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[ladybro]

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. ]

Comments

[video]

[ladybro]

[ don't mind her overbearing nosiness, but: ] So what does that count as, in Hunter terms? A win? A loss? A draw?

[VIDEO]

[collegedropout]

[A moment's pause.]

He was stopped from killing another child's mother or father, but it won't bring back the parents that he already killed. What would you call it? Stopping a murderer from killing more people?

[VIDEO]

[ladybro]

...Definitely a win.

[VIDEO]

[collegedropout]

[He smiles a bit. You get it.]

If you don't count them as a win, hunting'll drive you insane.

There's always going to be a causality, in this job. Our work is to stop more.

[VIDEO]

[ladybro]

Right. I'm not a hunter, per se -- but it sounds pretty similar to back home. You can't save them all, and that really weighs on you, but it shouldn't stop you from saving the rest.

[VIDEO]

[collegedropout]

Definitely. Saving the rest is what helps you actually sleep a little at night.

[VIDEO]

[ladybro]

[ hm. ]

'A little.'

[VIDEO]

[collegedropout]

... In our line of work, people die on your watch. And often, you have to look at bodies of those you were too late for. Between that and knowing what's out there... Sleeping a little is usually the norm.

[... Also, y'know. Losing sleep to thoughts of possession, dead brothers, having your memories altered, being unclean, being a freak, nightmares of future events, being soulless, being unable to sleep from hallucinations of the devil or locked in hell without rest-

Okay look we're a depressing show, what do you want.]

Re: [VIDEO]

[ladybro]

Oh, I know. I just -- [ she huffs a breath. irony. ] I dunno how the heavier hitters do it, back home. Their collateral damage is barely believable. Forget sleeping, I don't know how some of them live with themselves.

[VIDEO]

[collegedropout]

It's easier then you're not the cause of the damage; accident or not... once it's in your hands, it changes things.

[Sometimes they really don't live with themselves, but it's alright; sometimes you can make amends for the things that keep you awake at night. Sometimes.]

[VIDEO]

[ladybro]

Does it ever. I was leading a team of superheroes, back home. I'm a little too familiar with the things in your hands suddenly getting out of hand.