Susan's app
[Quick disclaimer: not all apps HAVE to be this long, by any means. It was just pointed out that the samples are all people from mundane, non-magic canons, so
I posted this. It's my actual Susan application, yes.]
Player Name : Erin
Player Age : 21
Contact Email : justthreeapples@gmail.com
AIM Screenname : BunchofFHChars
Who do you currently play at Fandom High? (if anyone) : Rory (Gilmore) Skywalker (alumnus), Aravis, Robin Scherbatsky, Evey Hammond, Kaylee Frye
How did you find us? : Googlemaps
Character Name : Susan Pevensie
Fandom : [b]The Chronicles of Narnia
[/b]
Character Type : student
Potential Character LJ : not_that_gentle
Character Age : 17
Students Only: Class : Senior
Teachers Only: Class Scheduling : 0;0;0;0;0
Townies Only: Career Choice : n/a
1. Assume we've never even heard of your show/movie/game/book/comic/play (known as 'canon' from now on). Please explain it to us. : The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. They tell the story of a group of normal English humans who find a way into another world (Narnia).
The principle family in the books is the Pevensies, though there are friends/relatives of theirs who feature. The Pevensie children (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) go to stay with Professor Digory Kirke during the WWII air raids in London, due to their parents' concern for their safety. While there, Lucy discovers a wardrobe that leads to another world (namely, Narnia), wherein she discovers a faun (Tumnus) who looks remarkably like Gavin and thus makes me feel dirtybadwrong for finding him hot every time I watch the movie. He invites her to tea, during which it comes out that Narnia is ruled by the White Witch, Jadis, who makes it always winter and never Christmas. (I always loved that completely random detail.) Furthermore, there are no humans (or Daughters of Eve/Sons of Adam, as they call them. CS Lewis loves himself some Biblical references and imagery), and all residents of Narnia are under strict orders to alert the Witch if they find one.
Lucy returns through the wardrobe, having spent hours and hours in Narnia, only to find that just a few seconds have passed back in England. She is unable to convince the other children about her adventure, as the wardrobe is now just a wardrobe. Edmund, the next youngest of the four siblings, is particularly spiteful towards Lucy, because Edmund is kind of a tool in the first half of this book. (Sorry, he is. HE GETS AWESOME THOUGH.)
Several weeks later, Lucy and Edmund hide in the wardrobe while playing hide and seek, and, natch, go through to Narnia again. Edmund is unable to catch up with Lucy, and is instead approached by a very beautiful, very pale woman, who introduces herself as the Queen of Narnia, and provides him with some magical Turkish delight. (Which, for the record, is a LAME reason to betray your family. Turkish Delight looks vile. Hold out for the good stuff, Ed, wtf.) She promises to make him a prince and eventually King of Narnia, and persuades him to bring the other children to meet her.
Lucy and Edmund find one another in the woods and return together through the wardrobe. During their conversation, Lucy mentions the White Witch and Edmund realizes that's who befriended him earlier. When they arrive back in England, Edmund lies to Peter and Susan, claiming that he and Lucy were just playing and that the wardrobe is no more than an ordinary one, leaving Lucy very upset. See what I mean? Tool.
Shortly thereafter, all four children hide in the wardrobe to avoid a group touring the house, and find themselves in Narnia. Lucy guides them to Tumnus' home, only to discover that Tumnus has been captured, and his home ransacked by Maugrim, chief of the White Witch's secret police. The children are sheltered by a pair of talking beavers named Mr. Beaver and Mrs. Beaver (most creative names EVER, y/y?) who recount an ancient prophecy that when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve fill the four thrones at Cair Paravel, the witch's power will fail. The beavers tell of the true king of Narnia - a great lion called Aslan - who has been absent for many years, but is now "On the move again."
Edmund, still in the thrall of the witch, runs off to the White Witch's castle to tattle, and the others don't realize it until it's too late to stop him. The other kids, being somewhat intelligent, realize they may have been betrayed, and set off to try to find Aslan. When Edmund reaches the White Witch, it's revealed that Tumnus -- along with other "traitors" -- is being frozen in suspended animation, almost like a statue in a really horrifying sort of way. The now-abusive Witch takes Edmund with her as she sets off to find the other children, who reach Aslan and rescue a very very contrite Edmund just as he's about to be killed by the Witch.
