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lackingbeauty) wrote2014-10-05 03:13 am
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♕ 002 // Action for Goldenrod (Circus)
-ere.
[Beast, for anyone who remembers her first broadcast some time ago, seems to have gotten the hang of the PokéGear, holding it so that it better shows her from the shoulder up, outside Eve's Garden Circus in Goldenrod.]
Reckon that's workin' now. Ye can 'ear me an' such.
[She looks. Irritated? Stern? Strained? Maybe it's just her face.]
Been 'ere longer 'n I care t'be, but apparently that isn' about to change, so I'll introduce myself proper.
Name's Beast. Animal tamer by trade. [She snorts a bit derisively before muttering under her breath-] Though looks like everyone 'n their brother is claimin' t'be the same in this place.
Any 'ow, I figured to thank the people who tried to talk t'me when I first arrived. Ye'll forgive I weren' exactly the 'appiest woman at the time, seein' as I think takin' that sort a arrival calmly might mean yer off in the 'ead.
Didn' get most a yer names, but I appreciate what ye done.
[Which is the closest she'll come to apologizing for how she treated some of you. Take it or leave it.]
That said, 'll be takin' up at the circus time bein'. 'd like t' 'ave a few words with anyone who considers themself a part a that. In person, preferably. This gear'll do if yer away.
Good day t'ye.
[Look at that- so polite.]
[Beast, for anyone who remembers her first broadcast some time ago, seems to have gotten the hang of the PokéGear, holding it so that it better shows her from the shoulder up, outside Eve's Garden Circus in Goldenrod.]
Reckon that's workin' now. Ye can 'ear me an' such.
[She looks. Irritated? Stern? Strained? Maybe it's just her face.]
Been 'ere longer 'n I care t'be, but apparently that isn' about to change, so I'll introduce myself proper.
Name's Beast. Animal tamer by trade. [She snorts a bit derisively before muttering under her breath-] Though looks like everyone 'n their brother is claimin' t'be the same in this place.
Any 'ow, I figured to thank the people who tried to talk t'me when I first arrived. Ye'll forgive I weren' exactly the 'appiest woman at the time, seein' as I think takin' that sort a arrival calmly might mean yer off in the 'ead.
Didn' get most a yer names, but I appreciate what ye done.
[Which is the closest she'll come to apologizing for how she treated some of you. Take it or leave it.]
That said, 'll be takin' up at the circus time bein'. 'd like t' 'ave a few words with anyone who considers themself a part a that. In person, preferably. This gear'll do if yer away.
Good day t'ye.
[Look at that- so polite.]
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[ He's currently somewhere around town but mental note to pop over to say hi when he comes back from his cycling. ]
Apologies all around though. Didn't get to greet you your first day in. I was prolly trying to figure this all out myself but... bob's your uncle, here we are, eh? If I knew a lass like you was in a spot of trouble, I would've come 'round, no question.
[ Have a small two fingered salute though. ]
It's Ronald Knox, by the by. Judging from where you are, we'll be seeing a bit of each other at the circus, I suppose.
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[Is that professional bitterness in her tone? Yes. Yes, it is.
The flattery bit is summarily... ignored.]
Remind me yer job round 'ere, Knox?
[She'd gotten a run down from Joker but seeing that... she was a bit information overloaded at the moment, she figured she'd remember better hearing it from people directly. Put a face to the name and position.
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[ There's an approving little nod from his duskull. ]
Joker said he'd known my boss from home. You lot know him as... Suit? I offered to give it a go, whatever he used to do to fill his spot. Figured it'd be only right.
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[She isn't even going to touch the friendliness of the locals. It's weird. Someone who's used to getting by on the fringe, to not being accepted in normal social circles... all she had for being welcomed was skepticism.
That went in to overdrive the second Ronald said "Suit".]
- Suit was yer boss?
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[ Hm. More of that. Joker did have almost the same reaction when they first spoke. ]
Yeah. I was acting as backup for the collection. T'was a big job, after all. Hardly anything one reaper could take on his own.
[ A beat to think. ]
You know, you did say something about speaking to people in private so... if you'll give me a bit, I could come 'round and... d'you fancy some tea? Coffee? There's a cafe somewhere in town we can talk. My treat.
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Beyond Suit's weird ramblings. Which had been suspicious enough.]
What collection? In't ye some sort a government employee, then, if Suit was yer boss?
[That's what she'd heard anyway- and he looked the part, all uptight, stone-faced, and unfunny. A right weird fellow, and she'd never taken to a shine to him like Joker and Dagger had.]
... Yea, why don' ye come round. Tea'd be keen.
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But a bit of a question while I ride.
[ He'll just pause so he can mount his bike again. ]
What's the last thing you remember? No wrong answers and nothing's too ridiculous or impossible. You can be as vague as you wish.
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[Beast is already on guard- being related to Suit somehow might have given Ronald a pass with other members of Noah's Ark, but not with Beast. So that question really doesn't seem like something she'd like to answer, let alone to someone she doesn't know.]
