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21: That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit.

[So, what's a demon to do when he's bored? Taint a few people's souls? Do something so annoying that one has fun just hearing people's reactions over it? Play some music to get yourself into the groove of doing evil and generally spreading wiles?]

[WHY NOT DO ALL AT ONCE?]

[But Crowley being Crowley, he's going to be sneaky about it. So he turns on the camera, looking incredibly genial and obviously not up to anything bad at all whatsoever.]

So...it's come to my attention that most of you haven't got a clue about what truly great music is. I mean, sure, your worlds and all have nice composers, I'm sure, but in our world, there's a certain genre of music that is scientifically proven to lower stress, make you smarter, and calm you down.

And what is this miraculous genre of music, you may ask? Why, it's none other than the truly breathtaking genre of classical music. Here. Have a listen.

[He reaches over away from the camera, and suddenly, one can hear a lovely tune playing in the background.]

Like it, huh? Well, the guy who made this piece of music? He made so much more. And don't even get me started on all the other composers we have back home who were geniuses at what they did. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart...the list goes on and on.

[He steeples his fingers together, grin widening.]

Since I want everyone to get intimately acquainted with this world-changing magic, I am going to provide some of it for you to download onto your SFCs so you can have a listen whenever you want. For free! You don't even need to thank me or anything.

Trust me, I'm doing it all for you...

[His smile grows ever so wider, and then the camera turns off, and a link named BestPiecesofClassicalMusic.zip pops up for you to download.]

[If you do, well...prepared to have your SFC blast it on the highest volume with no way to turn it down. And it isn't stopping playing it until the whole album is over.]

[Now Vatheon can understand his pain with having to listen it for years and years on end. HIS JOB IS DONE HERE.]

[ooc: The link takes you to a Youtube video of Queen's Greatest Hits. What did you expect from Crowley, really. >>]

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[ooc; Kuro is a demon cat/nekomata and he can communicate telepathically to other demons as well. For everyone's sake I am going to assume this can translate over the SFC too :')]

[Wow, what weird music. 'It sounds like something you'd listen to before you sleep!']

[ooc: AWESOME I am excited for this.]

[Okay, whoah, what is that voice in his head? Crowley stares at the SFC, a little dubious that a fellow demon would be in a form like the one he's looking at now.]

[He usually would expect something a little more...imposing.]

Um. That's not the point. It's supposed to keep you up.

Did you even download the file?

[Meanwhile, Kuro is as innocent as can be. He perks an ear.

'I don't know how! I don't really bother with this kind of stuff. Having paws doesn't make it very easy either.]

Riiiiight. Good someone, all of you are so behind when it comes to technology...

Why are you even a cat? Isn't that, I dunno, sort of contrary to what you really are? I didn't known Downstairs labeled "cute" as "something we should totally do to taint the human race".

[His ears fall back a little at his tone. If cats can frown, that's what he's doing now. A huff.

'I've always been a cat! I'm not like your kind, I don't need a vessel to live!' His tails flick behind him. 'If it helps I'm called a nekomata where I'm from!']

[Alright, switching to private because SECRET DEMONS MATTERS, OKAY.]

Excuse me, this isn't a vessel. This is my own body and I got it fair and square. And wow, you are really a lame excuse for a demon if you've been stuck as a cat like that forever. Really, opposable thumbs, they're sort of necessary in your everyday life.

And no, that doesn't help at all.

[Puffs up a little. Rude!

'I was born a cat and then when I got old enough my tails split and I turned into a nekomata! That's how it happens. I'm 121 years old now!' May or may not counting his years as a normal cat ~~also I am totally ripping from Japanese folklore, excuse me~~.

'You don't need to be so rude about it!'

Wait. Wait, wait, so you were a cat and then you turned into a nekomatata or whatever you are?

That is possibly the worst origin story I have ever heard. And believe me, I've read some bad ones. Demons don't just spring into being, you git, they come from Downstairs. [And sometimes Upstairs, like Crowley, but like he's ever going to say that.]

And I'll be as rude as I want, this is a free bubble.

