VIDEO.

[centurybaby]

[ this clip has been showing up on the internet and featured on the news. it's the same clip every time. it starts at a distance at first, lost in a crowd of people-- black bandanas, black flags all marked with the arabic word "kusoof", and the mismatched gear of an army in a struggling country-- before it zooms towards a figure at the head of the crowd.

it's a girl. she's young, and she's got something strong in her eyes-- determination or something from centuries of past lives, who knows. her face might be recognizable to some, past the smudges of dirt and sand, the darkened skin, longer hair, and the black bandana wrapped around her head. she's gesturing out to the gathered army, speaking to them in arabic while a cigarette dwindles in one of her hands. ]

--for us. You are mine. I am you. And the world will know us. So they can decide. Stand with us or stand against us.

[ she turns to directly stare at the camera, pausing only to snuff out her cigarette in the sand. her gaze is hard, lingering before she glances away and she waves someone over, issuing an order. someone closes in on the cameraman. the feed jostles and there's some muffled, frightened protests before he or she is brought to jenny. an exchange is stifled by the desert wind, but the words "go the fuck ahead" can be picked up, and soon the feed is adjusted, focused on jenny properly.

it looks like she has a message. ]

My name is Jennifer Quantum. I'm a lot of fucking things, and I've done a lot of fucking things-- but the things that'll matter to most of the assholes out there is first, I'm an ImPort, and second, Southwest Phoenicia is now mine. Its people, its resources, and its military belong to me.

If that fucking scares you, it should. You thought it was bad when ImPorts were playing heroes and villains in a single fucking city? You don't know the half of what we're capable of. And you have my official fucking invitation to come and find out. Join me, and you can see what good powers like mine can do.

Hunt me, and I will crush you.

[ with that, she gestures and the feed cuts. ]

(OOC: Plot reference post here! Also, replies will be sporadic since it's a news post, but for interaction's sake, Jenny will probably reply to people she knows or messages encrypted/privated to her most consistently.)

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[glowsferatu]

[ kanaya's expression is ambiguous. something between carefully bridled anger and unchecked disappointment. ]

Well, this is quite the step up from fruitlessly urinating on a foreign barricade.

[centurybaby]

If you're about to fucking lecture me, you can save it, Kanaya. I know what I'm doing.

[glowsferatu]

Of course you do. Jenny Quantum always knows what she's doing, it's everyone else who has the wrong idea.

The fact that they've been kept in the dark to whatever she's set her mind to is itself evidence of their own incompetence.

[centurybaby]

What, you think I fucking kept this shit to myself to spite you?

[glowsferatu]

No. Not deliberately, at least.

You kept it in the dark because you knew that someone would have the sense to tell you what a terrible idea it is. Perhaps you wouldn't mind convincing me otherwise.

[centurybaby]

It's radical. That doesn't make it terrible. I'm doing this because nobody else has the fucking balls to. I'll take the fall if I have to-- I don't need anyone to recognize that I'm helping.

[glowsferatu]

Usually when something is done because no other will do it, it's due to the necessity of the thing being done. That much you have yet to make a case of.

So, tell me, how are you helping?

[centurybaby]

One problem at a time. Sanitation. Crime. Medicine. All of it.

[glowsferatu]

And that's more than lip service? You could provide evidence of these areas improving under your rule if placed under the scrutiny that is entirely inevitable after a display like this?

[centurybaby]

Sure. Why the fuck not. It's the fucking truth. I'm not sitting on my ass over here, K.

[glowsferatu]

I don't expect that you are. But you have to know that there are many who will be unhappy with your actions here.

[centurybaby]

I know. I can handle it. I didn't do this to win fucking brownie points.

[glowsferatu]

But surely you can at least understand why some of us would be concerned.

[centurybaby]

Yeah. I can. But I can't fucking stop now.

[glowsferatu]

That doesn't demand that you act in solitude either. You do realize this, I hope.

[centurybaby]

No. It fucking does. I'm not letting anyone else take responsibility for the shit that I do.

[glowsferatu]

And what of the shit they do on their own, perhaps out of some inexplicable desire to not see you tumble downward, wreathed in your own fiery doom.

[centurybaby]

I guess it'd be too much to hope none of you are that fucking stupid, right?

[glowsferatu]

To believe that there's any other possible alternative? You're right, that probably is stupid of us.

[centurybaby]

Sorry. But I like to have things my way. And if that means going down in flames, I'll take that.

[glowsferatu]

Then I guess the stupid draws together not unlike a magnet. And yours having so strong a pull only testifies to its proportionate degree.

Let's hope your end won't also match.