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ladylynse · 7 years ago

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Whirlwind - Part III

Secret Quartet Fanfic

Summary: Jake should be used to ominous predictions by now. Randy should know better than to blindly follow McFist. Adrien should think twice before sneaking away. And Danny should’ve expected something like this when he got that phone call. (Part I, Part II) (What’s the timeline again?)

5:32 PM

Jake blinked the spots from his eyes. Used though he was to bright flashes of fire, this had ended up a bit stronger than he’d anticipated. Even a few seconds after he’d cut off the flame, he could still see the shadowy impression of the butterfly’s dark magic burning up—which was really weird, because he’d never had that problem in dragon form before. He had a fleeting glimpse of the butterfly getting away—white now, but probably no less dangerous with his luck—but was distracted by a startled exclamation from a nearby building before he could follow it.

“Holy cheese, dragons are real?”

Jake snaked his head around to look, finally spotting a solitary figure in black staring at him from one rooftop over. At least Danny had gotten away without any trouble, though since he’d stayed invisible, Jake wasn’t too surprised.

Honestly, he was more surprised this new guy was dressed like a stereotypical ninja. The kind of guy who had obviously never met a real ninja before. Blending in was actually a thing, and this guy didn’t seem to have heard of that.

Not that Jake could talk.

“How the cheese did I not know this?” the ninja continued. Jake wondered if the ninja realized he was both heard and understood. Probably not. “The Nomicon definitely never said anything.”

The name meant nothing to Jake, but it might twig something with Gramps or Fu. Jake figured he’d ask later. As the ninja threw his scarf out—and as it extended longer than it should if magic weren’t involved—Jake flew up and hopefully out of this guy’s reach. Sara and Kara hadn’t contacted him with any further news, but that didn’t mean this guy wasn’t involved somehow. If he could just—

“Hey, are mermaids real?”

“What?” Jake had flinched when the Fenton Phone in his ear crackled to life, but his response was automatic. And, despite that, legitimate. What the heck was that supposed to mean?

“Never mind.”

If Danny had intended to say anything else, it was lost in static. Which left Jake with the ninja, who had closed the distance between them in the time that Jake had hovered to talk to Danny.

“Hey! You! Dragon!”

Smooth.

But probably not evil; plenty of the villains Jake had run into tended to be more long-winded or at least eloquent in their words, and he’d capitalized on that waste of time more often than not. More importantly, Jake saw no sign of the Brooch of Metamorphosis or any of the others that had been in the book, but in all fairness, the suit covered a lot; it wouldn’t take much to hide the Earrings of Creation or the Necklace of Illusion, for instance. He hoped, if there really more than seven of these things like G had said could be the case, this guy didn’t have one of them; the last thing he needed was a complete surprise.

The ninja was waving frantically at him, clearly trying to get his attention. Jake beat his wings for a moment, trying to figure out if he should just leave him in the dust, and then decided the guy might actually have some useful information. It was worth a shot, anyway. And if not, well, Gramps would want to know who this guy was if someone else was going to know about the magical world—or needed their memory wiped, at least once they found out where he got his hands on what seemed to be a magical suit.

Jake landed on the other side of the roof, just to be on the safe side, even though he knew it wouldn’t give him much of an edge.

The ninja’s eyes widened in surprise. “You do understand me! That’s totally bruce.” He bounded toward Jake, staring at him as if he still couldn’t believe what he was seeing. “If sorcerers and dragons are real, is everything else? Y’know, ghosts and unicorns and vampires and everything?”

Jake resisted the urge to roll his eyes. Barely. “Yo, you got a name?”

The ninja let out a whine of excitement. “Oh my cheese this is so cool.” He came closer still and held out a hand. “I’m the Ninja.”

It wasn’t a very inventive name, but considering Jake went by the American Dragon, he couldn’t exactly talk. Against his better judgement, Jake held out a claw for the Ninja to grasp. He wasn’t too keen on making friends right now; he had a feeling he might be fighting this guy later, since he obviously wasn’t properly part of the magical world or he’d know about the American Dragon already. But for all Jake knew, the guy wasn’t at all what he appeared. Maybe he was working with the other guy, even if he didn’t have the same magical accessories. For all Jake knew, the Ninja was the guy who had the box of these things to hand out.

Then again, assuming the Ninja was an enemy was the quickest way to make him one. Jake could give him the benefit of the doubt for now. “I’m the Am Drag. American Dragon. You wanna tell me why you’re on my turf?”

“We have an American Dragon?’ Before Jake could blink, the Ninja had produced a cell phone from his pockets. “Wait till I—”

Jake reached out and flicked it away, not caring that it smashed as it hit the roof. He was not taking that risk right now. “Yeah, that’s not happening. This whole thing needs to be a secret. So spill, Ninja. Why are you here?”

The Ninja let out a pained cry at his phone’s demise, but when he turned his attention to Jake, his demeanour had sobered. “I was trying to catch up with my friend, but you can help, too. I think an old enemy of mine’s in town, and she’ll wonk your cheese if given half the chance. She’s switched up her tactics a bit, but the idea’s the same. I don’t know if she’s working with someone or not, but she thrives on chaos, and believe me, you do not want to see her at full power.”

Jake narrowed his eyes. “Who do you think we’re up against?”

The Ninja shrugged. “I just call her the Sorceress.”

A sorceress. Great. He really needed another magic user to deal with. Like Pandarus and Nigel weren’t bad enough. (Okay, so Nigel wasn’t that bad, but he was still annoying.) But maybe Jake would finally get lucky and this Ninja would be dead wrong. “And your friend?”

“Calls himself Chat Noir,” replied the Ninja. He reached into his pocket and drew out some kind of silver cylinder. Holding it up, he said, “Carries this around. Uses it as either a baton or a pole. I’m pretty sure it’s not a good sign that I found it over there.” He jerked his thumb over his shoulder before slipping the rod back into his pocket. “Something happened, but I didn’t see what.”

