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]

"No, not really. Like I said, at worst I have a cracked rib, and I'll find that out by tomorrow, and I've had worse. I can deal."

[thinkering]

"If you're positive..."

[mxglam]

"I am."

[thinkering]

"Okay."

[mxglam]

"...so, uh, before I go, uh. Um. Can- can you tell me when you want to discuss the, thing?"

[thinkering]

"To be perfectly honest I wasn't planning to bring it up."

[mxglam]

"Oh. Okay. I guess that's- reasonable. I should, probably go."

[thinkering]

"I mean I'm very flattered, just. I'm straight?"

[mxglam]

"Uh. That's- I mean-"

[mrglam]

"It doesn't sound like that big of a deal, considering?"

[thinkering]

"Isn't it? You didn't want to be just one thing for the press."

[mrglam]

"Well, I- it's complicated. I mean, I won't be able to be just- this, forever, all of the time. That I can't do. So if, if that's a requirement, then, yeah. I can't be just one thing, and imagining people, all over- everywhere, thinking of me as one thing or the other, forever, and expecting me to be- I mean, crap, now that I phrase it this way, I can't even imagine what that'd do with my power."

Deep sigh.

"But a lot of the time I'm. This."

[thinkering]

"I mean, your power doesn't care what I think so that's not a factor but I was still imagining it'd make you uncomfortable. There is also the fact that you do not know my name or what I look like."

[mrglam]

"It would probably not make me uncomfortable to be like this when I was with you, if you don't mind what I'm like when I'm not. And I don't really... care what you look like. It's- you? Your, your self. You surprise me, in a way that's not... surprising? I expect you to surprise me, kinda, I like watching you think, watching you work, talking to you, seeing you navigate the world and the way you do it, and. I am very good at verbalizing my thoughts, I could go on, but I think you got the gist of it."

[thinkering]

"For all you know I'm a Case 53 with spider mandibles and ninety five percent warts by surface area."

[mrglam]

He tilts his head. "That would preclude making out, probably," he admits. "But I'm not that fond of making out anyway."

[thinkering]

Lorica snorts. "I had kind of planned to nun my way through life what with cape life expectancy and most of the people I meet being horrible."

[mrglam]

"The tense of that verb makes me hopeful."

[thinkering]

"Of course it does. But like... I don't know, you seem. I'm going to say 'well intentioned'?"

[mrglam]

"...is that bad? I can't tell if you mean that in a bad way."

[thinkering]

"It's better than being maliciously intentioned and not as good as being consistently successful."

[mrglam]

"...oh."

[thinkering]

"I mean... you see what I mean, don't you?"

[mrglam]

"Yes. Yes I do."

[thinkering]

"And so I do like you but I have really high standards for 'better than nothing'."