Calling for a truce, the Witch demands that Edmund be returned to her, as an ancient law gives her possession of all traitors. Aslan, acknowledging the law, offers himself in Edmund's stead and the witch accepts. Aslan is thusly sacrificed by the witch, but comes back to life due to the "deeper magic", which holds that when someone who has committed no treachery willingly sacrifices himself for a traitor, death is reversed, and the martyr returns to life. It's all very metaphorical and subtle rly.
During a final battle, the witch is defeated and killed by Aslan. The children are all named the Kings and Queens of Narnia, and reign for many years before being returned to England, in the exact moments they disappeared as children, but with all their adult memories intact.
There are more books after LWW, but for my intents and purposes, that's the only one that's really background for Susan.
A note on Narnia, just for clarification: It's a mostly medieval-ish setting, with castles and no modern technology and everyone rides horseback, etc. The animals all talk, denoted in capitalization, usually (ie, Aslan is a Lion, not a lion.) There are also a number of mythical creatures - fauns, obviously, but also centaurs, minotaurs, dryads, gryphons, etc.
As far as how to get to Narnia, there are a few ways to reach it, and the way I've always used is through Fandom's woods, which function as part of the Woods Between Worlds referenced in the novels. If this no longer works, I'll find another way to get her to Fandom, but it's the way Aravis and Peter both got here. :D
2. Now onto your character. Please tell us about them. Appearance, personality, how they react to others in general and where they fit into the canon you explained above. Describe the character to us so we can get an idea of who's joining the community. : Susan is the second-eldest of the Pevensie children. When she reigns as queen, she's titled "Queen Susan the Gentle," (though in my opinion, she's not a particularly "gentle" person) or "Queen Susan of the Horn" for reasons that will be explained a little lower. It's not any kind of dirty thing.
Susan is the most pragmatic of the Pevensie children. She's extremely practical, bordering on cynicism. Of the four children, she is the one who tends to take the longest to believe in "otherworldly" things. Lewis goes to far as to completely alienate her from Narnia in the later books -- after [i]Prince Caspian[/i], the second publishing-order book/fourth chronological-order book, Peter and Susan are both told that they can't return to Narnia after this.
The subsequent books only have scant mentions of Susan, given that she has embraced her "earthly" life, and became engrossed in silly things like stockings and boys, and dismisses their entire experience in Narnia as a childish game. One character even says, "She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. Her whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can." And as such Susan doesn't get to enter the real Narnia (Aslan's Country) at the end of the series when all her siblings and co. die in a train crash. That doesn't really affect my Susan, but is noteworthy (and omg, do not get me started on my rant on this. I will be here for hours.)
Anyway, Susan is often the voice of common sense. Unlike her sister Lucy, Susan is very much someone who needs to see things to believe in their existence, rather than taking things on faith. She's not at all a [i]mean[/i] person, living up to her given title as queen, but she isn't afraid to speak her mind at all. She usually tries to buffer her words and make them nicer, but she's too pragmatic to really mince words most of the time.
Additionally, in [i]Caspian[/i], when they can't find Aslan and Lucy is the only one to see him, Susan dismisses her sister out of hand and later apologizes to Aslan for not believing due to her own stubbornness. This is just an example of the pragmatism and clinging to logic I mentioned -- Susan is very much one to not get her hopes up, and tends much more towards what she can see as truth rather than take things on faith.
Appearance-wise, Susan is described as the beauty of the Pevensie family. She's pretty wee (IMDB says that Anna Popplewell is 5'3.5"), with large blue eyes, long dark hair, and very fair skin. I would guess that at seventeen and at a school like this, some of the qualities that did alienate her from Narnia might resurface to a far lesser degree -- she obviously knows she's going back, and wouldn't deny its existence or anything like that, but the question of her vanity might come up.
In addition to all of this, Susan will be our current Peter's sister (and has been NPC'd for a Peter/Willow/Pevensies interaction), so she will have been reigning in Narnia for the last six or so years. As a result, though she'll certainly be familiar with technology (up to about 1940, anyway), she'll be dressed in medieval-looking clothing, and more accustomed to Narnian courtly behavior. She's also the sister of the Ed app that just came in before this one.
