This Used to Be the Life but I Don't Need Another One

[stenchus_rodentus]

[Well Ratigan couldn't care less about what happened, but he really didn't get his fill of partying from the bar and everyone simpering wasn't how he wanted it to go down. Soon after the trial little notes are slipped beneath each door.]

You are cordially invited to a mourning party in the lobby. RVSP ASAP.

[In the lobby Thalia will have moved some tables to the lobby and provide her choice dish of cheeseburgers along with a smattering of bread, fruits, and vegetables. Reyna will have brought along hot chocolate galore.

For those that aren't your thing? Well in honor of the recently departed there's pine tree shaped cookies (Thanks Thalia.) and triangle crackers with cheese (thanks...Ratigan?). And there's a helping of drinks if the bar wasn't enough for you wink wink. Ratigan has every intention of making this a party.]

Comments

Dining Room

[coulombslaw]

So...any kind of meaning for this stuff?

[Virgil can guess what it is, but he figures talking can help]

[fairlypushy]

Goofy was a pilot. [She figures explaining that one first is best, since it's the most esoteric.] At least where I'm from. The branch is for Dipper, and this is the most magical looking thing I could find in my room for Merlin.

I'll probably swap the branch out for something more appropriate later, but the only other thing I had on hand was his hat and - [She swallows.] I didn't want to leave that.

[coulombslaw]

Where you're from? Does your world have some sort of...alternate version of him or something?

[Sounds complicated. Virgil nods when she tells about the other objects. The magical object sounds appropriate, but a branch...something about it isn't satisfying]

That kid liked to ask questions and find logic in impossible stuff. There must be a way to symbolize that somehow...

[fairlypushy]

I work for Walt Disney. [That's slightly to the left of true, actually. She gestures at the bios.] I know a lot of these people - versions of them, anyway - because of that.

[She doesn't say what Philby told her: there's a timeline for every choice you make and a timeline for every choice you don't. Hundreds, maybe thousands of Amandas who made worse choices than the ones she's made so far.]

I wanted to make him one of those fancy loops of paper - I think they're called mobiuses? But I don't remember how and none of them look right, so I have to practice more.

[coulombslaw]

Really? Which ones do you know? [Maybe by hearing about the versions Amanda knows, he can have a better idea of how everyone is like]

Mobiuses? I know how to make those! It's simple, if you get me some paper I can make smome for you.

[fairlypushy]

[Amanda opens her mouth like she's about to start listing off people and then she seems to realize something.]

It's probably faster to list who I don't - which is you, Finnick, Joshua, Marnie, Kylo, Thalia, and Reyna. [She does know all the others personally, but she knows of them at least.] I'm not friends with all of the others, though - the Ursula I know back home tried to drown me.

I don't have any paper right now, but I may try to track you down later and take you up on that.

[coulombslaw]

[It's a promise. Good thing there'll be art stuff from tomorrow on]

Ursula? You mean she's evil? Okay, I guess that's not surprising, she's really sketchy.

[fairlypushy]

She's - [Ursula hasn't actually done anything sketchy here but.] There's a group of villains known as Overtakers where I'm from and she's one of the most prominent members.

[coulombslaw]

...and she is a different version. She sounds real bad... [Unless the Ursula Amanda knows is drastically different in personality to the one here, looks like there are reasons to be wary of Ursula here] I guess we can't blame the one here for anything yours did, but man, that's whack...

[fairlypushy]

She's . . . here she doesn't have any reason to be the same as she is back home. [There's no Ariel to get revenge on, and she obviously doesn't know who Amanda is.] Ursula isn't someone you really have to worry about unless she's motivated to do something. Ratigan's sort of the same way, but - if you were going to be worried about someone, I'd be worried about Kylo Ren.

[coulombslaw]

He does seem a bit prone to throwing helmets and trying to strangle people...but this looks like trying to restrain him will only make everything worse. Dunno how to deal with that guy.

[fairlypushy]

I think you mostly have to hope he doesn't get upset and not get in his way. [She's never seen Force Awakens, it comes out like four months from when she's from but.] He's not really . . . controllable?

[coulombslaw]

He gets upset with everything. This'll be tough.

[fairlypushy]

If you avoid, like . . . [Oh god, she's trying to remember every spoiler she knows about Kylo Ren.] Mentioning his family? And you try not to imply that he's not good at something? I think those are the two things he hates, but I've never met him in person before this. He -

[Shit, fuck. How does she explain this?]

- works in a different department, but word gets around.

[coulombslaw]

No talking about his family, no telling him he's not good at something. Got it.

[Well that sounds easy!]

Thanks for the info, I'm keeping my eye on that guy and on Ursula. It's the least I should do to help.