['Unless there's something I don't remember, yeah!'

A hiss. 'I'm not lying! What reason do I have to lie to you?!' Mrrrr. Both ears are flat against his skull. 'Where I'm from demons comes from Gehanna if that's what you mean about 'Downstairs'. That's such a stupid name!']

Downstairs, Hell, the Underworld, whatever you want to call it. But if demons are little cute kitties, then I'm sorry, your world is doing something terribly wrong.

I think I'm lowering my IQ just talking to you.

[I'm not cute and I'm not little, either! This isn't my only form, you know!' It would be a hassle to walk around as a gigantic cat demon. Not that he thought keeping to his smaller form would ever raise question to his authenticity as a demon. It unsettles him.

'Then don't talk to me! I was only trying to be nice and have a conversation, but now I see it isn't worth wasting my breath on you!'

Thankfully he's figured out his SFC enough to end the conversation. Sorry, Crowley!]

...so, what is actually in that file?

[Zelda won't be fooled twice. You did this at April Fool's, Crowley! She won't spoil his fun at least.]

[He shrugs, obviously not at all thrown off by the question.]

Music. Why would I lie?

[She does love music. It's tempting, but...]

I suppose I'll have to ask a friend to play it for me. I'm not terribly good with technology.

[Zelda will just pick a "friend" she doesn't particularly like!]

And miss out on all the beauty yourself? Where's your sense of discovery, Zelda?

I could always come and help you if you're so terrible at it.

Quite alright, really. This sort of thing should be shared, anyway.

[Invite the strange man who sat in the plaza with mistletoe last year and spammed everyone's communicators with noise in April over? No, thank you!]

Exactly. Shared with you.

[HE WILL FIND YOUR HOUSE AND MAKE YOU OPEN IT, SO HELP HIM.]

Please, don't trouble yourself. Good day, sir.

[Turning off the SFC before he figures out how to activate whatever wretched prank he's pulling this time remotely!]

[Angelo doesn't download the music, because what is technology even though he's slowly gotten use to the SFC's main functions. But he does feel the need to comment on the classical piece.]

That piece of music you provided before was certainly beautiful, so you have many people who compose music such as that in your world?

Yeah, we have a ton. They all went sort of out of fashion years ago, but their music is quite timeless.

What, don't have anyone like that where you're from?

[He doesn't say it either, but he's kind of glad to hear another British sounding fellow among him. It makes him feel a bit at home.]

Not really, there are court musicians in various castles and music at the casinos. But otherwise, we don't have what you discussed.

[Dude, he existed before there was even a Britain to have an accent from BUT THAT IS NOT THE POINT he is admittedly glad to hear Englishness as well.]

Casinos? Psh, that isn't real music. Those are sounds to get you all addicted to the shiny games and such.

Wow, what a sad world you have.

[British speaking fellows unite, let's be friends.]

It is terribly boring, but I entertain myself with the casinos and the pubs back home. Those and the Monster Arena are the best type of entertainment.

[Yes, lets.]

Wait, Monster Arena? What sorts of monsters?

Sirens, golems, slimes, cyclopes, and a great deal of others. You can gather a monster team yourself from monsters around the world too and enter them to fight.

Wow. It's like cock fights but with a lot more weird appendages and teeth.

Make money off that thing, or is it a big waste of time?

You can bet on monster teams and win gold back, possibly double the amount you paid. Most of the nobility in my world does it because they have nothing better to waste their gold on besides the casinos or things for themselves.

Edited 2012-09-07 02:15 (UTC)

[You know, Aziraphale hadn't really thought much of it when Crowley was expressing sudden interest in educating the masses about classical music. And this little file had popped up so conveniently for him, all he had to do was select it and let it download.

You see, the problem with being about a decade behind Crowley and was that he was also a decade behind humans and their technological advances. The Internet, for instance, wasn't really a thing yet, not a widely known thing anyway. Certainly nothing he was used to.

Therefore, Aziraphale had never had the misfortune of experiencing a computer virus, and thus hadn't learned to become suspicious of mysterious links.

