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[attractedtodarkness]

[One teenage girl with long brown hair draped down the sides of her face is staring at her new phone incredulously. Her tone one of disbelief and sarcasm.]

"Don't worry, we're the [Insert air quotes here] 'good guys'"? Seriously? Talk about mega government conspiracies. I'm not buying any of that bullshit.

[There's a pause as she reaches for something off camera]

First thing's first, if anyone has a lighter I can borrow, I want to burn the shit out of this file. [she waves the back of her personnel file in front of the camera briefly] I don't know how they got my information but I'm not about to share it. And if someone can lend me enough cash for a flight to Los Angeles, it'll be great.

[she turns away from the phone, seemingly about to end her message before turning back]

Oh, right. If you're my roommate, I only have one rule: Don't touch my stuff.

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[attractedtodarkness]

[Violet snorts]

Thanks, I guess.

How many of us are there? I see a bunch of numbered houses here.

[demonspawn]

Honestly? I have no idea. The Porter started dumping a lot of you guys out lately.

[attractedtodarkness]

So that's the slang? Porter for teleporters and ImPorts because we came by Porter? Talk about originality.

[demonspawn]

Yeah? Well, the place we used to live in? Was called "the City." So. Creativity in naming's not exactly a strong point around here.

[attractedtodarkness]

Guess "saving the world" isn't their only problem. So is it true? This is America but none of the shit we know is here?

[demonspawn]

Basically. As far as we know. Even the veterans haven't been in this universe very long. For all we know, everyone's actually sentient squids in people suits and this is a figment of our imagination.

[attractedtodarkness]

At least we'd have something original to deal with. Hell, aliens would make more sense than this.

[demonspawn]

Careful what you wish for. We've actually had aliens. And some other weird shit.

[attractedtodarkness]

Great. Sounds peachy.

[demonspawn]

Yup. Welcome to Heropa.

[attractedtodarkness]

Thanks. I bet I'll hate it here.

[demonspawn]

[ wryly: ]

Most of us do.

[attractedtodarkness]

[snorts] I guess you're not so bad either.

[demonspawn]

No, I definitely am. Just in a different way.

[attractedtodarkness]

Yeah? You murder people?

[demonspawn]

What? No.

Not on purpose anyway. I just have power issues, that's all.

[attractedtodarkness]

Then you're still better than some people I know.

What's your power anyway?

[demonspawn]

[ he pauses slightly before answering. ]

I'm immortal. And I transform into people's worst fears.

[attractedtodarkness]

[that's a new one]

Literally? How would you know other people's fears?

[demonspawn]

I don't know. I just sense them. Like, all the time.

[ another awkward beat. ]

My dad's the demon lord of nightmares or something stupid like that. So. A part of me kinda feeds on it. The fear, I mean.

[attractedtodarkness]

[quite flippantly:] Cool.

Look, you're obviously uncomfortable about it so you don't have to talk about it if you don't want to.

[demonspawn]

[ he squints at her through the feed a bit skeptically. ]

Did you just say "cool?"

[attractedtodarkness]

Yeah?

[demonspawn]

Do you normally react that way when someone tells you they're basically a Satanic cult baby with the world's shittiest powers?

[attractedtodarkness]

Dunno. Never met that many people with supernatural powers.