CHAPTER FINALE ♔ darling can't you see it's now or never

[romanticidal]

♬ Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing) - Amanda Palmer ft. Zoe Keating

WHO || Rafael Giovanni, Eterna Jade, Burt Becksworth, Isabella Alessandro, Finnick Odair, Myrilandel de Tanos, Buffy Summers, Spike, Elena Gilbert, Dawn Summers, Desmond Descant, Jeanne Gar, Kat Samcelot, Mark Sandazhard, Violet Fiore, Sterling Archer
WHAT || CHAPTER ONE FINALE: Rafael Giovanni & Finnick's televised international concert debut
WHERE || A music hall in Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 3rd, 2013 [ forward dated]
HOW || Actionspam

The hour is finally upon our heroes, to learn whether their crazy plan to invest in making Finnick and Rafael international superstars under Burt Becksworth's management will pay off, and keep control of NOVA Records out of the hands of Chad Becksworth and his sinister compatriots. Now, as the Knights finish taking their seats in the balconies directly overlooking the stage, the concert goes live, broadcasting around the world, to where even other members of the Knighthood in London can gather to watch.

The camera pans across the endless sea of gathered, curious fans, who shake their arms wildly for their two seconds of fame, and then zooms in on a blonde figure on one corner of the stage, where she stands ready with a microphone: Buffy Summers.

[ the action of this post will be continually propelled by the interspersed musical numbers performed by finnick and rafael. each musical number will be up for a short amount of ooc time, in which players are free to create mini-thread responses directly to that song comment. these can be for internal reflection, to make commentary to the neighbors seated in their rows, for backstage convos for those involved in the program, or for 'host' commentary between some songs by archer and kat. threads that result from these responses should be kept short and sweet, as each song is only 3 to 5 minutes long, which doesn't leave a lot of time for in depth conversations. ideally, by the time the next 'number' is posted (as a direct response to the last musical number comment), your response threads from the previous number should be considered over and done with, and you can continue anything going on in them as a new mini-thread under the most recently posted song. in order to keep track of when things are rolling on to the next song, I highly encourage everyone to please track this entire post. ]

Comments

[65]

[ ♬ your touch - blake lewis

did finnick come out onto the stage in an astronaut suit with sexy alien backup dancers? he sure did. burt really embraced the whole starship gateway thing, apparently. as he sings, the alien girls sexily strip him out of the suit, revealing his non-spacesuit clothes underneath. annnnd he got a fucking nat 20 for his performance roll (THIS IS REAL LIFE I SWEAR TO GOD), so girls best be prepared to throw their panties off.

I've been writing you a story
The headline reads "we're meant to be"
See I'm not one to write such fiction
So let me be a reality
And show you what you mean to me

I'm thinking you and I
Should roll the dice, get lost in love forever
'Cause I'm feeling intoxicated
I wanna taste the air that you've been breathing

So haunt me, and feel me
I've been waiting for your touch
Your beauty consumes me
I never loved someone so...
So haunt me, and feel me
I've been waiting for your touch
Your beauty consumes me
I never loved someone so...

Before I met you, my heart was heavy
It was weighted down from all my pride
And now I'm lost in your sweet surrender
Confessing this love I have inside
So now I'll show you what you mean to me

I'm thinking you and I
Should roll the dice, get lost in love forever
Cause I'm feeling intoxicated
I wanna taste the air that you've been breathing

So haunt me, and feel me
I've been waiting for your touch
Your beauty consumes me
I never loved someone so...
So haunt me, and feel me
I've been waiting for your touch
Your beauty consumes me
I never loved someone so much

And now I'm lost in your sweet surrender
And now I'm lost in your sweet surrender

I want to be the one that you run to
I want to be the one you say I love to
Been waiting on forever just to hold you
And our love will make the headlines bleed tonight

So haunt me, and feel me
I've been waiting for your touch
Your beauty consumes me
You know I never loved someone so...
So haunt me, and feel me
I've been waiting for your touch
Your beauty consumes me
I never loved someone so much ]

[graveflowers]

[Drool. Even if Finnick is a lamp. Drool.]

[nothingsodivine]

[Actual depiction of Des rn:

]

[borrowedheaven]

[ jade leans over slightly, unable to look away from the spectacle and says, amused: ]


Well.

I guess that answers that.

[rationalizes]

[ in the lower balcony, gar reaches across finnick's vacant seat to squeeze myri's hand and offers her a warm smile, leaning across to murmur: ] I knew he wouldn't disappoint us.

[notaroundme]

[Elena turns towards Myri at the same moment, able to make out enough of what Gar says over the sound that she can put together what she said (Listen 16).]

Careful, Myri. After this is over, you might have some competition.

