Meta Sentai Hammel-Ranger!! // Very Open

[Terrance Kellam]

The student lounge. It had one of the nicest flat screen TVs, and just enough HDMI ports to be fully useful. TK had, for some reason, never done what he was about to do before, but decided it was time. Besides, who didn't want to see asians in tights?

TK stepped into the room, MacBook Pro in hand, a little white adapter sticking out of the left side, a black chord coming out of that and wrapped around his neck to stay in place. Anyone who knew anything about technology would know what his plans were. Eyes examined those who were already in the room. He could only hope they wouldn't mind him watching his foreign show.

He made his way to the TV, setting the laptop down in front of it. The HDMI chord was then unwrapped from his neck and plugged into the most convenient HDMI port on the TV. Things were looking great so far. He looked around for the remote... Where was the remote?

A huff was given. "Anyone seen the remote??"

[Danicca Waylan]

[D]A[N]I[C]C!?

Dani was laying on one of the couches in the lounge, claiming pretty much the whole thing to herself while she read an old volume of xxxHolic hiding inside a volume of Chocolat hiding inside her Science textbook. She was supposed to be studying or doing something constructive, like setting a gravy balloon trap (dinner stuff was fun to play with lately), but she'd just dug this out of her suitcase again and decided she needed to take a breather.

She'd been taking a lot of breathers lately. Could anyone really blame her? That research paper for English was bad enough without Dani's, er... current relationship dilemmas.

Of course, with her face in a book (yes it counts as a book, something she wondered if Novella would agree with) she didn't see what the guy was doing with the TV. Maybe he was looking for the buttons to control it, since Dani was laying on the remote. It was when the guy called for the remote that she looked away from the pages of the manga/manhwa/science sandwich she had going and took in the scene.

Computer. TV. HDMI cable by the looks of it. Either a gaming marathon or a specific movie or TV show was wanted. Whatever it was Dani probably wanted in, but it was safest to check first. "Whatcha thinking about doing with that set up, man?" She closed Holic and set it next to the other books, which she let fall closed however they wanted to as she put them on the floor, sitting up. She knew her hair was sticking out weird on one side, but she didn't care.

This was potentially a curious situation of nerd level two.

[Terrance Kellam]

He'd never really shown anyone his collection of foreign TV shows, so the explanation he was about to give was going to be... interesting. TK looked to Danicca after she spoke, smirking a bit as he played his next few words in his head a few times.

"Got a Japanese show I was going to watch... Figured I'd do it on the flat screen," he explained, looking down to the laptop. The folder that housed his soon-to-be-watched episodes was open, and a list of about twenty or so episodes were displayed. He had to search for the subtitled episodes since he knew he was going to be in the lounge watching it -- no one was going to want to watch with him if they were raw, like he normally watched them. "Wanna join?"

Then he remembered he still hadn't found the remote. "After I find the remote, of course."

[Aaron Walker]

With the weather warming up outside, AJ hadn’t been spending much time indoors. He was actually on his way outside when his eye caught someone carrying a bunch of technology stuff. He had no idea what any of it was, but he couldn’t help but grin at the cords wrapped around the older boy. He couldn’t understand why other kids his age were obsessed with television and video games. There was a whole great wide world outside to explore. Who would want to stick around inside?

He took a step into the student lounge, a little curious, only to stop in his tracks when Dani spoke up. He jumped back, mostly because he hadn’t seen her sitting on the couch, but also because she still scared him a little. “Ah!” he yelled, running towards the other side of the room. “It’s the ogress!”

Grinning, he addressed the boy fiddling with the television. “A Japanese show? Are you from there? I have a friend who looks like he might be from there, but really he’s from Canada,” he asked. Yeah, AJ doesn’t understand that some people find his racial profiling a bit tactless. But really he means no harm.

“I’ll help,” AJ said, glancing around the room, looking for the remote as well. He tripped over his shoeless after taking a step. Luckily his new perspective from the floor let him see something sticking out from under the couch. He risked creeping close to Dani to risk retrieving it. “Is this what you mean?” he asked, hoping it was.

