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asgardeventide2012-06-14 01:04 pm
duchessofdevonshire) wrote in asgardeventide2012-06-14 01:04 pm
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[She clearly has no idea what she's doing. For starters, the video is just of the wall to begin with. Mostly she's just hit buttons until something seemed to happen.]
Is this...? Oh dear, this is so dreadfully confusing. Well...
[Finally she comes into view, curls all arranged perfectly despite her absence of maids to attend her, or near enough. Admittedly, her hat is hiding most of it, but that was the novelty of such a large hat, and she was glad she had them, because doing her hair was going to become... difficult. Almost as difficult as lacing up her corset by herself.
She's also sitting on the stairs of the Welcome Hall, and somewhere between a frown and a pout on her face. She was doing alright with being here, some part of her was even excited... but... well she couldn't go out through the water. It would ruin her dress, and on top of everything else, she disliked feeling trapped, even if she was used to it.]
I'm told that others can see this? I'm a little confused but... does anyone know how to leave the buildings without... well, getting damp?
[She leans on her hand, sighing a little, just a bit bored too.]
Is this...? Oh dear, this is so dreadfully confusing. Well...
[Finally she comes into view, curls all arranged perfectly despite her absence of maids to attend her, or near enough. Admittedly, her hat is hiding most of it, but that was the novelty of such a large hat, and she was glad she had them, because doing her hair was going to become... difficult. Almost as difficult as lacing up her corset by herself.
She's also sitting on the stairs of the Welcome Hall, and somewhere between a frown and a pout on her face. She was doing alright with being here, some part of her was even excited... but... well she couldn't go out through the water. It would ruin her dress, and on top of everything else, she disliked feeling trapped, even if she was used to it.]
I'm told that others can see this? I'm a little confused but... does anyone know how to leave the buildings without... well, getting damp?
[She leans on her hand, sighing a little, just a bit bored too.]
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[ooc// dunno how this is relevant, and it never comes up in the movie, but she's written a book as well... which is basically about how much it sucks to be a woman, lmao :|]
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As he always said, his profession allowed him to come up with various ways to kill people - something only psychopaths also did, although Castle got paid for it.
"I like to do research with real life law enforcement so I can bring an authenticity to my characters."
[ooc - It probably did suck to be a woman back then. :(]
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"... Law enforcement? Like magistrates and such?" That was as far as she understood it went, and the men that worked for them.
[ooc// It did for her. She'll tell him about it later sometime sob, 'cause she wrote it when she was about 20. Most disillusioned 20 year old...]
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Castle was a fairly decent businessman. He knew how to keep people wanting more at least.
"The police. I've been granted special permission to assist them in New York. I help them out with their cases, they give me some real world police experiences. In fact, the lady whose clothes those belong to is one of them."
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She didn't know what police were, but she could sort of guess, and at his words, she looks back down at herself. "Oh, really? She must be the most remarkable of women..." but... if it meant investigating murders and crime... "they let a woman hold such a position?" he had her complete attention then, staring at him intently, wanting to know more.
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"She's... an extraordinary woman. And yes, women in my time have more freedom to work if they so wish. Actually, you're hard pressed to find a woman that doesn't work in one capacity or another. Beckett is the best cop at the precinct. You should see how the men scurry out of her way when she's coming."
Is his face glowing a little when he talks about her? He hopes it's not.
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"To work? Really?" Her minds just filled with possibilities, and she's reminded of the conversations she'd had with her husband. "She sounds marvellous, I should like to meet her one day, if you feel like arranging a introduction." Of course men would be intimidated of such a woman, and privately she wished she had that kind of power.
... Oh but it is glowing, not that she'd say anything, it was cruel when people fiddled with such emotional things.
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Yes, one minute glowing about Beckett, the next flirting with another woman. The case of a man in love but confused about it.
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She's used to it, but Georgiana could be polite about these things.
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Although Castle knew that took an entourage for women back then. He wasn't sure how she was going to do that without them.
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Oh, she would find a way, there had to be one! And she was nothing if not resourceful.
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"What would you prefer that I call you?"
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"... Gee, please just call me Gee, I am not sure how society works here so..."
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One could tell they were entering the Freya part of town based on the amount of roses and pink accents that lined the streets.
"Since everyone here is from somewhere different, society is kind of a hodgepodge. Basically anything goes."
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She noticed the pink, it looked sweet, like a cake with the prettiest decorations. Not as ornate as Chatsworth gardens, or the palace ones, but still she liked them. Distracted momentarily by them. "Oh this is very simple isn't it? I guess you couldn't have anything too ornate where there are so many people going about their daily life..."
"Are they?" Well... that was going to get complicated. How on earth was she going to call everyone the right titles? Did they even have titles? Sigh. "I'm sure people will be lovely enough that it isn't a problem to be in such mixed company."
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"Are they?" He repeated, trying to understand what she was getting at. He got it with her next statement. "Oh, you mean.. commoners. There are all kinds of people here. You might find other aristocrats."
Never mind that the man who was currently leading her through the muck was a commoner as well.
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"It's more, well there are certain rules, strictures, those sort of things. Even down to the right way to address people... not knowing them is a little daunting." Especially for someone as eager to please as Georgiana, what if she said the wrong thing?
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"I don't know if there are a lot of social rules here, except for maybe obvious ones like don't get in someone's personal space without asking. People here are from all over. I just stick to Mr. or Mrs. If it's not right, they'll correct me."
He felt there was a common sense of forgiveness regarding things like that, given the nature of Asgard.
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"So as I understand it, we're all in different houses? Do we all live in separate places?"
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Not that she probably had any context of that.
"You have the room to yourself, but you end up sharing the bathroom with someone else."
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Not that she knew what it was like.
"... Well... I guess I'll get used to that too, then." Cheerful as ever, or at least trying to be.
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She seemed pretty ok with it, which kind of surprised him.
"It's probably going to be different than what you're used it."
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But she smiled anyway. "But this place has a charm that home certainly doesn't either." She had no husband, no loneliness and bitterness, and no thousands of dollars worth of debt.
All in all, things to look forward to, even if the quality of life was what she'd normally consider below her.
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And he always thought that women from earlier times were stuffier.
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She turned away then, back to watching the water. "Are we almost there, sir?"
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