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

[witchwoman]

[Myri leans into Finnick gratefully, finding it easier to focus her thoughts when she has more contact with him. His reaction to all of this are just as confusing as the rest, but if she can keep herself zeroed in on one of them rather than all of them, it will make things easier.

As the next song starts, She turns to watch, unable to do anything but that right now. The rest of the emotions from her teammates are shadowed by the outpouring of love and joy coming from that stage. This is saying something, as she's not especially close to either of them, but the whole audience is caught up in their love story. None of them know what the two had gone through, but they can feel it now, and it amplifies everything for Myri.

She knows she should worry about Buffy, about Des, about all the confusion the rest of them must be feeling, but she's caught up in the whirlwind of it and she can't stop. A laugh escapes her, tears forming in her eyes. She covers her mouth with one hand, but still it does not completely hide the smile that's formed on her face.]

[65]

[yeah well myri is lucky that finnick is preoccupied with watching their performance and not really paying attention to myri's fangirling. he doesn't let go of her, but his eyes are entirely fixed on the stage. a slight frown has set in on his face — which is really a scowl for him considering how good he is at keeping his emotions on lock.

the whole thing hits a bit of a hot button for him as it is. when he thinks of memories being manipulated, he thinks of katniss and what tia had to do to her after she was traumatized on a mission. he couldn't believe that katniss would be willing to subject herself to something like that — but he didn't know katniss anymore, did he? and that hurt. with jade, she had no choice in neither the losing nor the regaining of her memories. it just leaves him feeling really unsettled. unsettled, and angry for jade's sake that rafael would purposely do something so selfish just to fulfill his needs, no matter how ~romantic~ the whole thing may have seemed in a certain light. if he wasn't planning on retiring he'd consider composing a few strongly worded passive-aggressive songs of his own.]

[shootfirst]

[ kat, standing near to finnyri, looks a little grossed out, like maybe she could join archer in team vomit ] Does he really have to stick his tongue down her throat to make his point? I mean really? [ but then she seems to notice myri's reaction ] ... You actually like this mushy crap, don't you?

[65]

[at that point finnick looks down and sees myri all fangirly in his arms and is just ... so disapproving. but, unlike her when he was like "aw yeah" to thomas causing an elevator crash, he doesn't peel himself away from her. he just ... becomes even more discontent.]