ways_back_room | Emergency substitute DE

"The past is a foreign country."

ETA: Wow, I really shouldn't answer the DE before I'm fully awake.

Alex would like people to know, before she finished her canon of course, that no, the television really does talk to her, as do random street people, and the odd newspaper headline. And there are people walking around, who she only knows about from the files of a patient who committed suicide. And 80's fashion really is as atrocious as it was made out to be. And she'd never wear that much mascara if it wasn't expected. Also, white leather jackets or red stiletto heels. Really, she wouldn't.

Then there was the ceiling coming off. That's the one that would be really hard to explain.

John Silver knows that unless you've been at sea, in any timeline, it's something you won't understand. And not just a pleasure cruise round the harbor, but out of sight of dry land for weeks at a time. Subject to the winds and currents, working your fingers to the bone, waiting for the payoff. Being alone on watch, at night, watching the wake behind the ship ripple with an eerie blue light, or watching the same light, only in the form of a blue flame, dancing around the mast. It's something you can't explain to someone who hasn't lived through it.

Earl refuses to answer this question, on the grounds that it would violate his "contract". Whatever that means.

Sherlock wishes he could people to understand that his mind is working all the time. Even when he's asleep. It never slows down, save by force of chemical intervention, and sometimes, not even then. He'd also like people to understand that his brother really is the British Government. No one ever seems to believe him on that point.

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Oswin: Daleks. Just. She's pretty sure even if she spent all day explaining them (which, yeah, that's not going to happen) it still wouldn't measure up to the terror of hearing one over a ship's communication system.

Katya: How 'magic' is done in her world, and why she gets so almighty frustrated when people compromise their own safety in such a blase fashion.

Clara: The Doctor, pretty much. That odd sort of magnetism/power-of-voice thing he has going so it sounds a bit less mad that she's travelling with him.

Balthazar: Isn't explaining anything.

Haymitch: .... Really wishes people would not talk about overthrowing the system. Yes, that'd be great, but so many people, innocent people he's done a fairly good job of protecting so far, are going to die if that happens.

Glorfindel: ...... isn't explaining anything either.

Bones: Injuries should be healed, damnit. This isn't a hard concept.

William: Is too new to need to explain anything. Though maybe he will after he gets a bit through canon.

*eyes Nynaeve-Javert*

*eyes Bones*

Nynaeve and Bones should totally talk.

This. Soooo much this.

This is a good one, if tough.

All I can think of is Andrea; how magic and technology fluctuate in her world. Hell people who live there don't understand it. There is also her personal demon of being the daughter of a were-hyena and a hyena-were, but that's more her world's prejudice than Milliways.

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Another to add, which I am sure no one will see, but Ben wishes folks would understand that yes, he is a monster and no, that doesn't mean he thinks he's horrible. Not all monsters are bad folks.

I don't think Amascut has been honest enough about her own world for any misunderstandings to pop up yet so this is more something she does not understand about other worlds:

Gender roles. All her what.

I AM SO SORRY EVERYONE. I had a conference that I had to help set up for and I wasn't at a computer and I forgot it was Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Joshua: Artifacts aren't magic. And he was an uncaring asshole that one time.

Helena: To be completely honest, I have no idea. Thoughts, anyone?

Fantine: She doesn't blame anyone for what happened. Other than perhaps the Thenardiers for being asshats.

Valentine: Peter is a manipulative asshole and she has to do everything she can to make sure he doesn't take over everything.

(... I must be tired. I'm talking about assholes a lot.)

Mel: The slang. She had such a pain trying to understand people when she first started coming to the bar but she bent and she figured out what someone said. Everytime someone derails a conversation to specify what she means by 'rocketship' or 'jake' etc instead of using context clues she gets annoyed.

Korra:The animals. Horses are WEIRD, guys. Don't you understand that?

Dinah: Masked heroics. It makes sense when you've grown up with it.

Renee: The Batsignal. What it means when it's shining in the sky and what it does to a Gothamite to see it.

