Character Meet and Greet

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"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."

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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[mal_contented]

Bad wolf, huh? Well at least she wasn't the only VK, even if she had no clue who this other woman was. Mal rolled her eyes and leaned back in her seat, crossing her ankles and resting her hands behind her head. She needed to get her hair dyed back to purple. Every time she saw another blond since arriving here, she got more and more disgusted. With them and herself.

"Look, every class has a trick to it, find the trick, and ideally a good spell to fiddle with time, and you can pass. I mean, not much else to do here but learn how not to die, so that helps." She made a face at her.

[bigbadrose]

A wry grin, she knows she's trying to help. "I've got the not-dying thing mastered, thanks," and how. She gestured broadly.

"It's everything else. My universe doesn't have magic. I promised the most important person to me not to fight, and I couldn't even do psychic stuff without his help, and others literally goin' into my brain to sort it out like radio waves or something, and even now, I can't reach him back, so I don't know how I could touch anyone else like that, yeah?"

She rubbed her face with a hand. It was all so stupid. Mickey became a top Torchwood agent, Rose's entire career was defender of Earth and other dimensions, but stick her in a classroom; and she couldn't feel more useless. Exactly like that sixteen year old, dying inside, begging anyone at all to save her, even when it led to absolute disaster because the first bloke to come along to do that only made it worse. And what if Rose made the darkness worse? At least if she could follow the chain of Bad Wolf, the message to herself, she'd have some more direction again, just like her stepping stones across universes.

[mal_contented]

She gave a snort. "I grew up on the Isle. Tales galore of big magic. The reality? Nada. We were lucky to get exactly two channels on the TV even, the Auradon Shopping Network, which by the way wouldn't deliver to us, and official announcements from the royal family, and official events. No magic, no phones, no computers, no nothing but a legacy of..." evil. "Our parents. But tell you what happened once we got to Auradon. We learned. Adapted." She shoved out of her seat and swung around to sit on he rdesk facing Rose.

"Only way forward is through. But the biggest thing that stops magic, or makes it work? How badly you want it. How badly you need it. And how sure you are of yourself. You think Fairy Godmother could have bippity boppidied old Cindy if she doubted herself or her godkid? Nah. Half the spells I do I'm adapting on the fly."

Wait. Did she just give a use your heart and believe in yourself speech? Oh ick. She shook her head. "Look, I'm not about to die because you are too busy going on about needing someone else to hold your hand or not having grown up with magic. You want to do something? You can make it happen, but if you're going to be useless, get out of the way."

Ugh, even while trying to make it sound more evil she wound up being encouraging. What was wrong with her?

[bigbadrose]

"Yeah?" Rose perked up. She spun her own chair around backwards to lean on the head, but definitely listened with great interest.

And giggled slightly at the pep talk about the Fairy Godmother. It was new, but familiar enough to be intelligible at least!

The mirth faded at the last part, and her eyes dimmed again, sharp and serious. "I won't get in your way."

She hated herself a little. It used to be she wouldn't let anyone die on her watch. She'd pull everyone into a cupboard, and do the bloody impossible and they'd all survive. But enough seeing the world end, enough fractured timelines, enough planets, stars, and realities lost to darkness had dimmed that golden determination. A lot. Sometimes even doing the impossible wasn't enough. But just because one paradox ended, didn't mean there wouldn't be another universe's Peter Tyler out there inventing a way to cross the void.

"You ever fight the corrosion before?"

Somewhere in the back of her head, her mind tumbled over the idea of pure determination and willpower. Was all the times Rose survived magic? IN A WAY MAYBE!? But she already knew that... Bad Wolf. She survived where no one else could because she did one impossible thing but threw it around like confetti so that her entire life was like that. Except... all that did was let her survive. What did it matter if she couldn't protect anyone else? She did. Sometimes. Lots of times! But she didn't know when it was going to happen, she had absolutely no control over it, she could procure it, and she definitely couldn't use it as a weapon.

[mal_contented]

She tossed back some of her hair, the purple tips trailing before vanishing behind her. "I've fought Maleficent, mistress of all evil, before. Fought my way off the Isle who knows how many times, saved countless," that's a lie, they had to count them in Auradon geography class "kingdoms. Curriosion? Give me ten minutes with a good rust removal spell and see how well it does then."

Confidence. Is. Key.

[bigbadrose]

Rose face palmed.

"Maleficent is only the mistress of evil, not darkness incarnate."

She slumped back face first into her arms and took a deep breath. The devil had called himself the darkness. And if the devil was real, maybe God was, but God left everything up to mortals. And whatever Rose counted as these days. Bad Wolf.

"Dragons always have a weak spot, right above their heart," she mumbled to no one in particular. "It's necessary for fire breathing. So how did Satan do it? Fire breathing from a human?" Illusion? Psychic overwhelming?

On this, she knew, not even the Doctor had that answer. He didn't always.

She looked back at Mal extremely seriously, "Rust is easy. Anyone can do that. You don't need magic. Vinegar, even coca cola can strip it." A frown and she glanced away, "I guess you wouldn't have that, but what I mean is..."

