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Under the Sea [open ineedthecrforkaldur log]

Characters: Kaldur and YOU, yes, YOU!
Content: For no real reason Kaldur decides to spend another evening watching The Little Mermaid. Come join him/mock him/etc.
Time: Evening
Warnings: None?
Note: Writing in third person, but this can be action tags if you want. Also, multiple threads. Feel free to make-up which part of the movie your character comes in on.

Ven had reminded him of it, but honestly Kaldur would probably have picked up the movie and watched it sooner rather than later anyway. He did not say it, but the movie reminded him of home in a number of ways. It took place under the oceans, sure, but it was also one of the first movies he had seen with Robin and Wally as friends. They had done it to him mainly as a joke, but he had secretly enjoyed the songs and the animation was nice too. Sure, it was completely inaccurate to his own culture, but he could relate to Ariel's desire to see the surface world and her longing to be with someone who understood her.

He had won the movie several months back, but he had watched it several times since then, especially once Artemis and Wally had disappeared and he had needed a reminder of his friends. Talking to Ven had brought that back up, but also his dealings with the Shade had left him more than a little bit down. This was a chance to unwind and relax after all of that.

So after procuring a snack (chips and dip), Kaldur sat down with The Little Mermaid, not knowing if anyone was going to join him or not.

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Sora glanced over at Kaldur when he brought up the person he was interested in...but there seemed to be a bit of hesitation there. Should he bring it up further? He decided just to focus on other things for now. "Did they not want you to go up to the surface world or something in Atlantis?" How come underwater dwellers seemed to be so fearful of the land?

"I guess if you can breathe fine in both water and on land then it's not much of a problem! I don't think anyone in Atlantica could do that normally." Or, even if they could, there was still the problem of no legs.

"No. Everyone was very supportive of my decision to join my king on the surface world and be a hero...but I had to leave some people behind because missions and such took up much of my time which made it difficult to return to my home and see them." Kaldur found himself saying these things, things he hadn't even spoken to his team about. He was not certain as to why, perhaps it was because he had no one else to speak to about such matters. Sora was not a member of his team so he did not feel as bad as he would had he told his team. He liked to keep his personal life out of his teammates, so perhaps Sora was just the person he needed to talk to about Tula.

"While I was gone," he began but then shook his head, "it is not something I can change now, so perhaps it is best left in the past. We are still friends, so that is what matters most and I hold no grudge against either of them." He was speaking more to himself now, knowing very well that Sora would have no idea what he was talking about.

So that was different from how King Triton had reacted, then. "That's good that they supported you! I'm sure they realized how important it was for you." He certainly hoped that all his friends back home would understand why he'd had to stay away for so long.

Sora was momentarily distracted from the movie when Kaldur went off on a slight tangent...talking about friends he'd left behind. It sounded like maybe they had had a fight, but that Kaldur still missed them. That was certainly something he could understand. "Who're you talking about?"

Kaldur looked up. He hadn't realized he was babbling so much. It was not really like him, though it was indeed nice to open up. "I apologize, I did not mean to go on about such matters," he replied, looking at the floor and wondering if he had gone too far in his confession. Perhaps he should just keep such things to himself after all. Sora did not ask for his troubles after all.

Sora just shrugged...somehow, it had become some a habit of him to take on other peoples' personal burdens that he hardly even noticed it when it happened. "I don't mind. You can talk about it if you want to."

Kaldur may have gotten a bit of a break on that, though, since it got to the point of the movie where Ariel went up on land and investigated Prince Eric's kingdom. Sora focused on that for a bit. "I didn't get to see any of this happen...we couldn't go up on land at the time."

Kaldur decided to let it drop for now. He felt like he had said enough and Sora wasn't pushing him. Besides, he wanted to see what Sora thought of the movie and he wouldn't find out if he continued to distract him.

"That is right, you said when you went to Atlantica you were turned into a merperson," he looked over at Sora. It was strange to think he could do that, or really acually meet Ariel, but Kaldur was used to such strangeness by this point.

