she knows it's too late as we're walking on by

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P L A Y E R   I N F O R M A T I O N
Your Name: Marie
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C H A R A C T E R   I N F O R M A T I O N
Name: Sally Malik
Canon: Being Human (US)
Original or Alternate Universe: OU
Canon Point: Post-Season 2
Number: 102, unless this is taken/unavailable for whatever reason, in which case RNG is perfectly fine.

Setting

Being Human is set in a modern day Boston. For all intents and purposes it's just like our world. Obama is president, people drive on the right and the price of gas is too damn high. There's just the small, minor, insignificant detail that changes everything. Supernatural creatures are real - vampires, werewolves and ghosts all exist. They follow slightly different rules to traditional lore (i.e.vampires can walk in the sun, they have a reflection) but they live hidden within the normal world. Not much is known about the structure of werewolves within society - it's seen that purebred families (people born a wolf rather than made) are stronger and generally more well-respected, but beyond the trend of running within very tight-knit packs they don't go into great detail. Vampires have a well structured society, with families running clans in each major city. There are a group of ancient vampires called The Dutch who rules over all of these clans, and they have the ultimate say in just about everything.

But you know, other than that it's just every day America.

History

Sally's life can accurately be described in two distinct sections - before her death, and after. Before her death, Sally was...average. Certainly she was ambitious, but during high school she found her sweetheart and the brakes rather abruptly slammed down on all of that. She graduated, got engaged and all those dreams just kept being pushed back further and further. It wasn't hard - after all, she had a loving fiance, they'd just moved into their first house together. It wasn't amazing but it was a home, it was theirs. Things were good, and if Danny was a little more possessive than other people's partners, that was just because he loved her more. If he was a little more temperamental, it was just because they were passionate. For every problem there was an excuse, and she looked past them all because they were so in love. But this isn't a love story, and it doesn't have a happy ending.

It was a stupid fight over a lost engagement ring, out of nowhere like so many of their fights were. It just so happened that this fight happened at the top of a flight of stairs, and one hard shove and a hard tumble later Sally's life ended. As abruptly as the argument had started, she was dead.

And so began part two of the life of Sally Malik - the afterlife.

At first she panicked. There was a lot of yelling and shouting, screaming at people who couldn't hear or see her, but eventually she got bored. It was right around the six month mark that two people walked into her life - a werewolf and a vampire to be specific, and no that's not a bad joke. Finally people could see and hear her again. The thing is, they were still going out. They still had lives and Sally couldn't help but grow resentful of that. It was a source of more than one fight between her and Josh over "who had it worse" (spoiler alert, she ends up conceding that it is in fact him) and is convinced that she needs to try to reconnect with Danny to get the closure she needs to move on and get her 'door'. Aidan introduces her to another ghost to try and help her, and Tony teaches her to transport to different locations, as well as how to actually touch objects- very useful for getting her on her way to finding closure with Danny.

Only Danny was busy moving on with her friend Bridget, and at first Sally was livid. Cue shaking of walls and smashing of glasses and all that ghosty stuff, because Sally didn't deal with that very well. They were the two most important people in her life though, and she couldn't force herself between them for too long. Eventually she stepped back, even gave her blessing - and because life could never be that simple it was then that she remembered just how she had really died. See even Sally had believed Danny's lies until that point, that she twisted her ankle and fell accidentally. She didn't remember any differently, until a backed up drain revealed her lost engagement ring and suddenly the whole ordeal came flooding back.

For a while she tried to just move on. She even got out of the house, got away from Bridget and Danny and left them to their own devices. She got in contact with one of her college TA's, Nick, and after discovering that they could feel each other's touch they entered a relationship of sorts. It repeatedly got interrupted by Nick disappearing abtuptly, sometimes combined with a lot of coughing and once Sally followed she found out just what it was. Nick was having death throes - reliving his death by drowning over and over each night. Sally tried to help him work through those issues but in the end she decided that she'd been down that road before. Tired of compromising her identity for the men she was with, they said their goodbyes.

