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legionworld2016-09-28 08:47 pm
bachido) wrote in legionworld2016-09-28 08:47 pm
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Who| Kubo and whoever wants to meet Kubo!
What| The performer is out and about, getting to know his new audience.
Where| Crew Quarters, the Habitat Deck, any public spaces where a wandering minstrel might meet music . . . mappreciators.
When| Whenever
Warnings/Notes| n/a
There was a LOT of land to wander here, a lot of seasides and mountains giving way to cities like nothing Kubo had ever seen, and he'd seen a Temple of Bones protected by a skeleton demon, a Garden of Eyes lurking under a long lake. There were whole rooms of thrumming metal and strange noises and smells, people who . . . perhaps weren't stranger than anyone he'd ever met, but not everyone had met celestial monsters and cursed humans.
Kubo was enthralled by all of it.
The chance to play for a new audience, so completely outside what Kubo had ever seen before, was exciting. He had plenty of tales that he was prepared to launch into for, say, the entertainment of the villagers back home, but this audience was so new, it paid to get a feel for them a bit before starting. They wouldn't yet drop what they were doing to listen when he started to play, and he'd have hated for someone to miss out on the beginning of a story just because they didn't know they were about to hear one.
As he explored, looking for people, Kubo played his shamisen. Though he played with less intensity than he typically performed, the lively notes were crisp and confident and two sheets of paper followed him as he walked, folding and unfolding themselves into animals, dancers, warriors in competition, moving like living creatures abstractly illustrating the music.
The boy in the red beetle robes looked around for eyes to catch, and for the glint of a flying coin or two - he wasn't putting on a real show yet, but it paid (literally) to keep a sharp eye out.
What| The performer is out and about, getting to know his new audience.
Where| Crew Quarters, the Habitat Deck, any public spaces where a wandering minstrel might meet music . . . mappreciators.
When| Whenever
Warnings/Notes| n/a
There was a LOT of land to wander here, a lot of seasides and mountains giving way to cities like nothing Kubo had ever seen, and he'd seen a Temple of Bones protected by a skeleton demon, a Garden of Eyes lurking under a long lake. There were whole rooms of thrumming metal and strange noises and smells, people who . . . perhaps weren't stranger than anyone he'd ever met, but not everyone had met celestial monsters and cursed humans.
Kubo was enthralled by all of it.
The chance to play for a new audience, so completely outside what Kubo had ever seen before, was exciting. He had plenty of tales that he was prepared to launch into for, say, the entertainment of the villagers back home, but this audience was so new, it paid to get a feel for them a bit before starting. They wouldn't yet drop what they were doing to listen when he started to play, and he'd have hated for someone to miss out on the beginning of a story just because they didn't know they were about to hear one.
As he explored, looking for people, Kubo played his shamisen. Though he played with less intensity than he typically performed, the lively notes were crisp and confident and two sheets of paper followed him as he walked, folding and unfolding themselves into animals, dancers, warriors in competition, moving like living creatures abstractly illustrating the music.
The boy in the red beetle robes looked around for eyes to catch, and for the glint of a flying coin or two - he wasn't putting on a real show yet, but it paid (literally) to keep a sharp eye out.
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Jason realizes as the conversation continues he might need to get comfortable. He leans against one of the nearby trees and watches as Kubo strums out a tune and continues to manipulate the paper. It's pretty clear that Kubo has his interest, as Jason has always been into stories of heroes. Usually they were in comic books, but the idea of a Samurai warrior sounds cool. "Sounds interesting. Of course, some of the people here have fought monsters and been on quests too. You might have to be pretty creative to keep them interested." Although clearly he's not talking about himself, he's already interested. It's kind of fun to compare stories, though he's not sure he can make his as entertaining. After all, he's not a professional story teller.
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"What kind of stories do you think they'd like to hear about?" the idea of having to come up with new material was a little intimidating - he'd had to work hard enough just to craft what he felt were appropriate endings to his mother's unfinished tales.
"What's a goddess?" he added.
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Huh. So the kid knew about quests and magic but had never heard of a goddess before. That was strange, but honestly it was probably about time he'd run into someone completely in the dark about stuff like that. How did you explain something like that though? Jason considered the different goddesses he'd met, including Lupa, and then said, "A goddess is the female version of a god...a being with a lot of power, or magic I guess you'd call it. They're immortal and tends to interact with humans on occasion. Sometimes it's to send them on quests, grant them favors, curse, or murder them. Usually depending on their mood. They also tend to be worshiped by humans so those humans don't get cursed or murdered and receive blessings instead. Where I'm from they keep a lot of nature and the world in order. Sometimes they interact with humans to have children as well, those children usually go on to become heroes."
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A hero, hm? Well, his father thought he was a hero, and it counted for a lot that he'd said so before he even knew Kubo WAS his son. But Kubo hadn't done much adventuring since he defeated the Moon King, and sometimes, caring for the old man didn't feel all that heroic at all. Sometimes it just felt like work.
And his father had been a hero without needing to be anything but mortal, so Kubo rolled along without letting that inflate his ego.
"I don't think anyone worshiped her when she was the Moon Princess, though, and if anyone worshiped the Moon King, I didn't know about it." He shrugged. "Do you mean that your parents were . . . like mine, I guess? My mother was the Moon Princess, and my father was a mortal samurai. Do your powers come from your mother in the same way?"
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"As for my parents...my mother was a mortal woman, but my father is actually the king of the gods...that's where I get my powers from. So it's pretty close to being like yours I guess," Jason admitted. He had only a little information to base this comparison off of, but they sounded fairly similar.
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"What sort of stories do YOU like to listen to?" he asked. "If you've met a lot of people with magic, you must already know a lot of adventures."
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But they didn't have to talk about family at the moment. Instead he thought about how to best answer Kubo's question. Back home, Jason liked reading comic books. He'd been on plenty of adventures fighting monsters, so sometimes people thought it weird that he would enjoy a genre that was practically the same thing. And now here he was living out a comic book adventure more or less. His life really was way too surreal.
"I like stories with heroes saving the day, helping people who can't help themselves. I especially like it when the hero has humble beginnings. Like they don't think they can be a hero or maybe they aren't very strong at first but they stand up for what's right anyway and fight with all they have," Jason started, realizing about halfway through that he was talking about his love of the Captain America movies. He wasn't quite ready to explain that to a kid who might not even know what a movie was, so he stuck with the vague description.
"As for my own adventures, well, as I mentioned demigods are expected to go on quests so those are a little different, but I could talk about those too. The latest one involved a big prophecy and nearly the end of the world."