001 ✚ voice

[sufferably]

_{( A few hours after arriving, and after meeting up with Jim and figuring out some basics, because he's not about to make a public post that makes a fool of him in front of a bunch of people, Bones picks up the comm and says, rough southern accent and all-- )}

Alright. There's obviously no point asking about how to hail a ship that's in orbit two hundred years in the future.

_{( A great start, by Dr. Leonard McCoy. He sounds all business, and you can almost hear him rolling up his sleeves. )}

If this is a city of heroes, I'm willing to bet it's also a city of danger. _{( He says that derisively. )} If you were going to rate this place based on how easy it was to get sick, injured--how would it compare to your home ti--that is, world? Are buildings getting knocked down, people getting crazy interdimensional diseases?

I like to know what I'm working with.

Comments

[aggressiveapathy]

Kill them again or something, I guess.

[sufferably]

There seems to be more than one gap in logic in there somewhere, kid.

[aggressiveapathy]

Mm. You're in the City now. We don't do that here.

[sufferably]

_{( Somewhere, Spock cries mathematically. )}

Well. Guess I can work with that.

[aggressiveapathy]

What are you, anyway. To even, like.

[What is the word she's looking for.]

Care.

[sufferably]

I'm a doctor. I have to care, at least a little.

Name's Leonard McCoy.

[aggressiveapathy]

Mm. April Ludgate. Did you pick out a fancy superhero name or are you not a crazy person.

[sufferably]

I might be being slowly driven to insanity. I'll let you know, on that count.

But no. I did not pick a fancy superhero name.

_{( It gave him one. Shush. )}

[aggressiveapathy]

When you start wearing spandex, all hope is gone.

[sufferably]

I fully grant you permission to have me committed, if it gets to that point.

[aggressiveapathy]

No Hope's not so nice anymore. But. I'll book you a room I guess.

[sufferably]

You've got a psych ward named No Hope?

[aggressiveapathy]

What did I say about logic.

[sufferably]

Right, right. My mistake.

[aggressiveapathy]

There. You might live.

Or die. Whatever. You'll stick around anyway.

[sufferably]

Cross out the "might." I'm not in the habit of letting people die. Especially myself.

[aggressiveapathy]

Yeah. Dying was totally a habit people had before coming here. Heroes. They don't even care.

[sufferably]

Being a hero means being reckless. That means dancing a bit with death. Doing stupid things. _{( Crawling into nuclear power cores........................ )}

Sure, it might not get you every time, but it does in the end.

[aggressiveapathy]

And every other time, when death is just a thing that slows you down.

[sufferably]

That's just not natural.

[aggressiveapathy]

So what. Raccoon queen isn't either.

[sufferably]

Please tell me this City isn't a monarchy run by a raccoon with a crown on its head. Because that might be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

[aggressiveapathy]

I am the raccoon queen.

[sufferably]

...congratulations. _{( What. )}

[aggressiveapathy]

Thanks. You'll figure out yours eventually. I guess.