thatsamilkshake: (Default)
Homecoming
Arrival (Merlin)
Food (Leto, Dinah)
Morgana
Dancefloor (Merlin, Katchoo, Ino)
Katchoo in the Shadows

Carnival
Pie (Arthur)

Brunch
Under the Trees (Hurley, Dinah)

The Tereille In Karla's Head
Briarwood is the pretty poison. (Aphrodite, Karla, Katchoo, Ender, Ben, Dinah, Max, Emma, Raven, disturbing as frak, not remotely pretty. FALSE ADVERTISING.)
thatsamilkshake: (does this make my butt look big?)
Things had been.... sort of relentlessly, intentionally, shakily normal for the past couple days, but Francine still felt like she ought to get ready for the dance and be out of here before Katchoo got back, just to avoid...something. Awkwardness maybe. Something.

Of course, when 'get out of here soon' meets 'Francine getting ready for anything,' well. There's bound to be a rumble in a dark alley and you can probably guess who comes out alive.

All of which meant she'd managed to get her dress on and her hair up, but was still hunting for her earrings when the door opened.

[OOC: For the roomie!]
thatsamilkshake: (doorway)
Right. Francine could do this. After a weekend of letting her mom in on what Fandom was really like (with a few spare moments for meeting other people's families), she was absolutely ready to bring up the other little tiny thing that might have escaped her mother's attention for the last year.

Or the last few months, depending on whether you were counting how long that little tiny thing had been in Fandom, or how long she'd been living with it.

Francine gave a couple warning knocks before pushing the door open. "So I know I promised I'd introduce you to my roommate before you leave, Mom," she said fairly loudly, just in case that wasn't warning enough.

[OOC: This is going to go so well. For her and her and so much SP omg.]
thatsamilkshake: (with Katchoo - hi there)


"So you think I should call home and ask Mom for tips on getting out bloodstains?" Francine asked when they finally made it back to their room in an attempt at .... anything that wasn't falling flat on her face the second she managed to get the door open.

That would hurt, since her face currently sported a large bruise and a split lip.

[OOC: For the Wee Yappy BFF. And SP, oh God yes.]

thatsamilkshake: (abbey road)
"I'm gonna kill her," a pacing Francine announced. No, no, she wasn't. She'd have to be able to get her hands on Katchoo to kill her, and if she managed that, she'd... probably be doing other things. NOT DIRTY. Probably.

"I'll be fine, sit tight, I'll call, my ass. It's been a day."

Room 505: In which 'stay where you are' does not compute, and are we surprised? )
A little while later, on the causeway... )
Darcy Parker's Penthouse Suite, a Baltimore Hotel, Later Tuesday Night )

[OOC: Pre-played with the amazing and amazingly patient [livejournal.com profile] thismaskiwear, [livejournal.com profile] bigdamndestiny, and [livejournal.com profile] blonde_canary. That Francine and Merlin got a call and left the island is fine for broadcast; everything else is out of squirrel range. OOC is made of love.]
thatsamilkshake: (troubled)
"I think this is worse than before," Francine said with a glance over at Katchoo's empty bed. "She's not hungover and beat up, but she might as well be."

Oh -- as usual -- dear. )

[OOC: Preplayed with the Ears, the Gut, and the Mouth. That Gibbs was there is okay for broadcast, topic of conversation notsomuch. NFI, OOC A-OK!]
thatsamilkshake: (abbey road)
Cut for graphic; try to act surprised. )

[OOC: Images taken from Strangers in Paradise V2 Issue 1 and V2 Issue 4, text... less mutilated than I usually do, actually. NFB/I, OOC is le fiiiiiine.]
thatsamilkshake: (looking down - sad)
So after a week of that, absotively, posilutely the smartest thing to do ever is to try to get away from that and that by going there and doing THAT which is still being SP'd but you can guess how it ends.

Or perhaps not so much doing as done, but too dense and too drunk and too doused in glitter to realize what was happening until it had.

Either way, best complete-non-plan ever.

As was calling your boyfriend about it while you were still tipsy and freaked and making even less sense than usual, before you curled up with a stuffed animal and passed out.

Yes.

[For the Ears, and SP of DooooOOOoooOOOOoOOoOooooOOom!]
thatsamilkshake: (yelling)

In which we address The Problem. Sort of.

