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In jail today...

Hey... Since I'm going to be in jail for a bit... (Until Principal Connor breaks me out apparently)

I'm taking a break from posting today.

Hey

call_me_red_ac, if there's anything you want to try and do with our budding relationship/tragedy feel free to post here so we can work out any details. I feel like my little escapades are pulling away from your glorious portrayal of character.

Anyone who doesn't want spoilers... turn your eyes.

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Dude, I'm kind of stuck. Angela is neither an idiot nor violent herself. At first I thought she was just covering her ears and singing LALALALA about the Junior Achievers club and Marty's connection to it, but now that the detectives are questioning her and she seems to kind of know about JA, though I don't think she knows anything except that Marty talked to Angelus about it. (Which she isn't going to tell the detectives unless they directly ask her.) By all rights, she should decide Marty is bad news and walk away. Which I don't want to do.

Last night I was thinking about asking Angelus to vamp her, for real. But that seems a tad extreme.

One thing I was thinking of is this: It's canon that Angela's parents' marriage isn't in great shape, and I've been using that. If they announce that they plan to divorce, I can see Angela kind of melting down, and if Marty is around when that happens ... you see where I'm going?

We might need to do this in slo-mo, though. Let it be awkward and weird until suspicion is off Marty in the missing students case. Unless he is guilty?

Oh... I'm all for the awkward and weird. I have no idea if I'm guilty or not. Those CSI guys are collecting evidence at the moment so I have no idea what's going on. I'd rather not be guilty of anything... though I'll take the suspicion because the idea intrigues me.

I like the idea of Angela having a meltdown about her parents and Marty being around to help out in his own weird and awkward way.

Yeah... Marty is bad news, but I'd like his character to reform somehow... something I've been working on in a separate plot with

apocalypsesoon but I'm not sure if they are still interested or not.

I'm all for the slo-mo.

Yeah, I hope you aren't guilty too. Marty is just too great a character.

(Though I'm not sure there's anyone I *do* want to have be guilty, come to that.)

Let's go for weird and awkward until the time seems right for her big meltdown. Homecoming weekend might be fun.

Also, when exactly are you playing Marty? You seem to be doing an AU with him as a young assassin -- is that right? Is he old enough that it's going to add another complication, legally speaking? (Angela is 16.)

I've been playing a little loose with the character. He's around 16 or so and has just left school after standing up Debbie at the prom. Somehow he's packed a lot of living and training in the short period of time since then.

Actually... Wouldn't parents weekend be a great time for your parents to break up? I'm not sure which weekend it would be. Your parents don't have to show up... Just have her get a letter explaining why they aren't there. This could lead to a brief comforting scene for the two characters which one of them will flub up somehow.

Just finished reading your "interview" at the police station. You realize you could be in danger, right?

Yeah, parents' weekend would work. It's not until the end of October, though, so that might be a lot of time to play weird and awkward if the missing students storyline wraps up quickly. Let's just see how everything else goes.

As for the police station ... yeah, Angela sang like a canary and is likely to regret it. But it wouldn't be any fun if she always did the wise thing. I'm assuming she won't get herself killed.

Ah... Good point. Homecoming it is then.

Well if Marty ever gets out of jail... (Man! Principal connor is taking her own sweet time with that!) He'll be happy to play the white knight. Plus Marty made a deal with Angelus so that the JA group is to have a "hands-off" with Marty's personal and professional life. Could be an interesting conflict.

Which will probably get him detention and if we can somehow tick of Angela at the same time...

Any thoughts on how to reveal that Marty's a hitman to Angela?

Heh. Don't drop the soap, Marty.

Let's see if white knight-age is needed, but it's good to have that in my back pocket in the interest of not getting my character killed. Thanks. (Though, actually? Blustering in and trying to rescue her when she is Handling It on her own would probably be a good way to piss A. off, especially if he gets a little triggerhappy and ends up seeming to make the situation worse.)

As for how to let Angela know ... hmmm. The scene I have in my head is kind of stolen from the movie -- he tells her and she doesn't believe him, and then later Angelus or another JA member makes it perfectly clear that it's exactly true and she's all "why didn't you TELL me?" and he's all "I did, you just didn't listen." I want it to be both funny and angsty, if possible.

