SPOILER!!: Vivi!
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Cassirin 
Oh, commiseration. Perfect. Vivi turned slightly so that she could still see Cela, but so that she could also see Kurumi, and she pointed at the girl's eyes and then at her own. Easy as.
"Don't worry about anyone in here but Cela and me. Cela already wants to think you're completely awesome, and I couldn't look any more or less ridiculous than you do. So we'll just do this together and pretend no one else is watching. Because they're not dancing as well as us, anyway, and they feel just as self-conscious. More. Because we're awesome." Vivi put her hands up to create a tunnel around her eyes and then started the dance again.
HOP!CLAP (no clapping 'cause of the hands, but MENTAL clapping!). Wiggle, complete with broad grin at Kurumi. Kick.
Shuffle!point... and so on.
More steps? And harder ones? They were well past the point of trying to look cool by now, and Vivi wiggled her fingers at Kurumi and removed her tunnel. One needed both hands for jazz hands.
"Make up words to go along with it to help you remember, and then we'll be able to keep the steps straight when we learn the incantation."
Well...Kurumi felt like a plimpy out of water...even after Vivi's words of encouragement.
Cela already wants to think you're completely awesome. Nice words...but that really was all they were. Kurumi didn't think she was awesome. No, wait, scratch that. She KNEW she wasn't awesome at this, so it really didn't matter was Cela thought.
No offense or anything, Cela.
Vivi on the other hand....yes, she did look ridiculous and clearly felt that she looked so, so that was on par with Kurumi and she could work with that. "
Awesome...right....awesome..." she repeated, nodding her head as though doing so would actually convince her. Heh, not really. "
I can be awesome at being awkward," she ended up laughing as the pair of them continued to kick and tap, and swirl, and pivot, and whatever all was involved in this.
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Make up words? You mean like...make up a song?" Cause she was confused enough as it was, although things were beginning to settle in. "
Or...just chant the movements?" She could do that.
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Tegz "That's all the steps everyone!" Cela clapped a few times and waited for everyone to look at her before adding, "What we are learning to do today is called Substitutiary Locomotion. There are other ways to do it of course, but nothing near as fun as this!" Some of the Muggleborn kids might know what the next part was, if they were up on their 100 year old Muggle films, since elements of it had been included in one,
"The incantation is Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee, which we'll repeat, at a rhythm, while we do the steps!" Yup! "But before we do, does anyone know what Substitutiary Locomotion is? And if you don't know, take a guess! Oh and there's water on the table, and orange wedges there for anyone that wants a refreshment before we tackle the spell!"
She went over to one of the cubbies and took out a stack of papers.... which she passed out too. Upon which was a map of the steps for the spell, along with the incantation written down.
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youtube + 'substitutiary locomotion' will set you freeeee. That clip from the 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' movie is pretty much what we are doing except with added dance moves.
Cela will provide some more details about the Disney connection too. Guesses about what substitutiary locomotion is/does are totally encouraged. Basically if you don't think your charrie will know about it, then have them take a stab. You'll get more points for creativity and participation than just being right for the sake of being right
Elsewise feel free to RP your charrie getting water or oranges and looking over the handout
as long as you're doing something you're doing great
Pausing for a moment to remove some sweat from her brow, Kurumi looked over when Cela gave them the incantation. Treguna Mekoides Trecorum Satis Dee? Bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiink. That...was sort of long and...sounded like Latin? Erm, some of it sounded like Latin. Maybe.
Which is why Kurumi gave up any hope of trying to figure out what it could possibly mean. Leave the Latin stuff to Selina. Kurumi was a lost cause.
As for the other half of what Cela had said...that Kurumi could think on for a moment. Substitutiary Locomotion.... The locomotion part of that was obvious enough - movement. If it was like the Locomotor Charm, it meant animating something. Something inanimate. As for the substitutiary...erm...that word meant...erm...replacing. Right? A uniform replacement of sorts. So.... replacement motion?
That was just sort of confusing her a little. Unless....
Hand up! "
Cela, is this...related to the Locomotor Charm? Where we, um, animate something that has been inanimate and...maybe...our movements replace an object's inanimate ones?" Just to try and throw some of her thoughts into verbal ones.
Did that mean that they would swap?! Like...if they took the suits of armor and did this dance...that they would become animate for a time while they froze?
Kurumi couldn't deal with more freezing....
Oh, wait! Orange wedges? Don't mind if we do!