Lovie Dovie Stuff (short story): Difference between revisions

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| hero(es)= [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]]<br>[[Dynamite Thor]]<br>[[The Man in Grey (925th Universe)|The Man in Grey]]

| setting= [[925th Universe]]

| length= 9187 words

It's [[Valentine's Day]], and the [[Multidimensional Finders Service]] is inundated with calls from people asking where to “find love”, a request with [[Jenny Over-There (925th Universe)|Jenny Over-There]] flatly refuses to dignify with an answer, hanging up every time. When [[Dynamite Thor|Peter “Dynamite” Thor]] brings her her coffee, however, she is surprised to find that he's all dressed up; he explains that he's going on a date with his girlfriend [[Glenda Sif]], but asks for advice on a touchy point: he has yet to tell her about his secret identity as Dynamite Thor — though Jenny is skeptical that Glenda hasn't figured it out herself (what with Thor's uncommonly incompetent approach to secrecy), she stays silent, not wanting to hurt her friend's feelings. Their conversation is interrupted by yet another caller asking for help finding love, causing Jenny to barge into [[the Man in Grey (925th Universe)|the Man in Grey]]'s office, demanding that he ban such calls from coming through.  

In the evening, Jenny is listlessly snacking on cheap Valentine's-Day boxed chocolate when she receives from a phone call from Thor, who picks up the earlier thread of conversation and asks for he help in keeping his secret identity a secret from Glenda, keeping the phone line open as he greets Glenda (coincidentally, on the sidewalk right under Jenny's window). It quickly becomes agonisingly clear that Glenda not only knows Peter is Dynamite Thor, but has been trying to politely make him understand as much for some time, obviously without success. Jenny tries to explain this to Thor, who laughs off the notion.

* The Man in Grey's robe has “many concealed pockets”.  

* The Man in Grey seems uncertain about his own anatomy, mentally referring to one of his aforementioned pockets as being “the one closest to where he assumed his heart was” and later hesitating: “or [[Time Lord|heart''s'']], he never checked how many he had”. Indeed, he admits that he “doesn't remember who or what [he] is”: “Am I human? Am I mortal? I swear my robes were [[The Man in Black|a lot darker than this…]] when did they even become grey? Do I even have a name or am I just going to be ‘the Man in Grey’ for the rest of my life? It’s on my driver’s licence. I don’t even drive a car!”. He later notes that he's pretty sure he's not human, at least.

* At one point, Jenny's television set is seen displaying some old [[werewolf]] movie from the 80s”.

* When trying to make conversation about irrelevant topics, the Man in Grey recalls an occasion when he tried to get the [[Great Higher-Up]]s to understand that he was “unable to accept [[Glarded funds]] because [his] bank account [was] in a [[Tax Clode]]”, only for the Higher-Ups to keep sending him such funds anyway. The Man in Grey states that this caused him to “wonder if they knew anything about [[Necronomics]]”. Meanwhile, Wogglebug talks about how “one [unfortunate] consequence of Oz's [[chrono-stasis]], besides all the other problematica that has arisen from this decision, is that [he] was sort of excited by the prospect of the [[Hammerheads]] dying one day”, and also discusses the fact that, due to the legacy of the [[Cardinal Witch]]es, a “whole generation” of Ozians are unable to correctly tell West from East.

* Glenda is well-off, having inherited the sizable “Sif family fortune”.

* Glenda recalls having been in damsel-in-distress situations plenty of time back when she was dating [[Grant Farrell (925th Universe)|Grant]]. She has been dating Dynamite Thor for five years.

* The Man in Grey is unsure of “what Gods [are] actually in control of [[925th Universe|this realm]]”.

* The Man in Grey's face is described as “angular, wrinkled [and] not conventionally attractive”.