Day 6 | Voice | FORWARD-DATED TO TOMORROW

[exceptfebruary]

Once, Thanksgiving was celebrated by proclamation. This nation was called to give thanks, to celebrate.

It transformed into tradition. Then an annual holiday. Now it is commonplace.

[ He pauses, purposefully. His voice is soft and calm. ]

We've been taken from our worlds. Our homes. Our times. I have been here for ten months, two weeks and four days. Some of you have been here for years. Others, much less.

In that time, is there anything in this world you are thankful for? People. Places. Things. Or perhaps thankful to be here. Or maybe you're not thankful at all. Maybe everything you're thankful for has been ripped away from you.

Regardless. Today is a day to give thanks. So tell me. What are you thankful for?

Comments

[exceptfebruary]

[ Julian raises his eyebrows, squinting at the video of the picture. Apparently he's not lying! Who knew. ]

A date to remember. What sort of battle?

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

Her loser ex-boyfriend, Phantom Limb, crashed the wedding to kidnap her back because he's a pathetic creep.

I did get to punch Klaus Nomi, though. Almost made up for Simple Man.

[exceptfebruary]

[ Julian sniffs. ]

Kidnapping rarely turns out well. [ He speaks from experience. ] And to do so to one's former lover is so crass.

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

Right? And on her wedding day. Like, take the fucking hint, asshole, you lost her already.

[ He's leaving out the part where she left him for Phantom Limb and then they were hooking up in a seedy motel behind his back when he proposed to her, but whatever. ]

[exceptfebruary]

Do you celebrate your wedding anniversary by finding him and reminding him of this? [ Aka do u beat up phantom limb erry year y/n?


It's what Julian would do if he was interested in marriage. ]

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

...No, but I might have to start. Not there's a lot I could do to him that life hasn't! Last I heard, he was running around with a bunch of washed up has-beens.

[exceptfebruary]

[ Julian doesn't quite wince at that, considering his running with the Misfits could literally be described as that, but it is a bit awkward for a moment. ]

Oh? How so?

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

He couldn't get back into good standing with the Guild after his shitty coup, so he put together the Revenge Society, or something equally gay. I don't even know what they do. I think I heard something about him going crazy in Guild lock up and having sex with a shoe.

[exceptfebruary]

The Guild?

[ Him and the Monarch had spoken about how supervillainy is licensed and regulated in the Monarch's world, but the Guild itself hadn't come up. ]

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

The Guild of Calamitous Intent! Which I can't believe doesn't exist here! How do you guys get anything done? The Guild takes care of henchmen pay, villain-rival match ups, even tech funding! How else would I be able to design a giant acid magnet? Do you know how expensive destructive R&D is?

[exceptfebruary]

Henchmen are quite the cost. And technology funding? In my own world, three fourths of my expenses were on the gadgetry alone.

[ HE'S SO JEALOUS. ]

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

That's insane! And you know that's only encouraging non-productive villainy like petty theft. If you don't have funding, you have to rob a bank to build the death ray that'll take down your arch-nemesis once and for all!

[exceptfebruary]

Why would you want to kill your foe? Their death-date would be the death-date of your career.

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

[ He scoffs. ] Of course I don't actually want to kill him, but if he knows that, it takes the fun out of the whole thing for everyone.

[exceptfebruary]

True. One must keep up pretenses.

[butterflyforawhiteguy]

See, you get it. Though, on the bright side, if you do manage kill your rival, the Guild can set you up with someone else. Sure, maybe they don't "like encouraging that sort of behavior", but that's what they get for trying to set me up with someone as far below my standing as a villain as Doctor fucking Dugong.

[ Yeah he totally killed a man-atee once. It wasn't a high point in his life. ]

[exceptfebruary]

How organized. [ Julian approves. Julian always approves of organization. Even if he wouldn't kill Batman, because he wouldn't kill anyone. He wonders if they schedule things too. Mmmm, schedules. ]

But wouldn't making a match remove the personal aspect of it?