RUE MOORE HAS IT: MARCH EDITION

[ruemoore]

Hellooooo, metacuties!

First - is the Alliance now hiring non-metas, too? This strapping swordsman was seen helping civilians out of a starchy situation in Little Love!

[ a photograph of six jogging along a country road with a large pack on his back appears on the screen. it looks like it was taken from a moving car as it drove past him. ]

Reports say that he was using nothing but two swords and his own raw strength! Is that all it takes these days? Where do I apply?

The wholesome vigilante Squirrel Girl may, in fact, be Squirrels Girl! Witnesses have reported seeing a short, furry figure stop a mugger, only to retreat from authorities by dissolving into a pile of squirrels! One helpful source sent along this picture!

[ a photo flashes up onto the screen! ]

Central City had better watch out! They may be coming for your bird feeders next!

Speaking of bird feeders–let's not forget about the influx of strange vigilante children! Several different “Robins” have been seen throughout the city, all wearing similar bright costumes in red, yellow, and green. Are they clones? Different models of robotic child soldiers? What’s with their fashion sense?

Out in Little Love, they're raising the reward for the capture of their mystery thief! I wonder who it could be? Rumor has it someone wearing a dark coat has been spotted at every reported incident. Talk about tall, dark, and nefarious!

In Excelsior, CapeSpotter2k23 managed to catch sight of a very heated rivalry!

[ another photo flashes up on the screen. It’s a low-quality and somewhat blurry shot of two people on a rooftop, one grabbing the lapels of the other’s jacket. outside of costume they might not be recognizable, but as it is, they’re fairy identifiable as the Alliance hero Prodigy and the Society villain Anathema. ]

Stay tuned for updates! This looks like it's going to get juicy!

On a final note: there's been concerns about a new unaligned metahuman by the name Galatea rampaging around! She claims to be a hero, but can anyone Unaligned truly be someone fighting for justice? A little bird told me she's something of a loose canon. Only time will tell! Hopefully she doesn't cause mass destruction before someone figures that out!

Hear anything fun? Exciting? Have some theories on what's going on with those Robins or the rivalmance between Prodigy and Anathema? Pleaase let me know!

I'll see you all next month. ♡

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[fearfully_symmetrical]

Display Name: Galatea
Profile Photo: None
Notes: N/A

[Since the false universe had...ended? Collapsed? She'd felt its loss far ore keenly than she'd felt anything in her entire life. She couldn't remember it. She knew it had existed, but she couldn't remember what had happened - and why she felt such a profound sense of loss over it.]

[Whatever it was caused an ache in her heart, a feeling she'd never experienced before. She'd never had anything to really lose, before. Cadmus hadn't encouraged much of anything in the way of possessions. She was a weapon, made for a mission. And that had been enough.]

[Here, though, she'd begun to follow her own desires, and that had been fun and then there was...there was...something. Something warm, and perfect and its loss caused her such sadness.]

[And having nobody to talk to about that, and never having experienced these feelings before...]

[The video comes on, and she's clearly handed the device over to an onlooker. In the distance, there is a massive-looking robot, a good eight feet tall. It's surrounded by police cars, which it is firing into with an arm-mounted gatling gun. The story has been on the news, some mad scientist or other - the police have her in custody already - but her creation has been absconding with materials...until now.]

Just make sure they see, ok?

[The camera is held, shakily, a voice mentioning this is a bad idea on their part - but Galatea launches up into the sky, streaking for altitude.]

[She has no idea what these feelings are. But she's sure she knows how to make them better. And so it is that the robot looks up, single red eye glowing, raising its arm and firing into the sky as a white-clad blur slams down into it. The bullets do nothing to her, and the robot is driven into the ground. And then she starts to slam her fists down into its chestplate, the sound of them ringing off the metal drowning out everything.]

[One of the robot's arms manages to strike her across the head, and this creates a look on her face of even greater rage. She steps down hard on the shoulder joint, ripping the arm from its socket with a roar. And then strikes the robot across the head over and over again with it, until the face plate comes flying off - and then, breaking the arm over her leg and tossing it aside, she balls her fists and unleashes a blast of red eye beams directly into the robot's sensitive circuitry, frying through it in seconds. Only when the robot stops moving does she reach down, tearing the remains of the head free and then crushing it bit by bit between her hands, until it's just a lump of metal.]

[She steps away from it, floating a few inches off the ground, past the faces of police who are less thankful than confused - and a bit frightened. She retrieves her device, and before it shuts off, her voice can be heard again - and the especially keen-eyed may think they noticed a tear on her cheek.]

There. That'll show them.

Day. Saved.