She would have been content to leave Danny, honestly. Well, perhaps not 'content', but she was managing. At least until Bridget and Danny hired a psychic to exorcise her. It didn't go according to plan though. Sally possessed the woman and she realised what Danny had done she refused to finish the act. With the aggressive move finally made, Sally found a new purpose: saving Bridget from the same fate that she'd suffered at Danny's hands. It wasn't easy. At first her friend heard her, was suspicious, asked questions, but there was only so much Sally could do when Bridget shut her out entirely. Then...Danny tried to burn down the house. She trapped him in with her though, content at least that if she went out Danny was coming with her, unable to hurt anyone else. Thankfully those good old friends of hers came through, breaking their way into the house and putting out the flames.

After a significant amount of physical violence and some sufficiently spooky mojo, Danny confessed. Everything was right in the world again. Sally's door finally arrived, and she said goodbye. And yet, life still wasn't that easy. Aidan's vampire-dad and leader of Boston, Bishop attacked Aidan and Sally ended up missing her door to help with their thunderdome-esque showdown. When she came back the door was gone, and with it Sally's chance to move on. Once the door had gone, she could even affect objects more significantly, only proving how much more stuck in that world she was.

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She had to start making a life for herself. She was stuck, it was time to make something of it. When Nora convinced her to go to her high school reunion, she ended up running into another ghost there. Stevie Adkins taught Sally how to sleep and how to dream, and that was when she first saw the 'evil spirit'. She semi-adopted some of Stevie's friends Dylan and Boner, although she needed Aidan's help with suggestions on how to keep them entertained. Bored of the usual ghost antics, Sally agreed to Dylan's suggestion to go "rage" — an idea that Stevie obviously wasn't happy about. At a local party, Dylan and Boner possessed two people and Sally convinced Stevie to tell her how to do it too. She tried it and found instant bliss in feeling human again. She was ecstatic, a fact Dylan tried to take advantage of. When Stevie stepped in to pull Sally from Dylan's advances, the two got into a fight and Stevie seemed to destroy Dylan's energy somehow, in a way called 'shredding'.

When confronting Aidan about a ~mystery woman who turned out to be Josh's ex the baby ward caught Sally's attention. She accidentally discovered Zoe, a human nurse who could not only see ghosts but also help them merge with babies to be reincarnated. Sally made it her goal to be reincarnated but Zoe had strict rules. She interviewed Josh and Aidan to get any idea of whether Sally was suitable for reincarnation, but when she left she refused. Sally tried to jump into a newborn herself, but when the 'evil spirit' attacked she decided against trying, to save the baby's life. Zoe agreed to help her try to ward off the spirit though, and Sally agreed to go to a 'ghost support group' in return. It just so happened that Nick was there too, and after finding out that he was with Zoe now, and got past the death throes with her she left. Feeling rejected and alone, she ended up using the body of Doctor Forrester's girlfriend (Janet) to relive the joy of actual human touch she'd had at the party.

When Josh and Aidan realised that she'd done this more than once they warn her against it, but Sally couldn't help herself. She possessed Janet again, and got stuck. She tried to seek Josh's help out in the hospital, but Doctor Forrester arrived and interrupted her plans. Finally the 'evil spirit' appeared and essentially pushed her out of Janet's body. Later Janet turned up at the house, convinced that she had memories of it - these actually being Sally's memories, of course. Sally went to try to somehow apologise from the other plane. What she found instead were frantic scribbles and a name for the evil spirit at last: the reaper.

Things got rather abruptly put on hold when Josh realised that Sally's mother wasn't only a patient at the hospital but also dying, and naturally she found this quite sobering. She quickly insisted that he get some new clothes for her mom (and pudding for her dad, butterscotch to be specific) and then she waited. Eventually her mom passed on and they reunited with a rather teary hug - it seemed to have been a while since they'd seen each other, if Sally's lack of answer to Josh's earlier question was anything to go by. Attending her mom's funeral later, she caught her ghostkissing Gerry Patterson - her old neighbour who died 10 years ago and who her mother had been having an affair with while he'd been alive. After an argument she ended up agreeing to spend time with her mom in the form of dinner at her place.

