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TEST DRIVE MEME #2
Welcome to the Library
Those who are new awake in the stacks.
You’re not sure when you fell asleep, and the memories of the last things you were doing are hazy at best. But now you’re here, and all you can see is books in every direction, the bookshelves teetering high enough above you to reach to the sky.
A helpful sign points you in the direction of the main circulation desk, and even if you try to ignore it and go in any other direction, the desk is where you will find yourself. A figure sits behind the desk, not even looking up as they sort through books and other media; they look, to your character, to be the exact picture of what they expect a Librarian to be.
Trying to ask the Librarian a question will get them shushed, but they’ll point down a hallway to the side, leading to a kitchenette and what appears to be a dorm room, where they’ll find they’re not alone in this strange place. But once they’ve looked away, when they look back, the Librarian is gone.
The Lobby
Those who are already familiar with the Library will see the Lobby change for the second time. It’s not paper plate UFOs and metal walls this time. Instead there are cheerful garlands strung about, and a stack of books shaped into a Christmas tree taking pride of place. The Help Desk is closed, the ‘Back in 5’ sign once again a bald-faced lie, but there is a menorah sat behind in the window, conveniently just out of reach of anyone who tries to get it. The candles are lit in a… somewhat sporadic fashion, the correct order but with no rhyme or reason to what ‘night’ is being represented. Either time is strange here, whoever’s in charge of it doesn’t know what day it is either, or they simply don’t care. Or some mix of the three.
Those two particular winter holidays are not the only ones represented either; characters will find a smattering of decorations or festive accessories from a great number of holidays, from their own worlds and beyond. There is what looks like a cabinet with instructions to pick your fortune from one of the many drawers. For some reason, there are a number of what looks like a child’s toy ponies placed on and around the cabinet. There are also some posters declaring in bold, decidedly upsetting typeset: “THE GOD-EMPEROR WISHES YOU A FESTIVE SANGUINALIA!” complete with a picture of a certain Library resident in all his feathered, shining glory. (The poster is not remotely shiny, but there are helpful accent lines to show that he should be shining.) And, for some reason, there is also a giant straw goat in the garden now, surrounded by festive strings of lights. Please do not set it on fire.
The Kitchens
It seems the decorations are not the only thing in the holiday spirit. The kitchens, usually bereft of anything but the most basic foodstuffs, are now full to the brim with a variety of holiday foods. There is always a tureen with hot mulled wine and a try of sweet pastries near by it, there’s ham and latkes in the fridge to be heated up, jelly doughnuts, moon cakes, pies, and an assortment of other delicious things. If your character would expect to find a certain thing within the stash, they do, regardless of how niche it may be. Christmas chili? Of course there’s christmas chili!
Oh, and that mulled wine isn’t the only alcohol around either- champagne, sake, hard cider… again, anything anyone might expect to find. Just try not to overdo it too much, alright? Everyone still has to sleep in the same room, and the Assistants aren’t going to show up to hold your hair back.
Crafts and More
What good are holidays without crafts? The Maker’s Space has been specially supplied with anything you might need to make your festive crafts- this includes everything you’d need for a gingerbread construction! (You’d think this would be in the kitchen, but don’t kid yourself- those things are not for eating.) There’s strips of colorful paper rings and instructions on how to make your own, little things of clay and paint and directions on how to craft your own dreidel, ’stained glass’ paper lanterns, and more. Oh, and glitter. Obviously there is a lot of glitter available.
There are also snow globe kits, mostly generic winter themes- trees, presents, and the like. Strangely enough, however, when they’re complete and shaken, they’ll show a memory from the person who shook it- a memory of a holiday, or snow, or generally something that invokes the feeling of the season- light, and hope, and togetherness. It’s fragmented, almost stop-motion in between the falling bits of ‘snow,’ but once it has settled the normal, basic scene inside returns.
Those who are new awake in the stacks.
