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[selfhelp]

Hey out there, Luceti. Are we all more or less ourselves again? Pretty sure we are, uh... here's hoping.

Considering how crazy things have been lately, Teddy and I were talking, and we think it'd be a good time to run this. We all need a break. So courtesy of the LGBTQQA Club - um, I'm tentatively calling it "Alliance", for the sake of minimizing all the abbreviations, better name possibly pending - I'm happy to introduce: Luceti's first-ever (I think) Speed Dating.

If you don't know what speed dating is, it's pretty much exactly how it sounds. The idea is we'd all get together, pair up, you'd talk to someone you might not have talked to before for about ten minutes, and then afterwards decide how you liked it and if you want to see them again. First impressions count for a lot, and sometimes that's all it takes to find your true love or your new best friend.

We're going to run it next weekend - Saturday afternoon, we figure is a good time - and sign-ups are starting now so we'll have time to pair everyone up. Anyone can participate, not just club members or people in the LGBT spectrum, and you're not obligated to do anything if you don't like it. So why not give it a shot? ...And we'll have cookies. Teddy's making them and the recipe looks amazing. Anyone else want to bring some food and stuff? We can have a table for contributions...

Um, anyway. I'll be over by the plaza today, and on the journal network, too, if you've got any questions or if you want to sign up.

[The above message is also written out (albeit less informally). And there's a table with posters and some forms in the plaza, near the school, all day. Billy's just hanging out and drawing the passerbys while he waits, if anyone wants to chat him up about it in person.]

((ooc sign-ups here!))

Comments

[selfhelp]

[Wow how is he supposed to know who counts as cu- holy crap is that who he thinks it is.]

....Cute? Uh. Sure, I mean. I think so?

[systemshock]

[IT TOTALLY IS PROBABLY.]

Good. I mean, that wouldn't be the only reason to sign up. But it helps, right?

[selfhelp]

It sure can't hurt.

[Wow wow wow. Okay. Don't spaz until you get a name.]

So do you want to sign up?

[systemshock]

I don't have anything better to do. Why not? Where's the form?

[selfhelp]

Here, knock yourself out.

[Billy passes the form over, trying not to look too obvious about watching; he really just wants to know the name that'll make it onto the page.]

[systemshock]

[He starts NEARLY by writing a V. But then he writes Static instead and fills the rest out.]

Uh, it's okay to show up like this, right? I can't exactly get away with a civilian identity around here. [Seriously he is the only black teenage boy in Luceti. It'd be kind of a give away.]

[selfhelp]

[.....omg it is him.]

Oh, uh- sure, it's okay. So what is that, a codename?

[systemshock]

Something like that. I'm a superhero back at home. Local, only.

[After all, superheroes like Batman and Superman were national, global, and sometimes galactic. But Static was very much a homegrown kind of superhero.]

[selfhelp]

Local's better than not at all. Do you have powers?

[Delaying as he tries to decide whether or not to reveal himself as well. Though technically it should depend on if Static's associated with the Teen Titans here yet- since Robin would no doubt explain in great detail what a horrible person Billy Kaplan is.]

[systemshock]

[He nods.]

Electromagnetism. Sure, I know, doesn't sound like much. But I can do some cool stuff with it.

[selfhelp]

"Not much", he says. It sounds pretty cool to me. And more than most people have.

[systemshock]

You say that, but in Dakota City, we're crawling with Bang Babies. The only part that makes me special is that I didn't turn to crime.

[selfhelp]

Bang Babies?

[systemshock]

I didn't make the name. It's just what they call those of us who were caught in the Big Bang.

[selfhelp]

It's a little patronizing, isn't it?

[He sure doesn't look like a baby. Even "young" is pushing it, but at least it's halfway true.]

[systemshock]

... well, when you put it like that, kind of? It could be worse. They started out calling us mutants.

[selfhelp]

[Goddammit, seriously...]

Something wrong with mutants?

[systemshock]

Mutant implies something is wrong with you, right? The commonly accepted term is 'meta human'. [Seriously, mutant is like, super derogatory and insulting okay.]

[selfhelp]

Um. Sorry. Excuse me?

[Billy lifts a hand, along with an eyebrow.]

I'm actually a mutant. And on my world there's nothing wrong with it.

[...Well, okay, there is. But only to a bunch of people he doesn't care about.]

[systemshock]

Oh.

[Okay, so Static feels a bit sheepish now. He shrugs a little.]

... different worlds, huh? So uh, what kind of powers do you have?

[selfhelp]

Yeah, different worlds.

[Oh well, at least he's not a Bang Baby.

In response to the question, though, he lifts his hand again, a few harmless sparks flaring to life around his fingers.]

Believe it or not, I started out with electricity myself. It's actually more like spellcasting, though- I kind of make stuff happen by wishing for it.

[systemshock]

So... you're some kind of self-service genie?

[Okay, that probably sounds wrong, but it's the first thing that came to mind.]

[selfhelp]

Phenomenal cosmic power...

[It's mumbled with a half smile before he speaks up a bit more clearly.]

Well, not exactly- I definitely can't do everything. But I guess that's a simpler way of saying it.

[systemshock]

Still, that's pretty cool. Do you mind giving a demonstration? I'll show you mine if you show me yours.

[selfhelp]

Sure, I don't mind. I guess showing off lightning wouldn't be that impressive when you've already got it, though... what kind of spell do you want to see?