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bunny_ears) wrote2013-10-21 03:48 pm
bunny_ears) wrote2013-10-21 03:48 pm
Tad/Tag is a sweet superhero boyfriend
Come in the form of a candle in your team color. Light it to view your memory. 9 uses.
Vel is stressed and it is god-awfully late. The doorbell rings. And it's Tad! He brought her flowers, and tells her that Torrey told him that Vel was having a bad day, so that he needed to come over and be a Good Byfriend. Tag isn't too sure how Torrey got his email, but... gadgeteers, huh?
Velma tells him a bunch of backstory -- she and a killer fight with Sparkle Bright, her best friend, back when they were teens. Tad puts together 'Vel works with a photon manipulator' + 'Vel is talking about her childhood friend, a photon manipulator' = 'the two are the same person'.
Vel is frustrated -- was she the only one fooled by the disguise? It also comes up that she figured it out from an alternate timeline, the one Torrey is from. Tad is all '... look, honey, please tell me when you get abducted to alternate timelines, because I worry you'll loose your moorings'.
Vel explains that that timeline doesn't exist any more -- Torrey wasn't a native either. And now she has a friend on the run from her corporate overlords. Tag offers to spend the night and help with all this bullshit -- sadly, Vel is having complicated feelings about sex with him, so he's crashing on the couch.
Vel wakes up. Tad is making breakfast. After Torrey snarks at her to put on some damn clothing -- Torrey is from Victorian England so has Opinions on proper attire -- she tells Vel that Jackie and Sparkle Bright are coming over. Tad can stay out of costume, since the mirror-call came while he was in the bathroom. But Vel better put something on.
What Joy Learned:
-- This shows a nice middle point with Tag/Tad. Given Joy remembers the 'oh shit' ending/pausing of their relationship and their first date, this gives her some insight of why she's fond of him. This also gives her a lot of Torrey's backstory
-- Joy is going to wonder if her dimensional trip (or trips) is what signaled the Darkness to her. Tad is right: Joy's anchor to her home world has been weakened, since she visited the North Pole so often, Autumn's Country more than once, and at least one full-on alternate timeline. If the Darkness was looking for folks not heavily moored to their worlds, Velveteen would be the low-hanging fruit. (So would Torrey, for that matter. Jackie travels dimensions, but is heavily tied to Winter as an incarnation of the seasons.)
Vel is stressed and it is god-awfully late. The doorbell rings. And it's Tad! He brought her flowers, and tells her that Torrey told him that Vel was having a bad day, so that he needed to come over and be a Good Byfriend. Tag isn't too sure how Torrey got his email, but... gadgeteers, huh?
Velma tells him a bunch of backstory -- she and a killer fight with Sparkle Bright, her best friend, back when they were teens. Tad puts together 'Vel works with a photon manipulator' + 'Vel is talking about her childhood friend, a photon manipulator' = 'the two are the same person'.
Vel is frustrated -- was she the only one fooled by the disguise? It also comes up that she figured it out from an alternate timeline, the one Torrey is from. Tad is all '... look, honey, please tell me when you get abducted to alternate timelines, because I worry you'll loose your moorings'.
Vel explains that that timeline doesn't exist any more -- Torrey wasn't a native either. And now she has a friend on the run from her corporate overlords. Tag offers to spend the night and help with all this bullshit -- sadly, Vel is having complicated feelings about sex with him, so he's crashing on the couch.
Vel wakes up. Tad is making breakfast. After Torrey snarks at her to put on some damn clothing -- Torrey is from Victorian England so has Opinions on proper attire -- she tells Vel that Jackie and Sparkle Bright are coming over. Tad can stay out of costume, since the mirror-call came while he was in the bathroom. But Vel better put something on.
What Joy Learned:
-- This shows a nice middle point with Tag/Tad. Given Joy remembers the 'oh shit' ending/pausing of their relationship and their first date, this gives her some insight of why she's fond of him. This also gives her a lot of Torrey's backstory
-- Joy is going to wonder if her dimensional trip (or trips) is what signaled the Darkness to her. Tad is right: Joy's anchor to her home world has been weakened, since she visited the North Pole so often, Autumn's Country more than once, and at least one full-on alternate timeline. If the Darkness was looking for folks not heavily moored to their worlds, Velveteen would be the low-hanging fruit. (So would Torrey, for that matter. Jackie travels dimensions, but is heavily tied to Winter as an incarnation of the seasons.)