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 Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2009 7:11 am
Summary of: Regular - Pantsless in Paradise
Introducing two important figures in Imogen's life right now. Firstly, The Sailboat. This is an odd mark on the ceiling tiles right above Imo's hospital bed, where she has been stuck since waking up after Barren Pines, which when you sort of squint at it acts amost like a Magic Eye Picture revealing a sailboat. She has been very very bored and thinks this discovery has proven she has in fact gone a bit nuts from being kept in bed with nothing to do. Lingering in one place is not natural Imogen behaviour, it is the opposite in fact.
Secondly, escaping from bed briefly, she met Sue Gottschalk. Someone she barely knew at Barren Pines, she's oddly fond of him despite this first meeting being rather stressful for them both. When she told him she can't really remember the last half-year, he was less than amused and yelled at her (which she forgives because goodness knows they've both been through a lot). He remembers a lot more than Imo, though he didn't reveal all.
He did however mention a dorm fire. Through this Imo discovered she now has a fear of fire she certaintly didn't before the mysterious Barren Pines. For some reason despite having no evidence nor memory that there was a fire besides her own random terror and him being pretty much a stranger, she thinks Sue is telling the truth.
"I do believe in Sue, I do, I do."
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:34 am
Summary of: Regular - Making -old- friends
Imogen's mother visited. Despite being glad to see Sarah Farrago between realising her family has thought her killed in a carcrash this last year, realising half her friends are missing-presumed-dead and her new belief that she can't remember something terrible left Imo feeling oddly numb.
Enter Dagmar Thorsen aka Aggie.
This should be something instantly wonderful, because Aggie is Imo's very best friend. However it's obvious right from the get go that Aggie has no idea who Imo is. Her delight to be talking to her friend is mixed with the worry that if she tries to make Aggie remember her she'll be tormented by terrible memories as well. Remaining hopeful she decides that even if Aggie never remembers their past friendship she'll try to forge a new one with her...but then she references something from Aggie's childhood while discussing the risks of remembering revealing they were friends after all.
Which is fine as it turns out, since Aggie thinks risking terrible memories is worth having a best friend like Imo. Awww.
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 5:35 am
Summary of: Regular - A Recreative Sleepover
Nurse Sourpuss is not on duty and the staff who're on the next few shifts seem rather taken with the friendship being reforged between Imo and Aggie. They let them host a sleepover in Imo's hospital room, since both girls are doing very well recovery wise, and even let them order up a pizza. At Barren Pines, pizza and sleepovers were a big feature for them and they recreated it as best they could.
They talk some more about the past, since this entire thing is to 'help jog Aggie's memory' and also about their plans for the future - what they'll be doing when they get out of Destiny Memorial. Aggie is going to Meadowview and getting a flat but Imo doesn't know if she'll make the scholarship for Crystal as her mother wishes.
Then Imogen shows Aggie the infamous Sailboat.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 6:57 am
Summary of: Regular - Back to normal. Sort of.
Sue is Imo's hero, for he has brought her sugary contraband goodness (Nurse Sourpuss blew a gasket about the pizza sleepover and has been raging ever since). He's already been discharged from Destiny Memorial but has come in to visit friends - which includes Imo!
They catch up some and then make plans to meet up the next day, when Imo is going to be let out of hospital. Sue jokingly offered but Imo took him up on it and they traded contact info.
Imo has no idea why she is so attatched to Sue already. Her instincts just tell her to trust him and while she thinks it weird, she's never been one to ignore her feelings about things. So, she for one is looking forward to their friendly lil' date.
The final act of The Sailboat.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:00 am
Summary of: Regular - Samurai Pizza Cat - or not!
As planned the day before, Imo and Sue meet up in town on the hunt for some pizza. Her mother Sarah has given her her first curfew in years but that's pretty understandable though her orders to text her mother every hour or else is a bit annoying. The pair head to a pretty good pizza place only to find it swarming with people, so they decide to just keep walking until they find another restaurant. They also chat quite a bit talking about what they remember of each other at Barren Pines and how they wouldn't have got on before (yet somehow are now) and what their plans are. Meanwhile every restaurant they go into is too posh or the next one is closed or ...