Texty (Merlin)
Fighty Reserves (Arthur)

...Oh Boy

Wakeup (Merlin)
The Lobby (Layla)
Pants Fairy (Raven and Emma)
DADA (Dinah)
ABG
Magic Reserve (Arthur)
The Night Before (Katchoo)

Oh...Crap
The Morning After (...No Katchoo)
Church (...No Francine)
Ethics
Ino's Party
Karla's Party (Kennedy, Karla, Tara)

thatsamilkshake: (bitch plz)
It wasn't that Francine had stayed up all night wondering just where the hell Katchoo was aside from 'out.'

She'd actually managed to get some sleep between three a.m. and the time she heard the door opening.

[OOC: For one, possibly two, first, but open later in the morning!]
thatsamilkshake: (mirror)
So hey, you know what's fun? An unplanned week or so of vacation with blood magic, plague and creepy crazy sorcerers, yay! And also no showers. And no phone reception, though that didn't stop Francine from running the battery down by trying.

Oh, no, wait, fun was something else. Which would be why when the group finally made it back from Firekeeper's world to the preserve, and from there to the dorms, Francine had just barely enough energy to shuffle down the hall to her room -- and just enough thought-moths caught in the cobwebs in her head that she waited a moment, leaning on the doorknob, before she went in.

[OOC: For That Girl. No, not you, Marlo Thomas.]
thatsamilkshake: (sleepy2)
It started out innocently enough - scenes from this week skipping in and out of Francine's head as she slept - walking on the beach with Dinah turned into the path to the church, where somewhere in the back behind the angel's podium, there was bow-chicka-bow music playing...

And then she walked down the aisle and out the back door, and there were trees and it was dark, and her back was against one, and she was looking down into that face and somebody said This is how it's supposed to be and somebody said DO IT and then she was coughing up dust, kicking at the covers, and yelling "CHEWIE? KATCHOO!" as she blinked in the darkness of the dorm room and hurried over to the other bed.

[OOC: Um. For that girl.]
thatsamilkshake: (troubled)
Francine unlocked the door to her room after class and let out a "Katchoo?" that she couldn't quite keep from sounding hopeful, even though if Katchoo was here, they'd have to find another place to talk. There was nothing, though, and the other bed was still as empty as it had been when they moved to the cabins. ...Of people. Not of crap. It was Katchoo's bed.

"No Katchoo," she said quietly, beckoning Merlin in and dropping her books on her desk.

"She might be running late," Merlin suggested, looking at the other bed nervously.

"I guess." Francine eyed it as well, as she sat down on her own. Then it was Merlin she was eying. )

[Preplayed with the Ears again! NFI, OOC is fiiiine. *offers popcorn* That Merlin and Francine had an argument is fine for broadcast; the topic, not so much.]
thatsamilkshake: (packages)
It was probably a good idea that Merlin was meeting Francine at the causeway, considering she was coming back with one suitcase and one bag more than she'd left with. Both were filled with cookies, yes. Even if right now, honestly the only person she really wanted to talk to... still wasn't answering her phone.

"Hi," she said, trying for a bright smile and ending up with one that could at best be considered subdued. Which said something, because Francine was pretty damned good at faking happy to most people.

"Hi." Merlin bit his lip, watching her worriedly. "Are--is everything alright back home? )

[OOC: NFI, totally FB, preplayed with the Ears!]
thatsamilkshake: (wah the world is ending)
"Chewie? Call me back, okay? I need to--" Sniff. "--talk to you. Benjamin f--finally got in and Mom made this big dinner with pot roast and potatoes and--" Gulp. "--carrots and beets and did you meet any nice girls at your internship and whatever happened to that pretty Molly Lane you were dating in high school and d-did you know Francine met Griffin S-Silver and strawberry rhubarb pie and then she says... she says..." Unintelligible thing that might be a snort or a sob. "Their room is full of boxes. Oh.... crap. Just. I can't talk to your voicemail. Crap."

"To save and send your message, press 3. To re-record, press 4. To delete---"

[5]
thatsamilkshake: (sleepy2)


...Bleeert.... Bleeeeert....

"Hmmmhummm? Mom? What? It's four a.m." That was a little fuzzy even for a morning person like Francine. Fuzzy enough that "Okay, timezones, yeah," worked as an answer to her mother's reply; it would take more sleep and possibly coffee to remember it was an hour earlier in Houston. "What's wrong?"

