i_didnt_mean_to: (BTAS: Adorable Birthday Girl)
Marion "Mary" Louise Dahl ([personal profile] i_didnt_mean_to) wrote in [personal profile] itsjustabaddream 2023-11-30 03:18 am (UTC)

Mary is surprised by the differentiation, but she just blinks and files it away to research later.

"The show ran for a little over ten years. And since then, it's really all anyone knows me for..." She looks up again. "I was just trying to live my life, you know? If the only acting I could do was Baby Doll, I didn't want it. I'd get a normal job, the employer would give me reasonable accomodations... and there was always somebody who'd 'recognize' me as Baby Doll. Even without the stupid curls in my hair, even without any damned purple or pink in my wardrobe, they'd know it was me! Her! Whatever! And they all want that stupid catchphrase--"

Something about her body language changes this time, along with her voice. Her eyes go wider and she tucks her chin against one shoulder for a moment -- a little girl trying to project innocence. And she says, with a tone of sly sweetness in that 'child' voice, "I didn't mean to."

It's kind of... disturbing, how quickly she hides her own emotions to take on that old role.

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