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[allaboutme]

[ the feed shakes for a moment, before a sign comes into frame as cordelia's chipper forced-infomercial voice dictates: ]

 
Wonderland got you down?  Having a hard time coping with supernatural events that they definitely didn't have back home in Dullsville, USA, or whatever your dimensional zip code was before you got here?  

[ the card lowers to present cordelia's grinning face, where she sits in the offices of angel investigations, on the front desk cross legged. ]

Well, lucky for you, some of us are used to this kind of nonsense, and we're here to help you.  Whether you need protection or just someone to look into some kind of weirdness that you can't deal with alone, Angel Investigations can be the heroes you need.  Find us on the fourth floor, in room 10... especially after sundown.  

We help the helpless!  So help us help you.

[ she holds the sign back up and waves it a bit, before pushing it closer to the camera so that it zooms in on the logo one last time.

(replies can be over the network, or action replies at the office). ]


[oocly: also, don't forget you can request a vision from cordelia at any time to foreshadow plot events! ]

Comments

[naughty_nurse]

[s-lo-w-l-y opens the door and inches her way in.]

S-sorry to bother you... um... M-My name is Mikan Tsumiki.

[postictal]

that's common?

[allaboutme]

I'm Cordelia. Is that... Japanese? [ that could have been a much more racist statement ok count your blessings. and here, have a coffee. ]

[allaboutme]

in my life? unfortunately. in most people's? less so.

[krmvgivv]

We met in the library. She had an awesome book fort. And I'm fourteen, you know. I'd be way further through puberty if Wonderland let us age.

[postictal]

i'd say so. i've never even seen a demon.
i think.

[naughty_nurse]

Y-Yes, I'm from Japan! Is that a problem?

[She hesitates to take the coffee, but once she has it she grips onto it tightly, afraid to spill it.]

[likeseggos]

[she watches the two of them talk like it's a tennis match. (unsure) she didn't mean to make life so dramatic ok. that's just what she does.]

[allaboutme]

Oh, my bad. You're a whole fourteen. Only two more years to go until your hypothetical driver's license.

[allaboutme]

usually you can tell, but not always. and vampires can look just like people until they go all fangy on you.

[allaboutme]

Why would it be a problem? [ i mean, you speak english so zero language barrier ] Have a seat.

[postictal]

but angel's a good vampire.
right?

[naughty_nurse]

O-Okay!

[Sits!]

... U-Um, so... Sometimes... during events in Wonderland, it brings out a very b-bad side of me.

[allaboutme]

oh yeah, totally.

he has a soul.

[allaboutme]

How literal are we talking here? This isn't a 'losing your soul and going evil' kind of thing, is it?

[naughty_nurse]

Oh, n-no! I'm an ordinary human! I don't transform or do magic or anything!

[postictal]

most don't?

[allaboutme]

So what's so dangerous, exactly?

[naughty_nurse]

... I... um... I w-wind up violently hurting anyone I can s-so they'll need me to take care of them. L-Like with tasers... steel bats... knives...

[allaboutme]

most aren't cursed by gypsies to feel guilty about all the rampant murder, no

[allaboutme]

Wait, wait, wait. What do you mean 'need you to take care of them'?

[naughty_nurse]

[She shuts her eyes.]

... I-I'm a nurse. But, um, I found out here that I have some issues with... attention, and being useful. A lot of people here don't want my help, and death isn't permanent here. So sometimes I feel useless. And... W-wonderland takes those feelings... and... makes me hurt people... so I can nurse them back to health.

[allaboutme]

Well, that's... horrifying. Is it usually, uh, obvious right away?

[naughty_nurse]

[She shakes her head.]

... The first time it happened, I lost all my emp-pathy... I lured innocent people to the clinic, telling them I wanted to check on them... and then I attacked them when they came.

[postictal]

ah.

[There's...not a lot he can think of to say to that, to be honest.]

i guess that would make sense