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and then i'll kick her, sir

So, wow. Wow. That was some drama, wow. Apparently I am taking it upon myself to talk like Bartok from Anastasia, idk why. The important thing here is everyone probably needs a place to come together to discuss things that went down and also figure out how everyone that saw/heard/was impacted by things are going to react and deal with...everything. There's been more than one bit of drama for some characters, and with the festival and Eight's Christmas coming up, it's a good time to figure out where everyone is. I fail at wording things, I am so so sorry.

Let's discuss and plot and handwave and do all sorts of awesome things.

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Clara's having a rough time this month, after mirrorverse things (secrets coming out, the Master letting his drums loose in her head, watching Eleven die, watching Jamie die, then dying herself) and she's not dealing very well with what happened when the Master dropped his little Gallifrey bomb and Eleven was baited into arguing - mostly because she's been made to look foolish by the Master (which she doesn't handle well at all) and also because she feels Eleven essentially threw her affection for him and everything she's sacrificed and done for him in her face. She's really hurt by that, more than anything, and feels pretty worthless as an end result.

So the night when all that went down, Clara escaped to the stables to hide away from everything with Jamie. Eleven comes to apologize about everything the next day, and we're working on that right now, but I assume things will end relatively well. She's also going to be hanging out with Rory and being calm and awesome with him will help her feel better too.

For the purpose of the festival, Clara has agreed to help and Brax has gotten her to agree to caroling, so she'll be making a presence there and putting on a happy face. For Eight's holiday, she will be in much better spirits and will be giving everyone in the cast a gift of some kind. I will...be posting up what that in a separate entry once I finish deciding on things for everyone. That's not even the point of this.

BASICALLY CLARA IS IN A BAD PLACE BUT WILL BE REPRESSING AND PUTTING ON A HAPPY FACE ANYWAY. And only showing actual happiness to a select few individuals she is really close to.

...has essentially decided to avoid any further drama and any network posts that have anything to do with his castmates, just in case. Sorry, guys.

That said! He is not exactly avoiding them. I've got him on autopilot for my own sanity, but if you want to say your character visited Time&Tea/bumped into him out and about/did a thing, that is definitely ok! We can work out things that happen. And he's making an effort to be cheerful and not upset--no, not even at you, Eleven. It happened/happens. It's not ok, but it happened/happens, and he's fine. He's always fine.

He's still participating in Christmas, in fact I believe Tooth roped him into making cookies and whatever other treats he wants to make, and caroling. Shhh, Eight, he's got a great voice and it's not just him saying that. And of course he's still giving Ril her bracelet which should be cute and fluffy and possibly make Brax go into spasms of delight.

Also I believe he's going to be introducing Ril to the delights of snow, so if anyone wants to spot them horsing around in the snow like a couple of teenagers, that's a thing that's going to happen.

Spoilers are always fun, aren't they?

It's no surprise that Romana did not take the news about home very well. When she found out, it was Braxiatel that agreed to see her and she more or less had her breakdown. Still working on it but the log can be seen here. After that though she'll have kept to herself for the rest of the evening and then contact the TARDIS the next day to cancel their tea appointment.

Because of this she will be needing a few days to process all of this and get herself together. While she won't be avoiding others exactly, Romana isn't going to be seeking them out either. But on the off chance she runs into anyone she will pretend that nothing happened. She won't bring it up or talk about it, unless asked about it directly.

Unsure at this time if she would be attending Eight's Christmas gathering. If she does, I'm still up for that humorous idea of someone dragging her to it because it would be hilarious. Other than that, she will be around, exploring the festival and such.

Clara will definitely be dropping by to see him probably 2-3 days after everything went down? She's worried about him and will want to check up on him, so that will be a thing that happens. They can have some bonding time over tea, and there will be hugs. And she will apologize for Eleven, bc that's just what she does.

Brax did not get involved because he knows better than to discuss serious matters with the Master. Nonetheless, he definitely lurked and talked around it, intercepting Clara when she seemed to have a nerve struck and taking Romana aside when he'd spotted she responded (which meant that he was a shoulder to cry on for her, something he's deeply ill at ease with) and then the Second Doctor, though less… successfully? Hoping to distract him.

