- Location
- Somewhere.
Release an adblocker that replaces ads with emoticon faces as a publicity stunt. Nothing can go wrong with this... Nothing at all... Definitely...
Fragmentation (Original Superhero Setting)
- Thread starter Alivaril
- Start date
- Original
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
In fact ech sister is really the empress of their own globe. Pretty much the opposite of an edgelord.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
(OOC: This one took me a bit. Nice.)
IC: Worth noting is that there's a popular meme on the Internet that jokingly paints all Flat Earth Truthers as Capes threatening to flatten out the planet. Similar memes exist for genuine S-class threats, only in the opposite direction - which is to say, it's not uncommon to act as though a past S-class threat (or its creator) was actually one or more disgruntled conspiracy theorists posting insane things on the Internet. The more damage they did, the more likely it is they'll receive this treatment; the general consensus is that people shouldn't be rewarded with anything less than mockery for being omnicidal.
There's already a popular adblocker that replaces ads with pictures of cute animals. An emoji one would probably just be viewed as a lame copycat.
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At least until they realize its reacting to whatever they're viewing, then it'll be sad when they delete it for being spyware.
- Location
- Texas
No the the best ad block would be a cat that is wearing a progenitor costume, doing the cha-cha.
Shard
One and Many
- Location
- Malaysia
Release an anti-adblocker which sets up autolinking to the metube video for the million views Progenitor challenge! Or just autoplays the video.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
...A Hawaiian shirt? Progenitor doesn't really have a costume beyond garments that deliberately scream "disrespectful tourist." You're probably one of the only people on Earth who have seen him in formal attire for more than the two seconds it takes him to mockingly "look up" something in a reference manual that he may or may not have changed to suit his whims. Even then, he tends to peer over ludicrously tiny spectacles to offset any serious outfits.
That being said, you might actually be the only people on the planet who can get away with mocking him without coming down with a case of the hiccups (at the very least).
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
Well, our first action upon being MGs was uncovering and thwarting a plot to conquer the world with an army of Magical Girls. So, if we continue in that vein...we're probably going to keep unintentionally stumbling over viable plots to take over the world, I would think.
That is pure evil. Let's do it.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Well I mean we already saved the world on accident... what? twice? between the MG stuff and making Skye? I'm sure if we *try* we can manage anouther go.
Nixeu
Lord of Madness, Harbinger of Llamas
- Location
- Your nightmares.
I'm not sure we'll need to try, if that's what our narrative has seized on. Due to the whole Skye thing, our world is about to go through a bit of an upheaval. Plus, we did unintentionally incarnate Entropy, who could have been a threat, at least hypothetically. Our own actions may end up producing high-class threats for us to thwart.
There's also this to consider:
Cosmic entity magical girls are kinda likely to end up fighting extra-dimensional/intergalactic threats. It fits the theme. We may end up spending a decent amount of time stopping portals to other, hostile worlds from being completed, and/or destroying invading alien fleets. Which I'm not against, mind you.
Carrnage
Human
- Location
- New Zealand
"Mooooom stop leaving your musings on politics lying around, them conspicously falling off tables and opening to a suspicious page is getting annoying."
- Location
- Wonderland
Imperium? Emporium, I might allow, but this still sounds fishy.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Clearly, they had to tweak the name to avoid being confused with Emporium of Maine, which used to be Maine's primary magical wand supplier before Wanda's little shop challenged their supremacy.
Prettty sure that's intentional actually, on account of mocking the whole 'MG empire crusading to take over the world' bit.
DB_Explorer
Purveyor of alternate realities.
- Location
- San Diego, California
- Pronouns
- He/Him
.... now picturing another Sentient black hole that's Yandere for the girl's dad and wants ALL of the versions to itself.
Also alien fleets...
now picturing Skye soloing the independence day ships.
5.0: Adoption
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Special thanks to @saganatsu, @DB_Explorer, and my eight other patrons not mentioned here. An extremely enthusiastic pair of "Thank you"s to @Torgamous and @fictionfan for their patronage as well.
"I know you didn't actually know about it," you begin slowly. "But we made a healing fairy that Upgrade could occupy instead. That would come with the same downsides as an animal mascot, wouldn't it? If so, I think that'd be the closest thing to an ideal avatar we can give her."
The words have barely left your mouth when the world around you shudders. Eerie echoes from a screaming star ring comfortably in your ears as the world acknowledges an official addition to your family. Really, it's such a drama queen.
You're sure you'd left the Pocket Medic upstairs. However, something or someone doesn't seem to want to let that stop them; a patch of table before you goes from empty to occupied in the space between moments. It takes your brain a moment to catch up and identify Upgrade's new avatar standing proudly atop a lacy white doily.
