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Sabine Manon Liu ([personal profile] rememory) wrote in [community profile] sanctuaryrpg2016-05-22 02:53 pm

They don't make jukeboxes like they used to...

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To reach the unreachable staaaaaaaaaar....


From the kitchen that she'd designated as the focal point for de and reconstruction, Sabine barked, "Mimi!" and then choked out a laugh that was half a sob. Man of La Mancha had always been one of Byron's favorite musicals.

"What? You can't build without music and you don't have a boombox!"

"No one has a boombox anymore. Don't make me regret manifesting you." She shook a finger at the showgirl ghost who was lounging on the back of the couch like it was a baby grand.

Unrepentant, Mimi went on singing,

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
.

"I love that line, don't you?" Mimi teased not just Sabine but Scott, even though he was out of earshot.

"Zip it, or it's Tsura's turn," Sabine snapped, cringing at the reference to their chaste, but far less than pure love.

"What was that?" Scott emerged from the next-door apartment through the hole he'd put between them to make testing the walls for support beams easier. There were two more like it in the filthy foursquare they'd chosen to turn into a community area -- for the time being.

"Nothing. Mimi was just asking your favorite musical so she could sing for you. Isn't that right, Mimi?" Mind-to-ghost she sent #Don't even contradict me.# Forbidding it with power was the simplest of her abilities, but Sabine didn't abridge her free will.

Mimi just laughed and laughed, sticking to Impossible Dream until the next person joined them Then she started in on songs from Annie:

It's a hard knock life for us!
It's a hard knock life for us!


Sighing, Sabine shot Scott and the newcomer an apologetic look then shrugged helplessly. "It's not like she's wrong."

[ooc: Gathering post! Sabine and Scott are clearing out a group of four apartments to start with to make a communal kitchen, dining, sitting area on level D. Mimi is audible and vaguely visible as a holographic figure of a showgirl with an indistinct face. She won't interact unless you ping me and ask for her. Will, Molly, Marie, Jack, Sebastian, Nick, Porthos, Maggie, all got a message inviting them for potluck and construction. Anyone else can have heard from them or have seen the 'excuse our dust' sign and stop by. Feel free; all are welcome. Tag Sabine with a note in the subject line; all other tags are top levels.]
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[personal profile] cpt_harkness 2016-07-02 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)

"Oh, no. It's the pill. Women take the pill, pee it out. Eostrogen in the water, evaporates, comes down as rain, piped right into houses. Feminizes the fish, you know," he replied conversationally, his hand finding the curve of the small of Ianto's back to lead him gently in the direction of drinks. It didn't matter that the water tasted odd to him, he needed to have something. He always seemed to feel dehydrated, and here more than ever.

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[personal profile] tw3_ianto_jones 2016-07-02 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
When Jack mentioned it, Ianto recalled that he'd heard something about that before, something his father had said about how the water was turning all the boys into poofters. The memory burned in Ianto's chest like heartburn, and he was glad he saw his dad put in the ground before he told anyone in his family how he felt about men. Back home no one outside Torchwood knew that he sometimes slept with men, and at this point he was sure they'd never know.

"What does estrogen even taste like?" he wondered, thinking about how women tasted and wondering if there was any correlation.
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[personal profile] cpt_harkness 2016-07-02 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)

"Like salt and caramel," Jack replied. "Raw, anyway. When you get it from a body it tastes different. As different as every woman is from another. It's not something anyone really notices. But I'm a little more sensitive to things like that than the average person," he added with a shrug.