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  A song quote:The Transformed • How did you first meet your mentor? Dr. Vega was there when I was changed, part of the team that was fighting Atomos to save the universe. He broke ranks with his team's leader Alexandria, the alien librarian who can create books or scrolls or datapads or cards or whatnot that can do anything she can think of. All she has to do is read them. She told him to protect this universe instead of the creation of the microcosm, but he tried to save me instead, figuring that Atomos was too narcissistic to destroy the universe out of spite before having his escape route. He saved me–If it wasn't for him, I don't think I'd still be a person... I'd just be a collection of things. Like Alexandria's library. • When and why did you choose to train with them? He treated me like a daughter more than any other parents I knew, and otherwise doesn't seem to have any agenda. If I stay close to him, I have a village to raise me, a family. Alexandria is the ex-wife, his friends are aunts and uncles, the other heroes my age are, I dunno, cousins. Except they're all a little more related to me. Powers run thicker than blood, I guess. [Her blood relatives never acknowledged her existence, and her foster family alienated her so much she had a history of depression.] • Why did they agree to train you? He just... offered. I don't know why? If I had to say, I'd go for guilt that he couldn't completely save me. Or pride in me for staying "alive," because he often tells me when I can't handle something that the next worse person would have to deal with it otherwise. He can be kind of inscrutable since he's from another plane. • Who else, outside of the team, knows about your training? I'd say just about every hero has probably been briefed about me and is ready to slam the red button and make me disappear if I cause a black hole or something. [She hasn't read the briefings, they warn against her going Antimatter, leaking into the outer universe and spreading across it unmaking everything in her wake, possibly as part of Atomo's plan. She also didn't know before figuring out her name, Darkmatter, that the briefings already referred to her as potentially Antimatter.] • Why do you care about the team? [above] • What made you decide to join the academy? I wanted to put myself out there without Dr. Vega for once, not just navelgaze and daydream about it. As... therapy? • Which hero sponsored your entrance into the academy? What did you do to impress them? Alexandria. Again, don't ask me why. I guess one time she came over to Dr. Vega's extraplanar realm to fight with him about something, and I turned into a book and hid on a shelf because I thought she hated me. But she looked straight at me, made a copy of me with her powers, then read me, even though I turned into a blank book as far as I know. Later that week the recommendation came through, in an extraplanar envelope because you're not supposed to be able to read recommendations. It was kind of a callout I think, to use it or don't. Can you reach out and take this opportunity, type thing. I was already working on the app, I don't know if she knew. • Tell me about that one interesting person in your class! Papyrus, Alexandria's protege. He looks like a really cool mummy, with colored ribbon bandages with runes on them that he can uncoil and control like prehensile, I dunno, hair? When it's windy he looks like a paper comet, and when you hit him, confetti flies off. He's kind of like me, with secrets painted and drawn all over him. Except he pulls the knowledge out like a roll of tape–but cool, and anyone can read it. He also can look normal when he wants to and just "flame on" when he wants to go hero-mode. All the cool people can just activate their costumes. Trust me, when you can navelgaze and see people pulling on their spandex then stepping into their outer-underwear it stops becoming cool and just becomes embarrassing. Especially when guys have to put on makeup so their eyelids are black inside their helmet. Just turning your hat backwards or pulling up turtleneck over your nose budget-ninja style is cooler than that, at least the minimal look shows some confidence, some self-respect! Visors are dumb too, and goggles unless they aren't actually worn over the eyes.... I have a lot of opinions about this, okay? • What do you like to do in your free time? Get high and dance, or make art, or look at art or nature, or alien stuff. I smoked my own hair once, after turning it into bud. When I went to school though, I got a prescription for anxiety because I really don't want to get in trouble. • New Arcadia’s a pretty sweet place, isn’t it? Tell me about that one cool place you like! Everywhere it's really dark and no one can see me. I hide in the Imax theater a lot. Navelgazing there isn't really the same... it's like it makes the screen smaller, and sometimes I need to take a break and miss parts and have to navelgaze another theater to pick up where I left off. • (Optional) Hey, guess what! They’re making a variant cover focusing on you! Please describe the cover to me! It's me looking up at the sky, silhouetted against the "best of" the Hubble space telescope so it looks sort of like I'm camouflaged except for my clothes and makeup. It's one of those shots where the camera is inside the floor looking upward at the subject, so I look like a giant. My eyes are averted so I look purposeful and/or kind of wistful. • (Optional) Suggest a name for the IC thread. The X-Fast club: Modern Maskers slydingdoor fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Jan 22, 2017 |
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Tardzilla posted:
She definitely wants me out of Dr. Vega's hair. I've heard her warning him of "distracting himself again with another broken toy" when who knows what kind of threat they need to prepare for next. She certainly never told me any reasons she's sponsoring me to my face, she doesn't like talking to me. Afraid she might get attached, maybe? Like when one parent says "no pets" then they see the cute kitty with the big eyes and get won over, then they can't convince him to stop training me anymore. It might be a possibility, Vega teases her that she's becoming more human all the time... I don't think she likes it. Maybe she likes the teasing, but not becoming more "mercurial." It's always SAT words with her. Anyway she wants him all to herself, at least just to become more powerful, and is afraid he doesn't need her like she needs him. I'm shipping it. (She opens her hand and typeset letters raise from her palm. She stamps her palm on a piece of paper and it reads "SHIPPED.") If I had it my way, I'd smoke them all out. She could summon a book for rolling papers and everyone could talk about their feelings, then I could go to my room and listen to music while they make out. Genuine kindness I only get from heroes who don't think I'm dangerous at all. Like, I'm underpowered and unfocused and will never amount to anything more than a dispatcher, telling people where to go and what's going on and stuff. The one I've got in mind is Saint Sand, that cinnamon roll whose divine powers are based on holy vows of this and that. She held my hand and looked me in the eyes and told me she doesn't think I'm dangerous, then she didn't lose any powers for lying so I know she either really believes in me, like I'll become a great hero someday, or really doesn't, like I'll wash out. I'm thinking it's the second one, and I have a pretty good radar for when people are showing me pity and thinking it makes them a good person or makes me feel better. Neither of which are true. But hey, if being a product of the foster care system has taught me wrong, and she really believes in me... well that'd be cool. I just am not getting my hopes up. Oh crap, it looks like I missed a question from earlier... (I smoked too soon, pff) hmmm... • What's your favorite class? What about least favorite? Villain Psychology, because it's a really big lecture room class that I can take remotely, even without navelgazing. Everything's recorded, and they don't post your scores, so no one knows how good I am at it. If they did, I'd get looked at funny. Funnier. It turns out having a crappy life is good for something, I guess? Least favorite classes are art, music, and drama. I have to get put in the spotlight, and the better I do at them the more in the spotlight I get. I have always loved them, but the way people get jealous and disgusted and catty and competitive over parts and talents is ruining that love. I just used to think I always had these things I could use to express myself and escape from my crappy life before I was changed, and now, after all that, they're being taken away too. "How can she act? She doesn't even have a face! *stupid giggle*" Bitch I can hear you! Super. Senses. Also, I can sit in on master classes in acting by navelgazing. [Combining frustrated talents in the Arts and aptitude in Villain Psychology has indeed put her under watch. The institution is under orders not to intervene in any nonviolent clashes between students, and to focus on punishing those who step over the line. It does not want to train future villains in general, but especially does not want to be publicly linked to any graduates who turn to villainy.]
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