(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

Video, Permaprivate i'm getting to other things too but

[gordianknots]

[Waver sighs when he clicks on the video feed, clearly mortified that this has gotten out.]

That'd be me.

[herotypical]

-- You don't sound Spanish.

[gordianknots]

No, I'm English. I don't even know why Archer made that error.

[herotypical]

[ ah. so this is an archer thing. not a...this-guy-thing. whoever this guy is. ]

I've officially stopped looking for rhyme or reason or rationality with him. [ and yet she sticks around. ]

[gordianknots]

He's kind of the living embodiment of the whole Unseelie-chaos thing, I've come to accept.

[herotypical]

Apparently. Let be honest? I should quit while I'm ahead.

[gordianknots]

Probably. There's things here you don't do well to question. Archer's probably like, the ultimate one.

[impathy]

Is our court so deesperate for supplies that we much beg on magic trinkets?

[Would that they had these in the Seven Kingdoms, the entire face of the war would have been different...]

[herotypical]

I'm not begging. I'm -- sub-contracting. There'a s difference.

[ yawn yawn whatever. ]

[herotypical]

And yet? Someone's gotta do it. [ exhale. ] Once again I find myself playing the not-so-glorified babysitter.

[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.

video;

[tacticalturtleneck]

If you wanted to be nailed, you only needed to ask. It's not like I'm in short supply.

[video]

[chaoticwhimsy]

Aw man.

She seemed pretty alright. Sorry she's gone.

1/2

[herotypical]

Gross.

2/2

[herotypical]

-- Hey, do you think one of the river forts should have a skylight?

[ because she thinks so. ]

[video]

[herotypical]

She was definitely both of those things. [ pretty. and alright. ]

I'd rather she was with me but -- whatever. [ putting on a brave face she doesn't feel. ] She'll be well-cared for back home, too.

[herotypical]

Y'know. Both is probably still an option.

[impathy]

And does this sub-contracting involve any manner of compensation or merely feelings of gratitude?

1/3

[herotypical]

[ vehement. ] There's money involved!

2/3

[herotypical]

[ ...uhm. ]

3/3

[herotypical]

There's probably and very likely money involved. Maybe it's more accurate to call this a sub-sub-contract. Someone doing something for me who's doing a thing for a guy.

You follow?

[impathy]

Ah, the promise of potential money. A prospect that will no doubt earn the interest of a great many fools. I hope they will know the right end of a hammer to use.

[herotypical]

I mean. I can use one of the hammers. I just....need more of them. More hammers. It kinda feels like every scrap of anything useful has been otherwise requisitioned.

[ her beautiful river fort is never gonna get a skylight at this rate. ]

[impathy]

[She looked nothing like the sort of woman who could use a hammer. But then she spoke nothing like what she looked like.]

For the war, no doubt. Perhaps you should be looking for hammers from those otherwise less involved.

[herotypical]

Black market neutrality hammers? I see. How very unAmerican of you.

[ ennui seeps out of every syllable. it's difficult to imagine she's taking any of this seriously. ]