boobwindow: (what do i even do at work)
karen starr ✰ POWER GIRL ([personal profile] boobwindow) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2014-01-31 06:15 pm

one ✩ video

[ ID reads Karen Starr.

As for Karen, she's seated on her bed in her shared housing complex. Next to her bedside, on the small dresser, is a tall iced cappuccino that's already a quarter finished. Most of her hair is tied up and she's dressed in a camisole and three quarter pants, but interesting there's a light sweater laying near the edge of the bed.

It's much too warm for long sleeves. ]


Probably a bit weird to ask, but how many of you are going to the jobs they set up for us? I can't exactly complain about doing work I know how to do and being able to earn money ASAP, but it still feels a bit like a demotion. I liked the view from my office window.

[ She sighs and scratches above the digital tattoo on her wrist. ]

Ugh... and I don't suppose someone's found a way to get rid of this?
liverletdie: (Motherfucker)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-08 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Here, we don't. You're right.

But, I understand their position entirely. I've been in charge of that lead, before. It's not pretty, but sometimes it's the only way to solve a problem. Or at least the safest and most expedient.
liverletdie: (Iron Man | Inside and out)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-09 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
I don't expect everyone to.

Especially if they've never been mired in the superhuman situation for years before. I've been living this life for too long, I've seen too many attempts to do exactly this, and none of them worked.
liverletdie: (Iron Man | I pontificate occaionally)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-09 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
We protect as best we can. A registered identity isn't necessarily a public identity. They aren't synonymous. They're free to operate as long as they've registered. If they want to, they can draw a paycheck for doing the work that they're already doing.

It makes balancing a personal and working life easier, it makes things less difficult for the heroes, and it means that when something happens, we can protect them.

I've done the secret identity thing, it created more problems than it solved.
liverletdie: (Motherfucker)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-09 09:11 am (UTC)(link)
It happens.

[ He said it a little tersely. ]

It's happened to a lot of people. It happened to me, maybe not a wife but --

Anyway, it's not about making it public to the general public, not really. It's a good gesture, and one I'm more than willing to give, but it's not for everyone. Not everyone has money and power and nobody relying on me to make it by. We have an organization that holds onto them -- SHIELD. They're in charge of Superhuman affairs anyway, and have been for years. We're not exactly just posting these out on the internet for every person with a grudge to find.
liverletdie: gently riding up asscrack, seriously how do you asshats wear this shit (Director of SHIELD | Spandex)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-09 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's not quite associated with the government. I mean, we have ties, of course, we have a lot of power otherwise, but we're not at the beck and call of the United States, or any other government. Not even the UN. The Strategic Hazard Intervention Espionage Logistics Directorate is more of a loose coalition that operates outside of the government, while still working with it.

Governments have a lot of power over SHEILD, but we have a lot of power to invoke in the case of an emergency, or when it's necessary.

You could say it's a balancing process. Checks and Balances.
liverletdie: (Iron Man | Eat your Heart out IP)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-12 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's a complicated balance, and there's no perfect solution that we've found. Superhumans as a whole are volatile, in general. Not that it's a bad thing that we exist, but finding a solution is always going to be trial and error.

It's a sad reality, but I'm a pragmatist, and a futurist. If I didn't think it was a viable one, I wouldn't work so hard to promote it.
liverletdie: (Determined)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-13 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
We'll see, but I know how people are, and just because we have superpowers, doesn't mean we're exempt from needing control.

What was it a friend of mine said? With great power comes great responsibility? Not everyone can exact it, and then people suffer for that.
liverletdie: (Windblown)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-14 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
What, you think a little minor disagreement is enough to keep me from taking a look around?

Yes, we're still on for tomorrow.
liverletdie: (I trust you)

[personal profile] liverletdie 2014-02-14 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
If I did that, I'm pretty sure I'd be lonely.

I'll see you tomorrow, Karen.