Rose Tyler (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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smk_network2019-07-30 08:40 pm
bigbadrose) wrote in smk_network2019-07-30 08:40 pm
Video / Lamplighting
They say you never forget how to ride a bicycle, yeah?
[Rose pans her mirror down from her waaaaay tall bicycle.]
I really hope that's true, because I don't much like my chances of getting back on it if I fall. Wish me luck!
[She sets out, and so far, so good.] Okay, so anyone else get jobs yet and all that? Give me sound my first night out, since I didn't wanna risk my cybud up here.
[Exclusively for her "roommates," there's a pair of cupcakes, one for 12 and Michael respectively. 12's is banana with edible ball-bearings, and Michael's is devil's chocolate with a paperclip. Both have messages.]
[Rose pans her mirror down from her waaaaay tall bicycle.]
I really hope that's true, because I don't much like my chances of getting back on it if I fall. Wish me luck!
[She sets out, and so far, so good.] Okay, so anyone else get jobs yet and all that? Give me sound my first night out, since I didn't wanna risk my cybud up here.
[Exclusively for her "roommates," there's a pair of cupcakes, one for 12 and Michael respectively. 12's is banana with edible ball-bearings, and Michael's is devil's chocolate with a paperclip. Both have messages.]
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Actually, it wasn't Janet. It was usually Eleanor. Except for the one time it was Jason. That one hurt. ... I had to keep wiping their memories and restarting, so my boss wouldn't think I failed and force me into retirement. ... Eventually I realized that it might work better if the four of them were in on it.
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Jason the locked himself in a safe to rob a place, Jason???
Uh... What happens in retirement?
Good plan, hot-shot. How'd that work out for you?
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F.Y.I, it was on the way to working out very well, before I ended up in this sad excuse for a Neighborhood with an even sadder excuse for a - a -
[oh]
Just get back on your bike and do your stupid job. Oh, and by the way: soulmates aren't real! I made it up! For the Neighborhood!
[there, that's better. now. has Aahz found amd drank all the alcohol?]
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Hey. Meet me as soon as I finish, I'll buy us some drinks and you can tell me every structural flaw with this place, okay?
You're cute when you're steaming.
And I'm actually really impressed. Most people wouldn't have the guts to change tracks or tactics. It takes real ingenuity, yeah? Remember what I said about immortals being kinda pathetic?
Even the Doctor was getting prickly because he was including himself in that, I think.
Don't be so hard on yourself just because you're starting from scratch here. You're further than you think.
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[his voice is quiet, sullen, a perfect picture of a sulking child who is trying to pretend they're mad so they'll be left alone with their embarrassment]
I got a human starter kit and everything.
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[Her only regret is that she's not already there in person, and she's definitely debating ditching work to check on him.]
What's that come with?
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[maybe it's the fact that Hoodie Day is nigh. or maybe he really just has too many feelings. hint: it's the latter. just trying to recall everything in that stupid little box is making him feel like someone is scooping out space below his ribs with one of those serrated melon ballers]
None of it mattered. So ... It all did. That was what it came with.
[understanding. the fact that something doesn't have to mean something to anyone else. just to you]
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Paperclips.
You're kind of like Mr. Clippy yourself, yeah?
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smiles.]
I see you're trying to change the subject. Would you like some help with that?
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That's perfect!! I didn't know you knew him!! What is he, some part of... the bad place just to torture grammar nazis???
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I don't know quite what it is about paper clips. I just... They're so good. Simple.
[he fidgets with the bracelet a moment, and realizes that now he's the only one who knows its story. that doesn't seem fair. he holds his wrist up to the mirror]
Eleanor made me this, yanno. Before I ever had to reboot the neighborhood...
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So how come you still wear it?
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Because it's the first thing a human ever gave me. I was thinking about something too much - or, well, more like I was pretending to, to stress her out - and instead of getting freaked out, she ... said I needed to not think so much. That I needed to have fun. And she made me this. And then she showed me karaoke.
It really wasn't what I expected. At all. Any of it.
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Satan would have gotten out of his prison if he just wasn't trying so hard to terrorize us, and cooperated instead!
So do you like karaoke?
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[he shrugs]
Karaoke? Yeah, it's great. I told the Doctor, I know all the words to something called "Blaze of Glory". He said he plays the guitar. We were going to find a bar but we ended up making pancakes instead.
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[Soft laugh.]
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[he finds that surprising]
Not Mickey or ... or the other one, even? The human ones? Well, then, I'll have to do it.
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good to end here on this one?
[he smiles, feeling a bit less weird about this whole thing. just a bit]
Good luck with the giant bike, Rose.
Yup yup!!