For the first time in my life

[possibly_thrice]

I have a significant backload of things I should be posting here for archival-completeness purposes.

But I'd rather do a meme.

1. I write down a list of 10 characters.

2. You choose however many of those you like and ask me a question about them. Examples: "What happens when 5 and 9 are forced to take care of a baby?" or "1, 4, and 8 walk into a bar.

Comments

[igrockspock]

Tell me about a time when 5 saved 1's life.

In which Susan Sto Helit is uncharacteristically generous

[possibly_thrice]

Gaila opens her eyes when she hears footsteps.

The young woman standing at her bedside was not on the shuttlecraft when they fled the Farragut, she thinks, muzzily. Gaila rather doubts if she was on the Farragut at all. The scythe makes it seem somehow unlikely. Likewise the strange old-looking dress, the rich and noisy black fabric that rasps as it moves: sleeveless, with a belled skirt and, god, ruffles. A dress you could get lost in. Gaila's eyes travel from its elegantly pooled hem up to the lace bunched up over the woman's breasts and if this is delirium she has been missing out

Re: In which Susan Sto Helit is uncharacteristically generous

[rubynye]

I MADE AN INVOLUNTARY JOYFUL NOISE OH YES YES YES AND ALSO YES.

(Am just an excited human, not trying on the Death voice.)

Re: In which Susan Sto Helit is uncharacteristically generous

[possibly_thrice]

But if you were trying on the Death noise, you would be producing verbatim what Susan is saying ten minutes after the conclusion of the poker match, I'm sure.

<333

[boosette]

Tell me about the tawdry affair #7 had with #1.

GAILA AND DEATH (IN BED)

[possibly_thrice]

Gaila is extremely good at her job. Currently, her job is to seduce and then kill men who the Syndicate wants dead. It's not a great job-- it gets kind of boring (at fifteen years old, Gaila's attention span leaves much to be desired) and afterwards, sometimes, she has to throw up-- but there are a few perks.

HELLO AGAIN, says Death.

She doesn't immediately turn around, because she's busy suffocating her latest assignment. When she is satisfied that he is thoroughly deceased, she clambers off his chest and pushes the pillow off his soft face, which has at this point gone what would be a kind of pleasant sky blue, but for the bruising.

Then she looks. Death smiles at her, which, okay, yeah, but even so

Re: GAILA AND DEATH (IN BED)

[rubynye]

THAT IS SO DISCWORLD I CANNOT EVEN. APPARENTLY I AM STUCK IN ALL CAPS DUE TO ADMIRATION OF YOU.

Re: GAILA AND DEATH (IN BED)

[possibly_thrice]

This is a highly desirable state of affairs, I feel. You are a) too kind and b) ADORABLE. *schemes*

[rubynye]

In a hurry, so, what happens when...

4 and 8 go on a trip together?
9 and 5 are locked in a cell together?
2 becomes 10's boss?
1 and 7 have dinner together?
3 and 6 fall in love?

4 and 8 go on a trip together:

[possibly_thrice]

"At some point we should consider to setting foot outside the hotel room," One mumbles.

Chris, curled around her, nods, his nose tilting back and forth in her hair. "Absolutely. How about next Tuesday?"

"You," she tells him, "are ridiculous."

"Practical," he says. "It's all about reasonable goals. Like, tomorrow, we could try getting off the bed."

"With that aggressive schedule, by Sunday we might go for bipedal ambulation."

"That's the spirit," he says. She kicks him, or at least nudges him with her heel, which is close enough in her studied opinion. In the ensuing half-hearted tussle, the sheets slide off her shoulder, and he snatches the opportunity to kiss suntoasted skin.

"Bureaucrats," she groans. "Cheaters, all of you."

"It's a public service," he replies, pulling her closer, until their skins are sealed surface to surface with sweet sweat.

Re: 4 and 8 go on a trip together:

[rubynye]

*is dancing in joy too giddily to retain capslock*

9 and 5 are locked in a cell together

[possibly_thrice]

Crowley wakes from his uneasy sleep to the less than reassuring sound of a schoolteacher, glaring. It is a very small sound, but it is more than unpleasant enough to make up for it, especially to the sensitive ears of someone who has made a career, more or less, out of writing naughty notes under the nose of the schoolteacher

[kayliemalinza]

2 and 3 are put in the same holding cell. Why are they in jail? Did they get arrested together? What do they do to pass the time?

If you like, 9 bails out one or both of them.

[framlingem]

I would like to know how five and eight went to college together.