Get into the van, kiddo.

[captaincatblock]

[Peace is a funny thing. It's been teased and denied for so long that now that it's happening, it's almost weird. He'd missed most of the drama with the princess and her traitorous Terran Knight -- not that he's fully convinced of it, but if it gains them this peace, then he won't question it -- but he had been returned to his kin as Earth's first peace offering.]

[Kuroo hadn't been too happy about that, hadn't even had the time to say good bye to Tsukki after being whisked away by a couple of generals and then thrown into political chaos. But he had endured it, because he knew that eventually, the princess would get to the small issue of Kuroo's kataphrakt and how he intends to spend his time on Earth. He could be a diplomat, he'd offered, or teach his fellow Versians about Terrans, since he's learned a lot. Anything, he had added meaningfully, if he allowed him to keep his landing castle close to Earth if not entirely on its soil.]

[He'd gotten some leeway in the end, after weeks of endless talks, so here he is now striding into the hanger where they kept his mech, in full Count regalia. Oddly enough, he only has Terran escorts with him, and they back away well enough when he reaches his destination.

Tsukki? Oiii, I'm looking for your mechanic, Tsukishima Kei. [first he calls out, and then just outright asks someone to find Tsukki for him]

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[captaincatblock]

I remember. That's all right, I'll take a lot of photos of you for them. [Starting now. The third one might be misconstrued as lewd, though, since he manages to catch Tsukki mid-bite.]

[hellacene]

I was going to eat that.

[now he only has a small piece. thanks kuroo.

on the other hand he's probably taking too many pictures starting now, so he tells him as well:] Don't take too many, Kuroo.

[captaincatblock]

Only a little, promise. [He'll take a final photo, and then he puts away the camera obediently.] See? All gone.

[hellacene]

Good.

[they spent a bit more time in the arcadia just catching up and generally talking and making out, until someone - yaku - calls them back in the comms wondering if they ever plan on going back to the castle still or if they're just going to wander in space forever.]

Sorry. [he then turns to kuroo - ] If we hurry back, we can watch a movie or something with everyone else.

[captaincatblock]

Jurassic Park? Alien? [Alas, his movie tastes are now from that era. Kuroo puts the basket and thermos away, looks to see if anything floating can damage the machine, and starts flying the Arcadia back to the castle. It's mostly autopilot at this point, but he's watching out for debris.]

[hellacene]

If you want, though I brought some new ones. [he makes a face.] I figured they'd like to watch some animation and the like. Meanwhile, my mom wanted me to take the karaoke.

[captaincatblock]

Karaoke? The singing thing, that the soldiers in your base had. [Because Japan.]

I think that would destroy the landing castle, Yamamoto sings like he's trying to crash the Aldnoah Drive. [dryly] But we can watch anything.

[hellacene]

It's a good social activity. [he says it dryly.] Though it doesn't fit your image, doesn't it .... then again, you're a Count who's traveling with a Stegosaurus and a couple of blankets in the Arcadia.

[captaincatblock]

My image is one of non-conformance among the Counts, anyway. [just as wry] I might as well have fun with it and do things like, I don't know, take on a Terran lover and watch dinosaur movies.

[hellacene]

Things will be rather boring otherwise. [a tilt of the head as he considers it .... ] I wouldn't mind if you were more formal, but things would've been a lot more awkward if we'd started like that.

[captaincatblock]

Kei, we started out with me as your prisoner of war. I don't think we were fated to have a normal relationship from the start.

[hellacene]

[shoves him gently.]

I was more of a caretaker, and I never considered you as my prisoner. There was some room in it to be normal, no matter how difficult it was.

[captaincatblock]

You captured my heart from the start. [pats his chest over where his heart should be as if to demonstrate.] But I understand what you mean. We'll have our room to be normal here, too, don't worry. Generally, what goes on in our landing castles are none of other people's business.

[hellacene]

[punches the hand over his heart.] You're disgustingly sappy.

[they arrive in good time within the castle. he lets yamamoto know he'd like to watch movies with everyone. for the most part he brought a ton of movies with him with monsters and animals, and a couple of popular horror films. yamamoto tells him he'll have the perfect setup ready and will tell the kitchen to make a ton of popcorn and thanks tsukki profusely for bringing with him stuff from earth.]

Movies sort of .... slowed down in terms of production and release during the war, and a lot of them of course are full of propaganda. [he makes a face.] But there are nice ones. It's just a matter of keeping an eye on them around the net.

[captaincatblock]

I think I'll leave that to you. When I tried to watch some on my own, I ended up with some truly horrific stuff. [Yamamoto's setup apparently involves setting up a screen in the mess hall, one of those very large, wide ones like you can find in the control room. It's mostly just glass, so it's not too heavy, but Kuroo still wonders where Yamamoto stole that from.]

[The benches and chairs are bolted down, but a few of them have been moved to clear and border a space in the middle for people to sit down. Some people have brought pillows and blankets. You can tell some people have been watching sitcoms from the 80s by their general expectation of what a movie night should be.]

[hellacene]

[he leaves kuroo for a bit to go through his stuff and give him a pile of videos. they choose at random, mostly judging by which cover looks nice, and they end up loading little shop of horrors.

there's enough popcorn to go around and tsukki himself has brought the blankets and pillows from his nest in the observatory deck down to their place. as the scene opens, someone asks tsukki if there're plants similar to the one in the small pot seymour is holding, and he gives a smile and says,] There are, but hopefully nothing like that.

I

[captaincatblock]

[Kuroo has assigned himself to be Tsukki's personal couch, and will not be deterred. He does laugh at the movie, though.]

Why are they all singing?

[hellacene]

Because it's a musical, and whenever people feel emotional in musicals, they sing.

[he stuffs pillows around him and hopes to move kuroo away so he doesn't lean his entire weight on him. in exasperation, he tells him,] Kuroo, at least get your own spot. [while a few people look over and laugh.]

[captaincatblock]

That sounds like an odd way to live. [No, he wraps his arms around Tsukki's waist and pulls him back to his chest. His legs end up on either side of Tsukki's legs.] No, I want to sit like this.

[hellacene]

Your legs will ache after.

[fine, be that way. he shifts all the pillows again and puts on on his lap while pulling a blanket over him.

the crowd is generally amazed about audrey and are looking at their potted plants in worry. someone is being angry at the dentist and at seymour.]

I've never actually watched this! But i googled.

[captaincatblock]

[He doesn't care, just spends the entire time hanging on to Tsukki. He'll nuzzle at his neck from time to time and make commentary about the movie ("Why do people think this thing is surviving on water and sunlight?"). When it's revealed that the plant is an alien, someone complains that that's not how aliens look like.]

[hellacene]

[tsukki just laughs at the comments as they come, explains parts of the movie to kuroo and pushes him should his hold get too constricting for him. he spends a lot more time talking to him than actually watching, or eating the snacks with him more than anything else.]

[captaincatblock]

[It's nice and domestic in a very strange social way, so Kuroo is actually enjoying himself. Someone pulls out a bunch of rootbeer from their stores -- fizzy water, they call it -- and distributes it along.]

Terrans are pretty imaginative. I don't know how you guys do it.

[hellacene]

It helps that we're not always at war. [he's pleasantly surprised at the rootbeer, and takes one for both of them that has ice cream in it.] And even if we are, well, there are some war films that are okay.

It also helps that we've got a better sense of humor overall, though I'm not exactly the best representative for that.

[captaincatblock]

[Kuroo is just gonna eat from Tsukki, because he doesnt really want to let go.] Versians have a sense of humour! We're just very... military. Well, okey, so maybe we don't.