driftfleet | Action: Open.

Who: Clint, Kate, and Kara || OR YOU
Broadcast: No broadcast.
Action: Iskaulit.
When: Tonight.

(CLOSED TO KATE AND KARA)

[When Kate Bishop says, 'I want to introduce you to a friend', get suspicious. Have a beer, find a pack of cards from where it had been stashed behind Varric's bar, deal yourself a few hands of Solitaire and park your butt. Dress in your best purples. They'd recently been discussing their respective romantic prospects, so he was primed for one of two equally unpleasant scenarios. Had Kate found him a date? Had Kate found someone for her own dating purposes? Was this some sort of weird thing where she wanted Clint to like the guy? A permission thing? Have another drink, consider upping and leaving, check the time like a billion times.

But they're weren't late, not yet. He was early. Because, what if he wanted to make a good impression? You only get one chance.]

(OPEN TO EVERYONE)

[Before this anxious meeting, and probably after it, Clint will be on what he has come to think of as the ship-with-the-bar-on-it. Hit him up there, or bump into him while he gets bored and takes to broadening his understand of what this place has to offer. Expect him to be nervously fiddling with a pack of cards - performing feats of accuracy that defy the laws of fluid dynamics. In the gardens chopping off the heads of this or that flower with edge of a rapidly spinning card or curving another one gracefully through the air from one end of the hallway to another. He even stands for a fair while looking at the mural. Anywhere else, he'll at least pop his head in.]

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Madripoor? Why? Madripoor's great. You can get anything you want there, and there's always crime going on. It's like a pirate kingdom, what's not cool about that?

Edited 2016-05-26 22:04 (UTC)

...Don't listen to Clint. Madripoor's not great. It's a sleazetown filled with sleazeballs. But -- it is impressive in its own way. I was there trying to bust up a super-villain auction.

[ that's right. i. she ain't claiming this as some kind of joint effort, clint. ]

It just doesn't really seem like my scene.

What were they auctioning?

[i?]

A tape. A bootleg.

[He rushed to answer before Kate - and he didn't lie. Not exactly. There were multiple copies.]

[ luckily, they didn't have to delve into too much detail about the tape's contents. kate just dovetails her answer smoothly with clint's: ] Sensitive information. Not the kind of stuff you wanted in bad guy mitts.

Got it.

Well, it sounds like you're a good team.

That's right, we put the 'team' in 'good team'.

[Don't think too hard about it. Clint clearly wasn't. He was going through his drink pretty quickly. Maybe it was a good thing it wasn't the slightest bit alcoholic.]

Kate said you do -- the news? What's that like?

-- Right. [ you know what? she's just gonna let kara field that misunderstanding. do the news, indeed. ]

[ wow kate. way to be a friend ]

I work in media. I'm a personal assistant for a powerful woman.

[ she doesn't really want to talk about her day job, though. she's just gonna take the plunge ]

Actually, I'm an alien. I just live on Earth.

You're an alien.

[He's talking to Kara, but looking at Kate. It could be some sort of weird joke-thing he wasn't getting, or maybe he misread a news-people jargon-word. There was a fair amount lost in translation with the lip-reading and everything, but he was better at reading Kate's lips than anyone's. Either way whenever any conversation took a sudden weird tangent, his first assumption was that he'd screwed something up eyes-wise.]

Don't look at me. [ kate shoots back. ] She's the alien. With cool alien powers, to boot. [ ... ] Don't worry; she's not a skrull.

I come in peace, promise.

Kate didn't want to keep secrets from you, but I wanted to meet you. Tell you myself, you know? But I'm a superhero at home.

Yeah?

So...

[Shit. He lowers his voice, because, let's be honest, they could all be speaking quietly besides him right now and he'd never know. Clint does have at least one ounce of tact.]

The news thing is a secret identity.

[Being secretly alien and secretly super, that had to be a lot to juggle.]

Some of my best friends are aliens. Plus we're in space.

[So, you know. No big deal.]

Edited 2016-06-08 01:03 (UTC)

[ -- she's so proud of you, kara. getting all indulge-y like that. and it's a weight off her shoulders, certainly, for clint to know that there are other capes around than simply the ones he sorta-knows from home. ]

Hawkeye, [ she tries this again. quietly. ] Meet Supergirl.

[ sticks her hand out to shake his! she's gonna do it all formal-like ]

Unfortunately, just taking the name of my older, more established male counterpart wouldn't have worked for me.

Lemme guess. Superguy?

[Hey, it'd be symmetrical wouldn't it? He was trying. And even though they'd already shaken hands, he shook again.]

[ superguy. kate laughs -- that's such a clint thing to guess. a little underhanded, and a lot calculated. ]

[ she laughs too ]

You know, I'm going to start calling him that. Actually, it's Superman. My boss at work named me Supergirl, without knowing it was me, of course. I thought it was kind of childish.

It's not so bad. We have a guy called Hulk, and then some Red Hulks and She-Hulks came along, and then a guy started going around calling himself Hulkling just a little while ago. Point is, that's just how it goes sometimes. And it could be a lot worse. At least they don't call you Superling. Or She-Superman.

Hey! There's nothing wrong with Hulkling. [ sure, teddy's not even a hulk but... ] I mean, I tried to think of something better to call him...

[ kate shrugs. then, for kara's benefit. ] He's one of the Young Avengers, with me.

[ or he was. she can't bring herself to explain how teddy's now on a fully-fledged avengers team, and with clint no less. ]

I'll take your word for it.

[ still. Hulkling sounds weird. what a weird name ]

No, no, Hawkling has a point.

[She doesn't, he just wanted to call her that.]

Edited 2016-06-08 23:06 (UTC)

[ kate looks straight at kara, and without missing much of a beat: ] This is what I deal with on, like, a daily basis.

I don't know, "Hawkling" is pretty great. Though I think you should be Hawkguy and Hawkgirl.

See? Pretty great.

[Then, 1/4 a second of turning cogs.]

Wait-what?

[Come on Kara you were supposed to be on HIS side here.]

Edited 2016-06-14 01:07 (UTC)

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