Cut for conversation, Comments for God Help Us All. )


[OOC: Fear the icons.]

thatsamilkshake: (wah the world is ending)
Ah yes, classes. Those things that, with no mother around to insist Francine go to them when she just wanted to hide under her pillow until she died, or at least got dragged out by the police, didn't get gone to.

An emergency junk food stash under the bed and a bathroom not all that far from your alcove is a dangerous thing.

The curtain was so, so shut.

[OOC: Expecting two, open to cabinmates if you like but whoa, emo girl.]
thatsamilkshake: (sleepy2)
Much like yesterday, Francine's first words of the morning were a variation on "Mrrnnrrf."

Followed, as she woke up enough to remember that her life SUCKED, by "Oh GOD" and shoving her head under her pillow.

That's not even considering the stuff she didn't know about yet.

[For a quiet and sneaky Ears.]
thatsamilkshake: (making the bed)
For a relatively neat person (god help her in the room she was moving to) Francine Peters sure had brought/acquired/magnetically attracted a metric crapload of... well. Crap.

Which all needed to be carried down the 5th floor hallway before the picnic today.

At least there were no stairs involved?

[Primarily for EarsPratTinyBlondeWithIssues and the soon-to-be-ex-but-never-unbeloved roomie if so desired, and massive SP for four different time-zones yo - but if anyone else wants to pop in and help move, sure!]
thatsamilkshake: (making the bed)
Francine had slept early last night; cleaning up after Support Services followed by a flurry of "should I pack this away yet or not" in her own room had tired her out.

Now, though, she was up annoyingly early, bouncing around, making the bed, picking up clothes and twitching a bit at the idea that there was a hotel full of rock stars on the island, and she might actually get to meet somebody famous if she could con someone into going over there with her.

[OOC: Wiiiiiide open!]
thatsamilkshake: (dirty - swingy hair oboy)
What's worse than naked? Spandex. No, seriously. Spandex with no ice cream. Spandex with boys being weird. Spandex that won't come off and also is confusing and troubling and tiny and blonde and now there needs to be a boy. Right now.

What's better than naked? To be honest, as Merlin hurried her across the hall and into his room Francine was having a hard time coming up (dirty) with an answer to that. ...Or maybe Merlin was just happy to see her.

[OOC: Ahem. See mood.]
thatsamilkshake: (reading)
After yesterday, Francine was feeling pretty good about the first aid idea, a bit more like the whole support group plan -- or rather, her being involved in the whole support group plan -- wasn't so crazy after all.

So today she was sitting at her desk with a bowl of cherry tomatoes -- what? They're a fruit! -- and her notebook, looking over the list of things she'd put together from Arthur and from yesterday, occasionally adding a note like "bring gatorade, not just water: electrolytes!"

[OOC: Expecting the... uh. Cheekbones! But open. As is the door.]
thatsamilkshake: (computer)
Francine might no longer possess a book about flowers, but she still had a computer, a tiring week behind her, and a somewhat pouty pathological dislike of Feeling Stupid.

So she was currently trying to decide which to google first: three dollar bill or "Sex: how do we stop failing flailing?"

...Eventually she would also get around to military support services, yes.

Since it was kind of warm, the door was cracked open a bit, as was the window. A computer screen, after all, she could hide a lot more successfully than a book.

Yes, she really thought that was true. Feel free to pat her on the head as you walk down the hall. You'll hear her humming, since That Song is still stuck in her head.

[OOC: expecting The Twitter, but open!]
thatsamilkshake: (laughing - with Katchoo)
"Can you believe it?" Francine giggled as Katchoo tugged her along by the hand. "Arthur? He was so sweet though - he even offered to build me a castle."
thatsamilkshake: (spring)
Subtle Francine who had partaken of NO WINE WHATSOEVER was very subtle as she wandered off from the bonfire, hands clasped behind her back and humming The Teddy Bears' Picnic not quite under her breath.

Very subtle.

No wine.

Not expecting to meet up with anyone who might also have abandoned the party at all.


[OOC: for certain people who are also Very Subtle and have had No Wine Whatsoever!]
thatsamilkshake: (depressed)
During a normal week (whatever that was) Francine would probably head off to the art supply store with goodies for Katchoo, but after last night -- including the joy of everyone who listened to Arthur's radio broadcast getting to hear how dumb she was too, she didn't really want to go anywhere or see anybody. Even her best friend, because Katchoo saying he's not good enough for you would just make Francine feel stupider, no matter how well she meant it.

