They Say I'm Emotional/I know I'm Emotional - Death Note PSL

[blueberryprincess]

"SHIT! SHITFUCK! GOD DAMN IT!"

This wasn't a person saying all of this. This was a parrot with a stunted wing, sitting on the upstairs window sill of a house. A house decidedly Not Evie's. Her house was across the street. Her house was the one with a moving truck, boxes all over the yard, and an older man directing the movers as to where to put things. Evie'd been looking for the aforementioned asshole bird for about fifteen minutes, only to hear his profanities before actually seeing the idiot.

"Of course," Evie mumbles to herself. With a small huff of annoyance, she heads towards the house across the street, shouting over her shoulder at her foster father, just as her foster mom steps out of the house.

"I found Othello, Mr. Canavar. Be back in ten minutes."

Her foster parents reply with a simple 'okay!' just as Evie sets foot in the road. Othello swears more and, unknown to Evie, there's someone (if she can call Ryuk a someone), laughing hysterically at each curse word the bird shouts out.

Another glance upward confirms why the bird is swearing. He can't figure out how to get down from where he climbed to and the unseen figure inside speaks to the sole inhabitant of the house.

"This bird is hilarious! And the girl in your newspaper is headed to your door. This is too good!" followed by more laughing, just as Evie rings the doorbell.

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[okayillshowyou]

Light is fairly positive that Ryuk has a pretty skewed definition of the words 'good' and 'interesting'. And he really only knows who Ryuk is talking about when he says 'the girl in your newspaper' because he'd been about to add her incredibly infamous mother's name to the list of new names in his book before he'd been interrupted by first the swearing parrot and then the doorbell.

So. The book gets shoved into the middle drawer of his desk, wrapped in the cover from a graphic novel, and he heads to the front door. Hissing at Ryuk as he passes by: "Just eat your apples."

...he really is starting to think he needs to get a pet that might conceivably eat apples. Just in case someone catches him talking to the death god.

Door? Opened. Girl? Given the once over. "Yes?"

[blueberryprincess]

Evie is looking up at Othello as Light opens the door, her vibrant blue and black catching the light from the sun and her brown eyes watching her pet with clear annoyance and concern. When she looks at Light, it's with a quick once-over of her own. Her new neighbor is kind of cute. But now wasn't the time to be boy crazy. Now was the time to be charming. So she fits her best smile onto her face as she holds her hand out.

"Hi. I'm Evie Queen. I just moved in across the street and---"

"WHERE THE FUCK IS FRANCIS?!"

And the smile vanishes, the look of annoyance on her face as her eyebrows furrow.

"That's my bird. I may have watched Deadpool one too many times with him in the room. Can I come in and get him?"

And behind Light, Ryuk has a thing or two to say. "She's pretty. I wonder if she's as crazy as the last one was?"

"I am so sorry about any inconvenience this is causing. It'll just take two minutes." At least through all of this, every single emotion the punk rock blueberry princess has displayed has been genuine.

[okayillshowyou]

She can have her blue and black hair and Light can have his brown and terrible blonde highlights. Hers? Probably better and more fashionable. Not that he cares about that.

"Uhhh. Yeah. Sure. I guess." Better she come in and get her bird than it keep swearing at his window and Ryuk have an aneurysm from the hilarity of it. So, he steps aside to let her in and completely ignore the death god behind him.

He's gotten used to it, finally.

[blueberryprincess]

She kinda likes the highlights.

After stepping in and looking around briefly, she turns her attention to Light again, fingerless gloved hands put lightly on her own waist as she gives him her best semi-flirty smile.

"Lead the way. And thanks for letting me get Othello. He is a jackass. He was born with a stunted wing so he can't fly for shit, and he has an issue with swearing, as you've noticed. But harmless."

[okayillshowyou]

Does he flirt back? Not particularly. He does offer her a brief smile back, and gestures for her to follow him up the stairs to his room. "How'd he get up there, then? If he can't fly?"

It's not a stupid question, he doesn't think. Maybe Ryuk put him up there. Who knows, right?

[blueberryprincess]

She doesn't care if there's flirting or not. This is just Evie being herself. She follows Light and smiles some at his question, her tone of voice highly amused and very proud of her dumb bird.

"He probably climbed up. He taught himself how and hasn't stopped."

[okayillshowyou]

"That seems particularly unlucky." For her, he means. Then again... "Though, I guess it makes for a good way to meet new people, if you're new to a neighborhood." Send your bird out climbing, then go 'find' him.

[blueberryprincess]

"My foster dad can be a bit forgetful. He left the bird cage open while talking to the movers and Othello can be a sneaky jackass."

Meanwhile the bird is singing Twenty-One Pilots in the background. At least it's not swearing.

[okayillshowyou]

"Othello, huh. Big fan of Shakespeare?" He can only imagine. Gesturing to the window in his bedroom, where she'll be able to get her bird.

[blueberryprincess]

"Hardly. My mother named him when she gave him to me." She opens the window for the bird who just flaps his wings excitedly and climbs up Evies arm, nibbling her hair and head butting her affectionately.

"Mom loved Shakespeare, though." It was all the murder and violence.

[okayillshowyou]

"Would you have named him something else then?" He won't bring up the subject of her mother. That way lies conversations he shouldn't be having, right?