branding lady, meet meek little lamb

[mxglam]

Glam isn't allowed to actually patrol the following day (it's a Sunday), so they mostly browse the 'net and read books. Echo's busy with her family (and she is allowed to go out patrolling), and Lorica's... doing something.

They're slightly worried about the fact that Yates hasn't replied to their email, but it's the weekend, so maybe that's why.

Has she replied to the email by Monday?

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[mxloen]

"My proposed power will be having a shapeshifting animal. Her name will be Ki, mine Loen."

A sparrow appears from behind Loen. Glam spent a while watching sparrow videos and reading up on them, Ki's actually pretty convincing, so far.

[alicornucopia]

"Aww she's cute," says Windflower.

[mxloen]

Ki preens herself.

"Anyway, uh. Our name's Sadde. That's S-A-D-D-E."

[msglam]

"And this is what we look like," says Glam, whose mask vanishes.

[mrglam]

Loen's mask disappears as well. "Also this."

[alicornucopia]

"What kind of weirdass name is that?" asks Boots.

[msglam]

They both shrug. "I wasn't the one to name myself, and the people who did are no longer present to be questioned about their life choices."

[msecho]

"I like it, it's pretty unique!"

[alicornucopia]

"It's bizarre. Is there one thing about you that is normal?"

[mrglam]

They both look at each other and shrug.

"My height?"

[alicornucopia]

"God save us the day you want to be Titaness or Microman and your bullshit does that too," mutters Boots.

[peterxy]

"We're parahumans, it's not as if we were all the most normal people around," says Dauntless.

[alicornucopia]

"It's a completely bullshit power!" objects Boots. "The rest of us do like one or two things!"

[msglam]

"Mine's also just one or two things, just applied very creatively." With a few very serious drawbacks, one of which caused them to be stuck with such delightful company. "If anyone has completely bullshit powers it's Tinkers."

[alicornucopia]

"Lorica couldn't pretend to be two totally different capes," says Boots.

"She could if she really wanted."

"She couldn't, her specialty'd give her away."

[msglam]

"Her specialty's automation, I can think of a few ways to spin that into very different effects and she's more creative than me, she probably could as well."

[mrglam]

"What's your actual power, Boots?"

[alicornucopia]

"Strength. Mostly in my legs," Boots says. "'S good for kicking and jumping around."

[mrglam]

"You also have higher upper-body strength?"

[alicornucopia]

"Yeah. Not as much but some."

[msglam]

"You could have one identity that's more of a Mover, using the leg strength to run really fast. Maybe not as fast as Velocity, but since you keep your strength while you're running there'd be some parkour as well and you'd be a more effective actual combatant."

[mrglam]

"The other identity would be more similar to your current one, perhaps with Tinker-made armor that could give you more of a Brute category. If you also worked a lot on your aim, you could kick other stuff at people."

[alicornucopia]

"Lorica won't make me anything," Boots says. "Armsmaster either."

[msglam]

"My point was more that sometimes powers can have more room for variation than we think of at first. Also that with Tinkers everything's possible but either they must be really interested in helping out or you must have money for that, so not much of a point in itself other than 'Tinkers have really broken powers.'"

[alicornucopia]

"Lorica makes stuff for her dad but not anybody else," sighs Windflower.