Not Your Kind Of People (A Superhero Quest)

[LupineVolt]

[X] Hollow. An aching void of emotion and feeling, like the nanosuit is a thin veneer preserving the facade of humanity as you try to answer MD and find absolutely nothing.

I'm nothing if not contrarian.

This is shock, and shock often comes in such a confusing jumble of everything that you find yourself at net-0, where your mind can't process the overload and you're stuck pondering it out and going back and forth like a goldfish in a bowl.

 

[Imrix]

It means the risk/benefit assessment of trying to pull your weight here just changed drastically and you're more than happy to take the easy way out there, holding down the fort as long as you did is probably gonna haunt you for a week.

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/me twitches

(it's 'hold the fort'. You don't hold down a fort, it's not an uncooperative animal that doesn't even make any se-)

"I'm sorry I know it seems insensitive but I promise it's important I document everything that- nevermind that now!" The journalist lowers his phone to look you in the 'eye'. "I don't know what's going on here or why you're back but right now that's not important. I- I- I was there and I saw a body and now- now look at you!" He gestures at you in an all-encompassing fashion. "I don't know if Paragon gave you his power or gave you a super-suit, whatever he did we need it now, the window's closing fast."

"Saw- Paragon- what window!?" you exclaim, voice cracking as the pressure builds beneath your forehead like your brain's sprung a leak.

"I don't have time to explain everything right this second!" he replies, casting frantic looks at the tear after every other word. "I got here maybe forty-five minutes ago and I bumped into a woman on the way - not a construction worker, she said she was here to see the damage, didn't live far away. The team chased me off to work so I started interviewing her and- everything happened so fast but I'm telling you, I know what I saw. She was taken, not killed."

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oh that is. that is giving me the bad kind of 'i do not understand everything at work here' vibes.

"You can't save everyone." Jae-yoon's hand falls on your shoulder. Feels like a shot of reality in the middle of a nightmare, almost enough to make you jump. "Rule one of this business. I'm sorry you had to find out this way, but that's just how it is."

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[X] Anger. Roiling, seething, frustrated rage. You want to let it out. You need to let it out. On anything. Anyone. Any way.

I don't have any bigger thoughts on this one, it's just. I kinda like anger, it's a constructive emotion wrapped in destructive clothing.

 

[Exejpgwmv]

[X] Anger. Roiling, seething, frustrated rage. You want to let it out. You need to let it out. On anything. Anyone. Any way.

We could stand to get a little angry.