Seein' as we jus' met, I doubt anythin' I say'd make a lick a sense t'ye in the first place.
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Fair's fair. We've just met so... the last memory's prolly a bit private. Best I not pry, eh?
[ He'll pause again to get off, holding out a pokeball to call back the ponyta. ]
That's his exercise for the day done, then. And... Beast, right? Nothing beastly about you, that I can tell.
[ And holding his hand out for a proper greeting. ]
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Reckon so.
[Is how she greeted him and his little entrance. That... thing was waving at her.
She didn't wave back.
She did reach out to grasp his hand in a firm, maybe too firm, shake.]
Charmed, 'm sure.
[- She wasn't. But she was trying to be polite.]
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Absolutely charmed, miss. Now then... best we talk over that tea we agreed on. If you're ready, we can head off whenever you please.
[ He'll just take to wheeling his bike after he steps off it. ]
Wager you've just arrived too, then? I've been here nary a month, myself.
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[Beast cast something of an anxious look back at the circus tents, a fleeting moment where she considers telling Joker or Snake she'd be stepping out.
But something stops her.
Instead she takes up an easy stride besides his bike. If anything went wrong, (and seeing as in her memories, things feel about to go very wrong indeed), well. She knew how to take care of herself.
They all did.]
- Bout the same.
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[ And so he begins to lead them down the street. ]
How're you getting along though?
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[From the one person she'd accept it from. Seeing as she tried to listen to others on arrival and ended up ignoring them after a few exchanges. They'd seemed like loons to her at the time.
... Still sort of did, really. Beast followed him with a certain degree of wariness, her tone betraying how she feels about small talk.]
- an' I'm gettin' alon' fine.
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[ He's just going to go ahead and wheel his bike to the parking racks of a quaint little cafe, something by the roadside. ]
Now then, wager you said something about Mister Spears and I working for the peelers?
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[Though her tone made it clear she didn't at all, and found it rather foolish people seemed okay with being here at all.
Bit of a Debby Downer, Beast.
At his question, though, she shook her head.]
That Suit never said 'e were a peeler, but- some sort a government fella. By the look a 'im I always figured 'im fer a desk man.
[Except if he had been with the constabulary-]
Were ye, then? Peelers?
[Wariness spiking...]
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[ Give him a second to pull a chair out for her. ]
Haven't the slightest of what you're going on about though. Mister Spears and myself aren't what you'd call peelers, much less part of the ruddy government, mind.
Like I said, we're reapers, me and him. M'sure you've prolly heard a few of the stories. Grandfather Death and all?
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Which was then followed not by some explanation of how that was a legitimate real job, but exactly the idea.
Grandfather Death.]
- If yer goin' to spout that same load a shit as Suit tried jokin' about, I'm leavin'. Maybe some people got the ead fer it, but I don' 'ave time fer that sort a nonsense.
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Yeah, it'd prolly sound like a load of bollocks to anyone so I can't say I blame you there. Mister Spears joking though, [ A laugh. ] now that's something, isn't it? He was never the sort to pull anyone's leg. Always said he either needed to get that stick lodged up his arse out or have a good shag.
[ But back to the matter at hand... ]
Don't even have my scythe on me or my To Die list to prove a point...
[ Hmm... how best to prove it. ]
Wouldn't take a bloke on his good word, would you...?
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Reaper stories are fer the old 'n the young, so I'll kindly ask ye stop tryin' to play me for somethin' that don' even exist.
[Reaping, rather, believing in it, implied a certain belief in the afterlife, or at least, the estancia of the soul. And Beast had abandoned all such belief years ago. Belief in some magnanimous god, in a Heaven, in Hell...
They'd lived in Hell. It was called East End, in a filthy alley off Old Nichol. They were still living in a form of it, and salvation was a dream of "over the hill".
As for this man though- even out she didn't know why he'd bother trying such a tall tale on her, she knew what she did and did not believe in. (Didn't she?)]
I wouldn'. If that'd be all, then-
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[ Okay, time to think... what was the last thing he remembered...? ]
...Didn't remember seeing you at the manor that night. M'sure I'd remember a lass like you... You prolly went to the Phantomhive place, didn't you? With the rest of them?
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Except then Ronald said "Phantomhive".
She whipped back around, voice lowered to a more discrete level, terse and almost hissed.]
'ow the 'ell d'ye know that name?
[Besides, you know- the Reaper explanation. Which couldn't be true.]
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[ He'll just ruffle his hair at the memory. ]
Met the lad before I came here, actually! Couldn't have his butler running 'round. The Board'll have me on overtime for a month if they heard I let a demon steal anything on my list.
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They were in a cafe. Hissed.]
Get out a this place this instant.
[Beast jerked her head, gritting her teeth and hands fisted in anger as she walked right back out of the cafe, waving off a waitress who had just come to give them glasses of water.]
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Right! I'll... just stay out of your hair then!
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