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Ms. Evangeline Hyde
Ms. Evangeline Hyde 
@funguyi 3 years ago
(Oh my god I'm actually rping what is this witchcraft)
"Purchase all the mechanical devices you need in your everyday life, at Ms Evangeline Hyde's Automated Emporium!" A harrowed voice calls out from the street in front of the society. The voice is hoarse and desperate, loaded with so much well practiced cheer and salesmanly charm as to almost counteract that tiredness.
A small, dirty canvas sign is hung up over a table, proudly designating this "Ms Evangeline Hyde's Automated Emporium." Not that it seems much of an emporium. A grubby table, littered with small robotic trinkets, tools and toys, stood over by an exhausted looking woman. She's smiling broadly, but her eyes look weary and darkened, her hair tangled, and the hem of her skirt muddied and filthy. There's some money on her table, but not a lot, and no wonder. If it weren't for the table and the trinkets, she wouldn't have looked much more than an ordinary beggar.
(If I'm doing something wrong here, please tell me. :) )
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Jekyll1886 • 3 years ago
Lewis viewed the goings-on from a distance. Lizzy, Nex, Alicia, Hen, the odd street urchin or three, Richard, and, finally, Mz. Hyde all took a gander at the trinkets or even made the acquaintance of this "Evangeline Hyde". When this last followed Mz. Hyde inside the Society, Weir took his leave. People-watching was fun, but work wouldn't wait forever.
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Dr. Jekyll II ( Mother Hen ) • 3 years ago
( Amongst the busy crowd, a doctor walks briskly by. Were it not for the gleam of a silver tendon, he would have continued onto his tightly scheduled luncheon. Instead, he finds himself approaching the inventions in awe. If she were not listening, Evangeline would not hear the quiet "how long?" uttered from his delicate lips. )
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Tairais • 3 years ago • edited
He blinked into his surroundings, smothering a heaving breath into the folds of his scarf.
Hat. Jack's coat. Apron, cane, gloves, boots, monocle. The streets of London. Brisk, autumn air with just a taste of frosted iron in the breeze. Winter was on its way.
His name was Richard. It was some time in the early afternoon. He was close by the Society, in a swarm of busy people.
The breeze carried sounds of a voice that brought back memories of canals, of his own similar experiences and trade, and of a pair of sparkling blue eyes amidst a sea of uncaring faces.
Well. He considered his curiosity piqued. The voice was near the Society too, he could tell that much.
He cautiously slipped into the role of his gentle Doctor, limp and calm but skittish façade rippling over a mostly hidden face.
Walking with a practiced quiet as he blend in with the crowd between him and the curious voice, he saw the woman (Presumably, one 'Ms. Evageline Hyde'- Was there was another one of them, then? Curiouser and curiouser) before he saw her table.
Again, he was reminded of his past, and that was before he saw what she was selling. Seamlessly stepping out of the stream of passerby (Much in the same way a ghostly hand would appear from such a haunted stream: Startling and graceful, in a quiet sort of way) as they went about their daily life and work, he offered a tentative wave before looking down at the table.
A flash of nostalgia warmed his currently tumultuous heart. A kindred soul, perhaps? Should he introduce himself?
His eyes fell on a mechanical hand, and he marveled at the intricacies of it. So similar to his design, and yet so different.
Perhaps an introduction of a different sort was to be utilized then. Confirmation, first, however. Just in case. Of what? Just in case.
"D-did you.. c-create t-these?" Gods, but his voice was still hoarse. His wandering eye glanced over each item on display in turn, mental notes jotting themselves down without him entirely meaning to. The light in his eyes danced between cheerful to calculating and back, stopping at every step along the way.
(( I'm operating under the assumption that the mechanical hand Mz. Hyde picked up is within sight. I was scanning the comments, and when I saw that I thought: RICHARD! Go make a friend. You have mechanical hands in common. ))
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Tairais • 3 years ago
Evangeline turns toward you. "Oh. Yes, I did! Did you want to buy anything?" She looked nervously at the table, then realised that she had left one of her... other projects... lying around on the table. She leaned down next to it and tried to covertly scoot it away.
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Tairais  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
He winced slightly when he remembered he actually had very little money with him in this part of his life, and absolutely none currently on him. The truth, then. It worked with his current, similarly ragged appearance.
"E-er. No, m-my apologies, I d-do not have the m-money to spare. I w-was merely i-impressed, and f-frankly admiring of t-the quality of w-work on t-that hand." He gestured to it with a gloved hand somewhat similar to it, though it was hidden under leather gloves.
Thinking for half a second, he added. "It i-is v-very similar to.. c-certain a-aspects of m-my work in the Society."
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Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago
Nex was walking down the street with Lizzy in tow. "What the bloody 'ell is this?" She asked, she looked just as tired at the woman behind the table and so did the green haired girl following her. 
"Good, morning" Lizzy said in between yawns.
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago
Good morning! Care to purchase a machine?
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
"what are you doing here?" Nex asked a angrily. 
Lizzy sighed.
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago
I'm just... packing up my things, I guess. I'm moving in. There. *She points at the society.*
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
"really?" Nex asked.
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago
Well, yes.
