Homeless and voice testing

[spiritus_scooby]

So, not really feeling the icon choices. I mean, my hair's all different length in all of them. A little consistency would be great.

...no, it's not my fault for cutting my hair so much! It's my perogative to cut my hair whenever I want to cut my hair. But it's not really yours' to snatch me up like Dorothy in a tornado and take me away someplace.

And, by the way? Your "game" ideas? Not really feeling them either. I already live in Sunnydale. Hellmouth central. If I could go somewhere nice, maybe it wouldn't be so bad. But some of these ideas? Really not nice!

You don't even know when you're taking me from, do you? I'm not saying playing me is something that merits an exam, or anything like that. But I am saying, if it did, you'd fail 'cause you didn't study enough.

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[diana_abel]

Hey. So, like, I'm legally obligated to tell you that you're totally on the "wanted" list over in Dagaz. Or something.

[theonnojoy]

...Dorothy in a tornado?

[Says the man dressed like he's going to a ren faire]

[idolstolemylook]

Chin up, Red. Some of us are a bit fond. I'm sure it's just nostalgia, an' it'll pass, but right now I'm right glad to see you.

[monoculi]

On the hair issue, you know what they say, Will: variety is the spice of life. Which is also like a box of chocolates. And how could spicy chocolate ever be bad?

[spiritus_scooby]

Eh. I kinda like my chocolate sweet and all melty. It's what you expect, you know? And since we kinda live a life of unexpected stuff, at least chocolate should be safe.

Spicy chocolate seems like a joke you'd play on someone before giving them the good stuff.

[spiritus_scooby]

Yeah. Dorothy in a tornado. You know, big tornado comes along, tears up Dorothy's house, only it's just her and Toto in it. They get tossed around and around, miraculously not getting hurt by the really high wind speed and flying debris at all, and when they land, suddenly they're in Oz and it's not black and white anymore.

...you know?

[Maybe not everyone saw that movie. It's a strange thought.]

And then there's me, getting picked up from my home and tossed around and around before finally landing somewhere else.

[spiritus_scooby]

Oh, um...thanks, Spike. Well, hey, while it lasts, I appreciate the thought.

So, what have you been up to these days?

[theonnojoy]

...Are you mad?

Why would anyone get into a tornado? [What is a tornado. This is not what he's asking.] This Toto should have defended his liege.

[spiritus_scooby]

Oh, well, he tried. But Toto is just a little puppy. [Willow holds up her hands about a foot apart for reference.] Not a lot he could have done against the forces of nature when their house was spinning around in the sky. But he was a brave little guy.

[theonnojoy]

...So he was a dog.

[pause] She ought to have gotten a better dog then. I've seen dogs that could rip off a man's arm. Forces of nature or no.

What do you mean the world went from black and white to color?

[idolstolemylook]

Oh, you know. Stuck in a few different bloody awful alternate dimensions. You?

[spiritus_scooby]

Waiting until an awful alternate dimension opens up for me to get stuck in. Apparently, it's the off season for that kind of thing.

I might be getting a chip in my head. We can be chip buddies.

[spiritus_scooby]

Yep. Toto was a dog. Sorry - I thought everyone had read that book. Or seen the movie.

I don't think ripping a man's arm off was really high on Dorothy's list of priorities. I mean, the most dangerous person she met was the Wicked Witch, and she just had to throw water on her.

The movie was in black and white at the beginning. But when Dorothy got to Oz, everything was colorized. It's supposed to be symbolic.

[idolstolemylook]

Mmm. Good luck with that. You been eating people, love?

[spiritus_scooby]

Ew. No. [Willow makes a disgusted face.] It's not any kind of "shock you if you do bad things" chip. It's so they can beam propaganda into my brain. Which, I kind of wish it was a "shock you if you do bad things" chip. I'm not good at doing bad stuff anyway.

Besides. [She bares her teeth.] I'm not a vampire.

[idolstolemylook]

[He bares his.]

Yeah, that proves it.

Anyway, I'd almost rather have the other kind. Don't need that shite being pumped in.

[theonnojoy]

[He'll just squint.]

Right.

'course I've seen those movies. Didn't like it too much. [But note how he mispronounces movies.]

[spiritus_scooby]

[He could just be foreign.

Or he could be a man from the past cast forth mercilessly and unexpectedly through time and space by the malevolent forces of the Hellmouth. Could go either way.

Either way, he reminds her too much of Xander there and then to buy it, so Willow just gives him a wry smile.]

Sure you have. The classics aren't for everyone.

So...what kind of "movies" do you like?

[spiritus_scooby]

I'm kinda surprised the Initiative didn't go that route. I mean, they already wanted to make you suffer and take notes on it. Putting stuff in your head besides electric shocks seems like it would have been right up their alley.

[theonnojoy]

The ones with colors.

[Cast forward. What.]

[spiritus_scooby]

Really? All several thousand of them?

Must be nice to be that easy to please. [She doesn't want to tease, but Theon is making it very easy. All the same, she decides to try for another bone toss.] So, you like dramas, and comedies, and action movies, and romance...all the same?

these two what the heck they're so cute

[theonnojoy]

...Romances.

[Squint] No. Action.

[he'll just grab onto the only word he knows]

They really are! Funny how that happens sometimes~.

[spiritus_scooby]

Yeah, you look like an action-y kind of guy.

[Dogs that can rip people's arms off, and all that. Of course, that might just mean he's involved in dog fighting, but Willow likes the "fan of action movies" theory better.]

But you know, it's okay to like romance movies. A lot of girls like a guy who's manly and tough enough to own up to his feelings. My boyfriend loves to watch "An Affair to Remember" with me.

[And Oz is a werewolf. It doesn't get much tougher than that.]

[idolstolemylook]

Not exactly my favorite topic for speculation, that.

[monoculi]

Point taken - though I feel obliged to point out that the Aztecs were totally into that. ...and also ritual sacrifice, which is, admittedly, a lot less delicious.