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.

Comments

[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."

[bigbadrose]

"Oh," she thinks about it. If a demon with her not!boyfriend's face is going to tell her that he's arguing with God and she never listens, far be it from Rose to disbelieve.

"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?"

[serpentinthegarden]

"It's ineffable because no one but God knows..."

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?"

[bigbadrose]

"What if she doesn't know?" an impish face, "What if she just created multiple universes so the ones that fall are a learning experience for the others?"

She flomped next to him. "Anything. Absolutely chaos. Screwing up ineffable plans and proving to everyone that there is bloody plan, yeah?"

[serpentinthegarden]

"If she doesn't know then there is no plan and we've been lied to the entire time."

Which as mad as he was at God for the whole testing humanity to extinction thing he doubted she was that evil. Unless she was, it was possible, oh... he had too many questions.

"And how do you suggest we go about proving there is a plan when no one knows what the plan is, IF there even is a plan. You hinted there might not be."

[bigbadrose]

Rose, uncaring that he was a demon, flomped on top of his personal space and looked up at the sky. It was kind of a weird conundrum. How did you prove there was no plan?

Rose hummed.

"Dunno!" she admitted, blase, with a laugh. "When I did the Bad Wolf thing, I created a trail of breadcrumbs so I could follow them..." she chewed her bottom lip in thought. "It means... if I see it... when I see it, it's a signal from myself to myself to get back to the Doctor, that there's always a way..."

That feeling of wanting to throw up rose up in her again and she clenched a fist and rolled over, sulking just as hard as the emo-goth demon.

"Unless I got it all wrong, and it's just about fighting the darkness..."

There was so many things she hated about that. Herself for caring. "Like I should even bloody care if I don't find him!!!!" except that made her want to cry, and she hated that too, and she hated that it was even a possibility, and she resented that if there was a god, she didn't seem willing to speak to them and tell them what to do, and like with the Bad Wolf -- Rose groaned, "But that's the thing, right, yeah??? I couldn't just tell myself what to do or I wouldn't do it."

All the snuggling to Crowley's legs. "So I guess......." she conceded, very unwillingly, "If there is a plan, which I still don't think there is, because there's no bloody point -- then it would have to be.... kind of stupid." She rubbed her temples with her fingers, trying to massage her brain through her skull. "When I rescued Donna I could only tell her Bad Wolf and hope the Doctor got the message. Every time I tried to be more direct, it didn't work. So if it's super ridiculously stupid," Stupid, not ineffable, in Rose's opinion, "Then it's all just the only way it works out--"

More groans and wolf puppy whines and she wished she had a pillow to cover her face with.

"I DON'T WANNA!!!!!" more wolf puppy howling to no one, since she didn't believe God listened or cared, even if she had expanded her disbelief to remove the idea that God wasn't a thing.

She rolled back over to face Crowley's stomach.

"Look, listen, maybe there is some stupid ineffable plan, but sod it!!! Sod all of it!!! We don't have to do anything we don't wanna, yeah??? So let's just...." she poked his stomach. She hated herself for looking to him for direction too. She could direct herself... except... she'd just been following the Bad Wolf trail, and while that was herself, it was cheating, and Rose preferred cheating to be sure, but without that trail she just wanted to hold the Doctor's hand and let him do it, and it was such a pain in the--

"Do whatever comes to us! Maybe it'll be part of some stupid plan, but then at least we'll get rewarded with yanno... fun and stuff!!!" a pout. And she rolled back over. And sulked. Planning fun without the Doctor almost seemed like blasphemy to her. She got up and prowled around angrily. "He should be here." Growl growl growl growl. "I'll never forgive him if he's not...." hackles on end, more growling.

"I DUNNO!!!!!" she flailed exasperatedly. "Right place, right time, story of my life, literally, and I made it that way, and maybe she made it that way, and it's just so stupid!!! So let's just... Fight to get what we want!!! She can put us here, lead us here, say it's all some big stupid plan, but carrot and stick, right? Anytime we get the stick, let's bite whoever tries, and steal the carrots, not led ourselves be conned!!!" She raised a fist in the air and then a middle finger. "DON'T THINK I WON'T FIGHT YOU, BECAUSE I BLOODY WELL WILL!!! I'M NOT GONNA PUT MYSELF THROUGH ALL THIS FOR NOTHING I'M NOT THAT GOOD!!!!" rawr rawr rawr rage.