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If you don't control your temper, [open]

Who: Barbie and You!
Where: Around Wonderland
When: Arrival and throughout the month
Rating: PG for language, updated as needed
Summary: New to Wonderland and trying to figure out what fishbowl he is trapped in now
The Story:

Arrival on the Beach

Not being stuck to a magnetized dome is a good start. Except nothing looks familiar. Even the sky overhead seems different than how it had looked through the dome in Chester's Mill. It definitely isn't the same street he'd been on with an SVU barreling down on him and Linda. This isn't even the beach at the lake, which is a good thing as there is at least no scent of methane. Except all of those changes meant Barbie has no idea where he was.

Crossing his arms over his stomach, mostly to hide the shackles that kept his wrists cuffed together, setting off to try follow things up towards the structure he saw in the distance.

Around the Mansion

Rid of his cuffs and cleaned up a bit, Barbie has seen the flyers, and still none of it is making a lot of sense. So he sets off to explore the house of his new alien overlords to try and desperately find answers. Not that he isn't used to not having them, but maybe this time things will be different.

So he pops his head into a few rooms, checks out the food situation, and if he is seen turning faucets on and off a few times can anyone really blame him?

Exploring the land

It's not that Barbie thinks there's a dome somewhere around Wonderland under a miniature dome, but well, he's out searching for a damn miniature dome with a damn egg, and maybe a butterfly, in it.

Set up with a flashlight and some equipment from the closest after having learned about them, he heads out into the forests though at times it's closer to dusk than might be safe, exploring to see how similar this place is to the world he knew.

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"You can ask. That way I'm not the one droning on about it unprompted." It's a win-win if he actually wants to know. But she nods, frowning a little at his situation. Regina's hatred of Snow was, for the most part, completely unfounded and she slaughtered villages just to get to her. She understands too well, maybe.

But then, she can't help finding herself laughing just a little. "I'm guessing Barbie is a nickname? And if it isn't, I'm sorry in advance. You really might have me beat in uniqueness, though."

"Well, the obvious comment is that you barely look decades old," he points out. Of course, she may have been an infant when it started, but the way she worded things doesn't make that sound right to him. "And learning about others and this place and all? Never unprompted. Not entirely." It was the only way they were going to learn.

"Came from the Army," he admits with a nod. "Last name's Barbara, which I still prefer it to Dale." His nose wrinkles even as he says it. "But thanks."

"I've never met a Dale. And if I have, he was going by a different name, so I think your point is valid." She smiles; Barbie it is.

"I'm originally from a realm where magic is very, very real. And when my step-mother couldn't kill me outright after years of trying, she cursed everyone in my kingdom to a land without magic, a place where our lives were erased and replaced with new ones, new memories. For almost three decades I had no idea I wasn't always a school teacher from a small town. I had no idea I was married or had a daughter. And we just didn't age. Maybe now that the curse is broken we will, but it's hard to know."

So, there's the start of a story there, Barbie.

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"I think most of us hide it," he admits, grinning at the thought of it. It is a nice to pretend like all of this isn't madness, if only that's he's used to life being weird. It seems easier to pretend that way, at least.

Though he isn't sure what he was expecting, but that gives him pause.

"Oh. Uhmmm... Shit." He winces even as he says it. "Okay, wrong response, sorry. Just damn, I'm sorry. You live with magic and your step-mother tried to kill you? So sounds like a fairytale." It's not his fault! It really does.

"Wait, oh shit. Now you know and you're here. Where was your child all that time?" He winces again. "I'm asking too much, aren't I?"

Oh no, this is adorable, and Snow shakes her head with a small smile. "You're not asking too much. I am a fairy tale." She'll let him work out which one now that she's introduced herself.

"My daughter...I made sure she went someplace safe, where she wouldn't be cursed. A place where no one from my realm could find her. I was told in a prophecy that she would return on her 28th birthday and break the curse that year. And she did."

Oh the wheels turn quick, even if the expression if definitely one of disbelief. He very nearly facepalms.

"You're... We're in Wonderland and you're actually Snow White?" He should be shocked, and he knows that. He should be confused, but he's in Wonderland, and Julia has had talks with Red Queens and Alice of infamous fame, and now he's talking to...

"Are there dwarfs here? Was that real?" He's not even sure this is real, but it's better than a Dome, and Big Jim trying to kill people. He'll take it.

