Slightly Less Animated Than Usual [Open]

[starbolts]

Who: Starfire and anyone who wants to join her!
Where: Media Library
Summary: Starfire's received news that her love has returned to stasis in the pod caverns. Her escape is the bright and colorful world of cartoons.
Warnings: Nothing too serious here! Some potential sadness if that line of conversation is followed, but a little fun can be had here.



Visitors to the Media Library today will find a rather distressing sound coming from one of the watching pods. It's a croakish, scratchy sound that might be called a laugh...if the listener were underwater, inebriated, and otherwise less able than usual to discern the sound. The sound contains the basic elements of a laugh, anyway. It's loud, sudden, and presumably in response to funny events on the screen!

In this case, a bacon-eared and sausage-lipped breakfast monster is in hot pursuit of a banana boat. Colorful cherry-men are yelling in musical-sounding gibberish, directing themselves down a river of orange juice in their attempt to avoid the meat monster. There's a dip in the river, and the little banana boat flies---only to slip on the air (how does that work?) and do a flip into the monster's mouth.

Thus ends one segment of this bizarre cartoon. Starfire is clutching a small pillow from her room and laughing at the screen. Or trying to, anyway.

Comments

[morganknight]

"That's.... terrifying."

Morgan had come for music, trying to figure out what other worlds had that could be considered the aural equivalent of 'metal', but he couldn't help but stop and peer over her shoulder. Seriously, looking at that, who could turn away? It was like a train wreck!

[starbolts]

Starfire took a split-second longer than usual to react to the new shadow, but she greeted him with a smile, as usual. The joys of cartoons were to be shared, yes?

"No, no, it is intended to be amusing! Do you not wish to eat the boat of fruit?"

[morganknight]

"Not particularly, but then, I favor postmodernistic humor. Or classic Warner Brothers," he said, leaning casually on the back of her seat. Then a thought struck him, and he glanced down at her in open surprise.

[expendable_mind]

The emotional distress was as clear as day to the powerful psionic user and usually, he'd let it be. After all, this is war and this and worse can and will happen...

But this time it was someone he cared about, and he couldn't find it in himself to simply continue walking by the Media Library. Instead, he sighed before walking in silently and leaning against the doorway for a few moments.

He didn't exactly know how to approach her, so he simply glanced in her direction and peeked at what she was watching.

[starbolts]

Again, a shadow appeared as the moat of chocolate threatened to rise up and devour the gingerbread man. Starfire jumped, spinning around.

"Shadow! Oh! You are fond of the cartoons as well?"

[expendable_mind]

"Hey there Star," he greeted with his usual smile.

"Somewhat, Lil would be more at home watching them, but they have their particular charm."

He paused for a moment and walked over before falling onto the couch. "So how you been?"

[soulinherfists]

Allenby wasn't exactly a bookworm, but devising a reverse-anti-Berserker frequency did necessitate time in the library. The laugh and the noise from the screen pulled her up short as she passed one of the watching pods.

Unable not to investigate, Allenby peered in and saw... uh... she had no idea what it was that she was seeing. But Starfire was watching it, whatever it was. "What the heck is all this about?"

[starbolts]

"Allenby," Starfire answered her calmly. "Please, come inside! The foods are at war within the digestive tract. They must travel to the end, where the mountain awaits! It is exciting, yes?"

[soulinherfists]

The... mountain at the end of the digestive tract....

"I dunno if I wanna see that part," Allenby said, but she took a seat next to Starfire anyway. As disgusting as the prospect was, she was too curious now. "Who's the good guys?"

[zouichi]

"You feeling all right?" Zouichi wasn't even really sure what was going on onscreen -- seldom had he ever had occasion to watch cartoons, let alone ones about fruit-men. Maybe this was just one of Starfire's peculiarities, like drinking mustard.

"Long time no see."

[starbolts]

"I am...healthy," Starfire affirms, welcoming Zouichi inside. "I have missed you! I am sorry that i have not called."

An explosion of mess on-screen accompanies this statement. So many little blocks flying everywhere!

[zouichi]

Zouichi shook his head. "I think we've all had a lot of things on our mind. Besides, you could say that I should have called you."

He glanced over at the screen, momentarily distracted. "I didn't know you liked cartoons. Or is this a recent development?"

[17thangel]

[The sounds were odd, and it sounded like pained laughter, Maria knew that laughter well, so she quietly moved to investigate. Watching the show for a minute with a confused look she tilted her head.]

"Um. I... Don't get it."

[starbolts]

"You do not need to understand," Starfire explains softly, curling up on the couch. "They are colorful and amusing, because the events are so unexpected."

Just to prove the point, the little tap-dancing kiwis give way to...a ballet of tree leaves.

[17thangel]

Maria sweatdrops slightly, with that look of someone who has absolutely no understanding of TV or Pop culture.

"Er.... All right. Uh, so is this some sort of psychological training thing?"

[kaya_waterwave]

There are a lot of strange things that Kaya has seen since arriving on the ship. Things to this day that still blew her mind and brought about a sense of awe in her. One of those things was still television, and so the noise from the Media library naturally draws her attention.

She investigated the noise and came across...a pretty strange thing on the screen caused her to pause and stare on disbelief, but only for a moment. Once she saw who it was watching, she smiled and walked over, giving her friend a hug.

"Hi Starfire! It's been awhile! What are you up to?"

[starbolts]

"Kaya!" Starfire hugged her friend, though the usual danger of bone-crushing was absent. She wasn't quite in the mood to squish her dear friends right now.

"I am viewing the cartoons! They are as amusing as I had hoped they would be. And yourself?"

[kaya_waterwave]

Kaya could feel the lack of bone crushing in Starfire (and luckily, Kaya was one of the few who could take it thank you BG training) so she was curious as to what was eating the normally cheerful girl.

"Oh, just thought I'd pass the time reading a good book. I never heard of cartoons though, I think BB might have mentioned them once or twice. Are you all right?"

[punchedoutdestiny]

"...I've had my food attack me, but never had it try to eat me," Simon idly comments once the segment ends. He's leaning against the doorway of the pod when he says it, but strolls in after his comment, and eases himself onto a chair - he's moving about better than he had before, but things are still somewhat sore. "This something from your world?"

[starbolts]

"It is not, but I would have enjoyed it," Starfire explained, waving to Simon as he approached. This would be an interesting discussion! "My meals have often tried to eat me. They fight until their last breath, as all honorable creatures do."

[punchedoutdestiny]

From what Simon's used to, he'd expect that kinda response out of someone who...wasn't what looked like a teenage girl. However, he's learned a bit about expecting the unexpected here. "Well, that's definitely one way to earn your dinner," he answers with a chuckle. "In my case, it was a case of mistaken identity."

[changelingdude]

Starfire, you now have a kitten on your head.

Beastboy was rather pleased with himself for having snuck up on her without detection and the purring he was making expressed this.

[starbolts]

Starfire came out of her trance-like state in a transition in the action. She thought she'd felt something on her head...

She reached up, plucking the little green ball of fuzz from her head and planting it in her lap, scratching between the kitten's ears. It was comforting. Her smile was back, if smaller.

[mythoughtsoncloning]

"Is someone choking to death in here? Because it sounds like someone's choking to death in here."

That came from the Super poking his head into the room, his face full of concern.

That's what the noise had sounded like, at any rate!

[starbolts]

"No!" Starfire flew straight to the entrance, looking quite embarrassed. It had been such a long time since she'd last seen Superboy---so long, in fact, that his title had changed since. "I was expressing my amusement at our catalogue of cartoons. Do you wish to see it?"