Hot or Not?

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

the HOT OR NOT meme

This is a very straightforward meme.

Step one: Post as your character.
Step two: Other characters will rate yours from one (not hot) to ten (really hot).
Step three: Rate the characters who rated you.
Step four: My inbox dies! Funtiems!

Comments

[crysteel-future.livejournal.com]

[shrugs shoulders at the number]

It really is a good book. Though a little morbid.

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'm afraid I've never read it in full myself, though I met Mary Shelley when she was first writing it. Very imaginative girl. High-spirited.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Really? [legasp! she actually shuts the book - after folding down a page to keep her place, of couse]

Are you from her time?

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

[A nod. He seems pleased to have some intellectual discussion in the middle of this madness.]

Oh, I only visited. I'm more of a late 20th century person rather than an early 19th.

[crysteel-future.livejournal.com]

In any case, it must have been very fascinating to meet her. [from what she's reading in Frankenstein, the lady who wrote it must have been quite interesting]

If you are from the 20th century, how did you get to the 19th century?

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes. Quite.

[He almost misses the next question]

...Hmm? Oh, well I'm not from the 20th century either. You might say I'm a bit far removed.

[crysteel-future.livejournal.com]

In time? But how can you be removed in...

[she gets it]

You're a time traveler, aren't you?

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

[They do eventually.]

Well we're all time travelers, in a sense--we all travel through time. I just happen to do so in a non-linear fashion.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

That's pretty amazing. Time travel has yet to be discovered where I'm from in the 31st century.

What's it like?

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

I...yes, right. Assuming that your universe runs on a similar track to mine, then the human civilization won't discover time travel for another...twenty centuries, I believe. I'm afraid you have a bit of a wait.

It's nice. The novelty wears off after several centuries though. But I do suppose it's...kind of fantastic sometimes.

[crysteel-future.livejournal.com]

[she laughs] Poor Querl.

You make it sound like a walk in the park. In September.

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

September walks in the park are nice, too.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

I love spring time more. The scent of lilacs is quite something.

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

Indeed it it, though I have a bias towards Gallifreyan autumns. Watching the trees shed their silver leaves, sparkling like thousands of tiny meteorites against the setting suns...

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Gallifreyan?

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

Ah--Gallifrey. The planet that I'm from.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Oh. So you're an alien.

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

As are you.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Well, yes. Sorry.

I'm Naltorian.

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

Oh? I actually assumed you were Terran. I guess I'm not any better, am I?

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Mmm, it's alright. I don't mind.

So what is Gallifrey like?

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

[Insert nervous chuckle here] Ah, uhm. Thank you.

It's a nice place, so long as you don't count the Gallifreyans themselves. The sky is gray, the ground is covered in fields of red and gold and silver on rolling hills and mountains. Dry with long summers.

And Naltor?

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

That certainly is a gorgeous place, then.

Naltor is lovely, especially at nighttime when all the stars come out and you have the most gorgeous view of the constellations. The grass is soft, and the water is crystal blue.

But to really enjoy Naltor, you shouldn't bother with the Naltorians. Years of traditions have made them stuffy and hard to deal with.

[celery-brooch.livejournal.com]

Same to your planet. Perhaps I'll visit when this is over--assuming that my universe has it.

That sounds...suspiciously like the Gallifreyans. Well, the Time Lords at any rate. Stiff-necked bureaucrats, the lot of them. Sometimes it amazes me how long they've managed to continue this way without killing themselves off in some conspiratorial frenzy.

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be more exciting than Naltor's problems.

Naltorians follow the faith of Predestination. Whatever they foresee, they believe with the utmost certainty that it will happen. There are no surprises or excitement in anything - just monotonous living.

I am glad that I got out when I did.