Apparently, Kaldur didn't feel like pressing on it right now. Sora guessed it must not've been that big of a deal if he wasn't going to bring it up again, so he let it go for now.

He nodded. "Yeah, me and Donald and Goofy all got different forms. It was fun, but had to learn how to swim twice since I forgot over the year I was gone."

At first he thought it strange that Sora would forget how to swim, but then he realized that if he was in a different body or form if he had been away for a year it MIGHT be difficult to pick it back up.

"I suppose swimming with a tail is a little different than swimming with legs," Kaldur replied.

"Yeah, it's pretty different. At least it was better than Donald, though...he just got octopus legs!" he said with a grin. But on the other hand, he was glad he'd gotten a tail...it probably would've been a lot harder to keep up with Ariel and everyone if he just had to swim with his feet.

It got to the part in the movie where Ursula disguised herself and tried to steal Eric away from Ariel...and it was there that it became obvious that she hypnotized Eric. "Ha, that hag knew that Eric would never be interested in her normally!"

Kaldur smiled knowingly. He wondered what Sora would make of someone like Topo who had tentacles on his head and looked very much like an octopus. There were many strange beings like that in Atlantis, though Kaldur probably found them less strange than Sora would.

It amused him how involved Sora seemed to get on the film.

Kaldur would probably have been surprised at how little Sora found strange anymore...after encountering all sorts of talking animals, living furniture, a variety of monsters, very little really surprised him anymore. And even if something did, that made the worlds all the more large and interesting.

They then got to the part where the animals interrupted Ursula's fake wedding, while Ariel was trying to reach the ship in time. Sora continued to comment on what was different. "We didn't see any wedding come up! They must've added that part to give it more action or something."

Kaldur nodded, he actually liked this part because it was a very good scene and showed just how determined Ariel was. "I would think so, it is one of my favorite scenes actually. I suppose they wanted to show just how close Ursula came to winning."

"It makes her getting beaten all the better!" Sora agreed.

Speaking of, they were coming up on the part where Eric came in to battle Ursula and save Ariel. This part, Sora did remember...when Ursula used the trident to make herself huge and create stormclouds. He raised an eyebrow as the scene progressed, however. "Huh, I thought there'd be a song here..."

"A song here?" It was the big finale fight scene, Kaldur did not think a song fit well with the mood. He gave Sora an odd look that confirmed his feelings. "I would not think a song to be suitable, even for an animated film at the final battle."

"Yeah! When we fought Ursula like this, we used a song to help beat her! Even she sang it, too!" Apparently, it didn't occur to Sora that singing during a final battle with an enemy was that strange...it just felt like the appropriate thing to do at the time.

Kaldur shook his head. "I have been in many battles. I would never think that a song would be an appropriate mechanism for their defeat." He gestured at the movie as Ursula taunted Eric and caused the seas to boil and rage. Eric still steered the ship towards Ursula and her impending death came. "Especially against such a monster as this."

"Well, that was the only time we ever did use music in a battle..." Sora mused. Looking back on it now, he supposed it was a little bit odd. "I dunno why. It just seemed to make sense at the time! Most of the time good old-fashioned fighting does the trick, though."

Finally, they hit the climax of the battle, with Eric spearing Ursula and killing her. Sora couldn't help but cheer a little.

Kaldur chuckled a little when Sora actually cheered. They were nearing the end now and Kaldur was beginning to wonder if Sora always became this emotional at movies or if it was just because he had apparently lived it.

Sora couldn't much say if he normally got that invested in movies, considering he didn't grow up seeing that many, so it was most likely because he had lived it. It was pretty easy to cheer for people that he had met in reality, even if the movie wasn't quite reality for him.

With that, it was just a matter of the movie wrapping up, since Ariel was choosing to stay on land and live with Eric. "Wow, she didn't stay that long in the ocean...when I was there, Eric offered to swim with her, too."

"I suppose it would have been a little more fair if Eric had visited her world as she visited his," Kaldur mused. Still, he could understand Ariel's fascination with the surface, though now he was starting to wonder if Ariel later regretted her decision as he had. He supposed not, considering her love was ON the surface which was different from Kaldur's problem.

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