Jake knew pretending to ignore the question wouldn’t get him anywhere, but changing the subject slightly might. “You know him for long, Ninja?”

The Ninja crossed his arms. “Do you think he’s the bad guy here? He’s not the bad guy. He helped me fight someone who was stanked. Not that I needed help. I was the one helping him. I totally had it under control. He just happened to get there first.”

Well, it was possible. Jake knew he couldn’t discount that. But he also couldn’t forget about the very real possibility that something might have been set up by this Chat Noir guy (Black Cat, very imaginative; at this rate, Danny was the best of them because he at least went by Phantom and not Ghost). It might just be another attempt to draw them out. This Ninja had shown up, after all, and Jake had no idea where he’d come from. What if he only thought Chat Noir was a friend because he’d fallen for the guy’s trap? The more he talked, the more it sounded like they’d only met recently. Then again, that could be deliberate….

Jake wasn’t big on plans, but he had to think this one through. If this kid hadn’t come by the Ring of the Black Cat honestly, he very well could have the Brooch of the Butterfly, too, or be working with the person who did. And Fu might not be wrong when it came to thinking the guy was some sort of bounty hunter or collector of magical objects. If the Ninja wasn’t wrong about someone teaming up with this Sorceress, then she might have the brooch. And if he was, and she wasn’t even in the picture, then Chat Noir—or his partner, if he had one—could just be causing chaos to try to distract them. Lure them out, maybe, and assess their abilities or use the distraction to hit up the shop. The Ninja turning up was probably a wrench in his plan if he’d wanted to target the shop, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t adapt and figure out how to take whatever magical stuff the Ninja had, too.

Pretending to be one of the good guys before stabbing your friends in the back wasn’t exactly a new trick.

Chat Noir knew what Jake looked like in human form, so he couldn’t pretend to get close to him, but he’d never seen Danny. Neither, as far as Jake knew, had the Ninja. Which would be good, because Jake was pretty sure the Ninja wasn’t going to believe Jake when he presented his case about Chat Noir. And Jake got that, he really did—it did all seem to be circumstantial evidence—but seriously. No person in their right mind goes into an electronics shop to ask for directions to a cheese shop. He had to have been scouting them out. And hadn’t it worked? He knew what both Jake and Gramps looked like in human form now.

Sure, they knew what he looked like, too, but that wasn’t going to do them a whole lot of good when someone apparently had the ability to change what things looked like.

Beware of the butterflies. What else could that mean? It couldn’t be a coincidence that there was a Butterfly Miraculous and that someone with the Cat Miraculous had just walked right into their shop the day after they’d received that warning. Especially since it was just the beginning. You’ll be busier than us once the attacks begin. And he never had dealt with these Miraculous things, which is pretty much exactly what Sara had said.

First things first. If there was a new sorceress in town wreaking havoc, he might be able to find some sign of it at the scene of the crime. “Where did this go down?” Jake asked. “Could you show me?”

“Yeah, but…. Does this mean you don’t know where he is?”

Somewhere near water, if Danny’s question was any indication, but truthfully, no, Jake had no idea, so he said as much. The Ninja seemed to take him at his word and agreed to lead Jake back to the place where things had gone down. Danny was still on radio silence, and Jake didn’t want to fill him in while the Ninja was in earshot. They’d have time to catch up later, hopefully when he had learned a little bit more about what was going on.

5:33 PM

Danny could fly faster than someone could freefall. When Jake had hesitated on the mermaid question, Danny knew he didn’t have time to wait for an answer. He’d just dived. This guy wasn’t a ghost, so it wasn’t really fair to assume he could do something like swim—or, well, depending on how much magic he had at his disposal, survive a fall like this.

Danny grabbed the guy from an angle so he could redirect their momentum rather than stopping it abruptly—he wasn’t sure how well that would work—and ended up skimming the surface of the water as he turned back toward shore. Cat boy was yelling, but Danny didn’t care. He might be able to feel Danny’s arms, but he hadn’t tried to attack them or the body they were attached to, and that was a plus. It meant Danny didn’t have to go intangible yet.

It wasn’t, however, enough to earn Danny’s trust. Before they got too close to the shore or any boats, Danny let go and let himself sink underwater, just to watch.

Cat boy had no trouble treading water, looking around frantically for some sign of Danny. When he didn’t find anything, he started to swim toward land—long, strong strokes of the front crawl. The cold water didn’t seem to bother him.

Danny rose out of the water in the other teen’s wake, flicked intangible to free himself of the water, and reached back up to his Fenton Phone. Thankfully, they were practically indestructible, and that included being waterproof. “I’m going to put him on ice,” he said quietly, not sure if Jake was still listening to him. He didn’t want to risk trying to explain himself. Cat boy wasn’t too far ahead of him; if he made too much noise, he’d be noticed, invisible or not, and he doubted being wet was going to slow this guy down too much.

Danny hoped the swim would be exhausting, but cat boy had good endurance and kept up a steady pace. That wasn’t exactly comforting, especially if they were going to keep fighting later. Danny was used to opponents that took a while to wear down, but he knew how much energy he used in a fight; he’d just assumed anyone who was fully human would feel that even more.

Apparently, magic and good physical fitness on top of that stood for a lot. Cat boy varied his strokes, but his pace didn’t lag much. When he was close to shore and had stopped to tread water to look around again, Danny took the opportunity for what it was and used his ice powers. He saw a flash of fear on the teen’s face as he realized what was happening, but then it was over.

He wasn’t frozen solid, but he was encased in a thick box of ice. Which didn’t give him much oxygen, but it would—presumably—allow Danny to see what the heck Jake meant when he talked about this guy having the power of destruction. Because who wouldn’t use something like that to get out of a trap like this? The walls were too thick to break without something designed for the job, and this guy didn’t even have his pole thing anymore.

Danny added handles to the prison before turning it and its captive invisible and pulling them from the water. He heard muffled screams from inside before it quieted down, which probably meant the guy was biding his time or activating his power. Danny suspected the former; he was flying fast enough that he sorta doubted cat boy was keen on freefalling again, at least as long as he could avoid just being dropped in general.

