[MEME] TEST DRIVE

[wolfintheattic]

THIS IS A POST WHERE I THROW NEW MUSES AND THEN BEG MY FRIENDS TO HELP ME TEST THEM OUT.

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[bent_the_world]

"Um. What?"

Okay, this just got a little weirder than normal.

Korra looked at the people pointed out and back to the spirit, holding the business card without paying much attention to it yet. If this was unfinished business, it was really bizarre. Those two regular humans didn't even look like they knew each other.

What the hell?

[bugbeverage]

Beetlejuice's patience started to thin. He had to keep it together, though. He lifted his hands and gave Korra his best amiable smile. "I know, I know, it's pretty weird, but trust me! That lady really needs to hear it!"

[bent_the_world]

"Really."

It wasn't phrased as a question in the slightest. Korra side-eyed her ghostly solicitor once more then turned her attention to the card. What was so very important that it had to be passed along second-hand to some random lady on a bench?

[bugbeverage]

~*~Betelgeus
Betelgeus
Betelgeus
~*~

The man flicked his eyes back and forth from Korra's face to his very good and professional business card with a waggle of his brows.

"Yeah? Yeah? Step on it, would ya? She's not gettin' any younger!"

[bent_the_world]

"Hey, I never agreed to actually do anything." Korra folded her arms and cast a frown in his direction.

"Why, exactly, is it so important to tell someone to tell someone...what even is that? Bettle-guys? Be-tell-gus?" She wasn't exactly well learned when it came to the names of stars, and it just looks like gibberish to her.

[bugbeverage]

Beetlejuice's mouth became a grim line.

"Don't ya wanna be a good Samaritan? It'll get me outta your hair, that's a promise! Scout's honor!"

He held up two fingers in a salute.

[bent_the_world]

"I could also get you out of my hair by just leaving." Something about the way he's pressing makes her hackles rise. Korra didn't like this, though she couldn't put her finger on quite why.

"Maybe if you were a little more generous with explaining things, I'd be a little more inclined to help you. But right now...no, I'm not going to ask some poor guy to pass along a ghost message of gibberish I don't know how to pronounce."

[bugbeverage]

He winced. Ugh, he really hoped this chick would just be a goody two-shoes and get it over with. Beetlejuice made a few expressions before deciding on a frustrated frown.

"Look, I can't say it, but you can! And if one of them says it," he gestured to the two living folks with both hands. "I can escape this solitary hell that is my life! Is that good enough?"

[bent_the_world]

"....uh-huh."

There were some red flags right there. Korra knew a lot about how spirits and ghosts worked, and all of this was looking less on the level.

"So...question. Putting a few puzzle pieces together, it sounds like you can't interact with the living? Also...I'm gonna let you in on a little something before we get any further in this improv scene from hell...I'm not a ghost."

[bugbeverage]

Beetlejuice's face drew up so tight that it scrunched in the middle of his face and made him look like a pork bun.

"Weren't. You. LISTENING?" His face warped back outward to its proper shape and licks of red traveled up through the gross green in his hair. It didn't suit him. His fingers clenched and un-clenched at his sides.

This little display lasted until Korra finished dropping the bomb on him. He deflated a little and straightened up, now incredibly curious. He shuffled right into Korra's personal bubble and prodded her experimentally with a grubby finger.

"You don't say?"