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[citizendetective]

[Pulling her legs up to sit cross-legged on her bed (though she kicks off her Crocs first and goes in just her socks; she's not an animal), Misty drops her chin into her hand, listening to the song with a slight frown on her face. She waits until it's done to say:]

It's okay...

[brushoff]

Okay?!

[ It is phenomenal, it's not just okay! Dorian looks briefly affronted before he sighs. ]

I don't know why I even bother. You probably think the Phantom of the Opera is the height of romantic literature.

[citizendetective]

It's a dark romance.

[brushoff]

He gaslights her into thinking he's her dead dad.

[citizendetective]

That's why it's dark!

[brushoff]

There's a difference between dark and bloody deranged!

[citizendetective]

It's tragic. You just have no taste.

[brushoff]

I'm not taking that from a woman who probably sings 'I Dreamed a Dream' in the shower.

[citizendetective]

[She gestures to him with her glass, sloshing a little onto the bedspread as she does so.]

You know a lot of song names for someone who hates this stuff so much, Dorian.

[brushoff]

Susan Boyle, [ he says, as if that explains everything. ] You'd have to be living under a rock to miss that nonsense.

[citizendetective]

Susan Boyle...

[Apparently, Misty was living under a rock.

(And in America, in her defense.) ]

-- Nope, I don't know who that is! I don't think-- I don't think?

[She is also extremely not sober at the moment.]

[brushoff]

[ Dorian realizes the 'American' thing riiiight after he said Susan Boyle's name. ]

She won a talent competition back home—X Factor, I think? One of those, they're all the same damn show. Dumpy woman, terribly middle of the road, but she had a phenomenal singing voice. And she got famous for singing that song.

You should bother Jonathan Sims in the library once it's all put together again. One, he's a dear friend of mine. Two, he can help you find an album of hers.

[ and three, Dorian idly wonders just how long the 'Misty wants to make friends with everybody that other people like' train will go. ]

[citizendetective]

So she does covers.

Covers are never as good.

[brushoff]

You can't really apply covers to musical theater, can you? I mean, if you go to see a live performance, that's technically a cover.

[citizendetective]

No, no-- that's totally different. A live theater performance isn't the same as American Idol! Or-- British Idol, X-Factor, whatever.

[brushoff]

How? Just because there's not a stage? It's still performing.

[citizendetective]

It's different! It's a different style. Musical theater versus, like-- like, like pop music.

[brushoff]

If you're singing a musical theater song, you're doing musical theater. I don't see what the distinction is.

[ fun fact: musicals are a genre that Dorian does not give a damn about. ]

[citizendetective]

[CLEARLY, DORIAN. For shame.]

You don't get it. But-- I do, so you should just listen to my opinion.

[brushoff]

[ Dorian simply shrugs. ]

I don't know if your opinion is valid if you thought Adam and the Ants were just okay.

[citizendetective]

They were-- fine.

[That's better than okay, right?]

[brushoff]

Right. We're listening to "Stand and Deliver" next.

[ Eventually she'll like the same things he does! ]