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03 - video
Who: Winn Schott, Cisco Ramon, and you!
Broadcast: yes!
Action: Iskaulit
When: now!
[ Today, Winn's broadcast comes live -- from in front of a door. it's a plain door, one of the Iskaulit's, as it happens - and on it is a plaque reading 'Discovery 1'. He clears his throat and offers the camera a little wave ]
Greetings, fellow Fleeters! Did -- we decide on Fleeters? [ He mimes at someone off screen, frowning at whatever reply he gets ]
Drifters, we said - Drifters. Drifting in Spacer. Oh! Wait for it - wait for it - Realitynauts. You know because we’re reality show starts and astro - never mind.
[ Cisco Ramon’s face, no longer a girl, is shoved inside the frame. He is clearly talking while eating some version of space sandwich ]
Is this thing recording? Hi guys.
[ Winn scrunches his nose at the terms ] Dude, ‘Drifters’ makes us sound like a New Age boyband. [ He shakes his head and looks back at the camera - oh yeah, it’s rolling. ] You’d think I’d learn to rehearse first by now -- hi, whatever we call ourselves! If you’re new, that’s Cisco, I’m Winn, and we are proud to finally open the Iskaulit’s brand new lecture hall for business!
[ Hold on hold on he prepared for this - he pulls a party popper out of his pocket, and pops it at the camera!! Colorful confetti everywhere! ]
Dude my hair - anyway, we will be adding a document of the lectures to come and we want to remind a few unruly members of the Realitynauts - I’m looking at you Hank - to give us the titles for your lectures. Pronto. ASAP or I’ll be forced to tell awkward stories about you to the whole network even if they’re not true!
You really have a fixation on ~nauts, you know that? [ It never sounds good. Ever. Especially now, when he’s bringing it up. Why did he bring it up? He’s regretting all his life choices. ]
Anyway yeah, hurry up and tell us what you’re talking about, and if you weren’t around for it last time and wanna sign up you’re always welcome to, just hit up either Cisco or myself, and we’ll work it out! Lectures are gonna be Every Thursday at 8 PM, because of a very scientific selection process - but if our kindly lecturers are up for it - we were hoping people working on series will continue them on a day and time of their choosing so people don’t have to wait too long between installments. Admittance is first come first serve, but don’t worry - everything is gonna be filmed and uploaded for you!
Oh my God, do you get the paradox of us filming ourselves while we’re already being filmed by tacky aliens? It’ll break your brain if you try to figure it out. Anyway, to more important business.
[ Have a line face, network ]
It has come to my attention that different people here on the fleet are trying to convince others in various, unholy ways that their world makes the best pizza. Which is a crime since everyone knows Central City has the best pizza of the entire multiverse.
No one knows that because it’s a dirty heinous lie - National City pride!! [ Winn pumps a fist in the air; completely invested in this fight. If you’ve never met him, you might think he really is treating it like a life-or-death issue. ]
As you can see, this disagreement risks friendships and lives and so we have decided to solve this once and for all. Since we can’t actually have any world’s version of pizza here because space sucks, we are going to do battle, the winner will win everlasting honor for his city as the city where the best pizza of the multiverse can be found. And since we’re nerds we have decided the battle shall be based on -
[ wait for it ]
Song. Yes, you heard it! We are going head to head in the ultimate karaokebowl! Winn. Show them the machine.
[ Winn pulls what appears to be a small screen on a tripod into the camera’s view. Holding it in one hand, he gestures towards the various parts of it as he speaks in a Shopping Network voice. ] This is a state-of-the-art Winsco original Sound Weaver 9001 [ Because of course it had to be OVER 9000!!!! ] with a sound quality you have to hear to believe! Easy to connect to with all your network communicators or bluetooth devices!
The perfect war machine of our ultimate-once-in-a-lifetime-karaokebowl in the name of Pizza, the Flash and heroics. And just to give you a little example of what’s going to happen, me and Winn the Traitor here are going to do the first round using a song we found on the comms which is only the most please-get-out-of-my-head song. So, karaokebowl first round, Cisco Ramon representing Team Flash and Central City against -
[ Winn unzips his hoodie to reveal his custom made t-shirt underneath ] Winn Schott, representing Team Supergirl and National City!
[ Hitting the play button, the music starts playing ]
[ enjoy, Space, as you view the surprisingly-good-voice-wise-but-otherwise-absurd karaoke version of Let it Go by these two morons, complete with Cisco untying his hair dramatically in the middle. When it ends and just before the feed ends too, he will lean close to the camera ]
Pause for applause - other pretenders to the throne of the best pizza of the mutltiverse, you have been challenged!
