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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[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'."

[mrglam]

"Ouch." He rubs his eyes with the heels of his hands. "Okay. My character would say something like 'there's another reason to become awesome' but I'm not in the mood to play it. I just- need to stop doing things so much. It's probably part of this character, believing I'm invincible, I can do anything, nothing will go wrong. This is the right frame of mind to control my power, but it's not so good for everything else. I can't fucking just believe everything will go right and then have it all go right, I need to grow up and actually look at how to accomplish things, and it hurts a little bit to say it. Feels so obvious, another thing I missed." He lowers his hands and opens his eyes, then sighs. "I'll do better."