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[shhspoilers]

Oh, now you're interested in letting me come out to play? Before you were too concerned because you were busy entertaining Mummy. I'm so glad you've seen the light.

I do hope you don't expect to get by playing me by recycling my so-called catch-phrases. I don't intend to start every conversation with "hello, sweetie," or warn about spoilers. Well done securing that journal name, though. I'll take your little victory and the added enthusiasm it seems to have given you.

But I do know your mind, you're much too neurotic to allow me to be reduced to such base things. You'd stop giving me a voice all together before you'd let that happen. Which is what you've consequently done to the other muses you have waiting in the wings around here. That Bella woman with the fabulous hair isn't pleased with you, did you know?

I saw when you were going through your icon folders, looking for suitable ones for me. Is there something you would like to tell me? You have an awful lot of Lucy Saxon in those folders. I suppose she fits in well with this supposed "batshit" image you've cultivated in your characters. Thanks for not looking for some variation of "bespoke psychopath" for my journal name. We'll consider this a departure from your norms, shall we?

So what is the plan? I haven't been on a good adventure in some time. Are you going to find me a game? Though this memebells the others keep talking about sounds like it could be fun!

Don't live up to your name, Mundane. Let's go make some trouble.

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[ofdrumsthesound]

But 'bespoke psychopath' is funny!

[shhspoilers]

Sure it is, but it's just not who I am anymore. Most of the time.

[ofdrumsthesound]

You're missing out.

And how is my dearest Lucy, anyway? I've missed her lately.

[shhspoilers]

Am I? I like to think of this as a new adventure entirely.

Oh, Lucy, Lucy... She doesn't know yet what she is destined to do, and what's to become of her. So, she misses you terribly as well. All wide-eyed and pining to be bloody queen of the pointless universe.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Poor old girl always was a bit daft, wasn't she? *He sighs* I loved her, in my way. I just hurt her worse trying to show it.

[shhspoilers]

Why did you, of all the women on planet Earth you could have chosen, pick Lucy Saxon? I wouldn't say she's daft so much as she is perhaps easily persuaded and eager to please.

[ofdrumsthesound]

Because she was easily persuaded and eager to please.

Also rich, unhappy and somewhat mentally unstable, the way I was when I was young.

[shhspoilers]

Like enjoys the company of like then, I see.

To a point.

[ofdrumsthesound]

And then it all falls apart. But even the fall is beautiful, while it lasts.

[shhspoilers]

There's beauty in the breakdown. That's a song, isn't it?

They also say it isn't the fall that kills you. Rather, it's that sudden stop.

[ofdrumsthesound]

. . . at the end, yes.

I'm quite fond of 'I'll Follow You Into The Dark', when it comes to songs. And of course 'King of Pain' and 'Suicide is Painless'--the old standbys.

[shhspoilers]

Morbid one, aren't we? I'll follow you down, but not that far. Also seems apt, don't you think?

[ofdrumsthesound]

Fairly.

The other way is more devoted, though, don't you think?

[shhspoilers]

There seems to be a direct correlation between high devotion and lacking sanity in this equation.

[ofdrumsthesound]

True, but so what? I was crazy to start with.

[shhspoilers]

Lucy wasn't.

[ofdrumsthesound]

She wasn't entirely stable.

Admittedly, she got much worse later on.

[shhspoilers]

Admittedly.

I mean, it isn't as though she looked into the untempered schism or anything. You just took her to the end of the universe and broke her heart. You didn't have to do that to her, you know.

[ofdrumsthesound]

I only wanted her to see. I'd spent a life in that dark place, I didn't think a few minutes would do that much damage.

I just wanted her to understand why I felt the need to rescue the Toclafane.

[shhspoilers]

And decimate the human race. Oh, you're good. You're very good. You do well at playing sympathetic when you want to.

Tell me something, do you regret any of it?

[ofdrumsthesound]

I regret what happened to Lucy. I regret hurting the Doctor.

And I regret that I ever looked into the Schism, so long ago.

[shhspoilers]

Truly?

I have to admit, I'm a little surprised.

[ofdrumsthesound]

If not for the Schism I would be sane and happy and still the Doctor's best friend instead of this weird twilit state we're in. Why wouldn't I regret it?

[shhspoilers]

Insanity does things to people. Especially when a person doesn't know any other kind of life.

[ofdrumsthesound]

I still think a sane life would've been better, though.

[shhspoilers]

I agree with you completely. You were dealt a bad hand.

[ofdrumsthesound]

And all for nothing in the end, at that.

[firstofthem]

Isn't it marvelous when they remember you exist? My mun's had me locked up for ages and ages. To be honest, I'm surprised I'm not coughing up mothballs.

I suppose I can see a certain humor in "bespoke, psychopath" as a name, but it hardly seems fitting. Aren't the insane supposed to look a little more.. well, unhinged?

OH MY GOD SUSAN! <3 <3 <3

[shhspoilers]

Oh, she hasn't ever forgotten my existence, thankfully. She's just tried to tell me that I need to be content with a designated space in her Hall of Muses, where she'll love me and tell me I'm special, but avoid crossing the streams. Why she thinks she needs a Ghostbusters reference to avoid playing both me and Amy is beyond me. People play more than one muse from a single canon all the time!

Mundane happens to be giggling excessively at the two of us. I think she's being terrible immature, and should perhaps have another glass of wine.

\o!

[firstofthem]

Hee. Like a pet? That's terrible. And probably a little boring, after awhile.

Though wouldn't it be a little strange to share a headspace with your mother?

Hee. Mine's pleased, too, and keeps saying something about catching up with the new season. They haven't watched in forever.

This is the best Christmas EVER.

[shhspoilers]

Boring is precisely the word for it, dear.

It can be a bit strange at times, but no more strange than it was when she didn't know yet that she's my mother. (And she doesn't where my dear mundane has placed her.) I'm used to blurring the lines by this point.

Oh, yours really, really should. I'm a bit biased, but I think the new season is positively delightful.

[most_feared]

Considerin' the company you'll be keepin' in there, I can't imagine you'd have a dull time.

[shhspoilers]

I've suggested Bella and I could swap hair care tips. She tried to set me on fire. For someone with such a perfect grasp of the art of cackling, she really has no sense of humour.

[most_feared]

Jay'd know more about that than me. But I'm betting she's the sorta person that takes herself more seriously than she takes everybody else.