1st Step; Video

[choreographics]

[It's been a few days since Ryan's arrived in Heropa, and after the weekend in Nonah he's come to realize that he's actually not going anywhere anytime soon. He's actually a hero…like…with real powers. The whole thing's bizarre, but when the video pops on anyone watching will just see a blonde teenager with a newsboy cap firmly planted on his head sitting on the floor of his room at Residence #004, despite the fact he should possibly be in school right now. Whatever. He'll figure it out later.]

So I have a question. What if I don't want one of my powers? I can talk to someone about making an exchange, right? What if I want to trade out one of them for something less…[He just makes a vague hand gesture. He's not sure he feels like disclosing that his powers freak him out a little.] Like…like, I don't know, flying? Or…shooting lasers from my eyes? Something?

[There's a sheepish smile accompanying the sentence.] Okay, so I don't really know a lot about this whole hero thing. It's one thing to play pretend on stage my whole life, but this? I don't even know where to start. [A lull of silence follows as Ryan thinks of how to continue, but he seemingly grasps onto a totally other thought just then.]

Oh! But hey, speaking of, who can I talk to about getting a wireless microphone? I've got something I want to try.

Comments

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[choreographics]

Do you know where they might have gone? That's sort of a lot of species to suddenly disappear. Maybe. We still haven't discovered alien life.

[Wait.]

Thousands of planets?

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[abadidea]

Sure, we've been at it for over three hundred years. [His expression darkens, though.] They're dead.

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[choreographics]

....if the aliens are dead...and it's been three hundred years...what's left?

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[abadidea]

Just us, and a lot of extra-solar colonies running low on resources.

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[choreographics]

Is it going to sound bad if I say I'm glad I won't be alive that far into the future? [Shrug.]

So if you're a systems engineer how does that translate in this place? What'd the Porter do to you?

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[abadidea]

It's not so bad, really. Maybe I have a skewed opinion, though.

[He nods.] I still work on ships, just ones that travel on the ocean.

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[choreographics]

[A pause...then, incredulously--] That doesn't sound like much of a power.

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[abadidea]

[He pauses for a moment then laughs.]

That's not my super power. It's just my job.

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[choreographics]

[...well that's not helpful.]

Oh. I mean my powers are sort of related to my job here but I don't have a job back home, so...I sort of just assumed, I guess?