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Letha Regis ([personal profile] burntbridges) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-03-28 12:23 pm

3 [@necromantica: video] (WARNING: blood and gore)

Hello everyone! I hate to bother, but I thought I might share some exciting news with you all.

[This is a blatant lie, as everyone who's met her knows - she loves to bother. But that's not the point.]

First of all - I took the time to talk to a doctor about my child, and everything seems to be fine with her. It's a girl! I haven't thought of a name for her yet, but perhaps some of you have suggestions. A family name didn't seem appropriate seeing as... I have no intention to see my family again, nor bring any of them here.

[With the obvious exceptions, she guesses.]

Second thing... Here, Walter, come in here.

[She pulls a dead body into the camera view with her - a certain zombie-killing sheriff might recognize him from a certain zombie-related misunderstanding. Since then his bones have been bleached clean (mostly), and his head glued back together to the best of her abilities (it's missing a few pieces), and she's even done her best to clean the clothes she found him in. They're torn and bloodstained but... she thinks it gives him character.

Those living on floor one may take issue with the smell that came from her amateur attempt at cleaning the corpse... the bathroom on their level may or may not have suffered a lot of damage from her efforts. Aside from the bathtub being dyed pink from her filling it with chemicals she has a very approximate knowledge of and a dead body, there are bloodstains that she didn't know how to clean up, as well as some leftover gore that she failed to throw away. (Exact levels are up to player comfort.)
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This is Walter! [She seems perfectly happy to refer to him as though he's a living person, and has propped him up so he can sit next to her while she continues to speak. She even picked his hand up to make him wave when she introduced him.] I found him outside of the perimeter while everyone was handling those monsters... and we ran into a bit of trouble, but I was able to get him back to the communal hall in one piece. Mostly.

Now, it's been brought to my attention that some people come from worlds where necromancers don't exist or are frowned upon. I'd like to assure everyone that while I am a necromancer, my magic is only used for good. It can be extremely dangerous, but I've become very attached to many people I met here so I'm taking extra precautions not to take any risks with it. And, well, I very much like to stay alive as well. So there is that.

For those of you from worlds that don't have necromancy, I suppose the easiest explanation is that I can speak to the dead. I can make them move too, but not both at the same time and I thought it might be better to talk to Walter rather than- yes yes, I'm getting to it. I told you I would.

[She's addressing Walter, who has not made a single noise as far as anyone else will be able to tell. She clears her throat.]

I made this.. video.. [still a weird word] to give people the chance to ask me anything they might need to know about necromancy and the dead and... Walter agreed to answer questions about himself as well - seeing as he is a native of the Quarantine, he can give us more information about it and what's outside of it. [She may or may not have bullied him into it, but Walter can't communicate with non-necromancers, so he can't exactly ask for help.]
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Voice - @lolococo416

[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-29 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, you're pregnant!?

Like? On purpose?

*Sorry, Lola is not seeing enough age difference to really warrant that. She is also not talking about the zombie, or to the zombie, or discussing the zombie. She hopes the zombie won't be a thing anymore really. Yeah, if she pretends it isn't there that's fine right?*
Edited 2017-03-29 04:19 (UTC)
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-29 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Old!? But, you're not that much older than me.

And I definitely didn't want to be pregnant.

*The legitimacy of the child was not really Lola's concern, so she ignored that.*
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-29 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
I guess it's better than being the only one from your world, without any family.

Wait, you said you had a husband too? And that's just... normal, where you're from?

Married, with a kid on the way, what about school? Or working? Or really judgmental friends talking about something you didn't want to happen behind your back?
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-29 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
But, married?

*Give Lola a chance to try and picture tha- nope, nope definitely not a thing she can draw to mind.*

I guess I wanna be married before I turn 25, but I wanna finish school first. Definitely not before I turn 18...

What do you do with yourself, at home, I mean wherever you're from? Married and not having a job?

*Lola's voice is equal parts concern and scandalized by all of this.*
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-29 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Practical jokes on the- wait you have maids?

*People from other worlds are weird.*

I... go to school? I work- worked at my dad's restaurant most afternoons, spend time with my friends. I record tutorials on how to do hair, make-up, and fashion things. Look into what sort of culinary or fashion program I would want to go into after I'm done with high school.

I do what any normal teenager would do in Toronto.

*Her hair is perfect thank you very much.*
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-29 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so you didn't play pranks because you're friends with your maids, you did it because you could. And because you have nothing else to do.

*Lola managed to cut off her anger with pity. This girl was like a character from that movie, only the version with the zombies instead of the version Lola actually liked.*

If you think my make-up is surprising, you would have a heart attack from everything else in my life. I like how I look, I like spending time on myself. Most of all, I like me. Even when everyone else calls me names.
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-30 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you.

*She likes praise. Even if it feels like she's trying a bit hard to offset her words.*

At home I have a stylist who I trust with coloring my hair. Then I take care when I wash it, silk pillowcases, little things to help protect the dye to keep it bright for longer. Like how you protect clothes in the wash.
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-31 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
I've been doing my own laundry since... I was eleven? I do it better than Dad ever did.

*Lola's painfully mundane, but they are useful life skills.*

It's okay, it isn't perfect and things are messed up but they usually work out. Dad wasn't super thrilled the first time I dyed my hair, but he came around because I really wanted it. He's such a guy about fashion stuff.
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-31 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Ummm... guys don't have to really worry as much about looking good. They can wear just about anything, and so long as they bathe regularly and brush their hair they get away with it.

*Some guys had style, but they didn't really have fashion.*
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-31 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Most men that want to look, um, exotic. Usually are more interested in spending time with other men than with women. Or like men as much as women. At least in my world.

*Lola's last romantic entanglement was with a boy who had a boyfriend. Lola makes terrible choices do not be Lola.*

I like most people, if they're nice to me.
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-03-31 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
...Yeah, that's gross and unhygienic and illegal.

*Dead people do not normally give consent, and also they are dead. Leave the dead alone.*

He liked you enough to, you know. And you are pretty so I can see why. But if your guy spends more time on his hair than you do on yours, it is generally a bad sign.
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-04-02 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
That's unfortunate, I really wish there was better ways for boys to learn what they were doing. I got really lucky in that regard.

*Barring the pregnancy and... well, everything that happened after. But the event itself was definitely in the win column.*

Pregnancies are a lot easier than enjoyment.
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[personal profile] threatenwithcuteness 2017-04-02 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
Well, there are books on the subject. They help.

*Personal experience.*

I guess I'm lucky I'm in a world where you don't have to be inexperienced when you find the right person.

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