Luckily I haven't had any other cellmates. But with Jay and Silent Bob in town... *shudders*

I'll leave it up to you to ask the big question. I was actually thinking of making a character for Marcella to come in and try to calm you down when you found out about the truth.

Angela:"He's a hitman!"
Marcella:"But he's a good hitman! No. Wait. That came out wrong."

Drop me a "voicemail" if you want me to blunder in and I'll be happy to do so.

I *love* Marcella.

</fangirl>

Anyhow, I like the idea of Angela asking the Big Question. I'm going to wait until the fallout won't get lost in the investigation, though.

She might even find someone else to flirt with for a while, which will further make Marty crazy. And he can do the same, thus adding to the overall crazy and to the angst.

This will kick ass.

Totally kick ass. Marty's a bit of a drama queen (no comparisons to leeadama please) so instead of flirting he'll probably stand outside the dorm holding a boombox over his head in the rain doing his best Marlon Brando impersonation in a "Streetcar Named Desire".

Okay... bad idea. He'll probably just do something stupid.

Anything else you want your character to do?

Heh. I made a meta Lloyd Dobler comment at the slumber party.

As for other things to do with Angela -- not really. As you noted upthread, I'm more a character writer than a big plot writer; I have a handful of ideas for her, but mostly I'm still just seeing what's going on and reacting as it comes up. Is there anything else she should do that would help you with Marty?

Keep doing what you're doing... I can't think of a more brilliant foil for Marty. If someone decides to make a Debbie I'll be PO'd.

Just out of curiousity what are the best posting times for you?

Morning and Late afternoon is usually good for me. I also jump on the internet around 10:30 - 11:00 pm.

Oh, god, now I want to make a Debbie entirely so no one else can.

My posting time varies based on my job, but usually I check in when I first get to work, during lunch, and at the end of the day, and I'll come on after dinner if I'm feeling obsessed enough. It sounds like we line up best in morning and late afternoon, assuming you're in eastern time.

Sounds like a plan for times. As for Debbie... Let's just hope no one adds her or we could post a request for anyone not to do so.

Not sure if I'll make it to the record shop tonight. If I don't make it while you are still online I'll just leave a post and we can finish it later.

Awesome. I'm home now, FWIW (no movies we wanted to see), so we just might catch up with each other.

Just had a bizarre image of Marty teaching Angela on how to shoot a gun.

*snort*

Oh yeah, that would end well. Her last boyfriend couldn't even teach the girl to drive.

Hey, so you know -- I'm asking River what she told you Monday. Hopefully she'll stop short of the assassin bit. (Did she know that, or just about Debi? Am too lazy to refnd thread.)

Oh she knows the whole assassin thing. I think. She made the comment that she and Martin are very much alike. If I remember my firefly canon, she was put through some serious brainwashing to become an assassin.

Could be fun to teach you to shoot. You could be worried about being in the record shop alone. We'll go to the gun range. You shoot the gun. Drop it in suprise. It goes off again and Marty ends up in the clinic with a bullet in his rear and can't sit down for a week.

You want me to admit to being a professional killer here?

Not yet, but I do think Angela should know he isn't telling the whole truth and that should strain their relationship. I feel like this is too early for the reveal, and we should wait until either a good JA plot or Angela's homecoming meltdown.

What do you think?

I think you're right about the Firefly canon. I told River not to tell Angela, anyhow (see below).

And BWAH on your plot idea. We should definitely get in some tme at the gun range this week.

Sounds good. I feel better about the KFC response.

I don't know if you read the detention link, but Dream is having everyone live through there worst nightmare. I threw your character in there in a breif description of what would be Marty's Nightmare.

I'm thinking of expanding the general dream into a journal where Marty can't sleep because the dreams keep coming back. Do you mind if I use your character in the entry? I'll give you a preview before posting.

I'm Marty's worst nightmare? *g* I have to check that thread out.

Seriously, use Angela however you want. The only things I would be likely to veto would be explicit sex (if she had it, I would want to write it) or anything that would physically injure her in the game (I don't want to have to write around that). Thanks for the offer to let me review, though.

Yeah, I agree on both points. I'm working on it now and will post it here for you to look at. It's a little on the dark side, but won't get into the sex/death angle.

Clarification: Angela is in the dream... but is being threatened by Grocer.

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