Rose looked up at that ceiling. "It's not doing the impossible I'm scared of. That's all I ever do. But on cue, with people watching, in a classroom, following someone else's rules, and ideas, and what they think, and how they think and--"

Rose shook her head, painfully aware now that she hadn't applied makeup in ages, and she almost missed it just then. It must be being back in a classroom setting with a Shireen-type friend on hand.

"Now we're talking truly impossible."

She leaned her head to the side, just one hand. "Corrosion is darkness before it reaches the stage of undoing reality. It's not physical, it's of the being, the soul, what makes you you. Mad cow's disease, Alzheimers, blight, that's corrosion. Some decay's just natural, yeah? But--" she doodled a finger in circles on the table in front of her. "It's the eating away at time and entire existence that scares me. Not blades, not physical, but entire dimensions. Whole planets disappearing, and people don't even remember them unless they've been there, unless they know. I might as well be a ghost, I've got family that will remember me, sure, but even one tiny speck getting swallowed by the darkness, can undo so much more, creates all kinds of ripples... and my 'magic' if you wanna call it that, is just traveling it all. I thought I could just find help. I mean, yeah I want to help too, but..."

A quiet snort.

"Monsters don't scare me. Not even the darkness scares me. But surviving doesn't mean anything if --" she trailed off and shook her head. The woman reminded her so much of Shireen she was treating her like her, and that also meant avoiding mentioning the Doctor was going to be a priority. "Never mind. Just surviving... I can do. Classes... I ran away from school once already. And my family a lot." A face scrunch and impish grin. "I don't like people expectin' things from me, yeah?"

[mal_contented]

"Like expecting you to give them a moment's pause to get a word in edgewise?" she asked dryly? Seriously, did this girl ever stop yapping? Mal's fault for giving a speech, she supposed. Maybe Rose was just super competitive and had to prove she could talk longer.

There were too many things in what was said to know where to begin replying, so Mal picked one randomly. School. She shrugged a bit.

"School's school. One of the few things that seems to be universal. If you hate it that much, feel free to try and burn it down." Mal could use the amusement of watching someone get either punished or killed for arson, and really, the reaction would tell her a lot about this place. Like if anyone even cared that some psycho tried to burn it down.

[bigbadrose]

Rose mentally shut down a little. Back to not talking, what point was there? And trying itself almost seemed pointless.

"I'm not the burn it down type. More the run away. Or blow it down. Huff puff, blow it down. But not a school."

[mal_contented]

She rolled her eyes. "Odd, you didn't seem the coward type. All that stuff you were on about and you can't face down school? Please."

Oh gods, why was she being a mentor? She was supposed to be getting kids to cut, not stick with it. Ugh. What was wrong with her?

[bigbadrose]

An annoyed wolf growl, and Rose scoffed and rolled her eyes. "I'm not scared! It's boring! And it makes me feel trapped! You know Albert Einstein said everybody's genius, but a fish will spend its whole life thinking it's stupid if you only judge it on its ability to climb a tree! And yeah, I'm all for where there's a will there's a way, or I wouldn't be here. But I know how to fly, I know how to fight darkness, I know how to make friends, and save the Earth and dimensions no one's even heard of. But I don't know any magic."

A bad wolf huff. "And if I do, I cast one spell in my whole entire life, just one. And everything since then has just been following its trail of breadcrumbs and hoping the darkness hasn't eaten it away yet. And that means I can survive. I know where to be, and when to be, in the right place, at the right time, and not get eaten by the darkness... and that's it. That's all it does. I'm not an inventor like my Dad, I don't speak a billion languages like my best friend, and I'm barely even remotely psychic like Jack. I did one thing, and I did it well, but that's it. And it means that I never will be desperate enough to do it again, because I already did it once and spread it all over. I used it up, and there is no more." She gets up to stomp off.

"So you see, I'm just a fish being judged on my skill to climb a tree."

[mal_contented]

"No, you're a silly girl making siller excuses. Used it all up? We each get one great deed and then we're done? Bull." This girl needed a calling out. Thankfully that wasn't something Mal had to fret over, it was both a good and decidedly horrible thing to do. "Your friends can do more than you've done? That just means you've been lucky so far not that you're useless. But you know what does make you useless? You. This whiny little girl attitude that even Jane's finally grown out of and she's even younger than I am and was raised pampered. So, you want to be soft and complain that you can't, then cut and leave the rest of us who CAN do something to learn how. You want to have power? Sit down, shut up, and LEARN. If all you want is pity and sympathy? You picked the wrong kid to whine to. Try a mirror."

[bigbadrose]

"Sod off!" Rose growled. "Not everything is a contest to you, you can't bring someone up by shouting them down. There's more'n one way to do anything, yeah, but that just means I'm not gonna waste my time trying to swim up air. I'll make a bloody rocket. But seein' as I've never done that before, I better get started figurin' out how. Don't assume just because I'm not doin' things your way, doesn't mean I'm not doin' nothin' at all! I don't want your pity, and I sure as hell don't want your compassion, I was just tryin' ta get basic conversation through your thick arrogant head! I appreciate the pep talk, but I'm so out of here."

There were so many reasons she hated school, this was another one of them.

[mal_contented]

She smirked. Guess she was being evil after all. Good. Well... whatever. "Door is that way, don't let it hit you on the way out. Or, you know. Do."