Application - Herr Drosselmeyer from Princess Tutu

[tragitragedy]

((OOC: To avoid godmodding issues, Drosselmeyer's canonical story spinner abilities (i.e., writing stories that come true) have been voided by the magic of Hogwarts. Of course, he can surely find other ways to mess with people's lives...))An old and eccentric man strode through the Sorting Room doors, a red cloak flowing from his hunched shoulders

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[im_wacky_times]

T-Rex, too, was a storyteller. An acclaimed novelist, even! When he wasn't programming awesome computer games, he was totally writing awesome stories. Or trying to shoo raccoons and cephalopods out of his bathroom, but that was a minor part of his day, compared to doing his awesome writing of awesomeness.

How did he fit in the Sorting Room? Well ... the Sorting Room had a really high ceiling? And also, T-Rex was capable of going to the mall and driving a car and using a computer and stuff, all while being an ordinary (if awesome) tyrannosaurus. So, somehow he could do these things and it was okay.

"So, where do you get your ideas from?" He wasn't afraid to talk shop with a fellow storyteller.

[tragitragedy]

Like Wishbone, T-Rex was hardly that far out of the ordinary after all the twisting Drosselmeyer had done in Gold Crown. So he just smiled.

"I find real people to be very inspirational. I like to draw on their stories for my work."

[im_wacky_times]

"I, too, find inspiration in real people! Ghosts, astronaut skateboarders, superheroes. Just ordinary Joes!" T-Rex might be smiling, or he might just like holding his very toothy mouth wide-open, who could say? "Lately I am not so into realism though!"

[tragitragedy]

"Oh, a fellow writer, are you?" Drosselmeyer brightened and laughed, clapping his hands together. "Splendid! I should love to see some of your work, at a more convenient time. Personally, I find myself quite drawn to fairy tales in my own writing. I also appreciate the fine storytelling tradition of ballets."

[im_wacky_times]

That sounded a lot like fantasy, to T-Rex, and everyone knew that science fiction was way better than fantasy. All right, everyone except God, but since nobody except T-Rex could hear God, God didn't really count anyway, right?

Although -- "I like fairy tales," T-Rex admitted. "In the sense that real life should be more like them! With plenty of love interests." Love interests were important to any story. Usually love interests named Amelia or Antonio Tony, sometimes both of them together and doing it with each other!

[tragitragedy]

"A pity--I think you would have enjoyed my latest work, but unfortunately it's no longer in my possession." Well, Drosselmeyer hadn't always spelled out the morals for his characters, but he had brought fairy tales to life and imposed them over all of Gold Crown Town. "My own life, I must confess, has been a bit like a fairy tale, and I've enjoyed it much more than any ordinary one."

Drosselmeyer nodded. "I quite agree. And how do you feel about love triangles? For example, the complicated matter of a prince with two princesses."