OPEN | VIDEO

[passingthrough]

Who: Kitty and all the people of fleet!
Broadcast: Yes!
Action: Windrose if you want
When: At some point before the masquerade

We have a masquerade coming up, and I was bored so I thought I'd mettle in people's lives for my own amusement. First, the disclaimer, there is nothing wrong with going to a dance solo.

Now, for anyone else, who wants a date?

Sorry, not me. Taken. But there are probably some of you out there thinking a date would be fun, and sure, why not? So speak up. Let's make some love connections. Or, you know, awkward dancing connections. I'm a mutant, not a miracle worker.

(OOC: Please feel free to threadjack.)

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[Oh that's an even better name than Furiosa.]

It's Dorothy! Nice to meet you, Kitty. Is it short for anything or do you just like cats?

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Katherine, but no one actually calls me that. [She does get Kitten and Kätzchen occasionally and once upon a time, Katya.] Nice to meet you too, Dorothy. [She's trying hard not to ask how old the girl is. She figures the answer is "not old enough to be abducted into a reality show" regardless. And she has never liked it when people made a big deal over her own age.] I like cats just fine though. Probably more of a dog person.

[flickerflash]

Well, I suppose dogs are all right. [But she looks pleased anyway, for reasons she can't really share. They have the same name.]

I always thought if I were a Katherine, I'd be a Katie. [Kitty is a little too obvious for her, though she likes it anyway.] Perhaps I should change my name.

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Really? That's something you always thought about? You must have had a lot of time on your hands.

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Well, I'm just a little girl. I have a lot of free time! Nobody lets me do anything interesting.

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Does that mean there are people watching out for you? Like Sam?

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Watching out for, or never letting me have any fun. I'm sure it's one of the two.

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What kind of fun do you want to have? [Is there even that much trouble around here?]

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All the kinds of fun! I haven't even found all the ways you can have fun yet, so I have to keep exploring. And exploring! People won't let me explore places.

[IDK man you go bounding out onto a polluted planet without a mask and people panic, what's up with that.]

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[Such worriers!] Places like the moon? It's not the safest place for anyone. [Not that it's stopped Kitty of course.]

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It's safe enough if you know how to be nice to it. [That being said, she actually doesn't like it that much. She got sick the first time she went out. But that doesn't mean she should be frowned at!] They didn't let me explore the ice planet on my own either. Very insistent on mittens.

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Frostbite is no joke. [There was an ice planet?] How long have you been here?

[flickerflash]

Um... I think I lost count. Less than a year, though! I haven't had a birthday yet! At least, I don't think I have.

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Gets a little tricky if you don't come in on the same date it was back home, doesn't it? You have to decide if your birthday is the date it's always been or the day that falls 365 days after the last one. [And then math is involved and who has time for that?]

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[She went a little cross-eyed just listening to that. Maths suuuucks.]

I like my birth date! I think I'll keep it. My mum always likes to pretend she's younger than she really is, so if I lose a few months it doesn't really matter, does it?

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Nope. Of course you could always celebrate both and just age the one time. More cake.

[flickerflash]

[omg you are a stellar adult to look up to, Kitty Pryde]

I should say my other birthday's some time in June then! I can call it my space birthday!

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[Follow her lead. You will learn so much, "Dorothy!"]

Sounds good to me. I think I might have just convinced myself to celebrate both too.