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

[shakenandlimp]

Yes, miss. Captain William Bush, his Britannic Majesty's Royal Navy. It was 1814. [He knows well enough to add that last.]

[permutates]

Oooh, a Navy boy! Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, sir.

Helping our boys is why I want to be a nurse. On the battlefield, like.

[shakenandlimp]

[Bush has also learned to stifle his first protest-- that nursing is a nasty, degrading job better suited for men, and men who are not good enough to be more useful above-decks, than women. That too must be one of the things that's changed, along with better medicine.]

Dangerous work. Who are the Americans at war with, when you are from? I hope it ain't us, we are just over that.

[permutates]

Oh, not at all! England is an Ally. ...well, I suppose it wasn't in 1814, but no hard feelings, I promise!

We're fighting the Japs and the Germans, that's who. Italy too.

[shakenandlimp]

That is right, the Prussians and Bavarians are all just 'german'-- wouldn't have credited it-- but who else, besides Italy?

[He is confused.]

[permutates]

You know, Japan? Nippon?

[shakenandlimp]

Japan! That's clear on the other side of the Pacific, what are you fighting with them for? [He looks bewildered.]

[permutates]

The whole world's in this war, Captain.

[shakenandlimp]

By George, I thought Boney had things stirred up, but even he hadn't started with Japan. Good navy, have they?

[permutates]

The best in the Pacific.

Excepting ours, of course. We'll get 'em.

[shakenandlimp]

...large navy, have you nowadays.

[It is hard not to be dubious when a handful of ships of the line and a few frigates are what he remembers as the American Navy.]

[permutates]

You bet.

Some of 'em, left over from the last war. Japs tried to sink us at Pearl Harbor, you know, Hawaii? But you don't knock us out that easy.