one.

[tesselate]

[voice]

"Don't eat other citizens," - someone really thinks it's necessary to give that direction? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's definitely good to not eat other people, I would just think that it wouldn't be the best idea to bring people that might eat the other citizens. It wouldn't really be cannibalism though, right? Because if you brought someone from another planet that wasn't a human, but ate humans, then....

[Billy kind of trails off as he contemplates this - and then the fact that wow the first thing he's posting to the notwork is discussing the technical terminology of cannibalism when it comes to alien races. Awkward.]

Anyway, hi. I'm Billy. I was kind of in the middle of something back home but I'm guessing that's not really going to do anything for me in terms of getting back there, so it's probably better just to get into this whole network....thing.

Oh, yeah, one last question - so "Stark Technologies" communicator, right? That wouldn't happen to be Stark as in Tony Stark, would it?

[I mean, hey, there are other Starks in other worlds. GRRM is particularly fond of killing them.]

Comments

[centurybaby]

So what? I'm fucking dangerous. I bet you are too.

[tesselate]

Sometimes.

[centurybaby]

It's not a bad thing.

[tesselate]

I don't know about that.

[centurybaby]

It's not bad. It just is, Billy. So you might as well fucking use it.

[tesselate]

I don't want to hurt people.

[centurybaby]

There's a difference between wanting to and being able to when it counts.

[tesselate]

I know that.

[centurybaby]

Right.

You're such a goodie fucking two-shoes.

[tesselate]

[welp. it's not like he hasn't been called worse.]

There's nothing wrong with that.

[centurybaby]

Except the fact that it's fucking lame.

[tesselate]

Then I guess I'm just lame.

[centurybaby]

Stick to the spandex gig then. It fucking suits you.

[tesselate]

I'm not that cut out for that, either.

[centurybaby]

Then what the fuck are you good for?

[tesselate]

That depends on who you ask. Things are complicated back home.

[centurybaby]

So?

Things are always fucking complicated.

[tesselate]

I messed up.

[centurybaby]

Boo fucking hoo. Everyone fucks up. Especially assholes like us.

[tesselate]

I had given it up and this was supposed to be ....

[wow Billy you're talking to a stranger about your life failures.]

It doesn't matter.

[centurybaby]

It does fucking matter.

[ her tone isn't hostile though, not anymore. ]

You just can't be a baby about it.

[tesselate]

Teddy told me I should act like the guy he fell in love with. Who owned his powers. And I just wanted to do something good for him, use my powers to make him happy but I messed up. I tried to bring his mother back but instead it was this... parasite thing. It got all the parents. I should be there fixing it right now, but instead I got pulled here.

[centurybaby]

So tell your what-- boyfriend? That sorry, you're not fucking perfect just because you can fucking alter reality. What the fuck does that even mean, the guy he fell in love with?

[ maybe it's obvious by the way she talks that she's never had a boyfriend or a girlfriend of her own. she doesn't really understand. ]

People change.

[tesselate]

That wasn't what he meant, though. We were superheroes when we met. We believed in helping people and the greater good and all that.

People change, yeah, but my powers don't go away just because I want to pretend I'm normal. Whether it's some sort of "gift" or not, I have to deal with the fact I have them. And I kind of...hadn't been.

[centurybaby]

Why the fuck would you want to pretend you're normal?