The afterlife SUCKS. ((Application for Lilly Kane from Veronica Mars))

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Lilly was beginning to think that this wasn’t heaven. Her first hint was the complete lack of pearly gates, angels, and, you know, God.

Her second hint was the fact that she was still wearing that hideous Cheer Squad outfit. She was pretty sure you got flowing white robes in heaven. Or at least pants.

As for her third hint?


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

Well, no reason not to answer. Most people knew who she was anyway. Hard to stay anonymous when your face has been on the 10 o’clock every night for three years. “Lilly Kane.” Normally, she’d give a wink and a giggle, but flirting with a giant, 2D Mickey Mouse was far beyond even her limits.

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

She blinks a couple times. “Um.” She shrugged, “I…don’t know?” She winced at how lame that was, but being stuck in a magical Disney Land was…significantly weird. She was having a hard time thinking of clever things to say.

"'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?'"

“Well, that’s easy. Moving on would be right at the--”

"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?"

“Uh, excuse me. I was trying to answer the question.” She glared at the cat, though it didn’t seem to care. “Oh well. Your question’s more fun anyway.” She paused to consider her answer. “Well, if I was a genie, I’d probably be pretty pissed off, having to live in a little lamp or bottle or whatever, right? So I’d give them their extra wish, but take away the other ones.”

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

She breaks out into a smirk at this, but doesn’t go the obvious route.
“Well, my dad is mega money. Assuming I still have any access to his bank codes, I can pretty much finance the entire revolution on my own.” Not entirely true, of course. Jake was rich, but not quite that rich. Still, better to make people think you’re more capable than you actually are.

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

“Milk, definitely.” She didn’t even need to think about that one. “Dark is a bit too sweet, and white chocolate is horrible.”

"'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.'"

“Ninjas and Vampires. Definitely.” She frowned. “But only the hot vampires that like to seduce innocent young girls.” Another pause. “And ninjas because, well, they’re hotter than pirates, usually.”

"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?'"

“I’m really not.” She said, confused. “There’s not a lot of hiding space in this outfit, you know?”

((Lilly Kane from Veronica Mars, reporting for duty! Taking Lilly from the last episode of season two, right after her “murderer is brought to justice”, so she knows most of what’s gone on. Permission received from both Veronica and Logan. Also, I am taking Lilly with a clean slate, so although I played her at hogwarts_hocus as well, she can't remember any of that. I do love a good bout of meta, though, so feel free to mess with her mind a little bit. ;) ))

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((Hey, just checking to see if you got permission from Logan and Veronica to apply...))

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((Oh! Yup. here (http://veronica-pi.livejournal.com/618.html?view=618#t618) and here (http://thebadboyfriend.livejournal.com/2625.html?view=21825#t21825) Sorry for not putting it in the app!))

[sensiblesusan.livejournal.com]

Oh dear.

Susan had been away the last time Logan had dealt with Lilly, but she'd heard about what had happened and ... really hoped there would not be a repeat of that incident.

So she hurried to the entrance plaza as fast as she could, hoping to intercept or at least be there in case something exploded.

"Miss Kane? I'm Susan Sto Helit. I expect you'd like to know what's going on..."

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Lilly took in Susan's appearance. She couldn't tell if the streak was natural or dyed. Either way, she was working it. Lilly gave a small, impressed, nod of approval.

"An explanation would be keen."

Better make sure.

"This isn't heaven, right?"

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Susan shook her head. "No. Nor is it any other afterlife I've heard of." She took a deep breath. "It's Disneyland. Well, a version of it, anyway. It seems to exist outside time and not in any known world." She gestured at the grey void beyond the gates.

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Lilly's eyes hadn't gotten that far in her initial exploration. But now she took in the void. "Wow. That's...what is that?"

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"Whatever it is, we can't go very far into it," Susan said. "Get a few yards beyond the gates and you'll be seized with nausea, which won't subside until you come back. Some have tried to fly out, with similar results. Digging is equally useless. The only good news is that inside the park walls, the weather's always pleasant and the food replenishes itself."

[veronica-pi.livejournal.com]

Okay, Veronica knew this place was weird, but this had to be some kind of sick joke. Given that the only other person here that knew about Lilly... well, this was too twisted a prank even for Logan to pull. Still, if he was involved, she was going to kill him.

Veronica stopped dead when she reached the front and saw who was standing there. "L-lilly?" she stammered.

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"Veronica!" Lilly's face broke out into a huge grin. She seemed to have an actual, physical body here -- she had to breathe, anyway. So, when confronted with her best friend of all time in this weird ass place, there was really only one reasonable course of action. It's running hug time for Veronica.

