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the doctor ([personal profile] mmiab) wrote in [community profile] elnysa2017-09-30 03:49 pm

video, un: bowtiesaresupercool

Hellooooooooooooooooooooo Nysans!

Nysans? El Nysans? El Nysonians? I don't know. Weird, this new planets lark, I'm out of practice, it's been a while. New planets! Fun!

Anyway. Hello. Occurred to me just now, and by just now I mean I'm bored and it's occurred to me before but I've been storing it up for an opportune moment, that there's a lot of you to whom I still haven't introduced myself! And since introducing myself can sometimes be a bit of a palaver, I'm going to go ahead and get through as many of you as I can with this one quick broadcast. Right. Here we go. Ready? Ready.

[ here, the stupid strange-faced bowtie-wearing man with the big grin who's staging a brief (I say brief...) takeover of your screens and attention takes a deeeeeep breath. rubs his hands together!!! grins again, and— ]

Hi! Hello. I'm the Doctor. Yes, the Doctor, not a doctor, though I'm one of those too, in many disciplines, none of them medical. Can still probably save you from losing a leg if I can get my hands on the right alien tech, though. Bit of a jack of all trades. Space and time travelling alien, to get that bit out of the way while we're at it. Two hearts. Legs. Okay? Okay.

While I'm here, let's play a getting to know you game. Yeah? [ a pause, in which he's waiting for an answer that he— apparently receives? from who, your guess is as good as mine. ] Hah hah. Yeah. Good. Getting to know you through the age old medium of word association! This is either going to be great fun or get very boring very quickly, so we'll see how it goes. It's the extended edition, rules are slightly different: for every word you give, you have to explain the link from the last one. However obvious.

Ready? Okay. Here we go. I'll give you a few choices for a starter. ... Train, story, sun, space, fashion, smile, or hope.

And we're off!

[ and he's... also off. (thank God????) good luck nysa... ]

[personal profile] rememberher 2017-10-01 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ She's so glad that there's someone who understands the importance of such matters! ]

Hm, I think I knew someone who did that during parties, if he couldn't remember anyone's name. We all knew that, of course, but no one had the heart to tell him. After a while, we all just played along. I thought it was fun, at least.

[ Of course you would, Lux. ]

Oh— [ She claps her hands together. Good idea coming! ] We could start using it and see if it catches on. After all, we aren't really from around here, so how are we to know? And it is close enough, so I doubt we would offend anyone too badly.

[personal profile] rememberher 2017-10-03 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
I don't believe so! I think I would recognize you if we had, but I could be wrong; I'm quite good at remembering faces. You haven't been to any fancy dinner parties lately, have you?

[ Oh Lux, if only you knew. If only you knew.

But oh, she does look amused, and while she doesn't quite laugh, there's a note of that in her voice. ]


But are we tourists at this point? Although I'm not sure I like thinking of myself as a refugee either, since people don't tend to look fondly upon them. Hmm, I think you might have stumbled upon a deeper problem here, Mister Doctor.