[Terrance Kellam]

This impromptu party was beginning to come along nicely. Though, he wondered how long they would all stay once he popped on the Japanese children's show. It did have one saving grace, though. Even though it was a foreign show, he was sure most would recognize it right away. It was a show that happened to start in Japan and America had a habit of taking footage from it and remaking it for a popular children's show here. While TK thought the American version was 'ok,' the Japanese version could not be surpassed... most of the time. There were instances, however, where this loyalty was shifted.

TK jumped at the sound of the other boy. How had he missed him? The more the merrier, he thought. "Here? As in Vermont? Nah." He looked from Dani then back to AJ. He currently had two, seemingly willing participants to join him in the viewing. Whether they'd stay was up to them. He happened to watch him tumble on the floor, but his next few words took the small cringe from his face, replacing it with a small. "Thanks, bro!" He rushed over towards AJ and grabbed the remote, hopefully without making Dani feel like he was trying to cop a feel.

He quickly returned to his set up and pressed a few buttons on the TV, allowing the Mac and TV to share screens. Beauty it was. He bent down, clicked on one of the episodes, and dragged the video to the TV screen, turning up the volume a bit.

"There're subtitles, incase you all can't understand Japanese."

He wasn't starting from the beginning of the series, as he was already too far ahead to go back now. If by too far ahead meant episode two, that is. But, if they had questions, he was going to be more than willing to answer... especially since the subs didn't seem all that good. Oh god. I could have translated that better...

[Zachary LaRousse]

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Though he wouldn’t admit it out loud, Zac did really bite off more than he can chew this time around. Who would’ve thought graduation would be so hard anyway? And no, he’s not talking about great grades and having enough community service or whatever to get into a good school – he’s got that part down part without even breaking a sweat (connections, after all). Nope, he’s currently so stressed out about the graduation ceremony itself. The graduation party. The yearbook. Everything basically. Why oh why did he join the stupid grad committee anyway?

He would ask Stella if she can whip something up for him, but he remembered that she told him she’d be going out of town with Fifi to get some girl’s day off or something. Knowing her, she’d probably try to cut it off early if he asked. (And no, it’s a bad thing; he feels bad whenever Stella does that). Too lazy to go out for a drive, the mimic settled himself with a whole blueberry pie from the cafeteria and swung by the lounge for a bit.

“What the fuckery is going on here?” he grumbled as he jumped on one of the couches, face stuffed with the second slice of the pie. (Yup, boy talked with his mouth full). “Don’t remember having a nerd convention on the lounge today. Can we please tune in on some real TV? They’re having reruns of Playgirl Mansion with uncensored scenes at the moment. Twerp, go change the channel.”

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Not too late to jump in right? .
- Jam

[Danicca Waylan]

[D]A[N]I[C]C!?

Dani's vaguely interested expression turned to a sour one when AJ shouted that dreaded title of hers. Where did those two nimrods come up with that, anyhow? She looked nothing like an ogre. Maybe princess Fiona in Shrek vaguely resembled her, but all people involved would agree that was not a very unattractive interperetation of any kind of ogre myth. Or legend or whatever. She sometimes forgot what the difference was between the two.

Rather than point out to the boy how rude he was being (because even Dani can see how oblivious AJ is to some things) she focused on the fact that a Japanese show was about to happen on a screen larger than her eleven-inch laptop's. "Dude. Sweet."

She was going to be mature. AJ was going to be the six-year-old about things. That was how things were going to go. She would resist the urge to stick her tongue out at him when he looked at her like a monster to be vanquished.

Or not, since that was exactly what she did. (Cut her some slack. She's only human. Or, well... Oh, you know. It's a figure of speech and she should stop correcting herself in her head.)

And then the show was on the screen. Dani stared in awe and surprise. Well this was not what she'd expected, but she would so take it. This was the pinnacle of nerd. And she loved it. "I officially accept you as awesome, dude," She said during the opening sequence.

And then LaDouche came in and ruined the party. Way to go, Zachie. You just pissed off Dani Waylan in a record one second. "LaRousse, you will shut your pie-hole"(literally)"Or I will find a way to ruin everything you love in the world." She said all of this while still watching the screen, examining the subtitles in comparison to what she knew of the Japanese language.

