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[forwardcompatible]

[ strolling down streets as she talks, occasionally glancing around in interest, bright and cheerful. it's a sunny day, everything looks bright. ]

Not that I'm not flattered, and I mean, the job is great and all that. It's nice to know I have a way to support myself. But I think they got the wrong Gothamite. I can do computers, but I'm not really the hero type.

I'd say about how I was in the middle of stuff but that doesn't seem to be an actual concern to them.

Which is actually a little unsettling in people who want me to hero it up for them. And I've got to say, handing out powers to people you don't really know all that well yet and who just got sort of kidnapped? Not actually seeming like a bright idea from over here.

It's probably a long shot, but anyone know Terry McGinnis? [ just in case! you never know. ] Or know anything more than they've told us? It'd be nice to get more of the lay of the land.

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[fishbreath]

[ hey max are you ready for a lot of scuffling and a really long, awkward pause. because it's what you get, maybe it's even what you deserve.

BUT HEY eventually: ] ...Oh. This is working? [ scuffly blackness resolves itself into a veiled face, hooray for u maria ] Hello. I do not think not hero type bothers these people.

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[forwardcompatible]

[ she waits patiently enough (not that it's at all what she deserves!!), grinning a little bit eventually because people being bad at tech, adorable. ]

It's working. Why do you think that, though? They said they wanted heroes.

[fishbreath]

Because it seems there are very many of us, yes? I do not think so many will fit that word.

[forwardcompatible]

I haven't taken a headcount yet, but my world had a lot of heroes. And apparently people here aren't all from just one world, which is - [ terrifying? ] interesting.

Do you think you fit it?

[fishbreath]

[ She considers that one thoughtfully for a few seconds, which amounts in a shrug. Hey, if Max says so, who's she to argue? ]

No, I do not think so. Do you?

[forwardcompatible]

Do I think you're the hero type? I don't really know, that's hard to tell from a first meeting.

Me? Nah. That's not really my gig.

[fishbreath]

No, I did not mean me — I have answered that for you.

[ a beat, and with an uncertain frown: ] What is gig?

[forwardcompatible]

Well, it's a no for me too, which makes that a pretty easy answer I guess.

[ oh, uh. she pauses, shrugs. ] It's like - job, thing you do a lot, that sort of thing.

[fishbreath]

Oh. [ make sense. ] Then, what is your gig?

[forwardcompatible]

[ making sense is too hard ] I go to school, mostly. You?

[fishbreath]

At home, I was going to be a merchant. Here... I do not think I have a gig, yet.

[forwardcompatible]

Did they give you a job at all? It seems like they give most people jobs.