A strip club! But in their defense that little black door had said "Pizza Specials" outside. Don't ask.
Imo was a bit freaked. Partly by the naked people, partly because she thinks Sue will leave. But he doesn't .Suffice to say that breaks any remaining ice. Ironically they've now walked around a few blocks in a full circle and have arrived back at that first restaurant. It's now emptier and they go grab their pizza.
Not a night to forget.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:02 am
Summary of: Regular - Sticks n' Stones
Sarah Farrago has stopped texting Imo every hour but the curfew remains. Imo is hurrying home to keep it when out of one of the trees lining the street drops the Tooth-Fairy. An ugly humanoid with elongated limbs, boney blade 'wings' and fangs it's like a grotesque pixie that is fond of strangling and biting. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the first youma Imo's ever seen in her memory.
Needless to say she freaks the hell out and is not ashamed to say she screamed while whacking the approaching youma in the face.
The scream alerted Sailor Gemini Beta who came to Imo's aide. By the time Gemini arrived on the scene Imo had swapped her backpack of a nice hefty branch someone had put by their rubbish bins, however, she's pinned. Gemini gets a rock and throws it at the back of the youma's head, letting Imo get out in the open. Imo, having only seen the media's accounts of the Senshi, expects a Care Bare Stare from her knight-in-flowing-tartan however Gemini can only make a duplicate of herself to distract the youma while the girls run.
Gemini tells Imo to hide, Imo starts to, Gemini gets pinned and Imo runs back to WHACK - kills her first youma with a stick so it stops biting Gemini. Imo is injured also by the boney spurs on the Tooth-Fairy's back.
Somehow, through all this, Gemini and Imo have managed to banter a bit and start to flirt as they lead the scene. Our heroine tries to encourage this despite deciding she's gone insane to be flirting with a senshi, but hey, they did just kill a youma together. However some misunderstanding and Gemini accidentally hurting Imo's wounds when Imo tripped up nervously ruins the mood in a way the Tooth-Fairy failed to.
Imogen returns to hurrying home, feeling an idiot, scared by the youma and staving off the start of a crush...
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:03 am
Summary of: Regular - Very. Questionable. Luck.
Imogen visits a local swing club, though she couldn't dance as energeticly as she'd have liked to due to her injured arm. On her way home, she decides getting home swiftly would be best and tries to cut through a labyrinthian tangle of back streets and alleyways...except taking the more populated and well lit route would have been safer, even if it had taken longer, because her second youma soon attacks. Injured and still weak, she's a prime target for the creature.
Wolf-like one second and cat-like the next, this is a beast that appears to be woven from a thron bush, it's body only so many brambles moving as if musculature. Yes, Imogen is being attacked by angry shrubbery!
She tries to run but is soon cornered. Unable to flee, she turns defensive and grabs a bin lid ready to fight her way out. She killed the Tooth-Fairy right? She has a chance to land a good hit and run away like last time. Imo focuses on her rage, ready to fight for her life -
But then "Sailor Badass" (Nemesis) drops in from above, scaring Imogen to death thinking it's a second youma and almost getting clobbered in the back of the head with Imo's bin-lid shield. Imo snaps at her, pissing off Badass whose not impressed by Imo's attempt to defend herself. Imo apologises for snapping but is rather pissed off by Badass' attitude and is rageful at the youma anyway. When Badass' attack slows the youma, Imo joins in when the senshi kills it with a second binlid.
Badass is even more pissed off that she helped and Imo smoulders, because she can't see what Badass would rather her do when cornered by a monster. They part on bad terms, which is fine, because Gemini is the only senshi Imo plans to flirt with, kthx.
Imo goes home.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:14 am
Summary of: Regular - On The Fast Track To Friendship
Imo has got into Crystal! While her daydreams of going to school with Aggie again are crushed, Imo is focussed on the positive. While money will be a bit of a stretch due to her half-scholarship and her mothers insistence, Imo is happy to be getting back to school. Reclaiming her life after Barren Pines as it were, getting back to normal, going to class like a normal teenager...
