[The Fourth Wall fates have aligned. Rose happened to be Disney-princessing directly underneath the... very tall ledge that Heather Mason came crashing down from.]
[It all happens in the blink of an eye and the gangly twenty-something lands surprisingly neatly in Rose's outstretched arms.]
[Her eyes are squeezed shut, on account of fully expecting her skull to be imploding on the forest floor any second. But-- other than just being kind of scruffy and grubby from an extended period of camping in the woods-- she is unharmed!]
[That is very much a human that fell out of the sky!
At least Rose's massive embrace is a very comfortable place to land. And it's not the strangest thing that's happened to her on one of these weekends. She's only glad she was here to help!]
Are you alright?
[She...does not set the - vaguely familiar - human down yet.]
[It isn't until Rose speaks that Heather actually chances to open her eyes-- and if asked, she wouldn't deny it for one second: she was fully expecting to open them to the sight of white bedsheets and a concerned Nurse Joy leaning over her.]
[What she actually opens them to is... well, she was right about the pink locks of hair, but not much else.]
[Blinking slowly several times, it takes Heather a second to piece together that she is being held like a starving child in a National Geographic article by a woman roughly the size of Arkansas.]
[And humans break very easily. Rose has...more experience than she probably ought to, with that. Rose's round pink face is a mask of concern, and she adjusts her grip on Heather to hold her up at arm's length and give her a good looking over. Just in case.
And if the human is hurt, that's alright. It's a special weekend and Rose can fix her right up.]
I guess I was kind of expecting to uh... be in a few different piece-- ack!
[A garbled yelp escapes her as she is suddenly held aloft, LOOK-AT-MY-ENTIRE-CAT style. It's then that the realization that she is being held by a woman of imposing stature sinks in all the way, as opposed to... like... three-fourths of the way.]
[Like a cat suddenly going from dead weight to ALL TENSION, Heather just sort of spasms several inches in the air and quite possibly the rest of the way to the ground, if Rose's catching reflexes aren't fast enough.]
What follows is something of an awkward juggling act, as Rose attempts to steady and set Heather down as everything goes sideways.]
Eeek!
[Oh dear oh dear...Rose awkwardly grabs at Heather, not quite catching her but frantically bouncing the young woman between her hands until she reaches the ground.]
[Fortunately(?), Heather is like SMALL TWIG WOMAN compared to the considerable strength of a Gem, so while there is a great deal of jostling, she only hits the ground slightly hard.]
[And she's scrambling upright almost the second she's down-- still not looking too much worse for the wear aside from a small scrape on one shoulder and her flyaway hair now being full of pine needles.]
N-no, it's fine! I'm fine.
[JUST HIGHSTRUNG. And, regardless of relationship status, kinda gay. YOU KNOW HOW IT IS.]
[Rose looms over Heather, hands clasped in front of her ample bosom, radiating good intentions. Her entourage of Pokemon watch on curiously.]
Strange things always happen on weekends like these, but I think this is the first time it's ever rained humans! You're sure you're alright? I can fix you, if you're not.
[Engulfed in Rose's shadow, the only thing that Heather can think to do is dust herself off-- which frankly is a legitimate undertaking at the moment. She had apparently taken no small amount of the forest floor with her on her way down, and she takes a moment to be inwardly grateful that she was wearing a vest and not just one of the old work shirts she usually wore around the camp. Because any of them would have completely ate shit on the way down.]
[But then her savior's words actually click and she looks back up, successfully distracted from the hearty blush that she'd been trying to suppress.]
Weekends like th.... oh, shit, that's why the path was so freaking weird.
[THAT EXPLAINED A LOT.]
[And she's about to ask exactly where she wound up when the last bit of what Rose was saying hits her.]
Oh yes, it's one of those kinds of weekends! Goodness, it's been a busy few months...
[It feels like it was just prom time, and all the excitement that had brought.
Then she blinks, unsure of what she's being asked. What had she said...oh! Oh, her healing powers, probably. Rose laughs, throwing back her head in a great wave of bouncing curls.]
There's nothing to worry about, I can heal. At least right now. If you were hurt, I could fix you.
[She's not sure what else 'Fix you' would be referring to, IT JUST SOUNDED KIND OF THREATENING IN THE MOMENT.]
Ohhh.
Uh, yeah, no uh... healing necessary.
[She lets out a feeble laugh along with Rose's much heartier one, and finally tries to take in exactly what she's seeing. She definitely remembers those pink curls from a conversation or two on the network (kind of hard to forget), but she's definitely never seen this woman in person before. She'd remember.]
So-- so are you like... a... fairy, or something? One of the good witches of the east?
[Rose's head cocks to the side curiously. She's never been identified as either of those things before! But it's a very fair question, and one that's often asked. Not very many people here have ever heard of Gems.]
No, I'm a Gem! Rose Quartz. To you I guess I'd be an alien. Oh, but I lived on Earth for millennium before I came here, I know all kinds of things about humans.