"Well, this isn't my version of Wonderland. My world's version is - or was - ruled by my stepmother's mother." But Snow killed her so who knows who it is now! Anyway.

I don't know the Alice here, she's different from the one back home. And as far as I know, no dwarfs are in Wonderland, they're all safe and back home." So yes, that part was real, too! "The Disney movie...well, most movies, only captures one small chunk of my battle with the Evil Queen. And it makes me look pretty...naive. I'd never eat an apple from a stranger, or any food. Oh! And she wasn't jealous of my looks, in her defense."

"But... but you have one. You have a Wonderland." He accepted the Dome. He accepts this place as best he can. This though, is new to him and exciting and cool all at the same time.

"I never thought about the Evil Queen having a mom. Makes sense though. How she could end up like that, after all" he says, smirking a bit thinking about it. "I mean, if the stories I heard growing up are true anyway."

Which this place isn't anything like those stories, so he's not sure anything else is.

He snorts at that, smiling a bit crookedly. "I always wondered about that. The apple and all. I mean, I just thought maybe it was that life was different or something and people trusted more."

"Regina's mother...was a monster. She killed my mother and forced Regina to marry my father when she was seventeen." Snow looks down, because in part that was all her fault. She'd told Cora, after all, all about Regina's love for the stable boy and wanting to run away with him, to leave behind royal titles. It had gotten the stable boy killed and given Cora everything she wanted. But she'd rather not go into those details, they don't feel wholly like Snow's to share.

She smiles at Barbie and shakes her head. "No. Regina gave me a choice. Let Charming die so that I would know what pain and suffering felt like, equal to her own, or curse myself so that he could live. It was my choice."

Fairy tale world is brutal.

He listens, attentive and intent on what she's saying. Even as his brain tries to work through what actually happened to her with the stories that apparently crossed a few worlds from what he can tell. Kind of like Wonderland itself.

"Well, least that makes more sense," he says, nodding. Because to Barbie, it really and truly does. "I was standing on a gallows before I came here ready to die so that the woman I love and others didn't die. I can get cursing yourself for another." Not that she needs his understanding, but he may not totally get it, but he does understand.

"Sucks though that you've had to go through all of that, even just with the stories like I've heard them. The real ones, not the watered down Disney movie kinds."

There honestly isn't anything more convincing of true love to Snow, than someone who's willing to die for the person they love. Her face softens, and she smiles just a little.

"It wasn't the best time, but we're together now. And yes, Disney took some liberties. He wasn't the best author, but he certainly wasn't the worst. He wanted us to have happy endings, at least."

But back to that gallows thing. "You do understand, then, I think. How far you're willing to go for someone you love more than anything."

Despite the gravity of the conversation, there's a bit of delight in Barbie's eyes, the curve of his smile. He's been through a lot but getting to meet fairytales and talk about it was never on that list. Not even on the radar of his thoughts.

"If you're together now, I guess it worked out that way then. Happy and all. I hope." Because together doesn't mean everything was happy. He and Julie have proven that.

Though he nods then. "I do. You do what you have to, because otherwise what's the point of caring that much." Which when he looks at things in fairytales now, after Julia, they make a lot more sense, he realizes. Hard to see it before you've experienced it.

"Happy for the most part," she amends. "But I would rather us fight for peace together than be separated, not knowing who we are to one another."

Barbie does get it, and Snow nods. "You do understand. We might not have a world in common, you and I, but I certainly think we have a lot to discuss," she says with a smile at him. They don't have to go through all of their personal histories right now in the woods, after all. "Could we meet again sometime?"

"That is a sentiment I can understand," he says, nodding, thinking about Chester's Mill and how bad things had been there, how not sticking together had led to turning on one another.

"I... I recently fell in love. Kind of love at first sight, if I'm honest. You learn a lot when that happens," he admits with a distant look, still adjusting to that after only two months. "But I would love that. Soon then, and thank you. I really appreciate your time and helping me, Snow."

He chuckles softly at that, amazed still at who she is.

Oh, God, she loves True Love so much and she grins but she does manage to contain herself.

"Falling in love can change everything about who you are as a person. That's what happened for me." She can't help smiling again, swinging her bow over her shoulder.

"I was happy to talk, and I'll be happy to again. I'll see you again, later!"

And with that, she heads off, humming to herself with a bird following her because that's just the most Disney Princess exit of all time.

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