[ Winn points to his eyes - and then points to the camera before ending the feed. As promised, the broadcast has a text attachment at the bottom with the lecture schedule:
2016: A Space-Time Odyssey Lecture Schedule
1. Loki - The Golden Skein - the science of magic
2. Tyrion Lannister - Follow up lecture on Westeros (1 of 2)
3. Beverly Crusher - Adjusting to Life in Space (1st in a series of medicine related lectures)
4. Maglor - a Concert
5. Winn Schott - Byte me: the Digital Age Unveiled
6. Jim Kirk - Self Defense (1st in a series)
7. Cisco Ramon - The Amazing, Awesome, Absolutely Terrifying Physics of the Multiverse
8. Hermione Granger - Home World/ Life in Another Pocket Dimension/ Magic
9. Kara Danvers - A Brief History of Earth Feminism
10. Hank McCoy - genetics
11. Kitty Pryde - Genocide (Spoiler alert: It's bad)
12. Charles Xavier - TBD - offering history, biology, chemistry, genetics, English literature - cast your vote maybe he’ll make a decision!
* Online Only Lecture - nightingale - what you need to know about the fleet - Unbound to schedule ]
Broadcast: yes!
Action: Iskaulit
When: now!
[ Today, Winn's broadcast comes live -- from in front of a door. it's a plain door, one of the Iskaulit's, as it happens - and on it is a plaque reading 'Discovery 1'. He clears his throat and offers the camera a little wave ]
Greetings, fellow Fleeters! Did -- we decide on Fleeters? [ He mimes at someone off screen, frowning at whatever reply he gets ]
Drifters, we said - Drifters. Drifting in Spacer. Oh! Wait for it - wait for it - Realitynauts. You know because we’re reality show starts and astro - never mind.
[ Cisco Ramon’s face, no longer a girl, is shoved inside the frame. He is clearly talking while eating some version of space sandwich ]
Is this thing recording? Hi guys.
[ Winn scrunches his nose at the terms ] Dude, ‘Drifters’ makes us sound like a New Age boyband. [ He shakes his head and looks back at the camera - oh yeah, it’s rolling. ] You’d think I’d learn to rehearse first by now -- hi, whatever we call ourselves! If you’re new, that’s Cisco, I’m Winn, and we are proud to finally open the Iskaulit’s brand new lecture hall for business!
[ Hold on hold on he prepared for this - he pulls a party popper out of his pocket, and pops it at the camera!! Colorful confetti everywhere! ]
Dude my hair - anyway, we will be adding a document of the lectures to come and we want to remind a few unruly members of the Realitynauts - I’m looking at you Hank - to give us the titles for your lectures. Pronto. ASAP or I’ll be forced to tell awkward stories about you to the whole network even if they’re not true!
You really have a fixation on ~nauts, you know that? [ It never sounds good. Ever. Especially now, when he’s bringing it up. Why did he bring it up? He’s regretting all his life choices. ]
Anyway yeah, hurry up and tell us what you’re talking about, and if you weren’t around for it last time and wanna sign up you’re always welcome to, just hit up either Cisco or myself, and we’ll work it out! Lectures are gonna be Every Thursday at 8 PM, because of a very scientific selection process - but if our kindly lecturers are up for it - we were hoping people working on series will continue them on a day and time of their choosing so people don’t have to wait too long between installments. Admittance is first come first serve, but don’t worry - everything is gonna be filmed and uploaded for you!
Oh my God, do you get the paradox of us filming ourselves while we’re already being filmed by tacky aliens? It’ll break your brain if you try to figure it out. Anyway, to more important business.
[ Have a line face, network ]
It has come to my attention that different people here on the fleet are trying to convince others in various, unholy ways that their world makes the best pizza. Which is a crime since everyone knows Central City has the best pizza of the entire multiverse.
No one knows that because it’s a dirty heinous lie - National City pride!! [ Winn pumps a fist in the air; completely invested in this fight. If you’ve never met him, you might think he really is treating it like a life-or-death issue. ]
As you can see, this disagreement risks friendships and lives and so we have decided to solve this once and for all. Since we can’t actually have any world’s version of pizza here because space sucks, we are going to do battle, the winner will win everlasting honor for his city as the city where the best pizza of the multiverse can be found. And since we’re nerds we have decided the battle shall be based on -
[ wait for it ]
Song. Yes, you heard it! We are going head to head in the ultimate karaokebowl! Winn. Show them the machine.
