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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. ]

Comments

[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.

[onlyanapple]

...Yeah, I can't say I'm surprised there was infighting, to be brutally honest. From the heroes I've known.