Rose Wilson application

[rose_ravager]

Rose was not impressed to find herself hitting ground that was several inches lower than she'd expected it to be, but she caught herself and dropped back into a ready stance. Last she'd known, she'd been running into a cloud of dust, and now she was in an... amusement park? She put her hands over her shoulders to check that both katanas were still

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[thebadboyfriend]

On the one hand, opening with a reference to temporary insanity is not promising.

On the other, she gets the Monty Python reference.

Hell, it's not like he's got anywhere else to be right now.

"Hey," says Logan, smiling easily as he approaches. "So which green panties were these?"

[rose_ravager]

Rose turned around at the sound of a normal human voice, and had to smile at the teenager coming her way. "Hi. And Robin's panties. You know... Batman and Robin..." She raised an eyebrow at him. "Green, armored, clung in all the right places..."

[thebadboyfriend]

"Ah, yes. I can't say we've got the same definition of 'all the right places' but I seem to remember practically whole section of Superdickery.com being devoted to those panties. They're armored, huh? Sounds like they'd chafe."

[rose_ravager]

Rose laughed. "That's too bad..." She blinked at the 'superdickery' reference, but just shrugged it off. "You'd think so, but I honestly don't think they did. Although that would explain why the newest Robin went for tights rather than panties."

She grinned. "Or he was just trying to look a little more dignified."

[thebadboyfriend]

If she had asked, he'd have just passed it off as a Snopes.com kind of site. Logan wasn't going to let minor details like contradictory realities get in the way of his pop culture references. "Because nothing says 'dignity' like 'tights.' Just ask Mel Brooks' Robin Hood."

"So, uh, which of the four names you gave should I call you? I'm Logan Echolls, by the way."

[rose_ravager]

Rose laughed. "Trust me, the tights are better than the panties."

"I generally just go by Rose, I promise. Nice to meet you, Logan." She ran her fingers through her hair and looked around. "It's going to be very strange not being hated by nearly everyone..." She doesn't seem too upset, though.

[thebadboyfriend]

Well, that surprised a laugh out of him. "Tell me about it. I comfort myself with the knowledge that, if it gets to be too much for me, I can no doubt make everyone here hate me too. I've started composing a list of how, you're welcome to share."

[rose_ravager]

She grinned when he laughed. "I think I'll have to get to know a few people here first. Back ho... back at the Tower, most of the Team was basically preset to hate me... my father was a murderer and loved to torment them, after all." She's a little bitter than a moment, but shrugs. "We were just starting to get along when I got dumped in this Bizarro Land."

[thebadboyfriend]

Something passed over Logan's face when she mentioned her father, and when he laughed again it was brittle and sharp as glass. "Hey, no kidding. We should get together and compare notes. Play the 'whose childhood sucked worse' game. Or, I know, we could not. Just, like, not talk about parental units, ever, and enjoy the thought of how much they'd hate being ignored."

"But you've got a 'team'? Oh, hey, wait, where are my manners? Welcome, Rose," he sweeps a ridiculous, courtly bow, "to Not-Disneyland. This park has no windows and no doors."

[rose_ravager]

Rose knew that laugh, and could bet she'd worn that expression before, and that was why she didn't ask. "Yeah. I can go with that." She shook her head, snorting. "I don't think daddy would know what it was like to be ignored. He's always pissing someone off."

"The Titans, yes. I've been accepted completely. Finally." She laughed when he bowed. "I'd curtsy, but I'm in pants, and I skipped finishing school." She looked around, noting again that misty nothing outside the gates. "No windows and no doors? Must be terribly embarrassing to go to the bathroom."

[thebadboyfriend]

"Ah. So now that you've got the secret handshake, you and the other Titans can, what, give any of those pesky Olympian gods who backtalk you the smackdown?" Logan? Didn't really have any idea what he was talking about now. He was just going for the change of subject.

"It could be a little embarrassing going to the bathroom if you walked in on someone using one of the makeshift showers. But actually it was a Haunted Mansion reference. Figures - everyone back home would've got it, but now that we're all actually living at Disneyland nobody knows the spiels."

[rose_ravager]

Rose blinked at him slowly, wondering if he'd been hit in the head recently. "No. The Teen Titans. Robin, WonderGirl, Cyborg, Beastboy, Raven... the Titans. You got the Batman and Robin reference, but not the Titans?" Boy, but this place is odd.

An expression crosses Rose's face that says maybe she wouldn't mind walking in on some people. Too bad the ones she's thinking of aren't here. "I've never been to Disneyland."

[thebadboyfriend]

Logan stuck his hands in his pockets. "Sorry, yeah. So, um, the thing is? People around here come from a lot of...alternate universes. Some of them completely different - seriously, one of my friends is from a flat planet. And some of them seem mostly the same, but there are just sort of...quirks. So yeah, Batman and Robin I've heard of, but..." He shrugged. "For all I know they could be totally different people."

He wasn't going to lay the "fictional" thing on her. Things around here were confusing enough, especially if you'd just arrived.

[rose_ravager]

Rose nodded slowly. "A flat planet?! And here I thought giant talking gorillas were weird. Well... that makes sense, I guess."

[thebadboyfriend]

"Carried on the back of a giant turtle. Or so she told me. I'd think she was full of shit except that she's very clearly not. But yeah. Stick around here for long and you'll have a whole nother concept of 'weird.' Uh. Not that you've really got a choice about sticking around." He rubbed the back of his head and grinned sheepishly at her. "I'm just a fuzzy bundle of positive mental outlook, aren't I? Uh, let's see. No rides for the lines, the 'authorities' pretty much let you do anything you want, and the guy who runs the only club doesn't actually care if you're underage as long as he likes you. And there are churros."

He made an expansive 'Welcome to the Happiest Place On Earth!' kind of gesture.

[rose_ravager]

"Back of a turtle. Sure, okay." She made a face as he reminded her yet again that she wasn't going to be leaving any time soon. "Eh. You're about as bad as Robin's gotten. I can deal."

"No lines for the rides, you mean? I can live with that. And if I remember correctly, I can destroy things and they'll be fixed the next day? That at least will give me something to do when I'm bored." She grinned at the mention of clubs and not caring about being underaged. "Sounds like my kind of guy. But what are churros?"