Danny really didn’t know his way around New York, so he just aimed for a building with a flat roof that looked more commercial than residential. He dropped their invisibility and abruptly realized the entire ice block was covered in a spider web of cracks—not easy to do, considering how strong his ice was.

He started to set it down.

It exploded.

Cat boy was at the far side of the roof before Danny realized what was happening. He flickered intangible again, letting the ice shards fall through his flesh, and hissed in pain. Even with his healing ability, this was going to slow him down a bit. “Guess I got what I deserved,” he muttered, holding one hand just above his right eye to stem the bleeding from where a shard had caught him on the forehead. “Not like I didn’t know he was going to get out of there.”

Trouble was, he thought he’d learn something, like how cat boy could actually do that.

He hadn’t.

The only warning he’d gotten was the spreading cracks, and even knowing it would be coming, he hadn’t been prepared for it.

And now cat boy had definitely seen him.

Danny didn’t bother going invisible now. Cat boy hadn’t found an escape and had instead turned back to face Danny. Something beeped, and the other boy’s face hardened. He moved away from the edge, but not far. Danny stayed where he was, not wanting to make the first move.

As it turned out, he didn’t need to. “You came for my Miraculous,” cat boy said. Like Jake had said, he had an accent. Him not being from New York would be a plus if Danny actually knew his way around the city, but as it was, Danny would have to see how well Jake could describe landmarks seen from the air once they got through this confrontation.

He still had intangibility on his side, and hopefully this building wasn’t too important….

“Your Miraculous,” Danny repeated, trying to remember what Jake had told him. “Your ring, right? The source of your power?”

Cat boy’s hands clenched into fists, but he still didn’t move.

“You seem to be pretty good at using that power, Destructo.”

Cat boy snorted. “Stick with Chat Noir.”

“What?”

“It’s Chat Noir, Freeze Ray.”

“Phantom.”

“Phantom, then. You haven’t won. Just because my partner isn’t here, doesn’t mean you’re going to take me down that easily.”

Oh, great. He did have a partner. Just what they needed. Jake was right about someone else having the magic brooch. Danny groaned. He hated dealing with magical jewellery. First Dora’s necklace, and then that ring—

Chat Noir started running, and Danny shot an ectoblast at him before remembering the other boy was essentially human. It didn’t matter; cat boy was quick on his feet and managed to dodge that and Danny’s subsequent blasts with ice, varying his speed and direction so he was harder to hit. Trying to predict his movements only led to mounds of ice scattered across the roofs.

Danny iced over what he thought might be a door to the rest of the building, for as long as that would last, but he stopped trying to freeze Chat Noir in place when he realized every attempt was just giving him more places to hide. Just because he didn’t want to get too close, didn’t mean he was willing to let Chat Noir out of his sight when he could take down the entire building as easily as he had burst out of the ice block.

Danny turned, trying to spot the other boy, and groaned when he couldn’t see anything, even when he flew a bit higher. “I’m so going to regret this,” he muttered, but he created a clone and both of them winked out of sight before flying overhead to try to spot Chat Noir.

Instead of finding Chat Noir, he found a scared boy huddling behind a block of ice, feeding something that smelled like dirty socks to a tiny, flying cat.

“What?” Danny asked, forgetting for a moment that he was invisible. The boy jumped, spraying Danny with a few stray water droplets as his head jerked towards Danny, and the cat flew through him. Danny blinked, dropping his clone and lapsing back into visibility. His ghost sense had never gone off. “How—?”

The boy—well, Chat Noir, just without his cat suit (but with the black cat?)—scuttled away from Danny, finding his feet and running to hide somewhere else. Danny flew up to follow. There was another flash, and the boy had his costume back.

And his pole.

Which he was currently using to get away.

“Hey, wait!” Danny yelled, flying after him. He hadn’t expected the boy to lose the costume, even temporarily, even if it did mean he got his pole back. If he was as destructive as his reputation, he should’ve had no problem creating a hole and escaping through the building if he didn’t just flat out collapse the entire thing. Had he changed back unintentionally?

If he had, and if was because he’d been exhausted, he’d gotten his second wind a heck of a lot faster than Danny ever had.

Something didn’t add up. Danny flew faster, catching up to Chat Noir as he was using his pole—baton?—as a helicopter blade. Danny didn’t really want to knock him off course, but he kept pace. “Hey, look— Stop ignoring me, okay? We should talk.”

Chat Noir kept turning, steering away from Danny as best he could without running into a building.

“I’m sorry, okay? I think I…. Look, maybe we got off on the wrong foot.”

Chat Noir muttered something, maybe in French since it didn’t sound like English, and then suddenly stopped spinning his baton and dropped. Danny yelped in spite of himself and tried to catch up, but the other boy had hit the ground before Danny had reacted. Chat Noir dove into the nearest building and, despite going intangible to get inside faster, Danny lost track of him.

Great.

Danny flew back outside and turned his Fenton Phone back on. “Jake?” He didn’t get an answer, but he continued on in the hope that Jake could hear him. “Jake, I think we’ve got something wrong. Where should I meet you?” Danny waited, but there was still nothing. “Jake? Can you hear me? Just say something so I know you’re getting this. Even if it’s not an answer. Okay?”

The silence stretched.

Crud.

Danny shot up above the skyline again to get his bearings. He might not be able to figure out where he’d left Jake, but he could swing by the shop and see if Gramps or Fu had heard anything. It was his best shot.

6:14 PM

Adrien shivered. The cold hadn’t bothered him too much while he’d been transformed, and his hair had dried during his escape, but it felt like it would be a long time before he could shake this chill. Plagg hid in his pocket again, and Adrien peeked out from the potted plant behind which he’d ducked. The coast looked clear, but that didn’t mean much when he was dealing with some kind of ice ghost.