Despite not having occupied it for even ten seconds, Upgrade appears to have made significant cosmetic changes to her new avatar. The eyes of the diminutive fairy have been replaced by twin windows into a starry sky, complete with scaled-down stars scattered across their surface. You'd more than half expected Upgrade to go for a gothic look; instead, your new little sister seems to have settled on a glittering silver dress, glass bunny slippers, and a royal blue miniature hair-flower. You blink slowly at her and share a bemused look with Celes. You're honestly not sure if Upgrade's fashion sense befits a human of her apparent age or if she deliberately picked the slippers to contrast her new age look.
The more time you spend inspecting her new avatar, the more issues you spot with your creation. It doesn't breathe, it doesn't blink in response to movement, and most importantly of all, the different parts of its body aren't coordinated with the others. When Upgrade rotates the fairy's neck, the rest of its body remains facing the original direction.
Under what you're guessing are manual orders from Upgrade, the avatar blinks and turns to you. Its eyes return a normal blue between blinks even as the screaming stars slowly fade into disgruntled grumbling and silence.
"I guess you really liked that idea, huh?" you ask aloud.
Upgrade's avatar forms a V with two fingers even as she transmits over Collaborate. You're not sure Mom or Dad were ever actually added to it, but they don't appear to have any trouble hearing her.
" (((o(^ヮ^✿)o))) "
" (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ "
"Having an open invitation didn't mean you needed to accept immediately, Upgrade," Dad sighs. "Still, welcome to the family. Remind us to help you set up some idle actions for when you aren't specifically directing your new body."
" (≧ω≦)ゞ "
"Being small will earn you a lot of slack, but an unmoving humanoid is still going to attract more attention than something like a seemingly-lazy puppy," Dad continues. "Whether you want to embrace that difference or mitigate it is ultimately up to you. Personally, I think my wife would be happier if you went for mitigation; I doubt she can spoil a fairy in all the ways she wanted to spoil a little human girl, but I'll bet she still wants to try some of them."
Your mother looks torn between accepting Dad's words as a challenge and maintaining her incredibly ineffective act of indifference. Eventually, she settles on the rarely seen Normal Mom Mode, directing a gentle smile at your side of the table and assuming a matching tone of voice.
"Skye and Upgrade? I want to love you both, but it's going to take me a little while to make the necessary tweaks. Most humans can't accept new family members as easily as my daughters can."
You blink and hold up your hands in a T. Mom isn't one to use absolutes so lightly, but her words don't seem to match up with anything she's told you about having healthy relationships.
"Timeout. What's this about mind-controlling yourself into loving them? I thought you told us that if we needed to do that, it was a sign we knew it was a bad idea."
Mother waves one hand dismissively. "The only mind control involved is my mind controlling how my body makes me feel. There's nothing for you to worry about. For you, it'd even be normal."
"Elspeth," Dad sighs.
"Aidan," Mother sniffs haughtily. "I'll be exactly as obscure as I want to be, thank you very much."
"They're all going to school soon," Dad reminds her. "And they already handled the stories of their natures just fine. Relax and trust your kids a little."
"You didn't see them cracking stellar jokes left and right," Mother grumbles.
"They were pretty good, weren't they?" Celes preens.
Your mother ignores Celes without letting any flickers of fondness reach her lips. You still see the signs around her eyes, though.
"The last thing we want is someone incorrectly interpreting love jokes as coming from a disguised magical girl. I told you, they're close enough to human for nobody to notice."
Dad rolls his eyes and turns to you. "Right. Well, I'm going to be that terrible parent who says yes when their spouse has already said no. Girls? Most people can't just choose to love, loathe, or leave somebody just because they want to. Your mother and I agreed that having immortal kids with a mortal affection system could cause problems down the line, so…"
Dad shrugs.
"Well, you don't have one. You'll still develop lesser likes and dislikes normally. However, unlike other humans, we tried to make sure you'd be able to pick and choose stronger relationships."
…Um. What? No, really, that doesn't make sense.
You blink and exchange uncertain glances with Celes, then nod slightly when a hair-flip silently asks for permission to go first.
"Other people don't feel like that?" Celes asks incredulously.
You grab the chain and continue before Dad can do more than open his mouth to answer. He's wrong about human minds and you'll prove it.
"Are you sure? Just look at flame wars."
"Or really, wars in general."
"You've got a whole bunch of people who loathe each other even though they differ only in opinions, lifestyle, skin color, that sort of thing."
"That's like hating somebody just because they happen to have sat next to you on the bus."
"Or, to continue the war comparison, you couldn't have mortal enemies turning into allies when a mutual threat presents itself."
"That even extends to S-class threats. There's, like, MewTube footage of a major hero gritting his teeth and turning away from a villain even though the villain had tried to frame him for murder."
"If humans didn't have at least some control over how they felt, they would literally never have reached sapience."
"They'd, like, prioritize tail length instead of intelligence or leadership."