[She teases her, chuckling.]

[witchwoman]

[Oh, sorry. Where you guys saying something? That perform check combined with Myri's standard head-over-heels status whenever Finnick is involved basically means that she's grinning from ear and ear with her eyes glued to him as he makes his way through the first song.

She does notice Gar's hand, eventually, though, and glances over, still with that infatuated daze all over her face. She turns her hand over to hold Gar's and squeezes back. Her attention shifts to Elena and a blush creeps over her cheeks.]

At least I've had practice fighting them off. [She nudges the girl with her shoulder, referring back to their "catfight" distraction.]

[shootfirst]

[ buffy comes backstage and would almost not recognize kat, all dolled up in a green dress with heavy make-up, yanking on her boobs to try to adjust them and shooing away someone who's trying to touch up her blush. ] Way to make it look like a cake walk.

[slay]

Are you kidding me? I consider it a success that I didn't pee myself. You're gonna be fine. You're all ... experienced, and stuff. [ buffy rolls her eyes, warring with the pins in her hair. ]

[shootfirst]

I really don't think experience in tearing up bad guys translates to being a walking, talking pair of ta-tas for Burt Becksworth.

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[ ♬ for your entertainment - adam lambert

meanwhile, finnick's still going strong and making everyone jizz all over the place. (perform 28)

so hot
out the box
can you pick up the pace?
turn it up,
heat it up
i need to be entertained
push the limit
are you with it?
baby, don't be afraid
i'm a hurt 'ya real good, baby

let's go
it's my show
baby, do what i say
don't trip off the glitz
that i'm gonna display
i told ya
i'm a hold ya down until you're amazed
give it to ya 'til you're screaming my name

no escaping when i start
once i'm in i own your heart
there's no way you'll ring the alarm
so hold on until it's over

oh, do you know what you got into?
can you handle what i'm 'bout to do?
'cause it's about to get rough for you
i'm here for your entertainment

oh, i bet you thought that i was soft and sweet
'ya thought an angel swept you off ya feet
but i'm about to turn up the heat
i'm here for your entertainment

it's alright
you'll be fine
baby, i'm in control
take the pain
take the pleasure
i'm the master of both
close your eyes
not your mind
let me into your soul
i'm a work it 'til you're totally blown

no escaping when i start
once i'm in i own your heart
there's no way you'll ring the alarm
so hold on until it's over

oh, do you know what you got into?
can you handle what i'm 'bout to do?
'cause it's about to get rough for you
i'm here for your entertainment

oh, i bet you thought that i was soft and sweet
'ya thought an angel swept ya off your feet
well i'm about to turn up the heat
i'm here for your entertainment

oh oh
oh oh
entertainment
oh oh oh entertainment
i'm here for your entertainment

oooohhh
do you like what you see?
wooooaaaahhhh
let me entertain 'ya till you screeaaam

oh, do you know what you got into?
can you handle what i'm 'bout to do?
'cause it's about to get rough for you
i'm here for your entertainment

oh, i bet you thought that i was soft and sweet (bet ya thought)
'ya thought an angel swept ya off your feet
well i'm about to turn up the heat (turn up the heat)
i'm here for your entertainment]

[starfucker]

[ burt shoves his way through the heavy curtains behind the lower balcony, leaning on the back of jade's seat, and smirking out at the spectacle before them as the crowd goes wild. he sounds almost thoughtful as he proudly says: ] Beautiful, isn't it?

Like setting a baby bird free to fly off into the wild and steal shitloads of money to bring home to me.

[nothingsodivine]

[Des turns in his seat to bare his teeth in a grin that's not entirely pleasant, but probably really common in this business.]

You're welcome.

[starfucker]

Funny... I don't actually remember you doing much, Chuckles.

[slay]

You think any of his hosts really go up there aiming for that? He can try to micromanage all he wants, but you're still a person. So just ... go out there and be a person. [ shrug. ] A person in a ... surprisingly revealing dress.

[shootfirst]

[ she looks down and makes a face, leaning over to yank on her heel, tongue poking out the corner of her mouth ] What I think is that's it hard to be a person when these shoes are down right inhuman.

[ a man rushes by with a clipboard, pulling the headset away from his mouth to say: "You're on deck. Where's the suit?" kat rolls her eyes. ] Hell if I know. I'm not his keeper. He's probably off getting drunk on Burt's private stash of champagne.

[bigbad]

[Wow okay Spike can see why people ogle Finnick rn that's some pretty sexy performing.

He's just gonna get absorbed in watching for the moment.

(Syd Vicious is still better.)]

