Inspired by Inside Out. I've gotten lazy with the data stuff. I dunno, I'll just tell you guys the pairings (if any) and rating, how does that sound?
BBRae friendship pairing. No actual pairing this time I guess. Rated K
Raven enjoyed watching movies. Not to say that she was a movie lover, she just found them enjoyable. When there were the kinds of stories that would interest her, she would watch. Raven loved a good story, even if each descriptive word was not typed out in neat times new roman font and instead displayed with vivid colors, shapes and dimensions. Such movies included: Beauty and the Beast, Frozen, Up, things of that sort. Stories with relatable characters, understandable motives, and situations that she felt held just the right amount of believability. She knew what it was like to be an outcast, to have people afraid of her, to have people who didn't understand the first thing about her. Movies like that had substance.
Unlike most.
Most of the movies, say, Beast Boy might pick out gave her headaches when she tried to watch. Mindless "comedy" movies that he often picked like The Hangover, 21 Jump Street, The Interview and most every movie he pestered her incessantly about watching made her want to blast the plasma screen. However, such actions would probably be frowned upon by Cyborg, so instead she took a much more peaceful means of escaping from her disgust.
When Raven was disinterested or was in a state of unrest, she would "tune out." Straight to Nevermore. When she would read for hours from huge Latin tomes, more often than not she would probably have spaced out and was now conversing with her emotions, attempting to settle whatever was upsetting them.
So while Beast Boy hopped around her, practically begging for her to go see a movie with him, she inwardly groaned and went through a list of emotional issues that she hoped to resolve within the hour and forty-two minutes.
"Beast Boy, you know I hate most of your movies."
"Yeah, but, what about the 1% that you like!?"
"What 1%? I can't recall any of your picks that I enjoyed."
"What about Princess Bride? That movie was great! And you can't say honestly that you didn't laugh a little when they were at Miracle Max's, I heard you!"
"…"
"Haha, the silence of realizing I'm right. Come on Rae, if we leave now we can catch the 4:00 showing!" the changeling tugged the end of her cape as he tried to drag her to the door. Whipping her cloak out of his grasp and leaving her assailant to fall backwards at the sudden lack of a handhold, Raven swirled the cape around her and began walking slowly to the door. She turned momentarily to look at the boy propping himself up on his elbows.
"Don't call me Rae. And for the record, you've shown me hundreds of movies. If anything, I only like 0.05% of your movies." With that, she stalked out the door, leaving Beast Boy to pick himself up and chuckle at her competitive need to be right.
A few minutes later they were at the theater thanks to Raven's teleportation. The ticket seller insisted that they get free tickets for all the times they had stopped the theater from being completely destroyed. This left Beast Boy with extra money to buy the extra large popcorn bag. While she waited for him to return with the buttery snack, she looked at her ticket. "Inside Out." Looking around, she pinpointed the promotional poster for the movie on the north wall of the theater and grimaced as the overly colorful characters assaulted her vision. What kind of movie was this?!
They took their seats in the back corner of the theater after a few near spills of newly popped corn. This way, it would be more difficult to notice them and fans wouldn't be approaching them all throughout the showing.
As the previews rolled, she rolled through the things she would no doubt tell Beast Boy at the conclusion of the film. She probably wouldn't actually know what the movie was about, so she needed to keep it vague, but discourage him so that maybe, just maybe he would leave her alone next time. She knew that he never would, it was his nature and since she had liked one movie he would never stop trying. But she felt it necessary to shove back his ego every once in a while because it was honestly quite unruly and out of control more often than not.
The lights dimmed and she could hear the steady crunching of food from her left, and she prepared to relax and go to Nevermore. But when the movie began, she was intrigued. It was a cartoon movie that explored the imaginative world of the mind and it's emotions. This was… interesting. She knew that none of this was the way her head worked, but it was strange to see what normal humans thought of the inner workings of the mind.
Questions began to pour through her head as she contemplated the part of her mind that she had never really explored before.
Why don't my emotions look like that? Do I even have a Disgust? Was that how her memories were stored or lost? Were there really catastrophic results like that when her emotions took drastic turns?
By the end, she was feeling all sorts of unwelcome feelings and she made sure to blink the tears from her eyes before the lights came on. When Beast Boy turned to her, the popcorn was gone and he had a bright smile on his face.
"So? How'd you like it?" Raven looked him in the eyes and then drew up her hood.
"Your percentage is up to 0.1%. Now lets go home." With that, Raven whisked them off to the tower and immediately went to her room to think about the movie she had just watched. Inside Out. Huh.
Yes, it was safe to say that Raven enjoyed watching movies.
So, to be fair, I haven't see The Hangover and 21 Jump Street was pretty good. But The Interview made me want to gouge my eyes out. But granted, this is Raven. She somehow hates even more things than I do. Anyway, how was it? I don't often write non-BBRae fics and I just wrote this in like, an hour, so it's probably a little raw, but whatever. Read and Review! Laterade!