You’re not sure when you fell asleep, and the memories of the last things you were doing are hazy at best. But now you’re here, and all you can see is books in every direction, the bookshelves teetering high enough above you to reach to the sky.
A helpful sign points you in the direction of the main circulation desk, and even if you try to ignore it and go in any other direction, the desk is where you will find yourself. A figure sits behind the desk, not even looking up as they sort through books and other media; they look, to your character, to be the exact picture of what they expect a Librarian to be.
Trying to ask the Librarian a question will get them shushed, but they’ll point down a hallway to the side, leading to a kitchenette and what appears to be a dorm room, where they’ll find they’re not alone in this strange place. But once they’ve looked away, when they look back, the Librarian is gone.
The Lobby
Those who are already familiar with the Library will see the Lobby change for the second time. It’s not paper plate UFOs and metal walls this time. Instead there are cheerful garlands strung about, and a stack of books shaped into a Christmas tree taking pride of place. The Help Desk is closed, the ‘Back in 5’ sign once again a bald-faced lie, but there is a menorah sat behind in the window, conveniently just out of reach of anyone who tries to get it. The candles are lit in a… somewhat sporadic fashion, the correct order but with no rhyme or reason to what ‘night’ is being represented. Either time is strange here, whoever’s in charge of it doesn’t know what day it is either, or they simply don’t care. Or some mix of the three.
Those two particular winter holidays are not the only ones represented either; characters will find a smattering of decorations or festive accessories from a great number of holidays, from their own worlds and beyond. There is what looks like a cabinet with instructions to pick your fortune from one of the many drawers. For some reason, there are a number of what looks like a child’s toy ponies placed on and around the cabinet. There are also some posters declaring in bold, decidedly upsetting typeset: “THE GOD-EMPEROR WISHES YOU A FESTIVE SANGUINALIA!” complete with a picture of a certain Library resident in all his feathered, shining glory. (The poster is not remotely shiny, but there are helpful accent lines to show that he should be shining.) And, for some reason, there is also a giant straw goat in the garden now, surrounded by festive strings of lights. Please do not set it on fire.
The Kitchens
It seems the decorations are not the only thing in the holiday spirit. The kitchens, usually bereft of anything but the most basic foodstuffs, are now full to the brim with a variety of holiday foods. There is always a tureen with hot mulled wine and a try of sweet pastries near by it, there’s ham and latkes in the fridge to be heated up, jelly doughnuts, moon cakes, pies, and an assortment of other delicious things. If your character would expect to find a certain thing within the stash, they do, regardless of how niche it may be. Christmas chili? Of course there’s christmas chili!
Oh, and that mulled wine isn’t the only alcohol around either- champagne, sake, hard cider… again, anything anyone might expect to find. Just try not to overdo it too much, alright? Everyone still has to sleep in the same room, and the Assistants aren’t going to show up to hold your hair back.
Crafts and More
What good are holidays without crafts? The Maker’s Space has been specially supplied with anything you might need to make your festive crafts- this includes everything you’d need for a gingerbread construction! (You’d think this would be in the kitchen, but don’t kid yourself- those things are not for eating.) There’s strips of colorful paper rings and instructions on how to make your own, little things of clay and paint and directions on how to craft your own dreidel, ’stained glass’ paper lanterns, and more. Oh, and glitter. Obviously there is a lot of glitter available.
There are also snow globe kits, mostly generic winter themes- trees, presents, and the like. Strangely enough, however, when they’re complete and shaken, they’ll show a memory from the person who shook it- a memory of a holiday, or snow, or generally something that invokes the feeling of the season- light, and hope, and togetherness. It’s fragmented, almost stop-motion in between the falling bits of ‘snow,’ but once it has settled the normal, basic scene inside returns.
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"How did you know I was a time traveler? Besides being clever."
