Video Post 001. [Emotional Turmoil Time Is NAO!]

[aphotic_auror]

[A thin, rather pale face, but still-- a bit sallow in the lights of the hospital, as well-- appears in the video feed, blinking rapidly, as if the sallow-making lights are actually hurting her eyes.]

Alright, is this thing on? I cannot tell... Oh, right then, I think I see: the red light is on, so it's definitely recording! [A short, self-deprecating laugh.] Honestly, I don't understand why I just can't-- simply-- stick my head into the fireplace, if I really want to talk to other people who are not actually present in the room with me... And of course, that lends the advantage of being available to only select few, within the Floo Network...

(Honestly, you Muggles, I don't even understand half your "technology". I mean, seriously? Why would you want to broadcast this ugly mug all over the damned city!)

Right, then, since you lot are available to be whinged at-- here goes nothing!

What the HELL is this!? [The picture grows wobbly as she attempts to lift the damned camera over her head, in order to aim it at the back of her neck: at the implant point of the chip, in fact, which is still an angry red, of course, due to her fingernails digging into the spot.

[After a brief moment, the camera becomes too heavy for her twig-like arms, and so she sets it down again with a grunt.] I mean, seriously? What the HELL have you Muggles implanted in my damned neck!? I-is it something meant to-- to control me, or just my magic?

This is so completely not on, either way, you know! I'm just curious as to whether I'll be able to hex the person who did this to me, when I find them...

[[So... turns out that Maria's general melancholic malaise and her anger aren't that far apart, if anyone wants to play with that! ; 3 ♥]]

Comments

[misanthropicmezzode]

...the heck is a muggle?

[ Obviously the first priority when contacting an obviously upset person. ]

[aphotic_auror]

[Frustrated by her circumstances, she screams out-- in frustration is all!]

YOU! YOU are the Muggles here!

[She tugs at her own hair, almost-- experimentally, as if to see how badly she could make herself hurt, and then bursts into a sudden outpouring of tears....]

Oh nevermind, then... It doesn't really matter, Muggle...

[misanthropicmezzode]

Okay, that doesn't really explain anything. Uh... are you an alien of some kind? Is 'muggle' your name for earthlings or humans...?

[ Yes Kim, continue to be tone deaf. ]

PS: Bonus cookies for you if you recognise the SOURCE of this icon keyword! ; )

[aphotic_auror]

[For a brief moment, a very brief moment, she seems to make an effort to turn her tears and sobs into laughter instead, but-- it doesn't really last, given that the damned sound of her fake, forced laughter reminds her of the first time she'd met Bozo, along with his Employer, Rita Skeeter-- and that just made her incredibly sad again, of course!]

Do I not look like a bloody earthling, or Human, or whatever else you want to call us...? I mean, seriously? Do I look that ruddy awful, after so many days in the hospital?? [She snorts softly, in a failed attempt to reignite her laughter.]

"i couldn't be happier" is pretty generic :P

[misanthropicmezzode]

Well most aliens in fiction look pretty much exactly like humans, mostly as a budgetary thing, or maybe they're shapeshifters etc.

I mean you're the one nonspecifically calling everyone a nonsense word, I'm kind of stabbing in the dark here!

...I mean you do look pretty shitty with the yelling and hairpulling, but not like alien probably.

aw! Alright, then: how about THIS one? =P

[aphotic_auror]

[Alright, Kim, now you're getting eyed with suspicious, squint-y eyes again-- well, not squinting so much, as it was she was lowering the hoods over her eyes, more like.]

Oi! Try and tell me you never pull your hair... [She mutters something completely unintelligible.]

Honestly: I am not an ALIEN! Unless, of course, you mean in the "immigrant" sense, of course-- but no, no... I mean, seriously? I am a British citizen-- one born in France, aye, but-- my mother is Welsh and my father is-- well, was English...

ANYWAY: the point is this! That so-called "nonsense word" Muggle is an English term for a person who doesn't know of the Magical World, like-- witches, like myself, and Wizards too...

[misanthropicmezzode]

Hey, I know lots of magic worlds. I went to the Toltec world of the dead in highschool for a research paper once.

And then there was that one time I fought the King Who Never Sleeps by channeling the power of Wheel of Carnac.

[ Which may or may not have happened while she was daydreaming in class. ]