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Who: Charlie Bradbury and all you crazy kids out there!
Where: Mostly the library, but she can be found in the kitchen stocking up on snacks, too.
When: 9/17 and on
Rating: pg?
Summary: Charlie is trying to brain up riddle things and keep herself busy and useful. The mirrors are coming and shenaningans are afoot! This is a catch all for the event, so any mirrors come her way!
The Story:
Where: Mostly the library, but she can be found in the kitchen stocking up on snacks, too.
When: 9/17 and on
Rating: pg?
Summary: Charlie is trying to brain up riddle things and keep herself busy and useful. The mirrors are coming and shenaningans are afoot! This is a catch all for the event, so any mirrors come her way!
The Story:
One Charlie Bradbury has practically moved into a corner of the library.
Her presence is obvious, even when she isn't curled up in one of those super comfy chairs with a book in her lap. There's not a whole lot in these books that can help her with the riddle set before them, but at least it's something. Keeping her brain busy usually helps in the sudden epiphany department, and that's exactly what she's hoping for.
There are breaks, naturally. Food runs to the kitchen, since pulling food out of a closet still seems real strange when she thinks about it. Plus, she doesn't really trust the closets - she's pretty sure they're mad at her.
Which is silly, but whatever. Being paranoid keeps her safe.
Ish.
Point is, Charlie has now moved into the library and she's working hard. There are at least three notebooks full of scribbles, ideas she's struck with that she needs to get down to run across someone else. Riddles could be fun, but in this case it was a little more dire. She's not sure if that's a good motivator, or if it has her so nervous she's just screwing up all over the place.
It's possible anyone who walks through those library doors are going to be accosted by one energetic redhead who is on a mission.
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Still, it doesn't keep her from swinging by around lunchtime with a large platter of sandwiches for the bunch that's exiled themselves in here to research. She knows how her teammates work. They start going all genius and forget they still have human requirements like food and sleep.
"Anyone hungry?"
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She does make it a point to walk by on occasion, and this is one of those times.
"Can anyone get in on the sandwich action?" She asks, pushing herself up on her tiptoes as she eyes the platter. All this research is making her famished, personally.
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"How goes the researching?"
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"Thanks." She puts off on taking a bite just yet, fiddling with the sandwich as she talks. "It's slow going for me. I'm really good with puzzles and stuff in games, but this is a whole new level of hard."
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"I just can't get it to make sense. I'm sure there's plenty of super smart peeps working on it that are further than I am. But hey, the more eyes on the thing the quicker it should be solved, right?" She takes a bite then, chewing thoughtfully as she glances over the others in the library. Nobody's had a miraculous Eureka! moment yet, but she's expecting it. Too many smartys in one place.
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"Fingers crossed. Everyone I've talked to seems to be as stumped as I am, but that's the way of riddles, isn't it? It's gonna take that one random thing that'll make someone have a eureka moment and it'll be smooth sailing from there."
She hopes.
"Who knows, she might have us running around in circles while she has some lulz at us. Or feeds her pigs...or whatever." Pet pigs, while cute, aren't her thing.
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"The sword is definitely in the Must Need column. Also someone to weld it, but I'm pretty sure we've got all kinds of folks around who can swing it. And swing it good." Charlie would totally try her hand at it, but her experience has mostly been limited to, you know, fake swords. Way different. "I haven't gotten a look at this Jabberwocky thing, but it sounds scary. Where are they even keeping it? Is there some weird pet storage under the mansion or something?"
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But then she's distracted by the thought of the Jabberwocky being able to shapeshift. Taking a moment to finish her sandwich, she tries to remember the story - is that a thing it can do?
"I hope shape shifting isn't one of its super powers. Other than killing everything in sight." She brushes her hands off, sighing. "What I don't get is why the Red Queen doesn't just take care of it. I got the impression she was one of those all knowing types."
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She gives Charlie's musings some serious thought, because there have been a lot of theories bouncing around for the past few days and she's still trying to catch wind of them all, hoping to find something interesting she hasn't learned yet.
"The Red Queen... She's different from the Queen of Hearts though, isn't she?"
Just how many queens did they have around this place?
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"Haven't seen her for a while, so I have no idea where she's vanished to. Probably whatever weird dimension they live in." She's heard some about times when the Red Queen was around - the chess game to end all chess games sounded like it wasn't fun at all. Kinda scary, actually. "The whole thing seems to be some kind of power struggle between both Queens. Haven't seen anymore yet, but I know there's a White Queen in the books."
Not that she remembers much about her, sadly.
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And even then, it was a toss-up.
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She can't imagine even the Wonderland natives are happy in this place. Then again, maybe they don't know what happy is. Maybe they have some sort of crazy Stockholm Syndrome.
"I thought out of anyone, Alice would be on our side. She seems a little too far gone to know what's going on. At least, when she makes an appearance."
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"I've seen her once that I can remember. Super spacey, typical Alice I guess. Not the most down to earth chick around, know what I'm saying?"
She just can't get over how Alice seems to just be content, though. She tried to get back home in the stories, after all.
"Maybe she's just been here so long she's just forgotten herself or something. Forgotten what it was like to be home."
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"That makes sense, but you know...I never actually see her talking to anyone. She's like one of those ominous doom bringers before an event comes around. What does she do all day?"
And here she pauses, looking thoughtful.
"What do any of them do? I mean, the mirrors actually have lives on the other side and everything, but what about the twins and the mouse and all of those dudes?"
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"I dunno, maybe one day someone can get their hands on one of them." She says thoughtfully before realizing she might be implying torture. "Not that I think we should like punish them or anything - maybe they're just doing their job, a regular old nine to fiver before going home to the kids."
She doubts it, but she's also not a fan of causing someone pain, freaky twins, sleepy mouse or not.