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Topher woke up to find his roommate missing and to find himself the proud owner of a killer headache that he suspected had something to do with the coconut-bra antics that had transpired last night. Well, great. He dug one of his laptops out from where he had been storing it under his pillow (shut up) and pulled up some Minecraft.

That would take care of the headache, yes.

The fact that he looked different today? Totally lost on him.

[[door and post are open]]

Date: 2011-06-04 02:42 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: i have a cunning plan)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Oh, please, of course Peter had figured out where his new minion friend fellow third-floor-student lived. It'd be a little useless if he didn't know where to go for his easily-manipulated hacking talent.

"Topher," he said, sticking his head in the door without looking, "I had an id-- oh, hey."

Crap.

Date: 2011-06-04 02:46 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: ruffled)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"...I don't think we've met," Peter said, after a long pause. "Morning."

Date: 2011-06-04 02:52 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: oh this is just ignominous)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"No, your roommate did that," Peter said, going with the safe assumption. He was getting a little annoyed at the way this guy was treating him like he was stupid, though. "I'm pretty sure I'd remember seeing you."

... Not dirty.

Date: 2011-06-04 02:56 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: kill you with BRAIN)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"Har har," Peter said. It was possible he hadn't quite caught on to the situation yet. "Very funny. Ohhh-- are you going to give me the 'impromptu plastic surgery' line next?"

Date: 2011-06-04 03:03 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (petra-peter: frowny)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"I hope that's not your way of fishing for compliments," Peter said, crabbily.

He was crabby because he had been talked to, and he was crabbier because he had no idea what was going on. If Topher's roommate was trying to pull a fast one on him, he'd--

... be better off keeping his cool. Sigh.

Date: 2011-06-04 03:10 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: my eye on you)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"Then I'd give you the address to a nice mental hospital," Peter said, before he could keep himself from snarking. "Imprinting whole personalities? Even monitor technology can't do that."

... Oh sure, three seconds later you start thinking about how feasible that is and whether the public would accept it. WTF, Peter.

"Though think about the havoc that could cause..."

Seriously, Peter, quit it.

Date: 2011-06-04 03:15 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: aloof)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Peter squinted at him. Really, there'd be more efficient ways to use technology like that. Which wasn't liable to happen any time soon anyway. "We'd get a whole swath of grudges that'd never go away," he said, "Also, you're getting paranoid, T-- whoever you are."

Date: 2011-06-04 03:21 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: listening to you)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Maybe one of these days, Peter was going to opt for 'the island' as his first explanation for stuff like this. If he woke up being someone not Peter. He was going to prefer blaming people for everything whenever possible, thanks.

"Sure," Peter said, "You woke up and the island decided to switch out your face--" And then he blanched. "...Give me the mirror."

Please tell him his own face was still the same?

Date: 2011-06-04 03:25 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: morose)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Peter grabbed the mirror and gave it a quick look, then felt annoyed at how easily he'd fallen for that one. "Oh, you're a funny man," he said, forcing some laughter. "Really, joke's over. So what's your name?"

Date: 2011-06-04 03:32 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: adooorable little psychopath)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Peter squinted at him.

Then he forced another laugh. "Sorry, man," he said, "You know how weird this looks, right...? I guess it's even crazier having it happen to you."

Date: 2011-06-04 03:40 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: b&w off-screen)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"You really think someone could've imprinted your brain on a different body?" Peter asked, his tone light, but on the inside he was fretting. The IF had years of his brain patterns lodged in a database somewhere... if the process could work like that, anyway.

Date: 2011-06-04 03:47 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: contemplating the sky)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Peter let his little freak-out pass over him underneath his amenable guise. At least until he realised that if the IF had that kind of technology, to copy and tweak him, they never would've bothered requesting Ender.

(Unless there really was just something fundamentally wrong with him. The thought sobered him as it always did.)

"So that's what you meant when you said you were interested in brains, huh?"

Date: 2011-06-04 03:54 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: listening to you)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Or an evil teenage boy plotting the take-over of the planet.

Though Peter was pretty sure that 'messing up people's brains just for my own personal gain' was up on the list of things that made people think there was something fundamentally wrong with you, so he shied away from active enthusiasm about the idea.

"It'd probably be very useful in the medical community," he said instead, finding somewhere to sit the hell down. "Where I come from, it's possible to translate that data into... observable thoughts and emotions, I guess."

Date: 2011-06-04 04:00 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: b&w off-screen)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"Yeah," Peter said, somewhat distractedly. "Like that. Though you'd have to go looking around for volunteers..."

Date: 2011-06-04 04:03 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: one day hegemon)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"But would the person whose imprint gets moved to the next body give it up so easily again?" Peter said. "And it's a pretty hard-to-sell idea if you're thinking about the general public."

Date: 2011-06-04 04:12 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: pressed against the glass)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
"And wind up in trouble with about a hundred human rights groups," Peter argued. ... Yeah, the argument you were looking for was 'but that isn't moral', Peter. "You'd have to be cleverer than that. Go for people off the grid who really need it - but you'd have to build it up slowly, and be able to guarantee that whatever they put in a contract gets held up."

Date: 2011-06-04 10:20 pm (UTC)
lockestheway: (peter: b&w off-screen)
From: [personal profile] lockestheway
Of course Peter had a good idea of how it should be set-up. He was Peter Wiggin, thank you very much, and while the IF might not have thought he was special enough to go to Battle School, he was still cleverer than just about anyone.

... Peter's fragile ego was firmly at the wheel here, folks.

"Sure, that might work for a couple of years," Peter said, "But one expose - or one good hacker - and you're dealing with a PR nightmare."

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