New(ish) Father Blues

[deadgirlslikeme]

Victor Brown (formerly Van Dort) looks a bit harried when he enters the Nexus -- or, perhaps more accurately, like he really needs a vacation. And about a full day's worth of sleep. He heads to a nearby plush sofa (apparently the place noted the darker-than-usual circles under his eyes and felt sorry for him) and collapses on it with a sigh. "Oh dear. . .does anyone have any tips on how to handle tantrums?" he asks, looking around with a grimace. "Because Chester. . .well, he's started getting grabby, and if you take whatever he's grabbed away from him, he just -- how do babies cry so loud?"

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[palmerthing]

Practically impossible, although the monster is at least able to understand that its disguise-self needs friends to function.

[deadgirlslikeme]

That's -- good? [he grimaces] I'm sorry, it really does sound tough. I'm not sure how well I'd handle it.

[palmerthing]

It's enough to mean that you're, um, the last people it would target. *He looks a bit uncomfortable at his own words.* I should meet the rest of your family just so it'll know who to avoid.

It's definitely tough. Not something you can really predict your skill at beforehand, either, since in a way it's not the same you who has to deal with it.

[deadgirlslikeme]

. . .Good. [He rubs the back of his neck] Y-yes, you really should, in that case. Marty you know, so that leaves Doc, Alice, Chester, and Dee -- oh, you'd actually probably be able to hang out with Dee too.

No, and who really expects to be taken over by some alien intelligence in the middle of Antarctica?

[palmerthing]

The more people I can safely be around the better.

Absolutely fucking nobody expects it, that's who.

[deadgirlslikeme]

Well, Dee is -- um -- she's a DeLorean that can turn into a little girl. So if she's a car. . .might still not be safe to touch her, but you could probably get closer? And I doubt the instincts would be interested in a vehicle?

[faint smile] And if they do expect it, that's kind of suspicious in and of itself.

[palmerthing]

Not a girl that can turn into a car? Although that would still be pretty weird . . . no, vehicles don't interest me like that.

Very suspicious.

[deadgirlslikeme]

No, it's definitely -- okay, this is a bit hard to explain. Do you already know about Back To The Future? Or did Marty at least tell you a bit about it?

[palmerthing]

He told me a bit about it, why?

[deadgirlslikeme]

Well, it forms a bit of background as to how we got Dee. . .you see, in the movies, Doc and Marty do a lot of time traveling, and the car they use is a converted DeLorean. In the reality my Doc and Marty are from, they never got to that point, because they were both kidnapped by Faeries early on. After they escaped and we'd all formed a little family, Doc wanted to revisit his old time travel dream, so he got himself a DeLorean, converted it, and tried sending it through time. With me so far?

[palmerthing]

Yeah, I got you.

Let me guess, something even weirder happened?

[deadgirlslikeme]

Yes -- mostly because. . .okay, this gets into how Doc and I met. We were both stolen from our original universes and dumped into a version of Chicago by something called "The Rift." It's some sort of -- gap, between worlds, that opens up and deposits you elsewhere. And it changes you in some way when it does. I got this -- [indicates his ghostly form], and Doc got the ability to control the weather. Where we're living now is sort of a -- quieter version of that world. . .

Anyway. When Doc tried to send the DeLorean through time, the Rift opened up, and we got a different DeLorean back -- the one from the end of the third movie, which was due to be flattened by a train. And how the Rift changed it -- was, uh, making it alive. And giving it the ability to shapeshift into a person.

[palmerthing]

What? Oh! *He grins.* Thus 'Dee,' right? For DeLorean?

[deadgirlslikeme]

Exactly! Though we didn't actually learn the car was alive and could turn into a person until she'd actually wandered into the Nexus, asking if people could help her find her "Dad." She happened to ask someone we knew, who got Doc, and -- I believe some fainting happened.

[palmerthing]

That's oddly cute.

[deadgirlslikeme]

[he smiles] I assume you mean her calling him her dad and not his fainting. She's of the opinion that, since he's the one who turned her into a time machine, he's pretty much her father. None of us are going to contradict her.

[palmerthing]

The fainting is somewhat amusing, but yeah. *He nods.* Hey, makes more sense than any attempt at figuring out my family tree.

[deadgirlslikeme]

Heh, well, just from watching the movie, he does go over rather comically. . . [he chuckles] Well, I imagine the human side is fairly straightforward?

[palmerthing]

Yeah, but I don't know if that's really my family. Unless you want to count the old me as one of the new me's . . . I dunno, parents or something?

[deadgirlslikeme]

[Victor's brown furrows] I -- maybe? He and the Thing came together to create you. . .but -- I don't know. It really depends on how you feel about it.

[palmerthing]

Yeah. But then my parents are me and a dog, which makes no fucking sense.

[deadgirlslikeme]

Well, my father and cousin are both from another reality and were kidnapped by faeries; my little sister is from another reality and is a time machine with a human form; and my wife is from another reality and is literally the Alice from "Alice In Wonderland," and can actually take people there now. I'm not entirely sure where "sense" comes into that. I mean, admittedly I asked my father to adopt me -- as, um, best he can, but. . .

[palmerthing]

I suppose if making sense is that far out the window then why not, right?

[deadgirlslikeme]

Heh, exactly. Most things really don't make a lot of sense here in the Nexus, honestly. Hence why you'll probably fit in just fine.

[palmerthing]

Sounds nice. Making sense is overrated anyway, man.