He headed deeper into the mall, keeping his head down. He still had some American money in his pocket from when he’d gone out earlier to buy cheese for Plagg, and he used most of what he’d brought to buy himself a hooded sweater. He zipped it up to his chin and pulled up his hood. Father wouldn’t approve, but Adrien couldn’t afford to be picky. He needed to blend in, as much as anyone could, and he needed to get warm. At least his clothes weren’t soaked.

Adrien wasn’t sure where he was, but despite the best efforts of Nathalie and the Gorilla, he was familiar with the metro, and he could figure out the one here, too. He knew where he needed to go, and it didn’t take much to find the metro station, study a map, buy a ticket, and get on the right train. He had a few transfers ahead of him, but that would give him time to figure out his story.

Well.

Enough of a story.

Something Nathalie would accept, if not believe.

He was still trying to figure out why Hawk Moth was in New York. He’d seen the akuma; he knew it was Hawk Moth. But he wasn’t likely to catch Ladybug when she was transformed to confirm that Paris was quiet, and he didn’t really want to tell her he’d lost one akuma and was now tackling someone else who had been infected by a different one. He could check the Ladyblog when he got back to the hotel—Alya was usually quick about updating it once there was an obvious attack; more than once, her postings had been the first evidence he’d seen of someone being akumatized—but he didn’t think he’d find anything.

He didn’t think there was more than one Hawk Moth.

He couldn’t risk discussing anything with Plagg now (pretending to be on his phone wouldn’t work if this Phantom had managed to follow him after all and was just biding his time), but he would’ve done almost anything to at least be able to hash out ideas with Ladybug. If she didn’t know what to do, she’d be able to figure something out. Without her, he had to figure out how to capture the akuma—or rather, all of them—and keep everything contained until she could work her purifying magic.

He’d have to talk to Plagg again, but Adrien remembered him saying only Ladybug had that power, that he didn’t. So without her….

“I don’t know how I can beat him alone,” Adrien whispered. He missed having a partner to watch his back. The Ninja he’d met, whoever he really was, was a poor replacement for Ladybug. Especially when Adrien didn’t even know if he’d see the guy again. But Adrien knew he’d meant well, and he had helped, more or less, and that counted for something.

He wasn’t entirely sure how the Ninja had known to break the pen to release the akuma, but at least that had limited the Critic’s damage.

Plagg had told him that there was other magic in this town, and maybe the Ninja was part of that, too. And while Plagg had warned him to stay away from that magic, Adrien needed help. The Critic’s akuma would have multiplied by now, and Hawk Moth had already sent out another one in Phantom. Adrien had no idea why Phantom had been akumatized from his name, but chances were the akuma was hiding in something in Phantom’s pocket, which would make it even harder to figure out. Then again, if he couldn’t capture and cleanse the akuma, he would be better off leaving Phantom alone for as long as he could; trying to deal with one of him was more than enough. But maybe the Ninja had something that could help….

Someone vacated one of the seats at the next stop, and Adrien gratefully sank into it. He had a long ride ahead of him, and a longer night still, and he was exhausted. He needed to conserve what little energy he had. Even if Hawk Moth—for some reason—decided to give him a night’s grace, he should already be back at the show, and he couldn’t turn up with bags under his eyes or let his aching muscles show in his movements. It was simply Not Acceptable.

And acceptance was all Adrien was trying to get from his father these days.

5:47 PM

“Wait, hold on, dawg, that fight you told me about went down here?”

Randy glanced over his shoulder. The Am Drag had stopped short and was staring at the building where this fashion show was being held. He nodded. “Yeah, why? You know it?”

The dragon swallowed. “I know someone who’s down there.”

Randy looked back; the crowd had gathered outside again. “That can’t be hard,” he said. “Even I know someone down there, and I’m not even from here.”

“Aw, man,” groaned the dragon. “She’ll hate me crashing, but I’ve gotta warn her. Do me a solid and keep watch for your friend, Ninja. If you see him, let me know.”

“How? You totally wrecked my cell with that shoob move of yours.”

Randy hadn’t known dragons could roll their eyes, but apparently they could. “Yo, it’s not that big a deal. I know someone in electronics. I can replace it by, like, tomorrow. Give you something with a number programmed into it where you can reach me. In the meantime….” The Am Drag hesitated, but Randy was not about to throw him a bone. A replacement cell phone would not replace everything he had just lost on his old one, which included text message arguments with Howard that Randy had actually managed to win.

Randy didn’t see where the Am Drag had pulled it from, but he was holding out some green thing between his claws. “It’s an earpiece. The channel’s pre-set, so just put it on and touch the button on the side to turn it on. I am not usually the one saying this, but keep quiet unless you have to, ya hear? I don’t want anyone realizing what these things are.”

Randy took it and looked at it. “Isn’t it pretty obvious?”

“I dunno. Apparently they can pass as wacky earrings on girls. I didn’t design them. Just holla if you need help with anything, or if Chat Noir shows up. I…I need to talk to him. Just, uh, don’t tell him that if you see him, okay? I want it to be a surprise.”

Most of that was a mess of lies even to Randy’s ears, but whatever. The Am Drag probably already knew Chat Noir anyway and he was now part of the setup of some elaborate joke. No matter; he was down for a bit of fun, and if he found more proof of the Sorceress, this would give him a line to the American Dragon. He wasn’t about to turn down an opportunity like that. Not having to fight the Sorceress alone would be a relief, and working with a dragon would be honkin’ bruce. Way better than just fighting alongside cat boy, assuming Randy ever had the chance to fill him in.

He should’ve never waited so long to follow, but it’s not like he’d been going in the wrong direction, anyway. Finding Chat Noir’s stick thing proved that. But for him to be missing…. Was he too late?

Nah. More likely, Chat Noir had needed to use the litter box. That was one of the main reasons Randy would run off from a fight faster than usual.

“No problemo,” Randy said. “And, hey, can you maybe— Wait, where are you going?”

The Am Dragon, who had launched himself back into the air, snaked his neck down to look at Randy as he hovered a good twenty feet above the rooftop. “I need to talk to someone. Don’t worry; I’ll be in contact again soon. Just watch your step in the meantime, ya hear? Something’s going down in the NYC, and the Am Drag ain’t able to completely head it off.” And then he beat his wings again, gaining height and momentum before he shot away.

