Post #34 [Cecil]

[A note about myself: once I got raring to go in this IF, I got eager to post often, hence once even a single post was done, I added on again. I'd like to address that at least after the "Tenguian" era, the thing with me posting a lot so early on wasn't so much trying to get any kind of major control on things, but more of "I have a lot of exposition I need to split up into multiple posts with Sandra, since she's a complex enough character." And she IS a complex AC. Hell, today she's even MORE detailed than she was in Frozen. You'll hear lots of little 'Sandra' tidbitties later, so hold off for a moment there, cowboy. :P]

[Also, as I said in my last annotated post, I would post a picture, or a link to one: Here. :P Do note, that she's 15 years old in that picture (you'll understand more on that later). She's actually 14 in Frozen, so she might look slightly less developed and be an inch or two shorter here. Props to MarieVega for drawing that picture for me years ago. :)]

Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :

Sandra slowly walked into the living room of Polestar, taking note of the neatly arranged toys on the shelves, indicating they weren't watching any kids for the day.

[Frozen either takes place on a Saturday or Sunday, or during Summer Vacation. :o I honestly forget. >.>]

No one else was in the living room though, so she decided to look around closely for things. She saw a familar sight: the old bookcase where she remembered the Polestars keeping their family albums. She walked over and reached into one of the shelves, and yanked out an old, dusty book marked, "Pictures of 1984".

[Hmm... I wonder what could be in here that Sandra's looking for? :o]

She flipped it open, and looked through it until the 11th page. The second pic in the third row caught her eye, as well as some of the tears from it. In it were a woman, a man, and two girls. One girl was holding up the other playfully while the picture had been taken.

[Wait, TWO girls. One of those girls has to be Paula I assume, but who's the other girl? I mean, it can't be Sandra... <.<]

She took the picture and placed it in a small pocket on her outfit, and then put the book back. She then looked over and noticed the kitchen door had been open when the time freeze appearantly occured, making it easier on her, since she wouldn't have to rip that door off like she had the front door.

[But only slightly... :P]

Sandra stepped into the kitchen, and saw a familar sight again. A woman was at the window over the stove, flipping pancakes, as the pancakes were in mid-air, frozen, and as was the woman as well, sporting the pink aura of Stop that only Sandra could see.

[Lol at my reference to frozen pancakes in mid-flip. :P]

Sandra began to form tears and looked away. I'll have to try my best to undo what has happened. But I don't even know what's been happening in the last 10 years! Where do I start?.

[The "?." thing was me and my stupid run-ins with grammar I mentioned earlier. You'll see worse examples later. And yes, I will more often attack MY OWN goof ups than the others'. I am the annotator and it would sound really cocky if I didn't be a little humble. :P]

Sandra put that thought on hold as she took sight of the stairway behind the frozen woman, and walked slowly upstairs into the den she remembered so well. Memories flooded back to her: the day she learned of her strength had come here, as she remembered wanting food so badly, that she walked up to the playpen and had ended up ripping the playpen door off when she was 2, banging it on the floor loudly until someone came up to feed her.

[Wow, Sandra was a strong little kid. O_O]

Tears streamed down her face now from the old memories, and she walked over to one last door, which she had to sadly rip off as well, since it was also closed when the time freeze occured.

[The Polestars will have a lot to grill you about later, young lady, I assure you! XD]

Inside the room, the walls were pink, a small table lay in front of the door, a table she also remembered. She and another girl would play here sometimes when they had to stay upstairs.

[Ah, so Sandra is/was a close friend of Paula then? :o]

Sandra remembered a few of the old tea parties she had when she was four, a year before she vanished from Earth. She saw that there was now only one bed though, instead of their being a bunk bed, like she had remembered in her old days. They must have removed it when they learned she had vanished. She was the only person that used the bunk bed. No one else really slept in this room except her 'friend'.

[Okay, I'll admit this might have confused some people, but I'm not gonna spoil it directly here, since the reveal will be coming up at the end of this post anyways. :P]

"It's time I started over again." she said to herself, stopping her tears for the moment, and walking out of the room, and then out of the den, and then the kitchen, looking back at the woman at the stove, frozen in time, and then through the empty living room, until she was finally outside of the preschool again.

[Wait, the woman is likely Mrs. Polestar, and we know Paula's frozen in Burglin Park... so where the hell is Mr. Polestar?! :o]

Sandra felt as if she had been given a chance to start over, but in retrospect that she would have to likely fight again to take advantage of that chance. She couldn't start over in a frozen world. She had the idea she wasn't the only one who had resisted the effects of the freeze. Others probably had too. But she knew it wasn't a hopeless cause.

['Cuz you're an AC Sandra, and they're your brethren! Of course you'll find others to help you! :P]

Sardius had been probably the worst evil she had ever fought while on Santranus and in the Phantom Zone, but part of his powers and fearsomeness were because she was on HIS home turf. Whomever was intruding on Earth was now on HER home turf, so that made her a little more confident, but she had to be careful, careful not to let confidence put her over in the end.

[Again, some slightly-pointless (at the moment) exposition, which was probably meant as a precursor to her entry in the "Something I perfer..." topic or something.]

She once more took out the old photo she confiscated from the Polestar house, and thought to herself.

It'll be only a matter of time, then we'll all be reunited again. Be there when I return, please. as she looked at various people on the photo. The man, James, who was her father. The woman, Penelope, who was her mother,

[Yes, I had this odd habit in IFs and my stories in general in giving nameless characters or partially unnamed characters actual names. Mr. Polestar becomes "James Polestar" and Mrs. Polestar becomes "Penelope Polestar". >_> I was the one who's responsible for that.]

the girl on the bottom with the pink hair, herself, and finally the girl she held above her head, giggling madly, Paula, her sister.

[WAIT WUT?! O_O

ROFL. Yeah, seriousness aside, Sandra's is an AC with a direct relation to a main character from EB, which to some IFers is a kind of taboo territory. However unlike most other "sibling" ACs from past IFs in both this era and the "Tenguian" era of IFs, I tried to be more tame with the execution of it. You'll probably see what I mean later. >.>]

With those thoughts, she put the photo back into the pocket on her outfit, and prepared to set out to Onett first. Perhaps someone there was resistant to the effects of the time freeze...

[Maybe you'll find Paula in Burglin Park this time, since you... well you know, totally skipped past her in a rushed haste earlier, you goofball. :P]

[AC/Post Ratio: 16:34(8:17). Major Enemies Introduced: 2. Major Enemies Killed: 1]