Oh, and Aravis will know who she is, but not vice versa. I have totally alerted Aravis' player to this. :D
3. Powers! Does your character have any abilities (powers, skills, training or weapons) that go beyond what a normal person would have? : Susan is an extremely gifted archer, having been given a bow by Father Christmas in LWW. She will be bringing her bow and quiver with her, and though she won't be happy about it, she'll be fine with keeping both in the weapons locker.
The other important item she'll be bringing is her horn, and I'm enforcing a general "NOT DIRTY" for this whole section. Father Christmas also gives her a magical horn, to blow in difficult times in order to bring aid. The "aid" in question is really fairly open to interpretation, depending on its use. I don't think there's anything in canon that definitively states anything about the help that's specifically being summoned, so I tend to think that it's whoever would be most useful at that time (or whoever Aslan thinks would be the most useful, anyway), and that opens it up for a lot more plot interaction on the island.
I don't have any plans at this time to USE the horn, but it's canon that Susan keeps it with her, and she's not exactly one to use it frivolously. If I do come up with a plotty reason to use it, I'll go through all the necessary channels at that time to get clearance. :D
4. Why is your character coming to Fandom and what kind of situation are they leaving behind at home? (ie: where in the canon timeline do they come from?) : Susan, as FH Peter's younger sister, will be coming to Fandom from about six and a half years into the Pevensies' reign. What Emily and I have discussed is that now with Peter and Willow situated in Narnia, Susan will be very "Oh good, you're back. My turn to go! Bye!"
And because Aslan doesn't stop her, she'll figure she's clear to go.
5. Is there any reason that they might cause trouble to other characters in the Fandom High setting due to behavior or abilities? How would you account for that to make the character work well in a group-intensive environment? : Really, really no. Like I said, she's not afraid to say what she's thinking, but she's also very typically-English polite, and a queen on top of that. She'll be well-behaved.
6. Links to character/series information : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Pevensie <--- WIKI!
http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Susan_Pevensie <--- Narnia wiki!
http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Susan's_Horn <--- Some more information on Susan's horn, though that article isn't exactly comprehensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narnian_timeline <--- An OCD timeline, which I love like pie.
Things don't go how you expected them to and you find yourself in a situation where you don't get what you want. How will you react out of character as a player? How will you have your character react to the situation? : I tend to brush things off. If I'm really offended, I'll go to the player and see what to do from there.
Susan, on the other hand, will probably decide it's not worth her time to argue and walk away, unless she felt really strongly about something.
Please write at least 300 words *in character* having your character do something, anything, at Fandom High. : Susan still didn't know how she was going to tell the others about this. But she'd certainly have to, or else Peter might hear from someone else, and that would be [i]so[/i] much worse.
And it absolutely was [i]not[/i] her fault that the gremlin had appeared as if out of nowhere and snapped at her ankle. It wasn't as though she'd invited it, after all. It would be an entirely different matter if she'd sought it out, presented her bare leg, and shouted, "Excuse me! Mr. Gremlin! Please come inject some hallucinogens into me so that I might think I'm some sort of --" Well, she still didn't exactly know who that person had been. She really, sincerely did not [i]want[/i] to know.
But that was not what had happened, aside from the question of who she had turned into. She blushed all over again, just at the memory and how many people had seen her like that. However, she needed to figure out how to tell her siblings, and quickly.
Which was why she was sitting at her desk, working on the beginnings of a letter. It wasn't going as well as it could have.
[i]My dear brother and king,
How go things at home? I hope all is well, and that Willow hasn't given up her vow to hug each of her soldiers every day. Regardless of whether or not such a strategy is effective, it does seem to help morale, and, moreover, is somewhat amusing.
Things here are fine. Uneventful.[/i]
Well, that was just an outright lie. Best to ease into it, though, she thought.
[i]During your tenure at Fandom High, I'm sure you encountered all varieties of strangeness, and as such must be deeply familiar with something called a[/i]
"Stickbug Honorary Sister!"
Susan jerked her head up, looking to the doorway. "Good afternoon," she said, smiling warmly at the boy leaning in her doorway. "How are you today, Jamie?"
"Spiffy!" he answered cheerfully. "I just emailed Willow the pictures of you when you thought you were Paris Hilton! Those things needed to be shared."
With a bright smile, Jamie wisely skittered off, while Susan occupied herself with dropping her forehead into a hand.