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Veronica was fine with hugging. It had been way, way too long since she'd had a hug from Lilly. "I missed you so much," she said, not even realizing she was crying.

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Not letting go. Possibly ever. "I know. You're so helpless without me." It was said with affection. She pulled back and wiped away Veronica's tears. "Hey. Hey. What's this? Veronica Mars doesn't cry. Veronica Mars kicks ass." Truth be told, she had to say something to keep from tearing up herself, and it was either that or 'There's no crying in Disney Land,' and that just seemed cliché.

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Veronica laughed, though the tears hadn't entirely stopped. "What are you doing here?" Wherever 'here' was. Did this mean... "Am I dead?"

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Logan was not going to lose his shit this time. No, really. He wasn't going to start yelling like a psychotic drama queen, he wasn't going to burst into tears like a four year old. (Was this the Lilly he'd known at Hogwarts? If it wasn't, where had that Lilly gone?) He might be currently feeling like he'd been gut-punched, but it wasn't like that was an unfamiliar feeling. He was not going to lose his shit.

He managed to make it to the entrance area, reminding himself that he'd known this was a possibility and actually he'd really hoped it would happen. Hadn't he? Arriving there, he tried to think of something clever to say while tugging absentmindedly at his sleeves. Something incisive and nonchalant.

"...Lilly. Hey." FAIL.

[ive-never-not.livejournal.com]

"Logan?" She stared at him, almost disbelieving. Logan and Veronica? "Hey. Wow." She smiled, not unkindly. She was not unaware of the awkward, but Lilly had never been one to let things like that stop her. She moved to Logan and gave him a hug, but released it quickly.

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And so of course immediately he was having to stop himself from following and clinging as she pulled back. Logan felt a little wobbly on his axis.

"Looking good," he managed to say. Well, she was. Aside from... "Better than most people probably picture you in that outfit."

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She looked down at the outfit, and then rolled her eyes at him. "Ugh. I know, right? At least there's no blood on it anymore." She gave him a Lilly Smirk^(TM) and said, "still. Wouldn't mind some pants."

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"Hey," he said, firing back a Logan Smirk^(TM) right back at her. "Don't feel you need to wear pants on my account."

And then, not sure a second later how the words fell out of his mouth, "I could live with them not being the ones my dad got into, of course."

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Out of all the responses Chii had heard to these questions, these seemed to gain interest far quicker. Well, and for once, she understood the responses a lot better having come far in her learning.

When she arrived, she gave Lilly a curtsy, a smile, introduced herself, "Hello, Lilly. I am Chii," and then promptly asked, "What does finance mean? And why would you want to do it for the revolution?"

If there were other things going on, Chii didn't really pay them any attention.

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((Unf. I'm so sorry. I had an e-mail hiccup and none of the new replies showed up until Mickey. *begs for forgiveness*))

Lily thought it was an odd question, but just shrugged it off. She didn't think English was this girl's first language, anyway. "Finance is when you pay for something. As for why I'd want to," she gave a shrug and shot Chii a smile. "Well, I wouldn't want to, necessarily, but I had to answer with something."

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[[That's okay. XD It happens.]]

It wasn't that English wasn't her first language, it was that she had barely learned to speak at all, and in at least three different languages at once.

"...If Lily-san doesn't want to, why would Lily-san do it?" Chii asked, never mind if that was probably already an answered question. It honestly perplexed the easily confused girl. Why would anyone do something they didn't WANT to? It was beyond Chii who was free to do as she pleased.

[ive-never-not.livejournal.com]

Lily rolled her eyes, "well, like I said, I had to answer the question somehow." She figured that line of reasoning wouldn't work, sighed, and offered, "Well, look at it this way. If a revolution did come, and I did have to offer something for food and other necessities, money would be the best and most obvious choice, wouldn't it?"

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

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Lily gave a fake sort of frown, "what, I don't get to choose?"

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Mickey laughed like that was the funniest thing he'd heard all week.

"We've got eight neato lands that you could live in." He ticked them off on his gloved fingers and there were just enough fingers for lands.

"There's Adventureland for tough guys and gals, Tomorrowland for people of the future, Critter Country for critters and the people who love 'em, Toon Town (that's where I live), Fantasyland is a magical place, Main Street for normal folks, New Orleans Square which is a little spooky, and Frontierland for those folks who are on the edge and in between. If you could choose your home, where would you want to be?"

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Lily laughed softly, "well, I'd say being dead and then being not dead puts me squarely out of "Normal Folk" territory." She considered. "Probably Frontierland. On the edge and in between. That could be a fun place."

She paused.

"Not that it matters, since you already have a place picked out for me, right?"