Dick: No, he can't stay still. Stop asking him.
Robin: Bruce. Except he doesn't want anyone to understand Bruce better than he does.

Teresa doesn't care whether you understand or not, say sorry.

Will: is perfectly okay with people not understanding him. But he would like to understand everyone else a bit better. YOU PEOPLE ARE WEIRD.

Marguerite: would like people to be a bit more understanding about the rigid gender/societal roles in her society. It's been a while since someone said/implied "why don't you just do whatever you want?" But it still stings.

Mac doesn't want you to understand him. If you understand him, you can manipulate him.

Horses are WEIRD, guys. Don't you understand that?

Ellen agrees with her one hundred per cent on that.

Not that her cows are any less weird, but good Lord, horses. What. Just what.

(ETA: speaking of cows, Ellen has an EP if you wanted to make contact with her. And if you had the availability, obviously.)

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I think yes! Let me go to the gym and I will come back and poke it.

The animals. Horses are WEIRD, guys. Don't you understand that?

Really?

Oh.

Look, some people just won't take you seriously until you put on a mask and take up a theme.

That's just the way it is.

(Try and explain how Batman is scary when all you have are words and a vocabulary that gets filtered through a magic translator. No, go one we'll wait. 'So he's a grown man who dresses up like flying mammal...)

Robin's explanation: "Look, it doesn't have to frighten you. It frightens criminals, 'cause they're superstitious cowards."

Dick's explanation: "You don't get it. It's him, he's awesome."

Dinah's: "It's not the animal. It's the cape. It masks his movements, makes him hard to follow. He could be dressed as a peacock and if he had a dark-coloured cape he'd have the same effect."

Renee's: "Yeah yeah. You wait 'til he busts in on your crimescene and see how hilarious you find him then."

Oh yeah, it's full power in context.

Milliways just doesn't have a lot of the right context, that's all.

Eh, I thought Ako's explanation was just fine.

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Mark is right there with Dinah. Some kids' parent put on a suit and tie, some put on a police uniform, some put on BDUs, and some put on tights and a cape (or fishnets and leather, as the case may be). 'S nothing weird about it.

Renee: The Batsignal. What it means when it's shining in the sky and what it does to a Gothamite to see it.

Alfred insists on saying this: Yeah, it means I'll probably have a certain someone to patch up in the morning.

Gene wishes he could get people to understand that a) the way he is, is just the way people are in 1970s Britain, and to him, it's your methods that are weird, and b) that someone getting a slap is not The end of the sodding world. Blokes can take it. No one's going to melt if they get a clip 'round the ear. If you whinge about stuff like that, you really don't deserve to be called a man.

Javert would like people to understand that - well, OK, he's not really normal even by the standards of his own time. But his time is different, and he's unsure why he keeps getting treated like he would in modern times. People telling him it's OK to talk about things, for example - well no, for him, it's not. Yet he gets treated like he's odd, or an anomaly, when he can't/won't. He'd like to see how anyone from the modern world would manage in his time, with all their weird talking, and whatnot.

I don't know why, but I now have this strange desire to see how Helena and Gene would get along. Probably terrible.

*cackle* Only one way to find out. Either brilliantly, or terribly. No in-between.

1. Dinah loves you, Gene.

2. Marguerite and Javert, please? FRENCH PARTY.

1. Gene loves her right back! <3

2. HELL TO THE YES. :D :D :D

I feel like Nick and Gene's posts here are both, in a way, directly talking to one another.

I think so too! And is probably the reason they will always be at odds. Or at least, until Gene grows up a bit. If Nick meets 80s!Gene, he might find him a bit more responsible. He hates corruption then, and has a bit more experience of it.

Of course, he might have already met 80s!Gene, but I can't remember for the life of me. :\

I'm not sure that he has. He might have, but I can't remember it ever happening either. Which probably means it hasn't happened, maybe?

