you must be swift as the coursing river

[hellacold]

Who: trailblazers
Where: trailblazers training gym
When: onset of the musical plot
What: a routine trailblazers training session goes horribly awry
Warnings: singing, dancing


[jon sort of struts over to the bin where the practice swords are kept and theatrically tosses them out to the other trailblazers one by one. he opens his mouth to say something about stances or posture.]

Let's get down to business,
to defeat our foes.
Why did they send me sidekicks
when I asked for heroes?

[...he shuts his mouth. ]

<[here is a link to a gdoc of the song, please add your verses as you tag them in!]

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[10thingsihateaboutme]

[Karkat just ... stares at him in utter, faintly disgusted confusion. He slowly turns that stare on the others as if there is some kind of ... prank, or something, that he is not in on, but it – it doesn't seem like there is. He looks back at Jon, increasingly baffled, and opens his mouth to ask what is going on, but somehow he just ... can't ... interrupt??]

[mockingjaded]

[Katniss is presently the most bewildered by the fact that Jon has just tossed her a sword and gives him a look as it to say "what are you doing I don't use swords you dumbass?" She glances over at Karkat who looks equally irritated, and she rolls her eyes as she tosses her sword to the ground at his feet dismissively.]

You're a naive, brash, pathetic lot and you haven't got a clue.

[She turns away to go off and attempt to do her own thing, apparently not quite picking up on what's just happened here.

Katiss is definitely not the kind of person to joke about something like this.]

[hellacold]

[jon grabs his own sword and moves into a fighting stance]

How can we make a team out of you?

[civilizedcombat]

[Cynthia opens her mouth to express her confusion at Jon's inexplicable singing. She does not expect what comes out.]

Tranquil as a forest, but on fire within.

[She freezes, wide-eyed, and looks around at the others, as if their faces will provide answers to her own inexplicable singing. They do not. Slowly, though, a grin grows on her face. She doesn't know what's going on, but she does know that she's firmly against not having a good time when an opportunity comes around. With a Cool Pose™ and a brandishing of her sword, she continues with gusto:]

Once you find your teammates, you are sure to win.

[withoutaworld]

[ Rikki has been standing very still, sword in hand, like if she doesn't move she won't catch the attention of whatever's going on here. It doesn't work, and she can feel the next line bubbling up in her before it comes out, and she manages a soft sigh. ]

You're the saddest bunch I ever met,
But you can bet before we're through

[ She steps forward and grabs Cynthia's wrist, moving her arm into a more correct position before she puts someone's eye out with her sword. ]

Somehow we'll make a team
Out of you.

[ Rikki goes bright red, biting her lip as the music lets her go. Well that was rude. Not exactly untrue, maybe, but ruder than she would have phrased it if she hadn't been freaking singing... ]

[purrsuit]

[Nessa is standing to one side, next to the punching bag, gawking at them all. She'd been in the middle of some pretty intense martial art exercises, only stopping with the bag leaning heavily against her shoulder when the singing had started. She out of breath, and looking between them all, as if they are all playing a group prank or something on her, almost not realising when she joins in with the singing:]

--I'm never gonna catch my breath-- [she blinks furiously at herself lifting her fingers to her mouth before looking at the rest of them. What is happening.]