video: un; makes.it.count [locked from Snow White]

[nothinglikea]

[Rose looks perturbed, chewing on her lower lip]

I...realize that we all have our concerns right now, but I was--well, I was hoping for assistance?

Valentine's Day is quickly approaching and I want to do something really special for Snow now that we're together. Something beyond the usual flowers and chocolates and cards, although she'll get all three from me.

But of course this depends on whatever we're being put through this month. I'd still like to find some way to make it special. [and her expression turns stern] And if The Doorway chooses to do something truly awful to us, I'll never forgive them!

[and back to smiling!]

In any case, I appreciate your assistance and your ideas most of all. Thank you.

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[miyagimagic]

[ Daniel chuckles. ]

Well, I don't really think it'd be very relevant to what you're trying to do here.. [ If not just because the memory is rooted in something that's very personal to his life, and also attached to stuff they don't have here.

But who would he be to deny someone's request? So despite his disclaimer, he does continue with: ]

But my wife and I run a car dealership back home. I recreated the time for her when we snuck out together during the grand opening party to sit in the back of a car together with a drink and some romantic tunes.

[nothinglikea]

[Rose grins at Daniel] Why, Mr. LaRusso! How positively scandalous! In the best possible way, really, it can be fun to scandalize polite company.

[miyagimagic]

Hey, if it's your own party, you can do what you want, right?

[ Truthfully, most people wouldn't even find it that scandalous.. But Daniel is definitely enough of the type who thinks of other people and general politeness that he can definitely see why it is. Even as he's speaking with plenty of amusement in his tone now.

It's just that he had been just young enough and in love to go for it anyway. ]

Besides, doing something special for the person I loved felt much more important than the party itself. I'm sure you understand that. [ Since Rose seems pretty smitten with the person she likes as well. ]

[nothinglikea]

Not where and when I'm from! I'd been expected to be the perfect porcelain doll. You have no idea how glad I am that I no longer have to be.

[everything was scandalous where she was from. John Jacob Astor with his little wifey in a delicate condition. Benjamin Guggenheim along with his mistress while his wifey was at home with the children.

Caldeon Hockley's impending nuptials to a girl barely out of finishing school]

I do. I want Snow to be happy and I want to help her be happy. I know that neither of us can set our entire fortunes on one another, that we have to be partners and not simply two young women in love. That this place dictates that we be so.

[miyagimagic]

[ It's a different angle.

The first part - he's heard that before. That this place is liberating for Rose, that it's why she wants to stay here, that she's glad to be here in that sense. They talked about it.

But the second part, that's new. It makes Daniel quiet for a moment, thinking about it. But rather than assuming anything and speaking on about it, he instead asks: ]

Do you feel like this place does that?

[nothinglikea]

[Rose considers for a moment]

I'd say so, yes. What we've both had to live through because of the Pthumerians are experiences unlike what either of us could have confronted back home. We've both been made stronger, together and apart.

[miyagimagic]

I understand.

[ Even without his wife here. But he's had a rather similar trajectory back home. Sure, not involving supernatural monsters, but their rather calm life did suddenly get rather shaken up by a karate war..

And making it through together only makes your bond stronger. ]

I just.. [ He starts, and then his voice trails off. When he continues, he looks a touch more embarrassed. ] I understand this most likely just makes me sound like some meddlesome old man, but I just hope it doesn't harden you two too much. You deserve to still have some innocent love too, even among all this.

[ Isn't that what Daniel has always wanted? For kids to just be able to live their days innocently? This place seems to be rather ruining youth for some young people. ]

[nothinglikea]

[Rose is honestly of the opinion that none of them here were meant for conventional lives. not forever, at least. that there's the seed of something peculiar in each of them.

and it did. though, Rose was hesitant about proposing the closest bond two people could have here.

and Rose smiles gently] It's all right. Both of us...we'd had experiences which marred our innocence before we came here. But innocent love, that we're capable of. That's something I want us to have.

[between Snow's stepmother and Rose's darling fiancé, neither of them had much of a chance to stay innocent for long]

[miyagimagic]

[ It does seem like a lot of people went through so much before arriving in this place. It truly makes Daniel feel for them - especially since there's a part of him that almost feels a little guilty for having had it so much easier.

(Not that Daniel really did have it easy, but.. you know, sometimes perceiving yourself is a whole lot harder than perceiving other people, especially when you deny your own trauma.) ]

Well.. Then I'm glad.

[ He seems to genuinely mean that, his tone warm. ]

And if there's anything at all I can do to help make your surprise for her a little more special, please let me know. I understand this plan is really important to you.