endbringer, meet gun

[peterxy]

...Very unseasonable rains can be seen in the distance from the shores of Acapulco.

The Brockton Bay Protectorate starts organizing volunteers to be transported or teletransported in batches to it. Heroes, rogues, villains, anyone's assistance is appreciated. A rendez-vous point is set for non-Protectorate capes wishing to volunteer, and Protectorate capes are informed of the situation via communication devices.

Comments

[mrglam]

"...it probably fits your 'weird category.'"

"Or some approximation thereof."

[thinkering]

"Ah."

[mrglam]

"...though it just occurred to me that the conclusions you've just drawn from this can be quite wild."

"It is not very wild."

"Let's not weird her out further, yes?"

"Let's not."

"Having two of me for some reason makes me want to do a lot of my internal post-processing out loud and I probably shouldn't be doing this."

[thinkering]

"I mean, I can't claim to mind, it's fascinating, but it's up to you."

[mrglam]

They look at each other, then at her, then at each other again, then at her. "I think you probably would mind if it was completely unfiltered."

[thinkering]

"Yes, but it isn't. That, you should do on your own time."

[mrglam]

"Not talking about that."

[thinkering]

"Anyway, if you like the 'animals' theme and want to go with it as your second powerset you should have a name ready unless you want Yates coming up with something for you."

[mrglam]

"Giving that we're only doing this to appease her in the first place, I don't terribly mind. I'm tempted to do the 'Aha! We were the same person all along!' revelation upon graduating regardless. I bet that would make me at least somewhat notorious pretty fast."

"Well, not necessarily, but it'd still be funny."

"We should probably not do things just because they're funny."

[thinkering]

"It's not a terrible idea but you might have to not swear in if you're going to tweak the bureaucracy's nose like that."

[mrglam]

"Yes this would be if I did not swear in."

"Which. I probably will not do. I had been considering it but unless the rest of my year is absolutely amazing and fantastic beyond my hopes and dreams..."

"...both Yates and Piggot have managed to make it pretty unlikely that I'll want to stay."

[thinkering]

"I don't blame you. Okay, so you can do flying swordfish, if anybody outside the org gets suspicious about how they do things I will claim to have made you accessories, and other you does shaker-blaster inanimate objects, and plants you can leave for Drupe because come to think of Yates won't like plants being your thing too and somebody would probably have to move."

[mrglam]

"I don't mind leaving plants to Drupe, and having two layers of misdirection about my power sounds like something that will play out interestingly in the end."

[thinkering]

"Yeah. You sure you want to let her name you? She wasn't complaining that I heard about 'Glam'."

[mrglam]

"Piggot said she'd actually complimented Glam so our tastes aren't directly opposed. And Glam only really makes sense because of my actual powerset, I'd have to think about what I'd name a subpowerset and honestly I'm lazy."

[thinkering]

"All right then. I have an excuse to be the one to write in about this because I'm administering power tests, if you want the buffer between you and them."

[mrglam]

"Yeah." Pause. "Has Piggot mentioned the two mes idea to Yates, do you think?"

[thinkering]

"Maybe, probably depends on how busy she is today. Might be waiting for me to report in."

[mrglam]

"'Cause if she knows about it beforehand it might be harder to convince her of going for another solution that wouldn't involve having two of me with more limited powersets."

[thinkering]

"That ship might have sailed."

[mrglam]

"That's a possibility, but I don't want to make it more likely. I'm trying to think of arguments that I might use, if I start the conversation saying that she's the final authority yadda yadda will she maybe consider doing something I suggest if she thinks it's not bad?"

[thinkering]

"Do you have another idea...?"

[mrglam]

"One is sacrifice some of the relatability and play up the strangeness. Mysterious character, featureless costume, all-concealing mask, kinda similar vibe to Myrddin, make the interest in me be more because I'm not easy to read, somewhat like you. Another to address the market segmentation is just having two lines of products that are different somehow, she'd know how better than I could."

[thinkering]

"If you go to her with that, then if she doesn't reject you out of hand she'll want you to not talk in costume or something like that."

[mrglam]

"I am perfectly okay with not talking in costume! The snark and taunting are nonessential parts of the experience."