Application for Nymphadora Tonks

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

((HERE THAR BE SPOILERS FOR DEATHLY HALLOWS

Also, in Tonks's journal as well. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH HER IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK AND DON'T WANT TO BE SPOILED, I will feel really freaking bad.))



With a flash of green, Tonks felt the life being sucked out of her, and everything went black. She didn't even feel her body hit the ground. It seemed like ages and forever but also no time at all when she opened her eyes again - Well, she wasn't expecting that. When she opened her eyes, she was standing outside, and there was... A mouse?

Mickey coughs theatrically. "'What is your name?'"

Tonks hesitates, completely unsure of what's going on, and adopts a defensive sort of stance. She had just been hit by Avada Kedavra, hadn't she? "...Tonks. Just. Tonks."

"What is your quest?" asks the Cat. It's perched, suddenly, on the roof of one of the gate-stiles.

She knew it was something sinister. Tonks frowns. "To protect people, to fight against You-Know-Who. What the hell is this?"

"'What is the average w..?'" Mickey frowns down at the notebook. "You know, I don't really see why that's important." He flips a page. "'If you could be granted three wishes, what would they be?'"

Wha... Tonks raises an eyebrow, her stance loosening just a bit. "...Three wishes?"

...Oh, Hell. The afterlife isn't ruled by Mickey Mouse, is it?

"That'd be that You-Know-Who was completely gone," Tonks begins tentatively. After a moment, she continues. "To bring back everyone he's killed... And..." Tonks smiles slightly at this, though sadly. "Make it so that Remus isn't or wasn't a werewolf... So things might be easier for him."

"Or," the Cat says, examining its tail with interest, "if you were a genie and someone you were trying to give three wishes to was trying to trick you into giving him more, what would you say?"

The lack of attacks so far is comforting (not to mention the fact that that huge ugly mouse is a muggle invention, and therefore probably not being used by Death Eaters), and though she doesn't completely let her guard down, Tonks answers this one far more easily. "I'd tell him, 'Hey, three wishes or no wishes! It's up to you.'"

Mickey looks rather nonplussed at the next, but reads, "'When the revolution comes, what skills will you be able to barter for food?'"

Tonks tenses immediately. Revolution. "The only revolution will be what we're doing now, and I have full faith in everyone fighting that there won't need to be another."

The Cat rolls its eyes in a friendly (and rather disconcertingly out-of-sync) way, and asks, "Milk, dark, or white chocolate?"

Okay, what? First 'your quest', then wishes, then talk of a revolution and now chocolate? ...Dementors! "Milk and dark are the only ones that are actually chocolate, so white won't work, will it? I figured you'd know that. Why, lost control?"

"'Choose the two coolest: robots, pirates, fairies, bears, ninjas, monkeys, vampires, or humans,'" says Mickey, giggling a bit as he goes through the list. "'Explain.'"

"Er..." Tonks reaches up and ruffles her own hair as it goes through a couple shades of green. She pauses, throws her hand down, and glares at the mouse. "Alright, damn it! Enough with the ridiculous questions, what is going on?!

"Great!" Mickey flips through the blank pages of the notebook at top, cartoon-y speed. "Well, I think that's just about it! Oh, and I'm supposed to ask, 'for your safety: are you carrying anything sharp?'"

No, I don't carry sharp things, I'm too clumsy. "Listen, mouse, I don't know what I'm doing here, but I can tell you my wand is more dangerous than anything sharp I might have on my person."

((OOC: She's taken directly after her death - As in, seconds after.))

Comments

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

"...isn't or wasn't?" is all Sirius has to say, something in his chest tightening uncomfortably.

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

Tonks whips around, eyes widening when she sees Sirius, stepping forward towrds him. "Sirius!" She stops and swallows. Sirius is dead, but... "I mean... I meant, if he isn't a werewolf from now on, or wasn't ever one." Of course, she saw him get hit by the curse, saw him fall, but she saw herself do the same, and she was here... But so was Sirius.

...But Remus wasn't. So that had to mean something was up, right?

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

"Then...he's all right?" That hadn't been the impression he'd gotten from George, but he hadn't asked. And he knew she must be terribly confused, but he'd explain everything just as soon as he knew whether...

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

Tonks looked down towards the ground. "I don't know," she says. This is all so confusing.

[grimsirius.livejournal.com]

Sirius nodded, and then put a hand on her shoulder. "I didn't even know you two were very close," he said, and then sighed. "I'm sure you must be very confused, especially as you probably think I'm dead. It's all right. None of us understand this place, but it's safe. Where were you just now, before you came here?"

[snitchnicker.livejournal.com]

James had maybe only met Tonks in passing, once, twice if he was lucky, but the name didn't ring any bells, and that wasn't what drew him to the front gates. It was the mentioning of Remus, and of You-Know-Who. In the almost-year that James had been in Disneyland, he had only had Remus, Sirius, and Lily join him. Remus and Lily had left soon after, and now it seemed like there was going to be an influx of wizards and witches. Maybe Lily would come back, maybe he'd get to meet Harry...

He gives pause when he sees that this particular witch has green hair, but it doesn't occur to him that she might be a metamorphmagus. After all, the only one he knew was Sirius' little cousin, Nympha-somethingoranother.