It was the second time in half an hour that another hero had just bolted on Randy. Maybe Howard was right. Maybe he should wash the suit. He was pretty sure the stench of the smoke bombs wasn’t going to come out, and he’d always thought it just kinda cleaned itself anyway because he’d never had issues before, but this was getting ridiculous.

Whatever. He should check on McFist again and make sure his ride hadn’t left without him. He doubted Marci would want to split before the show, but the Sorceress’s attack might’ve thrown things off. McFist might not be too keen on being caught in the middle of something where he had no semblance of control—or Viceroy to bail him out.

Part IV

#secret quartet #adjl #rc9gn #danny phantom #miraculous ladybug #fanfiction #crossover #adrien agreste #danny fenton #jake long #randy cunningham #my writing #ladylynse #crossover snippet #snippets #adjl snippet #dp snippet #rc9gn snippet #ml snippet

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underimagines · 7 years ago

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How would Toriel, Frisk and Chara react to a friend of their’s having a great deal of difficulty showing emotion to others, but tries their damndest to show their appreciation to their friends for sticking around them for so long by offering them various gifts, giving them some compliments (although they say them in a very monotone voice), attempting to smile for them every now and then, etc.?

Toriel:

That is alright, my child. She has had experience on both ends, with those always emoting, & those who have a tough time. So she is patient, & helps to guide you, like any good teacher, if you would allow her assistance. Even if it only helps a little. She just wants you to be happy with who you are.

Frisk:

They appreciate it, because they know how tough it can be. You wouldn’t believe how often they get made fun of for that blank expression they sometimes slip into. Though they don’t mean to, & while living on the Surface it got a lot better. It still happens sometimes. So you’ll just be trading compliments together, both of you stone-faced. It freaks Papyrus out, but Toriel gets a little kick out of it.

Chara:

They’re similar, though your difference in expressions can be jarring to some. They, with a permanently etched smile. You, completely neutral. You’re a bit like those twins from “American Dragon: Jake Long,” Sara & Kara. Chara, speaking dark things with a grin. & you, trying your hardest to be sweet with an expression of natural gloom. It’s kinda funny.

#ask #undertale #toriel dreemurr #frisk #chara #scenario #platonic #x reader #mod mellow #queued post #thelolzer

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norikateatro · 7 years ago

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Beauty and The Beast: Broadway- April 28th, 2002 Cast: Sarah Litzsinger as Belle, Steve Blanchard as Beast, Bryan Batt as Lumiere, and Beth Fowler as Mrs. Potts, and Nicholas Jonas as Chip

Chicago US tour: November 23th, 2005 Chicago, IL Cast: Paige Davis, Brenda Braxton, Tom Wopat, Carol Woods

Cats- UK tour, Wolverhampton 30 March 2013 full show Cast: Joanna Ampil (Grizabella) Katie Warsop (Rumpleteazer) Clare Rickard (Jellylorum) Melissa James (Bombalurina) Lily Fraser (Demeter) Alice Redmond (Jennyanydots) Alicia Beck (Victoria/White Cat) Dawn Williams (Jemima) Nicholas Pound (Old Deutoronomy) Ben Palmer (Munkustrap) Oliver Savile (Rum Tum Tugger) Joseph Poulton (Quazo/Mistoffelees) Paul F Monaghan (Asparagus/Bustopher Jones/Growl Tiger:) Barnaby Thompson (Mungojerrie) Ross Finnie (Skimbleshanks) Jessica Buckby (Cassandra) Lizzi Franklin (Tantomile) Joal Morris (Carbucketty) Richard Astbury (Coricopat) Cameron Ball (Admetus/Macavity) James Darch (Alonzo) and Will Lucas (Bill Bailey).

Cats Broadway: July 2016 VOB (no small) Cast: Leona Lewis (Grizabella), Tyler Hanes (Rum Tum Tugger), Ricky Ubeda (Mistoffelees), Quentin Earl Darrington (Old Deuteronomy), Eloise Kropp (Jennyanydots), Giuseppe Bausilio (Carbucketty), Jeremy Davis (Skimbleshanks), Kim Faure (Demeter), Sara Jean Ford (Jellylorum), Lili Froehlich (Electra), Daniel Gaymon (Macavity), Shonica Gooden (Rumpleteazer), Christopher Gurr (Gus/Bustopher Jones), Andy Huntington Jones (Munkustrap), Kolton Krouse (Tumblebrutus), Jess Le Protto (Mungojerrie), Georgina Pazcougin (Victoria), Emily Pynenburg (Cassandra), Arianna Rosario (SIllabub), Ahmad Smmons (Alonzo), Christine Cornish Smith (Bombalurina), Corey Snide (Coricopat), Emily Tate (Tantomile), Sharrod Wiliams (Pouncival)

Come Far Away (OBC) Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway) Cast: Ben Platt, Laura Dreyfuss, Will Roland, Kristolyn Lloyd, Mike Faist, Rachel Bay Jones, Michael Park, Jennifer Laura Thompson (OBC)

Falsettos Broadway: October 28th, 2016 Cast: Christian Borle (Marvin), Andrew Rannells (Whizzer), Stephanie J. Block (Trina), Brandon Uranowitz (Mendel), Anthony Rosenthal (Jason), Tracie Thoms (Charlotte), Betsy Wolfe (Cordelia) Link:

Finding Neverland (OBC)

Wicked Broadway: Preview October 12th, 2003 Original Broadway Cast Cast: Idina Menzel (Elphaba), Kristin Chenoweth (Glinda), Norbert Leo Butz (Fiyero), Carole Shelley (Madame Morrible), Joel Grey (The Wizard) Michelle Federer (Nessarose), Christopher Fitzgerald (Boq), William Youmans (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked Chicago: July 1, 2005- Cast: Ana Gasteyer (Elphaba), Kate Reinders (Glinda), Kristoffer Cusick (Fiyero), Gene Weygandt (The Wizard), Steven Skybell (Doctor Dillamond), Rondi Reed (Madame Morrible), Heidi Kettenring Nessarose), Telly Leung (Boq)

Wicked (Broadway): January 8, 2006 Cast: Shoshana Bean (Elphaba), Megan Hilty (Glinda), David Ayers (Fiyero), Rue McClanahan (Madame Morrible), Ben Vereen (The Wizard), Michelle Federer (Nessarose), Rob Sapp (Boq), Sean McCourt (Dr. Dillamond). notes: Shoshanna's, David's, Rue's and Michelle's last performances. Camera wanders at points due to the master's blind filming.