Except things haven't quite been back to their pre-Barren Pines level of normalcy. Thanks to her encounter with another youma and another (less pleasant) senshi, her interest in the Senshi has grown as has her little crush on Gemini. As a treat (though she'll have to limit such treats in the future) Imo decides to buy a Zodiac starsign book while in the bookstore because she's interested in the friendly senshi's name sake and for some bizarre reason she really wants it anyway although she's never been that interested in Zodiac signs before.
Likewise looking at the Zodiac books she meets Skye, another Crystal girl with a very strong personality. The pair of girls very quickly end up chatting and Skye asks Imo back to her dorm, Skye seemingly taking Imo under her wing. Imo happy to make a friend is quick to agree and the girls end up back in Skye's dorm. The Zodiac books are, however, set aside because Skye wants to play dress up.
Skye wants her new friend to look the part so generously gives away clothing and jewellry more fitting at Crystal girl. Imo is unsure at first but is quickly persuaded by Skye, whose easily the more dominant of the pair. They end up trying on clothes for the rest of the day and end up friends.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:43 am
Summary of: Regular - Moving on up, Moving in
Soon after meeting Skye, Imo's wearing her brand new uniform and waiting outside her dormroom on her first day at Crystal. The administrator didn't let her carry her things up to the dormroom herself and has gone to see about some help, leaving Imo nervously outside the opened room. All she knew about her roomate was that she was called Cordelia Carden.
And who should turn but before the admin but Cordy?
The pair go into the room and get chatting, sizing each other up somewhat while sharing some sweets and making tentative decorating plans. But by the time the admin come up with Imo's belongings and Cordy has to leave for the library, both girls seem happy enough with being roomies.
All's well that ends well!
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 7:48 am
Summery of: Solo - I am not there, I do not sleep - literally!
Just when she though Barren Pines was behind her, and she was all caught up in starting at Crystal and wondering about Senshi, Imo gets a sharp reminder of it. Trying to be helpful she goes to to empty the memorial box at the crematorium to save her mother a chore - for her own grave.
Imogen was one of the Barren Pines kids who were actually legally dead during Barren Pines, whose parents had been told by Destiny Memorial that their teenager was deceased. According to the records, when she was just starting at Barren Pines and with no clue what was happening across the city, Imo was killed in a carcrash not unlike the one her father died in. An unidentifiable by sight body was supposedly IDed as her using dental and bone records in the autopsy though no current hospital staff are the ones who contacted Imo's family about it.
Her mother Sarah and grandmother Erce had 'her' body cremated and kept a gravesite for her. Within the box she finds keepsakes and tokens that they kept there so they could take them out to remember her by when they visited her grave, including her favourite golden acorn charm. The evidence of her families mourning for her and the knowledge that she could have actually died hits Imo hard and she runs home crying.
Can't really blame her.
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:30 am
Summary of: Solo - blah <
MUST get this written - youma, swimming pool, sorta a monster from the blue lagoon deally.
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:33 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:39 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:40 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:41 am
Summary of: Regular - First Real Meeting
Growing up, Imogen had a penpal called Alba. They wrote to each other every single week, sent photos and trinkets by mail. When Imo was at Barren Pines she thought she kept up writing to Alba but obviously like her letters home none of those letters ever even got out of the BP school postbox, let alone to Alba in Costa Rica! When she woke up in Destiny Memorial after BP, she wrote to Alba and had her mother post it, apologising for the year long silence, and trying to explain...and so far she's had no reply.
But for a really good reason.
When Imo is being moved up an ability group at Crystal, she happily grabs a desk as soon as she can next to a friendly looking brunette. It's only after she's sat down it sinks in that she's seen the girl before, in photographs over the years, every so often in the mail. It's Alba! Alba whose supposed to be in Costa Rica Alba! Pen pal Alba!
Ironically rather than being able to jump up and hug each other, the first contact the two have while being in the same physical location is to write each other notes all through the lesson. But that's okay because they hug a lot afterwards. Both a reunion and a first meeting all at once.
Now Aggie remembers her fully and Alba is here in Destiny, Imogen's two very best friends are both around and she couldn't be happier.
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