(third stake) video ✧ unseelie only

[herotypical]

[ bless her, she comes from a time before the selfie was adequately popularized. and yet buffy summers seems to have an instinctive knack for propped her locket up on her palm and holding it just so -- capturing her own ennui-stamped face in one corner and (over her shoulder) introducing the world to pretty little winter-blanketed river scene. one might assume she's in the vicinity of land carved out for his baronliness archer's spire and forts. hah. spire and forts. hello, innuendo.

anyway. she exhales with a puff of her cheeks and stares down the locket. you'd almost think there was no war at all by how little attention she pays it. purposefully, buffy seems to be ignoring the court drama as best she can. running away -- sour, perhaps, for a number of reasons. ] Some of you might've met-chatted-made-buddies with a girl named Dawn. She's gone. Sorry about that. [ and presumably that's why buffy looks like she's been mainlining angst straight into her veins.

otherwise: ] I need hammers. And...probably nails. Power drills will also be appreciated but I hear that might be a bit of a pipe-dream. We could also probably use pipes. I think.

See. This is why you gotta hate a war economy.

Oh! Those really really really big iron bar things. You know, the ones with the thin middles and the wide edges. The ones that co-star in all the wacky old school cool photoshoots hanging over city skylines...

[ but at least she's still bothering to help build unseelie fortifications. she's not ready to sally forth and kill, yet.

buffy's rambling. she tries to stop. except-- ] Wait! A few more things. Which one of you mooks is Professor Spaniard? The rest of you...I dunno -- be careful out there.
[ she went there. ]

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[gordianknots]

You, miss, are taking on far too much trouble upon yourself. I don't know if I respect that, or fret for your sanity.

[herotypical]

Y'know. Both is probably still an option.

[gordianknots]

Both is an option but now I'm going to ask a question I'm likely to regret: how did you learn about this nickname? Or do I not want the context?

[herotypical]

Apparently you dabble in sports commentary.

[gordianknots]

Oh thank goodness, it's lacrosse and not his fascination in having sex with people I know,

[herotypical]

It's a truly chilling day when you have to decide which of those two options is the worst.

[gordianknots]

I'm going to prefer the insanity of lacrosse every time.

[herotypical]

[ buffy peers at the locket ] -- Archer said you were handsome.

[gordianknots]

[And in an instant, Waver is tomato red and burying his face in his hands.]

I do not trust where that conversation went on to--

[herotypical]

It didn't. I mean -- the conversation didn't go anywhere. We were just talking. He said it. The end.

[ sorta. ]

[gordianknots]

I'm...probably grateful it didn't go further. But now I know how far that nickname's gone, for which I am in your gratitude, miss.

[herotypical]

Buffy. [ she answers without thinking -- without even pausing. ] Summers.

[gordianknots]

Thank you then, Buffy. And so that we're outside the realm of Archer's decision making in regards to names, I'm Lord El-Melloi II.

You can see why Professor Spaniard stuck though.

[herotypical]

Lord.

[ hmph. you can almost hear her yawning. ] And a numeral after your name. Wow, fancy.

[gordianknots]

I also respond to Elmie, as per Jack Frost, or Prickles because that's what happens when you get turned into a hedgehog for a month.

So, what duty did you get suckered into for lacrosse?

[herotypical]

Cameraman. Woman. Uhm. Locket-holding-person.

[gordianknots]

I had been wondering if anyone was going to be doing that, and if so, if it'd just be one person or else a matter of rigging a multi-locket system.

[herotypical]

As far as I know, it's just me. Not that I'm keen to have all that pressure on my slender and well-poised shoulders.

[gordianknots]

That and tracking the action with only one camera? That's a hell of a demand, especially with no zoom features on these things. You're going to have to get seriously creative to make a broadcast work.

[herotypical]

Honestly? I was thinking of just phoning it in.

[ she truly doesn't care that much about lacrosse. but hey! it's something to do. ]

[gordianknots]

Yeah, but why phone it in when you can figure out a multi-camera set up that broadcasts all at once? That's a route to making live television and actual entertainment that doesn't rely on one going to the station.

1/3

[herotypical]

Ugh. That sounds like so much effort--

2/3

[herotypical]

[ waaaaaait. ]

2/3

[herotypical]

TV! You're talking about TV. Oh, sweet-pecan-brownie-heaven-in-the-sky. You know what TV is.

[ because way too many people here don't, so it's kind of a big deal when she talks to someone who knows even a little bit of decent entertainment. ]

Re: 2/3

[gordianknots]

I'm from 2014 I would hope to God I know what a television is.