You flinch when Mother lets out a single pained laugh and hides her face behind both hands. That's not a good sign, is it…? No, probably just another test.
"Yes, physical appearance influences people some, but personality is still more important."
"And some people truly do have abysmal judgment when it comes to picking loved ones, but if people couldn't pick and choose?"
"The ideal of a princess picking a heroic peasant to encourage further desired actions from the peasantry wouldn't exist."
Mother starts weakly laughing, still hiding her face. Ignoring her attempted sabotage is getting harder by the second, but you manage.
"There'd be no 'happily ever after' in that tale, just a toxic marriage of convenience."
"Sisters?" Skye interrupts, sounding unusually confused. "Humans really don't have half as much control over their 'hearts' as we do. The term 'loveless marriage' would not exist if they did."
You and Celes freeze as one, think about it for a few seconds, and speak together without even trying to coordinate ahead of time.
""But that's stupid!""
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It takes some two hours and a pile of studies on human psychological science before you're willing to accept that baseline humans are weird. Their preferences are an overcomplicated mess and how they're developed isn't any better. Oh, your own development of relationships stills put you pretty close to a baseline human, but how they get there is just plain baffling. At least it somewhat raises your opinion of other people; they aren't nearly as stupid as you thought. Unlike you, they simply can't override strong opinions toward other people even if they want to. Overcoming irrational or undesirable opinions is a tricky process for them.
Celes seemed to have a much easier time accepting your apparent status. Probably because it feeds her growing sense of superiority. Honestly, you're starting to get a little worried by how thrilled your sister is by the whole "daughters of an elder god" thing. Sure, it's pretty cool and all, but her competitive streak seems to be drifting toward a superiority complex. You'll need to talk to her about that later.
"We're Internet famous now," Celes begins conversationally, dragging you from your brooding.
Glancing over, you see Upgrade's avatar idly resting on its stomach atop Celes's head. Upgrade's chin is propped atop both hands while the idle movement for her swinging legs is a conspicuously short loop.
Try introducing a random bit of deviation into the swing series. It'll look more natural.
(^_^)/~
"Buuut the CBCC has been pretty leak-free. The last three news articles on 'Progeny' have basically covered the history of people taking similar names and getting chastised by Progenitor or curbstomped by other Capes. In other words, people are getting paid to engage in wild mass guessing. They don't even know our names yet."
"...Okay? And?"
"Wellll," Celes drags out. "I've figured out that I can't order websites to give me admin directly, but I can order the computer to make programs to make specific changes to websites and the like. Or viruses. So!" Celes claps her hands together. "I can change the content of all those pesky news articles to have more information on us. Yeah, it'd totally count as vandalism, but I doubt anyone is going to call us out on it if I'm adding information instead of doing anything genuinely harmful."
You close your eyes and pinch the bridge of your nose.
"What benefit does that give us, exactly, besides revealing that you can 'hack' stuff?"
"Attention. Duh. Might also play into the whole 'doesn't quite understand people' thing we're trying to play up to avoid handshakes. I'm not too attached to that idea, though, which brings me to plan B. Once Mom uses the memory reformatting thingie, I think we can use it to store our own memories and upload them in an audio-slash-video format. We could compile something like a Builder montage, post that to MewTube, and wait for the views to flood in. Hell, I bet just doing a few snips from Upgrade's not-rampage would break our goal in one go. Plan C... I dunno? It's not as though we're short on options."
[] Let Celes vandalize a few news articles with a few choice details on Progeny. The more ominous, the better.
-[] (Optional: Write-in which ones)
[] Compile a montage, make an official Progeny account, and upload the montage to MewTube.
-[] Just do a short teaser using part of your rampage time.
-[] Focus on the inhuman coordination you had post-rampage.
-[] Collaboratively work with your siblings to just pick out whatever seemed cool from your memories and string it into a relatively cohesive string of events.
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- Location
- Central Standard Time
Pink, and the Progenitor pokemon.
If we made our own site, this would have been the perfect name.
- Location
- A single human dimension
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Please note that Evelyn may have mixed up "genuine sense of superiority" with "superiority complex," but your QM did not. Please don't poke me about it. 
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To be fair, you wouldn't be the first extradimensional Heros to have trouble avoiding harmless law-breaking. You'd probably need to police Celes's posting to make sure the tone is one of innocence instead of rubbing intrusions in their faces, though.
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- Location
- Finland
We were just trying to be helpfull.
You know you're out of touch when Skye has more social savvy than you.
That's not social savvy, that's her common knowledge power saving the day.
BBBence1111
Harbinger of Bad Luck
- Location
- Magyarország
We at some point need to get a full list of things done to us. I'm fine with being designed kids, but we really should know all of it at some point.
Exactly.
Kinruush
Who?
- Location
- USA
Why not both? Vandalize news articles with more information and include a link to a Builder montage.