Wicked (Broadway): May 28, 2006) (Megan’s Last) cast: Eden Espinosa (Elphaba), Megan Hilty (Glinda), David Garrison (The Wizard), Derrick Williams (Fiyero), Carol Kane (Madame Morrible), Jenna Leigh Green (Nessarose), Rob Sapp (Boq), David McCourt (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked First National Tour PROSHOT May 2006 - Victoria Matlock (s/b Elphaba), Kendra Kassebaum, Nicolas Dromard (u/s Fiyero), Jennifer Waldman (Nessarose), Alma Cuervo (Morrible), PJ Benjamin (The Wizard) *Proshot from one camera at the back of the house. Sound is patched in from the soundboard and is incredibly clear. Some washout, but amazing to see the set and choreo like this.

Wicked Broadway: July 17th, 2008 Cast: Kerry Ellis (Elphaba), Kendra Kassebaum (Glinda), David Burnham (Fiyero), Cristy Candler (Nessarose), Ben Liebert (Boq), Lenny Wolpe (The Wizard), Jayne Houdyshell (Madame Morrible), Steven Skybell (Dr. Dillamond) Notes: Kerry’s first on Broadway

Wicked 1st National Tour: March 4, 2007 Baltimore, Maryland

Cast: Victoria Matlock (Elphaba), Christina DeCicco (Glinda), Cliffton Hall (Fiyero), Deedee Magno Hall (Nessarose), Barbara Tirrell (Morrible), P.J. Benjamin (Wizard), Josh Lamon (Boq), Tom Flynn (Dillamond),Paul Slade Smith as Witch’s Father/Frex ; Lori Homles as Witch’s Mother/Melena Leslie Becker as Midwife/ Nanny

Wicked Broadway: October 9, 2007 (mp4) Stephanie J. Block (Elphaba), Annaleigh Ashford (Glinda), Sebastian Arcelus (Fiyero), Kathy Santen (Morrible), Lenny Wolpe (Wizard), Logan Lipton (Boq), Cristy Candler (Nessarose), Steven Skybell (Dillamond) h

Wicked Broadway: February 1, 2015 Cast: Lilli Cooper (s/b Elphaba), Kara Lindsay (Glinda), Jerad Bortz (u/s Fiyero), Brian Munn (u/s The Wizard), Kathy Fitzgerald (Madame Morrible), Catherine Charlebois (Nessarose), Robin De Jesus (Boq).

Wicked: Singapore April 22nd, 2012 Cast- Zoe Jarrett (understudy Elphaba), Suzie Mathers (Glinda), David Harris (Fiyero), Anne Wood (Madame Morrible), Elisa Colla (Nessarose), James D Smith (Boq). At just over 2 hours long, this is missing a few sequences, but all the big numbers and memorable dialogue scenes are intact. It's shot from the very front row of the stalls at the side so, although this causes a lot of problems for the brave person who filmed it, we DO get many nice close-ups and a chance to see the show from quite an unusual angle at times! Very clear sound throughout.

Wicked Korea (Date: November 2013 ) Cast: Oak Joo Hyun (Elphaba), Jeong Sun Ah (Glinda), Lee Ji Hoon (Fiyero), Nam Kyoung Joo (The Wizard), Cho Jung Keun (Doctor Dillamond), Kim Young Joo (Madame Morrible), Lee Yea Eun (Nessarose), Kim Dong Hyun (Boq)

Wicked 2nd National Tour (Madison, WI): May 28, 2013 Cast: Jennifer DiNoia (Elphaba), Hayley Podschun (Glinda), David Nathan Perlow (Fiyero), Walker Jones (The Wizard), Gina Ferrall (Madame Morrible), Zarah Mahler (Nessarose), Michael Wartella (Boq), Jay Russell (Doctor Dillamond). quality: An absolutely beautiful HD capture with no obstructions. Jennifer is wonderful as Elphaba.

Wicked West End: October 27th, 2014 Cast: Jennifer DiNoia (Elphaba), Savannah Stevenson (G(a)linda) Jeremy Taylor (Fiyero), Liza Sadovy (Madame Morrible), Martyn Ellis (The Wizard), Katie Rowley-Jones (Nessarose), Sam Lupton (Boq), Philip Childs (Dr. Dillamond) Wicked Mexico: November 18th 2014

Cast: Ana Cecilia Anzaldúa, Crisanta Gómez (s/b), Jorge Lau, Anahí Allué, Paco Morales, Adam Sadwing, Beto Torres. Notes: Highlights include "No One Mourns the Wicked", "Dear Old Shiz", the Room Assignment scene from Let Her GO! to "What Is This Feeling?", "Popular", "Defying Gravity", "Thank Goodness", "No Good Deed" and "For Good".

Wicked 2nd National Tour: 10/29/15 Cast: Mary Kate Morrissey (s/b Elphaba), Carrie St. Louis (Glinda), Jake Boyd (Fiyero), Liana Hunt (Nessarose), Wendy Worthington (Madame Morrible), Stuart Zagnit (The Wizard). Lee Slobotikin (Boq), Chad Jennings (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked 2nd National Tour: November 6th, 2017 Cast: Jessica Vosk (Elphaba), Allison Bailey (u/s Glinda), Jeremy Woodard (Fiyero), Kristen Martin (Nessarose), Sam Sefarian (Boq), Chad Jennings (Doctor Dillamond), Stuart Zagnit (The Wizard), Wendy Worthington (Madame Morrible).

