plot bunny?

it's weird to admit this, but this random idea came partly out of the kink meme... there's a fill there about alfred as a personality of matthew, like a split [link to ffn, cuz i can't find it in the meme...]. it's pretty interesting. and it came partly out of my own appearance, and the way my orange hair looks with my glasses used as a headband of sorts... and yes, i did totally steal the names...

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They were a strange pair, Mattie and Alice. They shared the same body, and were indeed so similar as to be thought of as the same person at first. No one was sure which girl was the 'real' one, and which was the creation, and the girls themselves weren't sure themselves anymore. There was no 'dominant' with them - a person was just as likely to run into the meek Mattie as the adventurous Alice.

The main discernible difference between them was that Mattie wore the glasses where they should be - over her bright green eyes - while Alice tended to use them to push their bangs away from her sky-blue eyes. But they shared everything else: the strange silver lining the eyes, the chin length flaming orange hair, the light freckles across nose and thin shoulders, the avid readership and love of learning.

Together they were the resident mechanic and near-genius of the ship, while being everyone's little sisters - even if they were 20, thank you very much.

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yep.

i'm looking forward to seeing if i can do anything with them. it'll be fun to play with pronouns with them, as i've decided they interchange the first-person singular with plural ["i" and "we", "my" and "our"].

at some point i swear i'll get around to coming up with sketches i can be proud of... as in, half from life ones, cuz i'm not sure my weird imaginary faces will work with how vividly i picture them.

as far as the setting, it's someplace like "firefly" crossed with the new "star trek", if that makes any sense... future-y and bright but with remnants of the old clunky stuff and a touch of the old west [because it's cool].