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[vitaelamorte]

Has this ever happened to you? You are an adventurous and daring roleplayer bursting with motivation and ideas, and Wonderland seems just the place for you to let your creativity flourish, AND YET... you doubt.

Unsure if your grasp on that one character's voice is as firm as you'd like it to be? Wondering how exactly your regular character's quirks will work out, once you've turned them into a Mirror? Curious and curiouser about how your magnificent muse might fit into the world of Wonderland? Or do you simply want to warm up and stretch your legs, before submitting that application and coming to meet entranceway's characters and players?

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Comments

[keephersafe]

[He's listening. He watches her face while she talks - her lips, mostly. She talks like the living do, and it's fascinating, like she bridges the gap between him and them and shows him what might be possible. He had never wanted to give up his fragile grip on what was left of something that might have been called life. M thought that was weird, too.

The effects brains have on her are ones he.. isn't sure he'd like. He takes his time with the brains he gets intact, savours them, saves the best bits until last, but they never stick around quite like that.

R smiles. 'Random brains'? How could he not smile? It is a little funny. The noise he makes catches in his throat, but it might have been a chuckle.]

That's.. awkward.

[So are you, R, but look at you, making conversation!]

[livemoore]

[ There's that zombie friend reaction she was going for. Liv smiles at the noise he makes; she can tell, in his eyes, he's there. He just can't get all his words out perfectly. But he's trying, and she's fine with it, so now they're friends. Possibly the only people like this in the entire mansion. ]

It is, but it's better than starving.

[ Looking around a little, Liv wets her lips and looks at him semi-seriously again. ]

I think we should stick together. I can pass as alive and human but I'm...well. I'm worried about you. Has anyone said anything to you or done anything?

[keephersafe]

[He nods to her offer, then shakes his head slowly to her question.]

No. [But it's not like he can't see what she's getting at. Even in his metaphorical Sunday best R is never going to quite pass as one hundred percent living and anyone with half a mind to take a second look would realise something was wrong with him.

He lets out a quiet, involuntary wheeze of air and waves one hand vaguely in front of him.]

Keep quiet. Keep.. to myself. No one really.. bothers me.

[R shrugs.]

Yet.

[livemoore]

Good. That's good, R. Back home, people are starting to figure out that zombies are real. It's been bad. Really bad. People panic.

[ Liv's really worried about that; what if something sparks her aggression here? What if the closets stop working? These events people talk about really freak her out, but she'll just have to cross that bridge when she gets to it. ]

Do you have a room yet?

[ Wherever he is, she's planning on relocating closer to him. ]

[keephersafe]

[People panic, she says, and he knows exactly what she means. In his world, people panic for good reason. A hoard of hungry Dead is enough to make most Living pray, whether they believe in a god or not. He'd be lying if he said he hadn't thought far enough ahead, to the eventuality of people finding out what he is.

He really tries not to think too much about what might happen then.]

Mm. [R says, and he nods.] First floor. Less stairs.

[He smiles crookedly. It's a joke.]

[livemoore]

[ Liv can't help but smile. She gets it. ]

Then I'll move to the first floor. I've only been here a little while, I think I can manage a move.

[ She'd been on the third, but she's also mobile and spry. She can move if it means making sure no one puts anything sharp through R's brain. ]

If that's okay with you, I mean. I don't mean to come across like a weird zombie babysitter.

[keephersafe]

[Nailed it.

He hadn't considered that someone here might actually want to make sure he was safe. Even in this short time meeting someone almost just like him, he hadn't thought about it. Connecting with people is still new to him, but he feels that faint tingle like something pricking up his spine again and he realises that she's concerned enough about him to care.

And he shrugs, because if he's honest, he doesn't mind as much as he doesn't expect it of her.]

Okay with me. [He says.] But you don't.. have to.

[livemoore]

[ Uh oh. Beauty queen speech coming through and she can't stop it, even if she wanted to. It's just happening. ]

I know I don't have to. But I feel like it's my job, as an advocate for peace in a time when people can judge others based on how pale they are or how many beats per minute their heart pounds, to look out for others. Helping one another get by in this place is the only way we'll ever begin to build a bridge toward a greater understanding and tolerance.

[ Yiiiikes. She pauses, looking somewhat sheepish. ]

And that was the pageant girl in me. Literally. ]

[keephersafe]

[He stares at her, with the words he'd like to say bubbling up behind his tongue and sticking there. Complex thoughts are still difficult, but mostly he's wondering where she pulled all of that from.]

Beauty queen.. brains?

[R asks, his eyebrows lifting up expressively. He's been following what she's said and he thinks he's got the idea.

He grins.]

Miss.. World Peace?

[livemoore]

[ Liv smiles so brightly at that. ]

I should get a sash with an official title: Ms. Zombie, USA.

[ Although, wearing it might lead to some questions being asked that she's not ready for yet. ]

Do you know how old you are? Or...how old you think you are?

[ He looks about her age, but it's hard to tell. ]

I'm twenty-seven. I was studying to be a doctor before all of....this happened.

[keephersafe]

I'd vote for you.

[Serious nod. Ms. Zombie, USA. That could definitely be a thing. She'd win it hands down where he came from - few of the female zombies he's ever seen have been much to look at.

She asks another question, though, and he shrugs. R does a lot of shrugging. He could be thirty, or more. He doesn't know. He could be younger than her. Years pass in much the same way as months, weeks, days... time doesn't matter to you so much when you're dead.]

Don't know. Dead don't.. age. [And his appearance is no true indicator of how long he's been dead, either. He thinks it's some kind of indication of how fiercely he clings on to some twisted version of hope.] Could be.. older than you. Or... [Another shrug.]

Don't remember.

[livemoore]

Aw, thank you!

[ Liv smiles at that, then thinks about his answer. It makes sense, and he's right - zombie's don't age because, well, dead. ]

One day you will. Remember, I mean. I know you will. There's a zombie cure where I'm from, and it comes with memory loss. But it reverses itself eventually. Maybe yours will, too.

[keephersafe]

[R pauses, teetering on the edge of expressing a complex thought. She just met him, but she's already shown some patience, so perhaps she'll wait.]

Not cured. [He says, concentrating hard to keep hold of the words while they struggle like eels in his grasp. He's not healed, but things have been different ever since he brought Julie back to his cramped 747 and told her he'd keep her safe.]

Changing. Diff..erent.

[R pats his pockets and fishes out a slightly smeared, slightly crumpled polaroid. On the picture is a girl with blonde hair and pale skin - pale but alive - with her hand clasped over her heart and a sad expression on her face.

He holds onto it for a moment, then turns it around to show Liv.]

Because of her.

[livemoore]

[ Before she can explain she didn't mean she thought this was zombie cure gone wrong in his case, he's pulling out a picture, and then she leans closer, looking at it. After a few seconds, Liv looks at R again and speaks softly. ]

She's helping you become more human?

[keephersafe]

[He pulls a face at her.]

I am human.

[Dead human is still human, right? He's always stuck by that, it's one of those funny things he refuses to let go that M thinks he's weird for. He's human, just like them, except they're Living and he's Dead. It's almost as distasteful as the word 'zombie', but he can live with that one.

R turns the picture towards himself and looks at it. She left him behind and he knew it was for the best, but... he still feels a twinge in the centre of his chest when he thinks about it.]

She's... [He trails off, far more deliberate than his usual pauses between words, and strokes his thumb across the picture. Then, he tucks it away and shakes his head.] She went home.