I posted this. It's my actual Susan application, yes.]
Player Name : Erin
Player Age : 21
Contact Email : justthreeapples@gmail.com
AIM Screenname : BunchofFHChars
Who do you currently play at Fandom High? (if anyone) : Rory (Gilmore) Skywalker (alumnus), Aravis, Robin Scherbatsky, Evey Hammond, Kaylee Frye
How did you find us? : Googlemaps
Character Name : Susan Pevensie
Fandom : [b]The Chronicles of Narnia
[/b]
Character Type : student
Potential Character LJ : not_that_gentle
Character Age : 17
Students Only: Class : Senior
Teachers Only: Class Scheduling : 0;0;0;0;0
Townies Only: Career Choice : n/a
1. Assume we've never even heard of your show/movie/game/book/comic/play (known as 'canon' from now on). Please explain it to us. : The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. They tell the story of a group of normal English humans who find a way into another world (Narnia).
The principle family in the books is the Pevensies, though there are friends/relatives of theirs who feature. The Pevensie children (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) go to stay with Professor Digory Kirke during the WWII air raids in London, due to their parents' concern for their safety. While there, Lucy discovers a wardrobe that leads to another world (namely, Narnia), wherein she discovers a faun (Tumnus) who looks remarkably like Gavin and thus makes me feel dirtybadwrong for finding him hot every time I watch the movie. He invites her to tea, during which it comes out that Narnia is ruled by the White Witch, Jadis, who makes it always winter and never Christmas. (I always loved that completely random detail.) Furthermore, there are no humans (or Daughters of Eve/Sons of Adam, as they call them. CS Lewis loves himself some Biblical references and imagery), and all residents of Narnia are under strict orders to alert the Witch if they find one.
Lucy returns through the wardrobe, having spent hours and hours in Narnia, only to find that just a few seconds have passed back in England. She is unable to convince the other children about her adventure, as the wardrobe is now just a wardrobe. Edmund, the next youngest of the four siblings, is particularly spiteful towards Lucy, because Edmund is kind of a tool in the first half of this book. (Sorry, he is. HE GETS AWESOME THOUGH.)
Several weeks later, Lucy and Edmund hide in the wardrobe while playing hide and seek, and, natch, go through to Narnia again. Edmund is unable to catch up with Lucy, and is instead approached by a very beautiful, very pale woman, who introduces herself as the Queen of Narnia, and provides him with some magical Turkish delight. (Which, for the record, is a LAME reason to betray your family. Turkish Delight looks vile. Hold out for the good stuff, Ed, wtf.) She promises to make him a prince and eventually King of Narnia, and persuades him to bring the other children to meet her.
Lucy and Edmund find one another in the woods and return together through the wardrobe. During their conversation, Lucy mentions the White Witch and Edmund realizes that's who befriended him earlier. When they arrive back in England, Edmund lies to Peter and Susan, claiming that he and Lucy were just playing and that the wardrobe is no more than an ordinary one, leaving Lucy very upset. See what I mean? Tool.
Shortly thereafter, all four children hide in the wardrobe to avoid a group touring the house, and find themselves in Narnia. Lucy guides them to Tumnus' home, only to discover that Tumnus has been captured, and his home ransacked by Maugrim, chief of the White Witch's secret police. The children are sheltered by a pair of talking beavers named Mr. Beaver and Mrs. Beaver (most creative names EVER, y/y?) who recount an ancient prophecy that when two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve fill the four thrones at Cair Paravel, the witch's power will fail. The beavers tell of the true king of Narnia - a great lion called Aslan - who has been absent for many years, but is now "On the move again."
Edmund, still in the thrall of the witch, runs off to the White Witch's castle to tattle, and the others don't realize it until it's too late to stop him. The other kids, being somewhat intelligent, realize they may have been betrayed, and set off to try to find Aslan. When Edmund reaches the White Witch, it's revealed that Tumnus -- along with other "traitors" -- is being frozen in suspended animation, almost like a statue in a really horrifying sort of way. The now-abusive Witch takes Edmund with her as she sets off to find the other children, who reach Aslan and rescue a very very contrite Edmund just as he's about to be killed by the Witch.
