(first stake) video ✧ open to both courts

[herotypical]

[ the locket swings jarringly into action -- like a camera stuck to a pendulum, shuddering back and forth and only occasionally picking up a stern-eyed blonde. ] Ugh. Whose idea was it to glue a webcam onto a necklace--

[ there! steadied. there is first a grimace and then a forced smile and then a flutter of girlish eyelashes. ] First order of business? Those of you still bumming around the Station -- could you tell me how those repairs are coming along? I'm feeling a serious oncoming modernity craving. Like, a gallon of lattes and underwear that doesn't require learning whole new categories of knots.

Second: does anyone know how to make a quick buck outside shilling it for either court? [ she is not a fan of either of the caers. ] Preferably while also maintaining some facade of dignity.

And third and last but absolutely never least: does the name Sunnydale mean anything to anyone? Y'know, anyone other than the someones I've already talked with. [ hey! it's worth asking. doubly so now that it looks like she's here for the long(ish) haul. double ugh. ]

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[notyetlegend]

[There's a piece of wood with a crudely drawn circle in the middle hanging from a tree branch, a couple of arrows with their flints buried deep already in it before they're joined by a third before Merida turns her attention to the locket, ponytail of thick curls swinging with the motion as she grins sheepishly, speaking with a thick accent.]

Eheh, we had a little accident yesterday in th' kitchen, but it's bein' repaired now. [Pointed stare in the direction of said kitchen.] I think th' other repairs are comin' along. Cannae say I've heard of a Sunnydael, though there's plenty of valleys around.

Re: video;

[herotypical]

[ hello, ginger! ]

Ah. So. Were you involved in the now-infamous fork-in-microwave incident?

[notyetlegend]

[Hello, blondie.]

I wouldn't say involved as such, but I got caught in it.

[Gesturing to the black streaks in her hair, which have been shaved down so that they grow back faster before she shrugs.]

It's not like I can read th' instructions either though.

[herotypical]

I didn't realize microwaves needed instructions.

[notyetlegend]

They do when they don't exist where you're from.

[herotypical]

Wow. Sucks to be from where you're from.

[notyetlegend]

Aye, you have no idea. No food boxes, no running water. An' th' toilet's just a hole in th' ground covered by a plank of wood.

[THUNK goes another arrow in her target.]

[herotypical]

A plank. Of wood.

Ugh, I hate ye olden times.

[ but here is an appreciate pause for the arrow work, at least. she's a crossbow gal herself -- but hey! impressed nevertheless. ]

[notyetlegend]

I'm startin' t'see some merit in this world.

[Even if she does miss the comfort of her own bedroom, the stables and - more importantly - Angus (and her mother, a part of her admits).]

An' time bein' frozen back home is a bit of a blessin'.

[She won't say why though.]

[herotypical]

I'm just not so sure we can believe that.

[notyetlegend]

If we can't have hope in time bein' stopped back home, what can we have hope in? Th' High Kings an' Queens? I don't think so.

[She just really wants to believe it, because time constraints :v]

[herotypical]

You're not a fan of'em either, huh?

[notyetlegend]

Hardly. Who th' heck yanks the moon right out of th' sky?

[herotypical]

Megalomaniacs. They do.

[notyetlegend]

Meg...

[Yeah she's not even going to bother trying to pronounce that.]

If they're anythin' like the Roman Emperors I've heard about, I take it they're crazy?

[herotypical]

Just a little. Not to mention rude.

[notyetlegend]

Aye, it sounds like it.

[herotypical]

-- Seelie or Unseelie, for you?

[notyetlegend]

Unseelie, but I care not about either.

[She feels the need to emphasise that.]

You?

[herotypical]

Previously Unseelie. But now I like to think of myself as more of a...uhm, freelancer.

[ whatever that means. buffy isn't even sure. ]

[notyetlegend]

What does freelancer mean?

[It's not a word she's heard of before :c]

[herotypical]

It means you're your own boss. [ ... ] Or maybe it means everyone is your boss.

I'm not clear on the deets yet.

[notyetlegend]

Get back to me when you figure it out.

[Oh.]

My name's Merida, by th' way. Merida of Clan DunBroch.

[herotypical]

Clan! [ well. ] Guess that explains the accent.

[notyetlegend]

Aye, I'm from Alba. Er, Scotland. I think that's what a few people have called it.