Time: Pre-climax of "Secundus" Notes: More about Victor's incredible climbing skills! And Alice being protective. She gives him self-defense lessons in a different drabble (http://charloft.livejournal.com/3196597.html). The mention of hauling herself up ledges is a reference to something you have to do every so often in "American McGee's Alice."
It absolutely astonished her how good Victor was at climbing. Alice had always considered herself pretty decent at it – at least, at being able to grab ledges and haul herself up quickly. But Victor – Victor was something else. He always seemed to find some sort of handhold even on the smoothest walls, and he climbed with amazing speed. The man was practically part spider. Alice was glad of it, though. Secundus was full of dangerous beasts looking for a chance to rampage. Until he learned some proper self defense skills, climbing was the best way for him to stay alive.
Time: Alice's childhood Notes: I just HAD to write something about the Mock Turtle for this one. That fact Lewis gives about turtles is something I learned from my Annotated Alice -- it might have been part of the real Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Mock. Mock wailing about a duchess coveting his shell refers to a fetch quest in AMA, where you have to retrieve Mock's shell from the Duchess (your first boss fight).
“Mister Mock Turtle? Why do you cry so much?” The Mock Turtle wiped his eye with a flipper. “Many reasons! People want to make me into soup! A duchess coveted my shell! I’m not a real turtle!” “Also, it’s the only way he can properly get rid of excess salt in his body,” Lewis commented. “Turtle livers can’t process salt properly, so it comes up through special glands in your eyes to be discharged.” The Mock Turtled wailed. “And now I’ll die if I don’t cry! The world is horrible!” Alice shook her head. “He’s silly.” “You have no idea.”
Time: Very beginning of "Secundus 2" (the first chapter is them getting their invitations to Marty's wedding) Notes: I'm not sure what inspired this one -- maybe I had the map of Hill Valley on the train station in Part III on my mind. But writing Victor's enthusiasm over seeing his friends again was fun.
“Let me see if I can find it.” “Marty said Hill Valley was a really small town,” Alice said. “It might not even warrant a place on the map yet.” “If it’s called a town, it should – aha! Here it is!” Victor pointed it out to her. “This is where we’re going.” “Yes, that tells me so much,” Alice joked. “You’re just too excited to see your friends again.” “I can’t help it. Doc and Marty are the people responsible for me coming to Secundus. Without them. . . .” He placed a hand on her belly. “A lot of things would be different.”
Time: Pre-Victor's birth Notes: I dunno why, but I decided I wanted to do a drabble about Nell and William getting together. For some reason, it took a while to hammer out. They're a very unromantic couple. (Also, yes, I may have to do an "Author's choice: author" prompt now.)
Nell Butler had certain requirements when it came to choosing a husband. She wanted someone who was rich, first and foremost. Someone who could keep her in the style she wished to become accustomed to. He also had to be somebody – a noble, preferably, but at the very least someone who was making the effort to be upwardly mobile. And he had to be the type who wouldn’t argue and get in her way. William Van Dort learned he was the only one who fit all those criteria the day Nell marched up to him and declared he would do.
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36. climb
Date: 2012-06-10 08:39 pm (UTC)Notes: More about Victor's incredible climbing skills! And Alice being protective. She gives him self-defense lessons in a different drabble (http://charloft.livejournal.com/3196597.html). The mention of hauling herself up ledges is a reference to something you have to do every so often in "American McGee's Alice."
It absolutely astonished her how good Victor was at climbing. Alice had always considered herself pretty decent at it – at least, at being able to grab ledges and haul herself up quickly. But Victor – Victor was something else. He always seemed to find some sort of handhold even on the smoothest walls, and he climbed with amazing speed. The man was practically part spider.
Alice was glad of it, though. Secundus was full of dangerous beasts looking for a chance to rampage. Until he learned some proper self defense skills, climbing was the best way for him to stay alive.
54. turtle
Date: 2012-06-10 08:43 pm (UTC)Notes: I just HAD to write something about the Mock Turtle for this one. That fact Lewis gives about turtles is something I learned from my Annotated Alice -- it might have been part of the real Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Mock. Mock wailing about a duchess coveting his shell refers to a fetch quest in AMA, where you have to retrieve Mock's shell from the Duchess (your first boss fight).
“Mister Mock Turtle? Why do you cry so much?”
The Mock Turtle wiped his eye with a flipper. “Many reasons! People want to make me into soup! A duchess coveted my shell! I’m not a real turtle!”
“Also, it’s the only way he can properly get rid of excess salt in his body,” Lewis commented. “Turtle livers can’t process salt properly, so it comes up through special glands in your eyes to be discharged.”
The Mock Turtled wailed. “And now I’ll die if I don’t cry! The world is horrible!”
Alice shook her head. “He’s silly.”
“You have no idea.”
77. A pile of luggage set up before a large map
Date: 2012-06-10 08:50 pm (UTC)Notes: I'm not sure what inspired this one -- maybe I had the map of Hill Valley on the train station in Part III on my mind. But writing Victor's enthusiasm over seeing his friends again was fun.
“Let me see if I can find it.”
“Marty said Hill Valley was a really small town,” Alice said. “It might not even warrant a place on the map yet.”
“If it’s called a town, it should – aha! Here it is!” Victor pointed it out to her. “This is where we’re going.”
“Yes, that tells me so much,” Alice joked. “You’re just too excited to see your friends again.”
“I can’t help it. Doc and Marty are the people responsible for me coming to Secundus. Without them. . . .” He placed a hand on her belly. “A lot of things would be different.”
81. Author's choice: choice
Date: 2012-06-10 08:54 pm (UTC)Notes: I dunno why, but I decided I wanted to do a drabble about Nell and William getting together. For some reason, it took a while to hammer out. They're a very unromantic couple. (Also, yes, I may have to do an "Author's choice: author" prompt now.)
Nell Butler had certain requirements when it came to choosing a husband. She wanted someone who was rich, first and foremost. Someone who could keep her in the style she wished to become accustomed to. He also had to be somebody – a noble, preferably, but at the very least someone who was making the effort to be upwardly mobile. And he had to be the type who wouldn’t argue and get in her way.
William Van Dort learned he was the only one who fit all those criteria the day Nell marched up to him and declared he would do.