[open] it's not easy having yourself a good time

[tauborn]

Characters: Starfish Apocalypse members, old and new. Anyone else is free to drop by!
Location: The basement of the World's End
Rating: General
Time: May 31, 6pm
Description: The drama club finally gets its act together. Get it?





Takuto arrives just after 6:00 with Sasha in tow. There's been a few changes to some things, but hopefully it's nothing the Starfish Apocalypse can't overcome. Everyone just needs to get to know each other and then get to work!


(ooc: Remember the "guidelines" for the script can be found here, and that the theme is fishpuns. Changes since last rehearsal are in bold. Cast list is:
Westley/Westlake.......................................................................Takuto
Buttercup/Pufferfish...................................................................Sugata
Humperdinck/Humpackwhale....................................................Kaworu
Inigo Montoya/Ineelgo...............................................................Yamazaki
Count Rugen/Roegen, Impressive Clergyman/Minnowster........Kanji
Fezzik..???
Vizzini.......................................................................................Sasha
ROUS to be played by Bakura

Costumes by Kanji, set (and snacks!) by Bakura, and music by Shinji

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Comments

[diedforyoursins]

[he glances over to the stage, where another scene is still being rehearsed.]

...It seems we have some time. The longer story is fine.

[ferroustigmata]

[Sasha speaks in a lowered volume. You know, just in case.]

When I was an infant, I was sold to scientists with the intention to study my power and the ways in which they could weaponize it or exploit it for money. I was one of a couple dozen kids that had met the same fate, experimented on without consideration for our humanity, but there was a woman there who was the reason why I survived, and why I had held onto my sanity.

When they tried to take advantage of her, we fled. But the gold Qwaser and his Adepts managed to find us, and--

[Sasha's story abruptly stops, clearly pained even to this day to merely explain it. After collecting his nerves again, he continues:]

...I buried her grave in the Siberian tundra with only my hands. They've never healed since then.

[diedforyoursins]

...Is it normal, in your world, for wounds bearing great emotional weight to not heal properly?

[ferroustigmata]

...No.

[What a strange question.]

The Orthodox Church has deemed me an official stigmatic.

[diedforyoursins]

[his eyebrows raise at that response, but his expression remains politely neutral.]

Then the stigmata is a legitimate occurrence in your world?

[ferroustigmata]

As far as the Church is concerned, yeah. For me, however, they mean something else entirely.

[diedforyoursins]

And what is that?

[ferroustigmata]

It is a burden I carry to remind myself what it is in the world that I value most, and what I fight for. The special people in my life. My friends.

[diedforyoursins]

[he nods sagely at that, apparently satisfied.]

As long as you are alright with it, that is good. Does it affect the use of your hands at all?

[ferroustigmata]

I can do whatever I want with them as long as I don't mind getting blood on whatever I'm working with.

[diedforyoursins]

And that is why you cannot manage the violin? What if you wore different gloves?

[ferroustigmata]

I'm afraid that the thickness of the glove material will get in the way. [Not to mention the bandages, too.] The strings on a violin are awfully close together.

[diedforyoursins]

What about latex gloves?

[ferroustigmata]

...They're not the most comfortable things to be wearing for hours on end, but they're an option.

[diedforyoursins]

If you can handle stigmata, I am sure you have the strength to manage the discomfort of latex gloves for a while.

[ferroustigmata]

...Touché.

[He shrugs.]

Right now I only use them for food preparation.

[diedforyoursins]

I can teach you to play the violin, if you would like.

[ferroustigmata]

...Would you?

[diedforyoursins]

Of course. Music is one of humanity's greatest gifts, after all. It is only right that it should be shared.

[ferroustigmata]

I would really appreciate that, Kaworu.