bitteraftertaste: (my feet dragged across the ground)
[Spam for the Market]

[Vesper has fallen overboard, and it's probably apparent to anyone who's been Below for longer than a day that she isn't human, or at least that there's something a little different about her since you last spotted her on the Barge.

Namely, she's paler than usual and wearing a deep purple - almost black - velvet dress, and although she lingers at some of the stalls, maybe even makes a few purchases, she seems ultimately disinterested in what's being sold here, particularly when she passes by anyone selling food.

Sometimes she's with a group of women, all similarly dressed and adorned, but it's easy to catch her alone, and she seems almost normal, like maybe this is the woman from the Barge, she's just wearing a different outfit and put more effort into her make up than she usually bothers to on board.

Except that she's cold, if you happen to brush up against her. Really cold, although she doesn't seem especially bothered by it right now.]


[Spam for the rest of Port]

[Once Market's over, it's back to life as usual for Vesper. She always moves with confidence no matter where she walks, although there are some places she knows better than to wander alone. Her kind isn't welcomed everywhere, and there are some places here where no one should go, if they have any sense at all.

She likes to think she has sense. She always waits for someone on the fringes, someone who won't necessarily be missed or raise too much of a fuss if she allows them to live. There are hazards to living her, and she won't be made to feel badly for being one of them. She has every right to live, just as much as any other creature here does, and so she does what she has to do without an ounce of guilt or shame.

Which means she's confident and interesting and all too interested - without being pushy, without showing you her hand until it's too late to do anything about it - in getting you alone and away from your friends.]

[ooc: lmk if you'd like Vesper to actually succeed in kissing/killing/Velveting your character, if you specifically don't want that to happen, or we can just see how things go. c:]
bitteraftertaste: (you've been holding on a long time)
[Vesper is not affected, but she has definitely been keeping to herself since a certain someone left without prior warning. They've tried to keep their relationship quiet for the most part, and she's not interested in letting on that it bothers her - even though it obviously does - so she appears just as well put together as ever when she clicks on the video feed.]

For anyone interested, I'm staying on as a warden for a while longer, [Because she really has no fucking clue what she's supposed to do when she goes home, and was sort of hoping she'd have Bond to talk stuff over with before that happened, but.] and I've been considering finding a more productive way to fill my day than sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting to be repaired.

I'm afraid I can't offer anything that exciting - [It sometimes seems like she's one of the only people on board whose boring, normal job really isn't a cover for being a superhero or a spy or an assassin or god knows what else.] but I know some people have expressed an interest on catching up on any schooling they've missed, and I've always been fairly handy with mathematics. I'd be happy to arrange private lessons or organize a larger group to discuss it. If anyone's interested in economics or financial planning to help prepare for life after the Barge, I'd be more than happy to arrange meeting about that, too.

Obviously it's going to be a bit tailored to what I consider modern Earth standards, but I can try to assist anyone with a more exotic point of origin, if they're willing to be patient with me.

[Warden Filter]

I'd also be interested in continuing self defense lessons, but as my former teacher's returned home for at least the time being, I'm on the market for a new one. My schedule's quite flexible.

[Private to the Admiral]

I'd like to request some high school level math books. From Earth, please, if it's not too much trouble.
bitteraftertaste: (who's the killer in the crowd?)
[Vesper doesn't look particularly rattled, but she kind of is. She knew this would be strange, and she knew it wouldn't be like anything she expected, but this was still hard to wrap her mind around, to think about living a completely different life.]

Well, that was certainly... different. I can't say I ever thought of myself as a teacher, and certainly not a history teacher. Mathematics was always my strongest subject.

[She almost looks like she's going to say something else, but hesitates and changes her mind before voicing whatever thought came to mind. It's better not to call too much attention to the fact that she'd been married to Bond, and she certainly doesn't want to admit that she'd been a spy, even if it hadn't really been here.] Does anyone have any suggestions on how one might pass the time, here? I haven't had this much free time since primary school.

[Private to Slade]

Check in, please, Mr. Wilson.
bitteraftertaste: (you've been holding on a long time)
[Vesper - or Ms. Lynd, as everyone who's been through the Bargewell public school system knows her (yes, she kept her maiden name, thank you very much) - is known as being one of the tougher teachers at the local high school. If you do the work and do a good job with it, you'll be fine, but God help you if you don't put in the effort to do a good job.

So, perhaps unshockingly, a fair amount of the student body is less than enthusiastic when they find out she's their history teacher this year.]


I'd just like to take the opportunity to remind everyone to do their homework and be prepared for Monday's test. Last month's scores were, quite frankly, dreadful, and I'm not the one who needs to explain to your parents why you couldn't manage a passing grade because you were too busy going to the movies to get any work done.

There is such thing as a balance between work and pleasure.

[Spam for the Downtown]

[After school's out, and on weekends, Vesper can be found milling about town, running errands, getting her hair done, picking up some new books to read at the local bookstore, occasionally with her husband in tow, but usually not. She and James seem like a perfectly normal couple, just a teacher and an accountant who settled down here about five years ago, and they have friends and acquaintances here who would swear up and down that there's absolutely nothing unusual about the two of them.

What most people don't know is that every Friday after school's out, Vesper makes a phone call from a payphone a bit away from the center of town, always at the same time, and always using the same phone, instead of making the call from home or at the school.

If pressed, she'll say she's phoning relatives in Europe - it's no secret that she and James aren't Americans, but so long as they're not speaking German or Russian, just about everyone doesn't seem to mind - but in reality, she's been communicating with her handlers back in the USSR about the goings on in Bargwell, and around Region 10.

Feel free to spot her wherever!]

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