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Character Meet and Greet
I. Exploring Main Street! Take a trip through a little town taken straight from 1890's America. Visit the shops, dine at the restaurants- but don't forget you are here on a mission. As an Apprentice, you will need to gather some supplies. A weapon, or tool for producing magic.
But we understand if that corn dog cart on Market Street is your first stop.
II. Apprentice Class 101! Practice your spell casting and weaponship on the open commons behind the Firehouse. Sparring, casting or just general confusion abound here. Try not to hit anything or...anyone, the paint on the infirmary is still drying.
III. Look out! A level 2 corroded monster has managed to get onto Main Street! Protect the citizens and defeat the cur, and please watch the damage, the paint is still wet!
IV. One Little Spark! Go ahead, show us the strength of your imagination and come up with your own scenarios. Just, stay out of the Corroded Lands...if possible.
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"Yeah, but why can't you just do what you want? Do you need me to kick Satan's ass again?" she says, like it's just that easy.
And she scrunches her face. She has no idea what even qualifies as temptation for her anymore, honestly. Honestly. She's been living completely on the full cusp of doing whatever she wants -- bar that one destroying two universes because yanno, that'd be bad. "I mean, what good is it telling everyone else to do what they want and hang the consequences, if you can't?" Is Rose Tyler trying to tempt the demon of temptation? Yes, yes she is. Rose Tyler though.
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Crowley pointed out without a second thought. Human versus the ultimate evil, human looses every time.
"And I do what I want most of the time but even demons have rules. You do have to appear to be following them."
Just give yourself a good cover story and do whatever you like! That was his motto. If it wasn't he wouldn't have an arrangement with an Angel. But one did have to be careful of spies.
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A snort. "Why? Break them." A shrug. "I guess I get it. God doesn't smite, the devil does, that sort of thing. But what about here? The only other demon isn't from your neck of the woods, and the only reason he's not willing fighting the darkness is he thinks the people who want us to fight are the ones that stole his D-Hopper. If they paid him, he'd be down for it." Nod nod, "Proper demon." Not that you're not demonic enough for her.... but you aren't.
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Crowley was the most approachable demon one would ever meet. He might even fight for this cause now and then, when it suited him, for no pay...
Or when a certain angel needed a hand."But don't believe for a moment God doesn't smite people. Remember the Flood? Just because she hasn't done anything like that recently doesn't mean she wouldn't quite happily test the humans of Earth right to their destruction."
Which funnily enough she was doing!
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Rose chewed her bottom lip in thought about the rest. "God sounds like a bitch. I won't let her either." Yeah. Yeah, she just said that.
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He scoffed with a demonic chuckle.
"You don't look like much of a defender. What could you possibly do against two supremely powerful beings like them?"
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She stretched her arms behind her back and over her head, hands locked together. "Remember when you were yellin' about the pointlessness of having billions and quadrillions and infinite Earth's only to destroy them before? Each road is looking for the path that has peace, that can survive, and thrive, and exist. But sometimes universes even try to invade each other. The darkness is what happens if existence, reality loses."
Another shrug, "I don't have to do that much individually. The worst part is, most times I can't do anything. I have to just watch and rewind and try to figure out why one timeline collapsed, try undoing that thing in another universe and just..." Sigh. "See what happens. This is all a dream right? I haven't really been sleepin' on the TARDIS, because with her dyin' it makes me cry, so I just... Imagined all this up, because I've been thinkin' too hard on the big picture instead'a focusin' one detail at a time, right?" She chewed her bottom lip ferociously.
"And I couldn't even give myself the Doctor fer a bit o' fun to distract me. Wow. Thanks self."
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If he sounded almost frantic at times it was because these events had been moving so swiftly of late and this girl was beginning to sound insane to him. If it were so easy...!
"Whatever you met wasn't him! Might have looked like him, might have said it was him, but it wasn't. And you got very damn lucky that it wasn't! There is no way the actual Devil could be defeated by a mere human woman! It can't happen. If it were that easy I'd sic you on him in a heartbeat. Hell, I'd sic every loud blonde girl on Earth on him! It just doesn't work that way..."
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A huff. "I'm not just any woman! I'm Rose Tyler! And I can do, and have done stuff you never even dreamed of!"
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Seemed the most plausible explanation to him.
"Or make himself seem bigger and stronger than he actually was... Obviously Rose. Demons lie, its what we do. He was only lying to you."
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"You sound like the Doctor. But he was the Prince of Lies, right?" a snort. "He still told the truth about me dying in battle. Just left out the parts that wouldn't hurt the Doctor or me. Big bloody surprise."
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The demon leaving out crucial details like that proved it for him!
"Guy's just lucky he ran into you instead of the real Satan... He might be amused by an impostor but if he wasn't, OH if he wasn't! You do not want to get on his bad side!"
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He shrugged, an action more designed to stretch his neck muscles than make any sort of comment on what she had said.
"And now you're trapped here. Almost funny how you keep ending up trapped in unfamiliar dimensions."