He'd only broke down himself with Eleven in the Mirror Verse, so it's pretty raw.

And thus, he's largely ignoring it, beyond checking up on people, which amounts to bumping people and distracting them with Christmas. He hasn't bumped into Eleven yet, but he'll follow similar lines. And there was the comment on Harry's post, which helped him.

However, he's fundamentally not ok. Being social is feeling like walking up a steep hill with a thorn in his side. The notion that he'll soon break down in tears is with him constantly at the moment, even though he's probably looking little more than a bit tired. The only reason he's out and about at all is because of the festivities are both forcibly cheerful and busywork, else he'd have shut himself off completely and only come out when he's ready.

So he's involved himself in carolling, Eight's proposal, going to latch on to Six's and buying presents.

Edited 2013-12-16 22:08 (UTC)

Excellent. He likes her, and he'll probably... idk, brush off her apology but not in a rude way? Or he probably will, but he won't mean it? Something like that. The Master always brings out something of that in him, he doesn't hold Eleven responsible for reacting the way he did. Well. They should have kept it a private conversation, but yeah.

In any case, tea and her company are always welcome.

Has basically accepted this crazy by thinking "dude, I tried to kill the Doctor, I can't judge him for his bad decisions.' As such, he doesn't really JUDGE the Doctor for the Time War (which he learned from by the Master) as also, he was in a war himself, he knows how super easy it is to make bad decisions. But, in true Turlough fashion, he is going to deal with this by not talking with anybody, bottling everything up and sulking something fierce. Honestly, he's more angry about the War Doctor hiding his Doctorness than anything else.

He won't help set up the festival unless somebody drags him ~~mostly cause Owen's helping to set up the festival already~~ but he'll be walking around the festival, wearing his stupid mittens. He will DEFINITELY attend Eight's Christmas party and make a point to go and talk to all the Doctors cause dude, he really doesn't judge you, he's the king of bad decisions.

Jamie hasn't had the greatest month either, thanks to mirrorverse things. The fact that Two showed up made him happier than he'd been, but given a week later the network exploded with the whole Time War stuff it really didn't help matters much. He was very angry with Eleven for hurting Clara, because it came off as a callous disregard of her feelings, and that's one of the things that he has a big problem with (seriously, he had a big fight with Two over that in 'The Evil of the Daleks'). So he yelled at Eleven, Eleven hung up on him and things got to be more mess.

He did talk with Two to sort some things out, and there's a possibility of him being a little shocked over Victoria showing up, depending on if Pixle goes through with her turning up in the middle of the cookie-decorating party or not. If she does, he's going to have Two keep an eye on her or help get her settled ICly before the whole mess goes down on the network - but again that depends on when she turns up.

Either way he's going to wind up spending the night with Clara in the stables and then sort things out with Eleven the next day. And like Brandi said above, I am also assuming things will end relatively well there.

Other than that, he's going go shopping with the TARDIS for a recorder for Two, because even though he likes to try and hide it, it's not right for him not to have one. And he's got a light-up yoyo for Eleven, and I have some ideas for other things, but I need to do a list somewhere to sort out who all is getting what.

(Just to let you guys know I am open for suggestions for presents to give people so feel free to jump in and go 'hey, won't that be cool!'. You never know, I might use the idea.)

Also Clara will probably be able to talk him into caroling, and he'll try and drag Two along there, and he's helping out with setting up booths and getting a sleigh for the RoTG folks for the surprise mounts that little Jamie has procured. And there may be the possibility of him getting embroiled in a snowball fight and doing other wintery things - including possibly something having to do with Clara and mistletoe and gosh I have no idea what that might be. :3

THINGS AND STUFF. Um, I'll try to put into words how Eight feels.

He's just fed up. He doesn't blame anyone for the destruction of Gallifrey (mainly because he spent months thinking that it was his fault, and he knows how much that hurts), but everything is just such a big mess of blame and lies that he's just done. That burst of anger was mostly to try to get everyone to focus their anger on him and...it didn't really work because Eleven just went back to bickering with the Master, so...poo. And really, if anyone comes up to him and says "Rule 1, the Doctor lies", he's going to break something. Again.

