Casefile 001A - Video

[used_fireblast]

No, no, no, no, no, NO!

[Hello Johto, your friendly neighborhood wizard has decided to drop back in. Or rather has come back entirely against his will, which probably goes a long way towards explaining exactly why he’s so mad right now. Angry enough that he seems entirely oblivious to the Smoochum clinging to the top of his head and licking his hair happily.]

Dammit, I said I was ready! I was- you send me HERE? You’ve got a sick sense of humor, Uriel! You hear me? SICK! That woman who said- …that is NOT FUNNY.

[He lets out a frustrated snort, lacking someone he can properly blame.]

…Dammit. So apparently I’m back. A few minutes ago I didn’t remember that there was even a HERE to get back to, but I’m back. Probably not from outer space, unless the cosmology of the afterlife is worryingly Lovecraftian. And hell’s bells, now that song’s stuck in my head. Lemme just say that the timing on all this? NOT helping the paranoia that this is some kind of hell.

Smoo-chu!

Oh, and Lara’s still here.

[Harry hooks a thumb at the Smoochum acting as an impromptu hat. She grins happily, waving at the camera.]

Guess if this is all a massive hallucination, at least my psychoses are consistent. Me and Dorothy Gale.

Comments

[video]

[clicked-3-times.livejournal.com]

Do I know you?

Re: [video] omg this is perfect XD

[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

Uh- don't think so, no.

[Probably. He's known way too many blondes.]

'Less you're some alternate-reality version of someone I know. Suppose that'd be possible here. ...Why do you ask?

[This is what you get for being more familiar with the movie, Harry.]

Re: [video] i know, right XD

[clicked-3-times.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never seen you before, but you mentioned me.

Re: [video]

[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

I mentioned- ...oh.

[Here, have some of Harry's epic poker face. It's completely convincing and not at all obvious.]

... It's kind of a common name where I come from.

[Master of deception, he is.]

Re: [video]

[clicked-3-times.livejournal.com]

[It actually, kinda works because someone is way to trusting.]

Is it really? That's really strange, that both my first and last name together is common.

Re: [video]

[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

...Yes. Yes it is.

[And thus does Harry's need to not withhold important information come into conflict with his desire to avoid the horrific awkwardness and brain-shattering that happened the last time he Fourth Wall'd someone.]

...it tends to get used in fiction a lot. Usually stories about strange things happening to the main character. Other worlds and stuff. Which is why I thought of it.

[Master. Of. Deception.]

[video]

[clicked-3-times.livejournal.com]

Other worlds? [Oz wasn't really another world, right? I mean you can get there via hot air balloon.]

Re: [video]

[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Like the one we're in now.

[Don't mention Oz, don't mention Oz, don't mention Oz...]

Like CS Lewis' Narnia books. Bunch of kids go through a wardrobe and end up in world full of talking animals and wandering Christian allegories.

[Would that be before her time? Probably. That was the forties or so.]

Or like Alice in Wonderland, I guess. ...Actually, there's sort of a disturbing number of stories like that.

[video]

[clicked-3-times.livejournal.com]

Narnia, I have never heard of that.

I have heard of Alice in Wonderland, but have not read it. Is it good?

Re: [video]

[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

[Yeah, after her time.]

I read it once a while ago. It was okay. Probably would've liked it better if I'd read it as a kid.

[These days it's just a tad too close to his real life.]

[video]

[clicked-3-times.livejournal.com]

Oh.

What's your name, sir?

Re: [video]

[used-fireblast.livejournal.com]

I'm Harry Dresden.

[So tempting to add some kind of 'good witch' or wizard joke. So very tempting.]

So do you prefer 'Dorothy' or 'Miss Gale'?

[video]

[clicked-3-times.livejournal.com]

Dorothy.