this also an invitation to threadjack. If you want to have a character jump into a thread somewhere with anyone else you are absolutely welcome and, in fact, encouraged. This is set after Gods Among Us / To Have And To Hold / The Other Mother and before Time Ripples, so it is slightly backdated to give characters a chance to meet the regular versions of each other before the nonsense begins.
If there's anything I can do to improve your dumb Grif-assisted minglepost experience, feel free to ping me at [plurk.com profile] zitasaurusrex.)))
rushing_by: (Explaining time)

[personal profile] rushing_by 2017-06-05 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
...I will never get used to the way entertainment can change between universes.

Anyways, a musical is sort of like a play, but instead of just speaking dialogue, the actors also tell the story by singing and dancing.
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[personal profile] grumpylady 2017-06-06 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
What difference does the singing and dancing make?
rushing_by: (Hmm)

[personal profile] rushing_by 2017-06-07 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
They help tell the story. In a normal play, the characters speech, their expressions, and their actions tell you how they feel. In a musical, the music and dancing can help reinforce those things, and help the viewer emphasize with the characters. Or they could be completely at odds, the lyrics of the songs saying one thing while the music the actors are singing to is in a entirely different tone.
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[personal profile] grumpylady 2017-06-08 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
I see. So you have multiple ways of telling the same story.

I should mention that "Romeos and Juliets" was likely just an imitation of another play. Though it sounds like you already know that.
rushing_by: (Explaining time)

[personal profile] rushing_by 2017-06-09 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, you could say that. Romeo and Juliet is probably one of the best known plays on Earh.
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[personal profile] grumpylady 2017-06-23 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
I had no idea.