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[what_the_flux]

[Good evening, City. One Doctor Emmett Brown is most certainly cursed today, if one can judge by the fact that the DeLorean rolls up to the square with the audio absolutely blasting. It's not entirely unlike this...

...of course, poor Doc has no idea what's blasting. (It's not really Thrift Shop, you'll just have to forgive his mun for being obsessed with Macklemore and OMG IT'S A DELOREAN.) But when the door swings up and open, hissing on its hydraulics as it does, he steps out in his bright printed shirt, slacks, and one flowing, dramatic long coat looking very much like a boss. He swings the door back down behind him, and starts dancing his way through the curse-party already happening in the square, the car still blasting music through its open windows. If you get near him, he may just grab you up as a partner briefly.

Doesn't move too bad for an old guy, either. Thanks, future restoration clinic!]

Comments

[universaltranslator]

[There is no way she's getting to work today, is there? Uhura grooves her way through the crowd, but it's slow going. A couple bumps into her and she stumbles into the DeLorean.]

[what_the_flux]

[Probably not, Uhura. Doc isn't too far off from the car, and sees her get bumped into it.

So he makes his way back to it, as he seems to be doing now and again, and inquires after her.]

I do hope you're all right, miss?

[universaltranslator]

I am, thanks. You know, I'm all for dancing, but this is a little much.

[what_the_flux]

Anything to such an extreme and as a matter of compulsion is rather problematic, I agree. Though there have certainly been far more unpleasant curses.

[universaltranslator]

You sound like you've been around for a lot of them.

[what_the_flux]

Well. Not as many as some, granted, but I have been in the City for nearly a year now.

[universaltranslator]

How do you like it so far?

[what_the_flux]

You know, I must say, while there are a number of day-to-day difficulties, and certainly no shortage of incidents which I would much rather avoid, it's provided a most unique and intriguing research opportunity.

[universaltranslator]

You're a scientist?

[Honestly, she shouldn't be surprised. He looks like his picture should be in the dictionary next to "Mad Scientist." She's just used to appearances being at least somewhat deceiving.]

[what_the_flux]

Why yes, yes I am! I hold an interest in all fields, though my primary focus for some time has been on both engineering and physics. Certainly, since finding myself in the City, theories involving the nature of the universe, alternate timelines and realities, have been particularly compelling due to their relevance to our situation here.

[Yeah... yeah, he kind of has the patented look, doesn't he?]