[network/open] Set During the Deep Event Prompt

[thedoctorsmate]

Who: Donna Noble
Username: supertemp
Warnings: None

Show of digital hands, who hates this?
I didn't sign up to be stuck in a flat with a psychopath, personally.
Dunno about the rest of you lot.

So, in the interest of not going insane...
Games.
Two truths and a lie.
Rules are like it sounds.
List two true things about yourself, then one lie.
Don't say what's true or not.
People have to guess that.

I'll go first.

1. I've been to a planet made entirely of emeralds.
2. My best friend has two hearts.
3. I've met Agatha Christie.

((ooc: Everyone please feel free to threadjack around, have your characters respond to each other, rather than Donna!))

Comments

[aelwyn_aberration]

[Trusted? Please. Aelwyn has never trusted anyone in her entire life.]

You really like making assumptions about people.

But no, not really. It pulls in people who have something substantial to feed on, or to coax out of them.

[thedoctorsmate]

And you like to pretend you're too aloof for it all.

[That's her belief and she's sticking to it.]

Is there anyone here who isn't vulnerable to being afraid, though?
That's just part of being alive.

[aelwyn_aberration]

I'm not pretending anything. I just find your preaching obnoxious. Especially surrounding someone I care about.

It takes a special sort to be vulnerable enough to be corrupted by it, though. How many of us are feeling starved for fear, even the ones that have never fed, even unintentionally?

They want us to be Avatars.

[thedoctorsmate]

Yeah, all right, fine.
She got what was coming to her and you're not affected by it all.
Clearly.

I really don't know what you're talking about.
Only thing I'm hungry for are some biscuits.
What are you on about with fear?
And who is 'they'?
The Entities?

[aelwyn_aberration]

I never said that, but feel free to keep having this conversation with yourself. Pretend I'm not here, by all means.

The ones who brought us here, idiot. Or did you think we just rocked up by chance? It's a plan. Probably a ritual, even. Have you not done any research at all about this world or what we're up against?

[thedoctorsmate]

When you just say 'they,' you sound like a paranoid nutter.
If they just want to use us as fodder for some ritual, then why would they care about you becoming an avatar?
You're more trouble that way than not.

[aelwyn_aberration]

My guess would be the corporation behind our dear Khalil's stupid ventures as well as Ren.

And the answer to your question is that fear is the closest thing there is to magic in this world. Instead of varying schools of arcane practice, there's different varieties of fear, all of which have different reactions to one another, and all of which reflect different powers. Several of us arrived already marked against our will, myself included.

I feel like I should be talking about this with someone able to keep up but everyone I've collaborated with keeps mysteriously disappearing.

[thedoctorsmate]

Maybe you're the common denominator, then, sweetheart.

[That's unkind, but she... does not like this person?]

[aelwyn_aberration]

Hahaha. What does that even mean? Am I locking them up in my vast underground prison complex? Disappearing them in a bottomless handbag?

Everyone disappears here sooner or later. It's just a matter of waiting your turn.

[thedoctorsmate]

It means I think you might be a bad luck charm for people.
Some people are just like that.
And haven't some people been here for more than a year?
That's a long wait, isn't it?

[aelwyn_aberration]

Ah. Gaslighting. Adorable.

No, it's really not, all thing's considered.

[thedoctorsmate]

[That's not a particularly popular term in her day, which just makes Donna puzzle at it for a moment before dismissing it. She doesn't understand what that means in context here, so she's going to ignore it until she can look into it and decide how offended she ought to be.]

What are your considerations, then?
Lot of things can happen in a year.
Lot of things have happened in just the month and a half I've been here.

[aelwyn_aberration]

How old are you, Donna Noble? I can never tell with humans.

Regardless, I will make the bold assumption that you are older than one and a half years old. When was the last time you disappeared without a single trace? If a year's a long time to wait to vanish, I must imagine it'd be a lot of times.

[thedoctorsmate]

Funny enough, yeah.
It does happen a lot more than I'd like for me.
And my point was more that you're being some sort of edgy, nihilistic teen with the whole 'everyone disappears eventually.'
After what you've said you've gone through, not suprised, but honestly.

[aelwyn_aberration]

Come back to me after every friend you've made here disappears. Or after you disappear. Just this month an eleven year old I was looking out for vanished without a trace. But no, fuck her, who cares about that, right? I'm just so paranoid.

And also, babe, you have no idea what I've been through! After what you've been through, being raised by rabid pigs I presume, I can only guess what's caused you to act like you can make grand sweeping statements about me. Overinflated ego, perhaps?

Though to be fair, yes, I have also disappeared without a trace at least three times now in my own world. That's not the norm, though and I think it's important to acknowledge that.

[thedoctorsmate]

You're giving really mixed signals, mate.
I try to be sympathetic about something horrible, you act like it doesn't matter.
I'm not about something else without any particulars attached until now, and I'm suddenly a monster.
You know, what?
I think we've both got better people to be talking to.
This whole thing was supposed to be for fun.
This isn't.

[aelwyn_aberration]

Let me know when ~sympathetically~ talking at someone and ignoring everything they say works, it's clearly a new frontier in therapy.