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[skimblyshanks]

TW: Flashing Lights, Eye Strain

You ever set out to just make a character-focused thing but then it ends up feeling v ship-related?

Anyway this is a Munckavity mv now along with some Demecavity in there too.

Song: Bang! by AJR

[skimblyshanks]

Yes Hi hello class today we’re talking about my favorite Tour V Bootleg, shot somewhere in the window of June 6 to June 8, 2005, that’s right we’re talking about BOISE

Given that window of time + the season it fit under, we can assume that Adam Perry as Alonzo and Amy Phillips as Demeter are the actors to thank for this.

So Boise is. My favorite. I’ve said that already in this post, and multiple times elsewhere. So much of that is just for (?)Amy’s characterization of Demeter, but another part of it are the hints she and (?)Adam find moments for their characters. They already feel connected, in one way or another, so that by the time it came around to Macavity and The Shadow Dance, I was already firm on the track of assuming a shared history with him.

So perhaps it’s fitting that their initial responses to Macavity scares generally mirror each other (You can see it at the end of the 2nd gif; Demeter will pull in and lean down; Alonzo will Bounce, Jump, and Claw the air).

But then in the True Macavity Scare; Act I, between Jellicle Cats Rejoicing and Song of The Jellicles; we get the moment giffed above.

Demeter’s leaned over and doing her scan of the theatre; that’s normal. But then, as she’s closing her reach across, Alonzo’s knees and hips respond to the motion as if she’s pulling him toward her. And he looks to her before he starts to assume the same scan/possibly the Protector Stance. Then the glass shatters and lights flash again and he goes to run up to the car

(To answer before it gets brought up; I’m p damn sure Alonzo isn’t looking at Tugger bc Tugger is actually upstage of him and already hissing/talking at someone (Perhaps the similarly-upstage Munk?) once Alonzo turns his head. I can’t cross out Demeter looking at Tugger, but I think she’s more looking around the Junkyard in general.)

[skimblyshanks]

Flashing lights/Strobe warning!

a present for myself lmao

Explanation under the cut

Song-Sisters by Radical Face

Munkustrap is the main focus of the video, split a little with Deut, because it’s about his balancing being the parent figure to Alonzo while still maintaining the relationship he has to Deut. After Grizabella’s ascension, Deuteronomy is shaken; changed. He’s distant to his sons, and only superficially cheery to the tribe. It’s easier for him to be a father figure to a mass of cats, than to be a parent to his boys. Alonzo has decided to let it all roll off his back, or at least, to give the appearance of it, so that he can take some burden off of Munk’s shoulders.

Basically it’s a riff on how i usually hc their dynamic, just replace Grizabella w/ Victor. You have Deut, who’s still too grief-stricken to be there for his youngest; Alonzo, who is trying to find his own path while looking up to his brother more than his father, and Munkustrap, who walks the line between father, son, brother, and tribe protector. Not the most cohesive family by any means, but a family all the same.

[skimblyshanks]

I made this for TikTok lmao

Warning: Flashing Lights/Colors ~00:25-00:28

Song-NEVER MET! by CMTEN, ft. Glitch Gum