[And so much more since being one for years now. More than she'd ever imagined, despite living so closely alongside humans for so very long.]
And normally I'm human here, too. It's been so much fun! Oh, I've been to jail and I tried being drunk and I got married....
[She's having the full human experience, clearly.]
[Heather is definitely one of those people who has not heard of gems! Although, really, she should have guessed from the hair that this was not someone from Earth.]
[Fortunately, it's easier to not be flustered now that this is a Conversation (and now that she's not literally being held). So she untenses her shoulders, and even cracks a non-frantic smile!]
[An alien, huh... you're definitely not like any of the aliens I've met, but I guess the universe is a big place.]
Wow... I mean, I guess those are some of the big highlights.
And I've done so much more! Humanity's wonderful! I never knew how many different kinds of food there were before!
[Rose takes a seat on a nearby log, a few Pokemon settling down at her feet. She seems perfectly happy to just chat with a near-stranger in the middle of the woods. It isn't as though she has any pressing commitments looming, or demands on her time.]
And there've been so many helpful people, ever since I first woke up here. Have you been here very long?
[It's... actually kinda refreshing, to see someone so excited about being human. Not that she could really blame anyone for feeling the opposite, after all she'd be pretty upset if she woke up one day and just wasn't human-- but the cheer is a change from the norm.]
[After a second or two debating, she slowly lowers herself into a sitting position as well-- onto a rock that, had she not been caught five minutes ago, might have spelled her doom.]
I've been here awhile, yeah.
I think this is... jeez. My tenth year? Shit... did I miss my ten-year kidnapped-into-another-dimension anniversary...?
[SHE'S NOT EVEN SURE. It doesn't really help that her sense of time is... always somewhat muddled, on these weekends.]
... Long enough for this to be more of a home than my own world ever was, that's for sure.
[Rose still isn't very solid on finite concepts of time, but she has a much better understanding than she used to. A decade, while nothing to her, was a significant part of a human's life.]
Do you like it here? I think it's a very nice world to be stuck in, if we're going to be stuck somewhere. There's so much to see and do, and so many wonderful people and Pokemon...
[It's been some of the best times she can remember, just wandering this strange new planet with Greg in their brightly covered caravan, with their Pokemon friends.]
[She knows she's no more immune to being yanked back out of here than anyone else, but... god, she hopes it never happens.]
Even if everyone else I knew did, my Pokemon alone are just... I can't imagine life without them anymore, you know?
[EVEN THOUGH SHE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OUT WITH HER RIGHT THIS SECOND... she'd set out with the intention of time to herself, even if it hadn't wound up that way.]
I do! I don't want to leave, either. I get to be human, I get to be with my most important person, I get to meet all of these new people and friends, experience so many new things...
[For someone as old as Rose, new experiences were something she'd thought long gone. Now almost everything is new in some way. This world has given her more than another chance, it's given her an entirely new life.]
I think we're very lucky, those of us who get to come here and live in this world.
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[It all happens in the blink of an eye and the gangly twenty-something lands surprisingly neatly in Rose's outstretched arms.]
[Her eyes are squeezed shut, on account of fully expecting her skull to be imploding on the forest floor any second. But-- other than just being kind of scruffy and grubby from an extended period of camping in the woods-- she is unharmed!]
[HOORAY!]
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At least Rose's massive embrace is a very comfortable place to land. And it's not the strangest thing that's happened to her on one of these weekends. She's only glad she was here to help!]
Are you alright?
[She...does not set the - vaguely familiar - human down yet.]
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[What she actually opens them to is... well, she was right about the pink locks of hair, but not much else.]
[Blinking slowly several times, it takes Heather a second to piece together that she is being held like a starving child in a National Geographic article by a woman roughly the size of Arkansas.]
... UH. I-- ... think so?
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[And humans break very easily. Rose has...more experience than she probably ought to, with that. Rose's round pink face is a mask of concern, and she adjusts her grip on Heather to hold her up at arm's length and give her a good looking over. Just in case.
And if the human is hurt, that's alright. It's a special weekend and Rose can fix her right up.]
You don't look hurt!
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ROSE PLEASE DO NOT SNAP HEATHER LIKE A TWIG]Was it?
I guess I was kind of expecting to uh... be in a few different piece-- ack!
[A garbled yelp escapes her as she is suddenly held aloft, LOOK-AT-MY-ENTIRE-CAT style. It's then that the realization that she is being held by a woman of imposing stature sinks in all the way, as opposed to... like... three-fourths of the way.]
[Like a cat suddenly going from dead weight to ALL TENSION, Heather just sort of spasms several inches in the air and quite possibly the rest of the way to the ground, if Rose's catching reflexes aren't fast enough.]
I'm-- I'm fine!
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What follows is something of an awkward juggling act, as Rose attempts to steady and set Heather down as everything goes sideways.]
