I have plotty thoughts! (Running away is a valid option ...)
I've been contemplating two very different glitches for DG. One is entirely the fault of rewatching The Wizard of Oz after finding Judy Garland's hand prints outside the Chinese Theatre. (She was even tinier than I expected!) That would basically involve DG temporarily becoming - physically or mentally or both - her ancestor, the original Dorothy Gale. Gingham is not optional.
The second is a lot less cracky. Once upon a time, when Keri and I were feeling particularly evil, DG was possessed by a certain witch. The Northern Island was replaced by the Witch's tower. There were flying monkeys and dead Extras and it was both awesome and traumatic. This time, I was thinking something a bit subtler (if no less traumatic in the long run). The Witch could be aware of what was going on, but would pretend to be DG and keep people in the dark for as long as possible to cause maximum horrors.
Thoughts? Criticisms? Cookies? (I really want cookies!)
ALL THE COOKIES. Also oh God, Em, it has been...a week. A week of stuff and things and modly stress, sorry I haven't gotten back to this sooner. Both ideas have merit!
1. Gingham is always required I like this! It's a little light, charming thing which can be deployed when we need something like that.
2. ...shocking no one I like this too! Subtle horrors are the best kind, and there can be long term ramifications and shake-ups. It would require a lot of planning though and, given stuff we may have coming down the pike, some careful timing.
1. My thoughts exactly! Sweet and cracking and adorable, for whenever we need light relief from alien shenanigans.
2. What, really? Who'd have thought it? :P (I wasn't intending for it to be soon. It was just something I wanted to suggest to see how people were feeling about it.)
Awwwh, Cain. I just want to hug him. Even though I know that is the last thing in the world that he would actually want. DG will definitely be there for him when Paul vanishes. Whether he actually wants it or not.
(And damn that taking place in IM. I would stalk those threads. So very much.)
Hugs might be a good thing, actually. A LOT of stuff has started changing the past two months. His aversion to physical proximity is one such thing. It's the being vulnerable bit that's tricky and makes him jittery and snappish. >:3
Hey, I can put together a log for your perusal if you want. <3 no worries
Soooo, since Dien has decided to stay on, I'd just like to nix the Major Angst Plot I detailed above. I'm sure I'll find some other time and context to send Cain back into ptsd and depression and so on and so forth. Because I'm evil and always looking for excuses to torture my pups.
ANYWAYS. No angst, you ask? But then what?
Well. A perhaps-surprisingly mellowed out Cain. Something is obviously wrong!
Talk amongst yourselves.
Of course, with this sort of thing, the two people who's at all likely to think anything is different are Deej and Glitch. But on the whole... I think the trend of the past month or two of Cain trying to actually get to know people will continue along the same path. Networking is a Good Thing, especially in a situation where you're in control of even less factors than back home. Rolling with the punches, sort of. Team efforts!
Well, she's been gone three weeks-a month, and the Talking Thing happened little over a month ago. So if anyone's likely to notice, it's really DG.
Going from reclusive and grouchy to outright extrovert-by-comparison? Yyyeah. For other people, it wouldn't be too big a change as it's happened gradually. But DG hasn't been around for most of it.
Being able to sleep? Makes it a lot easier trying not to go insane. And oh! Cain's started eating regularly too thanks to Paul and Glitch both.
I started a tag on the post in themoosebox but my eye have gone all itchy-tired and I'm leaving work soon. I will get it up tonight though, and tagging order will go Glitch - DG - Cain with whatever skipping might end up being neccesary. Sound good?
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I've been contemplating two very different glitches for DG. One is entirely the fault of rewatching The Wizard of Oz after finding Judy Garland's hand prints outside the Chinese Theatre. (She was even tinier than I expected!) That would basically involve DG temporarily becoming - physically or mentally or both - her ancestor, the original Dorothy Gale. Gingham is not optional.
The second is a lot less cracky. Once upon a time, when Keri and I were feeling particularly evil, DG was possessed by a certain witch. The Northern Island was replaced by the Witch's tower. There were flying monkeys and dead Extras and it was both awesome and traumatic. This time, I was thinking something a bit subtler (if no less traumatic in the long run). The Witch could be aware of what was going on, but would pretend to be DG and keep people in the dark for as long as possible to cause maximum horrors.
Thoughts? Criticisms? Cookies? (I really want cookies!)
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1. Gingham is always required I like this! It's a little light, charming thing which can be deployed when we need something like that.
2. ...shocking no one I like this too! Subtle horrors are the best kind, and there can be long term ramifications and shake-ups. It would require a lot of planning though and, given stuff we may have coming down the pike, some careful timing.
...this was basically an endorsement, hi.
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1. My thoughts exactly! Sweet and cracking and adorable, for whenever we need light relief from alien shenanigans.
2. What, really? Who'd have thought it? :P
(I wasn't intending for it to be soon. It was just something I wanted to suggest to see how people were feeling about it.)
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(And damn that taking place in IM. I would stalk those threads. So very much.)
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Hey, I can put together a log for your perusal if you want. <3 no worries
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ANYWAYS. No angst, you ask? But then what?
Well. A perhaps-surprisingly mellowed out Cain. Something is obviously wrong!
Talk amongst yourselves.
Of course, with this sort of thing, the two people who's at all likely to think anything is different are Deej and Glitch. But on the whole... I think the trend of the past month or two of Cain trying to actually get to know people will continue along the same path. Networking is a Good Thing, especially in a situation where you're in control of even less factors than back home. Rolling with the punches, sort of. Team efforts!
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Going from reclusive and grouchy to outright extrovert-by-comparison? Yyyeah. For other people, it wouldn't be too big a change as it's happened gradually. But DG hasn't been around for most of it.
Being able to sleep? Makes it a lot easier trying not to go insane. And oh! Cain's started eating regularly too thanks to Paul and Glitch both.
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Good! And what better way to celebrate not going insane than with apple pie?
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