[David takes the scrub down and re-dressing in stride. This isn't his first trip to the rodeo. He doesn't even make a fuss as they slip him into an orange jumpsuit that brings not-so-distant memories of Clockworks come bubbling enthusiastically and loudly to the surface of his mind. The disorientation means the voices all around him are loud, confused, insistent and sometimes down right screaming. By the end of the talk with Mother May I, David has his palms pressed against his eyes trying to remember how to find the dial to turn it all down. Too many voices, too much agitation, he can't risk having a break here and now.
He takes a few steps back, takes the device offered out to him, and moves away to a farther corner of the room to focus on the tiny screen of the electronic in his hands. It's no payphone, but he'll figure it out.]
network: un: themagicman
I was promised there'd be pie.
[He was not, at all, but could you blame him for trying? It just kept getting yanked away from him at every turn, like a carrot on a very mean, angry stick.]
If there's no pie, there should at least be waffles.
take a peep
[David is smitten with the peeps immediately. He has no idea the cute and colorful bunnies are anything more than projections from his mind, but he loves them all the same. They're everything easter should be: small, fluffy, bright, and unquestionably adorable. He pockets a red one, then an orange. Sets a blue bunny on his shoulder and a violet one in the crook of his arm. A green one is the last to join the collection and curls up in the palm of his hand, nose and ears twitching lightly. It's a rainbow of colorful bunny pals, and by the time David finds his way to his assigned housing, he has a half dozen peeps in his arms.
They each have names, of course. David isn't a monster. Fitting to their festive look, he names the first five after characters from a children's book. There's Beauregarde Violet, Charlie Blue, Teavee Green, Veruca Yellow, and Augustus Orange. But the little red one sitting on his shoulder is the odd one out. He gives her the name Lenny, and with the rain tapping away on the roof, carries on an idle conversation with her as he sets each of his other five bunny buddies into a cardboard box.]
I really liked that pair of shoes and now what? I'm going to track sand around barefoot, that's what. Do you know how hot sand gets in the sun? They could have at least left me my socks. Socks are quiet.
never ever feed them after midnight cw: peep on peep violence
[The issue for David and his cardboard box full of colorful bunnies comes when the over-eager new peep parent, still believing his rainbow of bunnies to be creations from his mind, accidentally loses track of the violet one (Her name is Beauregarde) and she merrily hops straight out of the box, off the porch and into the rain. The change is something straight out of Dahl's work, as her fluffy violet fur darkens soot black and she lunges straight for the box, toppling it out of his hands and going after Augustus. What ensues is a blood bath of wet and horrific peep on peep violence. David finally manages to scoop up one of his multi-colored friends just in time to save her from the jaws and kicking feet of the now black Beauregarde and Charlie. She was putting up a good fight but it was two against one, and David was acting on instinct following his stunned shock.
The duo of black bunnies vanishes down the paths and out of sight. David is left standing under a porch in the rain, holding firmly to a squirming red bunny, kicking and wriggling in his hands, as he stares down at the aftermath of the disaster, silence surrounding him except for the pitter-patter of rain on the rooftops and the toppled cardboard box.]
David Haller | Legion (FX)
[David takes the scrub down and re-dressing in stride. This isn't his first trip to the rodeo. He doesn't even make a fuss as they slip him into an orange jumpsuit that brings not-so-distant memories of Clockworks come bubbling enthusiastically and loudly to the surface of his mind. The disorientation means the voices all around him are loud, confused, insistent and sometimes down right screaming. By the end of the talk with Mother May I, David has his palms pressed against his eyes trying to remember how to find the dial to turn it all down. Too many voices, too much agitation, he can't risk having a break here and now.
He takes a few steps back, takes the device offered out to him, and moves away to a farther corner of the room to focus on the tiny screen of the electronic in his hands. It's no payphone, but he'll figure it out.]
network: un: themagicman
I was promised there'd be pie.
[He was not, at all, but could you blame him for trying? It just kept getting yanked away from him at every turn, like a carrot on a very mean, angry stick.]
If there's no pie, there should at least be waffles.
take a peep
[David is smitten with the peeps immediately. He has no idea the cute and colorful bunnies are anything more than projections from his mind, but he loves them all the same. They're everything easter should be: small, fluffy, bright, and unquestionably adorable. He pockets a red one, then an orange. Sets a blue bunny on his shoulder and a violet one in the crook of his arm. A green one is the last to join the collection and curls up in the palm of his hand, nose and ears twitching lightly. It's a rainbow of colorful bunny pals, and by the time David finds his way to his assigned housing, he has a half dozen peeps in his arms.
They each have names, of course. David isn't a monster. Fitting to their festive look, he names the first five after characters from a children's book. There's Beauregarde Violet, Charlie Blue, Teavee Green, Veruca Yellow, and Augustus Orange. But the little red one sitting on his shoulder is the odd one out. He gives her the name Lenny, and with the rain tapping away on the roof, carries on an idle conversation with her as he sets each of his other five bunny buddies into a cardboard box.]
I really liked that pair of shoes and now what? I'm going to track sand around barefoot, that's what. Do you know how hot sand gets in the sun? They could have at least left me my socks. Socks are quiet.
never ever feed them after midnight cw: peep on peep violence
[The issue for David and his cardboard box full of colorful bunnies comes when the over-eager new peep parent, still believing his rainbow of bunnies to be creations from his mind, accidentally loses track of the violet one (Her name is Beauregarde) and she merrily hops straight out of the box, off the porch and into the rain. The change is something straight out of Dahl's work, as her fluffy violet fur darkens soot black and she lunges straight for the box, toppling it out of his hands and going after Augustus. What ensues is a blood bath of wet and horrific peep on peep violence. David finally manages to scoop up one of his multi-colored friends just in time to save her from the jaws and kicking feet of the now black Beauregarde and Charlie. She was putting up a good fight but it was two against one, and David was acting on instinct following his stunned shock.
The duo of black bunnies vanishes down the paths and out of sight. David is left standing under a porch in the rain, holding firmly to a squirming red bunny, kicking and wriggling in his hands, as he stares down at the aftermath of the disaster, silence surrounding him except for the pitter-patter of rain on the rooftops and the toppled cardboard box.]