✪ A M E R I C A ✪ (Alfred F. Jones) ✪ (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
starspangledhero) wrote2011-03-19 05:43 pm
starspangledhero) wrote2011-03-19 05:43 pm
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( text; ) Karkat is the one that fell down a hole this time
OKAY SO YOU GUYS KNOW HOW EVERYONE GOT COOL STUFF AFTER THE THOUGHT FISHIES WENT AWAY AND I HAD TO PUNCH A SHARK AND HOW I GOT A MUSTANG (LIKE THE ACTUAL HORSE NOT THE CAR)??? WELL I DID! BUT IT WAS WILD SO I HAD TO BREAK IT IN. AND I FINALLY MANAGED IT WITH ONLY A COUPLE KICKS TO THE EVERYTHING.
CAN'T USE SHIFT CAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE I BROKE MY HAND CLEANING HIS HOOVES. TYPING WITH THE OTHER.
OH AND I GOT SOME COOL OUTFITS TOO! I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL OF THEM ARE BUT ONE HAS A WHIP AND A HAT AND ANOTHER LOOKS LIKE A POLICE UNIFORM AND A SPOOKY ONE AND A COUPLE OTHERS. I LOOK REALLY GOOD IN THEM!
GUYS MY HAND LOOKS REALLY GROSS LOOK AT THIS:
HOLD ON I'M HAVING TROUBLE TURNING ON VID
( video; english )
--oh, there we go!
[ America grins, then turns the video to his hand. It's swollen, one of the fingers is blackened, and the nail has fallen off. He has to show everyone his gross injuries always. He turns it back to himself; he's wearing his Indiana Jones outfit, minus the hat. ]
Sick, right? I'm gonna splint it up and stuff, so hopefully it won't take too long to heal! And then I can get to work making a saddle to fit him and Namine's pony! The plains should be thawed enough to graze them this spring. Man, I'm excited to finally get to ride again!
And if anyone has some pain meds or anything, that'd be cool.
[ America gives a thumbs up with his non-broken hand before shutting off the video. ]
CAN'T USE SHIFT CAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE I BROKE MY HAND CLEANING HIS HOOVES. TYPING WITH THE OTHER.
OH AND I GOT SOME COOL OUTFITS TOO! I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL OF THEM ARE BUT ONE HAS A WHIP AND A HAT AND ANOTHER LOOKS LIKE A POLICE UNIFORM AND A SPOOKY ONE AND A COUPLE OTHERS. I LOOK REALLY GOOD IN THEM!
GUYS MY HAND LOOKS REALLY GROSS LOOK AT THIS:
HOLD ON I'M HAVING TROUBLE TURNING ON VID
( video; english )
--oh, there we go!
[ America grins, then turns the video to his hand. It's swollen, one of the fingers is blackened, and the nail has fallen off. He has to show everyone his gross injuries always. He turns it back to himself; he's wearing his Indiana Jones outfit, minus the hat. ]
Sick, right? I'm gonna splint it up and stuff, so hopefully it won't take too long to heal! And then I can get to work making a saddle to fit him and Namine's pony! The plains should be thawed enough to graze them this spring. Man, I'm excited to finally get to ride again!
And if anyone has some pain meds or anything, that'd be cool.
[ America gives a thumbs up with his non-broken hand before shutting off the video. ]
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It's different.
--Wait, you have a name? A human one?
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Uh-huh. I've gotta have something to put on my driver's license and dog tags. I have "United States of America" on the latter but I spent way too long at the DMV to every try to put that on any documents ever again.
Plus... I mean, I've got a body, so you gotta have a name for that, right? And all the little things that make it me over the years.
...Another thing that's confusing.
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Maybe I'll just call you Alfred. Did England name you? Because if he did that's a rather clever name. Nothing like Hastings; I mean really...
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Japan says England is tsundere 'cause he always says mean things or says he doesn't care, but that actually means he cares. Something like that.
[ Some day he'll launch into his weirdo existentialism. THE DOCTOR MIGHT ENJOY THAT. ]
Okay! You're right, England gave me that name when I was really small. I don't remember why, exactly... I think it was after some king of his...
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Also! When I say I care, if I ever have occasion to, it's sincere. And that's really just silly.
Speaking of silly. It's Alfred the Great. Only English monarch to be named 'the Great' and you know what he did? He defended England. That's what he did. Smart man, a little odd with his love for poetry but you have to admire a man who memorizes a book of poetry in a new language when war was a better use of your time.
Oh, right--Though I really ought to thank you for the compliment, it's actually wrong.
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[ America perks up, either in surprise or a moment of revived memory, at the mention of Alfred the Great. His expression softens a bit. The usual manic grin dwindles to calmer smile. ]
He defended England, huh? Well...
[ He trails off. A moment later he snaps out of it. ]
Poetry isn't bad, but I like movies way better! 'Course I had to make do with books before I had movies, or ways to plug in things to watch movies on, but now film's the way to go!
...I complimented you? [ HE DOESN'T REMEMBER DOING THIS. ] Uh, you're welcome?
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You did! You said I may as well be British.
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Okay, whatever sweetness America might have been possessing, the moment has passed. ]
That's a compliment?
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Obviously. Would you rather I spoke American?
Is this right? You guys.
... Awesome.
Banana. Cookies and biscuits and gravy and Independence day--and defense spelled with an s.
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America looks on curiously, breaking into a proud grin once the word "awesome" is uttered in an American accent. To make it all worthwhile, America breaks into applause once the Doctor's done. He then interrupts himself by punching the air with a fist. ]
FUCK YEAH AMERICAN! Ain't it awesome?! I mean, better than--
[ He clears his throat, imitating a Cockney accent. He isn't too bad, but that just makes him all the more unintelligible. ]
--talkin' like someone shoved a buncha chestnuts in my cheeks so that I talk all funny. Bloody hell!
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I can tell you--just let me tell you--that was awful. Brilliant, but awful. I've been speaking this way for a very, very long time and I happen to like it. It's got a certain old and fun quality to it. Not that American isn't good too, because it is. But I much prefer this one.
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Fits ya somehow! The way ya talk makes me think:
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[ see. icon. ]
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So! I'm your uncle now. That means we have to do uncle and nephew things, like... you come to me for advice and I tell you what I did back in my glory days. Right? Am I right?
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Yeah, yeah! Wait, what're your glory days? Do they have knights and stuff in 'em?
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Of course they did, someti-- Wait, why would they have knights again?
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I dunno. I just know that England had knights and princess and dragons and that kinda stuff. He used to tell me stories about those things when I was little. Since you're kinda British, you had to have knights somewhere in your stories, right?
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... Five hundred years! Or four hundred. Four to five hundred years since proper knights on horseback.
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But still.
You're British.
You've gotta have knights. Or pirates!
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Their hygiene was awful but people are a fascinating bunch. Except for the killing and war. I'm not so fond of that.
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Coooool! I was knighted by Chopin, but that's not the same thing as being around in the age of dragons and plague, ya know? Luckily I was the one with cowboys and the pony express and all that cool stuff!
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Knighted? Good on you! And yeah, railroads and cowboys and the wild west. Definitely love that. Except the gunfights.
But especially Stetsons.
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The gun fights are fun though! Everything else is great and all too, of course! I had a Stetson for a while but it kept flying off my head when I had to make a get away, so I traded it for a saddle pad.
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That's why you get a string! A string, Al! Like a thing, attached to the hat, and then you tie it so it hangs down and it'll sit on your back when you don't want to wear it.
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I always forgot about the string...
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