001 {Video}

[pigmypouter]

[The video feed flips on, showing a very small teenager with wild, clipped up hair, sitting in the passengers seat of a car. Her shirt looks like it’s made of a whole lot of ribbons just sewed together on the top and bottom. There are soda tabs decorating it, along with some beads. It’s...well, it might be cute on some avant garde runway or in a bad Etsy shop.]

I guess everyone introduces themselves around here. So, hello there universe, I’m Blue. Yes, like the color. [She pauses to chew at the corner of her lip while she thinks of more personal trivia.] Uh, I’m about to turn 18 in a week, it’s my senior year this year, and...I like trees? And dogs.

[She looks down then, thinking of more things to add. Her eye catches a stray bead and her eyes light up.]

Oh! Yes. Does anyone know of some really, really good second-hand stores or scrap places? I have no clothes besides these, it’s a big problem.

[What do you mean just go buy some new clothes? What rich losers do that.]

Comments

[video]

[couldbebeautiful]

I work at a secondhand store, I can help.

[Probably not as much as she thinks, considering she's wearing this with zero irony.]

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[pigmypouter]

[Actually, you know what? She's digging it. Needs more fringe though.]

What city is it in?

[couldbebeautiful]

De Chima. Look for Second Time Around Vintage Clothing Shoppe, I can get you a discount. Just say you're with Veronica Sawyer.

[Even if the name's taken a bit of a dent over the past month thanks to her very own clone.]

And I technically turn eighteen this month. I guess? I don't know, my last birthday was less than a year ago from my perspective. [In 1989.]

[pigmypouter]

Oh, that's where I am. [Good for her. Maybe not so good for the sanity of her friends.] I'm working at the crystal shop downtown, apparently, so I can run by some time.

[It's already inevitable that her first paycheck is getting spent on this. This, and a lot of sewing supplies.]

Same for me, sort of. It was early July back home, I just skipped one month. So why wait to celebrate?

video.

[admemoriam]

Blue! Blue!

[The video filter blinks on, and Noah's face is immediately too close to the camera.]

Blue, it's me, can you see me?!

[He waggles his fingers, barely in frame, his smile big enough to burst.]

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[pigmypouter]

[Adam has prepared her for everyone being here, so she's not shocked when she sees Noah. She is, however, pleasantly surprised at the enthusiasm she's met with.]

Noah! [She laughs.] I can see you. You look...good?

[Not incorporeal and likely to reenact his own death. Very solid.]

[admemoriam]

[He is absolutely solid, at least for the time being, with happiness and life radiating from him even through the communicator's shitty camera.]

I am good![He places one finger dramatically on his forearm to demonstrate his aliveness.] Are you on your way here? Whose car is that?

[pigmypouter]

[Life is a good look on Noah, she decides. She can practically feel the warmth coming off his cheeks.]

I'm with Adam. He found me in the city.

[She turns the phone to show Adam for a few seconds, then turns it back to her.]

There was some person at a stop that got into my face.

video

[deadsmizing]

Hello, Blue. I'm Karen. Nice to meet you.

And, well, I might... be able to help, if you still need it.

[Whether she'll be interested in help from someone who currently looks like a deathly-pale, ultra-prep schoolgirl might be the real question.]

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[pigmypouter]

[This girl Blue eyes a little skeptically. She looks kind of like someone Gansey would summer with, if Gansey lived up to his own stereotype and summered anywhere without ley lines and houses full of psychic democrats.

But Blue isn't one to turn down help when she's asked for it,so she smiles politely.]

Always. Whatcha got?

[deadsmizing]

[Karen just smiles in response to Blue's skepticism.]

Oh, I know all... sorts of places to get the... things you need. And maybe a skill or two that could help with any-- [She pauses to consider her words.] --adjustments?

[pigmypouter]

It sounds like you have some fashion powers?

[Which is, okay, pretty awesome.]

[Video]

[disentombs]

[He'd decided to quickly scroll through news feed in case of new imPorts (it seemed to be That Time again). He nearly scrolls right past that beautifully familiar face.

On the screen, Gansey's face is alight, white smile flashing.]

Jane! How long have you been here for?

[He can't even hide his delight.]

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[pigmypouter]

[Adam had already briefed her on all the boys being here, so Gansey isn't as much a surprise and he is a pleasant inevitability.

Blue wiggles her finger at the camera, smiling.]

A couple hours. Maybe five.

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[disentombs]

[Gansey continues to grin like a loon. She appears to be in a car and not very distressed. The inside looks familiar.]

Parrish picked you up in the batmobile?

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[pigmypouter]

[Hey Gansey, you okay? Your smile is a little big there.

She's a fan.]

I think he's fighting crime on the sly. [She looks Very Serious about this.] No teenager has a car this cool without ulterior motives.

[ Video ]

[ghoulking]

You can buy clothes - the government gives imPorts an allowance for us to live here. 8 plus jobs, but if she just arrived, she'll wait a bit until she gets paid ]

[ Video ]

[pigmypouter]

I know, but I don't want to buy new clothes.

[Do you see this monstrosity she's wearing? This isn't the face of a girl who shops at Dillard's.]

[ Video ]

[ghoulking]

Wouldn't it be easier, for now? [ you know, while you settle in first. Then worry about doing... whatever she does to the clothes? He has no idea ]

[Video]

[halloflamer]

Well this might get confusing.

[Scratches his head.] --Well, if anyone ever asks, I'm the Blue that's a Champion, and you're...... just some girl, I guess.

[It's honestly a wonder no one has dropped him yet.]

[Video] Lass Blue would like to fight!

[pigmypouter]

[Oh wow, okay there stranger guy. ]

Some girl? Well. [Her eyebrows take a leisurely trip up her forehead.] Are you the Blue that's just some tool, then?

[Video] Blue used Dig 8)

[halloflamer]

[GOT 'IM if only she knew how right she was]

Tch, not like I know enough to call you something else! You're not even a trainer, almost no one around here is.

Unless you wanna be 'the Blue who likes trees', hah!

video

[fehus]

[have a video in return, of a kurt-cobain lookin fool with some dumpster dive fashion on himself]

Uh, if you got any responses about the second-hand shops, could you send them my way? Thanks.

[a pause, and he adds]

Trees I'm down with. Not big on dogs. Hi. I'm Magnus, like... the name Magnus, which no barista has ever spelled right, or ever will. It's a curse.

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[pigmypouter]

[Oh hey dude, she deeply appreciates your fashion sense. Most of the boys she's used to are living that polo, button up, pressed khakis kind of life and frankly it's offensive.]

This girl Veronica said she's working at some place called Second Time Around in De Chima. It sounds promising. BUT-[Blue frowns suddenly. Uh oh.] That'd not important because you don't like dogs so you might be a supervillain.

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[fehus]

[polos gross fuck the bourgeois - magnus chase]

Whoah, I don't have a twirly mustache or an evil laugh. That's stereotyping.