Wicked Broadway: June 21, 2016 Cast: Rachel Tucker (Elphaba), Ginna Claire Mason (s/b Glinda), Jonah Platt (Fiyero), Peter Scolari (The Wizard), Judy Kaye (Madame Morrible), Dawn Cantwell (Nessarose), Zachary Noah Piser (Boq), Michael Genet (Doctor Dillamond).

Wicked San Francisco: September 5, 2010 (Last Show) Marcie Dodd (Elphaba) Alli Mauzey (Glinda) Clifton C. Hall (Fiyero) Jody Gelb (Madame Morrible) Tom McGowan (The Wizard) DeeDee Magno Hall (Nessarose) Etai Benshlomo (Boq)

Wicked 1st National Tour: December 12, 2007; St. Louis, MO. Carmen Cusack (Elphaba), Katie Rose Clarke (Glinda), Cliffton Hall (Fiyero), Alma Cuervo (Madame Morrible), Lee Wilkof (The Wizard), Deedee Magno Hall (Nessarose), Brad Weinstock (Boq), Tom Flynn (Dr. Dillamond)

Wicked UK/International Tour April 15th, 2017 Jodie Steele (alt. Elphaba), Carly Anderson (Glinda), Bradley Jaden (Fiyero), Kim Ismay (Mme. Morrible), Steven Pinder (Dr. Dillamond/Wizard), Emily Shaw (Nessarose), Iddon Jones (Boq) Link:

Waitress (Broadway) − June 14, 2016: Jessie Mueller (Jenna), Keala Settle (Becky), Kimiko Glenn (Dawn), Drew Gehling (Dr Pomatter), Nick Cordero (Earl), Dakin Matthews (Joe), Eric Anderson (Cal), Christopher Fitzgerald (Ogie) (OBC)

Waitress ( Broadway) April, 2017 Cast: Sara Bareilles, Charity Angel Dawson, Molly Jobe as (u/s) Dawn, Chris Diamantopoulos, Will Swenson, Dakin Matthews, Eric Anderson, Christopher Fitzgerald Link:

El Hombre de La Mancha: Santiago, Chile Teatro Munipal:: 1974 Cast: Frankie Bravo, Jose del Campo, Omar Galarcé, Fernando Gallardo, Mary Hernandez, José Maria Langlais, Valentina Martinez, Alicia Quiroga, Carlos Trujillo

El Hombre de La Mancha: Madrid, Teatro Lope de Vega de Madrid Cast: David V Muro (Cervantes / Quixote) The rest of the cast is unknown

Legally Blonde: Broadway (MTV Filmed) September 9th, 2007 Cast-Laura Bell Bundy, Christian Borle, Orfeh, Michael Rupert, Kate Shindle, Nikki Snelson, Richard H. Blake

Mary Poppins- US tour February 15 2013 Full Show Cast: Con O'Shea-Creal (Bert), Madeline Trumble (Mary Poppins), Madison Ann Mullahey (Jane Banks), Eli Tokash (Michael Banks), Chris K. Hoch (George Banks), Kerry Conte (Winifred Banks)

Man of La Mancha - Cast: Joan Diener as Aldonza (Dulcinea); Richard Kiley as Don Quixote (Cervantes); Dianne Barton as Antonia; Lee Bergere as Dr. Carrasco; Renato Cibelli as Captain of the Inquisition; Jack Dabdoub as The Innkeeper; Edmond Verrato as Sancho Panza (U/S); Eleanore Knapp as The Housekeeper; Robert Rounseville as The Padre; Ted Forlow as The Barber/The Horse (U/S); John Aristides as Juan; Robert Cromwell as Guard/Man of The Inquisition; Fernando Grahal as Tenorio/Dancing Horse; Laura Kenyon as Fermina; Jeff Killion as Man of The Inquisition/Guard; Hector Mercado as Dancing Horse/Jose; Rita Metzger as Maria; Shev Rodgers as The Horse/Pedro; Bill Stanton as Paco; David Wasson as Man of The Inquisition/Guard.

After concluding a successful road tour, Richard Kiley brought the company of Man of La Mancha into New York City, opening at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre at Lincoln Center on 22 JUN 1972, and running until 21 OCT 1972. This video was shot of that engagement, using a single tripod mounted camera and sound board sound. While the exact date of the filming is not known, it is believd it to be from 22 JUN 1972. It is known that Irving Jacobson was out sick for the first two performances, and that his understudy, Edmond Verrato, went on for him on 22 and 23 JUN.

Natasha, Pierre and The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway) − October 29, 2016: Josh Groban, Denee Benton, Brittain Ashford, Nicholas Belton, Lucas Steele, Gelsey Bell, Nick Choksi, Amber Gray

Hamilton Broadway August 13th, 2016 - Javier Munoz (Alexander Hamilton), Lexi Lawson (Eliza Hamilton), Sydney James Harcourt (u/s Aaron Burr), Renee Elise Goldsberry ( Angelica Schuyler), Christopher Jackson (George Washington), Andrew Chappelle (u/s Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson), Ephraim Sykes (u/s Hercules Mulligan/James Madison), Anthony Ramos (John Laurens/Philip Hamilton), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Peggy Schuyler/Maria Reynolds), Rory O’Malley (King George), Roddy Kennedy (u/s Philip Schuyler/James Reynolds/Doctor), Thayne Jasperson (Samuel Seabury), Neil Haskell (Charles Lee), David Guzman (u/s George Eacker), Ensemble: Carleigh Bettiol, Hope Easterbrook, Karla Puno Garcia, Gregory Haney, Sasha Hollinger, Seth Stewart, Kamille Upshaw

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: April 1st, 2017

Heathers- Concert reading at Joe's Pub - September 14 2010 Annaleigh Ashford (Veronica), Jeremy Jordan (Jason Dean), Jenna Leigh Green (Heather Chandler), Corri English (Heather McNamara), Christine Lakin (Heather Duke), James Snyder (Kurt), PJ Griffith (Ram), Julie Garnye (Martha) Heather Off Broadway- Cast: Dan Domenech as JD, Barrett Wilbert Weed as Veronica, and Charissa Hogeland as Heather Chandler

Spongebob the Musical: Chicago (Try-Out)

#bootlegs #broadway bootlegs #wicked bootleg #spongebob the musical #heathers #beauty and the beast #cats the musical #bootleg trading #norikateatro

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Thank You For 1000 Followers!!!

