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[shadowglitter]

[ For a good thirty minutes, all that's on screen... is this. ]





[ After thirty minutes, the title image fades. Odin sits in darkness on a throne made of skulls, each skull more diamond-encrusted than the last. There's a man to the left of him and a woman to the right, both of them in crisp, black suits, wearing porcelain rabbit masks that firmly cover both their faces. Roses - blue, like the sky - are in full bloom on the ground beneath him. He leans forward, extending a hand to the camera. Flakes of gold fall all around him. ]

Life's been hard for you, hasn't it?

A winding, thorny path riddled with pain and darkness. How many graves have your calloused hands touched? A lot, probably. Like, at least a dozen. They're not even graves for people, these graves. No. They're graves for dreams. Your dreams. Because - your dreams have died, haven't they? I bet they have. Mine sure have. I fell in love, and I got super burned. That feeling? Oh man. Like an inferno. From hell. Made of feelings. Have your feelings ever been an inferno from hell? Well, mine have. And it sucks. My calloused hands have touched a lot of dream-graves, and that is a very sad thing, and my love life is a poisonous and angry snake that coils around my face and bites it. Everything is suffering.

But there's no time for tears. Crying is for babies and losers without the strength of a raging lion battling the strength of a raging dragon in the depths of their strong and raging hearts. Like yours. You've got a heart like that. And, hey. That heart? I want to feel it. I want to feel that heart, with my heart, and I want our hearts to be in love. That's what this moment is about. You and me. Two hearts. Four monsters within them, fighting in a cool and great way. That's us. Are you ready? To fall in love? With passionate feelings? Our fiery inferno hell lives will become fiery inferno lives of passion, instead.

If you're looking for the man of your dreams... this is where it all begins.

[ the logo takes over the screen again, and when it fades, the scene's changed. odin's just sitting in his bedroom in sweats and a tshirt, waving at the camera, no skulls or roses or rabbit attendants in sight. well, minimal skulls. there's at least one in the background, but that's just for decoration. because he likes skulls. ]

Hey! Hi. Some of you might remember me from Big Brother 3000, which was that reality show where me and a bunch of my friends went up to space and got drunk and then shot at. Well, guess what, nerds? I won that whole thing, apparently. My prize was a second TV show just for me! It's a love show. About dating? It's a love show about dating. I'm a hot and single bachelor ready to meet other hot and single people. I am on the path to find true love, and I think I might be able to find it... with you. I want you to be my sun, my moon, my stars. The ocean beneath my frail and sinking sailboat. The warmth and the comfort I've yet to find, even though it's all I've ever wanted.

Import My Heart!

Auditions to be on the show open today, so, you know, get in fast. [ finger guns. ] Hit me up about whatever, dawgs!


[ ooc: so hey! Odin won the Big Brother 3000 mod plot that went up back in November, and his prize is apparently a bachelor-style reality show spin off starring him as the bachelor. if you want to be on the show or find out more about it, check out this post. get your auditions in OVER HERE!!!!!!!!111 ]

Comments

( voice - for now )

[quickfingers]

Your sun, moon and stars? That's pretty class.

[Someone is waking up from a sleepy sleepy, hold on.] Still bullshit that you won, we should've tied. Lucky bastard.

∞ video

[shadowglitter]

That? Class? No. That's weak. That's basic shit. You should've heard the things I said to Poe. It's better that you didn't, actually, because you would have fallen in love with me, and it would have been gross.

You could come on the show? Maybe you'll win this one. Unlikely, given that it's about finding love, and you've got the face that you've got, but. Who knows.

video 1/2

[fauxmarth]

...

2/2

[fauxmarth]

Hi Owain!

...

What is this, now?

[shadowglitter]

[ Sweet Lucina. His older cousin. The big sister he never had. He's the adult, now. He needs to take care of her. He needs to protect her from a world she need not see.

owain panics ]

THIS ISN'T FOR YOUR EYES, LUCINA!!!!!!!!!!

[fridgeflower]

Wow. You're certainly more poetic than average.

[shadowglitter]

That's not the only adjective I'm more of than average.

I'm also louder and darker and scarier than most. Talented. Good looking. Fearsome. TERRIFYING. MONSTROUS. Etcetera.

video

[holisticallydetecting]

[Oh. The rabbits are fascinating. As is a lot of the rest of it. Dirk watches television a lot, but usually only the news, like an old person. But still. Considering that this is the same guy that nearly killed him a few days ago, and then held his hands, the fact that he's interested and not terrified by this announcement is a good thing.]

That sounds very involved. Especially the monsters. I'm not sure that two people would have four monsters between them, though. I mean, logically, wouldn't they have two?

