Voice test: On Maison de Portes apps, and Book Vs. Movie Canon Options

[doorkey]

Mun,

See? That wasn't so hard at all, once you pulled your brave shoes on and made up your mind!

Grown-ups always fuss about the choices they've already decided on, secretly. I just go ahead and do them. You should too, when it's all for fun.

Don't feel bad about using pictures from the movie. I know PB searches aren't interesting searches for you at all. And I really like my Laika clothes anyway! You'll polish up on keeping me from sounding like I'm Midwest American, with some help. (If another Other Father shows up, one I'm not used to, we'll work it out somehow. I can pretend he's the same one I know.)

Don't be so afraid if I'll fit right! You know it, this place is perfect for me. The last house you let me play was always changing and colorful and wonderful, but this one's so spooky and huge! There's so much for exploring. It's dangerous, and just like where I've come from in some ways, but there's no way I'll ever be bored now.

I still can't believe it all came down to me keep the stone, and the marbles, and the key all at once. Be clever, don't ever compromise when it comes to keeping the useful things!

Yours,
Coraline Jones

Comments

[letxequalnull]

I agree. One should ever strive to retain the useful things.

[doorkey]

Oh boy.

My mun says you're very good at making innocent statements suddenly creepy, Mister X.

[letxequalnull]

Your mun may be correct, but that alone cannot negate the truth of such a statement.

[doorkey]

The cat said it was sensible to hang onto protection. So that's what I'm going to do.

[letxequalnull]

Then by all means, don't let me stop you.

[doorkey]

If she can't, you won't.

Mun says you're still "welcome to come along", though.

Or Dilan. "Full House."

[letxequalnull]

I shall pass such things on to my mun, but it may be some time before she manages it, assuming she ever does.

[doorkey]

I thought it would be much longer till mine managed me! She usually talks and plans and doesn't do!

But long weekends can be surprising.

[letxequalnull]

The most certainly can be, if one is of a mind to make use of it.

[doorkey]

Well, getting me ready is better than sitting around bored!

[letxequalnull]

I daresay she could have assuaged the boredom had she wished, but productivity is to be commended all the same.

[doorkey]

Are you being productive?

[letxequalnull]

Do you truly wish to know?

[doorkey]

I'll take that as a no, or a "Coraline Jones, you're being nosy with people who aren't even your neighbors!"

[letxequalnull]

Am I to presume that is your name?

[doorkey]

Yes. Coraline.

[letxequalnull]

I shall keep it in mind.

[doorkey]

We'll see [Her expectations for grownups remembering how to say her name are generally very low]

[letxequalnull]

Indeed we shall.

[doorkey]

And there's no talking cats where I'm headed yet, either. Pass word along, please?

[letxequalnull]

As you wish.

i love that username

[otherfathering]

No matter whatcha look like, you'll al~ways be our little Coraline, kiddo.

[Though he would've thought you'd have had enough of big, spooky houses.]

I snagged it way back when the LJ exodus was young

[doorkey]

No. I won't.

I won't be your little Coraline, and I've got my real parents back safe.

...I'm sorry. I'm still really sorry for you. But that's done now.

I did the same with Pianokeys... and now I'm sad that one's not being used right now. 8( matching!

[otherfathering]

[His smile doesn't falter; he knows what you're like.]

Doesn't mean we won't love you. [Doesn't mean he won't love you.]

What's done is done, but we've got some good memories besides, hm? [Wonderland mansions and fun and games... apart from the slightly off times. let's steer away from that one halloween and the time everyone was sad because of hatemail from loved ones]

[doorkey]

The ghost children told me that the Other Mother gets bored with loving and playing Happy Families. That it's not forever, just a game until she's hungry.

And you always knew that, didn't you?

[there's sadness, and Coraline seems almost wistful]

.... I miss when it was just you, without her.

But the place I'm heading has other things like Beldams. Things that aren't mothers.

[otherfathering]

[He pauses, considering his reaction, and then he nods] It's always been the same, Coraline. But mother knows best, so we've gotta make the most of it.

['We' meaning the Others. Other Father's not even sure if the other Others are reused souls or not; he's not really allowed to interact with them. But he makes the most of it, because she's lovely when she's not angry, and it's all he's ever really known.]

Magic mansions and an e~ra of eventfulness.~ 'Wish the mun would've let me keep my toolbox ya'got me.

[He doesn't seem so pleased with that.] Like Beldams?

[doorkey]

But she doesn't know best! Or I couldn't have won her game.

Oh... right. The garden tools present. You lost it? I hoped that where you ended up, you would get to plant more tulips and play more songs...

The house has rats who spy for Her. But its a different Her, she's just a girl. There aren't button eyes, but there are dolls, and dead people who are stuck. And things to find, like keys and other things. And weird smells.

[realityrunaway]

Grown-ups really do fuss about a lot, don't they? I don't see why people actually want to be one.

[doorkey]

Having a job sounds like a lot of work.

Unless you're an actress, like Miss Spink and Miss Forcible. They've had "grand old times."

[realityrunaway]

Even entertainment can manage to be work sometimes. Trust me.

[doorkey]

But at least you get to pretend to be all kinds of different people!

[realityrunaway]

Mm. Well everything has it's ups and downs unfortunately.

[doorkey]

You're right. I don't think anybody's life is supposed to be just perfect.

[never_asked]

Other Father?

...are your parents...divorced?

Hi 5, Laikabro!

[doorkey]

What? No way!

My Other Father is...

Well he's not really my father at all, the Beldam who said she was my Other Mother made him like my father. But a little... groovier, I guess. Only not.

She let him come apart.

/hai five

[never_asked]

[Ok ok give Norman some time to process what you just said.]

So you have another mother. Who's a Beldam. [Whatever that is.]

And she made the dad who's like your real one?

[doorkey]

[nod nod nod, yes, a beldam...] Who wants to keep kids so she can pretend to love them, but then when she's bored playing mother, she eats them and hides their souls.

She made a father who looks just like mine- except for the button eyes.

[never_asked]

That's...really sick. I mean, zombies are bad, but soul-eating thing with....button eyes?

[Never really heard of that in his horror movies.]

[doorkey]

Uh huh! I couldn't make this stuff up!

The police on the phone thought I did though, when I rung up emergency. They didn't believe my parents were really missing, that I just had a bad dream!