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A double facepalm. "You told me. Auron energy is how you power your TARDIS. It was made before creation, before time. Before life and death. By Father. It's part of his everything. Math. Dark matter, dark energy, gravity, entropy, his weird plans he never explains to anyone and just expects everyone to fall in line, do what he says, no matter what. The only way to even access or find Satan on accident is accessing time travel." And a shit ton of other dimensions while he's at it, but he's not going to give this SUSPICIOUS SOLOMON 2.0 IDEAS!!! Erm, more than he already has. "Did you think you were the only one who could? Humans can't yet, unless the Creator helps them, but demons can. Are you able to access alternate timelines?" He's antsy to see if he could mind control -- no no no. That is beyond rude. He will resist all urges.
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"No one else should be able too. I would love to hear about those others." The Doctor couldn't help himself after the genocide of his own people; the universe is very lonely.
"Yes, I can access alternate timelines. Do me a favor and don't go blahing this about."
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"We can use gates," doors, portals, "We've restricted it to Diavolo, myself, and his other closest advisor, after Mammon nearly destroyed several country's economies." Mammon though... "Who would I tell!? Fortunately, it's not my headache to deal with the worst problems of it, but I'm definitely filing a note to the celestial realm and Lord Diavolo, and the demon whose department it IS." Because clearly they had been assuming each other side was concealing misdoings with alternate timeline travel, but no, there are yet MORE parties involved. Who knew? None of them. Father, but Father is incomprehensible a lot of times. And especially for Lucifer.
"Are you protecting Earth, because of Rose, or something else?"
It's an unfair question. It's not like Lucifer could disambiguate whether he's protecting Devildom for his brothers and Lord Diavolo or something else. KIND OF CAN, it's the something else, because even before the brothers fell, he was going to, and even if Lord Diavolo left, he still would. So that's why the question. The elephant in the room. She's human. She does not walk in eternity no matter how many times she passes through. Not that Lucifer would judge. Solomon is somehow immortal (philosopher's stone shit, he doesn't care) and whatever the OTHER transfer student got up to was mixing up time to practically be immortal, and who knew what would happen with Lord Diavolo's ability to reincarnate. Point is, Lucifer isn't going to judge on that, but he wants it known that if the protection is just while Rose is around, it's not really protection. "Be careful either way. They'll get reliant on you. Like taking in a baby bird that fell. Only worse. They get lazy in this case." SIGH. He gets it. He's MAMMON'S keeper after all. It doesn't matter how often people point out to him that if covers even just ONE of Mammon's bills then Mammon will forever use him as endless money source and it's an unfillable void. Ditto Beelz and food, and Asmo and compliments. He WANTS to give them: "You have to give them self-sustainability or they'll just chain you up and make a battery out of you. Not even on purpose." He doesn't know that sometimes it's definitely on purpose.
And yet and yet somehow that wasn't the problem with Lilith and the golden apples. He doesn't get it. Still.
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"I'm protecting Earth just because it's the right thing to do." He just made human friends along the way.
"Better I protect them than them protect themselves. I've seen how they could protect themselves and I don't like it."
"My humans wont do that but some alien species I know would."
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Too suspicious all over again.
Lucifer is already highly suspicious by nature, but every time he thinks he gets somewhere with this DOCTOR SUSPICIOUS it boomerangs back around again.
He's a LITTLE too mature (and old) to point a finger and declare the Doctor is HIS ENEMY FOR BEING SUS!!!!
But barely.
Okay. The Doctor is reasonable. He's intelligent... (ish.) So far, he sort of tries to answer Lucifer's questions if Lucifer literally nails him down inescapably.
Lucifer will just... have to try... a little harder.
He can't stop his wings from poofing back up screaming body language of SUSPICIOUS like a turkey about throw down. Or just run around in confusion. Whatever.
"You're not the only one who cares about Earth." Growl!
He mentally goes through the anger management control techniques, because making books zoom around just from losing control would just be so very mortifying.
"I don't even know what anything you've mentioned is, much less why to trust that you've defeated them. Do you have the backing of any human governments?"
