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.

Comments

[thinkering]

"Thanks."

[mxglam]

"You're welcome for my only stating the facts and very reasonable conclusions drawn from them."

[thinkering]

"Heh."

[mxglam]

Glam edits footage of the Purity fight, with some advice from the Boston branding person. Heroes getting their hineys whopped are edited out, but slightly kicked is okay; people don't like it when heroes are too infallible. The self-deprecating humor is used, with Lorica's line ("I don't remember this part but it probably hurt.") being used verbatim.

It's published a couple of days later, and a link is posted on the PHO Brockton Bay message board.

[thinkering]

Lorica's bot is only discreetly partisan. Commenters are delighted to have this footage and speculate that the bot took it (the bot admits this) and have various mostly approving remarks about kicking Nazi ass, various mostly approving remarks about the shape of Rewind's ass (Lorica's bot removes these for perving on a cape of unknown age), and the occasional decent suggestion for how to use Glam's power (drop things on people, trap them in boxes).

[mxglam]

Ooh, dropping things on people is a nice idea, though have to be careful not to hurt them too much. The boxes would have to be pretty durable, though, especially with someone like Purity inside.

[alicornucopia]

Line it with mirrors! If it's somebody like her I mean.

[mxglam]

Yeah, I like that idea. Though she's pretty well captured, now, so wrt her it won't matter much :P

[alicornucopia]

People who think Glam is faking are somewhat thin on the ground. Purity's capture was announced and video editing is difficult, after all.

[mxglam]

And technically they're not faking it, since they did in fact do those things. Isn't it nice how easy it is to believe in things that actually happened?

[alicornucopia]

So is this gonna be a regular thing or just like celebrating getting the nazi bitch

[mxglam]

Glam is irked by the sexist language, but pings Lorica's bot instead of saying anything about it. Instead:

Yeah, planning on making it regular, as long as I don't run out of things to post.

[alicornucopia]

Lorica's bot points out that swearing per se is not against the rules and there is no precedent for deleting one-off uses of "bitch". "Cunt" would be another matter.

[mxglam]

Sigh. Alright, they guess.

[msglam]

Later, Boots and Glam are in the gym for one of their usual self-directed training session.

"Alright, so, I'm thinking we could do a multiple-assailant session today, I could get several mes to attack you at the same time, what do you say?"

[alicornucopia]

"Sounds good. I wasted a bunch of those plant things but more practice is good."

[msglam]

"Yeah, especially if that Blasto guy's more prepared next time." Six costumed Glams appear, surrounding Boots. "They're just gonna charge, nothing special about them, no flight, no superstrength. They're just human, though, so you can't go all out on them. Say when."

[alicornucopia]

Boots sizes up the extra Glams, then says, "When."

He leaps, lands hard on a Glam's shoulders.

[msglam]

Crack.

Pause.

"I am very happy my copies can't feel pain," she says, even though the noises and faces (emojis) it's doing would seem to indicate otherwise. "You'll need to hold back way more than that, you could've broken their spine or worse, and that will be hell on our PR department, especially if someone sues."

[alicornucopia]

"I just landed on it," says Boots. "I'm supposed to aim for shoulders because shoulders're hard to kill somebody with. That and knees."

[msglam]

"Yeah, sure, but even breaking them, when we're talking about normal humans and not capes, could be bad. Maybe I'm exaggerating, but I figure controlling your force's good practice anyway. Try to drop them a little bit more nicely? And maybe aim for the front of the shoulder instead of the top?"

[alicornucopia]

Boots grumbles but he goes back to his original starting position.

[msglam]

The Glam he broke disappears and is replaced by a healthier one. "Alright, whenever you want."

[alicornucopia]

"Go."

[mxglam]

All of the Glams go, but only three try to make contact, since there isn't space for all of them.