video / action if you hate yourself

[katastrophe]

[ The ID attached to this video bodes well for absolutely nobody. Joichiro Nishi, the kid who posted about poisoning the geriatrics, great.

This time, the view is shot over his shoulder--no, it's literally shot on his shoulder; it's hard to stage your own videos when you have no friends and nobody to hold your camera for you, so it jolts a little every time he moves his right arm. Anything that isn't his hands and his sleeves isn't visible.

In front of the camera there are two horrible looking objects, and he points to each in turn. ]

Cat stomach. Sausage skin.

[ Gross. ]

There's a beauty in being hit with a cat stomach. Nobody can appreciate it for what it is, of course, but you react the same way when someone pelts you with a vital organ filled with custard whether you know which part from which animal it is or not.

[ He pans over a bit--yep, custard. Looks a little lumpy and old. ]

That's where the sausage skin comes in. There aren't many cats in my area now, [ He's killed most of them. ] and I've got a lot of custard and not a lot of stomachs. But it looks like something important, and it'll probably just be as satisfying.

[ As he keeps talking, he's manhandling the hell out of those stomachs, spooning custard into them and sewing the holes shut until they're nothing more than horrible bubbles of old custard and leftover cat. He does the same with the sausage skins, and they look relatively similar, if a lot thinner and not as sturdy. It's clear which ones he favors.

He stands up then, revealing that he's--whoa, on top of a very tall building apparently, and looks right over the side, dragging his collection of stomachs and sausage closer, dangling them over the edge. ]

Call it an experiment. Which has the better splatter and the loudest scream? We'll see.

[ He drops a stomach. The feed cuts off. If you happen to be walking past, you're about to have a pretty shitty day. ]

video; backdated to Jan 23

[redhairring]

[ The comm gets turned on, and is pointed to...a scenic De Chima gas station? Anyway, Freddie's looking at the comm, narrating like it's something super important. She's crouched behind her terrible, keyed-up car, as if she's hiding from someone. ]

Right, it seems like this dickhead that I've been stuck with is not a friendly face as I once thought, but is instead some sort of co-conspirator with that asshole astronaut. He's tried to keep this device away from me multiple times, obviously failing.

[ the dickhead in question is Will Graham who, emerging from the gas station and walking towards the car has a look of expression on his face that's the beaten-down expression of a man who's come to accept that everybody he knows is either missing or insane. Needless to say, once he spots Freddie recording, he picks up the pace to get to the car a bit. ]

I don't know how much time I have before he comes back. So anybody from Uranus, I need you to contact me as soon as possible. I've been designated to bring back—

Freddie, just give me the comm, and I'll—

Never, you traitor!

[ Needless to say, Will Graham has had enough of this bullshit and promptly tries to yank the comm away from Freddie. Who's struggling to keep hold of it. So enjoy some shakycam footage of a gas station, the ground, and Freddie & Will's lower bodies, complete with occasional cries of "traitor!" from Freddie. Eventually, the comm manages to get turned off in the scuffle. ]

[ ooc: lightning sucks ]

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[notdaredevil]

[ It's not often that Matt actually has something to say publicly like this. He can't really think of the last time he did. However, it seems unfair to dump it all on Kate and make her do it, especially after he went all the way to Greece to make it happen. ]

Per the research into the Hornets done by Commander Shephard and Kate Bishop, and Kate Bishop's suggestion that someone attempt to track down Eleni Wang, I can now confirm that she is, in fact, alive and in Greece. Lil Crawley and I managed to track her down.

[ It may be a miracle that they managed to work together. ]

To that end, I have some new information about the Hornets and the Import situation in general circa 2010. I can confirm that, to the best of my knowledge, everything she had to tell us was the truth as she knew it.

[ He clears his throat. He's not going to elaborate on how he knows that. ]

Richard Peter Wayne, also known as the Black Arrow, was killed during his investigations. He had been attempting to look into potential government cover-ups, but came across the Hornets along the way. Ms. Wang believes they are probably responsible for his death, and that possibly a former hero was involved or may have committed the murder. However, her attempt to investigate his death was cut short by anonymous threats, so she cremated his body and left the country.

[ And deciding to discard some of the detail on her personal life... ]

In addition, she had a fair amount to say about the Import departure in 2010. Unsurprisingly, opinions were sharply divided between the people who believed it was the right thing for them to leave and the people who thought the Imports had run away with government permission. There was a shockingly brief period of increased National Security, which surprises me immensely given my universe's United States, but it later turned out that the Import departure did not in any way escalate international conflict, since the country no longer had it's own, uh...personal superhuman weapons. Consequently, they downgraded the alert after six months.

Ms. Wang also suggested that this may have contributed to the rise of the Hornets, and at least provided them with a new group of willing recruits who were dissatisfied with both the government and the imPorts, since the Hornets side with neither. She emphasized quite clearly that they should be handled with caution and considered dangerous, particularly if former heroes may have fallen in with them.

[ There's the sound of shuffling paper, while he checks his (hideously handwritten nobody can ever decipher) notes. ]

That's the main gist of it. If any of you should come into contact with her family again, she specifically requested that they not be told why she left the country, so I'd appreciate it if you would honor that. Given that she was more than willing to cooperate we should at least be able to do that much in return.

[ He's also deliberately left out some details, such as what her assumed name is or where exactly they found her, but Matt also figures that's something he can reveal to anyone who might want to go speak to her again, and not broadcast widely. ]