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Who: Kate Bishop + YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit
When: Yesterday evening.

Want to play a game? [ kate's surroundings are, quite evidently, a lush little corner of málum. the neon-y blue tinge of the bar's decor casts its colour over her features. there's a tall, impressively concocted cocktail at her elbow. ] I mean, I know I do. So here's how it goes: you tell me anywhere you'd rather be but here, with the caveat that it can't just be a home. I think it's safe to say that home is a very understandable answer, but it's also a little too achingly realistic for my purposes. So pick somewhere else. Pick Ibiza. Pick Iceland, if you want.

Well, unless Iceland is your home. Then please refer to rule numero uno. It also happens to be the game's only rule. [ short and sweet, that's our katerade.

and maybe about an hour (and maybe another drink) later: ] ...Does anyone wanna come dance with me?

[ swipe right, dear flooters. swipe right. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

well you didnt say it had to be a place for sure
but hell yeah ill take those creativity points and hoard them away like a dumb feathery dragon whos got no idea what ill be spending them on
another game maybe

um what kind of dragon has FEATHERS?

[ because this is what she focuses on. ]

uh
one thats part bird i guess?

but

why?

damn usually i wait a little longer in the conversation for the dramatic reveal but
because im part bird
and the dragon in question was supposed to be me which sounds
really fucking dumb when i type it out like that
it made sense at the time but i dont always think shit through before it makes it onto the network and then it blows up in my face in a clusterfuck of regret
so
yeah
thats why the dragon has feathers

well, shit.

[ wait -- PART-BIRD? she's been here before... ]

You're not evil, though, right?

what
no
then again i did eat the last of the candy on the ship and thats like the very definition of sinister machinations

It's just...

There was a me that was part-bird, once. And she was totally evil.

oh
yeah that would definitely put suspicion on any part bird persons of uncertain morality
why was she evil

Hard to say. Found her in a dimension that basically had the equivalent life-span of a mayfly, so...a bit of existential angst, perhaps?

thats
awkward
i mean i kind of flipped my shit once but there was mind control involved and all this other messy horseshit that definitely counts as oversharing
but my existential freakouts have never really necessitated the label of "evil"
probably "juvenile" if we want to be real

well in that case...

do you like being part bird?

well it could be worse
i could be part puppet with a permanent rictus grin

ugh. is that a thing?

it was a thing
in fact it was such a thing i traveled back in time to make it an unthing
to give you some perspective on how terrible it was

Sounds a little harrowing.

more than a little
or did you luck out with an immunity to the uncanny valley antics of shitty marionettes

Marionettes? Yes. But there's been plenty of uncanny valleys explored elsewhere.

ok in that case whats the uncanniest valliest shit youve ever had the misfortune of laying eyes upon

Bug-me. Definitely bug-me.

omfg
ok yeah that would be a little traumatizing i dont think alt timeline me was ready for the feathers let alone
i dunno
did you have mandibles

Along with six arms.

six arms doesnt sound so bad
compound eyes might be a different story though

I made for a pretty ugly bug, to be honest.

i think thats an inherent quality of bugginess
no one wants to be a bug i mean how often do you hear about people dressing up as their bugsonas

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