[026 - So this is Christmas | Audio/Letter to Santa!]

[aboutpower]

Does anyone have any Christmas-y movies? I'm really feeling the need for a holiday veg-out fest. Especially movies in black and white. That have Jimmy Stewart. [Obviously talking about It's A Wonderful Life.]

[Private to Lestat | Audio]
Got a minute? [Said with the inclination that he better, and she won't take no for an answer.]

[Private to Merlin |

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Private

[takeyouapart]

Yeah. I -

It was.

[DID SOMEBODY ORDER A GIANT PLATE OF AWKWARD.]

[aboutpower]

Private

[WHY YES. WITH A SIDE OF AWKWARD FRIES.]

Yeah-huh. [...] So. You, uh, the whole post-breach adjustment thing going okay?

Private

[takeyouapart]

Yeah. There's been a lot of them now, so...

[Looooong pause.]

He wasn't me. I'm not...like that.

Private

[aboutpower]

[Quiet:] Yeah.

[Pauses along with him in silence.]

O-Oh. Yeah. No. I, yeah.

[...] But, y'know, I feel the same way she did. Maybe even more- With the- [...] Did I ever tell you about my friend Willow? Best of best friends. [... Kinda. They used to be. D:]

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

I -- you might have mentioned her? But nothing that....specific.

Private

[aboutpower]

R-Right. Well.

Willow's my magically-inclined friend. She's a very powerful witch. Maybe even the most power-having in the world. She's helped me save the world dozens and dozens of times, and..

[She was gonna go all the way with this. But now she's having second thoughts. 'Oh and she's gay! And I love her! But not in a gay way. Not that there's anything wrong with-'

That's exactly where her train of thought is going and she so does not want to do it like that. See Buffy fight against her tragic foot-in-mouth syndrome. See Buffy at a loss for words.]

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

She's...

[Fortunately Merlin isn't so hopeless as to fail to see what's being gotten at.

Oh.

Private

[aboutpower]

[Buffy now thinks maybe she should have just blabbed it out. That would probably have been less awkward than him figuring it out on his own.] Yeah.. She's.

B-But, in my world it's pretty much accepted. You get occasional bigots but overall.. I guess your world isn't- You know, if someone were, in a totally, hypothetical, situation..

[Pause, self-deprecating humor and smile.] I think other-me was better at the talking thing.

Private

[takeyouapart]

You're good at it too.

[Infinite pause.]

I told you what Uther does to people with magic. I...I don't know for certain, but I think he'd do the same to anyone who was...different. Especially someone who spends a lot of time around the court of Camelot.

Private

[aboutpower]

Doesn't feel like it. [And then she's quiet and listens. A careful pause before she speaks again.]

Probably. Have I mentioned that I really don't like him either?

Private

[takeyouapart]

It's come up.

Not that it - well, of course it matters, but...it's never going to matter to me.

Private

[aboutpower]

[Her head tilts a hair to the side, her eyebrows knitted in confusion.] What isn't?

Re: Private

[takeyouapart]

Whatever it is that happens to people who are...

It matters. Nobody should be hurt for something that doesn't hurt anyone. But I'm...not.

Private

[aboutpower]

Oh. R-Right! [Slightly shifty eyes.] Right.

Anyway you've already got the forbidden-magic thing you gotta deal with. Since that penalty is already y'know, death, even if-- It wouldn't really stack up your charges much. Charges that we've already established are warped, horrific, and wrong. [Hrm.] Once again I find myself feeling a whole lotta dislike for that guy. This time with violent enthusiasm.