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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[serpentinthegarden]

Hugs weren't physically painful, he reacted as if they were, but that was only him being dramatic. This time was no different. Quick though it was he stiffened in her hug and tried to wriggle free like a snake being held against it's will in the arms of it's keeper.

"Don't thank me! I'm not supposed to be helping you lot no matter what Merlin or that Hades says. There are rules against that in Hell."

[bigbadrose]

"I KNEW IT!" she declared loudly and pointed a finger at him. "Remember? I asked you that and everything!"

[serpentinthegarden]

There was a finger pointed almost directly at his nose. A finger asking him to remember something that just happened. He almost wanted to bite it, didn't, but the thought did flash to mind.

"You say that like it's a great Revelation. Demons are meant to tempt humans, not help them, it's written down and everything."

[bigbadrose]

To be fair... Rose might bite a finger pointed in her face too, so would the Doctor. And it wouldn't make her like him any less.

"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.

[serpentinthegarden]

"He would kill you."

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.

[bigbadrose]

"Nah," Rose beamed calmly, "Killing is too good for me. Killing would get me out of his range. He sent me on a mission where I got to see the Doctor dead in hundreds of ways instead. Revenge for the black hole I shot Satan into, I'm sure."

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.

[serpentinthegarden]

"I don't think he would really pay you much mind at all, not right now. He is a little preoccupied with the whole ending the world thing. Bringing about Armageddon and rallying thousands of demons to take part in the final battle, I think, would rank higher than tormenting one lady."

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!

[bigbadrose]

"You'd think that, but I keep thwarting his ends of the Earth. Defender of Earth, and other dimensions me, so I guess messin' with my head is just bonus."

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.

[serpentinthegarden]

"Defender of Earth?"

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?"

[bigbadrose]

Rose shrugged, "Anything I want. Shot the devil into a black hole, poured time vortex into the dalek God and unmade it. Still feelin' useless at sittin' in a classroom and learnin' to obey somebody else's orders though."

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."

[serpentinthegarden]

"I really... don't think you know what you are dealing with here. What ever you ran across before can't have been the Devil. I've met him, delivered his son... he was in a basket at the time but you get the idea, the Devil is alive and well! On Earth, trying to cause it's destruction!"

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..."

[bigbadrose]

"He was. How daft would a demon have to be to pretend to be the ultimate boss? If he wasn't him, he definitely believed he was. And I stopped him from gettin' back to Earth to spread his destruction throughout the whole universe! That's why."

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!"

[serpentinthegarden]

"He was trying to scare you!"

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."

[bigbadrose]

A shrug. It didn't mean anything to her one way or the other, to be honest.

"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."

[serpentinthegarden]

"There see, all mind games."

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!"

[bigbadrose]

"I did die. Legally. Getting stuck into another universe isn't exactly the kind of thing that they can explain in the papers or anyone but the Doctor even knew about. And it definitely felt like dying. 'Specially everything that came after," she grumbled. "My own private hell."

[serpentinthegarden]

"Hell's not so bad when you get used to it."

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."

[bigbadrose]

"No, that's by design. I told you I'm fighting the Darkness. I've been looking." She tossed him a small glare over her shoulder, starting to walk off again. "And try getting used to your best friend, an immortal, still managing to die without regeneration or healing, or whatever, and knowing that he's so daft he made the whole of Earth dependent on him, so without him, everything falls apart and ends prematurely in its very own special Ragnarok of the air being lit on fire, taken over by hundreds of invaders, nuclear war, the whole works, and even though people are still good, even though people still fight, it's not enough, because no one knows what to fight or how to even save each other anymore."

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.

[serpentinthegarden]

His nose scrunched... oh yeah, sounded terrible. He wouldn't know a thing about that! It wasn't like he had a best friend, an immortal, who was so idiotically well-meaning at times that he blundered his way into situations so dangerous that while he couldn't die would have discorporated him resulting in his getting in trouble with his head office, possibly replaced as Heaven's liaison on Earth, and the only reason that never happened was that you, breaking the rules set out by both angels and demons, stepped across those established lines to save him... only to now be facing a threat so enormous that centuries of protecting that angel wouldn't mean a damn thing. No one could stop Armageddon, could they? They had already tried and failed. And Crowley himself was destined for what, to be ripped apart by demons for being a traitor or by angels if Hell should lose the war... a long dive not into a pool of sulfur but into one of Holy Water? The future was not a sunny one.

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."

[bigbadrose]

That did actually give her a pause.

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.

[serpentinthegarden]

"Ow!"

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!

[bigbadrose]

Drama snake is official dramatic bad wolf's new best friend. They can throw dramatic fits and play wrestle together.

"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.

[serpentinthegarden]

Play wrestle is more a game for wolf pups and boas, but if she ever wanted to listen to some emo rock music he was her demon.

"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."

[bigbadrose]

Yes, Rose is definitely down for that.

"To who?" same question, half expecting the someone-who-never-listens response again.

[serpentinthegarden]

This time he actually answers, but only after a dramatic look to the sky as if she were watching...

"God."