nostabbing | 004 | Goldenrod City

[It's late afternoon, it's eighty-six degrees and sunny, and here on a Goldenrod City park bench sits Parker with her hair pulled back in a ratty braid that dangles forgotten over one shoulder. She's basically commandeered the whole bench at this point, even though she's only occupying one small end of it; the rest remains wholly unusuable because it's covered in all manner of stuff, from Pokemon plushies to coin purses to potted plants to other odds and ends you might find at the prize counter of an arcade (and yes, there's a red-and-white Pokeball tucked away in there, too).

But despite the heaps of stuff (and the Poochyena in a fedora standing guard over it nearby, and the Vulpix with the diamond necklace for a collar sifting through it with interest), Parker doesn't seem particularly happy as she hangs out on the bench, silent but for the sound of the pencil scratching idly over the sketchpad propped against her knees. One word for her demeanor here might be "indifferent"; another few that could probably also fit would be "apathetic", "detached", "listless", or even just plain "bored".

Page by page, she's filling the sketchpad with drawings that, to all appearances, she couldn't care less about. Which might be more accurate a description than one might expect, really; this time, appearances aren't deceiving.

But eventually she sets the sketchpad aside, screws up her face for a ninety-second impromptu theater of Frustration: The Facial Expressions, and then reaches for her Gear to posit a burning question to the network: ]

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Hey, so.

How do you know when you like stuff?

[...What? IT'S A SERIOUS QUESTION. ಠ_ಠ ]

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You mean that stuff will happen even if I'm not thinking about it?

Even when it doesn't cross your mind.

Real interesting stuff, eh?

I think it's kind of creepy.

Creepy? How so?

Stuff happening without you meaning to do it? Like your body just...doing stuff? That's really creepy. Like mind control or being possessed by aliens or something.

You can put the "super" in superego but she isn't the only one running the show. By that logic yeah-- something is controlling our minds.

And that doesn't bother you even a little?

Not as much as it seems to bother you. Are you going to be okay?

[DEEP BREATHS, PARKER. DEEP BREATHS.]

[HOOGAH HOOGAH HOOGAH yeah she's good.]

Do you think some people are just broken and that's why they can't like stuff?

[...well, for a certain value of "good".]

I wouldn't say they're broken just because they don't take the same liking as others. If anything their wiring is a little different from you and I.

[Aaaand we're back to robot aliens taking over your head again. gg norman. gg.]

[Hey, wiring is okay. Wiring just makes her think of computers, and computers make her think of Hardison, and Hardison makes her think of safe. So that's not so bad as it could be.]

Yeah. From you and I.

[Or from you.]

But that still means there's something wrong with them, right?

They aren't completely far off if nothing else is off balance. Maybe there is something missing. A reason. Those chords of memories which made them "like" stuff in the first place.

Edited 2013-05-21 04:44 (UTC)

So they just have to find the reason? And then it's okay?

As long as they work towards finding it. It won't be an overnight thing but it's better than feeling like a broken mess.

...I think maybe that's pretty hard to do all on your own. Without help.

Of course. A little help doesn't hurt anybody. Even if it is just talking to someone.

So what someone are you?

[Wait for it...oh, right.]

I'm Alice.

Just a person.

I'm Norman. Hope I was able to kill some time for you.

You're not the little kid Norman on a different account, right? The one who likes ghosts?

[Shit. How'd she crack the code so quickly?]

Different Norman. Different account.

Little kid Norman's pretty cool.

Without a doubt. Him and I spoke a few times before. I could learn a thing or two about horror films from him.

[And pfft-- y'know? He has the coolest first name in the whole wide world.]

You like watching horror films?

I named some of my Pokemon after them. Freddy, Jason, and Samara. Jason's wearing a little hockey mask and everything.

Sure, I like them. As long as it not one those first-person cameras films. I have a real hard time sitting through those.

But what's a Samara?

[hasneverseenthering.jpeg]

She's the drowned ghost girl who crawls out of your TV and murders you seven days after watching the cursed videotape about her.

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