This was a little off from what she was hearing, but she'd live.

[Aaron Walker]

AJ grinned, glad he had been of help and settled on one of the couches as the older boy turned on the TV. He wasn’t normally one for watching television, but cartoons were okay. He was paying more attention to the artwork. Besides he was bound to get distracted soon anyway.

“Yeah,” AJ said. “You’re pretty awesome.’ He had no idea what they were watching, or how the boy had hooked the computer up to the TV, but if TK was willing to hang out and be friendly then he was awesome in AJ’s book.

Speaking of distractions, AJ grinned as a new boy appeared in the room. “Are we having a party?” he asked. He looked to see if his other peers would be as excited about the growing number of students as he was. But it seemed that Dani already knew the older Asian boy. And already had her own opinions of him.

“LaDouche?” AJ asked. “That’s a funny name.” He couldn’t help but giggle, even though he really thought that was the boy’s name and he knew it wasn’t really nice to laugh at people’s names. He felt a little sorry for the LaDouche. Dani could be so mean.

“Maybe we can watch Playboy Mansion after this goes off?” he suggested. “Is it a cool show? Is it about rich boys?”

[Terrance Kellam]

"KAIZOKU SENTAI… GOOOOOOKAIGER." TK's inner geek was showing. Before he changed, he was pretty quiet and wasn't even all that smart. And his interests were nothing like they were now. But with the addition of the ability to understand all languages, TK had decided to try new things and this was one of them. It was a recent addition to his list of hobbies, so he wasn't quite sure of the entire fandom, but he could tell he would be tuned in for some time. "They can change into past rangers!" That was definitely an upside, especially since he could remember Power Rangers vividly.

The responses were directed to Zachary, the boy who happened to join them. The more the merrier, to TK anyway. This was just the pre-game to his upcoming end of the year party… which he still needed to plan and execute. Gosh, he was slipping.

This girl, Dani. She was cool. She liked his new interest, too! He was hoping he would find people who enjoyed the random foreign-things he found. He was looking to Korea next. The internet was going crazy over Kpop, and it was time he tried it.

"Nerd convention? Have you even seen this??…" 'Playgirl Mansion'… Something about that title confused him, though he could tell the creator's intention. "Playgirl Mansion? Um… isn't… Playgirl the…" He wasn't trying to pry, but the male said it so openly. Maybe he did mean 'playgirl,' the homosexual version of Playboy. TK didn't really follow straight porn, so the confusion was justified. "And maybe… sure. After this goes off. Shouldn't be too much longer…"

[Zachary LaRousse]

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Zac simply sent Dani a glare as he continued to munch on his beloved blueberry pie. “Unfortunately for you Waylan, I have no heart, so I can’t love,” answered the boy, sneering – almost hissing – at the younger girl, “Empty threats don’t mean a thing darling. What’s the worst you can do, dump a bucket of cold water at me?” Childish, he says. Never mind that not too long ago, the pranks he did were also of that magnitude.

He kept on groaning and making all sorts of disinterested noises throughout the show, rolling his eyes and throwing crumbs towards Dani. “Asians in tights? Gaaaaaaaaay,” he yelled as he threw a nickel-sized crumb and aimed it to Terrence. Never mind that he has worn tights in more than one occasion. And no, it wasn’t for some costume party too. “My bad, this isn’t some nerd convention. It’s some fucked up mishmash of a gay nerd convention.”

The mimic didn’t notice his slip of tongue until Terrence mentioned it, but decided to simply keep it in since the younger boy seemed to have gotten what he was trying to say. One of them got the message (and the other simply didn’t notice his mistake), and that’s what matters, he thought. “Cool doesn’t begin to describe it,” he told the young boy, “It’s waaay better than this crap. Change the channel, will you kid?”

[Danicca Waylan]

[D]A[N]I[C]C!?

Dani snorted. "Okay, sure, I'll go tell Stella you'll never love her, then." She glanced in the direction of AJ, then flicked her eyes back to the screen. "We're having the coolest party ever, AJ. Don't listen to LaDouche."

