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ways_back_room2005-05-01 02:25 pm
minkhollow) wrote in ways_back_room2005-05-01 02:25 pm
Summary!
It's Rent!Angel's first Threadzilla! What fun!
So Angel's downstairs, wearing a skirt because he does that sometimes. Meg approves, introduces herself, and asks whether Angel is his name or his profession. After the classic 'where and when are you from' end of things, they move on to ballet vs. rather-emphatically-not-ballet and the wonders of Millitime. Also the way the bar tends to pull people in when you least expect it. Angel explains some of the reasoning behind Bar locking Roger out of his room for a while, as far as he knows it, and they move on to sharing rooms with others. They agree that the motives of the bar are pretty much beyond knowing, though Angel hasn't had too much cause to complain so far. (Partly because it's a much cooler afterlife than he was expecting, insofar as he was expecting anything.) Meg comments on the variety of dead people in the bar, which eventually leads to 'wait, your aunt's who?' in the way that Endless!family does.
April also approves of the skirt, once she realizes that's Angel wearing it, and breaks out the sketchbook. They catch up a bit; things are now a damn sight better than good, in terms of levels of DOOM. (For those who missed April's entrance... let's just say the levels of DOOM have dropped significantly.) April then wants to know how Roger was holding up without her around - in the bar more so than in New York - and is rather surprised to find out he spent seven months holed up in the loft. She then asks him to follow up on his promise to explain the most complicated Christmas Eve in the history of ever to her, and he does, after a brief stalling tactic.
(For those unfamiliar with Rent, and/or the current timeline screwiness we've got going: A major factor of the play is Roger moving on from April. Roger is in the bar from about a month before the first act (that being the really bloody complicated Christmas Eve). Angel's doing his best not to bring up the moving-on thing, since it hasn't happened yet for Roger and would be unnecessarily breaky for several involved parties.)
Somewhat to the surprise of both the character and the typist, Angel manages to tell the story without mentioning Mimi once. April's kind of sorry she missed the random string of toasts, and Angel mentions that Mark's considering reviving the idea to alleviate the angst in the bar. He also mentions the Millimovie thing, briefly. April heads back upstairs, after noting that she just might like the bar after all.
So Angel's downstairs, wearing a skirt because he does that sometimes. Meg approves, introduces herself, and asks whether Angel is his name or his profession. After the classic 'where and when are you from' end of things, they move on to ballet vs. rather-emphatically-not-ballet and the wonders of Millitime. Also the way the bar tends to pull people in when you least expect it. Angel explains some of the reasoning behind Bar locking Roger out of his room for a while, as far as he knows it, and they move on to sharing rooms with others. They agree that the motives of the bar are pretty much beyond knowing, though Angel hasn't had too much cause to complain so far. (Partly because it's a much cooler afterlife than he was expecting, insofar as he was expecting anything.) Meg comments on the variety of dead people in the bar, which eventually leads to 'wait, your aunt's who?' in the way that Endless!family does.
April also approves of the skirt, once she realizes that's Angel wearing it, and breaks out the sketchbook. They catch up a bit; things are now a damn sight better than good, in terms of levels of DOOM. (For those who missed April's entrance... let's just say the levels of DOOM have dropped significantly.) April then wants to know how Roger was holding up without her around - in the bar more so than in New York - and is rather surprised to find out he spent seven months holed up in the loft. She then asks him to follow up on his promise to explain the most complicated Christmas Eve in the history of ever to her, and he does, after a brief stalling tactic.
(For those unfamiliar with Rent, and/or the current timeline screwiness we've got going: A major factor of the play is Roger moving on from April. Roger is in the bar from about a month before the first act (that being the really bloody complicated Christmas Eve). Angel's doing his best not to bring up the moving-on thing, since it hasn't happened yet for Roger and would be unnecessarily breaky for several involved parties.)
Somewhat to the surprise of both the character and the typist, Angel manages to tell the story without mentioning Mimi once. April's kind of sorry she missed the random string of toasts, and Angel mentions that Mark's considering reviving the idea to alleviate the angst in the bar. He also mentions the Millimovie thing, briefly. April heads back upstairs, after noting that she just might like the bar after all.