mission 03: video, action

[unspangled]

Who: Steve Rogers (AU)
Broadcast: Network
Action: SS Blue Fish, SS Iskaulit
When: During drift

Network

What's your favorite kind of music? I ask because I'm still catching up on what I missed back home, but I like discovering new things.


Action

[ During the first week or so of drift, thanks to mostly palling around on his own in the last system, Steve Grant seems slightly more at ease in his own skin now. He's still not the most talkative guy around, but he's working on that. A little. Mostly he can be found on board his own ship or at work, but sometimes he'll go to the gym at odd hours or settle down in the art room with some paints or a pencil and blank sheets of paper.

Less often, but when he's most restless and can't sleep, he'll just walk around and make maps in his head of where his fellow passengers are allowed. And where they aren't. ]

Comments

video

[passingthrough]

Music you can dance to. [#priorites] Which is possibly less helpful in your mission of discovery.

video

[unspangled]

A bit less helpful, [ he admits, because it's Kitty and so far she's been pretty decent. ] I don't know how to.

video

[passingthrough]

Well, that is why I have a dancing studio. Just in case you, specifically, came here and needed to learn.

video

[unspangled]

[ An eyebrow lifts. ] So you see the future as well. Should I ask about lotto numbers?

video

[passingthrough]

24. 16. 39. 42. 9. Aaaaand 7. Not valid in all universes. [She finishes with a smirk.]

action!

[poisontippedcure]

[If there was one small mercy about being on the Blue Fish, it was that it had an art room. Art is a hobby she's had little time to dabble in during recent years, but it's one she enjoys nonetheless.]

[She walks into the art room, easel in hand, surprised to see someone else.]

Color me surprised. I was expecting to be alone.

[unspangled]

[ Steve glances up from his drawing pad, pencil stilling against the paper. He knows who she is only by dint of having checked the ship personnel logs, but that's about as far as he's willing to push personal space. Or snooping. ]

I can leave?

[poisontippedcure]

[Rose shakes her head. As much as she's one for personal space, she's also not one to deny company right now. He seems quiet enough.]

There's no need. You don't seem the type to talk my ear off.

[unspangled]

[ He shakes his head almost immediately. ]

I'll be quiet as a mouse. [ except for, ] You paint?

video

[outstandingbalance]

What have you listened to so far—gotten to Johnny Cash yet?

[This doesn't answer his actual question, but Natasha tends to be cagey about details about herself. And that aside, she's amused and interested at a Steve who's experimental with his music.]

Re: video

[unspangled]

I've been working through it by decade. Bing Crosby, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry. Little Richard. Beatles.

Don't think I have.

[outstandingbalance]

That's a lot to get through. A lot of good music, though. I think you'll like him.

[Something about that whiff of Americana.]

When you get to Nancy Sinatra, you should call me.

[unspangled]

Sinatra?

[ That name rings some bells. ]

video;

[universal_charm]

I'm all about the classics - they've actually saved my life once. Who knew Beastie Boys were great for disrupting a closed network communication?

Re: video;

[unspangled]

[ To Steve, insofar as his re-education is going, classical music means Mozart. Rossini. Not the Beastie Boys. ]

Are they a special ops team?

Re: video;

[universal_charm]

_{[ He laughed at the image that presented. ]}

No, no! They’re a rap group from the 1990s. My favorite is their song “Sabotage”. Though being a special ops team would have been a good backdrop for one of their videos, I’m sure.

Re: video;

[unspangled]

[ Okay, but that doesn't help him at all, Jim. Because: ]

What's rap? Do you have samples?

[ Look, he can do a lot of things. Most of it involves murder and mayhem, and the skills necessary to pull that off. Which is the entire reason for him asking, actually. ]

video;

[spellsteal]

[What's up, it's an elf.]

I like the piano. I'm learning to play, but I'm still not as good as I'd like to be. I suppose that makes it... classical? I'm still not completely sure of what the genres are; I feel like there's only two: soft and loud.

video;

[unspangled]

[ He's starting to get accustomed to you guys. So, sup Elf. ]

It could be classical. In my world, that generally means playing the music of composers who've been dead several hundred years. Most of it is purely instrumental.

But there are ... more contemporary ones who still play piano. Most of the time, they also add lyrics. [ Unless it's experimental jazz. ]

video;

[spellsteal]

[Sup Human.]

Does it... have to be that old? [He looks puzzled.] Quite a few elven composers are still alive today, owing to their longevity I'm sure.

I suppose that makes sense. I won't be adding any bawdy tavern lyrics to my playing anytime soon, though.

Re: video;

[unspangled]

To be considered classical? Where I come from, yes.

[ But ... ]

How long do your people live?

video;

[hymnals]

[Another elf!]

I like music with a lot of energy. Conviction.

[He taps his chin.]

A hard bass line.

Re: video;

[unspangled]

[ It's like he's collecting them, or something. ]

You like modern music?

[ Considering a bass guitar is something of a recent development. In the last century, anyway. ]

[hymnals]

Sure. There's a popular band that tours everywhere back where I'm from.

[He makes a gesture with his hand, a sort of side to side movement.]

Not death metal like Blightboar. A little too dark for me. But a good stadium anthem, I'll take that.

[There are many kinds of axes in Azeroth.]

[unspangled]

[ He files that away, wondering if it's all elves or just this one. Into bands. ]

Two questions. What is death metal? And are you talking about the national anthem?