She was trying, really trying, but Dani couldn't focus completely on the awesome show in front of her. She was busy being verbally and confectionarily assaulted by Zac. "As I recall, few months ago you were the one wearing tights."

Dani sighed heavily when the boys basically agreed to Zachary's show choice (if it could be called a show, muttering. "At least watch something with plot if you're gonna be in the lounge, Jesus." Honestly, she was annoyed at LaRousse, felt bad for AJ, and had some sort of resigned feeling of slightly lost respect for the other guy. Dani picked her manga back up and prepared to decide between leaving and criticizing Zac's life choices. "Fuck you, Zachary." She said brightly, smiling sweetly in his direction.

[Aaron Walker]

Although he was still wondering if he’d stumbled into some sort of party or club, AJ was actually enjoying himself. Not that he was paying much attention to the TV screen, but TK’s enthusiasm was rubbing off on him. “So their metas too then?” he asked TK, grinning. He had to admit that was pretty cool. After all, if meta TV shows were popular then maybe he could have a potential career as an actor.

Turning his attentnion to the fight going on between Dani and the older boy, AJ couldn’t help but laugh at the mention of the bucket of cold water prank. Maybe he should try that out on Jared sometime. “Yeah this is a pretty cool party, did anyone bring snacks?” he asked, looking around hopefully. Surely there was supposed to be finger foods and candy at parties.

“I like parties,” AJ said, turning back to TK. “We should have them more often.” Of course the younger boy had no idea just how well TK would take s suggestion like that. “Although I don’t think we should invite them next time,” he added lowering his voice and pointing towards Zac and Dani.

[Terrance Kellam]

The show was almost over, and… TK tended to succumb pretty easily. He was a people person, and thrived on being liked. He could always watch it later. "Fine, fine… It's almost over. The ending's about to play." He stood up, just in time to get hit by a crumb. Woooonderful. He could tell he was going to like this guy a loooot. TK sighed, looking to AJ.

"Not.. exactly. They're more like… Aliens? Yea… Aliens, who have cool gadgets…," he blinked, hearing himself say the explanation. It sounded… utterly retarded. He mentally shrugged and looked around the room to the others, noting a few things about them.

Three guys, and a girl. Truthfully, they just needed one more girl and they could form their own sentai group -- not that that stopped Japan, who would probably have Dani be Pink (Blue or White, maybe), and a male would be Yellow. Tk wasn't sure of his own color -- Either red or blue… -- but he was sure AJ would be Green.

Meta Sentai… Hammel-Ranger…

He snapped out of his little daydream, looking back to AJ. "Oh trust me, there will be a party soon. Right after graduation."

[Zachary LaRousse]

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Like the mature teenager that he was, Zac rolled his eyes when Dani spoke, letting out a tired and unamused huff even when she threatened to get sweet innocent Stella involved. (Not like she’d believe her, right?). He even used his right hand like a puppet and mocked the way Dani talked to supposedly emphasize the futility of it all. “You done? The only good thing you did was prove to me that there are some things more boring than the one in the screen right now.”

“Here, have some,” he said, passing his pie to AJ. And they say he didn’t know how to share. He got a little too full already. He is thirsty right now though. “Grab me a bottle of pop from the vending machine, will you?” he added, giving the young kid a ten-dollar bill, “Root beer preferably, but anything non-diet will do.”

“A party? Did Larissa tell you that? Hopefully this one will be better. I mean seriously, how stupid was she not to stock up on booze? It was out within the first half hour it’s disappointing,” Zac said absentmindedly, surprised with himself at how interested he’s suddenly become with regards to the supposedly boring show. He feels like it’s like one of those things that just grows into you no matter how much you hate it.

But then Dani spoke up again and god did he want to do something to shut the little fucker up. “Sorry little twat, but your boyfriend already beat you to it,” he said with a rather irritated face, “He was bad at it though, so I had to teach him a few things. Good thing he’s a fast learner.” So yeah, he slept with his best friend before. But that was years ago and it never really was anything serious. “He’s so much better at taking it though. Oh the cries he’d make. Ask Terrence. I think he heard it once.”

That ought to shut Dani up.