He finally gets a small inkling. The Doctor doesn't think Lucifer can do anything about this one way or another. No, wait, surely no one's that dumb, well maybe? ARGH. And he doesn't think he's ever in danger of Hell, so-- it's all the annoying parts of atheists and none of the funny.
"You told me not to tell about the alternate timelines, and believe me, I have no intentions to let humanity in on that, but understand, Doctor: IF THAT IS YOUR REAL NAME," Clearly not his true name, but Lucifer would never in infinity ask that of someone. 1) it's intimate, and that's gross. and 2) it would reveal a vulnerability on the level of Smaug in his armor to be exploited (Lucifer's true name being something only God has access to). In this case, Lucifer just thinks Doctor is not a smart name for someone on Earth to pretend to be human to BLEND IN with humanity to protect them from... aliens???? "I can do so much worse if you don't stop playing around."
He has a stupid irrational urge to kick a bookshelf over.
"You're either naive or stupid, and I don't think you're stupid."
ARM FOLD. PROVE HIM WRONG.
"Humans are this close to using demons as slaves 24/7 as little perpetual batteries because they're generally that thoughtless." GRR GRRRRRR.
Okay, he needs to just.
Calm the fuck down.
One eye closed. "No one protects Earth," a mocking voice indeed, "'bEcAuSe It'S tHe RiGhT tHiNg To Do.' I only do it because I HAVE TO."
.... Wait. So shouldn't he just be happy that he doesn't have to work so hard? A quick mental calculation later and verdict says: HELL NO!
He ends up doing the pointer finger thing anyway. JE' ACCUSE!!! "What's your real motive?!"
COULD Father have anchored time travel to Earth? No, that's nonsensical. RIGHT? Maybe. Is the Doctor just lying and tsuntsun for Rose? Nah, he seemed genuine, like even before they met, he was doing that. Why would anyone protect Earth if they're not stuck with it?! Nope, Lucifer has nothing. The right thing to do, he thinks, is arguably set it on fire and watch it burn at this point... but you know... Lucifer doesn't want that. The conundrum that is him. He's also pretty sure his Father is just NOT letting it burn itself out of existence (by humans' stupidity) FOR Lucifer and other angels' sake, so... yeah.
Eyes squeezed shut to think non-3D -- "Talk to me like I believe you about the time. Explain to me why Earth is more important to you personally, than other planets with more people who don't just constantly create problems for those like me," and you, but the way the Doctor responded earlier makes Lucifer think maybe other aliens ARE worse? And he nearly has a Levi-style panic attack over that. Imagine though?! "If you can travel time, you should be able to see the flows. Your actions, what you're doing that changes others' interactions. How those other planets change based on protecting Earth and the void of you not protecting those planets."
Lucifer rubs both his temples and opens his eyes -- literally not metaphorically here, he still thinks Doctor Suspicious is worse than Solomon at this point. "I protect my brothers, because I love them. For the most part, they can sometimes protect themselves, but not always. The other struggle is, the more I protect them myself, the more others will target them, and the less my brothers will figure out how to get around NOT having me protect them, understand? They would get weaker, so then I also HAVE to make them stronger, just to make up for rescuing them."
DEEP BREATH. SIGH. "From my perspective, you have yet to convince me you're not just bumping into things over your head accidentally. Smart enough to know not to break angel-forged chains." And/or incapable. Whatever. Also by accidentally, Lucifer 100000% thinks his Father just used that to his advantage, because it's got those markings. "But you protect Earth out of some moral obligation, and yet you're not even working for Father??? It doesn't make sense." Well if he WAS working for God without knowing it... and then just what? Reverse extrapolated JUSTIFICATION of it to himself? That he WANTED to do what God wanted, and didn't feel any urge to resist feeling trapped, tugged, pulled, and pushed in certain directions????? Lucifer rubs his temples again.
