(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. ]

Comments

[herotypical]

And yet somehow I don't think the war effort would appreciate it.

[gordianknots]

We all need to de-stress somehow, frankly. If we're all playing lacrosse? We can justify this too.

[herotypical]

Yeah. But. At least in lacrosse I figure there's gotta be some kinda...y'know. Full contact. At least a little bit of neighbourly checking.

[gordianknots]

Considering we've got magic, I think that'll be an understatement.

[herotypical]

-- Please. That'd just ruin it.

[ it's not that she's anti-magic. just. anti-most-magic. ]

[gordianknots]

Talk to the game maker!

[herotypical]

[ whining: ] Do I hafta?

[gordianknots]

Nah. The ensuing argument will probably too good to want to pass up anyway.

[herotypical]

You know what? Why lacrosse, anyway? Like -- he might as well have picked anything else completely arbitrary. Flag football. Fooseball. Water polo.

[gordianknots]

Footba-- soccer, sorry.

Maybe because it involves large sticks?

[herotypical]

Men. Men and their...large sticks.

[ sorry sorry sorry. ]

[gordianknots]

--I think you just explained everything.

[herotypical]

And don't even get me started on the tragically phallic imagery of any one of these spires.

[ seriously. why can't any of them build a nice cosy yonic cave instead. ]

[gordianknots]

Admittedly, I think that's on Saber, and I'm not about to question her judgement on the shape--

[herotypical]

-- Well? I am. Here's me, questioning: why encourage the construction of so many tall elevatorless buildings?

[gordianknots]

Because if your enemies have to run up stairs, they'll eventually get tired.

[herotypical]

But some of us might not be comfortable with heights.

[ look, professor buckingham -- when you leap off a tall tall hell-goddess tower to your very unambiguous and well-rewarded death only to be hauled back into the hard and painful world of living, you're gonna have a few chips on your incredibly well-poised and finely tanned shoulders. ]

[gordianknots]

That is also probably a factor in why they're that tall and dick-like. Practical buildings, even if they're a cheap laugh.

[Professor Buckingham?

Stealing that one, honestly. But that's an understandable discomfort, more than anyone else could ever hope to justify.]

[herotypical]

[ hah. dick-like. she laughs. because apparently she is indeed capable of laughing. ]

In which case, colour me content with my much much shorter river fort instead.

[gordianknots]

Also, you're by a river which is better than some of the spires, as I understand it.

[herotypical]

I guess so. I can't say I'm all that familiar with...river-tactics. Or fort-tactics. Or any tactics, really, that don't involve suburban California.

[ because that's right, waver. she's not just american. she's a valley girl. ]

[gordianknots]

You have a fresh water source, which means you'll be hard pressed to run out of something that's essential.

[Hey, she's survived so far, and she's got a fort. That's not bad for a valley girl at all.]

[herotypical]

[ WAVER JUST WAIT UNTIL YOU SOMEDAYNEVER HEAR ABOUT HER LONG LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS. ]

Now I just need to hope and wish and pray for a java waterfall. Or maybe a low-fat yogurt pond, too.

[gordianknots]

[HE'D JUST SIT. AND BE DEEPLY IMPRESSED.]

Until recently, I did own a coffee shop.

[herotypical]

--Oh, no! What happened? Do I need to send flowers? Was there a memorial service?

[ rip coffee shop she's never even met. ]