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AND THEN THEY WERE ROOMMATES



Dusty, crammed, stale — you've hit the real estate jackpot with your recent abode. And you're even #blessed with roommates.

o1. Post a top level with some of your character's quirky, funny, sad or standout domestic habits everyone can enjoy. ( "That fourth lizard tail's a bit awkward." "They're always stealing everyone's fancy conditioner." "That guy, watching you sleep." )

o2. Tag around with your character's IC reactions: questions, passive aggressive post-its, gentle encouragements to stop watering that plant, wholesome suggestions, etc.

o3. Threads can stay game canon — break the ice on some new CR. Why not?

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the doctor | doctor who

[thedreamer]

[

• sleeps basically just 1 hour per week and gets bored/impatient easily so this means:
  
  • why are you still sleeping there are things to do, wake up and entertain me
  
  
  • tells you stories you didn't ask for and probably don't want to hear, about everything, anything; Robot Kings, Daleks, Cybermen, that time he accidentally got married to Marilyn Monroe, his opinions on cheese, his sojourn in Paris in the...17th century (? or was it 18th?) when he learned to cook (questionable)
  
  
  • may or may not watch you sleep if you do anything interesting in your sleep (talk, snore, twitch)
  
  
• requests pillow fights often


• has no concept of boundaries or personal space


• constantly tinkering with everything he can get his hands on


• depending on what's available, he's probably invented something new (a toy for the kids that's loud & obnoxious); maybe something helpful but probably something that's just fun


• communal showers are practical and why would anyone be bothered about nakedness, it's natural


• makes the most bizarre food combinations/concoctions that probably taste good to at least one other person


• constantly playing with the children/inventing new games and giving them sugar


• when he does actually sleep (which is only about an hour at a time), he would not sleep normally in a bed, but you'd probably find him standing up against a wall or hunched over a book; basically like a toddler that refuses to admit they need sleep
  ]

[downswing]

Cushions best untarnished.

[thedreamer]

You've never known the joy of being battered by a cushion? Oh, we're going to fix that immediately! Aren't you glad you have me around??

[downswing]

Perhaps unnecessary.

[thedreamer]

Your little device added a 'un' to the beginning of that word by mistake. Come on! One go at it, eh?

[downswing]

To what end?

[thedreamer]

Joy! Fun! You've never done anything just for the fun of it? Just to crack an elusive smile or chase a laugh?

[downswing]

And waste cushions.

[thedreamer]

No cushions will be irreversibly harmed. They're just being lovingly worn in.

[downswing]

Untidy. Chaotic. Ill done.

[thedreamer]

How I'd usually describe every great adventure! Some moments are meant to just be completely joyful chaos.

[downswing]

Disorderly.

[thedreamer]

Rather the point of fun. You don't think about it, just feel it. No planning, no organizing, just absolute delight. Untethered from a single care in the world for a brief moment.

[reparo]

I don't think I've seen you sleep once since we got here. Is it nightmares or just how you are?

[thedreamer]

[ Nightmares - oh, yes. He doesn't particularly enjoy what comes to his mind the moment he actually stops. So, don't stop running and don't nod off, and there's nothing to worry about. But will he be honest about that? Questionable. ]

I only need a few hours per week! My body's more resilient than most, in every way. Which is good, there's too much to do, and sleep is boring for someone like me. You lot sleep, I'll do the 'working it out' in the background.

[reparo]

A few hours a week
You're not joking
Are you??

[thedreamer]

I never joke! This is the face of a serious person. Well. Okay. Sometimes I take a day off. But not this time. Human bodies tire so easily. I'd never get anything done.

[reparo]

Your body looks extremely human. A-levels professor level of human.

[thedreamer]

Oh! I had a very good friend once who called me professor.

But, the fact of the matter is we came first, long before you. You look Time Lord to me.

[reparo]

Is that what you are, Doctor? A Time Lord?

[thedreamer]

Oh! Right! Important info to share. Time Lord all of my thousand years now, yes. Time traveling alien with two hearts, three brain stems, a respiratory bypass system, and impeccable fashion sense. That last bit isn't a physiological characteristic of course, but it is true.

[reparo]

It is a nice bowtie.

Wait, three brain stems? Three!?

[thedreamer]

Oh, I like you! Yes, thank you, bowties are cool!

Very handy, those brainstems, as you can imagine.

[reparo]

Is it the stems that make you need sleep less, or the heart?

And if you've been around longer than humans, does that make us evolutions or devolved?

[thedreamer]

My thoughts never quite shut off. Eventually, of course, for a little while, but you can imagine there's not much room for sleep.

Humans and Time Lords - think of it more like divergent evolution.