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mother_forkerEleanor had really tried to make it to school before the first day. Well not really. There had been one honest attempt to pack before she got distracted by a string of YouTube fail videos and then missing two buses in a row.
If you wanted to track her progress on the island you could see a trail of annoyed rickshaw drivers, a moderately offended grocery clerk and a small trail of shrimp tails leading to the dorm.
Anyone walking down the hallway would see her carrying all her worldly possessions and two large party trays full of shrimp cocktail and a bag of two large plastic bottles containing low quality tequila and margarita mix. After struggling with the door she managed to kick it open, dump all her stuff on the floor and proceeded to start mixing a large drink and eating shrimp while looking at her class schedule.
"Ethics? Ugh. Who picked that garbage?" she said finishing her drink and adding a twizzler in it to use as a straw. "This place already blows."
[OOC: First post for Eleanor. Open door, open post.]
If you wanted to track her progress on the island you could see a trail of annoyed rickshaw drivers, a moderately offended grocery clerk and a small trail of shrimp tails leading to the dorm.
Anyone walking down the hallway would see her carrying all her worldly possessions and two large party trays full of shrimp cocktail and a bag of two large plastic bottles containing low quality tequila and margarita mix. After struggling with the door she managed to kick it open, dump all her stuff on the floor and proceeded to start mixing a large drink and eating shrimp while looking at her class schedule.
"Ethics? Ugh. Who picked that garbage?" she said finishing her drink and adding a twizzler in it to use as a straw. "This place already blows."
[OOC: First post for Eleanor. Open door, open post.]
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Date: 2019-09-03 04:20 pm (UTC)"Hey. Need a hand with any of that . . . shrimp?"
Honestly, having been in Fandom this long, Tip's primary reaction was to be very glad this girl hadn't been in town during the week without seafood.
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Date: 2019-09-03 04:42 pm (UTC)However at the moment there was shrimp and Tip had just caught Eleanor stuffing one into her mouth right as she asked that question. There was a slight moment of selfish panic as Eleanor realized that Tip was asking to actually eat some of her shrimp. There might have even been a slight protective gesture of said shrimp until Eleanor realized that she was about to spill a giant thermal cup of margarita onto the cheap plastic platter.
"Um. Sure. Okay. Yeah, that's fine I guess," trying to make it sound like it wasn't a big deal to share the shrimp even though it was taking quite an effort. "It's just shrimp. Plenty more of them, am I right?"
Eleanor was totally going to be counting how much shrimp Tip ate.
"Oh. Right. Where are my manners? Eleanor Shellstrop. Transfer from Phoenix Arizona."
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Date: 2019-09-03 04:48 pm (UTC)Tip had, in fact, meant it in a more of a "help get you settled in" way, that then got distracted by the shrimp. She did take one, though, since. Well. Shrimp was tasty.
"Tip Tucci," she offered in return. "Nice to meet you. You know, I actually lived in Arizona for awhile. It was . . . interesting."
Her world had been conquered by not one, but two alien races at the time, so "interesting" was about the kindest way she could put that.
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Date: 2019-09-03 04:59 pm (UTC)She paused for a moment and made a calculated decision based on the amount of margarita mix she had left. "Margarita?"
Breakfast drink of champions.
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Date: 2019-09-03 05:17 pm (UTC)Tip laughed. "I definitely remember the racism." It was hard to miss. "And, well. Mom and I lived in a casino a bunch of white people stole from the local tribe." They'd actually been confused when Tip had pointed out how fucked up that was. "So, yeah. 'Interesting' is kind of a polite way of saying 'horrifying' in this case."
Speaking of. "No thanks. I try not to drink before . . ." Ever. ". . . Sundown."
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Date: 2019-09-03 05:26 pm (UTC)She then paused for a moment. Did she just say fork?
"So you lived in a casino? That honestly sounds awesome except for the whole stealing from other part. Did your Mom work and live there?"
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Date: 2019-09-03 05:35 pm (UTC)Oh Eleanor. How fast did you want your brain broken?
"Um. No, not quite. It was more of a 'squat wherever you can' kind of situation. Were you here for the welcome picnic, or did you just get in?"
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Date: 2019-09-03 06:03 pm (UTC)"Picnic? Nope. Just got in about an hour or so. Worst forking trip ever," she said taking another gulp of her drink and laughing. "Wow. There must be something in this mix because I keep saying fork when I'm trying to say fork."
Wait. Fuck "Fork."
Nope. Fuuuuuuuck "Foooooooork."
She glared at the bottom of her glass. "What kind of shirt is in this bullshirt mix?"
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Date: 2019-09-03 06:07 pm (UTC)"Are you . . . trying to say 'fuck' and 'shit'?" Tip asked, looking ever so slightly displeased at saying the words herself
she was from a kid's canon, after all. "Huh. You've got your own profanity filter. That's a new one."At least this made the whole "Fandom is weird" speech slightly easier, despite not having a giant shark-man to point to.
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Date: 2019-09-03 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-03 06:26 pm (UTC)"I just mean I haven't seen it before. And around here I've seen a lot." Tip shrugged. "Okay, so, it sounds like you're from a pretty normal place. Welcome to Fandom, where magical profanity filters exist. Among other things."
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Date: 2019-09-03 06:49 pm (UTC)Of course the rabbit and all the doves died under Eleanor's watch and that was definitely far from magical as well.
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Date: 2019-09-03 06:53 pm (UTC)"Like, not cheap magician 'illusions'," Tip said. "Okay, let's see: one of my best friends sees and talks to ghosts on the regular. I've visited the home of a giant shark prince on more than one occasion. I lived in Arizona because in my universe, Earth got invaded by aliens and they decided to move all the humans to one state so they could keep the rest of the country to themselves. So -- yeah. Stupid people being stupid is still pretty normal."
