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Tweak says, "Don't abandon me. Never."

MarinaNova NPCs (marinanova_npc) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2014-04-21 09:20:00

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:mingle, aidan reilly, artemis crock, asami sato, brian moser, dexter morgan, duo maxwell (au), euphemia li britannia, haruka tenoh, jack harkness, kitty pryde (evolution), lyle dylandy, malcolm reynolds, mgann morzz, nico di angelo, percy jackson, piter de vries, rebecca crane, rose, sam winchester, sarah williams, sougo okita, spike, terry mcginnis, wally west, yuuri shibuya

Day 268 — Body Swap Mingle
[You know the phrase about waking up on the wrong side of the bed? Well, today you wake up exactly where you planned to, just not how you planned to. Taller, blonder, now with dangerous and unpredictable powers? So maybe the phrase about not feeling comfortable in your own skin applies more today. After all, it's not exactly your skin is it?]

(OOC: Use this mingle to run into people anywhere in the dome. Body swap info.)

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foreverjack
2014-05-11 11:28 am UTC (link)

[Well, of course she wouldn't have a problem with this face. Stupid of him to think she might. She's a vampire herself, and used to it, even if her own physiology doesn't work the same way.]

Hard to think about anything other than blood whilst drinking the stuff.

[Dryly, before he goes back to drinking, thinking that at least the sooner he gets this over with, the sooner he has some chance of putting the demon away again.

When he's finished the bottle off, he sets it down and wipes his mouth, and looks back at Rose.] It's different for you, isn't it? You're more... one entity, rather than two conflicting ones?

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justexisting
2014-05-12 04:09 pm UTC (link)

Hmph.

[Is all that Rose has to say to him on that. She's annoyed that Jack is in there instead of Spike but she can't let his body starve.

Rose watches in silence as he drinks the bottle, sipping from her own on occasion. Hopefully the body swap will only last a day and even that was long enough.]

The demon still resides in me but I've learned to control it. I know what I am but that doesn't mean I accept it all of the time. So I suppose it is both- one entity, but with conflict.

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foreverjack
2014-05-13 08:07 pm UTC (link)

[One day in Spike's body will certainly be enough for Jack, too, even if he is finding it quite useful in an information-gathering capacity. He wonders briefly if he might have managed to pump more information out of Rose if he'd pretended to actually be Spike, but he knows he couldn't have pulled that off. Easier to pull off the other way round - Spike has at least actually been human - but there are far too many new things here for him.]

I guess we all have trouble accepting what we are all the time. [Agreeing, wryly. And then cocking his head, curious.] Do you mean sometimes you don't accept you're a vampire?

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justexisting
2014-05-15 05:01 pm UTC (link)

Yeah. I've hurt people and I regret doing it. [Honesty. It wasn't always easy for her to admit to something like that, if at all.] I'm sure that you have regrets. Like everyone.

[Has he killed like her? Rose doesn't know and she hasn't really felt the need to ask him. She's struggled with her instincts for most of her life since she was turned and it's been a difficult journey.]

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	foreverjack 2014-05-15 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, to both. I have, and I do. All the time. [He quirks an eyebrow at her.] Does Spike have regrets. [And yes, sorry Rose, he knows it must be as hard for her as it is for him, talking about Spike while he's wearing Spike's body. On the other hand, what an unrivalled chance to finally learn some of the things he's been trying to find out!] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	gah spelling justexisting 2014-05-17 02:35 pm UTC (link)
	Probably. I haven't really asked him about it before. [There was no way in hell she was going to tell Jack such personal details about Spike, no matter how much he pressed for information. Apart from that, there were still things about him that even she didn't know.] I think you're more interested in him than you are in me. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

No worries!

foreverjack
2014-05-17 04:44 pm UTC (link)

[Oh, he's interested in her too - especially if Spike's regrets or lack thereof really aren't something that bothers her. Despite that, though, he needs to keep her on side here, so he turns on the charm, which actually isn't that hard even in Spike's body because, even if Spike doesn't do it that often, he's had plenty of experience watching John Hart use his charm and they really are incredibly similar.]

I'm sorry, were you feeling left out? [He leans against the bar and gives her his full attention with a small smile, and a glimmer in his eye.] So tell me about your kind of vampire, Rose. You... manage to live alongside the humans relatively peacefully, right?

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justexisting
2014-05-18 10:40 pm UTC (link)

[Charm or not, he still wasn't Spike. She wasn't going to tell him anything that she didn't feel comfortable with telling. About herself or Spike.]

Maybe a little. [She can easily turn the charm on Jack to throw him off. Well, hopefully.]

For the most part, yes. It depends on the individual vampire and their level of control. Not everyone knows that we exist though.

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	foreverjack 2014-05-19 08:40 am UTC (link)
	I'm sorry. It's a bit of a weird day. [He watches her from behind his smile. What she doesn't want to talk about might be just as revealing as what she is willing to say, in some ways.] So what affects your level of control? Is it natural, something you get from your sire? Or is it down to how much you want to be in control? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justexisting 2014-05-21 07:27 pm UTC (link)
	It's got nothing to do with our sires. Completely down to the vampires themselves. [Her sire pretty much left her on her own when she was turned.] Most of the time I don't think they give a damn about us. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	foreverjack 2014-05-21 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah? Make you who you are and then bugger off to leave you to figure how to make it work. Sounds familiar. [Not quite how it had happened with him and the Doctor, but close enough for him to draw out the analogy for her.] So why did you decide to use your control? What made you want to stop killing people? (Reply to this) (Parent)

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