But I set fire to the rain

[pyrogue]

WHO: Mick Rory & whoever both signed up and also wants to log it out (it's optional but totes open, & if you want to handwave the network response and skip to the log, pm me)
WHERE: Heropa, the studios where BODY HEAT is filmed
WHEN: Last week of February
WHAT: Guest Star week of Mick's workout show, and also a charity drive!
WARNINGS: Don't look if you like safety in yoga but otherwise we're probably good>



When you enter the studio, an intern is there ready to let you know where your change-room is and what the schedule is. They'll give you a waiver and direct you to talk to the yoga expert (Mick is more of the "face" of the show than anything), that'll give you the run-down on how it works. The building is busy, with various people involved in either the filming aspects or the hired extras who go through the exercises with Mick.

If you run into Mick before the show, he'll grin and offer you a bottle of water. "Hey, thanks for coming! You ready for this?"

After the show, when you just spent a while in a very hot room doing long yoga stretches on camera, it turns out that they brought in a snow cone maker. Mick declines but will definitely hang out with you if you want one. "That wasn't so bad, was it?"

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It had gone off more or less without a hitch; at various points the combination of heat and height had been a little more intense than Gwen had been entirely prepared for, but hydration and patience and occasionally hanging sadly from the ceiling between takes pouring water directly onto her face like some kind of high-flying beached animal--

she's not incredibly keen to watch it back and find out what 'sweating her arse off on-screen' looks like upside down and in high-def, but she is feeling somewhat accomplished, laughing sharply and briefly at Mick's question and holding a cold water bottle against her neck for a moment instead of drinking it. There is an equally cold bath in her very near future, after the shower and the getting dressed and the going home.

"That might've been one of the daftest things I've ever done," she says, self-skewering in her amusement, "but it wasn't that bad. When they say you're the face," tilting her bottle illustratively toward him, "do they actually mean the very manly bosom? Because I got some incredible comments after I said I was doing this show."

[pyrogue]

Mick smiles earnestly at the compliment, not quite bashful but obviously in a way where he's still, somehow, not used to comments like that. He fiddles with the towel draped around his neck.

"Well they definitely didn't hire me for my experience with yoga."

He shrugs, before nodding her way. "You did good -- though maybe hot yoga and aerial yoga weren't the best combo after all."

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"Maybe," she says, wryly agreeing, "but there was only one way to find out." There were definitely other ways to find that out. Like, googling it, probably. Listening more closely to the yoga expert. Common sense. But now she can say she did it once, so, truly, who is the real winner.

(Not common sense.)

"Have you been doing it for long?"

[pyrogue]

Mick grins and doesn't question her logic when she says that, because Mick's sense of "how to do things properly" is skewed by "becoming a supervillain is the best way to cope with pyromania" as one of many actual life decisions he made that seemed right at the time.

At the question, though, he shrugs. "Since I got imPorted back in... jeeze, June. First coupla months were just learning on the job."

[trouvaille]

June, Christ. Gwen isn't purposefully tracking the lengths of time people have spent here, but - it's hard not to register them, every time someone tells her. (Eight fucking years, what is that? Eight years is a long goddamn time when you're twenty-four.)

"Oh, they assigned you this one?" That - makes the weird kind of sense that has previously been suggested to her goes along with the perversity of whoever's in charge of handing out government-approved employment. "I got 'glitter designer'. I don't think I'll be sticking it out."

Although, 'a sparkly inconvenience' is pretty good shorthand for her. So.