Yes, Josh was the only one who actually ate.

Her mom brought Gerry with her and this ended up frustrating her to the point of an outburst, not understanding why her mom couldn't have been happy with her Dad. Finally they ended up having something of a heart to heart and Sally's mom confessed that she found it hard to see Sally still living in the house that Danny killed her in. She didn't think that she could help her any more, but Sally asked her to try all the same. Awkward silence followed, and when Josh returned to the house later Sally seemed to at least be a little bit content to let her mom move forward with their old neighbour. They couldn't do much about where they were in life (or death) now, but at least one of them could try to make the most of it.

Weird things started happening around the house and naturally the blame fell on Sally, but she was certain that this one wasn't her. She wasn't re-arranging the furniture and shaking the building, and she certainly wasn't throwing knives into the walls. After an eerie, echoey threat that sounded far too much like Danny for comfort she went to hide with talk to Aidan who did a little research and found out that he had in fact died. He'd been killed in prison, strangled by his cellmate, and his ghost was after Sally. After a pretty great pep talk from Aidan she decided to go back home and face him head on, convinced she'd be able to beat him since she'd been a ghost longer and knew more about it as a result.

Armed with an iron poker she pulled out the usual snark, and then things took a turn for the unexpected. He'd been taught how to exact his revenge by other prison ghosts and quickly got the upper hand on Sally. Choking her, Danny would have shredded Sally's spirit had it not been for the Reaper making its first non-malevolent appearance yet. It killed Danny for her, shredding her like she'd seen Stevie doing before. The reaper finally showed itself in a somewhat corporeal form, that of a tall dark man. He told her that he was a Reaper, that he went around destroying 'problematic ghosts'. He told her that he kept the balance, and she'd made his radar when she passed up her door. However, when she closed her eyes and prepared herself for the end of things he just disappeared. Later she found him by her tombstone, and we got a glimpse of how sad Sally is. She talked with the Reaper for a while about people moving on without her, about the isolation that she has felt since dying and he gave her a day in return, telling her to make her arrangements and that he'd come for her. She spent a lot of time trying to come up with ways of saying goodbye to Josh and Aidan, but when they came home from their wolf vs. vampire thunderdome all they wanted to do was go to bed, and she was left as alone as she'd claimed to be in the graveyard with the Reaper.

A week later she was still waiting for the Reaper to turn up, gradually getting more and more stressed about her impending fate. He finally turned up, but rather than shredding her he offered her his job. She talked to Aidan about whether or not she could even do that, kill ghosts who had thrown the cosmic system out of balance, and he suggested that she just killed the Reaper instead. She went to Stevie to find out how to do it and he told her, but he also warned her that she couldn't take it back and it made you darker. Despite the warning, she still jumped the Reaper when he came to collect her and she shredded him.

Except he came back, and rather than reap her he just sold his position even more to her. He talked about it like being a Reaper was some kind of power trip, and he convinced her. She agreed to it, desperate for some kind of purpose. The first place he took her was to Stevie, saying that he was the first to be taken. He told her that Stevie was addicted, that he'd shredded his other friends too (including Boner) and sent her in. Stevie just seemed confused by her accusations, and when she couldn't do it the Reaper shredded him from behind without warning. Sally seemed shocked at watching it so close up, and before leaving he told her she'd have to take her first soul the next time he sought her out. However, when confronted with one of the ghosts from the support group as her first spirit (Walter, who had started possessing again) she couldn't do it and he had to finish the job.

