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[priceofmagic]

[Satou wants to be a good roomie to Ada. She really does. She also wants to be as open-minded as her quirky roommate. Ada's ability to face scary topics with a smile and kindness has awed Satou, and she truly believes learning to be like Ada will make her a better public servant. In Attleton, especially in Everglade, and just in general...!

So she's rented a bunch of horror movies, marathoned them, and scared herself shitless.]

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I-I did iiit. I watched them all. The cursed casette tape movie, the haunted house movies, th-the mummy movie, the sw-swamp m-monster in your tub drain m-movie... I-I did it.

Can I put that on my resume? Are there any more that I need to watch? I-I want to be more open-minded and kind to the citizens of Everglade, s-so...!

[action : Everywhere. Particularly at night.]
[Now Satou is a scaredy-cat wreck. Whether she's coming home from movie, buying groceries, or patrolling... Satou is on edge. Not enough to hurt anyone, of course. She watched those movies to become more open-minded and try to understand curses and scarey things, not to learn how to beat them up.

But she's still a teenage girl, and those movies are made to scare kids like her. They've gotten in her head. So when she's encountered on the streets, Satou will squeak in alarm and dart away to hide. Then realize she's being ridiculous.]

I-I'm sorry. Ehehe... C-Can I help you? I'm Detective of Everglade, Volunteer Deputy of Attleton, Magical Girl with no fear K-Kuroneko Satouuu. [and she weakly strikes a pose while holding out her actual glittery pink business card. she's just the image of reliable.] 

Comments

[spacepeterpan]

Putting yourself through all that--obviously you've had to be very brave to keep going if it scared you that much--just to prepare yourself to help people? Of course it's considerate, how many people d'you think do that?

Yeah, sure, didn't go to plan, but in a thousand years of space and time, I haven't met that many plans that went like they were supposed to, you get used to it, just do like I do, when a plan goes wrong, look for the bright side and pretend that's what you were after in the first place, you get the same results and spend a lot less time worrying about whatever you were expecting.

[priceofmagic]

[Though she does take his words to heart, Satou still feels silly and foolish. She knows that she has tanked her public image.]

That's true... I wasn't going to get any better from just movies anyway. I was already in for the long haul, so a bit longer isn't a huge deal.

[She gives a soft sigh.] Space and time, huh? I've been told I look at the bigger picture, but that's a really big picture, sir.

[spacepeterpan]

[...he makes a bit of a face at the "sir"--he can put up with it from people he's not actually dealing with personally, and he can forgive it from soldiers who have plenty of even worse habits, but this isn't one of those scenarios.]

Just... Doctor's fine, but yes, it is, and an amazing picture, a three-dimensional picture you can step inside of and walk about and look in all the cupboards and up all the trees.

[The Doctor grins at that, clearly very pleased with the idea, whether or not it makes any sense. ...although he collects himself after a moment.]

...well, having a time machine helps quite a lot...

But that's not the point, the point is you could do a lot worse than what you tried to do, don't sell yourself short on that. Trying to help, yeah, might take a little practice, but trying to help and not giving up, well, the way I see it, that's fantastic.