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Her eyes weren't even hard or haunted. After all, like she said, she was a ghost. A noisy ghost here. "And even if you try to help, people can't remember you, sometimes you find your friend, and you think it's in time, but you're still just a ghost. So he can't hear you, can't see you, doesn't know the darkness is eating reality, and doesn't even turn around." That was a bit more haunted. But her voice was eerily calm nevertheless. "Just try it."
Not that Crowley would know, but given how Rose was a billion kinds of passion looking for expression, the numbness or lack of showing it in her tone, voice, or anything else would have bone-chilling for anyone who did know.
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It wasn't like watching Azriaphale die over and over again... but being powerless to stop something was a feeling he understood and oddly enough he also understood the grief of being parted from some one you cared deeply for. Shouldn't have, being a demon, but he did. The thought of being torn away from Azriaphale by this war was unfathomable. It caused an ache deep down in his being that he simply didn't have the word for he just knew he needed to fight against it.
So lost in his own thoughts he let Rose walk off. Only when she had managed several paces away from him did he finally come to.
"You don't even know that the Darkness you are fighting is the same as the Corruption the Kingdom is fighting. Could have different causes."
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She shook her head, "It has to be!" What else could it be? She rubbed her head in thought. "What would you know?!" she threw her hands up in exasperation. "Unless the demon somehow was brainwashed into thinking he was Satan, he definitely seemed to think he was, and trust me, he wasn't scarier than if he'd downplayed it. Hell, he could'a just acted like Hell had put him there instead'a the forces o' Light, and then played up sympathy cards and it would'a worked better." She snorted.
Rose turned around, face scrunched to the side, and gently punched Crowley's shoulder to see if it was real. "Kay. Let's say it's not the same. Then what is either? Why would there be two identical separate but equal forces corrupting the multiple universes?" she burst out laughing, borderline hysterical. "No no no no... no. No way. Just what? So people can stop it?!" Double facepalm. "Fine then, then I still gotta stop it here first. Call it practice. Learning. Whatever you want."
She wondered if it was too dramatic and pathetic to collapse in a puddle on the ground. Probably. Worth doing? Maybe.
She kicked a wall instead.
"IT'S NOT FAIR!!!!" she howled like a wolf in frustration. "I don't want to save everyone! I just wanna go home!" Home to the TARDIS and the Doctor, not her Mum or any version of London without the Doctor.
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It hadn't really hurt but he still reacted to the punch like an overly dramatic drama snake, grabbing his shoulder and hissing angry at Rose.
"Do you always go around punching demons?! I didn't have anything to do with that Satan impostor! I don't even know anyone who would be stupid enough to try something like that..."
He rubbed his arm even if it still didn't hurt at all. It was real though and would have been quiet solid under her fist just as his wings earlier had been fluffy.
"It's ineffable."
Crowley growled darkly.
"That is what I've always been told. We aren't meant to understand why these things happen... they are all just a test. It's well within her abilities to cause two separate but similar universe destroying calamities at the same time. She created everything, she can destroy it again!"
The drama took on a slight undertone of lament because if that was what was happening then it wasn't only a test of humanity but of the universe itself. Again he was left to wonder why push it that far, why destroy everything!?
It wasn't fair, not one DAMN BIT FAIR!
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"Exactly!" fierce growl.
"It's bloody rot is wot!" she said in response to how he was always told it's ineffable.
Rose stomped around huffing like a big bad wolf made human and kicked the wall again. "What's the point of makin' somethin' just to trash it!? There is none! That's not ineffable, it's just bloody stupid! Demented! Dumb beyond reason!! Even TimeLords weren't that daft!!" more kicks -- to the wall, at least.
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"That is what I said!"
Not in those words. At the time he had been more questioning than angry.
"What did it get me? A long fall into a boiling vat of sulfur... No one up there cares whether or not it's fair. It's all a game to her."
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"To who?" same question, half expecting the someone-who-never-listens response again.
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"God."
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"The Doctor doesn't believe in God," she shrugged, "And I poured time vortex into the dalek god and unmade him," she's not even saying that with a trace of pride, just matter of fact and defiance. "But I guess that's why you said it's ineffable? Still doesn't seem ineffable to me, just stupid and pointless." She tried to see things from... a broader perspective, but it was a little too vast for her human brain. "But I'm just a human so....." shrug.
She offered Crowley a hand. "Wanna get in trouble and make her rethink sending us two to do her dirty work instead'a doin' things for herself?"
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His voice gained volume with each new word as he paced around Rose to yell up at a particularly white and fluffy cloud.
"What the bloody point is!"
He wheeled back to Rose.
"And that could be solved if only she would speak to any of us! If not me... then some one who isn't unforgivable!"
Then he growled away, his anger temporarily spent. He found a bench to flop into, one that had an armrest perfect for sulking. Usually it was him doing the tempting but that was a curious offer.
"What did you have in mind?"
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She flomped next to him. "Anything. Absolutely chaos. Screwing up ineffable plans and proving to everyone that there is bloody plan, yeah?"
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