first prank ≈ video.

[greenghost]

[For a long time, there is muttering and shuffling, and no real discernible speech. Just a view from the ground of tree tops, green and bright in the summer weather, from where a New Feather's journal lays open.]

[If one listens closely, they may here complaints about Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan and fallen angels.]

[A moment later, a curious face swims into view of a boy with pale skin, blue eyes behind thick-rimmed rectangular glasses, and a shock of wildly messy black hair. His expression shifts quickly from curious to annoyed.]

Oh, that explains a lot.

[A disgruntled sigh.]

The script is blank!! Am I writing my own City of Angels, wherein Nicolas Cage has tiny useless blue wings??

[He sits back and falls mostly out of the journal's view.]

This movie is going to suck. Just sayin'.

[[ooc; Please check John's permissions post and let me know what you're okay with! Thank you. :>]]

Comments

[ video ]

[ratpack]

Make your own script then. This movie can be saved! [He almost wants to go with this, but he won't.] This isn't a movie, though. Sorry.

[ video ]

[greenghost]

[Oh whoa what the fuck did that blank movie script just talk.]

[Have another owlish expression.]

...uh.

[ video ]

[ratpack]

[Oh, right. It's really weird to be new here. He waves.]

No idea what's going on, right?

[ video ]

[greenghost]

[Out of instinct, John raises a hand and waves back, and then stares blankly at his own hand for a few seconds.]

...not a one. But I'm pretty sure I got hit in the head. Yep. [He nods.]

[ video ]

[ratpack]

That'd make a lot more sense than what's actually going on. Er, you got some time? [This'll be a long explanation.]

[dangerouswind]

... I have absolutely no idea what you just said. [Well, she does. But. What?]

[ video ]

[greenghost]

Well, I'm sitting half-naked in a forest with wings on my back, and no shoes.

There are a whole lot of those really dumb sticker things that keep getting stuck in my feet. So I don't think I'm gonna be trying to get anywhere for a little while.

Which is a really long way of saying; yeah, I think I have some time.

[ video ]

[ratpack]

Ouch. Huh, maybe I should...[He's not one for nature hikes, but he really thinks he should be trying to help.] Do you want help? I could bring some clothes and a blanket or something? I don't know. [He'd just feel really bad leaving him there.]

[greenghost]

[He stares for a while at the journal with a particularly perplexed expression on his face.]

...what part didn't you get?

[Is that a Naruto headband you're wearing, ma'am. He never watched enough of the show to recognize you specifically, but those headbands are pretty staple.]

[ video ]

[greenghost]

[He shrugs a little, and then shoots a dirty look over his shoulder at his wings. They sort of sting when he moves wrong or they move. Which is really going to take some getting used to.]

If you want, I guess? I mean that's pretty charitable for a stranger. Most people would be sort of be thinking about worst-case scenarios that could happen with meeting a stranger in the forest at this point, not offering a blanket and clothes.

[dangerouswind]

Who's this Cage guy?

[greenghost]

[Can of worms, Temari. You have opened a very, very large one.]

[For a moment, John looks so very scandalized.]

Nicolas Cage. He is only the best actor of all time, yeesh. It's really terrible you don't know him!! Tell me you just don't watch movies.

[voice]

[poorqueequeg]

Those are some names I haven't heard while here. Are you a fan of Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan?

[video]

[hisdarkmark]

Getting stupider by the minute, aren't you?

[voice]

[greenghost]

Am I ever.

[video] just gonna use this icon right off the bat, mmkay.

[greenghost]

[Tilting his head a little at the journal.]

Rude.

[abstruse]

Believe me, this film was terrible before you even got here.

[greenghost]

Wow that's not a depressing statement or anything.

But that's because no good action film starts off with people in boring pants with stupid wings on their backs in the middle of a forest. If it wanted to be interesting I should have woken up in like... The lab of a crazy scientist or something. Or a glass tube.

That would have been sort of neat.

i am just having editing problems everywhere tonight...

[abstruse]

To watch maybe; I'm not sure if I would want to wake up in a glass tube. It sounds a bit... vial.

((Okay it's lame to laugh at your own jokes, but he didn't realize the pun until just before he said it. He has to laugh.))

[video] muwahaha. /has yet to upload but now has reason to.

[hisdarkmark]

And yet you're not proving me otherwise. Funny how that works.

[video]

[so_shik]

If you're writing your own version, technically you can make his wings whatever color you want.

[ video ]

[lunas]

Huh..? No way, you can't say the movie will suck already! [ yes, there's a girl pouting here as if all of this is a very serious matter. ]

We have to save it before it's too late..!

[ video ]

[ratpack]

[He does have a good point. He can admit that much.] Usually I'd be agreeing? But things are a little different here. So if there is a stranger in the forest, I should probably do just that. I mean, it's not like you wake up very often with wings on your back either.

[video]

[grapecape]

[...Everyone here seems to understand what this boy is talking about...]

Pardon me for asking, but what is a movie?

[ video ]

[greenghost]

All right, valid. The wings are kind of the weirdest extenuating circumstance of my life.

...and I've definitely had some weird extenuating circumstances.

Here's a weird question for you; are we dead?