entranceway | say it ain't so (video)

[ When Liv appears on the screen, she's in a nice off-white sweater with a hint of gold sparkle to it, full face of makeup and nervously smiling. She gives a wave, then lets out a breath she's been holding. ]

I have a confession. And some of you know. Some of you who know me don't know, and everyone else...

[ She pauses, looking down a little. Is this the right thing? Hell if she knows. It's not like she's in a place the size of Seattle. Maybe now's the time to just come clean. ]

The rest of you don't need to know but uh...at this point if someone found out by word of mouth I feel like it'd suck more, so.

My name is Liv. I've been living here since the summer. And...I'm a zombie.

[ She pauses for a beat. ]

Obviously from a different zombie world than the rest of you. I'll answer your questions now: Yes, I eat what you think I eat but the closet provides it for me. I only act like the maniac you'd expect when I'm hurt unexpectedly and then I'm super strong and just kind of...grunty. But I can help, I do help. I've saved people. I've died here. Yes, I'm technically dead right now, but I still look great?

I guess those are the hard-hitting questions. If you have any others I'll be here to answer them.

Please don't try to kill me. I'll just come back.

So I guess that's it. Now you all know, and I can breathe easier. Ish. Well, not breathe. Whatever, you know what I mean.

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[ hey look it's the guy with the robots. ]

if it makes you feel any better, I'm pretty sure this isn't enough to steal away my title of the least popular wonderland resident.

[ Oh, hey, she's seen that guy with the robots. ]

I dunno. There are a lot of people here from worlds were zombies kicked the crap out of them.

Why are you unpopular?

[ She has no idea who he is or why people wouldn't like a guy with robots. Unless they were from, like...Battlestar Galactica world. Or the Terminator??

She doesn't know anything about robots. ]

something about evil robots taking over the world and 99 personality flaws. so you actually eat brains?

[ tony... ]

[ Well, that is a lot to unpack, sir, but she appreciates the honesty. And weirdly, the straightforwardness of his question. ]

Yep. Not raw, though? I'm not an animal. Stuffed in some fried ravioli with garlic butter is so great.

[ But anyway, a reward for his open question: ]

Anytime I eat them, I take on the personality of the deceased. And I have flashes of their memory. Really comes in handy so now I'm the official 'psychic consultant' of the Seattle PD.

--- that's amazingly gross. so you digest other things. what happens if you don't get any uh - brains? they have to be human brains?

[ .... ]

are all zombies hot?

[ No one yell at her for grinning a little at that last part but then she snaps out of it. ]

That's probably subjective, right?

[ She's pretty surprised no one's asked that first question yet, though. ]

They for sure have to be human and...if I don't eat at least once a month I turn into the shuffling disaster of horror movie lore. And there's no turning me back once I'm like that. So, I twice a month, just in case we have a week or something where the closets don't work.

okay, i'm assuming none of this grosses you out since you're the one doing the eating. so nothing happens if, in addition, you eat other things? and do you knows what it is in the brain that keeps you from turning into something out of silent hill?

[ what. he's into science. and also a nerd. he wonders about the semantics of it all. ]

Yeah, no, no gross-out factor. Sorry if I'm turning you off of food for a while.

[ But he's the one asking questions, sooooo. ]

I can eat all kinds of things. I actually don't like to just go all in on raw brains? So I great creative. Pizza, sloppy joes, ravioli, pasta dishes.

[ She could go on, but she stops and then shrugs a little. ]

No idea. It could be anything from a specific chemical to the type of tissue. Though there is one side effect I think you might find interesting. It doesn't happen here, I guess because Wonderland is handing out 'generic' or Great Value Brand brains, but, back home, whatever brain I eat, eventually I have visions of that person's life. I take on their personality and it lasts for however long the brain is in my system. I help solve murder cases but the Seattle PD thinks I'm a psychic.

[ So, there's that. ]

I'm going to get a cheeseburger after this. seriously, do the talking. I don't mind the details.

[ he's tony stark, for the love of god. he forced his assistant and the love of his life to push a hand into a chest and pull out a sticky arc-reactor. ]

so you see nothing here? at all? no vision? no knowledge?

[ Nice, okay. It's different, to not have to worry about picking her words carefully. ]

When I first came here, I was still coming off of being a paranoid government conspiracy truther. That was terrible considering where I landed.

[ She'd come up with all sorts of insane ideas about Wonderland. ]

Usually, when I eat again, the next brain takes over, but that hasn't happened at all here. The personality I came with just sort of faded on its own. I think - and I have no way to test this, don't really want to - that if I ate someone's brain here who's actually alive right now, it would work. But again, let me just stress that I don't want to see that in action.

[ Because it would mean something went terribly, terribly wrong. Probably. ]

hey, the truth is out there, right?

[ what. he'd believe anything. he saw how SHIELD worked. ]

okay don't take this the wrong way, I'm all there and I feel immense sympathy but it's seriously cool.

[ tony stark, everyone. ]

[ Liv can't hide her smirk as she lowers her head for a second to clear her throat before looking back up at him. He reminds her of the way Ravi'd reacted, honestly. No fear, just a lot of questions and he might have even said it was cool, too. ]

Well, if you think it is then it must be. Now if Wonderland could just pause for the zombie events for a while, that'd be really great. I have a reputation to try and keep intact, here. Any other questions? Because people asked way fewer than I thought they would.

so do you react negatively to cooked mean? lactose? gluten?

[ HE HAS SO MANY QUESTIONS, they will never end. ]

[ It's so much better than people SCREAMING at her she'll take it. She was expecting so much worse in her head. Like hardcore fear-based interrogations. This is nice. ]

Nothing reacts negatively and look, I'm not a savage. I prefer my brains cooked, thank you very much. The only issue is going too long without eating them. That's when things get uh...dicey.

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