aslandish: (Sunlight)
Aslan ([personal profile] aslandish) wrote in [community profile] entranceway2013-07-22 07:16 pm

I. video/action (dated to the dawn of July 23rd)

[ The video opens in darkness, the only sound to be heard the gentle movement of waves lapping against the shore. However, the very moment a tinge of light begins to creep over the horizon, a Voice begins to sing.

It is a Song the likes of which few have ever heard before. It rises as the light grows stronger, swelling with the tide and soaring as a bird may fly. It resonates in the air as well as the earth, a happy sound that could make even the most solemn of men dance to its melody.

The brightness of the morning spills over the waves, glistening with the newness of day. The Song crescendos finally as the sun peaks in the sky, only to diminish and fade into the sounds of the sea.

A few moments pass before the Singer finally appears. Great paws, golden and velveted all, appear first as he steps into view. A large, shaggy lion pads silently to the water edge, the breeze rustling its mane.

He stands there for a little while before turning and walking down the beach. ]



[ ooc: Please have a look at Aslan's PERMISSIONS POST before tagging! Aslan will be wandering around the beach as well as the outside part of the grounds all day. Feel free to run into him! He will respond to this video as well. Also, if you think your character might be able to detect/discern Aslan's true nature, feel free to have them do so! ]
crybabybootleg: (Can't Look)

Video

[personal profile] crybabybootleg 2013-07-23 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[The sound that resounds from that funny little box he's left on his nightstand wakes Jacuzzi Splot from sleep like nothing he's ever heard before...

Not the whistling of the milkman, or the old chinese folksongs from his gangmate Fang, as he cooks up eggs. Not like Jazz on the radio.

Perhaps predictably, he wakes up teary-eyed, blinking in confusion at the dribbles down his face. It's not that he's rarely moved to tears. Jacuzzi cries over everything.

But never before because a song was so beautiful and...from someplace deep and serious and joyful and...unnaturally-natural? It reminded him of the small miracle of standing on top of the Flying Pussyfoot in the dawn with Nice, alive and only half bleeding out in three spots, after everything was over, and thinking maybe he'd worried a little too much over everything after all.

It fills him with a bewildering sense of awe. And so he tilts the screen up and watches for awhile, a pretty sunrise on the beach, until a great big lion pads into full view.

Jacuzzi blinks and stares. Why there's a lion on the screen is baffling, big and majestic as he is. The old, haggard lion at the Central Park Zoo's got nothing on this one.

....Is this still recording on someone's handheld, or is it some kind of new, modern, color flick from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer?]
crybabybootleg: (Oh My Gooood)

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[personal profile] crybabybootleg 2013-07-24 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[Jacuzzi freezes in place, as through... if he remained perfectly still, the lion might not notice him and pass on.

But the way it's looking directly at him, an uncomfortable sort of soul-staring, not ambling forward to lick at the screen or crunch the whole box in it's jaws...

It's not your average everyday wild animal here, is it?

He's been gaping a little too long, uncertain of what he should do, or say.

Maybe the lion's got a tamer, and that's the one holding the camera? No. This is something else altogether. He swallows and musters up all of his courage, and sits up with his knees still tucked beneath the sheets before the risk free trial at speaking up at a creature that looks like it's already acknowledged him. It's something he might not have dared, in person.

And no one else can see him making an embarrassment of himself, if it does nothing back, right?]


H-Hello there! [He smiles, tense, nervous. ] You're a long way from the jungle, ain'tcha?

[Well technically lions are from the savannah, but every pulp magazine adventure story he's ever flipped had done a decent job of convincing him they populate jungles, too.]
crybabybootleg: (Sympathies)

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[personal profile] crybabybootleg 2013-07-26 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
[There's an almost vertigo shock of speaking to something that definitely shouldn't speak back, lingering fidgety and squeamish and embarrassed on the edge of his consciousness... but then, he is in an odd place where evil twins exist behind the mirrors and magical anythings can be taken out of the closet. What's a talking lion?

This one seems, somehow, almost like something else altogether. He couldn't say what, exactly.

Something known as though strangely familiar, and also unknown in the same way you could go out into the country and look up at the blanket of overhead stars and admit you haven't the slightest clue what any of them are supposed to be called, beyond the very brightest of them.]


Good day to you too...

[He doesn't belong here, not part of the fantastic scenery, Jacuzzi realizes. He's brought here like the rest of us. But this isn't any place for a lion, even a sprawling country manor with acres of room! What is it going to eat? Where is a big cat like that going to stay?]

Never heard a lion sing before. [he mutters in awed wonder, still astonished that a great beast like this would bother looking in his direction for anything other than sizing him up a potential snack.] That was you, wasn't it?

I'm sorry you're stuck here too!

[Jacuzzi had an awful habit of apologizing for things he had absolutely no control.]
Edited 2013-07-26 07:23 (UTC)
crybabybootleg: (Oh.)

Re: Video

[personal profile] crybabybootleg 2013-08-05 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, we're just gonna try to keep chatting with this friendly lion then, like tgat's a perfectly normal and casual thing to do.

... well, there is a small bit of flustered sheepishness, as though talking to a great beast as an average guy should be handled with more reverence, or a heavier dose of fearandawe. The distance of the device is probably to blame for that, an odd surreality still, using it.]


I'm afraid if you're hoping to leave this place in just a couple'a days, from what I've heard that doesn't happen so easy.

[ he cautions, having little idea of the kind of scope Aslan means, days no different that an age or eons.]
crybabybootleg: (Can't Look)

Re: Video

[personal profile] crybabybootleg 2013-08-07 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
Er... you don't... generally eat people, do ya?

[He's gotta ask. Just to be sure. Then, he can sleep easy, all he needs is a yes.]
crybabybootleg: (Wibble)

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[personal profile] crybabybootleg 2013-08-21 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
O-Only sometimes?

[His voice cracks just a little.]

'Cause sure we could find you some, eh... raw steak? You could eat that, right?