spam & video . 10th transformation

[permutates]

[ She changes in an empty cabin. She has practiced this appearance in front of the mirror until she has it perfect: hair curled, an old-style nurse's uniform like the kind she saw in America when she was a child. Earnest, soft hands, a sweet smile. She perfects it, carefully, and then tentatively steps out into the hallway.

And now she wanders, her steps soft, her hands clutched to her chest. She acts as though she has never been here before. ]

Hello?

[ video ]

Is this how you - oh! I broke it!

[ The camera faces a young woman, blonde, beautiful, wide-eyed. This transmission comes from Red's communicator. ]

…are you sure? I think I - oh, it's on me. Oh! Is my hair all right? [ Her hand flies to the curls. ]


[ OOC NOTE: Raven has decided to invent and assume an alternate personality, after the horrible stuff she did in the flood. I'm okay with her being reasonably discovered, but would like her to be able to keep up the facade in public for at least a little while. Let her experiment a little. So please talk to me first if you would like your character to figure it out!

Her pretend personality is a new inmate, from 1940s in America. An aspiring nurse. ]

Comments

[secretasshole]

And he makes them frequently.

[permutates]

Well, what are you going to do, whine about it?

He's a man, and sometimes men simply don't listen.

[secretasshole]

If you have proof that the Admiral is a man at all, I'm sure we'd all love to hear about it.

[permutates]

Simple. He's obstinate and won't tell anyone what he's doing. A woman would be very different.

[secretasshole]

It's also possible that he's not a man or a woman.

[permutates]

Trust me. I know a man when I see one.

[secretasshole]

I don't.

[permutates]

You don't have to be like that about it.

[secretasshole]

I know.

[permutates]

Then why are you?

[secretasshole]

Because I choose to be.

[permutates]

Why do you choose to be?

[secretasshole]

Because I've been given very little reason to act otherwise.

[permutates]

So the only reason to be polite is to make other people be nice to you?

[secretasshole]

No.

[permutates]

Then why don't you tell me what it is you mean.

[canfindrope]

"Everyone's new once," she points out, smiling a little tightly. Come on. Let her take care of you a bit.

[permutates]

"I guess that's true." A pause, then - "Does that mean you wished someone helped you, once upon a time?"

[canfindrope]

"Someone did," she admitted. "Sort of... They... weren't very good at it." They tried to help her with her wolf, in theory - but mostly they just treated her like a monster who couldn't be trusted.

It's not a happy memory,

[permutates]

She covers Red's hand.

"Sometimes help turns into someone telling you who you need to be," she says. "And that ain't right."

[canfindrope]

She gives the hand a squeeze back, surprised but comforted.

"Come on. I'll show you around."

[secretasshole]

I don't see much reason at all in being polite.

[permutates]

Why not?

[permutates]

"Is the ship terribly big?" she asks, tentatively, rising to her feet.

[canfindrope]

"You get used to it," she promised, smiling a little. "It's nice."