[ Winn pulls what appears to be a small screen on a tripod into the camera’s view. Holding it in one hand, he gestures towards the various parts of it as he speaks in a Shopping Network voice. ] This is a state-of-the-art Winsco original Sound Weaver 9001 [ Because of course it had to be OVER 9000!!!! ] with a sound quality you have to hear to believe! Easy to connect to with all your network communicators or bluetooth devices!
The perfect war machine of our ultimate-once-in-a-lifetime-karaokebowl in the name of Pizza, the Flash and heroics. And just to give you a little example of what’s going to happen, me and Winn the Traitor here are going to do the first round using a song we found on the comms which is only the most please-get-out-of-my-head song. So, karaokebowl first round, Cisco Ramon representing Team Flash and Central City against -
[ Winn unzips his hoodie to reveal his custom made t-shirt underneath ] Winn Schott, representing Team Supergirl and National City!
[ Hitting the play button, the music starts playing ]
[ enjoy, Space, as you view the surprisingly-good-voice-wise-but-otherwise-absurd karaoke version of Let it Go by these two morons, complete with Cisco untying his hair dramatically in the middle. When it ends and just before the feed ends too, he will lean close to the camera ]
Pause for applause - other pretenders to the throne of the best pizza of the mutltiverse, you have been challenged!
[ Winn points to his eyes - and then points to the camera before ending the feed. As promised, the broadcast has a text attachment at the bottom with the lecture schedule:
2016: A Space-Time Odyssey Lecture Schedule
1. Loki - The Golden Skein - the science of magic
2. Tyrion Lannister - Follow up lecture on Westeros (1 of 2)
3. Beverly Crusher - Adjusting to Life in Space (1st in a series of medicine related lectures)
4. Maglor - a Concert
5. Winn Schott - Byte me: the Digital Age Unveiled
6. Jim Kirk - Self Defense (1st in a series)
7. Cisco Ramon - The Amazing, Awesome, Absolutely Terrifying Physics of the Multiverse
8. Hermione Granger - Home World/ Life in Another Pocket Dimension/ Magic
9. Kara Danvers - A Brief History of Earth Feminism
10. Hank McCoy - genetics
11. Kitty Pryde - Genocide (Spoiler alert: It's bad)
12. Charles Xavier - TBD - offering history, biology, chemistry, genetics, English literature - cast your vote maybe he’ll make a decision!
* Online Only Lecture - nightingale - what you need to know about the fleet - Unbound to schedule ]
Re: [ action ]
I have. My powers . . . involve a lot of control. All the time. Losing control of them has consequences I am not ready to deal with. So I've always forced myself to be in control. Being strong, telling myself to be all right because I always saw the alternative as something worse.
[ He exhales. ] But the truth is, no matter how many powers we have, or how different we may seem, in the end we're all . . . people. Who need validation for our feelings. Who need to express them.
I do let go. I see why I need to. Do you?
[ action ]
[ he does, he really does. he sees why he needs to in his nightmares, in his mind's eye every time he starts getting upset, every time he thinks of the atroma now. a while ago - it couldn't have been that long but it feels like years have passed, now - he told kitty his anger didn't make him want to hurt anyone. he's not sure that's the case anymore. if he were in a room with the atroma, and had the means to do it...he's not sure he wouldn't hurt them, at least - because they deserve it. and he knows he's not the only person filled with fury when he thinks about them, he knows that -
but not every person has a homicidal madman they were terrifyingly similar to in their family.
he tries to remember what jim's told him - the idea that genetics determine who we are or what we'll become is a load of bull, and whoever put the idea in your head deserves a slap - but logic and emotion don't always get along, and he's only giving logic the spotlight, while emotion gets shoved into the dark corner of shame, because he's still afraid of what might happen if he faces it. he's still afraid of what these people he loves so dearly might think; they've all reassured him that he's not his father, but they've never seen the man, they don't know how similar they've always been, until the day he cracked. he's still afraid that if he burdens them, if he becomes more troublesome than he is helpful - they'll all disappear. the son of the monster doesn't to talk - he gets beaten up. ]
Re: [ action ]
Yes, it's all right to be scared of your father. It's all right to be scared of yourself, sometimes. Yes, we can be frightened that our friends will leave us when we step over the thin lines we set for ourselves.
But, Charles points out, a little ripple, Those who consider these probabilities are the ones least likely to hurt others. It's the people who don't who never realize the truth.
