i see in red but you see everything in blue

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Who: Keith & Lance; Keith & You (I'm writing in prose but I can switch to action spam for anyone)
What: Living with paladins; getting more familiar with the parks outside of MK
Where: Vista Way; Hollywood Studios
When: mid-April
Warnings: Dumb teenage boys probably

( VISTA WAY | closed )

They're not exactly the best of friends but they are at least making an effort in making this work in this weird new world they've been sucked into by the power of their bracelets. Lance's positivity has been helpful, Keith has to admit, and the two of them figuring out Progress City and what's going on behind it has at least given them some kind of cause to rally behind. Results so far have been inconclusive but that's because he's also begun to take his new responsibilities pretty seriously since he doesn't want to... get kicked out.

So. They're still getting used to being in such close quarters having been granted their separate living spaces on the castle-ship. ( There are houses they can move into once they can afford it. Not that he intends on staying very long but, it's an interesting thought. )

They end their shifts at around the same time, changing out of their sort of embarrassing (in Keith's case, very embarrassing) work outfits, settling into more relaxed clothes and sweats with bags of chips open on the table and open jars and tupperwares of various dips because what else are two teenage boys going to eat for dinner now that they're left to their own devices? 

"Pass the cheese?" Keith asks through a full mouth of purple chips, as if he doesn't have a hundred things weighing on his mind. Better to turn the television set on. It's on a promotional advertisement for Progress City and, honestly, it's a pretty entrancing thing.


( HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS | open )

Keith meant to do some exploring. And normally he is more singleminded than that, but as soon as he settles in the theatre in the Animation Courtyard, he's caught watching episode after episode of The Twilight Zone. It's not something he ever watched as a kid, though he did sort of get those references people would make about it.

( One could even say he's entered the Twilight Zone himself multiple times as a Paladin. )

He's in the back of the theatre, but he's leaned forward, mouth half open, entranced.

( OR )

Keeping with the theme of the day, the Tower of Terror is a strangely beautiful building. Even Keith feels transported to a different time and place. Fiddling with his now red and white band, which looks more like his armor, he sighs impatiently as the line shuffles forward. 

After his first ride on Space Mountain with Lance, the boy's looking for some thrills.

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"That honestly sounds like something you'd expect to hear in like. Some cheesy futuristic sci-fi movie." He pauses, snags his newly-filled glass with a nod of thanks. "I'd watch it. Probably."

By illegally downloading it. Onto Pidge's laptop. If it actually existed and he wouldn't end up missing a couple of fingers for touching the tech-geek-god's things. He needs those fingers. For. Stuff.

While Keith is busy being not-weird on the other end of the couch, this one decides he's going to stuff himself with another mouthful of chips; he chews, swallows, finally unfolds himself to brace his feet on the table in front of them. There's a little bit of a sideways peek in his direction before he decides screw it and goes for it.

"What kind of stuff did you watch?"

… Okay. So it isn't the million dollar question. Or even the sixty-four thousand one. But you rarely get straight answers out of one ( 1 ) Keith Kogane, even if you ask straight questions. It's a gamble.

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"Mostly weird kid shows with slime being dumped on people... I liked that show Recess," Keith recalls as if childhood was that far away. "Whatever the families wanted to watch too. One of the kids wanted to watch these dumb Canadian teen shows." He makes a face at the memory. That's more information than he's probably given anyone in several years.

He's in a giving mood tonight, apparently.

The television isn't very interesting at the moment so he leaves it on another promotional channel advertising the resorts and turns his full attention onto Lance, brushing some hair away from his eyes.

"What about you? I probably missed a ton of stuff."

Help the child.

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"Oh you mean like … dang, what was it called. Double Dare?" He's pretty sure that was it. There weren't a whole lot of shows involving slime, so that has to be it, because it's the first thing that comes to mind and generally speaking his first guesses are the right ones.

( And if you believe that, hey, there's some sketchy-ass property somewhere that needs buying up. You might wanna get on that. )

He's really not. Aware of the last time Keith talked this much without a fair bit of prodding — has he ever talked this much without prodding? — and the sudden focus on him doesn't so much make him uncomfortable as it does find him feeling like he's suddenly under the spotlight, some level of performance anxiety that he could easily hide if this was like. A slight simulation or something. Even a head-on Galra encounter, because he would be safely inside his Lion and it's easy enough to pretend like you're keeping your cool when no one else can see you freaking out.

Uh. Anyway. Where was that thought process headed? Oh. "Mostly whatever my brothers and sister wanted to watch," he starts out, idly picking at a seam in his jeans like it's suddenly the most interesting thing in the world. He isn't going to think about missing them. And he isn't going to think about the fact that he might have dredged up some unwanted childhood memories for the one sitting next to him just by asking what he watched on television. Because they hadn't exactly grown up in the same sort of setting.

He waves a hand. "Luis really liked this one show, Are You Afraid of the Dark? … because he liked to pretend that the stories were super scary and he was super brave for not being scared." He laughs. "They weren't scary."