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Who: Freddie OR Marnie
What: Doing Stuff
Where: Various Locales
When: Wednesday

A. BIBBIDI BOBBIDI BOUTIQUE

[forget the murder game. forget the traumatic deaths. being forced to return to retail is easily the worst thing that has happened to her this year.

to her slightest credit, she manages to give two whole clients their proper princess-y looks. after that, the makeup starts to look a little... darker. was a smoky eye and purple lip gloss even an available option? why does this small Cinderella have what definitely appears to be sugar skull makeup?

she's also decided to make herself more at home and put up a sign at the entrance, reading STORE HOURS: WHENEVER I FEEL LIKE IT. and considering she is visibly right inside the shop playing concentration with a pack of cards she got from who fucking knows, she does not feel like it. this is probably for the best.]

B. ARIEL'S GROTTO

[sometime after that, Freddie is... sitting on the fence at the entrance to the grotto, still in her uniform, seeming to carefully watch each and every person that's entering. kids? pass. families? pass. elderly? pass. a single person roughly of the age from late teens to early 20s? well...]

Sorry, show's closed. Further notice. [and with her most charming smile she politely but incessantly leads the offending person way before returning to her perch to start again.]

C. PARK

[obviously Marnie's first priority, upon being given even the slightest bit of magical power, is to test it all out! it's what all the responsible adults would want, right, for her to practice? and also it sounds really cool and she misses having a sword in general? ~~mom wouldn't let grandma make her sword.~~

she presses the first card against the magicband-- a sword suddenly appears out of thin air and lands on the ground. she presses the second card, and slowly the sword raises up and comes to life, hovering in front of her as it awaits her command.]

Okay, now... Go attack those rose bushes!

[the sword zooms away on its mission-- so you, uh. probably should get out of its way-- and she cheerfully follows it.]

D. ICE CREAM SPEAKEASY

[later on, to celebrate her return to life as ~~a feral child~~ an Unaccompanied Minor, she has decided that dinner today will be dessert. specifically, a massive ice cream sundae and a Neapolitan trio of milkshakes. it's like dogs without horses out here folks.]

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Rules, I've found, tend to be.... a damper on things.

Like, a really big damper.

Exactly! [man, this lady has the best takes...]

... Are you a bad guy? [not said with any sort of accusing tone, just sort of curiously.]

...Well, that really depends on how you look at it. People have certainly called me evil, yes.

I figured. Pretty much everyone that's been important to me for the past year has been evil. [shrugs vaguely, idly fingers the string of her necklace] Everything you guys say just seems to make the most sense.

[She licks her ice cream thoughtfully.]

The trouble with that, it seems to me, is that evil's really a title. Something other people give you. Personally, I just think its good to indulge in some selfishness a little more often than people like. Does that make me evil?

Well, so be it then.

Good people act selfish all the time! They just never admit it. [sighs] I promised someone who's important that I'd try to be good, but I think that was mainly about "not raising an army of the dead to do my bidding" or something, and not, say, quietly trying to undermine Rod's power.

[you know, just an example.]

The bias is very clear in so-called heroes, I find.

The raising dead thing is usually considered somewhat tasteless by most societies, yes. And I'm not one for upsetting the people in charge- well, not intentionally, but it does happen most days. In any case, [She waves a dismissive hand over her previous comments.] I can't see the harm in at least shaking up the status quo. Have at it, I say.

I just don't see what qualifies him to be mayor! I mean, did you vote for him? I didn't. [shes not old enough to vote] Also, I'm pretty sure the Constitution doesn't allow robots to hold office. That's the 14th amendment.

Oh, is he a robot? I wasn't paying super attention to him. That's something going for him then. At least a boost to a 4.

I'm not sure our rules apply much here anyway. This is a country on its own, really. New laws to break and bend.