Also -

It does not sound like you've had a good time, lately. I am very sorry to hear that.

Re: video

[shadowglitter]

[ Aw, invisible blood guy! His very best friend. Get fucked, Maximoff. But also, Dirk is the worst and Odin looks visibly disgusted as he shakes his head. ]

Didn't you hear me? Each heart has two monsters fighting each other within it. That's what heartbeats are. That's why heartbeats race so fast. The monsters are angry. Probably. I don't know. I don't really pay attention to my metaphors as I say them.

[ ... he softens, though, smiling a little awkwardly. ]

I forgot that you're new. You wouldn't have heard the gossip. It's, uh - I'm just trying to sell the show. Dramatic effect. Don't worry about it.

You should sign on! You should be a contestant.

[vanto]

That's very poetic.

[shadowglitter]

I'm a very poetic, handsome, and brilliant man. Yours for the taking, if you've got the guts.

text. private. several hours later.

[flightforfreedom]

okay, so i couldn't watch the actual video version since they confiscated my communicator

can't confiscate my brain though, can they

but the text description of this video was something else

you alright?

∞ private text

[shadowglitter]

Hahaha! Pretty dope, right?! I directed it myself. I did the sparkles with my illusion thing, and they were like, "if we use computer whatevers it'll look way better on screen--" and I was like, you know what I think would look way better on screen? Literal fucking magic. Idiots. I love them.

But, uh.



Friend answer or Owain says bad things answer?

text

[h2no]

is this




a good idea

Re: text

[shadowglitter]

I, uh

I don't

Understand the questio n

[exceptionalthief]

[well, that's... something.]

Let me guess—psychedelic drugs?

[shadowglitter]

Hmm? No. Are you asking what I'm made of? It's magic and handsome muscles cut from marble and wrapped in alabaster skin. And dreams. Heroism. Hope. Handsome muscles, if I haven't mentioned them already.

You wanna date?

text;

[cleptes]

Reality shows and I are pretty much done.

...You should've just asked for money as a prize.

Re: text;

[shadowglitter]

Whaaaat! C'mon! It'll be fun! I'm trying to get us permit rights to shoot an episode on top of a volcano!

I did kind of get ten thousand dollars, but. I don't really care about that.
I'm here for the attention, yo.

[ Video ]

[ghoulking]

wha...

Why?

Re: [ Video ]

[shadowglitter]

I...

I don't understand the question.

video;

[itistolaugh]

You know, good for you! I think it sounds fun.

Re: video;

[shadowglitter]

It's gonna be the best!!!! I've got so many ideas.

You wanna come? We can hang out. I'll give you so much preferential treatment. I think I heard once that with great power comes great nepotism.

Video

[drivesadesk]

Wow! It's like you talked about when we were talking about Big Brother! With the roses and sending people away!

Re: Video

[shadowglitter]

Hmm? Did I talk about that? I kind of don't remember literally anything I did on that show, ever. I guess that explains where I got the idea.

[Text]

[sleight_of_hand]

Wow, you again?
That desperation of yours is really starting to reek.

Re: [Text]

[shadowglitter]

[ THIS DICK ]

Hmm? Do I know you?
The Great Odin Dark has many fans and admirers. He's made many a friend in his travels.
A stupid face and ugly butt like yours are both incredibly difficult to remember.

[voice]

[cigarbribery]

You have waivers, right?

Re: [voice]

[shadowglitter]

What, like - the little crispy biscuit things? Not on me...

I can run out and buy you some? I didn't know you were hungry. I'm sorry. I'm a bad friend. I should have realized you'd be hungry eventually.

voice;

[reek]

[ In a slightly hoarse voice that sounds less like Theon and more like a bad impersonation of Theon; excuse him, he's been through some rough times. ]

No one killed you?

[ He doesn't even sound particularly upset about that fact. Just slightly surprised. He missed the entire last half of Big Brother. ]

Re: voice;

[shadowglitter]

[ HEY IT'S HIS BUDDY. HIS BOY. HIS DUDE. He's about to make a joke about dying, but the voice actually worries him, a little. That's not the Odin-hating decapitation-ready Theon he knows. ]

Are you okay?

Video

[dreadinquisitor]

[His tone is teasing, a corner of his mouth curled upright, but there's a thread of concern that is what really prompts him to respond to... all that.]

So that flower for me was what, a bouquet of lies?