The first sign that something wasn't right was when Boner turned up in her kitchen asking for Stevie. He wasn't dead, Stevie hadn't shredded him. She went to Nick and Zoe for help, but Zoe hadn't heard anything about them. She agreed to ask the ghosts that come to support group, but when Sally met her there later on she found chaos. The Reaper had been through and taken them all out, but Zoe accused her of doing it all. As far as Zoe was concerned Sally was talking to no one, and she told her it was all her fault. While trying to make a salt ring to protect herself Nick arrived, telling her that they were going to get her help and that there was no Reaper. In a move that surprised no one, the Reaper appeared behind him during this monologue and shredded Nick - and that's when the Reaper revealed their true identity as Sally's malevolent alter-ego. Aidan and Josh walked in in time to watch her shredding Nick and when they tried to calm her down she started to destroy the house. Aidan hit her with the iron poker from the fireplace and she reappeared in the spot of her death with a salt ring around her, unable to move. She went into a kind of catatonia within her own mind and trapped herself in an idealistic life with "Scott" - who had the same form as the Reaper.

Aidan went to see Zoe to convince her to help Sally, leaving out the part where Sally shredded Zoe's boyfriend Nick, while Josh just talked to her. She didn't seem to react to him, but in Sally's hallucination she saw his face in a reflection. Aidan tried to talk to her (which appeared in her world as messages popping up on a chatbox) and in the real world the whole house started shaking, a sign that they were at least partially getting through to her. At that point, Sally/Scott locked all the windows and doors in the house and trapped Aidan, Josh and Zoe in the house. With Aidan on edge from lack of blood and the full moon hours away, things didn't look good. Zoe suggested that mind-melding could work, that she could go into Sally's consciousness and pull her out of the coma-like state she'd dropped into. While in Sally's hallucination she tried to convince her to wake up but Sally was convinced it was all real. Slowly she started to remember that it wasn't real and the details were wrong. Zoe showed her the bleeding wrist she had from Aidan biting her in the real world and finally she remembered it all. She woke up and the house unlocked. Once Josh left to lock himself up for the full moon, Aidan went to bed and Zoe very abruptly left the house Scott reappeared. He continued to follow her around, but now knowing that he was a figment of her imagination and not an evil entity she successfully ignored him.

She finds out that Janet, the woman that she had repeatedly possessed, was in the psych ward because of the damage that Sally had done and resolved to fix it. Aidan and Josh both refused to help her, but Nora agreed. Despite "Scott" taunting her and telling her to stop, Nora and Sally managed to convince Janet that she wasn't actually crazy and she got herself checked out of the psychiatric ward. Despite him telling her that he wouldn't leave, Sally was confident enough that the good in her outweighed the evil that she no longer had to deal with his taunting. However when she got home, she found out that Aidan was leaving. She told him to look her up in a couple of hundred years, he tried and failed to touch her cheek, said he loved them and that was that. Aidan had left, gone to try to make a life with Suren.

Trying to move on to, Sally went to the hospital in an attempt to get on good terms with Zoe again but she wouldn't talk to her. She had even stopped salting the door to the newborn ward, but when Sally asked her about it she just said that she didn't care enough any more, that dealing with ghosts had just caused her pain and it was Sally's fault. While in the process of trying to convince Zoe to go back a solar eclipse started and Walter appeared in the park - right where Sally shredded him. Knowing that this meant Nick would be at her house they rushed back there to see him. Sally arrived first, with enough time for Nick to tell her how awful the place she sent him to was. Danny was there too, and while Zoe had her last moments with Nick she spoke to him. While Nick lied to Zoe about being at peace, Danny told Sally about limbo and how bad it was over there. When the eclipse ended they disappeared, and Sally knew that she had to get them out of there.

When Josh needed to get the man who turned him into a wolf away from people Sally helped him by possessing someone again, long enough to call Ray as his wife and hug the crap out of Josh, conscious that if his plan worked and killing Ray really meant that he would be human again, this would be goodbye for them. Once that was done she found her mother at the hospital and asked her to shred her, so that she could go to limbo and rescue the ghosts she sent there. Her mom refused and they argued again over it, but later on she came to the house to apologise. The conversation that followed ended up giving Sally's mother the resolution she needed to get her door, but even though she offered it to her Sally couldn't take it. She ended up shredding herself to make sure that her mother wouldn't be left to go crazy, just in case she didn't get back. When she shredded herself she shredded "Scott" with her, and they both wound up in limbo as a result. Limbo was limbo, and just as awful as anyone could imagine. Forced to attempt to escape with Stevie and Nick every single day, it was no wonder that Sally reached out to the guys to try and tell them that she'd made a mistake in going there.



