Voice testing - Ramona Flowers (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World)

[hairoftheweek]

[OOC Note: Please note that Rammy is aged down to 17.]

1. [Text]

Whoever thought it was a great idea to draw on my bag when I wasn't looking, screw off. I don't have time for your shit. It took me a good bit to get it off, so whatever you used was fairly potent. Don't mess with it again.

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2. [Action, 1st person]



[You may or may not notice a teenager roaming the halls of the school. But act fast; if you catch a glance and turn around, you likely won't notice she's there anymore! If you happen to be outside, you may notice she's getting from one place to another pretty damn fast somehow... but hey, there's always a way to catch up to her and try to get her attention.]

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3. [Prose, 3rd person]



It was a normal day of the week for Ramona. Go to class, sit in the back and try to pay attention without seeming like she really cares about it. Most of the classes she wasn't really interested in, and she didn't make a lot of friends. It wasn't like she couldn't, but she needed time to herself. Of course, people constantly approached and tried to converse with her and make friends, or say stupid cliché lines, that sort of thing. It bugged her and she tended to abuse her dimensional traveling abilities to get away from people.

Of course, today she decided she was just going to walk from classes to her dorm. Any number of people could approach her between here and there, but she was too worn out from not getting enough sleep the previous night to use her abilities.

Bother her as she's walking somewhere?

Comments

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[green_eyed]

What'd they even draw?

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[hairoftheweek]

I couldn't even properly describe it. It was some dumb animal drawing. Whoever did it couldn't draw for shit.

[green_eyed]

... Okay, that's weird. Not an insult, or a statement, or anything with a point? Just a badly drawn animal?

[hairoftheweek]

Pretty much.

Point is, this isn't an ordinary bag, and something like that could mess it up bad. That's why I try to keep it in my sight all the time.

And most people know that. So they try to mess with it when I happen to not be looking. And don't have a lot of time before I look over at it again.

[green_eyed]

What, does it have your pot stash in it, or what?

[hairoftheweek]

What it is is none of your business.

[green_eyed]

Hey, fuck you, I'm not gonna judge.

[hairoftheweek]

Didn't say you were. It's nothing personal.

[green_eyed]

Sure sounds like it.

[hairoftheweek]

It's not anyone's business what it is. It's just something I modified myself.

[green_eyed]

You're still being pretty defensive.

[hairoftheweek]

Is there something wrong with wanting to keep it to myself?

[green_eyed]

Well... No, I guess not. -Parsee is just not used to dealing with people who react kind of like she does to questions.-

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[impersonal_space]

That's right, leave the "mysterious disappearing around corners and trees and signposts" to the professionals, kiddo. A woman with long blond hair in ribbons, a dress that cannot be hidden behind anything narrower than a phone booth, and a parasol of all things, steps out from behind a tree when the girl passes it.

"Are you not in your usual hurry today, young lady?" She wants to try to understand precisely how she had been getting around so quick on other days, and isn't so concerned with why today is an off day.

[hairoftheweek]

Ramona took a few more steps before pausing. There definitely wasn't anything behind that tree when she glanced at it. At least, she was fairly sure she hadn't.

"I don't have anywhere to go right now." The truth was that she was both a little tired... and that she really didn't have anywhere to go. It really exhausted her to keep traveling between ends of the school using her power. But eventually she knew she'd be able to use it more often.

After speaking, however, she finally turned to face the woman, with a completely neutral expression. "Have you been watching me?"

[impersonal_space]

No stark reaction? Not even a double-take? That's a pity, but the woman doesn't show it. Her expression and tone hang in the balance between the aloof and the amused at all times, and makes no attempt at elegance in deflecting that question with another one.

"Does that mean you are going nowhere, or that you do not expect there to be anything there when you arrive?"

[hairoftheweek]

It takes a lot more than that to surprise Ramona... usually. But this woman was starting to make her wish she had just kept walking.

"There's nothing to do." A slight shrug of the shoulders, and her neutral expression remains. "At least, not right now. So I'm just walking."

[impersonal_space]

Continuing on her path would only have encouraged Yukari.

(Spoiler: Everything encourages Yukari.)

The woman wags a finger. "I would be careful about inviting excitement into your life. At this school, others often regret the idea before too long." Not that it's a threat, or anything.

whoops sorry for the late tag, gotta try this for the app now XD

[hairoftheweek]

"What are you talking about?" After all, she was just walking. Did she know something that Ramona didn't? "I'm walking. How is that 'inviting excitement into my life'? Walking is pretty boring." Especially when you can travel across dimensions. Makes actually using your feet to go across the way pretty slow in comparison.

understood!

[impersonal_space]

This is amusing, even if Yukari has to spell things out for the girl. "You just might be jinxing yourself." Is it clearer, now?

if I can actually do this right

[hairoftheweek]

Much clearer, but Ramona didn't think it was very amusing. If, in fact, it was supposed to be funny. Then again, not much seemed to amuse Ramona these days, so maybe it's just the way she perceived it. "It's not like I go to hang out with friends. What friends I might actually have, anyway."

No, she just goes to parties. And she might drink the spiked punch or something. She might have spiked it herself once or twice. Because she doesn't care enough to think about her actions. But she was right; she didn't really have many friends here.

"Why are you so curious about what I'm doing?"

Re: if I can actually do this right

[impersonal_space]

It doesn't seem like the point is getting across all that clearly. That's a little disappointing, for it isn't a full day until Yukari has managed to subtly infuriate or confuse at least one person, and when they just come off as missing the point or otherwise ignorant it just isn't as much fun.

"Is it not in the nature of humans to be curious?" Implying that either of them were strictly human.