Video

[shadowglitter]

[ teasing or not, there's a brief second where Odin looks genuinely upset at the idea that the flower might not have meant something. He shakes his head super, super fast. ]

N-No! No. No, don't-- [ He makes a noise that's half-splutter and half-apology, stumbling over himself to stop being ridiculous and to start taking this as a joke, while also simultaneously choking down the urge to scream about how important that moment was for him. ]

It-- [ he takes a breath. ]

It-- it meant something. Obviously. Which you knew. And you're just teasing me. But it-- yeah. You could come? I'd be happy if you came. We could just hang out. It doesn't have to be anything more than that.

video

[knaval]

Hanging out on a cool mansion for a month?! That's so much better than space! I'm signing up!

Re: video

[shadowglitter]

I know!!!!! Do your audition! It'll be the best.

I kind of think you're missing the premise of the show, but it's fine? It's fine. I love spending time with you. That's almost like fulfilling contractual obligations as designated to me by a board of network executives who kept talking about stuff I wasn't really listening to.

1/2

[reexamined]

I don't say this often.

[reexamined]

But what the fuck.

video;

[storyseeker]

Oh, my lord.

[Elena is barely avoiding cracking up.]

I think I'll sit this one out, but good luck. Sounds...exciting.

video;

[shadowglitter]

Boooo, you coward. It'll be fun! There's going to be rope climbing. Fire. Adventure! Death. Misery? Love. I'd like to get some swords, but I don't know. I've spent so much money on swords lately...

[ He sighs. He's sad to lose a potential contestant, but hey, he made her laugh. That's good enough for Odin. ]

You gotta catch me on TV, at least. I shine when people are giving me attention.

VIDEO.

[bragnificent]

[ Oh my god. Reggie just stares for a moment, half a smirk forming slowly at his lips as he tries to figure out what the hell he's watching. Watched. ]

Oh okay, it's a dating show! [ He laughs. ] Jeez, bro, what's with that intro? For a second I thought someone had uploaded a porno.

Re: VIDEO.

[fehus]

That was weird for even a porn monologue?

[WHAT KIND OF PORN DOES REGGIE WATCH,]

video

[liontomyself]

...Odin....

[Leo deflates a little. This whole thing was very... saddening for him.]

Wait, so. You're going to go away and find someone else to be with...? What am I supposed to do?

[He nearly walked face-first into traffic on his FIRST DAY alone. He can't be alone!!! Lucina doesn't count. Well she does but not to Leo because she's still a stranger!!!]

Have I been too hard on you?

video -> pppppprivate

[shadowglitter]

I--

[ Odin expects a lot of things from Leo. Harsh words from a barbed tongue, acid stares from cold eyes. He expects those things, and he's used to them, because he knows, through it all, that Leo loves him and Niles more than he loves most people in his life.

He expects a lot of things, but he never expected him to make that face. Not because of him. Odin clutches his hand over his chest. Even the tiniest amount of deflated Leo is too much deflated Leo.

He privates the feed. ]

N-No... no. You've always only ever been perfect. Every part of you is perfect. Even more so now that you're here with me in America, outside of the foggy labyrinth of my memories. This isn't-- this isn't that kind of-- you'll always be my lord. I just--

[ He hesitates. Honesty. Honesty. He's never been good with honesty, least of all with Leo. ]

Things have been difficult for me... in America. This is... just another layer in a snowball of poor decisions. If-- you'd like to join me, on the show, in whatever capacity-- I'd be honoured to have you by my side.

video

[fehus]

I liked how much you talked about graves. And your hair looks cool.

video

[shadowglitter]

I liked how much you supported me just now? I like your hair all the time. You have the best hair out of anyone I've ever met, ever.

Except for my friend Severa, but she's not here, so I can say that and it's fine.

voice.

[functusofficio]

Well, this certainly seems -- like it will be exciting for you?

[ ....... MAYBE?? ]

voice.

[shadowglitter]

[ PADME!!! HIS FAVOURITE PERSON. ]

Yeah! I mean, or tragic. It could end in tragedy. It could end in death? Oh, man. There could be so much death. And not even just the death of my heart, or anyone else's heart. Real death! You never know. TV is wild.

[doitforthevibe]

[ Cisco didn't know that tl;dr could exist in spoken form, but apparently it can and does in the form of one Odin Dark.

But he's cute, and it's kind of funny, in a way. And Cisco hasn't been on a date in far too long. Gypsy wouldn't mind if she doesn't find out, right? Her Dad can't kill him if he can't breach to this Earth? ]

Do you have any prerequisites for who applies?

[shadowglitter]

[ Odin is cute and funny! This guy gets it. Odin very clearly checks Cisco out before replying. Whoops. ]

Nope! Just be over eighteen. Just be over eighteen and be willing to constantly compliment me and call me an amazing person while I drape over your lap and let you feed me grapes. Or vice versa? Someone will be complimented and fed grapes, at the very least.