[savemyself]

[ don't get a crush there, spike, the love polygon doesn't need anymore corners...

beside him, isabella watches with interest, but she doesn't seem as spellbound as most people by finnick's sexay moves ]

... This is quite a different opening act from what Rafael usually has.

[bigbad]

[Don't worry Finnick's still a little too pop star for him. He's just impressed.]

Welcome to America.

[Says the British guy...]

[65]

[ ♬ never close our eyes - adam lambert

yeah idk finnick is still on stage singing and gyrating and being all hot and shit. he has the talent of being able to look down into the audience and make every girl feel like he's staring ~exactly at them.~ (perform 38)

i wish that this night would never be over
there's plenty of time to sleep when we die
so let's just stay awake until we grow older
if i had my way we'd never close our eyes, our eyes, never

i don't wanna let a minute get away
cause we got no time to lose
none of us are promised to see tomorrow
and what we do is ours to choose

forget about the sunrise
fight the sleep in your eyes
i don't wanna miss a second with you
let's stay this way forever
it's only getting better if we want it to

you know that i wish that this night would never be over
there's plenty of time to sleep when we die
so let's just stay awake until we grow older
if i had my way we'd never close our eyes, our eyes, never

it's so hard to think this could fade away
but what goes up must come down
why can't we just live life with no consequence
and always live in the now

forget about the sunrise
fight the sleep in your eyes
i don't wanna miss a second with you
let's stay this way forever
it's only getting better if we want it to

you know that i wish that this night would never be over
there's plenty of time to sleep when we die
so let's just stay awake until we grow older
if i had my way we'd never close our eyes, our eyes, never

oooooooooooo, yeahhhhhh, ooooooooo, yeaaahhhhhh

you know that i wish that this night would never be over
there's plenty of time to sleep when we die
so let's just stay awake until we grow older
if i had my way we'd never close our eyes, our eyes, never ]

[romanticidal]

[ meanwhile, rafael is pacing the fuck out of the backstage area, occasionally stopping to look at one of the screens that show camera takes over the audience, futilely waiting for a glance at a certain balcony out there. ]

[witchwoman]

[God damn, Finnick... Myri is not able to really focus on conversation or anything else while these songs continue to rock the shit out of this place. When he glances in her general direction, she's not immune to his performer's stare. Her breath hitches and she feels warm all over. It's not hard to pretend to be a fangirl for the pop star when you've got it so bad for him in real life.

Taking a cue from the girls all around them, Myri stands and briefly adds her voice to the screaming fans. She got herself caught up in the moment, okay. It felt right.]

[notaroundme]

[Elena's much the same, totally caught up in the performance. What is talking when you can watch this.

She finds herself getting to her feet when Myri does, her hands cupping her mouth as she screams before she turns to her and smiles widely, reaching for her hand and giving it an excited squeeze, bouncing lightly on the balls of her feet.]

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[ ♫ chokehold - adam lambert

time for a less high energy song but not really bc you can't stop finnick being awesome and everyone going all batshit over him. (perform 26)

staring at the ceiling in the dark
sheets are in a knot
my heart is like rock, hey

pictures flashin' by inside my head
i'm hanging my a thread
but, i'd do it all again, hey

i keep running away, running away, running away from you
but i can't stand breaking the chains, breaking the chains, breaking the chains
it's too good, cause i know the second you go
wantcha to bring it on back, bring it on back, bring it on back to me

and you know i want your chokehold
wantcha to bring it on back, bring it on back, bring it on back to me

bring it on back to me
bring it on back to me

oh without your touch i suffocate
could asphyxiate
but i kinda like the pain, yeah
baby i can smell you on my clothes
i try to stay composed
but i feel the fever grow gro-ow oh

i keep running away, running away, running away from you
but i can't stand breaking the chains, breaking the chains, breaking the chains
it's too good, cause i know the second you go
wantcha to bring it on back, bring it on back, bring it on back to me

and you know i want your chokehold
wantcha to bring it on back, bring it on back, bring it on back to me

bring it on back to me
bring it on back to me

cause i know the second you go
wantcha to bring it on back, bring it on back, bring it on back to me
and you know, i want your chokehold
wantcha to bring on back, bring it on back, bring it on back to me, yeah

bring it on back to me
bring it on back to me
bring it on back to me ]

[romanticidal]

[ rafael is drawn out of his reverie by buffy grabbing him and turns towards her, keeping close that they can speak without being overheard, and glancing over his shoulder at her comment. he inhales slightly and then nods absently. ]

... Grazie, carina. [ he runs his other hand through his carefully styled hair, mussing it a bit ] I ... do not know if I am ready to be so on stage for all the world. [ there's an anxiety beyond fear of a large crowd there, one he's sure she understands. ] There will be no going back from this.