blasto, meet official opinions on self-replicating minions

[peterxy]

The PRT catches wind of a strange increase in disappeared domestic animals in the downtown area. Given that the people who live there are the rich and powerful, this is clearly a problem that needs to be investigated and solved immediately. The PRT, of course, agrees that this is of utmost importance, and not just because of precedent about mass abductions of pets, of course not, why would you think that, they are so very worried about Fido, even Scion recognizes the merits of rescuing lost pets.

(Lorica's asked to maybe keep a few more eyes there than she has been.)

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[thinkering]

The bot watches patiently.

[mxglam]

Yup. Twiddling thumbs. The copy acts completely uninterestingly until it receives an email back, reads it, and starts back toward Lorica's workshop.

[thinkering]

The bot accompanies it.

[mxglam]

The copy has arrived, and becomes perceptibly livelier once inside!

"Branding says it's not a secret per se, but if you must include triggers in your account try not to scare the children and make some up that aren't very bad nor real. They also recommend trying to go the route of 'so you got new powers you didn't choose, what do' instead of mentioning triggers at all," the copy explains. "And they added a line wondering if you didn't want to take the chance to educate the kids on trans issues."

[thinkering]

"Might be easier to compose the latter presentation but there's less flashy special effects."

[mxglam]

"Also it's boring," Glam says grimacing.

Copy switches to becoming another Glam-spokesperson: "I don't want to do activism for trans stuff, especially given all the trouble this has given me."

Original: "And this may be a bit selfish, given that I kinda am in a uniquely, uh, privileged position for that, but."

[thinkering]

"Weren't you arguing about being a role model when you were trying to convince Yates?"

[mxglam]

"Yes, that was what I was arguing," Copy agrees.

"But I was just correctly predicting that associating Glam with a single gender would cause me dysphoria," Original completes.

"I mean, I do like being a role model, but I don't want this to be my point," the Copy adds, squirming a bit uncomfortably.

[thinkering]

"You're giving one presentation," says Lorica. "You don't have to be all about its topic. But obviously it's up to you."

[mxglam]

"I know, what I mean is that this would be the second time there's this public thing about me and transness, and it might become a stereotype or make me look a bit one-track."

[thinkering]

"This one's smaller scale, although I suppose I can't guarantee no one will decide to televise it."

[mxglam]

"Even if no one televises it, it'll end up on the PHO Forums eventually."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, which are also pretty low scale."

[mxglam]

"But as of right now basically the only source of information on me, so that when I'm a famous household name the media will get their stuff from there."

"Do you think I should do that instead of the powers thing?" copy wonders.

[thinkering]

"Do what instead of the powers thing?"

[mxglam]

"A presentation about trans issues."

[thinkering]

"Oh. There's advantages but I can see not wanting to be one-note? You haven't touched it in, say, your webseries though..."

[mxglam]

"Mmhm, but the webseries has the direct purpose of, you know, making people expect me to be generally awesome and invincible," original explains.

"Whereas this would only have that expectation happen as a side effect," copy adds.

"Not to mention that, again, it's sort of expected for capes to go to schools and talk about Social Stuff, and even if talking about trans stuff in particular might be novel, it's unlikely to be especially engaging in the way preternatural powers are."

"On the other hand, is that really true? It's not like there's a whole lot of visibility for trans issues the same way there is for cape stuff, and kids might be genuinely curious about this as something more mundane and accessible than capes."

[thinkering]

"My presentation is about how cool jobs in tech are," she says. "Teach yourselves to program, kids, I'm literally a software tinker and I use shareware all the time, make a difference, you know."

[mxglam]

"I mean, technically you didn't learn how to program..."

[thinkering]

"Yeah, but they'll have to and it's a good idea."

[mxglam]

"I wonder if I should..."

[thinkering]

"I'm telling the kids that it's smart to get engineering jobs; you're sorta elsewhere employed."

[mxglam]

"Well, yeah, but like, learning programming could be fun. I like math, it's sorta the same thing."

"Eeeeeh," says copy.

[thinkering]

"I can't comment on how similar they are for people who don't have a completely unfair boost at only one of those things..."