Application: Dr. Claire Saunders (a.k.a. "Whiskey"), "Dollhouse"

[ilikemyscars]

((I'm taking Claire from the end of s2e1, "Vows;" obviously there are spoilers for the last couple eps of s1, where we learned a bit about her history.))Claire Saunders was running out of excuses

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[grandmasteryoda]

((SQUEE.))

"Real, it is," Yoda said, nodding sagely up at the woman. "Something to drink, would you like? Calm you down, it may. And, a lollipop may I have?" He held out the triclawed hand not currently holding his cane.

[ilikemyscars]

Claire stared a moment at the...gnome?...before remembering her manners.

"Oh. Oh, of course you may." She held out a selection of lollipops. "I'd love some water, thank you. I've been driving a long time." She looked around the Sorting Room. "Is, ahh, is this your place?"

[grandmasteryoda]

Yoda waved a passing house elf over and spoke softly to it. He felt something of a kinship with the school's help. Maybe it was the ears.

"Yes and no," he said, taking a lollipop and secreting it up the sleeve of his robe. Ah, grape. "Live here I do--though not in this room--but own the castle I do not."

The house elf returned, a glass of water in hand. Yoda thanked him, smiling warmly, took the glass, and held it up to Claire.

[ilikemyscars]

"Thank you." She took the water, sipped, and finding it just water took a healthy swig.

"I see. What exactly is this place? There aren't very many castles in Los Angeles, I don't think."

[superfraternal]

((Here, have a Whedon character!))

Simon perused the application with acute sympathy. "It's never too late to take the Hippocratic oath," he said, with a warm smile, when he'd finished. "How do your phobias affect your medical work?"

And who gave them to you? Hopefully not anyone with a fondness for blue gloves.

[ilikemyscars]

Claire smiled back, instinctively feeling comfortable with this man.

"They enhance it, actually," she replied. "One of the few places I feel mostly safe is the...facility...where I work. And focusing on work takes my mind off the scary things. So I've tended to camp out there long-term for a while now."

[superfraternal]

"Ahh." That made sense. The hesitation (and the vagueness) surrounding that facility didn't escape him, either. "Is that going to be a problem now that you're away from that facility, do you think? Most of us who end up here tend to stay awhile."

[ilikemyscars]

Claire shrugged. "Probably. But that's why I left in the first place, facing my fears and all that. It'd be too much to expect that to be a problem-free process no matter where I ended up."

[ah_aha]

"Are you a droid?" If so, she was a very advanced one, but droids designed to mimic humans weren't unheard of in Tenel Ka's universe. The way Claire spoke made her think of a medical droid, with how she was programmed, and a code name.

The other explanation was that she was human, but Tenel Ka hoped that wasn't the case. Brainwashing was not uncommon in her galaxy, either.

((I'm not on AIM tonight, but yay app!))

[ilikemyscars]

"Droid - as in android?" Claire shook her head, brow furrowed. "No, we don't deal in that kind of technology, to my knowledge. Though another department might, for all I know. I'm - a real person."

[ah_aha]

"An android, yes. I understand that such technology has not been reached on this world, but I was not sure if this is your home planet." The teenage Jedi said this with her usual solemn delivery.

"Are you a victim of brainwashing or outside mental controls?"

[ilikemyscars]

Claire stifled the impulse to laugh. "It's the only planet I've got," she said lightly.

"Outside mental controls? No, we don't have that capacity...yet. Brainwashing is not a bad term for the treatment I underwent. Victim, less so, possibly." She touched the scars on her face. "They thought they were fixing me. Making me whole again, after this. Maybe I've got ethical qualms about how they went about it, but from their point of view, who am I to complain?"

[omg_sunflora]

"What's a lollipop?" Sunflora hadn't had one of those.

[ilikemyscars]

All right, bizarre or not, Claire couldn't help but smile at a talking sunflower.

"It's hard candy on a stick," she said. "Would you like one?"

[omg_sunflora]

"Sure!" Sunflora said, beaming at this new person.

[[OOC: Er, I also play a couple characters that can see a person's real name. The one I was thinking of throwing at Claire would kinda taunt her cause he knows her real name and she doesn't. Is that okay or no?"]]

[ilikemyscars]

((Saunders vs. Shinigami? That'd be interesting.))

She held out the handful of lollipops. "I'm Claire. What's your name?"

[ringo_raver]

"I know what your name was," Ryuk said with an evil grin. "And I'm not telling you anyway. I might need it."

And, you know, no canon one yet.

[ilikemyscars]

Claire winced, but there was steel in her voice when she answered. "I don't see how you could possibly know that. In any case, I didn't ask."

[ringo_raver]

"It's cause I'm a shinigami, human. A god of Death. If I wanted to, I could fly away from Hogwarts, write your name in my Death Note, and you're dead. Lucky for you, I find you more amusing alive."

[ilikemyscars]

"Lucky me," she said drily. "I think that if you did that, a collection of data on a hard drive in Topher's office would be dead. I know who I am, and I am not her."