Calling for a truce, the Witch demands that Edmund be returned to her, as an ancient law gives her possession of all traitors. Aslan, acknowledging the law, offers himself in Edmund's stead and the witch accepts. Aslan is thusly sacrificed by the witch, but comes back to life due to the "deeper magic", which holds that when someone who has committed no treachery willingly sacrifices himself for a traitor, death is reversed, and the martyr returns to life. It's all very metaphorical and subtle rly.
During a final battle, the witch is defeated and killed by Aslan. The children are all named the Kings and Queens of Narnia, and reign for many years before being returned to England, in the exact moments they disappeared as children, but with all their adult memories intact.
There are more books after LWW, but for my intents and purposes, that's the only one that's really background for Susan.
A note on Narnia, just for clarification: It's a mostly medieval-ish setting, with castles and no modern technology and everyone rides horseback, etc. The animals all talk, denoted in capitalization, usually (ie, Aslan is a Lion, not a lion.) There are also a number of mythical creatures - fauns, obviously, but also centaurs, minotaurs, dryads, gryphons, etc.
As far as how to get to Narnia, there are a few ways to reach it, and the way I've always used is through Fandom's woods, which function as part of the Woods Between Worlds referenced in the novels. If this no longer works, I'll find another way to get her to Fandom, but it's the way Aravis and Peter both got here. :D
2. Now onto your character. Please tell us about them. Appearance, personality, how they react to others in general and where they fit into the canon you explained above. Describe the character to us so we can get an idea of who's joining the community. : Susan is the second-eldest of the Pevensie children. When she reigns as queen, she's titled "Queen Susan the Gentle," (though in my opinion, she's not a particularly "gentle" person) or "Queen Susan of the Horn" for reasons that will be explained a little lower. It's not any kind of dirty thing.
Susan is the most pragmatic of the Pevensie children. She's extremely practical, bordering on cynicism. Of the four children, she is the one who tends to take the longest to believe in "otherworldly" things. Lewis goes to far as to completely alienate her from Narnia in the later books -- after [i]Prince Caspian[/i], the second publishing-order book/fourth chronological-order book, Peter and Susan are both told that they can't return to Narnia after this.
The subsequent books only have scant mentions of Susan, given that she has embraced her "earthly" life, and became engrossed in silly things like stockings and boys, and dismisses their entire experience in Narnia as a childish game. One character even says, "She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age. Her whole idea is to race on to the silliest time of one's life as quick as she can and then stop there as long as she can." And as such Susan doesn't get to enter the real Narnia (Aslan's Country) at the end of the series when all her siblings and co. die in a train crash. That doesn't really affect my Susan, but is noteworthy (and omg, do not get me started on my rant on this. I will be here for hours.)
Anyway, Susan is often the voice of common sense. Unlike her sister Lucy, Susan is very much someone who needs to see things to believe in their existence, rather than taking things on faith. She's not at all a [i]mean[/i] person, living up to her given title as queen, but she isn't afraid to speak her mind at all. She usually tries to buffer her words and make them nicer, but she's too pragmatic to really mince words most of the time.
Additionally, in [i]Caspian[/i], when they can't find Aslan and Lucy is the only one to see him, Susan dismisses her sister out of hand and later apologizes to Aslan for not believing due to her own stubbornness. This is just an example of the pragmatism and clinging to logic I mentioned -- Susan is very much one to not get her hopes up, and tends much more towards what she can see as truth rather than take things on faith.
Appearance-wise, Susan is described as the beauty of the Pevensie family. She's pretty wee (IMDB says that Anna Popplewell is 5'3.5"), with large blue eyes, long dark hair, and very fair skin. I would guess that at seventeen and at a school like this, some of the qualities that did alienate her from Narnia might resurface to a far lesser degree -- she obviously knows she's going back, and wouldn't deny its existence or anything like that, but the question of her vanity might come up.
In addition to all of this, Susan will be our current Peter's sister (and has been NPC'd for a Peter/Willow/Pevensies interaction), so she will have been reigning in Narnia for the last six or so years. As a result, though she'll certainly be familiar with technology (up to about 1940, anyway), she'll be dressed in medieval-looking clothing, and more accustomed to Narnian courtly behavior. She's also the sister of the Ed app that just came in before this one.