So. Room. Blankets. Comic books. Entire bag of Double-Stuf Oreos and a carton of milk. Yeah.

[Expecting one in particular, but open!]
thatsamilkshake: (fretty)
After today's trip out to talk to Katchoo, Francine wasn't feeling very social. More thinky, not that her thoughts were really going anywhere except in circles.

So instead of going downstairs for the weekly shirtless vampire fix, she was camped out on her bed with a bowl of vanilla wafers, a glass of milk, and the beginnings of a letter home about everything she'd been doing for the past few months. If by 'beginning' you mean five lines worth of I was a super-hero! Booze is evil... Katchoo is...

Dunk. Crunch. Scribble.

[OOC: For the eeeeears.]
thatsamilkshake: (mellow flowers)
Hiding out in the safety of her room after yesterday's traumatizing events (among others)? Francine? Of course not.

God, it was so nice to be able to lie again.

Though at the moment most of her lying was happening on the bed with the window cracked open, a softly scented and unseasonably warm breeze wafting in from the direction of the park, and a book on adult literacy spread out before her as she sprawled. She really didn't have a clue how to help somebody learn to read, no matter how many picture books she checked out of the library, so she figured she might as well try to find out.

[OOC: Open as open is, though expecting one with ears the size of small saucers at worst, whose thread be chronoschmoogically last! ...Also it always said evening.]
thatsamilkshake: (relaxed)
Once upon a time, Francine came back to her room yesterday to find a lot of messages on her answering machine. The first one was from Mr. --- um, Marshall, who thought she was giving out his number to angry lesbians. She called him back right away to set him straight, but the next one was even weirder, from a number she didn't recognize, until she realized it must be about getting the Sooper Sekrit Club together again, so she called back and left what she hoped was a sufficiently sneaky message.

Then there was the Angry Lesbian, and since she finally knew what Marshall was talking about, she called him back to let him know exactly how much it freaked her out. And then there was the weird call from Cutie With The Arms -- he sounded annoyed, but maybe inviting him over for cookies did the trick there?

Just when she'd started wondering if she'd been pissing people off without even knowing it, between him and the Angry Lesbian, the next message played like it was tailor-made to cheer her up! It worked so well that Francine Peters, codename Wallflower, actually called a boy and asked him out! ...Well, sort of.

At that point she was flying so high that even the really weird message from Katchoo couldn't bring her down, though it left her scatterbrained enough that she had to call back three times to add more to her reply.

After all that, the kind of random suggestion of a nap from Chad had seemed like a pretty darned good idea. She could save the baking with special ingredients for the next day.

Today!

Which was why anyone passing her half-open door would be hard-pressed to miss the scent of fresh-baked double chocolate mint chocolate chip cookies cooling on the windowsill.

[OOC: Open like a mouth waiting for the insertion of cookies! ...Now I want cookies.]
thatsamilkshake: (making the bed)
If Francine had made it back to the island in time for the Welcome Picnic, anybody who didn't know her might well have mistaken her for one of the new students, considering the number of boxes and bags she was laden down with.

But no, she'd been here more than a semester now, and the packages were just the debris of a Peters family Christmas, divided about half and half between wearable and edible. Her flight got in late enough that by the time she hit her room and offloaded at least enough packages to start pulling off three layers of mom-knitted outerwear, Francine was way too...... flooooooooph to consider heading down to what was left of the picnic.

It was a happy kind of flooooooph, though, as she set about trying to sort things into Hang Up, Give Out, Eat, or Drop Off At The Thrift Shop And Tell Grandma It Burned In Freak Closet-Fire.

The door was propped open with a couple of neatly-wrapped boxes as she moved around the room, humming cheerfully.

[OOC: Open to oldbies, newbies, roomies, and pretty much anything that ends in ies except mummies because NO.]
thatsamilkshake: (flash - ohgodnotagain)
Anyone who happened to be looking (or listening) and not busy taking a paternity test or having steamy cut-to-commercial sex with their brother's uncle's cousin's barber's daughter twelve times removed, might have caught sight (or sound) of a tall, generously-portioned, and completely naked brunette running as fast as her feet could carry her from Caritas to the dorms, pausing every so often to huff, puff, and shout "OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD!" before taking to her heels again.
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[OOC: Establishy, and she's not stopping, but it's open for IC gawkers!]

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