"Help me understand." It's something of a cross between a feral plea and a demand. Grit teeth, because he hates going against the pride, but he knows he must to get anywhere reasonable, and simply letting his big dramatic emotions rule over him isn't helping anyone, much less his understanding. He's still missing the polite please others would have gotten, but then again, he's not trying to actively intimidate and browbeat the Doctor into submission either. Not fully. So it's a mixed bag.
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"Oi." The Doctor sounds insulted, "I'm not playing around." In a serious tone, "Yes, human have thar flaws but they have great potential over all."
"I am the top." The Doctor remarks firmly, "Thar's no higher authority on Earth."
"I don't have another motive. No one else wants to protect them from invading aliens. Might as well be me."
The Doctor finds his hearts stopping for a moment because he doesn't want to talk about it, "I was exiled there once a long time ago on Earth. They all grew on me."
"I protect Earth for myself, no one else."
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Lucifer facepalms. "People actually bound to it. You can leave. Most can't." Not that that alone was enough for them to protect it. Some people are really fucking dumb.
Lucifer's emotions COMPLETELY ping-pong and yo-yo again. Half admiration for the seeing potential in humanity which just reminds him desperately of Lord Diavolo when he needs it most...
And then right back down into the negatives with saying there's no higher authority than the Doctor.
Nope.
"Do you have any idea how infuriating you are?" He has to. Right? It's impossible for it to be on accident.
Lucifer just poofs back, all flustered and irritated, and half stomps around about to kick things--
.............. Only to deflate all over again.
Oh. Exiled.
It's a strong word for the fallen angel literally exiled from heaven, so his temper tantrum stops and he peers at the Doctor. True. 100% true.
Grrrrr.
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"I need to weigh your pride, how much you are hinging on defending Earth instead of being a time traveler or any other identity aspects. It's the only way I'll understand it in my terms. Did humans protect you when you were exiled? Protect isn't the right word. When I was exiled... I still had my brothers. Satan was just formed as a being then, but the others. But even so, I had my best friend, Lord Diavolo. His father took us in and gave us our titles. His cousin helped us with our wounds. It is true, I would defend Devildom now from anyone, even without Lord Diavolo. Even without my brothers. Not because it's the right thing to do, but for myself." Not even just his pride, but for reforming whatever scraps of identity he had to scrape together after the Fall.
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"I do both. I'm a time traveler and defending Earth."
"Yes, they did and they also respected me as their scientist."
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DEEP BREATH. 10, 9, 8, 7, 7 1/2, 6, 6 3/4 --
5, 5 7 nickles, 4, 4.23189467
Deep breath.
"You didn't even say that at first. In any case."
Lucifer looks up at the ceiling.
DEBATES PRAYING.
It is a very bad day for him.
"Please," the MOST GRITTED TEETH. He is starting to worry he might break them from sheer force of will. "Take my hand." ..... "And don't make me say it weirder. Please."
Oh right, a reason for that beyond what Lucifer wanted.
Hnnnnn...
"I've spent the last few millennia trapped to Earth via Hell, and I can only leave when humans can. I've spent the last five hundred years having to make connections with human governments, convince them to even talk with demons, much less work with us, and having to deal with them constantly trying to make demons into slaves all to use as weapons to kill each other. It's not that I doubt your words, Doctor." He can't help the snarl. "It's that if I don't do this the only way I've presented a solution, then I'm going to constantly want to argue with you for no reason other than that I'm irritated, and mad that my Creator won't let me have fun. Okay?"
SIGH.
"Hand. Weigh pride. Then I can..." Well he wasn't ever going to accept Earth going over to an alien that didn't live there full time, at best, maybe if it was delegated, maybe if said alien had far better knowledge of the environment and the other lifeforms all over Earth, all of which were Lucifer's responsibility as well, but --
"Convince myself," grit teeth, "That your pride is either weighty enough or decide a better plan." Glares at the ceiling! YOU FIX IT! HUMANS AREN'T HIS JOB!
....... Oh right. Not a human.
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrr
"Worst comes to, you gain knowledge about my techniques in understanding things so you have a better shot at being clear with me from now on."