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[lovestoys]

[Okay so this tech? Rad as all hell. He has no idea how it works, how it's so slim lined and tiny, where the batteries go or why he even has it but it's so bitching, he's not even gonna protest it. His now. No backsies. Ever.

He doesn't quite get what's happening and he doesn't quite care so mostly, he's just looking to reach out. Communicate. Make friends. Maybe even a love connection cause, you know, yolo. Stranger things have happened. The video is on him and yes, he's rocking an awful outfit of blue and yellow and yes, he doesn't pull it off at all. Does he care? Naaaah. He grins an obnoxious grin that will kind of make you want to punch his little gremlin face in.

He decides to go with a time tested and flawless way to both express his interest in all these glorious people, all at once, and convey the right depth and emotions required for a first intro.]

Wazzzzzzzzup?!

[Nailed it, yo.]

This place is so dope! This is the Trickster comin' atcha and I am delighted to be here. How are you beautiful people?

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[lovestoys]

Nah, that's the old dude. Screw him. I'm the better one.

[Have a big massive unsettling grin.]

You should know this, Pipes. [Never called him Pipes before but whatever, rocking that nickname. Enjoy, bro.]

[socialactivillain]

[ He actually visibly bristles at "Pipes". He's actually kind of fond of the nickname when James uses it, but coming from this kid, it sounds somehow insulting. ]

Do we know each other?

[lovestoys]

Kind of. I mean we never really hung out properly cause of the whole 'I'm better than you guys' bullshit but then that fell apart and we totally took down that punk bastard with us.

So I figure we're bros now, right? [RIGHT? Murder buddies :D] Don't pretend not to know me, man. That stick gets old.

[socialactivillain]

[ There are so many questions here. ]

I'm not your bro, and I genuinely don't have any idea who you are.

[lovestoys]

What?

Wait, what?

How? I'm the Trickster. Axel Walker? ... James threw me in a dumpster once? [Hey, it was a pretty memorable moment. He was hoping it'd trigger memories.]

[socialactivillain]

It was 1998 for me when the Porter brought me here. I'm thankfully a little behind the times.

[lovestoys]

Oh man, that just means you get the pleasure of getting to know me twice.

[Hear that? PLEASURE.]

I'm Axel Walker and I am the best Trickster in town.

[socialactivillain]

I sincerely doubt it.

[lovestoys]

Hey, you always admired my sweet moves.

[You didn't but you can't prove otherwise so THERE.]

[socialactivillain]

Look, whatever you think, I'm reformed. If you're stealing James' name and color scheme to be a Rogue, first of all, you should make better life choices, but secondly, I'm not going to admire anything about that.

[lovestoys]

Not stealing, really. More calling eternal dibs because he was done with it.

[Totes a different thing.] And are you ever not reformed? How do we have a hot Cold before we have an evil you?

[socialactivillain]

Funny, him throwing you in a dumpster would seem to suggest otherwise.

[ He narrows his eyes at that last comment, though. ]

And I was never evil.

[lovestoys]

Nah, he's just afraid to love me.

[There's such a cocky little smile on his face.]

Boooooring. So you were always a wet blanket? Ew.

[socialactivillain]

[ Piper likes to think he's not a violent person (he likes to think a good number of things that aren't true), but something about that smile kind of makes him want to punch the kid. He scowls in response. ]

Look, there's a difference between knocking over jewelry stores in your twenties and actually being evil.

[lovestoys]

Okay so not evil. Like not good? Bad. When were you like on team rogue? Cause you chill with them but you never seem good at it.

[JUST SAYING.]

[socialactivillain]

[ Oh now you gone and done it punk. ]

I'll have you know I am great at what I do. At what I did. I just use it for better purposes now than having extra beer money and sitting uncomfortably on the other end of a couch where Mirror Master is getting a lapdance from an underpaid prostitute.

[lovestoys]

You say that but why didn't you use the money to get your own lapdance instead of wingmanning Mirror Master's? I'm sure you can get like a dude to get all up in your junk and dance around, right? That's what you're into?

[He heard the whole 'Piper is a homo' thing. Surely there's gay lapdances???

Because that, clearly, is the issue here.]

[socialactivillain]

[ Piper can't even form a coherent response to that, just a lot of angry, indignant sputtering. ]

[lovestoys]

Whaaaaat? Dude, what?

I said you can get a lapdance! Equality, bro. Homos should get lapdances too. [Just gonna casually offend you with homophobia.]

[socialactivillain]

Just— Just stop. Forget I said anything about lapdances.

[lovestoys]

So that's a no to lapdances? You know you brought up how unfair they are and you don't even want to fix the problem. Seems like it's weird to complaint in the first place.

[socialactivillain]

It was never about the lapdances.

[lovestoys]

Really? Cause you brought them up.