Application: Witch Baby Wigg Bat, Francesca Lia Block's "Dangerous Angels" series.

[notquiteabat]

((I'm taking Witch Baby from a few months after Missing Angel JuanWitch Baby coasts into the Sorting Room on her cowboy-boot-rollerskates, and looks more than a little surprised to be there. She recovers her composure quickly (there being no one around that she knows, so it makes no difference if she sulks or not), and rolls over to the table. The

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[hedwigrobinson]

Hedwig Robinson, neé Hansel Schmidt, fabulous drag queen nonpareil, swaggered into the Sorting Room on the teetering heels of thigh-high boots, and gave the new arrival an appraising once-over.

"Hello, darling. Is Witch Baby your stage name, or a state of mind?"

[notquiteabat]

Witch Baby shrugged. "It's just my name, I guess. Weetzie tried to name me Lily, but it never stuck."

[hedwigrobinson]

"I can see why." Canting a hip and planting a pearly-nailed hand thereon, Hedwig pronounced in her faintly-accented English (fluent, but consonants by way of East Berlin): "A pallid name like that wouldn't suit a drummer. You are, you say, a drummer."

[notquiteabat]

((Try this one more time... Urg.))
"Yeah. Taught myself," she said, tilting her chin in, toward her collarbones. It wasn't that she disliked Hedwig; in fact, she'd probably fit in well with Witch's family. But this was Witch Baby, and Witch tended to be a bit prickly with strangers.

[papayagami]

"Um," he blinked, "ducks?"

[[OOC: Is that seriously her name? Asking for character and curiosity's sake.]]

[notquiteabat]

Witch Baby glanced away, looking more than a little sheepish. "Oh. Pounceable guys who like guys. It's slang my family uses. I guess I didn't realize I'd used it, there..."

((That's a little tricky. It's all anyone ever calls her, and it's how she thinks of herself. But I think that legally, like on paperwork and stuff, she's probably officially Lily Bat. In canon, there's several mentions of how her adoptive mom tried to name her Lily, but it never stuck.))

[papayagami]

[[Damned ambiguous canon. Oh well, I have something to work with, at least.]]

"It's not a problem, Miss Bat. I was just a bit confused by the terminology." He smiled. "Although I may never be able to look at a duck the same way again."

[notquiteabat]

Witch Baby smiled slightly. "See, one of my almost-dads is named Duck. Weetzie says she and Dirk used it like that before they met him, though."

[tomowildcat]

((WILL BE SLOW AS CONCRETE but this app needed more replies.))

For some reason, Tomo liked the applicant on sight. Probably because she could identify completely with the answer to question 4. As usual, the first thing that came to mind popped out of her mouth.

"Why would anybody marry a duck?"

[notquiteabat]

"Not like a literal duck, with feathers and all," Witch Baby explained. "I meant like a pouncable gay guy. That's what my family calls them."

[tomowildcat]

((*sigh* Like I said, slow as concrete. BUT I TOPPED RL FOR ONCE. :) ))

"Pounceable? What, they don't dodge, or it sucks that they play for the other team?" Non-creepy, clean, and more than an acquaintance pretty much sums up Tomo's pounceabilty criteria. Pity so many people here she knows are good at dodging.

[notquiteabat]

"Like it sucks that they play for the other team." Witch Baby grinned. "You know, the kind of guy you want to pounce, but it'd prob'ly just creep him out if you did, cause you both know he's not interested."

[totallyluminous]

Mel, as an angel, knows every language ever invented. Yeah, even those ones when you were a kid and decided 'bad-bad' meant 'duck' and 'glug' meant 'glass', and stuck with it for an hour. Slang, however? It's tricky to translate.

'Clutch?' she enquires, waltzing over in a faintly 'I've-just-come-from-jogging-I-so-healthy' way, looking interested. 'What's that mean?'

[notquiteabat]

"Eh... nasty? Jerkish?" Witch Baby shrugged. "Kind of my all-purpose insult, I guess."

[totallyluminous]

'Good,' Mel says, approving. No swearing, yet the other person can tell you're angry with them. It also has that oh-so-satisfying hard 'uh' sound which is always useful when you show your displeasure. 'It's cool, I mean. How'd you come up with it? And I love the bar name.'

Mel doesn't comment on the use of the word 'duck', because Lola uses it often enough.

[notquiteabat]

"Dunno. I've used it for as long as I can remember, so either I made it up when I was little, or I picked it up from Cherokee," she said. "She uses it too, though not as much as I do. 'Kee's not really the type to yell at people, usualy."

[ugly_old_hat]

"Those are delightful shoes you have there! You wouldn't happen to have a matching hat that you wear with it?"