Fortunately she isn't there long, owing to the fact that she finds herself on the Tranquility shortly after! Much happier, right? (✿◠‿◠)

Personality

❝I lose myself in him, he's going to solve all my problems...and then I just disappear into his.❞

Sally Malik, how do I begin to describe Sally Malik?

She's a popular twenty something with several college course semesters under her belt and the wide range of friends to show for it. Or at least, she had friends, before her life rather abruptly came to a halt - and that's not even talking about her death, that's talking about Danny. Sally loves hard and she loves fast and that's part of why she appeals to people so quickly, but it's also a big part of why she even died in the first place. She loves hard and fast, but she doesn't stop when she should. She just pours more and more into a connection until she completely loses herself in the process. She doesn't do anything by halves, that's for sure. This more than anything defines her. Not because she isn't friendly and bubbly, she is. Even in death there's an energy and life that exudes from her, her smile is infectious and she's the first in with a quick-witted pun. She's got so much to give, but that's just it, she gives. Even when it's detrimental to her, even when she's sacrificing so much to do it.

She's not always a good person - in fact she can be really quite disagreeable at times. Half of her arguments with Josh stem from her selfishness and when she's having problems it's very obvious that she struggles to see anything else. Even when she's trying to be sympathetic, her own drama is never far from her mind and if an opening appears to bring it up you can be sure that she will. She's stubborn and headstrong, and if she thinks that her way is what's best for her or the people around her then that's just about all she needs to endlessly push it. Basically, she's got the flaws that any regular twenty-something would have, full of self-assuredness and perfect ideals, but her biggest flaw is that she goes in far too deep.

❝I didn't even get a chance to try. Who feels powerful and fulfilled at 23?❞

And yes, she's stubborn, and of course this means a certain amount of self-assurance, but that isn't all there is. Underneath the grins and the smiles, the laughs and the jabs, underneath all that outward confidence lies a very insecure girl who never got the chance to reach the most fundamental driving forces in life. Sally never had a chance to find her passion, to find her drive to move forward. Whether or not this was the case before her death is unknown, but it likely didn't spring from nothing. After all, she'd given up most of her passions to be with Danny. She'd given up New York, given up travelling through India, given up trying to get on the UN for a spot in a house as a wife. Now that she's dead and 'later' isn't an option any more, she's floundering. A large part of Sally's struggle is in finding her place and her 'role', her purpose now that she's died.

That insecurity is a big part of her failings, whether it be the arguments she gets into with her housemates (can anyone say abandonment fears?) or something as simple as cracking under the pressure of Bishop's snide remarks and berating. She doesn't truly believe in herself, relying on the support of her friends to make up for that significant missing piece.

It's such a huge part of her that it even manifested, and that side of her - Scott, the Reaper, whatever name you prefer - is everything that Sally tries to ignore. He's ruthless in all the ways that she's never been able to be, strong and powerful. Never has it been more obvious how Sally sees herself than when faced with her alter ego. Whether or not she is strong and powerful is a moot point, because the significant thing that it showed was that she certainly doesn't think she is. He's controlled where she is anything but, trying desperately to cling to the fragments of her life while he was easily and effortlessly maintaining order and "balance". He enforced this twisted sense of balance while she felt all she did was destroy it. She passed up her door, he shredded the leftover ghosts.

❝Did you double-down on antiperspirant. You sweat a lot when you're nervous.❞

And there's the biggest example of something good about her, because Sally isn't just a wreck of flaws and problems. She's a good person at heart, and more than anything she's fiercely loyal to her loved ones. Nothing shows this more than on the moment where she finally got to the point of resolution with her death that her door arrived. She'd finally made peace, got the justice she deserved and just before she had the chance to go through it Aidan was attacked, and despite not knowing if it would still be there when she came back she went with him and Josh to the hospital. She took the risk, and in that time it was gone. After spending so much time trying to move on, when it came down to it the safety of her friends meant more to her than that peace.

