maskormenace | ① video. before the swear-in boat trip

[Congrats Heropa, you have one uncertain looking teenager on the network. Both arms are crossed over his chest (which is missing the usual red S) and Conner practically glares at the phone that he's set up. Behind him is the turmoil of his room that the people currently in Residence 16 might have heard him tossing about. The bed has been upended and is sitting on its side against one of the walls along with the rest of the furniture - some may notice he's taken a couple of chairs from the common area. That doesn't leave a lot of open space in the rest of his room and that's the way he likes it.

He also may or may not have searched for bugs.

Curled up on one of those chairs is an excessively large white wolf, part of his body spills off the chair. Wolf has his resting on one the arms and doesn't seem to care about Conner or his public broadcast.]

So...it's the fourth of July. A day of independence and freedom. Feels kind of ironic to have shown up on this day. [He doesn't elaborate on that more but certain people know.]

Are we expected to keep the jobs they gave us or are we allowed to find a new one? [Conner does not look excited about the prospect of having to keep it.] I'll give it a try but I don't know how well it will go over for me working at a fitness place.

[Sure, he can benchpress a small car but that doesn't mean he can teach someone to benchpress a car.]

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That's exactly it.

Well, I don't know, I'm not exactly a superhero, so I don't really handle that kind of thing. Er, used to, but I never had to trip over people to do anything. I'm more of an administrative kind of guy.

Seems like an administrative kind of guy would know the stats on the cities and heroes against the ratio of crime.

Not...that kind of administrative. I'm the Import Representative, and I could get you the information, if you want it, it's just not at the top of my head.

But shit, you want it? I can make sure you get it.

Yeah, I want it. It'd be nice to know if we're going to do this whole registration thing and become heroes.

Where we are, Heropa, is generally pretty flooded. Lots of heroes, and most imports aren't willing to see a crime go without stepping in -- but we don't always... well, some people are better than others at superhero work. Nonah and DeChima are pretty average, but the import population is pretty low everywhere but here. We haven't had much time to expand out from Heropa, of course --

And then there's Maurita Falls, that one's got a bit higher of a crime rate but... I don't know, it's definitely not obscene, but there are just some places, if you look at what people are being arrested for, it kind of stinks, you know?

[He nods.]

Yeah, I get it.

Do you know if they have government housing in those other cities?

Yeah, they do. I mean, people work there, and some people aren't fans of commuting. If this wasn't a damn hub of activity, I'd move elsewhere myself.

It's okay if you aren't planning on doing a lot of heroing but if I'm putting myself on their list, I might as well get used to it now.

Yeah, I'm sure. And no, I'm not, I'm a politician, not a superhero.

Yeah but are you seriously telling me that if you see something happening right in front of you, that you wouldn't help?

Of course I would, any decent person would. [ Hah. Hahaha. ]

It's just...well, there are some times when maybe trying to help does more harm than good.

True, except how would you know if it would do more harm when you started unless you have the ability to predict the future?

Edited 2014-07-16 19:47 (UTC)

I don't need to predict the future to know I'm shitty at something. If you wreck six cars, you don't need to get in a fucking seventh.

① video. before the swear-in boat trip

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