As promised, guys, here we are. For those who are fairly new, here’s what’s going on.

To celebrate reaching 1000 followers, I said I’d cover an episode of another show. This is something a lot of people have asked about for awhile, and it seemed like a good way to show my appreciation. One of the donors requested American Dragon: Jake Long, and yeah. This show does seem right up my alley.

I was a bit torn on which episode to cover. I was initially going to just go over the first episode, but if I’m going to be covering the entire thing at some point, I won’t want to leave myself with nothing else to say. Instead, I decided to cover what was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. The second episode, Dragon Breath (which ironically is about a school dance where the protagonist’s date turns into a monster. Go fig.) This episode features just about all the important characters and introduces some things that give me a lot to say.

ADJL is the same kind of show as DP. It’s about a teenage boy trying to balance his secret life as a hero with school. The show keeps continuity, with plot points like certain people discovering Jake’s secret or certain relationship developments. In spite of that, most of the story is very episodic. Each episode introduces a problem/antagonist, and that problem/antagonist is solved by the end (for the time being) along with our hero having learned some sort of important life lesson.

The story in this episode is perhaps a bit cluttered, but it comes together alright. Jake’s concerned about the school dance after he misses his chance to ask out his crush, Rose. To top that off, his fire breathing glands are maturing, resulting in him having horrible breath, and there’s some sort of mysterious monster loose in the city. Jake does manage to find a date to the dance in an attempt to impress Rose, but oh no! She turns out to be the monster, a soul sucking creature known as a Nix!

The pros and cons of the show altogether are very evident in this episode. On one hand, you’ve got a lot of creative ideas. We meet a half spider girl, a pair of seer twins, trolls, and, of course, a nix. Nixes are honestly my favorite creatures in this show, even though they’re not very prominent. They’re like a cross between a werewolf and a siren with a little soul-sucking mixed in.

So, this episode gives us a perfectly nice, normal girl named Jasmine. She’s friendly, cheerful, easygoing, and well-meaning. But, when the moon reaches the center of the sky, she transforms into a violent monster who devours the souls of the entire student body. That’s a story that could make for a really interesting character, and Jasmine is someone I enjoy watching.

Jake ends up having to fight her to save his schoolmates, but he makes a mistake that leaves him powerless. With no other options, he uses the foul breath I mentioned earlier as a weapon. And it works. The stench is so foul that she passes out.

It’s silly, but everything in the episode had a point. The story beats work well, and the payoff is pretty satisfying.

The problems lie in the writing, dialogue, and execution. While the plot does work well, it gets lost in a sea of excessiveness.

ADJL has a serious problem with going too over the top with its characters, and in comparison, the interesting plot points become muted. At least a quarter of Jake’s dialogue in this episode is him shouting things like “yo yo yo!” or “party over here!” He refers to Jasmine as “hot date, Jasmine” twice in the same sentence and throughout the episode. It starts to get uncomfortable since it feels so objectifying.

I don’t think Jake is incredibly shallow or anything. Later in the episode, he shows how much less shallow he is than his rival, Brad, by noticing when he left Rose behind and going to cheer her up. The main problem I have is how far the show takes Jake’s hip hop talk.

I don’t have a lot of experience with hip hop culture, so maybe this is accurate. That doesn’t stop the episode from being a slog to sit through, though. I don’t care who you are, unless you’re being ironic or intentionally dorky, the line “if you want the hotties, you gots to move your bodies, heeeeey!” just isn’t going to work. If it was toned down or more self aware, I’d forgive it, but as it is, the show’s hard to take seriously.

Another example of the show taking things too far is the character designs.

These two are the Oracle Twins, Sara and Kara. Their setup is, like Jasmine, incredibly interesting. The two of them are seers, but their visions are quite limited due to their watered-down bloodline. Sara, the cheerful one, can only see visions of the bad things that are going to happen. Her gloomy sister, Kara, can only see the good things.

While that’s an interesting way of playing with expectations, the writers take it a step further and actually explain why their personalities are that way. Sara is cheerful and upbeat because to her, any amount of good news is amazing. She’s so used to seeing horrible things that she doesn’t want to let go of any moment of happiness that comes her way. Kara, meanwhile, has no sense of optimism or love for life because she already knows everything good that will happen to her. There are no pleasant surprises, nothing exciting, and everything’s just become dull.

That’s actually very fascinating, and it could lead to some impressive commentary and character development. Except they don’t do that. The characters are played straight, with only a few situations where Sara’s upbeat personality breaks or comes off as creepy. To top that off, this is what they look like in season 2.

Boom. There went any semblance of subtlety.

The original designs were brilliant. Sara and Kara were redheads, which meant they could avoid the association of peppiness with blonde hair/blue eyes and gloominess with dark colors. Both look identical aside from how they dress and style their hair. It allows their personality to speak through their appearance without being overbearing.

Season two scraps all of that and opts for exactly the types of designs that are overbearing..

I think this is enough to demonstrate just how many missed opportunities were in this show. When the story tones things down and allows things to feel more organic, it’s actually quite enjoyable. When it doesn’t, it can get painful.

But those are just my thoughts after one episode. It’s been awhile since I rewatched the series all the way through, so things may change when I cover it. Hopefully this will give you an idea of what it’ll be like.

And now, back to your regularly scheduled Danny Phantom posts. Finally.

#american dragon #american dragon: jake long #jake long #sara oracle #kara oracle #not dp

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