Autor's whole life is built on this desire:

"Yes, the story must be controlling this town. But we cannot realize that fact. No matter what strange things happen... We are made to believe that things have always been this way. I'm the only one that can solve this mystery! So I'm also the one with the qualifications to change this world!"

Oh, kid.

Oh that poor kid. *pats him and offers tea*

Will would like people to get that no really, its not that simple to just go overthrow the king and he is a peasant. He's accepted this and Robin is his lord, its just that simple.

Charles wants people to know that it would be bizarre to him to not hear any thoughts at all, the thought of it scares him. Please stop asking him if he can just turn off who and what he is.

For Sameth, the Charter and how it is a part of the Old Kingdom, he always feels like he's explaining it badly as well as his duties.

William, he can't just go to school or pursue whatever he might want to, his job is to take care of his mother and brother. Stop acting like he can change his world that much.

Jane would like everyone to know that she is trying to create change, but its not easy and she can only do so much within society.

Demeter isn't mortal, her sense of the world and her morals aren't going to go how people expect and she's not going to change them.

Moist would like people to get that the Disc is weird, he has reasons for being worried by the things he is. Why is the fear of being eaten that hard to understand?

Tumnus doesn't know how to explain properly that humans are weird, they just are.

The Pirate King and how music exists in his world, its exists there.

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It's totally reasonable for a small town in Northern California to have so many abandoned banks, shopping malls, subway stations, and warehouses. Of course it isn't a post-apocalyptic hellscape, what are you, nuts?

Now pardon me, I have to go track some werewolves through a grimy, dark alley to the abandoned mine on the wrong side of the tracks.

Framing Stiles. It's all about how you frame those shots.

Also, trees screen a lot of things from view. Trufaxs.

Gus: Even if you're going to be actively breaking the law, there are still rules you have to follow. It doesn't matter what world you're from, but the people in even his world don't seem to understand this. He has had successful cons in the past, but they've only ever been the ones on which he's gone solo, because there was no-one else with him to fuck it up with their idiocy.

Tim: The Phantom Menace sucks. If you don't believe that, you cannot be his friend.

Nicholas: That law enforcement officers, no matter their department or discipline, have got to be honest and just. This is something that he's going to be even more insistent about now that he's post-canon. First, he was just proving it to himself, as a way of coping with his corrupt uncle. Now, he feels like he has to prove it to the whole goddamn country. That sad part is, he's kinda right.

Travis: On the other hand, he'd like people to understand that Nicholas really isn't as annoying and horrible as he comes off. Well, he is some of the time, but not all of the time.

Gary: (SPOILERS) Right now, he doesn't really have anything he feels he'd need to prove. Not on a large scale. Once he gets through canon, though, he's going to want people to know that Blanks are not actually the bad guys. They were just as abandoned in this mess as the humans were, and without the Network telling them what to do, they're pretty much ordinary people. Who can come apart.

Loki: Magic is real, and every race uses it. Even the humans, who had been non-magical for centuries. On Asgard, they call it seiðr. On Midgard, they call it electricity and radio. Then there are the mutants (which he thinks is an insulting term, but whatever. No-one asked him), some of whom do use seiðr, and even Álfar and Jötunn magic, which is just weird.

He'd also like people to know that the Eddas are really, really not meant to be taken at face value. Like any other source of scripture, it was written by a man who had no idea what he was talking about. The fact that the Eddas got anything right at all is amazing, really.

Tommy doesn't believe anybody will really understand how broken he is and why he can't fix himself, and I don't think he even understands the extent of it.

I'd still love to get Michael and Tommy hanging out again to explore their mutual brokenness - I think if anyone would get how Michael *isn't* perfect, it's him.

Let's definitely do that some time. I miss threading with you!

It'd be lovely! Miss threading with you too; hell, with anyone lately. Life's kicking my ass. Bah.

That whole secret identity thing? The Spitcurl makes it look easy. It's NOT.

There are other things, but Mark's not quite at the point where he understands them himself, so he really can't explain them to someone else.

Dark Elves are a thing. Deal with it, yo.

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