01 - video

[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?

Comments

[lovestoys]

I got my own shit going on, I don't need your lame ass trolling to rip off. I'm not going to steal your references, bro. [Just like literally everything else though, if he can get close enough. Sticky fingers and all. His eyes narrow a little at the mention of the Flash, his uncertain starting to show. Anyone smarter would already have their guards up but Axel? He's a little slow on the draw. He senses something is wrong here, he sees the warning signs and he just

well, you know, wants to see where it goes. Plotting and all that. He was gathering intel. All smart and stuff.]

Why wouldn't I like it? Come on, don't hold out on me. [There's a small pause, he tries to be subtle. Tries.] ... How do you know the Flash?

[backinakidflash]

I see a couple other people who would beg to differ.

[ Meanwhile, Bart is trying a similar tactic. This is totally subtle spywork, right? Just poking the Rogues gently, not jumping down their throats like he has been. Takin' it easy, keepin' it low key.

... he's still insulting Axel, though.]

C'mon. Everybody in Keystone knows the Flash. There's a museum and everything. I hear they're adding an 8th room in the Rogues Wing. Think you'll make the cut on that one?

[lovestoys]

Of course they'd beg to differ, they're morons.

[Says the moron. He's defensive, no one believes he invented this super cool swagtastic new look... which he did and it was admittedly based on a stolen idea but whatever, James never looked this badass. He sort of looked like a pansy.]

Of course I'll make the cut, I'm a rogue. [God damn it, he needed to piss the Flash off more or he'd never get his face in that museum.] It's a rogue wing, man, I was born to be there. I'm not just some poser, I'm one of his worst villains.

[backinakidflash]

Well, yeah, they're morons. Wait - are we talking about the same dunces?

[ ... Axel, no. Disco wing collars weren't even cool when Nightwing did it, and he's Nightwing. ]

One of the worst. Wow. That is seriously impressive. I'm so underdressed. I should've worn the suit.

[lovestoys]

Probably. I don't know man, most people here seem to be morons.

[Pfft, Nightwing has no fashion sense, he rocked a mullet bro. Axel took this look and made it cool, Nightwing could never make anything cool.]

The suit? [There's a pause as he thinks this over. Hmmm. This seemed to be going all the places Axel did not want it to go.]

[backinakidflash]

I kinda hafta agree with you. The Cold War was Dumb. Capital D.

[ So did Superman. Bart questions it to an extent, but the combination of Nightwing and Supes lends the hairstyle a lot of street cred. Maybe it was a lame fad. ]

Yeah. It's an expression. Like if you walk into a place and everyone's dressed like a prom and there you are jeans and a Van Halen tee. Should've worn the suit, should've worn the tux. That's totally a saying.

[ He's not laughing. Really. That was not a chuckle, right there. ]