Oh, and Aravis will know who she is, but not vice versa. I have totally alerted Aravis' player to this. :D
3. Powers! Does your character have any abilities (powers, skills, training or weapons) that go beyond what a normal person would have? : Susan is an extremely gifted archer, having been given a bow by Father Christmas in LWW. She will be bringing her bow and quiver with her, and though she won't be happy about it, she'll be fine with keeping both in the weapons locker.
The other important item she'll be bringing is her horn, and I'm enforcing a general "NOT DIRTY" for this whole section. Father Christmas also gives her a magical horn, to blow in difficult times in order to bring aid. The "aid" in question is really fairly open to interpretation, depending on its use. I don't think there's anything in canon that definitively states anything about the help that's specifically being summoned, so I tend to think that it's whoever would be most useful at that time (or whoever Aslan thinks would be the most useful, anyway), and that opens it up for a lot more plot interaction on the island.
I don't have any plans at this time to USE the horn, but it's canon that Susan keeps it with her, and she's not exactly one to use it frivolously. If I do come up with a plotty reason to use it, I'll go through all the necessary channels at that time to get clearance. :D
4. Why is your character coming to Fandom and what kind of situation are they leaving behind at home? (ie: where in the canon timeline do they come from?) : Susan, as FH Peter's younger sister, will be coming to Fandom from about six and a half years into the Pevensies' reign. What Emily and I have discussed is that now with Peter and Willow situated in Narnia, Susan will be very "Oh good, you're back. My turn to go! Bye!"
And because Aslan doesn't stop her, she'll figure she's clear to go.
5. Is there any reason that they might cause trouble to other characters in the Fandom High setting due to behavior or abilities? How would you account for that to make the character work well in a group-intensive environment? : Really, really no. Like I said, she's not afraid to say what she's thinking, but she's also very typically-English polite, and a queen on top of that. She'll be well-behaved.
6. Links to character/series information : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Pevensie <--- WIKI!
http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Susan_Pevensie <--- Narnia wiki!
http://narnia.wikia.com/wiki/Susan's_Horn <--- Some more information on Susan's horn, though that article isn't exactly comprehensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narnian_timeline <--- An OCD timeline, which I love like pie.
Things don't go how you expected them to and you find yourself in a situation where you don't get what you want. How will you react out of character as a player? How will you have your character react to the situation? : I tend to brush things off. If I'm really offended, I'll go to the player and see what to do from there.
Susan, on the other hand, will probably decide it's not worth her time to argue and walk away, unless she felt really strongly about something.
Please write at least 300 words *in character* having your character do something, anything, at Fandom High. : Susan still didn't know how she was going to tell the others about this. But she'd certainly have to, or else Peter might hear from someone else, and that would be [i]so[/i] much worse.
And it absolutely was [i]not[/i] her fault that the gremlin had appeared as if out of nowhere and snapped at her ankle. It wasn't as though she'd invited it, after all. It would be an entirely different matter if she'd sought it out, presented her bare leg, and shouted, "Excuse me! Mr. Gremlin! Please come inject some hallucinogens into me so that I might think I'm some sort of --" Well, she still didn't exactly know who that person had been. She really, sincerely did not [i]want[/i] to know.
But that was not what had happened, aside from the question of who she had turned into. She blushed all over again, just at the memory and how many people had seen her like that. However, she needed to figure out how to tell her siblings, and quickly.
Which was why she was sitting at her desk, working on the beginnings of a letter. It wasn't going as well as it could have.
[i]My dear brother and king,
How go things at home? I hope all is well, and that Willow hasn't given up her vow to hug each of her soldiers every day. Regardless of whether or not such a strategy is effective, it does seem to help morale, and, moreover, is somewhat amusing.
Things here are fine. Uneventful.[/i]
Well, that was just an outright lie. Best to ease into it, though, she thought.
[i]During your tenure at Fandom High, I'm sure you encountered all varieties of strangeness, and as such must be deeply familiar with something called a[/i]
"Stickbug Honorary Sister!"
Susan jerked her head up, looking to the doorway. "Good afternoon," she said, smiling warmly at the boy leaning in her doorway. "How are you today, Jamie?"
"Spiffy!" he answered cheerfully. "I just emailed Willow the pictures of you when you thought you were Paris Hilton! Those things needed to be shared."
With a bright smile, Jamie wisely skittered off, while Susan occupied herself with dropping her forehead into a hand.