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[centurybaby]

[ the communicator must be sitting in her lap, because from this angle, all that's visible is jenny's legs and what looks like a straight up winter wonderland: a glassy ice-covered lake and miles of snow. it's definitely not the states.

she's wearing a pair of ice skates. ]

If anybody sees Quentin fucking Quire, you should dunk his pink fucking mohawk in a toilet and flush.

[ the sound of an exhale. she's probably smoking. ]

Boys are such fucking assholes.

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[gammas]

[ the video turns onto point at a busy City street before it spins around to show Shulkie, wearing her costume and looking a little annoyed and confused. ]

Well, alright. That's... something.

[ but she brushes it off, starting to walk ]

Gamma gamma hey, Network. You know, for as long as I've been here (and not as long as a lot of people, I know), I guess I'm not as surprised as I thought I'd be about how easy it is to just become used to the City being like a second home. Starting a real life here and everything. I mean, we all got taken here against our will -- kidnapping -- but it's kind of nice when you can just settle down, get a job, relationships, start a family, whatever. And when you blink and you find yourself here still, you can kind of go, "Well, at least I didn't end up in an alternate universe where I'm a chicken in a factory line, waiting to be processed!"

Am I the only person who thinks that?

There's still the actively trying to get home thing, of course, but hey, when this universe isn't so different from my own, I'm not missing out on too much. [ not that she doesn't miss her friends and family back home, but it could be worse.

she pauses and then yelps a little ]

Aw, nuts! I forgot to feed the dogs!

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[ichoosefight]

[ Steph seems bemused, and at least mildly entertained. By what? Well, we’ll get to that in a moment. ]

I figured out the superpower thing.

[ She turns the camera around to show a coffee table. On the table sit three plates with fresh, steaming waffles piled high. She turns the camera back around to her face and explains dryly. ]

It’s waffles. My superpower is that I no longer have a valid excuse to go to a 24/7 waffle shop at 2am. Not that you really need an excuse at 2am.

I’m not sure how to feel about it. On the one hand, I could have had flight, or super speed, or any number of really cool super powers. On the other hand, I now have an infinite supply of waffles.

[ She stares off into space, considering the pros and cons with utter seriousness. On the other side of the camera is a sound like a pop, and then a plate clatering as it meets a table. Steph shrugs. Apparently she got distracted. ]

Either way, I guess I’m going to have to make a syrup run. I don’t suppose anyone would like to help me with these? They’re fresh!

[ooc | Housemate action/repeat waffle nomming totally acceptable on all accounts ]

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[amoray]

So what are you gonna do when they outlaw all that superheroin' nonsense you all lowe so damn much?

[to his credit, he's trying to sound grave. (it isn't working.)]

We take this - and we're goin' to, since we got such big pushers for mustard-bellied diplomacy in charge around here - they ain't gonna be satisfied 'til they got us all on leashes. And at the first signs a dissent, they're gonna hang us by 'em. I sure hope you lot can handle the usage a our powers bein' a criminal offense, since that's the next thing to go. A Wulcanus gun in ewery Natiwe hand and a trackin' chip in ewery filthy imPort, right?

[a theatrical pause. contrary to his usual habit of getting worked up in his tirades, eridan's been very calm (albeit smug in his "my unreasonable paranoia was entirely justified" kind of way) but no less intense throughout.]

We start goin quietly into that good fuckin' nocturnal phase and we aint newer gonna stop.

text, forward-dated to sometime tomorrow

[catnipped]

Haymitch Abernathy's gone home. For anyone who cares.

[Not that a lot of people knew him, but still, they should know. Someone besides her should care, she thinks. She refuses to add more to that message, though.]