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meadowlarklogs2019-03-17 01:14 pm
gasping) wrote in meadowlarklogs2019-03-17 01:14 pm
you learned to breathe underwater —
WHO: caroline forbes & you!
WHERE: the safehouse
WHEN: october 10
WHAT: an impromptu birthday celebration.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: excessive cheeriness.
[ by mid-day, a new message appears on the network from a new user, @caroline.forbes: ]
It's my birthday, apparently, so I made cake. Please don't make me eat all of it!
[ it's a fairly short message, but it's at least accompanied by a few photos of a cake, surprisingly delicious looking for being made of everything but chocolate.
those in the safehouse will have likely heard caroline baking up a storm all morning, and may be aware that the photos show her fourth attempt at this extremely finicky futuristic cake. by the time she posts her photos, all the evidence has been scrubbed clean from the countertops (and dishes and floor and tabletops and trash cans) of the safehouse kitchen. ]
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ooc note: feel free to have your character reply on the network, come by in person, or a combination thereof. this post is a combo pack because i didn't feel like making a network and log post on the same day. #lazy
WHERE: the safehouse
WHEN: october 10
WHAT: an impromptu birthday celebration.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: excessive cheeriness.
[ by mid-day, a new message appears on the network from a new user, @caroline.forbes: ]
It's my birthday, apparently, so I made cake. Please don't make me eat all of it!
[ it's a fairly short message, but it's at least accompanied by a few photos of a cake, surprisingly delicious looking for being made of everything but chocolate.
those in the safehouse will have likely heard caroline baking up a storm all morning, and may be aware that the photos show her fourth attempt at this extremely finicky futuristic cake. by the time she posts her photos, all the evidence has been scrubbed clean from the countertops (and dishes and floor and tabletops and trash cans) of the safehouse kitchen. ]
—
ooc note: feel free to have your character reply on the network, come by in person, or a combination thereof. this post is a combo pack because i didn't feel like making a network and log post on the same day. #lazy
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[ she can feel the antagonistic intent behind his words just fine (they remind her of damon) but she's not going to let him be right about this. ]
If you're happy because you lit the match, sure, you're a jerk. But if you're happy because you're still alive even though your house burned down, then you're being optimistic. [ a small, forced smile, as if proving her own point. ] I like to be positive.
[ she liked to eat b positive too. ]
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[ something he knows for a fact. ]
You just gonna make one up when that happens? Oh, I'm alive but no one else is guess I'm fucking lucky.
[ close to home, that one. ]
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Well, I almost died once. That sucked. [ she did die, but she came back to something resembling life, so. she's going with the "almost" part as a half-truth today. ] But I got a second chance, so that was the positive part.
[ close enough!!! ]
I probably could have dwelled on how scary and horrible it was at first, but I didn't. Being alive when you could not be is a positive, I think.
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[ there'd probably be more especially with what he knew about this place. if you had a get out of jail free card, why not test it? sure, no one here knew what the fuck a stack was so it was potentially playing with fire but where was the fun in being safe?
there was none. ]
Being alive's a fucking chore sometimes. But, glad you can look on the bright side of humanity.
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[ not judgment. just... a question. jeremy had a death wish. he wore the gilbert ring like a get out of jail free card and practically begged people to test it, in some kind of bizarre coping strategy after losing his parents and anna and everything in between.
caroline thought that was stupid, though, so maybe it is a little bit judgy. ]
Or are you just, like, super edgy because it makes you feel cool?
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[ well, maybe he'd had a death wish once or twice but he's gotten better at not trying to get himself killed. just happened that the work he did usually put him in the way of guns and knives and people who wanted to torture him. ]
Happens in my line of work. People just love to try and kill me. Good thing that it hasn't stuck, right? Everyone would be missing my smiling face.
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[ maybe from someone else's mouth it might have been sarcastic, but caroline means it. it is good that it hasn't stuck, because nobody deserved to die like that. nobody deserved to be tortured and hurt and killed — unless they were a terrible vampire bitch like katherine, but he really doesn't seem (or smell) like the type.
maladjusted asshole a la damon, sure. but irredeemable manipulative bitch? it takes a few more murder attempts on caroline's life for her to swing that far on the judgment scale. ]
You could smile more, it wouldn't hurt. [ a shrug ] But it's your face. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar, though.
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[ and there was nothing to smile about, caroline! everything was awful. not that he was going to start listing off reasons on why that was. she doesn't care. ]
I'll smile when something makes me smile. So far, no dice. This city is sadly lacking in fun.
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[ in the sage words of a former head cheerleader: you had to stretch first. ]
Anyway, I gave you cake. You should smile for the free cake, if nothing else.
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[ as soon as he finds time between staring at a wall and cursing his existence, it'll be smile practice time! but, she does have a point. the cake wasn't terrible so he does smile.
somewhat. it resembles a smile. ]
Thanks for the cake. It'll warm the cockles of my cold dead heart at least for five minutes. Ten if it's good.