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[ladybro]

Who: Kate Bishop and YOU.
Broadcast: Fleetwide.
Action: Lavandula + the Iskaulit.
When: Today

Ow, for futz sake -- [ the feed is shaky, at first -- as though the device and its owner has just fallen from some middling height. but it soon settles steady on an image of kate bishop -- bruised, dirty, but ultimately fine. although she's stubbornly wearing purples more often alligned with the spirit faction, she has alligned herself quite naturally with moxie -- deigning to at least braid white and gold ribbons into her black hair. sitting up on the poorly terra-formed ground, the feed reveals she's dressed in a superbly tailored hawkeye costume made from strong fabrics and flattering lines.

over her shoulder looms lavandula's tower. the intrepid young avenger followed the trills of a mysterious and now finds she herself thoroughtly defeated by the tower's bizarre internal architecture. this isn't the first time she's taken a tumble.

grumpily: ] This place is worse than a funhouse. [ ... ] Paging any and all Fleet folk -- anyone manage to track down this freaky-deaky flute music on Lavandula? All I'm finding are doors shut in my face. Not loving it.

[ LATER, she's back at the rehabilitation centre. she pays her modest fee and gets herself patched up -- bandages and all. so, once she takes a shuttle back to the iskaulit and shows up for work at málum, she's still looking a little worse for wear. take pity on her, málum patrons, because her usual bartender flair is suddenly subdued: she's got one arm in a sling. she'll still serve you, though. and with a smile! ...probably. ]

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[ladybro]

I fell. From a tower. [ ... ] It was very Disney of me, I think.

[ except for the part where she's now uncorking wine bottles with her teeth. kate is determined not to let the sling impede her work, and by all accounts she remains cheerful.

[onlyanapple]

Only if you sang a daring I Want song as you dropped down.

[At least she can still work, still...]

I dunno, Do you want healing or something? I don't like it getting around that much, but I can do that.

[ladybro]

It's fine -- really, I don't mind knitting together the old fashioned way. [ she flashes him a mild smile, as though this isn't the first offer of supernatural healing she's turned down. ]

The offer's noted, though. And appreciated. Maybe if I ever get myself into a more serious sorta scrape...

[onlyanapple]

Eh, some people prefer it that way.

[Given the look Adalwolfe gave him, he's learned his lesson about just straight up doing it. ]

Certainly. Do try not to bleed everywhere when you come to me, if that's the case, of course.

[He's probably joking.]

[ladybro]

Buddy, if I'm bleeding everywhere then it'll probably already be too late. I don't really have the fancy constitution and healing factor so many other capes and masks seem to have.

[onlyanapple]

That makes a refreshing change from the usual people dragged here. Human as human can be, huh?

[ladybro]

Gifted, but normal. [ and she's happy to be so. there's no inferiority complex here, even as she shares the field with mutants and magic-users and super soldiers. ] Well. For a given definition of normal.

[onlyanapple]

Which is pretty difficult to define, if we're going to be honest. I mean, what is normal, really? No creature really follows that definition.

[ladybro]

And if one did, I doubt that creature would end up here.

[ abnormal is the new normal. ]

[onlyanapple]

Absolutely not. They'd be dull as anything. No one would want to watch that.

[ladybro]

Say we really are on someone's television -- do you think we're narrated? Like, Attenborough style?

[onlyanapple]

Hmmm, maybe. Though it would likely be more Marcus Bentley than David Attenborough.

[ladybro]

Who's that?

[ #tooamericantofunction ]

[onlyanapple]

The guy who narrates Big Brother? You know. Big reality TV show. Or it will be. It's in the future for me. I have big plans for it, though.

[ladybro]

Huh. I never knew. I mean -- I know the show. I get the analogy. I just clearly never paid any attention to the credits.

[onlyanapple]

Well, at least I can pretend you would have got the reference if you knew the name.

[ladybro]

-- Plus, reality TV really lost its appeal for me after those kids accidentally got a school blown up on camera.

[onlyanapple]

What? I must have missed it. Unless it was an American thing? I tend to just leave America to its own devices.

[ladybro]

Or just a my world thing. The kids in question were a for-fame superhero group. They liked to film themselves taking out low level bad dudes.

[onlyanapple]

...Huh.

Well, I guess if you're going to save people for free, you might as well make something on the side.

sorry for the delay! was on hiatus.

[ladybro]

If you ask me, it made them sloppy -- prioritizing getting good shots instead of getting the job done.

never a problem!

[onlyanapple]

Suppose. But so long as the job is done, right?

[ladybro]

The job doesn't get done when, in trying to do it, you end up walking a bunch of villains straight into a school zone and one goes nuclear.

[onlyanapple]

...

Yeah, okay, that's definitely a colossal fuck up on their part. Wow.

[ladybro]

It inspired an all-out war between heroes. Hard times.