He's mostly just mad at Eleven for being an ass lately. Well, and the Master, but he's always mad at the Master. You can pretty much handwave that it's all good between him and most of the cast. Eleven will definitely take a bit more work. Especially if Eleven continues to act as if he's done nothing wrong and everyone's just picking on him. :P

However, IT'S HOLIDAAAYYY TIIIIIME! Which has cheered him up quite a bit. And made him nervous, but that's normal for a guy about to propose. Especially one of the Doctors. He just doesn't do this often (well, not on purpose at least).

As for the festival, he's been roped into cooking (mainly frying Hannukah stuff) and will be enjoying the caroling. Also, if that thing where the Doctors start competing in lighting up the Welcome Halls, I'm still in for that. (I believe it was mentioned as a handwaved thing.)

ALSO, for the family get-together, yes everyone is invited, but if you don't want to participate, you don't have to. If you want something handwaved with me (even if you are going to participate anyway, if there's something about it you want handwaved) just let me know.

CHARLEY IS AVOIDING ALL DRAMA.

She and Eight have had a serious discussion about not keeping secrets in future and so forth, and she's back home, and she just... doesn't want to deal with any more drama.

That said, she's not going to be pushing anyone away if they come to her (mostly Clara or Ril, I can see doing this, honestly), and will help as best she can without getting neck deep in any interpersonal dramaz. Also, she's still in pretty regular contact with Ril and Six (given that she's working in their shop) and I don't doubt she's been at least sending invitations to come over for meals to Clara, whether or not she accepts.

Also to Turlough. One of these days she WILL get him to come over and have supper with them. O_O

As far as the festival, SHE HAS NO IDEA WHAT EIGHT IS PLANNING despite half of Asgard knowing at this point. ;) Prep-wise, she'll probably be helping with decorating, and popping by to help Eight out and sample his delicious cooking.

Edited 2013-12-16 22:17 (UTC)

VERY SUPER IMPORTANT QUESTION.

Would Eight like socks from Jamie for Christmas? I hear he's fond of them. :D

Sooooo. Mistletoe, yes no? (Unless for some reason there winds up being smooching before then, because depending on how that stables thread goes...)

haha she will have spoken to Eleven by that point and won't be offended by Six brushing anything off. She'll get why he does it and will instead prompt him to tell her about some of his adventures because stories are always good. She may also have spied him and Ril in the snow and will be teasing about that at some point. Bonding!

TURLOUGH BTW ONE DAY YOU WILL HAVE TO COME TO SUPPER AT WHO HOUSE 104 BECAUSE CHARLEY DEMANDS IT. Just fyi. :|

YAY SOCKS!

He'd love socks. Absolutely.

BUT HE'S THE MOST ANTISOCIAL AND GRUMPY, CHARLEY, GOSSSSSH.

he will spend the supper picking at his food and just still in the mindset of "how do I deal with people, HOW DO I DEAL WITH BEING FRIENDLY."

Sorry for making him uneasy. :c

Hell, Eight hasn't had much input on the plans lately. He told Brax and asked him if he wanted to be part of it, and Brax went a little goofy. :D

So far, the only thing Eight knows anymore is what he's going to be doing and where it's going to be. Everything else are all his brother's shenanigans.

Six will join in the breaking of things. He doesn't lie, gdi.

And she will love him for it anyway. Grumpiest ray of sunshine. <3 SHE HAS LATCHED ON AND I CAN'T STOP HER, SORRY TURLOUGH.

Brax. Clara appreciates his intercepting so much, so she'll probably drop a line in his IC inbox soon to thank him for it, if you'd be up for a quick little thread. She has a feeling his being social is much like hers, in which it's a distraction and things are barely holding on by a little thread. She might try getting him to talk about stuff, but won't press or anything.

Six is definitely spending some time with Brax at some point. Family, man. They can have tea and enjoy a vague conversation about the weather.

haha, TRUE, but the important part of the plan IS eight's, I think you'll have to agree. ;)

It was more because he hadn't a clue what to do and feel as if he'd ought to react the same. He adamantly doesn't hold it against Romana even a little. It's all he can do not to hover.

This is definitely true!

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