007 || video (forward-dated to april 26)

[couldbebeautiful]

So that kinda sucked.

[Understatement of the year from Veronica Sawyer, who's filming this from the kitchen of De Chima #3, in front of a half-eaten plate of spaghetti with lots of oregano and some meatballs. She twists her fork around on her plate, gathering up what bits of spaghetti are left.

It's worth mentioning this is posted at 1 AM, and she is in imPort face pajamas.]

Surprisingly enough, that's not actually the first time we've had clones before. Doubles. Doppel-somethings. [A sardonic little smile.] Welcome to bizarro America, new arrivals, one day you too will have to fight your own clone.

[She sighs, and lets her fork clatter to the plate.]

Anyway, I had a point to this video? And that's to say that seeing as this has happened twice now, it might happen again. Since every time this happens the original person usually gets stuck with the fallout, it could help if we could at least disown the damage our doubles caused, prove it wasn't us who did it. We still have to clean up, but we weren't the ones responsible.

[There's a quiet whir from below, and Veronica looks away from the camera for a moment, ducks down to pet something out of view. She pops back up, and props her chin on her hand.]

And—my double, the first time I had one, tried to make my friend an accomplice in a bank robbery. So in the interests of avoiding that, we need some way of proving to the people we care about, and possibly the authorities too, that we're us, not some knockoff.

That way, if this happens again—and I really hope it doesn't, I'd rather not have to tell the police it wasn't me again—we're ready. Or at least we're ready enough that the fallout isn't as bad as it could be.

[She picks up the fork, twists spaghetti around it again. Almost as an afterthought:] Oh, yeah, while I'm here, anyone else play croquet around here? Does anyone else want to? I'm pretty much the only one I know who regularly does, and I'm willing to teach what I know.

(no subject)

[gazeboeffect]

[ If anyone remembers Eddie's first explosive video to the network, they might be a bit surprised when his second one starts off very calmly. Almost too calmly. He's pale and pinched looking, as usual, but a closer look might reveal that he's actually sweating a little bit. ]

What do you do if you have a power that could really help people, but—but it could really hurt people, too? And to help someone it means you have to hurt someone else, or hurt yourself? What are you supposed to do about that? What if people are asking you to help them but it means you have to screw someone else over to do it?