Needless to say, this be-bop music... the music that was supposedly "hip" among the younger crowd, is the last thing that he expected. And yet, at the same time, he realizes that he should've been expecting this all along.

And it won't stop oh dear Heavens why won't it stop??

He tries everything, but the little device will not stop singing to him, and his irritation has reached its peak. If he tried to miracle away the music, he'd almost definitely break the whole thing.

So he decides to do the next best thing.

Aziraphale goes next door, and opens up the door without knocking-- wait no. He stops, closes the door, knocks on it, and then opens it back up, stomping-- no, walking heavily-- towards Crowley.

Up in his face the SFC is shoved, still blasting Queen.]

Turn it off this instant. [With a certain amount of irony, Aziraphale is hissing his words.]

Edited (wrong icon oops) 2012-08-30 03:02 (UTC)

[Oh. The angel. Juuust what he had expected. Really, Crowley, had thought that maybe the angel wouldn't be that stupid to fall for his little prank, but seeing this gives him so much enjoyment that he turns and just grins like a snake who just ate the annoying canary that had been bothering said snake's cage for weeks.]

Oh? Sorry, angel, I can't hear you over this absolutely magnificent music!

[But just in case, he's going to back away so he's well out of reach of that SFC in his hand. Annoying Aziraphale was absolutely hilarious, but sometimes...sometimes one can go too far.]

[Aziraphale recognizes that look on his face, and the realization really strikes that Crowley had got him good. His own face is that of the owner of said canary that had just been eaten, about ready to tie this old serpent into a knot and throw him out a fourth story window.]

I can't hear myself think over this noise! Turn it off, Crowley, or so help me--

[He's approaching Crowley as the demon backs away, an angry finger pointing in his face.]

This isn't funny, you snake!

[Okay. Okay, that is not a look that Crowley wants to see. Crowley practically deflates, frowning, and folds his arms.]

Can't you just miracle it away yourself? I mean, come on, you're an angel.

Why force me to thwart my own wile? It's your job.

I don't know how to work these things, I'm going to wreck it if I try to mess around with this... this contraption!

[Aziraphale winces at his own words. Wow, even he was aware that he likely sounded a little too outdated right then, and he's likely just providing Crowley with more material to use on him.]

Would you just turn the bloody thing off?!

[... You shouldn't have done that, Crowley.]

[Because you get a video back of Katsu grinning, and then pressing his headphones to the SFC and playing this song.]

[How can there be music more pornographic than Fat Botommed Girls.

His world is kind of shattered don't mind him!!]

...

Wow, I never though I'd get outmusiced by- [He wants to say Abel, but stops himself.] - you.

[He pulls it away, snickering.]

I did tell you that Naoya seemed pretty friendly with Loki, right?

[It explains so much.]

The music's pretty good, and it's great of you to offer and all, but I'll pass. It's not my kind of music, you know? Sweet as it sounds.

Aw, come on. [LOOK AT THIS SWEET INNOCENT SMILE.] It'll do you good! Make you smarter and everything.

[NOPE.]

Yeah, but I'm plenty smart already! I know all I need to live and that's what matters, right!?

[Sol just kind of regards the SFC a bit flatly; he usually just ignores these things. The talk of music, though? He's okay with that. Whassis... Which means letting the music start and scarcely reacting at first.

Actually, he kind of smirks. And he probably makes the only other person in the bubble who'd enjoy it. Sorry, Crowley, you kind of failed on that one. The Gear's just MAYBE doing a little mental rocking out. Hey, he's still in his 20s somewhere in his head.]

Needs more'a their older stuff.

[And yes, he's very quietly (and gruffly) humming along to "Killer Queen". Fuck all y'all.]

Oh, great.

[He hates you kind of people. You people who can just take anything on, even if said music in question is something Crowley wants to stick in a refrigerator and blow up with a nuclear bomb. No, the music isn't bad, it's just...he's tied of listening to it. And having this dude enjoying it makes Crowley sneer.]

You're a fan. Why did I think there wouldn't be your kind here?

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