It's not always easy for her to involve herself in her friend's lives. Josh and Aidan have their own problems and she can only marginally weigh in on these, but she does all that she can. She tries to help them, whether it be locking Josh in the hospital room or just floating around offering support before he's about to go all Ultimate Showdown with another wolf. She can't always help as much as she'd like, she's hindered by a very big problem that is her inability to interact with just about anything beyond them, and certainly her sporadic-at-best tangibility. There's more hindrances there than benefits, but despite it all she does what she can. Somehow, thankfully, what she can seems to be enough for them.

❝Oh, ladies and gentlemen, the Bobsey twins!❞

And all of that is very serious, and very very important. Sally couldn't be who she is without any of that - the good and the bad. Without that powerful loyalty and over the top self-centered attitude, that painful hotheadedness and that sometimes crippling insecurity she wouldn't be who she is as a whole. She is a sum of all of her parts, but she's not just serious traits and important realisations. There's so much more outside of the heavy layers that make her who she is. She loves a good snarky remark, to the point where she'll sacrifice an otherwise serious atmosphere for the sake of making one. She has a serious addiction to french toast and waffles, and she likes making stupid pop culture references. She's an amateur poet (no, really, amateur), can recite the Gettysburg Address by heart, and she really likes the colour purple. Even though she can do somber, she'd much rather try and relieve some tension by cracking a dumb joke or two, and she's aggressively outgoing. Her first meeting with Josh and Aidan really showed that one, given how she just thrusted her friendship upon them. With Zoe she literally pestered the poor girl into accepting her apology, and Nora...well, Nora was a special exception. Nora she already adored long before the woman ever knew of the existence of Sally, let alone that they could interact.

Basically what it boils down to is simple: Sally is human, dead but certainly not gone. She's a sum of all her parts (and there's a lot of those parts) but she's so much more than that too.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations

Sally is a ghost as of her canon point, and the ghostly powers that come with that are as follows:

✔ teleportation; Ghosts have the ability to mentally will them,selves just about anywhere. This seems to only be limited by the imagination of the person in question, and ghosts can 'piggy back' each other by holding hands or making contact of some kind.

note; obviously this would belimited to within the Tranquility, and if you want to place any other restrictions on this I'm more than happy to make adjustments as needed - perhaps only within x metres, or only a certain number of locations?

✔ telekinesis; She can afford some control over the environment around her - think shaking, light bulbs exploding, that kind of deal. When angry or upset this gets worse, and when she's experiencing intense emotional spikes she can pick up or move objects too.

✔ possession; ghosts are able to 'slip into' the bodies of other people and control their actions. this is generally much easier with more open minded or weak willed people, and similarly more difficult with people more close-minded or strong willed.

✔ intangibility; ghosts have no mass, and cannot touch or be touched by any physical beings or objects. any matter that comes into contact with a ghost will simply pass through it.

note; for this point, I would like to mess with the mechanics a little in that I'd like to nerf the intangibility, but only in regards to contact with inanimate objects. things aboard the ship, the communicators, doors, all that sort of thing is fair game. however one part of the intangibility i want to retain is in terms of contact with people - as far as touching goes, she won't be able to make any kind of contact and will just phase through them like so.

✘ exorcism; It's possible to sever a ghost's connection to the place they haunt if an exorcism is performed. It isn't clear what happens to exorcised ghosts, but it's suggested that they are cut off from the place they died, forcing them to linger somewhere else.

✘ salt and iron; Salt can be used to keep ghosts from entering rooms/houses/etc. If a line of salt has been placed down, it essentially forms a barrier that ghosts cannot cross. Iron can be used to 'disperse' a ghost if they are struck by it, which sends them back to the place that they died.

note; for this I was thinking that the ~dispersion~ thing if it ever comes up in game she could reset back to the arrival bay? or just about anywhere else in the ship really just a fixed location (I really can't imagine this coming up much at all, but I figured working something out now is better than waiting until later)

✘ witchcraft; there are varying different spells and incantations that can affect ghosts, which includes (but is likely not limited to) 'killing' or permanently ending their existence and also reincarnating them.