"Hullo," he said, walking to the entrance area.

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

Tonks was a bit taken aback when she saw James. "What, Harry?! What're you doing here?!" He was supposed to be back at Hogwarts, this was sort of important...! How had he ended up here, too?

[snitchnicker.livejournal.com]

It may have been the third time it had happened, but James was probably never going to stop getting a kick out of being mistaken for Harry. "Not Harry, sorry," he said, brushing the hair on his forehead up. "No scar, see? James Potter, actually."

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

Tonks raised an eyebrow at that one. "James Potter. Really. But Sirius had said she "thought" that he was dead, not that he was dead... She sighed, exasperated, then held out her hand. "Well, either I'm dead or crazy. Wotcher, James?"

[snitchnicker.livejournal.com]

James took her hand. "Well, I'm certainly not dead, and I don't think I should be dying for a while yet, from what I can gather from Sirius," he said. "I've got at least another month on me." He shot her a winning smile. "There are plenty of people here who aren't dead. It's nice to meet you, Tonks, was it?"

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

Thinking the poor lady sounds very confused over the intercom, Setsuna makes his way yet to another arrival -- even if he had told himself he'd stop going to every bloody one. Oh well.

Carefully, he smiles and asks Tonks, "You've talked to a couple of other people, now. Have they explained this place to you? And Tonks -- that's a weird name. How did your parents decide on that?"

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

((OOC: Sorry for the wait, ended up going out of town most of yesterday.))

Tonks smiles back at Setsuna. "They have... Sort of." She grins a bit. "Tonks is - was - my last name. I hate my first name."

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

[[Perfectly all right.]]

"Heh. I know someone like that. And it's weird thinking your first name might be weirder than the one you're using, or something," Setsuna says cheerfully. "And what do you mean sort of? Did they say what the place is like? About the lands? Getting placed? All that stuff?"

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

Tonks grins. "It's plenty weird. And... No, none of that. James tried to tell me that mouse kills people."

[swordandchalice.livejournal.com]

"Guh?" Setsuna frowned, then hit his forehead with the palm of his hand. "Sounds like Senpai's gotten to him."

He shook his head, then tried a nervous smile. "That's really ridiculous of him. I think the mouse is okay. Maybe...." Okay, so he was on the fence about it, but he didn't think Mickey would actually KILL people.

"But anyhow, we come here, get told where we belong, we can live wherever we like. And you get a mailbox. You can put letters in it to people and they'll just go to whoever you address them too," Setsuna started explaining.

[always-confuzed.livejournal.com]

John's first instinct is to follow up all the strange turns his brain has taken after his slack-jawed reaction to hearing about a real werewolf. Still, he has enough sense to figure that might be just a little too sensitive for a first meeting.

So instead he opens with, "You know, I think you're the first person who's been smart enough to point out that white chocolate isn't real chocolate. Most people just out with the answer before their brain catches up."

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

Tonks can't help the smile that appears when he says that. "Yeah, well... White chocolate doesn't work, it's pretty important to know."

((Dear LJ: It's pretty lame not to tell me I have a bunch of comments.))

[always-confuzed.livejournal.com]

"Doesn't work?" John repeats, looking a intrigued. Was there some special use for chocolate on another world? Because it would be great to actually have a legitimate reason to walk around with a bar in your pocket. Not that John really needed one. When he was little it was perfectly all right to carry Hershey's Kisses anyway - for chucking at his sister, of course.

((Hate it when that happens. >.<))

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

...Was this man a muggle? Tonks bites her lip. Clumsy though she may be with her feet, she is far from it with sensitive information. "Doesn't... Make you feel as good." Haha, alright.

[always-confuzed.livejournal.com]

Well, she was playing her cards close to the vest. Which she had every right to do, as she didn't know him. So he decided not to prod her about it. "Yeah, I know the drill. Didn't have brothers, but I had a sister, and I wish Aeryn had a supply of the dark stuff once in a while. I'd probably get hit less often." He smirked to show that he wasn't entirely serious.

She had mentioned that wand thing, though. Perhaps it would be good to put her at ease about that. "So, you're probably a witch, right?" Yup, it still felt weird to be saying that like it was normal.

[mickey-mous.livejournal.com]

((Fair warning, I haven't read this app or the comments, so apologies if Mickey is weird...))

"Okay, Tonks. You ready to find out which of our excitin' lands you'll be livin' in?"

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

((No trouble!))

Tonks is still mildly wary of the mouse, despite what Sirius said. "...Go on, then."

[mickey-mous.livejournal.com]

Mickey smiles. "You're just as pretty and magical as Tinkerbell. How'd ya like to live in Fantasyland?"

[mummychameleon.livejournal.com]

Oh, well. She doesn't know who the hell Tinkerbell is, but a compliment's a compliment though he's still a bit creepy. Fantasyland doesn't sound so bad... "That sounds fine," she says. Would she even have a choice if it didn't?

[mickey-mous.livejournal.com]

"Neato. Then I'll put you in Fantasyland! Your mail will go to Tonks (http://community.livejournal.com/dizzy_land/tag/tonks). Welcome to the Happiest Place on Earth!"

((And if you'll put your contact info here (http://community.livejournal.com/dizzy_backstage/1307.html), you'll be all set to go in and play. :D))