Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics - 01 - video

[gottawearshades]

[ Scott's been here a few days, but he hasn't posted on the network or done much other than rest, recover, and plan. He is eight different kinds of not okay with the fact that he was just brought here out of the blue. He's worried about the others back home, worried about how his parents are going to take a second child just... gone. They weren't exactly the best, but they deserved better than a pair of empty caskets and a ton of questions. And then there was where he actually was and all of what that meant.

He'd spent a few days trying to figure out if they were messing with him, but from everything he'd been able to see or find, it looked like the people who'd brought him here weren't trying to trap him so much as just couldn't send him home. He'd stewed a little in that, frustrated with himself and his lack of scientific knowledge to ever refute such an idea, but that didn't really help anything and he'd turned towards something to do here soon enough. Honestly, it's amazing that took as long as it did, given Scott's general impatience. That's why, with his couple of credits and his ridiculous job recommendation (hey, if he could rock it, he'd rock it for money. Pride's never paid his bills...) he's finally dipping his toe into treating this place like his 'real world' for the moment instead of just a screwed up nightmare scenario.

He's looking pretty good for a kid from 1983 with medically required wrap around sunglasses as he grins into the camera and offers a laconic sort of thumbs up. Teenage boys are a menace and should be stopped. ]

Hey, so... if I say 'mutant', what does that make you all think of?

[ The mun would like to note that due to the fact that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came out in May of 1984, she was unable to make a totally tubular reference and she would like if you would all be sad for her at this deep temporal injustice.

Scott, on the other hand, is testing the waters in a sort of obvious but not really entirely obvious but pretty obvious kind of way. Though to be fair, he's doing it in front of the most non-descript bit of wall in the Ingress compound he could find and fully intends to take off the eye-catching bright neon yellow jacket and stuff it in his backpack as soon as he's done. Nothing to be done about the telling sunglasses, but he's trying. Who knows what could come back from this? ]

Comments

[gottawearshades]

[ Okay, not what he was expecting but totally workable. ]

Never actually saw those movies. Are they any good?

switching to audio

[nishizono]

Of course they are, they're classics. And the rest of the sequels are B-movie camp fun, too. You're missing out.

Why the interest in mutants, though. Got bitten by a radioactive ant?

[ the difficulty of not referencing marvel characters when you play a pop-culture-consuming "teen" is rearing its head currently. ]

[gottawearshades]

[ I feel your pain. Especially since he's from 1983. ]

Missed out. I could always fix it, after all. Soon as I've got the time.

[ since they're on audio now, the shrug isn't visible, but it's that certain kind of pause in the talking that's obvious enough ]

No bites. At least not yet. That kind of thing happen a lot around here?

[nishizono]

I didn't need a bug bite to get where I am, if that helps.

[ he hasn't exactly been subtle or secretive about his whole "clone of a clone" sitch, but saying it outright is still a trial. he'll get there eventually. self-acceptance and all that. ]

You're in space and you're still busy though? The fuck are you doing, rebuilding civilization from the ground up?

[gottawearshades]

Still got bills to pay, right?

[ Even though he's still on his first month's stipend. It's a good line, though. ]

[nishizono]

I freeload wherever I can get away with it, so I don't really get that.

[ what's a king to a god, etc., what's hard work to a grand thief. this is off to a great start. ]

Are you seriously working?

[gottawearshades]

[ Thaaat's getting a faint snort. Okay, fair enough- ]

Not yet. And it sounds like the job they have lined up for me isn't really much 'work' either.

[nishizono]

I signed up for the security guys for the Ingress Complex. It's a lot of standing around and doing nothing, most days.

I'd say it's easy money but it's still a bit of work. What did they put you down for? Is it fun? Do you get to shoot anything?

[ he's starting to consider actually working, and that's just wrong. ]

[gottawearshades]

[ Tiny bit of an eyebrow raise there. And yet, out it comes, straight face and all. ]

Modelling sunglasses.

[nishizono]

Uh huh. How much does that pay?

[ silly as it sounds, it doesn't seem like a half-bad business. not to mention sunglasses are cool as hell. ]

[gottawearshades]

[ The truest of facts. ]

Dunno, haven't seen the first paycheck. If it sucks, I'll figure something else out.

[nishizono]

That's so weird. Working for something you're not even sure of, I mean.

[ what is an honest day's work??? ]

Do you even like it?

[gottawearshades]

I haven't started yet. I can't imagine it's too hard, though.

Like, I don't give a crap about people taking my picture.

[nishizono]

Of course you wouldn't, your nose is gonna hide the rest of you.

[ it's... rude as all get out, but honestly, man. you set yourself up for that one. ]

[gottawearshades]

Doing it's damn job, as far as I'm concerned.

[ Yeah, that is not the kind of thing that upsets him. ]

[nishizono]

Should I call you Kid Nose, then? It's got a nice ring to it.

[ you can't take this back now. ]

[gottawearshades]

I mean, if you're that against 'Scott'. Or you can't read.

[ The 'meh' is strong with this one. ]

[nishizono]

Scott is lame, and depends on the alphabet. I didn't go to school.

[ technically. technically, he has the synthetic memories of being in school, just to backstop the gaps in his social development. it's nothing like the real thing, unfortunately.

juvie didn't help, either - how could it, when it was a front for assassinations? ]

[gottawearshades]

Nah, got two working legs.

But you do your thing.