[IC] Appointments Post

[selfhelp]

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[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

[Pfft. Why does this not surprise him at all.]

Have you tried out the Battle Dome sims yet? I've got a movie program set up there, you just need to pick the film.

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

[Spy movies are comedy gold, damn it!]

I've tried a few. Working on a sniping sim for myself although I'm having a little trouble getting enough random events to keep it interesting.

Movie program sounds interesting. What's it entail?

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

[In other words, Hawkeye watches Jackie Chan movies?]

It's nothing special, just a home theater system. I'm working on making it bigger, though. The screen's too small right now. But it's got popcorn machines if you bring the kernels.

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

[All the Jackie Chan movies!]

Sounds awesome. You've really thought of everything. You should program in the couple making out in the back seats though, just for that real movie experience.

Who else're you gonna throw popcorn at?

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

I'd rather be part of the couple making out, to be honest.

[Though he's not sure if Hawkeye knows about him and Teddy yet.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

[He grins at that and nods.]

That too.

...I'm sure there's psychologists out there who'd love to explain what it says about me that my first impulse is to throw popcorn rather than make out.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

My mom's a psychologist. Want me to give you a quote?

[He's only half-joking; he's probably got about a dozen quotes that would qualify. Rebecca Kaplan is very enthusiastic about her work.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

I think I'll pass. I'm happy not knowing what psychoses people think I have.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

That's good, because I'm happy to not sound like my mother.

[Every teenager's nightmare.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

I don't think anyone your age wants to sound like their parents. I didn't. Still don't.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

...well, it might be okay if your parents were super heroes. I don't think I'd mind that so much.

[Come out swinging with a badass battle cry and the magic of the Scarlet Witch? Heck yeah, he could do that.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

Can you imagine parent-teacher meetings though? 'Sorry Miss Smith. Dad couldn't make it because he had to save LA from alien wasps'.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

It's even worse than that, because super heroes have to keep their identities a secret. So if the parents skip out on a meeting, the teachers think they're horrible people when they're really just out saving the world. It sucks.

[Noooo he's not bitter about it, not at all.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

At least you know that really they're out there, saving the world, making it safe for their kid to live in. You know that they care, even if your teachers don't.

[Instead of just... not caring enough to turn up.]

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

Yeah, true. Though I wish that excuse worked with my parents when it was me missing stuff while trying to save the world.

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

I think that must be a parent thing. Not that I'm a great expert. It's nice to have someone who just wants the best for you.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

[Great, now he'll be imagining Hawkeye as a hilarious parent.]

Yeah, I know. I just wish what's best for me coincided more often with what's best for the rest of the world.

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

[Oh god, don't tell him that Billy!]

I'm sure that one day your homework will be the key to salvation.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

Oh, sure. I can already see the headlines- "Billy Kaplan saves the world with the power of grade 10 physics."

[Probably more likely to get published than his heroics with the Young Avengers, anyway, unless he went public. Which he is totally not going to do.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

Might choke some alien monster.

...not all that fond of physicists recently.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

Got any opinions on witches?

[He's still pretty sure that Wanda doesn't exist in their world, but- well. On the side of caution, or... something. Might as well confirm a few things.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

[Well, that came out of left-field. To him at least. He assumes it makes sense to Billy.]

Can't say I've given it much thought. As long as they're not trying to kill me or mess with my head I don't see a problem.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

How about the ones that heal you?

[Billy grins and gives his fingers a meaningful wiggle, if only to distract from the weirdness of asking-but-not-asking if his mother exists.]

[Action, October 17]

[asthehawkflies]

Oh well, that's a whole different thing. I'm generally pretty positive towards people who help to save my life.

[Action, October 17]

[selfhelp]

And see, that's how I'd rather be saving the world.