Inventory

⇒ one grey jumper
⇒ one pair of black yoga pants
⇒ one white vest
⇒ one pair of ballet flats
⇒ one engagement ring
⇒ one newspaper

Appearance

Sally is around five foot four, fairly slim built and and about as toned as any twenty three year old without much direction in her life is (i.e. not at all. This girl won't be winning any fights any time soon). She's got a mess of brown curls that falls about four inches below her shoulder and dark brown eyes, and is only ever seen in one outfit. Literally. As of her canon point, Sally is stuck in the outfit that she died in. Fun, right? For a specific visual, see this.

Age: forever 23

AU Clarification: N/A

S A M P L E S
Log Sample

At first she thinks it's limbo still. A new kind, but limbo nonetheless. What other possible explanation could there be for regaining consciousness surrounded by fluid? Perhaps her new torture is reliving her friends deaths, perhaps she's about to experience first hand what it's like to drown. She goes to draw in a final gasping breath, to get it over with quickly but the breath comes easy. Her lungs fill and she becomes aware of the tube down her throat abruptly and all at once.

And abruptly and all at once, she begins to panic. The fluid starts to drain, the tube slides out and the sensation only serves to distress her more. The doors open and she comes into contact with the ground far more solidly than she's experienced-

Well, since she'd been alive.

That doesn't make it any easier though, in fact it just serves to add to the stress and panic that already has her balling her fists against the sterile, cold floors. This isn't limbo, this can't be limbo, which begs the question of what exactly is going on here that can make her almost feel like she can touch things again. The rise to her feet is embarrassingly shaky, knees trembling like some kind of baby deer as she tries to find steady footing, and it's a testament to how much it's thrown her being somewhat corporeal that she doesn't even blink at the tattoo. She registers its existence, sure, but on the list of 'Things To Worry About Right Now" it ranks at least a four, if not lower.

It's only when she finds the contents of the locker that she really starts to get worried though, because she can interact without issue, she's opening locker doors and picking up the items without so much as a hint of a problem. That in itself is bizarre enough, but then she sees the clothes neatly folded underneath the paper. She sees the grey jumper, the one she's known for so long now and she picks it up quickly. Lifting it to draw it around her shoulders, there's the sound of a small object clattering to the floor and when she sees the source of the sound, a ring, she just freezes.

Whoever brought her to this place, they clearly know her. This isn't just coincidence - the clothes, the ring, there's no way someone just accidentally provided these things. This isn't guesswork, this is intimate, personal knowledge, and the only logical conclusion is that someone (or something) must be messing with her.

Maybe this is limbo after all.

Comms Sample In which I boldly assume she's been there for a little while okok

I have a really, really important question guys.

[ She's trying to look like she's being serious. Honestly, she's really trying, but if the shaking of the feed from her bouncing slightly doesn't giving it away then the smile tugging at the corners of her lips definitely does. She doesn't have a very good poker face, honestly. At all.

Finally she takes in a deep breath, exhales slowly and then...she just cracks. She grins brightly and it's written all over her face that whatever she wants to talk about has got her very excited. ]

So I don't know if I've gone into the details but all you really need to know is this sweater? This one right here? I've been wearing it for like two years now. I know right? So I was thinking...

[ This look right here? It's the exact look that a child gives their parents right after they tell them that they love them and right before they're about to ask them for some sort of favour. That's the look she has - probably because that's exactly what she's about to do. ]

Dressing room montage needs to happen stat, right? But I don't have anything else with me, so if someone wants to maybe contribute some outfits for the good cause, I'd be all over that. Room XXX, bring your friends!

[ And on that cheery note, with a brilliant grin and a quick wave, she's gone. ]