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[nepotis]

Display Name: natalis.pueri
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Notes: anon post, cw possible references to alcohol use in comments

if it was your birthday
and you could ask whoever or whatever brought us here
this Confluence or whatever the fuck
if you could ask them for one birthday wish
what would you ask for?

Comments

[bestversion]

in what way?

[nepotis]

we only have one guy who's out there wearing a costume, fighting crime. not a whole institutionalized system full of them.

[bestversion]

I've always had that. The Avengers, the Guardians, X-Men.

[nepotis]

guess you must feel right at home here, then.

[bestversion]

Home's what we make of it.

[ she doesn't like the term otherworldly. it feels like a way of rejecting things that are different. ]

[nepotis]

it is.
so what kind of home do you want to make for yourself?

[bestversion]

I'm not sure yet.

But I do know I'm not Team Guild.

[nepotis]

not big on playing "Hero" for the masses? toeing the company line?

[bestversion]

No. That wasn't why I became a hero.

[nepotis]

why, then? what possible reason could you have for putting on a mask and fighting overpowered freaks?

[bestversion]

Because I have the power to do so. If you have power, what's the point of it if you're not going to make someone's life better?

[nepotis]

to make your own life better?
not everyone is so selfless.

[bestversion]

This is how I was raised. My parents help people. My community helps people.

Does it matter if no one else is selfless as long as someone is trying to be?

[nepotis]

that's a hell of a responsibility to take on for one person.

[bestversion]

Then it's a good thing I'm not on my own.

[nepotis]

so what's your herosona?
Mom's Food Gal?

[bestversion]

It's Ms. Marvel.

[nepotis]

you know what? I was going to make fun of it no matter what you said, but that name actually doesn't suck.

[bestversion]

Thanks. I think.

[nepotis]

[ Sorry, Marvel. This is the best you're going to get from him. ]

so what does Ms. Marvel do, besides be marvelous and eat her mom's home cooking?

[bestversion]

Fight crime, help with community stuff. I did roadworks as my last big mission.

It's not always exciting. Sometimes it's just. Being there when someone needs help.

[nepotis]

roadwork? what, like a crossing guard in a costume?

[bestversion]

No, the roads got flooded and I had to help ferry people safely.

Bad infrastructure is just as villainous.

[nepotis]

if not more so.

I appreciate the bona fides. it sounds like you're the real deal. not all "heroes" are so helpful.

[bestversion]

[ she doesn't know what to say to that. she's seeing the downsides of it. the whole civil war escapade. bruce banner's death. ]

I try to be.