There's nothing wrong with feeling this way. ]
[ action ]
What the hell are you doing, man?
[ he promised, promised he'd stay out of his head until he got permission - did he give permission, without realizing it? (even now, his first instinct is to blame himself) no, he didn't, he didn't say anything of the sort, and he feels violated. his worst fears, the things he hates most in the world about himself, the things he's most ashamed of - right out on display for someone who's basically a stranger.
recent experiences have been trying to teach him not to be so trusting - the stalker on the blameless, threatening kitty's crewmate, proved that the fleet doesn't only pull in heroes. kate has been trying to get him to understand that even the ones who are heroic are complex individuals who do wrong - a lot. the iskaulit proved that even the people who want to only do right...can be manipulated by the atroma like puppets.
he doesn't know charles, not really, and clearly his trust was given way too quickly, way too easily. he steps away, feeling betrayed. ]
Enjoy the books.
[ turning to go back to his shuttle. ]
Re: [ action ]
I didn't do anything. It's how I talk. You let it all out. Isn't that what you were doing?
[ action ]
[ this is how you talk. it's almost a relief, in a way, to have something to get mad about that he can actually do something about - not that he acknowledges it to himself. all he's aware of at the moment is that he is angry, and hurt. and how much he hates being angry. hurt -- well, he's kinda used to it, it's actually surprising it took this long. ]
Re: [ action ]
All right. Then I'm sorry. I got confused when all of that started pouring out. It's not that simple -- [ No. No excuses. ] -- And I should have known better. I'm sorry. I never meant to violate your privacy.
[ Now he's tired. People never change. They're all the same. ]
Perhaps it's best that we don't see each other again. I wouldn't want to be a hazard to anyone's mental health.
[ action ]
as illogical as he knows it is - because clearly he can't control his emotions around this man, his mind always runs at uncontrollable speeds, and charles' solution is one that makes sense - it feels like it's validating all his fears. you're more trouble than you're worth, goodbye forever. ]
Yeah, perhaps you're right.
[ he's sullen. by all means, leave him with the feeling that his mental health is as fragile as he fears it is. he gets back in the shuttle, wishing he could slam the door. ]
Re: [ action ]
What I mean is that your comfort comes first, mentally. It's not weakness, it's not . . . wrong. There are many people who aren't comfortable with me and reasonably so. You are right to feel that way, even more so since I've very clearly overstepped myself, no matter what my intentions were.
What I want, at the end of the day, is for you to be happy. Whether I do that or someone else helps you get there, I don't care. But I don't want you to struggle for my sake. Or for yours, if my powers bother you.
[ Quietly. ] My own family doesn't let me in, Winn. Don't beat yourself over it.
[ action ]
It's not your powers I have a problem with.
[ it's the way he used them, without permission, after he assured him he wouldn't. he broke his trust. winn stopped the humming, because charles said it gave him a headache. he let down his defenses, and it feels like he was taken for a ride. ]
You may feel like you know people - cuz you can see whatever the hell you want whenever the hell you want to - but the rest of us are flying blind. I don't know you, Charles, that's my problem.
[ it's so one sided, it's so unfair, he doesn't even tell kara these things and she's been his best friend in life for two years, she's his family. he loves kitty with all his heart, and he struggles with every truth he reveals about himself to her. jim...jim is the only one who found a way to make him comfortable speaking.
he needs to speak to him now, he realizes. he really...really needs jim right now. kitty's jealous of his connection with cisco, but it's jim who he bares his soul to. ]
I'll talk to you later, ok. [ he doesn't want to, not right now, but he has been abandoned too many times in his life to leave someone else feelings that way. it's the worst feeling in the world. he doesn't want to be one of those people, who leave when it gets tough, and he especially hates the thought of being lumped together with people who judge others for their powers - it feels like most of his friends have those, and he's protective of them, furious at the people who make them feel like they can't belong because they were born different. he thinks of sascha, and how afraid he is of showing anyone what he can do, for fear of hatred. he told him he wasn't like that, is he becoming like that? he can't be like that. it's the man he has a problem with, not the powers.
right?
he's not sure why he's questioning himself, but he's not sure of anything anymore. ]
Re: [ action ]
If you want to. Don't feel obligated. Take care of yourself, Winn.
[ action ]
[ it's all the maturity he can muster. one day, he hopes, he'll be the kind of man who could say something reassuring here, who isn't so controlled by his own bitterness, his own hurt feelings. but he's not there yet. he gets on the shuttle and heads back to the tourist. ]