Eeek!
[Oh dear oh dear...Rose awkwardly grabs at Heather, not quite catching her but frantically bouncing the young woman between her hands until she reaches the ground.]
I'm so sorry!
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[And she's scrambling upright almost the second she's down-- still not looking too much worse for the wear aside from a small scrape on one shoulder and her flyaway hair now being full of pine needles.]
N-no, it's fine! I'm fine.
[JUST HIGHSTRUNG. And, regardless of relationship status, kinda gay. YOU KNOW HOW IT IS.]
Thanks for, uh, breaking my fall.
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[Rose looms over Heather, hands clasped in front of her ample bosom, radiating good intentions. Her entourage of Pokemon watch on curiously.]
Strange things always happen on weekends like these, but I think this is the first time it's ever rained humans! You're sure you're alright? I can fix you, if you're not.
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[But then her savior's words actually click and she looks back up, successfully distracted from the hearty blush that she'd been trying to suppress.]
Weekends like th.... oh, shit, that's why the path was so freaking weird.
[THAT EXPLAINED A LOT.]
[And she's about to ask exactly where she wound up when the last bit of what Rose was saying hits her.]
... What?
[WHAT DOES THAT MEAN]
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[It feels like it was just prom time, and all the excitement that had brought.
Then she blinks, unsure of what she's being asked. What had she said...oh! Oh, her healing powers, probably. Rose laughs, throwing back her head in a great wave of bouncing curls.]
There's nothing to worry about, I can heal. At least right now. If you were hurt, I could fix you.
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[OKAY.]
[She's not sure what else 'Fix you' would be referring to, IT JUST SOUNDED KIND OF THREATENING IN THE MOMENT.]
Ohhh.
Uh, yeah, no uh... healing necessary.
[She lets out a feeble laugh along with Rose's much heartier one, and finally tries to take in exactly what she's seeing. She definitely remembers those pink curls from a conversation or two on the network (kind of hard to forget), but she's definitely never seen this woman in person before. She'd remember.]
So-- so are you like... a... fairy, or something? One of the good witches of the east?
[Was that a rude question to ask?]
[SHE JUST CAN'T HELP BUT BE CURIOUS.]
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No, I'm a Gem! Rose Quartz. To you I guess I'd be an alien. Oh, but I lived on Earth for millennium before I came here, I know all kinds of things about humans.
[And so much more since being one for years now. More than she'd ever imagined, despite living so closely alongside humans for so very long.]
And normally I'm human here, too. It's been so much fun! Oh, I've been to jail and I tried being drunk and I got married....
[She's having the full human experience, clearly.]
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[Fortunately, it's easier to not be flustered now that this is a Conversation (and now that she's not literally being held). So she untenses her shoulders, and even cracks a non-frantic smile!]
[An alien, huh... you're definitely not like any of the aliens I've met, but I guess the universe is a big place.]
Wow... I mean, I guess those are some of the big highlights.
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[Rose takes a seat on a nearby log, a few Pokemon settling down at her feet. She seems perfectly happy to just chat with a near-stranger in the middle of the woods. It isn't as though she has any pressing commitments looming, or demands on her time.]
And there've been so many helpful people, ever since I first woke up here. Have you been here very long?
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[After a second or two debating, she slowly lowers herself into a sitting position as well-- onto a rock that, had she not been caught five minutes ago, might have spelled her doom.]
I've been here awhile, yeah.
I think this is... jeez. My tenth year? Shit... did I miss my ten-year kidnapped-into-another-dimension anniversary...?
[SHE'S NOT EVEN SURE. It doesn't really help that her sense of time is... always somewhat muddled, on these weekends.]
... Long enough for this to be more of a home than my own world ever was, that's for sure.
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[Rose still isn't very solid on finite concepts of time, but she has a much better understanding than she used to. A decade, while nothing to her, was a significant part of a human's life.]
Do you like it here? I think it's a very nice world to be stuck in, if we're going to be stuck somewhere. There's so much to see and do, and so many wonderful people and Pokemon...
[It's been some of the best times she can remember, just wandering this strange new planet with Greg in their brightly covered caravan, with their Pokemon friends.]
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[A very long time.]
Yeah, like I said, it's... home.
I never wanna leave.
[She knows she's no more immune to being yanked back out of here than anyone else, but... god, she hopes it never happens.]
Even if everyone else I knew did, my Pokemon alone are just... I can't imagine life without them anymore, you know?
[EVEN THOUGH SHE DOESN'T HAVE ANY OUT WITH HER RIGHT THIS SECOND... she'd set out with the intention of time to herself, even if it hadn't wound up that way.]
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[For someone as old as Rose, new experiences were something she'd thought long gone. Now almost everything is new in some way. This world has given her more than another chance, it's given her an entirely new life.]
I think we're very lucky, those of us who get to come here and live in this world.