Movie Night II: The Moviening [Open]

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Who| Wash and anyone who wants to come
What| Movie night!
Where| A large, nice lounge on Legion World
When| A few days after Murderworld and the night after the Anon Meme went up
Warnings/Notes| They're watching the Lion King. This should be interesting

It's been a few days since everyone's arrived back from Murder World, and the Anon Meme went up yesterday. Everyone needs a breather. It's time to watch a movie.

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[notthatjason]

Jason leaned back, "That's probably exactly what I would have done." The Greek-basis of that movie aside, there were just too many issues with that movie that struck a little too close to home for most demigods. Plus the portrayal of the gods in that film was just...way too off-putting. You couldn't know the gods existed and a little of their personality and then watch that film the same way.

"Although I guess I thought it was more popular with people." He knew, if nothing else, that people enjoyed some of the songs from that movie.

[walkingballpit]

"Hero that looks nothing like the real thing lets everyone take advantage of him and sells branded sneakers. Nobody wants to see that." Robbie cut to the chase of why he thought the movie wasn't as popular as some of the other Disney films he grew up with. It was tasteless, in hindsight.

"Maybe it used to be more popular? I don't know, I was a kid. I liked the little demon sidekicks, but it's like they weren't even trying. Even the art was bad."

[notthatjason]

Jason considered the gods he knew and what he knew of Hercules, "I could kind of see the branded sneakers honestly. Actually the gods also get pretty excited if you suggest making action figures of them."

He shrugged it off, "Maybe. I was a kid too and they tended not to show that movie much back home."

[walkingballpit]

"Really?" Rob looked taken aback by this summation. He thought about it, but then he, too, shrugged. "I don't know him personally. Reputation says he likes the ladies, mead, and bar songs... that are usually about him. I can't see Thor liking..."

He trails off, blinks, and turns to look at his new movie buddy more directly. "You know gods."

It hasn't seemed like a universal constant so far.

[notthatjason]

"I only met him the once it...wasn't exactly on the best of terms," Jason admitted. He didn't want to profess to knowing the hero-turned-minor god. Still, that had been a bit of a road block in their quest and they'd been sent running after Hercules acted like a jerk and they buried him in all that food. Jason was just glad they hadn't had to deal with him on the way back home.

He blinked, having forgotten that personally knowing the gods wasn't as common place as he made it sound sometimes. Most people had taken the knowledge in stride. Jason nodded, figuring there was no point in hiding it. "Met them, fought them, went on quests for them. Heck, back home I grew up in a camp for the children of the Roman gods and their descendants. Granted, you don't see them as much in the Roman Camp...they tend to be a little more distant than their Greek-counterpart."

[walkingballpit]

"Is it ever a good time?" Robbie's not quite on the same wavelength with Jason. He's thinking about how, whenever one bumps into another hero, it always seems like it's in the middle of something awful. Like the world is blowing up or his personal life is - either way, he comes off looking dumb whenever the more "adult" heroes are around.

He's not actually that young, anymore, and here in the Legion he's probably averagely aged. It's a hard feeling to shake.

Robbie takes that info in, mulls on it for a moment. It doesn't take a genius to connect 'fought them' and 'camp for children of the Roman gods' and come to the conclusion that Jason has a shitty family life. He wasn't even trying to put that together; the idea just popped into his brain as a fully-formed turd that Robbie will now step around forever. "There's no Roman camp that I've heard of, but... demigods exist. They get lost in the mix of superhumans and mutants, though, so I'm not used to hearing other people talk about them. I keep forgetting the rest of you aren't civilians just because I don't know you."

There, he's babbled away his own discomfort. "Back home, I've got a demigod teammate. She's... unique."

[notthatjason]

Jason had found that meeting the gods tended to be not all it was cracked up to be. It was funny, Camp Jupiter had always seen the arrival or appearance of a god as a kind of blessing since it was so rare in occurrence. Jason had learned, though, that usually the gods didn't show up unless they needed something from their half-blood children. Usually this ended up being a bad thing too or, at the very least, risky to the child being summoned on a quest. "No," he finally said, because it usually wasn't, as Robbie had surmised.

Jason wasn't really surprised by that news, at least, not any more. When he first arrived it might have, but he was quickly growing used to the idea that the universe was a lot bigger and had plenty of room for all kinds of demigods and gods. He wasn't sure if that was a good thing or not, but it wasn't like he could actually do anything about it.

"As far as I know we don't really have mutants where I'm from or, at least, no one that publicly claims to be one. And if you live in New Rome it's customary to provide some service to the legion stationed at Camp Jupiter. I've been there since I was a toddler and I think being here was really my first time interacting for any extended length of time with people who aren't all involved with the gods in some capacity or another."

After all, not every legionnaire had powers. Some of the legacies were descendants so their powers, if they had any, tended to be diluted. However, they still knew of the gods and of the more powerful demigod abilities out there. Camp Half-blood was a different story of course, but the point still stood that Jason's time interacting with regular, run-of-the-mill mortals was typically only when he went out on quests. "So the fact that you're thinking of me as a civilian is actually kind of funny," he finally added.

Of course, even knowing a lot of demigods back home, that didn't dull his curiosity in learning about others -- especially from other worlds. "Oh? How so? Do you know who her godly parent is?"