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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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Built in ladder... You know, I might have to ask the Doctor about that, good idea Fenton!
Ooooohhh, impressive! I take it you did accounting before?
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[He puffed up a little at that, lifting his chin proudly.] Why thank you! I'm FULL of great ideas, and they always... [He trailed off, adopting a sudden sheepish expression.] Well, okay, they don't always work. But! You never know until you TRY it. Right?
Yup! I'm the accountant to the richest duck in the world, back home! [Not mentioning the fact that he knew nothing about accounting before being accepted, and learning most of it on-the-job.]
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Wow really? He's not evil, is he? I swear it seems like all rich guys are...
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[Then his eyes go wide, and he shakes his head wildly from side to side.] No! No, no no... not in the least! I mean, okaaaay, he might be a bit of a skinflint. And a cheapskate. And thrifty! And a very shrewd businessman. And perhaps a wee bit greedy. [Cue awkward clearing of throat, as he realizes he's just listing all Scrooge's vices.] But deep down he's really a nice guy! He worked hard to get his fortune. I mean really, really hard! And though he tries to hide it, he really is a big softie. His heart's as big as his money bin! He just loves his nephews, and Webby! And he's a really good friend to me, too! He's given me SO many chances, even when I've screwed up SO many times! And he gives all these second chances to his other employees he really loves, too! Like how many times Launchpad would always crash his planes, Scrooge never fired him! And when he ever did, he ALWAYS hired him right back, immediately! And no matter how many weird, crazy inventions Gyro made, that went totally haywire, he was always the first - and only - inventor Scrooge'd ever call on! He just puts up this image of the gruff old codger. He's got a reputation to uphold, y'know? But he's really a great guy once you get to know him!
[With the ... emphatic ways Fenton was talking about him, a few sparks of energy popped in the air around Fenton as he talked, ruffling some feathers and nearby objects.]
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Moneybin..... Von Drake had one but... Wait your boss is named Scrooge??? Seriously?
[Rubs an earlobe in thought about the inventions.] What do you know about Gyro's inventions?
[Holds a hand up.] My Dad's an inventor. That's how he funded Torchwood. He'd invent crazy things, sometimes just random toys, sometimes really... universe changing stuff, like dimension travel, annnnnd.... that's how I got started on my mission, yeah? To fight the darkness. Dad believed in me enough to let me keep a job at Torchwood with him, and trusted me to try out his inventions. I kind of.... half set out with never seeing him again in mind, but sometimes I wish he could see all this, yeah?
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Ahh... yeah. Scrooge McDuck. Richest duck in the world. Why is that weird..?
[Fenton got a bit of a paniced look on his face at the question about Gyro, his thoughts immediately going to his Gizmosuit. Did she KNOW about it? Somehow?! Was she fishing for information? Then he realized there was no way she could, and she was just curious... and he cleared his throat and chuckled sheepishly.] Oh, you know, all sorts of things! He made this bubblegum that made you float when you chewed it... ...and okay, I kiiiiinda pushed it into market before it had been fully tested, but Gyro shouldn't have brought the invention to the Pep reveal if it hadn't been fully tested in the first place! [He said this in a bit of a rush, his cheeks red with embarrassment. Yeah, he had messed up BIG TIME with that whole Pep fiasco, and he'd apologized and learned his lesson. He still felt Gyro should have taken a little of the blame, though.] He also made this duplicating machine that duplicated anything... but then the duplicates started duplicating themselves at the sound of any bell, and the city nearly got drowned in coins... then everything imploded back into the original object. It was a mess. The robots he makes tend to go a bit... ...haywire. Some have turned flat-out-evil, I've been told, while others... [namely, Robotica] ahh... just super emotional and enthusiastic about... stuff. Too much so. Gyro fixed her, though. He developed this glass that was pretty much indestructable... but there was this rare bird called the yeeker that could shatter it by it's call, so... that was a mess to clean up, too. The boys have told me a few of his other inventions. He's got this Time Tub that's a bathtub that can travel through time, and he made another time machine, too... but that one got destroyed. Or the fuel for it got destroyed. I don't know which. He's made a device that can STOP time, briefly. That also got destroyed, I think. Gyro's pretty much into inventing anything. Whatever comes to his mind. Sometimes they work, sometimes they're useful... sometimes they're just silly and useless. [He shrugged.]
Your dad sounds a lot like Gyro, then. A lot of useless junk, but the occasional piece of brilliance, now and then.
[He bit the bottom of his beak at her last words, not knowing what to say. He barely remembered his father; he had left when he was very young. Fenton never really missed him... he'd been fine growing up on his own, with his M'ma. It sounded like Rose had a much better relationship with her father, though.]
Hey, who knows. They're pulling in people with supposedly great imaginations here, right? Maybe your dad'll show up?
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Scrooge is just synonymous with someone who's tight with money where I'm from. Rich, but cheap. Just hoards it all until he's got a bit of a death scare. I wonder if it's a translation thing. Like McDuck would make him Scottish in my world, so maybe the languages just naturally try to find whatever's the closest equivalent??
[And she laughs about the invention.] He sounds amazing. Better than my Dad, but don't tell anyone I said that. A timetub? [All the giggles.] I'm guessing it was to speed up baths, not to time travel naked. Bit inconvenient that would be. [More giggles.] Sounds like your Gyro needs one o' me then. Someone who's good at testing things and figuring out what could go wrong. [So many giggles.] Luckily Dad's a bit like you, good at the marketing, but since he makes his stuff, he doesn't usually push it too early. But it's a whole lotta politics and stuff I try to avoid. And DO avoid, come to think, or I wouldn't be here.
Ahhhh... maybe he will come? But I kind of... almost don't want him to either. [Makes a face!!!] He belongs home with my Mum and Tony. And any other version of him wouldn't know me or our history, and yeah, he'd enjoy the madness, and getting to meet the Doctor, yeah, but saving the multiverse, fighting the Darkness; or Corrosion, is a lot more my thing. Fielding politics, marketing stuff, running Torchwood, that's definitely his. Blimey, he'd get in so much trouble with Hades. He'd want to punch him or something I just know it. The Doctor's got way more ego than Dad, but the Doctor is used to dafter people in charge and with more power and still who need his help. Oh, and magic is completely impossible in Pete -- my Dad's Universe, so he'd have a bullocks of a time adjusting. Nahhhh, better he not.
Besides, I got to escape having mostly any boys talks with him since he wasn't around for twenty years, different universe and all, and by the time he met me, he already was working with Mickey or Ricky, and knew the Doctor. It'd just get... [Facepalm.] Nightmarish. When I was separated from the Doctor I didn't date, so... [Winces.] Again, that's assuming time didn't flub everything up so that he wasn't from before meeting me and the Doctor, because otherwise I'd be like some creepy stalker from the future and --- yeaaaaaaaaaah best not.