[Video] An accidental, personal rant

[mysterioisthetruth]

[warning: threads could potentially contain manipulation, emotional abuse, violence]

[In complete rejection of the vulnerability within himself - the sadness and weakness that he felt his unwanted shadow version had projected - Beck has become more unstable, spurred on by the feeling of lacking control. He's been working with his tech and while frantically pushing buttons, he's accidentally switched on to broadcast.]

Okay, let's do this one more time...

[He's speaking to the side, at something not seen by the camera. His voice is tense.]

It isn't enough that you made me feel like I was this small.

[His fingers close down to nothingness.]

No, not even that small. That I didn't exist.

Or that it felt like I was dead and gone and still should only be spoken about as a waste of space.

No. No, no no...

[He shakes his head, grimacing and the tension is starting to boil up and over.]

No, now you have to bring that into it--

[He points at something again out of camera range.]

Something that really, really shouldn't exist. I'm past that. I'm better than that. Despite your best efforts to keep me invisible, I'm not. People see me. People know who I am, for better or... for worse.

[He clenches his jaw at those words, fists forming at his sides.]

I'm noticed. That's what's important here.

Right? Right?

[His voice is rising, passionately angry.]

I am a known entity. I am Mysterio!

[He makes a grand sweeping gesture and his formerly regular clothing instantly transforms and reveals he's actually wearing his flashy hero suit.]

This is who I am now. It's who I'm meant to be - and you are not going to stop me. Not by your words. Not by your memory. Nothing you can do can stop me.

[He's glaring angrily past the camera then he raises his hands, green energy forming around them. His voice is quieter but now deadly.]

I should have killed you in more than just a story.

[And he lets the energy flash across the room in a bright, destructive blast. The shock of it is enough to jar the device and cut off the feed.]

Comments

[Audio]

[kid_flash_found]

A+ on the villain monologue.

[A beat.]

Oh, wait, you're supposed to be this great hero who's going to save us all.

Re: [Audio]

[hatestrashcans]

Really? A+? I give a weak C at best.

perma-audio

[kid_flash_found]

It's so flawed it's good. Believe me, I've been forced to listen to a lot of these.

The lack of pompous overacting is what sells it.

Re: perma-audio

[hatestrashcans]

I don't know, it's a little short for a villain speech. I mean, you're the expert, not me, but still. I just can't give it an A.

So you're saying it's like a So Bad It's Good movie but for villain speeches?

[kid_flash_found]

Well, maybe I should downgrade a little for lack of foaming at the mouth?

But pretty much, yeah.

[hatestrashcans]

Yeah, it's not tacky enough to get to So Bad It's Good for me. Not camp enough.

[kid_flash_found]

He's no Doctor Light, that's for sure.

[hatestrashcans]

Agreed. I rate it a resounding 'meh'.

[kid_flash_found]

But definitely a villain rant. My cousin did this one rant that got on television while I was dead and it was on real life issues like how heroing doesn't pay the bills.

[hatestrashcans]

I mean, depends on how you're heroing. Not your fault he wasn't creative enough to figure that out.

[kid_flash_found]

He did have to try to juggle a life with the Tornado Twins.

[hatestrashcans]

Still. Did he have a super power?

[kid_flash_found]

Does avoiding responsibility count?

[Bart really doesn't want to talk about Wally or that kind of stuff.]

He's a member of my family. The one Grandma brought me to when she realized the future no place for me.

[Video forever]

[mysterioisthetruth]

Me? Me?

You're calling me the villain here?

[He sounds incredulous.]

[Audio forever here]

[kid_flash_found]

They're usually the ones blaming everyone but themselves when things blow up in their faces. Everyone's in the way of them getting the things they deserve to have.

So you sound like one. Jury's still out on actions, because those are what count in the end.

[mysterioisthetruth]

I'm the one destroying the villains and exposing the false heroes.

[kid_flash_found]

As one of the people you've decided is either a lesser or false hero, I object to that.

Also, which villains? You're always pretty cagey on these things we scientifically-minded people like to call facts and evidence.

[mysterioisthetruth]

You'd be the type to stop me killing him, wouldn't you? Despite how much he deserves to die.

[He's not yet clarifying who he means.]

[kid_flash_found]

Generally, I'm not a fan of killing. But again, you're being evasive and putting out total villain vibes. You really ought to work on that.

[mysterioisthetruth]

But you'd kill in certain circumstances?

[kid_flash_found]

[And this is where things get murky, because in one way of looking at things, he has done exactly that, although it was more in making sure that altered events that put more people in danger to change the timeline by preventing a single death didn't happen the way that manipulator had planned.]

I've failed to rescue people. I've done things that ensured that events that might alter who lived and died in a particular moment in time didn't alter the integrity of a given timestream. I've never set out to murder someone.

[mysterioisthetruth]

What would you do with a man who treated his son like a worthless ghost? A non-entity, yet belittled even when completely ignored in person.

[His words may not make a lot of sense without context.]

[kid_flash_found]

That at least you know exactly what kind of man yours was. I never knew mine. I barely know my mom, and haven't seen her in years.

I got uprooted from the only life I knew and tossed into a completely alien environment at a young age. Then the only family I had basically passed me off as not worth the effort. But you don't see me ranting and raving. Everyone has things in their lives that suck. Everyone has baggage.

[mysterioisthetruth]

My mother was already dead. I never knew her and yet my father talked to her often, far more than he ever acknowledged my actual presence. He relentlessly told her what a worthless pile of garbage I was who'd never amount to anything.

Yet here I am, proving him wrong.

[And really doing a terrible job at that... but his unstable ego won't allow him to admit that. He also is in such a state, he's not making sure any of this is private.]

[kid_flash_found]

I'd love to see that proof. Assuming it exists anywhere outside your own imagination.

Good luck with those demons of yours. Looks like you'll need it.

[And Bart may start keeping a more obvious watch on Peter, just in case. This guy has a few screws loose and his friend has born the brunt before.]