AGE-DOWN MEME

[devoutish]

Inspired by this and this! Post top levels of your characters as they were when they were younger - it's up to you whether that means "when they were a kid", "six months ago", or something in between. Then tag around, either throwing kids together or throwing normally-aged current CR at people in order to "????" about how their friend/enemy/casual acquaintance is suddenly bitty.

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Angel

[phaseshifter]

Option A - ~8 years old

[ Okay, Angel is pretty tiny even as her usual twenty-one year old self. This Angel is especially tiny, though. Tiny and wee and miniscule. Babby. Her tattoos are flat blue instead of their usual glowing white, and hoLY SHIT SHE'S TRYING TO CRAWL INTO A VENT.

Fortunately, she isn't having much success. After some rubbish little attempts at prying off the vent covers, she starts trying to peer inside instead while making little noises as though she's trying to coax something out. No prizes for guessing what. ]

Come back! I just wanted to talk! Pleeeease?


Option B - ~16 years old

[ Despite being five or six years younger, Angel is pretty recognisable as herself - her hair is long on both sides and she looks noticably younger, but otherwise she's almost unchanged.

Physically, anyway. The fact that she's hiding behind a couch and is clearly terrified is pretty un-Angelesque. Huh. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT. ]

[devoutish]

[Oh, fuck no. Alfie heads over, fully prepared to haul her out by the back of the shirt if she happens to get that vent cover off.]

The spiders don't talk.

[phaseshifter]

[ Uh-oh. That's not her dad, which means it's very likely to be a Bad Man. The kind of Bad Man who'll see the special things on her arm and sell her to bandits for eleventeen sacks of dollars.

But he's also super wrong about the spiders and that's clearly more important than any stranger danger. God. ]

They're robots! which means yes they do. Stupid.

[devoutish]

They're little robots. They weren't given little metal lungs.

[Is he totally bullshitting because he has no idea how robots work? Yes.]

I've seen them many times, and they've never said a word.

[phaseshifter]

[ Huff. Angel knows robots don't need lungs VOCAL SYNTHESISERS to speak to her. She's special!

But she can't just tell the Bad Man about how she can do the purple thingy. Then he'll definitely scoop her up and sell her so he can buy a turbomansion. Maybe two. ]

Maybe they just didn't have anything to say to you. Not even hello! They prob'ly thought you were a bandit.

[devoutish]

They've fixed my injuries before. Wouldn't've done that if they weren't going to give me the time of day, would they?

[phaseshifter]

Of course they would. If that's what they were programmed to do. Then it doesn't much matter if they like you or not, or if they think you're a bandit or a bad guy or a kidnapper, they've still gotta do it. Don't you know anything?

[devoutish]

About robots? Nope. Very little.

If they like you, they'll come out to you eventually, yeah? No need to go crawling after them.

[phaseshifter]

[ But they can't like her yet, not when they haven't spoken to her!!

But saying that would make her sound really lame, so okay. She's just going to sit still for now. And try to figure out why she hasn't been kidnapped yet. ]

Do you know my dad?

[devoutish]

A little bit. I know of him. Handsome Jack, yeah?

[phaseshifter]

[ Ah. That would probably be reassuring if Handsome Jack was actually Handsome Jack at this point in Angel's life. Right now? He's John. Geeky code monkey and complete nobody.

BEARDMAN IS A KIDNAPPER. IT'S CONFIRMED. ]

No. I dunno who that is and that means you're a stranger and that means that my daddy is going to shoot you in the face with his lasers if you come too close.

 

 

And I'm not worth any money, not even one sack of dollars.

[devoutish]

[WHOOPS, CALMING PLAN FAILED. Oh well, he's pretty sure he can roll with this.]

Yeah? Well. My mistake.

I'm not gonna come close, don't you worry. I prefer my face unlasered.

[phaseshifter]

Good. It'd burn all your beard off. And your eyebrows, and your skin.

[ Yes good. The gorier this sounds, the less likely she is to get sold on the bandit black market. GO HARD OR GO HOME. ]

And your skull. And then you'll have no head, and everything inside you will fall out of your neck. Like when you fill a balloon with water, and - and you squeeze it, and it goes sploorfsh!

[devoutish]

Goodness. I don't want that, do I. That sounds absolutely horrible. I'm gonna have to pass that along - make sure nobody else I know decides to try kidnapping you.

[phaseshifter]

Yeah! Tell all the bandits, and all the bad guys, and the...

[ Who else kidnaps little girls?? ]

...and the scientists and the monsters.

[devoutish]

I can't speak to monsters. But the rest - yeah.

[phaseshifter]

...Okay.

[ Monsters are probably all about eating little girls instead of kidnapping them, anyway. It's an acceptable risk.

But now that Beardman isn't going to kidnap her, shouldn't she be polite and introduce herself? She's. Pretty sure that's a thing. ]

My name is Angel and I am pleased to make your ac-- your aquit--

Pleased to meet you.

[devoutish]

Yeah. Alfie Solomons. Have you found your dad here, then?

[phaseshifter]

[ WOW, SOUNDING VAGUELY KIDNAPPY THERE.

 

Is what Angel would think if this was still a stranger but NOW IT'S MR. SOLOMONS SO THE SITUATION IS LEGIT ]

Um, no. But he's around! Because he's the only one who takes me places so he must have brought me here.

[devoutish]

You should find him soon, so you're not on your own. This isn't a good place for it, yeah?