twoton21: (srs blogging)
Henchman 21 ([personal profile] twoton21) wrote2010-01-29 06:14 pm

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So I know I overreacted the night before. I was a little pissed off and everything, but then I guess dying probably kinda does that for some people. Anyway, does that floating disembodied voice guy always leave right in the middle of a conversation? What a douche.

Anyway -- thanks to everybody that tried to be helpful. But seeing as how this room is pretty much my room exactly (which is kind of creepy, by the way -- nobody but me should know some of the minute details), there's really not much settling in I have to do. And while I don't really think I'm up for all this "redemption" stuff, I haven't got much better to do while I'm here besides at least have a look, right?

So...sorry for freaking out at some of you. You'll see me around.

Call me 21.

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Having read through the journals and taken a peek around, I've come to settle on three possible explanations for my current predicament:

1. Monstroso has secretly developed hallucination-inducing powers...maybe kind of like those demons in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Only I don't know why I'd be dreaming of this and -- I don't know, what my life would have been like if I stayed home through my teen years.
2. In the ensuing and EPIC battle between Monstroso, Brock Samson, and myself, I sustained massive head trauma and am now lying in a coma somewhere -- perhaps in a hospital, perhaps back at the cocoon, or perhaps even in some secret guild lab under Monstroso's office building. This would explain why there is at least one familiar place, my room. Therefore, all the people here that I seem to be recognizing from television and comics are clearly just figments of my imagination, my collective pop culture knowledge rising up as one to shield me from the worst damages to my brain. ...And how fucking cool is that? (I think there was a TV show like that a while back -- didn't last long. It was probably crappy. I dunno.)
3. Everything these people have told me about this place is true. I'm dead. And apparently in some strange nexus where anything and anyone I've ever fantasized as real really is real.

The first two options would definitely explain why I can't contact 24 anymore -- and it confirms he really was haunting me either way. If he were in my head, and all this were in my head, he'd be here now.

The third I'm still not so sure of. But just in case it is true, I need to be careful how I talk to some people. After all, if I say the wrong thing to one of them and they go home, how horribly am I going to mess up their time line?

I could unmake fandom as I know it.

Uncle Ben was right. Great power? Great responsibility.

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Hey there, 21. My name's Libby. If you have any questions, you can talk to me anytime.

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'd prefer it that way. I have a number of last names, none of which I particularly care for anymore.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Fair enough. What're you in for?

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. So were you assigned to me then? How's this work?

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry, but no; I already have my own Inmate. I'm just trying to be helpful.

You'll be assigned to someone soon, barring any unforeseen events. They'll be in charge of your redemption process.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, no offense, but putting it like that makes it sound way too technical. We're not computers that you reformat, y'know.

if he's seen Lost, he's heard her introduce her job as in the second line

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
None taken--it's just the most neutral way to phrase it. Otherwise I risk new Inmates getting angry for 'acting like I know them'.

I'm a shrink. I know it's more complicated than that.

He's got a big of deja vu and little else.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Ohh, so you're sort of like ship's counselor or something, right? Like Deanna Troi.

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, basically. I'm the only psychologist on board, so it's ended up that way.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
That's hot

Uh, cool. So I bet you get a lot of work then, right?

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose, but I enjoy the work. It only gets hard to handle when a bad flood ends--suddenly the stigma attached therapy seems to matter less, and my schedule ends up packed for a few days.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Flood? Are there leaks in this boat or something?

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
That's just what we call the breaks in reality that happen every so often. Sometimes we get a fun one, like turning into children or 80s high school movie archetypes. Not all of them are, though. Sometimes people are injured or killed; sometimes people go crazy.

We don't have any control over it.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Breaks in reality?

Sorry but I'm still kinda lost.

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
The nature of things in this place changes sometimes, including us. Once we were all physically incapable of lying about anything asked of us. Once, before I got here, people swapped sexes.

They all wear off after a few days, and they're all a result of the Admiral's bad steering.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. So you're basically telling me that I could turn into a she-21 at any minute.

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Close enough.

What is it you did, before you came here? Promise I won't judge.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a Professional Henchman.

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
...I get the gist, but I didn't realize there was a market for that.

[identity profile] twoton21.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
It could be there is where you come from, and you just don't know about it.

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
Believe me, if there is, my family's already exploiting it somewhere.

Why NO, she's not checking the age difference at ALL

[identity profile] thatlibbychick.livejournal.com 2010-01-30 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
They exploit everything they can. Needless to say, I don't like them very much.

How old are you, if you don't mind my asking?

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