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Date: 2019-09-03 07:18 pm (UTC)"Wow. Okay."
Cue another big gulp from her insulated cup of margarita. And of course she gets a brain freeze headache.
"Ow. Okay. That's forked up. No wonder I can afford this place," she said wincing from the drink. "And people just keep staying here regardless."
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Date: 2019-09-03 07:21 pm (UTC)Tip shrugged. "It beat living with my mom."
Tip's mom was actually a perfectly lovely woman. She just also had a kid too early, and didn't grow into said perfectly lovely woman until the alien invasion forced her to grow up when Tip was eleven.
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Date: 2019-09-03 07:27 pm (UTC)"Okay. I get that," She said popping a shrimp in her mouth. "I've been on my own since I was fourteen. Dealing with this bullshirt and getting free room and board with it isn't too bad. Not swearing again is going to be forking frustrating though."
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Date: 2019-09-03 07:34 pm (UTC)Tip had to laugh. "Hey, maybe it's a PG-13 thing, and you'll still manage to get one 'fuck' in when you really need it."
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Date: 2019-09-03 07:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-03 08:07 pm (UTC)"Three years?" Tip thought back and shrugged. "I started first semester freshman year, and I'm a senior now. So yeah. Three years."
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Date: 2019-09-03 10:21 pm (UTC)She just needs to know the scale of weird things to expect.
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Date: 2019-09-03 10:26 pm (UTC)Being turned into a heartless fashion doll and reporting on people to the secret police was still much to fresh an example, for all that it was the first thing that sprang to her mind.
"When I first came here, there was a bright pink pony that ran a party store in town."
And if that wasn't enough, Tip could tell Eleanor about how that pony had turned into a literal ravenous monster one week and ambushed the unwary all over town.
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Date: 2019-09-04 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-04 02:19 am (UTC)"Yeah, there's not much I can do about that. You'll get used to it eventually, though."
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Date: 2019-09-04 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-03 07:04 pm (UTC)She perked up when this new girl went into 203, then strode over to knock on the doorframe. "Eleanor Shellstrop?"
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Date: 2019-09-03 07:21 pm (UTC)She eyed the girl at the door cautiously. "Who wants to know?"
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Date: 2019-09-03 07:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-03 07:33 pm (UTC)The blender stopped and she starting pour a glass for herself and for strange albino sister girl.
"If you're going to be my sister, you better start drinking now. I'm going to have a lot of questions. Like why am I the one who gets a forking profanity filter and nobody else?"
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Date: 2019-09-04 01:16 am (UTC)It seemed a bit early to drink, for Lana, but if this were a cultural thing, she could at least have a little. "All right. And what do you mean, a profanity filter?"
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Date: 2019-09-04 02:18 am (UTC)She then began to pantomime a rather obscene act with her fingers.
“Fooooooork.”
She sighed and took a big gulp of her drink. “Also I heard there was a talking pink pony. Was I hallucinating when I heard that or not?”
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Date: 2019-09-04 02:52 am (UTC)Lana frowned. "I've never met a talking pink pony, but if somebody else said there was one, there probably was."
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Date: 2019-09-04 03:16 am (UTC)Kriff “Fork. Yep. Okay. I have an idea what that means now. All right, Sis. Tell me more about the best way to deal with place. Other than alcohol.”
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Date: 2019-09-04 03:33 am (UTC)"Patience, an open mind, and going armed whenever possible. We put together some welcome packets - are you from Earth and 2019?"
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Date: 2019-09-04 01:23 pm (UTC)She tilted her head in thought.
"I'm so researching lottery numbers while I'm here."
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Date: 2019-09-04 07:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-04 08:01 pm (UTC)She stared at Lana for a few moments.
"Okay. So maybe you're not an albino then. What the fork are you? Are you human? Something that looks like a human but aren't really because the special effects budget on a tv show was way too low? Wait. Scratch that. That's a TV thing not a real life thing because WE are real life and YOU'RE from another planet."
There was a lot of drunken finger pointing going on right now.
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Date: 2019-09-05 02:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-05 12:45 pm (UTC)Eleanor seemed to dwell on that for a moment.
"You got any cool sci-fi shirt?"
Yes. That should be your priority right now Eleanor.
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Date: 2019-09-05 02:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-05 03:04 pm (UTC)Not at you Lana. Not at you.
"Not shirts. Shirt. Like when you decided to eat dairy and you're lactose intolerant so you spend all day in the bathroom. That kind of shirt."
She groaned and sipped her drink morosely.
"This filter thing is sucks balls."
And then a moment of glee. "I can say balls! Balls. Balls. Balls. Balls. Balls. Balls."
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Date: 2019-09-05 03:54 pm (UTC)She pulled it out; it was a disk a few inches wide and about an inch thick that sat in her hand. When she turned it on, a blue hologram of the Empire's symbol floated in the air above it. "Though I don't have anybody to call at the moment."
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Date: 2019-09-05 05:11 pm (UTC)Do not let Eleanor have a lightsaber. Just... no.
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Date: 2019-09-05 05:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-05 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-05 06:57 pm (UTC)Please don't get skewered, Eleanor. That would be an utter failure of siblingdom.
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Date: 2019-09-04 01:31 am (UTC)Roommate...
... with interest.
Possibly because she had shrimp.
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Date: 2019-09-04 02:27 am (UTC)“Did anybody lose an ugly cat?!” She shouted out into the hallway.
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Date: 2019-09-04 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-09-04 02:44 am (UTC)“Are you shirting me? You talk? And you’re a student?”