Under the Sea [open ineedthecrforkaldur log]

[acceptedburden]

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.

Comments

[optimistickey]

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."

[acceptedburden]

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."

[optimistickey]

"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..."

[acceptedburden]

"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."

[optimistickey]

"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.

[acceptedburden]

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."

[optimistickey]

"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.

[acceptedburden]

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.

[optimistickey]

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."

[acceptedburden]

"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.