APOCALYPSE HOW: IC INBOX

[cacophonish]

"...is this thing on?" un: freakscene voice | video | text | action | everything

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[cacophonish]

"Whoa."

Okay, that's less dramatic, sure. But it's also kind of cooler in a way, because she's like, what, the right hand of some costumed bigwig. A supervillain's Gal Friday!

(Is that sexist? Fuck, maybe Aelwyn was right, and he still has some things to examine...)

"That's so fucking cool."

[henchgal]

"You're not supposed to think that's cool, I don't think. You're supposed to Judge me."

She's only mostly joking there.

"Good people don't enable villainry."

[cacophonish]

"Yeah, but that's all so..." Subjective, that's the word he's looking for. But Jeff struggles for a moment to find it, then opts for: "It's not like it's all black and white. I mean... not even monsters see themselves as monsters, you know?"

[henchgal]

"You hang out with enough monsters to know how they think of themselves?" The jab's meant to be light, playful. She doesn't know what she doesn't know.

[cacophonish]

There's certainly a flicker of something in his expression, a grimace that he tries to smooth over with a shrug and a smile. "Yeah, I mean, I was the lead singer of a band back home. The biggest diva monster there is."

[henchgal]

She notices that grimace--it's Meredith, how could she miss that?--but doesn't seem to know what to make of it.

Deflect, right?

"Is that like the secret love child of Miss Piggy and Cookie Monster?"

[cacophonish]

He laughs, more easily now and points out, "Cookie Monster? C'mon, Animal was right there!"

Then, taking that deflection ball and running with it, "So what's your boss's deal? World domination?"

[henchgal]

"The belief that vigilante justice was against the precepts that America was founded on, and so it's the moral right of citizens who can to oppose heroes. It's...not the worst argument I've actually heard."

[cacophonish]

It's not the worst argument by far. Jeff nods, conceding that point. "Yeah, I mean, if you think about it, the whole vigilante thing is majorly fucked up." See also: why nobody will ever include Jeff in any ADI-sanctioned plans for extra-judicial killing.

A beat. "I mean, I guess you don't have to think about it, since you live it."

[henchgal]

"I think everyone's world is fucked up in one way or another. Right? Your world's got some sort of shit in it."

[cacophonish]

"Well... yeah, I mean it's fucked up in a lot of the same ways this world is. Only without the Entities and apocalypses..."

He's about to just leave it at that, but it's almost on an impulsive whim that he adds, "And there's always a risk of shit going sideways with magic, I guess."

[henchgal]

"Yeah? What's it look like in your world, when shit goes sideways?" Her voice is gentle, coaxing.

[cacophonish]

"Sometimes people get hurt. Sometimes they go nuts, and sometimes they die. It's the same as everything else." By which he means: "Anything worth doing has at least some risk, right?"