brockton bay, meet glam

[mxglam]

It's the anniversary. Glam would very much not like to celebrate.

It’s their last day on Winslow High - they’re being transferred to Arcadia on Monday - and also their last day without a patrol schedule assigned.

And the PRT released a small announcement on its website about Glam joining the Wards. Now their wiki page doesn’t get erased, of course - they’re no longer speculative. They wonder what it’s got on them.

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[mxglam]

They laugh. "Yeah, that's good, I like that. Should also get consent of all the people who show up in the videos. ...maybe not show Armsmaster and Chevalier, they mostly got their butts handed to them by Fireball."

[thinkering]

"And I don't think under the circumstances you ought to ask Purity or Hookwolf or Rewind."

[mxglam]

"Right."

[thinkering]

"But I don't mind appearing, to the mostly nonexistent extent I show up personally in the interesting bits."

[mxglam]

"I could mention which parts were your idea, within the constraints of not revealing too much about strategy."

[thinkering]

"If you like, yeah, you're trying to emphasize your powers being cool, not that you're Sun Tzu. Might make you look less full of yourself."

[mxglam]

"Mmhm, the self-deprecating humor could make me more relatable, too, I want people to want me to win, not to be secretly wishing for that butthole to fail and learn their place."

[thinkering]

"Yeah. Don't overdo it, though, people only outright expect underdogs to win in movies."

[mxglam]

"'Course. I mean, we did basically singlehandedly take Purity out. Granted, she was distracted trying to multitask between me and Rewind and trying to protect Hookwolf, but we don't need to play that aspect up."

[thinkering]

"I don't think it counts as singlehanded if there were two of us."

[mxglam]

Pause. "Doublehandedly?"

[thinkering]

Snort.

[mxglam]

"Anyway, yeah, I like that, that sounds good. Other ideas? Each Endbringer's its own little beast, I need to make people believe Behemoth won't just dynakinesis the blast away, and Leviathan won't just speedster out of the way. I'm definitely not going to a Simurgh attack until the other two have been killed dead, don't think we need to worry about her."

[thinkering]

"You've shown you can do robots and can say you're working on something to carry and aim the gun through the air at high speed," says Lorica. "Dynakinesis... I'm less sure. Behemoth doesn't just take literally all the energy that enters his radius or everyone would wind up freezing solid in place, you might be able to bullshit around that."

[mxglam]

"Yeah. Bullpooping around is pretty much what my power's for."

[thinkering]

"Why are you so G-rated?"

[mxglam]

Pause. "Um. It's. Uh." They look slightly uncomfortable about it. Or very uncomfortable about it. "Kind of a... remembrance thing."

[thinkering]

"Okay."

[mxglam]

They decide to elaborate. "My mother. She used to say that swearing was... not exactly bad, but it was a tool, like all other words, and it communicated something, and if I just swore all willy-nilly, that wasn't bad per se, but if I don't swear much, when I do it's more meaningful. And, she might've just been trying to use the sort of reasoning she knew would convince me not to do it as I grew up, maybe, but now it's... sort of something I have left of her, in a way."

[thinkering]

Nod.

[mxglam]

They shake their head quickly and smile. "Anyway. No more depressing stuff, we were talking about how to kill Endbringers."

[thinkering]

"Right. So Behemoth can absorb impacts a fair amount with dynakinesis but if you can get in his range at all it doesn't actually get harder to move, is my understanding. You get, if anything, warmer, not colder; batteries and generators don't drain away to nothing. He doesn't indiscriminately leach all energy out of his radius. So come up with something halfway plausible about how you're going to shoot 'the kind of energy he doesn't control'."

[mxglam]

"Okay, promising, how do we deal with the inevitable person who's gonna call bullpoop on it and try to convince other people I'm making it all up?"

[thinkering]

"Don't allow comments?"

[mxglam]

"Even if I don't, doubtlessly people will talk about it on the PHO boards, and they might wonder why I'm not allowing comments there anyway."