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dtf ([personal profile] dramaking) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2016-02-07 04:15 pm

01 [little bit of everything]

[Shatterstar has been to a lot of strange places, and seen a lot of strange things, but this device is new to him. He's been told that the similar devices back from the version of earth he's from are called "smartphones" (he assumes this is ironic, as they don't even have the barest A.I. capability), but the ones he's seen before don't have functions like this.

What ends up being broadcast is: first a recording of what seems to be several seconds of silence followed by the muffled sound of something like the snapping of fingers. Then there's a video, footage of a few seconds of what looks like a deserted alleyway. He's testing out its functions; he's not dumb enough to let himself get recorded while he does it. At least not until he knows the nature of his enemy.

Then, finally, there's text.]


This is Shatterstar. If my teammates are out there and can respond, do so. I'll find you.

To the villains behind this farce, know this. If you think you can control me, you are laughably mistaken. I have bested far more capable than you. Your "government" does not intimidate a warrior born.


[Okay, that last bit he just threw in for fun. Let them come after him. He could use a workout, if they even proved to be that skilled.]
slightlyoffchilt: (Inchoate.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-09 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
And when you inevitably fail? I know of a few good bars around, which you might be in sore need of.

[And soon enough, he will tell a different new imPort that using alcohol as a coping device was bad.]
slightlyoffchilt: (Subacid.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-09 11:28 am (UTC)(link)
What does work on you?
slightlyoffchilt: (Consume.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-10 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well yes. I'm a psychiatrist, there's always a point to my line of questioning.

[Debatable.]
slightlyoffchilt: (Inchoate.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-11 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Psychiatrists and psychics. Are two different things.
slightlyoffchilt: (Descry.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-11 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Aversion to conversational insight and -- from what I can detect -- a paranoid tendency.

I wonder how severe your PTSD is.
slightlyoffchilt: (Outré.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-11 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Your Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.

[As an afterthought:]

A common malady among those warriors who have seen impressive battle.
slightlyoffchilt: (Meretricious.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-11 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Success!]

How do you know that, if you've never been properly evaluated?
slightlyoffchilt: (Anomalistic.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-11 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
Denial is a most unfortunate symptom, Mr. Shatterstar. I only wish to improve your condition.
slightlyoffchilt: (Outré.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-11 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Such is the power of psychiatry.
slightlyoffchilt: (Vantage.)

[personal profile] slightlyoffchilt 2016-02-11 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow!! Rude!! Which prompts Chilton to begin an (unofficial and not consented to) psychological profiling file of Shatterstar! It is one page and has "very rude PTSD" written on it!!]