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(2013) open rp post

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❧ please note that I am extremely backtag friendly and will be backtagging these threads until the cows come home. and I'm always really eager to do things even if this post is found months after it's posted. also lol sometimes i may take a bit to get to them since some characters are harder for me to think up things and require some canon review! sorry for the wait, i'll make you a vegemite sandwich in the interim.

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[ Turns out there are no self-help books on dealing with the supernatural. No serious ones, anyway; the three she buys have entire portions dedicated to werewolves, but straight off the bat one mentions silver bullets kill werewolves (wolfsbane bullets, she knows), one states that all werewolves have full wolf forms (only alphas do, she knows), and one says they all have red eyes (again, only alphas). So ultimately, Lydia walks away from her $45 purchase ultimately unsatisfied and invites Stiles to go into the woods with her and burn them. It's on this occasion that she thinks gives him the idea to buy her a subscription to one of those trashy supernatural themed magazines; the ones full of stories of alien abduction and rectal probing. She's downright shocked the first time she receives a booklet and is convinced the mailman had gotten the wrong address, but it is her name on the cover. ]

[ She bitches at Stiles for the first three months worth, but slowly begins to let them just pile up in the corner of her bedroom and ignore them. They're never about werewolves, anyway. Not until July, when the front page is splayed with images of men and women with Hypertrichosis, and the title "Werewolf Syndrome! Medical Explanation Or Real Life Supernatural Phenomenon?". It's a droll piece of literature, but she reads it anyway, and finds - more interesting than the accounts of people with excessive body hair - stories of vampires. ]

[ Lydia's seen Dracula movies; her first Halloween with Jackson they'd gotten smashed at a party and come home to fool around on the couch and watched AMC on the flatscreen in his living room. Dracula'd been on, and later when he'd fallen asleep and she'd had a stomach ache, Interview With A Vampire had come on. So she knew the general gist, but when the supernatural rag mentions Mystic Falls and a bell goes off in her head, Lydia's interest is successfully piqued past the level of Brad Pitt with long hair. ]

[ All eyes had turned to Google, and when she brought up a map, she was shocked to find Mystic Falls only two days drive South of Beacon Hills. It's a whim when she packs a suitcase and begs her mom for the keys for a week, playing the victim of divorce card so hard she doubts she could play it again until she graduated. But she wins in the end, and takes off with her debit card and phone without telling anyone but Allison, and even then all she says is "I'm going on a vacation". ]

[ In the end, she doesn't know what she's searching for. Maybe some Victims Of The Supernatural Anonymous meeting, because everyone back home is still too busy to sit down at talk to her. Jackson calls her his anchor, and that's supposed to be good, but he spends so much time with Derek Hale and keeps talking about going away for a while; Scott and Allison may not be dating, but they see an awful lot of each other; Stiles is Stiles and brings her hot chocolate when she tells him she's feeling sad, but if she told him how she felt very often, even he might catch on to how lonely she feels. In Mystic Falls, it's a different kind of lonely. A loneliness that comes from being surrounded by faces she doesn't know, instead of faces she knows well and just refuse to look her way anymore. It's refreshing. ]

[ She heads for the library first, but when she asks the lady behind the counter for any information on vampires or werewolves, she just looks at her like she's a child and points her towards the fiction section. Lydia makes her best of the reference section, but it's disappointingly empty for a town that eared a three page spread in Supernatural Monthly, and by 6:30, she's bored and gives up. There's a grill in town, and Lydia is utterly sick of burgers and cheap complimentary breakfast croissants, so after a little direction, she heads there. She gets a table all to herself, and it's disappointingly lonely all over again, so she orders a salad and chicken breast, pulls out her phone and sends a few texts to people who should be her best friends, but that she knows won't text her back for a good few hours. ]

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( ooc; let me know if this works for you, or if there's anything you'd like changed! )