Voicetesting

[littleshops]

You know, I'm an impatient man, and all that waiting was beginning to get to me.

--okay, not only beginning, it was getting pretty bad. But you know when you get those little realisations in hindsight that changes the whole situation? Yeah, this is one of those, because if my past self knew about this, I'd be perfectly okay with waiting if it meant you'd eventually come up with this name. Well, then again, if I'd known, I would have just told you about it right away. Anyway. Little shops! It's brilliant! Almost worth all those months of you saying "I'll make you a journal one day, honest."

At least you are honest, I like honest.

So! Here I am, with a journal, got a bunch of my other selves about in this head of yours, and you've got a bunch of friends who have my friends in their heads of theirs. Where to now?

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[domesticapproach]

S'about time you showed up.

[Yes. Totally taking the mickey hah out on Ten for Toss' languid laziness. Except it's not actually lazy and it's not actually Ten's fault. She's just being a brat.]

[littleshops]

[ Oh, you clever thing, you. All in good jest. Doesn't mean he can't so obviously brush it off, though. You were saying? ]

Yeah, that's what I've tried telling her! It's really about time, I've said for months now, and then she's done nothing at all. Kept me all locked up in her head while my other selves run about with you, and Sarah Jane, and Jack, and Susan, and loads of other people! It's really unfair.

[ Pity hiiiim. ]

[domesticapproach]

[Okay she can pity a little. Just because he's pretty. Pity for Pretty.]

Could'a been a little louder, if you wanted that much attention. But you're here now! So what're you gonna do? Run 'round muckin' things up for fun?

[That's an invite, btw.]

[ofdrumsthesound]

Dear old Doctor . . .

[aproperdoctor]

It's all right, it took my mun five years to come up with a decent username for me. Five years of just my name, while all the others in her head ended up with something fairly decent. Totally unfair, let me tell you.

[littleshops]

You know it.

[ He accepts it, obviously. ]

[littleshops]

Five years?! Well, you beat me by a long shot. I'm okay with that this time.

Not that your name isn't lovely.

[littleshops]

Oh, yes, I've seen you about...

[ Very. Unsure. ]

[aproperdoctor]

I've been stuck up here for an awfully long time - and I'm not terribly certain that's a good thing. Though she seems to have calmed down with the horrible plots to ruin my life lately.

Uh-huh. [Nice save, Doctor.] Can you imagine how my mum would react if you said otherwise? [She grins a little at the thought.]

[ofdrumsthesound]

You're always welcome to come and play with me. You can be my conscience and I can be your anger.

We make a good team, when we set our differences aside. Don't you agree?

[littleshops]

I'll be my own anger, thanks.

[littleshops]

[ Shudder. ]

I can. What is with you people's mothers being terrifying? Mine wasn't terrifying. Well, a different kind of terrifying. Well, that's still a bit of a lie. Mothers! Are terrifying. And wonderful, mostly wonderful, but terrifying.

No more horrible plots is good, glad to hear it.

[riverborntorun]

Honest? Honest is a tad boring, sweetie.

[littleshops]

You would say that. But people could use being more honest.

[ofdrumsthesound]

You don't like being violent. I do. It would make your hard decisions that much easier.

I miss our friendship . . . *He sighs.* Learning where the drums came from has left me at loose ends; I don't want to be a pawn anymore, but I still need to kill people just to make the damned things quiet down.

I want to meet you halfway. We made a good team, I want to keep going.

[riverborntorun]

That's because you think honest means not lying. There's a lot of middle area you're forgetting.

[littleshops]

And now you're assuming things about me. What kind of dishonesty isn't boring, then?

[notthedoctor]

Oh.

[littleshops]

[ Pause. ]

Oh to you too.

[notthedoctor]

I suppose I should ask how things have been? Everything all right?

[littleshops]

Yeah, sure, everything's all right! It's just been slow. And boring. But I'm finally getting to stretch my legs now, so that's better.

[riverborntorun]

One day I'll be right.

[She hummed in thought, considering an answer.]

Misinformation. Misdirection. Usually things involving a miss. [She chuckled, a few anecdotes coming to mind. Not that she could share. He wasn't ready for it.]

No, but, really, Doctor, don't you like a bit of a challenge? If everyone were honest up front there'd be nothing to look forward to. Nothing - rather, no one to devote time to figuring out.

[littleshops]

Yeah, I said they could use being more honest, nothing about how the whole of the universe should be. Which is impossible, anyway. But it would be a better universe.

[ He scratches at his ear. ]

Might or might not be worth the sacrifice of losing a lot of problems to solve. I don't know, maybe the universe would be horrible that way, I honestly don't know.

[notthedoctor]

I'm glad.

I was worried about you. Rose was too. We know how you are.

[jennymarktwo]

Impatient, hmm? Always running about? Always on the move? [There's a moment when it looks as if she's going to be cross. As if she's going to eclipse cross and be something more approaching terrifyingly angry. But then she brightens and she's all smiles and really, she's just happy to see him.]

You can explain the name and then you can do what you promised. Tour of your ship.