❖ 003 // [Voice]

[crisisrain]

[Filtered from Xion | 95% Unhackable to her]

Hey I got a little problem I could use some help with. There's this nice, little, teenage girl who's never read a book before, so I told her I'd get her one as a surprise gift. But uh, I'm drawin' up a blank. What kinda books do girls even read nowadays?

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[herotypical]

I'm about as far away as tomboy as you can get. Well, mostly.

[Mostly except for the part where she launches baddies twice or three times her size as her job.]

[crisisrain]

More of a "Shoes and make-up" lass then I take it?

[herotypical]

Got it in one, Raven.

[crisisrain]

I like a lady who takes pride in her appearance ~

[herotypical]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and ask--are there any ladies you don't like?

[crisisrain]

Fat ones, under ages ones, ones that like to hit me... a lot, manly ones, scary ones, ugly ones, flat chested ones and the ones that don't like ta shower.

[herotypical]

[Wow. Woooow. We're just gonna settle into some rather stunned and vaguely offended silence. Buffy the flatish-chested Slayer doesn't really have words.]

[crisisrain]

[Raven can't see her breasts through the journal. He doesn't mind flat, but he'd rather have bouncy.]

Not expectin' a list were ya?

[herotypical]

No. I really actually wasn't. You can pretty much called me unexpected-girl for just how unexpected I was.

[crisisrain]

Well I have standards, aside from the under age one and the hittin' me a lot, the other's are open to leeway.

Depends how lovely the lady is~

[herotypical]

Glad to here it, Raven.

[She grasps at a few straws.] I'm sure you'll find your lovely lady someday.

[crisisrain]

Doubt it, the only woman I've ever loved died a while back. I just flirt half the time 'cause it's fun.

[herotypical]

[Splutter, gah, wait what?

Buffy scrambles to recover from that bombshell.] I-I'm sorry to hear that.

[crisisrain]

[Raven just laughs and changes the topic.]

I never asked, what kind of books do ya like to read?

[herotypical]

[Feeling a heavy dose of the awkward, Buffy answers.]

I'm not big on the whole book thing. So I guess that makes me more of a movie girl.

[crisisrain]

Movies? Can't say I've ever heard of those before.

[herotypical]

Films? Flicks? Videos? With actors and actresses and occasionally a big musical number?

[Sigh. Wait, she gets it.] You'd be from one of those unmodern worlds, I guess.

[crisisrain]

Well we have somethin' like that I guess. The theatre does shows with actors and music, sometimes they even throw in special effects.

Un-modern? We have machines and stuff if that's what ya mean.

[herotypical]

But those'd be real-life things, right? Like...a play?

[crisisrain]

Yup just like a play! There's a guild that specialises in them.

[herotypical]

Alright--well? Think play, but on a screen and not a stage. And recorded, not live. Like the video recordings on these journal things?

Those are movies. Movieish. Well, you get the drift.

[Pause.] You do get the drift, right?

[crisisrain]

Oh! I get it, I'd seen a few recordings but I didn't know they could be used to do somethin' like that.

Be kinda fun to be in a movie~

[herotypical]

And thus we return full-circle to romantic comedies. If movies were available here I would totally say for something like Sleepless in Seattle for your bookless friend--can't go wrong with that one.

[crisisrain]

What would we need to watch movies? Aside from a screen and the recording.

[herotypical]

VCR, DVD player, computer. Electricity. Stuff that's all in serious shortage around here.