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entranceway2015-07-09 06:33 pm
belovedson) wrote in entranceway2015-07-09 06:33 pm
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[Neal's not really one for broadcasting on the network much; too many years spent trying to go unnoticed probably, out of the public eye and away from whoever he'd been running from at the time. So while he's been in Wonderland for ten months, when the feed starts? It's only the second time he's purposely put up since he got to Wonderland.]
Uh, hey. [This is going to be awkward, isn't it? Maybe he should've stuck to text, but too late now.] So this may seem like something crazy to ask, especially since Wonderland is doing--whatever it does, again. [Rooms shuffling around, hills turned into valleys, who knows what else.] But I thought maybe we should talk about ways this place doesn't suck.
[No, he's not joking. Neal's got a reason behind this, even if he's not sharing it exactly.]
See, it's easy to complain about what's going on, and no one's going to blame anyone for it. But we're all stuck here regardless, so I just--I don't know. Thought that sharing the good things might make it a little easier. Y'know. While we're trying to figure out where all the rooms went.
[And what it might mean that for the second time, some event seems to be starting without any sort of announcement, and now outside of when everyone would expect it. Neal's figures someone else is going to have that covered anyway, like Emma or James, or one of those superheroes running around.
Hence the attempt at morale boosting, or whatever people want to call it. Honestly, Neal knows there are other people around in the same situation he is--not just stuck, but resigned to the fact that Wonderland is it. So why not reach out, try to find them, and commiserate?
He thinks over what he's said, then nods as if telling himself that yeah, the message is good, it gets the point across. Then he turns off the video in favor of sending out a pretty important private message. It's one he should have sent out sooner--much sooner--but for all the logic and good intentions, Neal's still carrying a lot of guilt over what Zelena made him do.]
[Private to Henry]
Hey buddy; you busy?
Uh, hey. [This is going to be awkward, isn't it? Maybe he should've stuck to text, but too late now.] So this may seem like something crazy to ask, especially since Wonderland is doing--whatever it does, again. [Rooms shuffling around, hills turned into valleys, who knows what else.] But I thought maybe we should talk about ways this place doesn't suck.
[No, he's not joking. Neal's got a reason behind this, even if he's not sharing it exactly.]
See, it's easy to complain about what's going on, and no one's going to blame anyone for it. But we're all stuck here regardless, so I just--I don't know. Thought that sharing the good things might make it a little easier. Y'know. While we're trying to figure out where all the rooms went.
[And what it might mean that for the second time, some event seems to be starting without any sort of announcement, and now outside of when everyone would expect it. Neal's figures someone else is going to have that covered anyway, like Emma or James, or one of those superheroes running around.
Hence the attempt at morale boosting, or whatever people want to call it. Honestly, Neal knows there are other people around in the same situation he is--not just stuck, but resigned to the fact that Wonderland is it. So why not reach out, try to find them, and commiserate?
He thinks over what he's said, then nods as if telling himself that yeah, the message is good, it gets the point across. Then he turns off the video in favor of sending out a pretty important private message. It's one he should have sent out sooner--much sooner--but for all the logic and good intentions, Neal's still carrying a lot of guilt over what Zelena made him do.]
[Private to Henry]
Hey buddy; you busy?
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[But then again, Neal’s been in some situations like that before: ones where people are so desperate just to stay alive, they forget about being decent.]
But like you said: no evil hippies in Wonderland. So that’s definitely a plus.
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They want to stay alive. Some of them don't care how they do it. Some of them see an opportunity to rise to the top of the heap by crushing the people below them.
And some of them are just insane and want to inflict global eternal happiness via mindcontrol on the entire world.
Not that I'm bitter or anything.
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As for the rest, well. Neal’s got some very definite opinions when it comes to people doing absolutely anything just to stay alive—or in power. It’s kind of a thing that hits close to home for him.]
You kind of have to wonder what’s the point of living, if you’re going to live like that. Sure, people keep on breathing, but they throw away what makes them good in the process.
Nah, you’re not bitter at all. [He grins a bit, knowing why Sam would be.] But this is off topic, right? We’re supposed to be talking about the good things, not all the crap from back home.
[And in that, Sam is lucky; so far, it doesn’t seem like he’s got anyone bringing evil hippy mind-control to Wonderland.]
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[That would be weird and gross.]
Yeah. I wonder too. Now more than ever we have to... to keep being human. Otherwise what's the point?
[He laughs a bit, looking awkward.]
You're right. Sorry. I like being able to catch up with reading stuff.
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Then again, people don’t need to go through messed up mutations to turn rotten, do they? Sam seems to get it, and Neal nods, but as he himself just suggested, lets it go a minute later.]
Nothing to be sorry for. It’s not like people can just shake off the crap from where they come from. [Especially with people like Zelena running around, who want nothing more than to carry on their vendettas from back home.]
Yeah; actually having a lazy day to do nothing, and not have to worry about what’s going to pop out from around the corner is pretty nice.
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[It was difficult to tell when morality had taken a huge shift.]
It's great. Having time to relax and not worry. You never realise how much you took it for granted.