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

[bigbad]

He really needs to move on already. She has.

[Which hurts a bit, considering who he'd probably move on to, but perhaps Rafael's not the only one who needs to move on.]

[savemyself]

[ she looks away, teeth gritting ] You do not understand how stubborn he really is.

[bigbad]

Meaning... what? That he'll continue bloody dwelling until he keels over from angst overload?

[savemyself]

That is perhaps the best possible scenario. In that case, he would only be hurting himself.

[bigbad]

You think he's dangerous?

[savemyself]

Let us just say I know exactly what he is capable of.

[bigbad]

[That doesn't sound remotely good.]

And what's that? Look, if he's hurt people before... [He can't help but think about Buffy, so clearly into him, and even if he's decided to move on, he can't help but fear for her. Not to mention everyone else he cares about, who would also be in blast radius if Rafael lost it. Oh, and then there's himself.]

[savemyself]

Rafael has done many things. Most of them for the right reasons.

But where she is involved, he cannot see clearly. She will destroy him, if he lets her in again.

[bigbad]

[He turns back to the stage, a little annoyed at the unhelpful vagueness.]

That's not much of a problem. So far, she's not trying to get in. She doesn't want anything to do with him.