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Nex sighed. "just keep it down" she snarled marching off.
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Miss-Dreamerkat • 3 years ago
I'm... sorry?
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Miss-Dreamerkat  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Lizzy sighed. "she's just grumpy"
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Mz.Hyde Mod • 3 years ago
Hey, what's this doohickey?! 
*Mz. Hyde holds up one of the small machines.*
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago • edited
Gah, be careful with that! *She tries to grab it back, but it grips onto your wrist. It almost looks like a mechanical hand.*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
What is it?
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
It's a hand! *She pauses, briefly.* I mean, it's delicate! And it tends to grip onto anything it touches, so...
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Cool! Is it like an automated back-scratcher or something?
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Um, no. It's just sort of... a hand. *She begins trying to extricate it from Mz. Hyde's wrist.*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Like...an accessory or something?
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
It's just sort of a hand. But it's mostly anatomically correct! And it used to be able to do more things, but some of the parts are broken now.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Oh. Oooo! What's this?!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
*Evangeline quickly kicks a metal heart under the table.*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Hey, that looked really cool!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
It's nothing. Really. Also it's the least broken thing that I currently have, and I'd like to keep it that way.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
I'm not going to break anything!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
It's not that it's just, uh... *Sigh*. People don't tend to react well to some of the things I make.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
But I'm not other people, am I?
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
*She laughs.* Ha, well, not really. Okay. *She pulls the heart out from under the table.* If I had a source of power, it would be beating right now. It's fully functional. It would be too heavy and, you know, metal, for a real person to have, but...
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
But.....???!!!!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
But, if someone were try and make, say, a person? Or a soul? Not that I was trying to, uh, do that or anything.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Ok, and......??!!!!!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Well it would work. It would function as a heart. Not that I'm planning on doing that, ahaha. *She looks very nervous.*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Are you making a half-human half-robot person?
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Uh. I was trying to. But the people who were funding me pulled my funding and kicked me out. That's why I'm here.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
That's so COOL! Do you have any idea how many people will benefit from having fake parts?! Think about it: Vets able to walk again, kids given a second chance at life, survivors of horrendous accidents able to move on!!! Why did they stop funding this?!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
I mean, I wasn't really trying to do that. They pulled my funding because I was trying to engineer a soul. *She looks kind of sheepish*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Ooooo! Even cooler!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Well, thank you, but the way they put it was more, "against the wills of nature and god."
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Pffft! I bet you everyone of them heads to the Red Rat on a daily basis!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
*She chuckles, for a second.* Still, I don't have anywhere to go now. And barely any money.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
You mean you don't live here?!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Uh, no.
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Why not?!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
I mean, I hadn't really paid attention to where I was going, I've just sort of been wandering these past few days. What's so special about "here"?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
This is The Society for Arcane Sciences!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
And people live here?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Not just any people: rouge scientists!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago • edited
Rogue scientists? You mean... mad scientists?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Yep!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Uh... Is there room for another person? *She smile apprehesively.*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
There's room for your whole family if you wanted!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Oh! That's wonderful! Could I come live here then?
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Of course!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Oh, thank you thank you thank you! *She grins*
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
You can thank me by pursuing your studies! Come on! Let's get you settled in!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
Of course!
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
(Would like to continue, or end it here?)
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
(( I think this is a good ending. It would be fun to continue if you want though))
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
(Eh, I think this is a good end.)
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
((Yeah))
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Mz.Hyde Mod  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
(Still scared of us?)
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Mz.Hyde • 3 years ago
((Nope :)
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Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
*Alicia had been taking a walk when she heard shouting. Ms Evangeline Hyde's Automated Emporium? Interesting. She decided to take a look*
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
Hello miss! Can I interest you in a mechanical trinket? The prices are labelled as you can see, feel free to take a look!
* On the table there is a small array of little machines. In one corner, a small metal frog hops into the air over and over, and in another, metal hands grip around a teapot, pouring into a cup. There's a few other things, but most of them seem pretty pedestrian, except for the life-sized, beating metal heart stashed under the table.*
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
*smiles, walking over to the frog* I love frogs, they're so cute! *she looked at the sign again, thinking*
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
Why thank you! *She watches you nervously.*
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Hyde...? *frowns faintly*
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
Uh, yes. *She gives you an odd look.*
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
That's... interesting.
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
What is?
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Your name...
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
What's so interesting about it?
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Did you know Edward Hyde is a serial killer...?
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
Well, yes. But Hyde's not that uncommon of a last name. I'm pretty sure there's no relation.
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
It's not? I've never heard it anywhere else. That's cool!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
*She looks away and mutters* "Cool" didn't earn me any favours with the metalworkers....
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Hm? *frowns, looking at her*
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
Oh, it's nothing. I just. There was this group of people that I worked with. They helped fund my projects, helped me sell things. But they kicked me out. Uh... *She quiets down towards the end, realising she's probably said too much to a complete stranger.*
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
*she listened, blinking when she stopped* that's rude!
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Ms. Evangeline Hyde  Alicia Ghast • 3 years ago
They didn't really approve of what I was using their funding for. It's not their fault.
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Alicia Ghast  Ms. Evangeline Hyde • 3 years ago
Oh...
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