tushanshu_ooc | break out the teal deers!

Oh no, she wouldn't. Not ever.

~~Just a sip. Or two.~~

Of course not. She's far too response for that.

~~...bottles...</s~~

Gotta set an example.

~~...just one bottle.~~

Especially on such an innocent, impressionable mind.

~~That would be enough, lbr~~

Jor-El finds Midii interesting. As far as humans go, the cultural/sociological differences between them and Kryptonians means he's sometimes at a loss, even now that he's had some time to adjust. So, the fact that Midii's apparent behavior is closer what he views as a Kryptonian baseline than what he's seen from most of the other humans present, it's something he's more capable of immediately parsing.

Compared to most of the other adults here, he won't find her behavior or maturity strange for someone her age, and if he somehow finds out what she was doing before her arrival, he won't be especially disturbed, just because Krypton's method of population control means that since a child is born to enter a specific guild, their education is geared towards the specific occupation they were meant for from the first. Child soldiers are nothing new to him.

The fact that she's young and has professed a desire to learn encryption is something he finds admirable. Knowledge and understanding is a worthy pursuit, even if there is very little that she should need to encrypt. He's more than willing to teach her far beyond the basics required to achieve an encryption beyond the standard already available.

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Bianca actually finds Zee to be a sweet girl. Zatanna's rivalry with Korra at the time of the tamale party didn't escape her, but she did appreciate the fact that both of them were willing to put it aside while there (not that they really had an actual choice in the matter if they both wanted to stay), and the fact that Zee brought food along with her for the party.

The fact that Zee was responsible for the whole misspell even that resulted in Bianca and 616 Tony Stark switching bodies for a whole week didn't escape her, but it's not something she holds against her.

They're in a weird place, everything's completely different from Earth, things are bound to go wrong occasionally. Lumping more blame on a teenager- especially when most of the teenagers here don't have someone keeping an eye on them- for something that was obviously not intentional doesn't help anything (and she was more preoccupied with preventing Tony from doing anything anyways).

She can be the adult she thinks she is for that. Sure.

~~Getting smashed, yes good.~~

~~You realize this has to happen now, right?~~

Jack's really surprised her so far! Not only did he not look like this, but also he doesn't want to murder people! His excitement's pretty infectious, and he seems like fun, though she'd rather sit back and watch rather than get herself involved with anything he might do. Also, she finds it fascinating to talk to him and see how demons are different in his world, and she's happy he's willing to answer her questions, especially when she's worried she might be being a little too invasive.

He actually reminds her a lot of one of her friends from back home, back when she'd first met him. It's mostly the mischievous streak she thinks she's picking up on, even though Walter really wasn't that mischievous, but there's some little things too, that she can't quite explain. It makes her uneasy for a bunch of reasons, though it doesn't mean she likes Jack or hanging out with him any less ~~I say like they've done that a lot~~. That's not his fault, and she's not the kind to ever bring it up. In fact, she's inclined to seek him out more, because she likes the company, of course, but also to force herself to deal.

Overall A+++ Jack keep being awesome.

~~I regret everything. Let's do it anyway.~~

~~I regret nothing. I'm in.~~

~~I love accidental planning.~~

Some of my best plans were accidents.

...

...I mean...

They were all totally on purpose, shh

Ep is curious about this guy and how he knew her brother. She's actually really pleased that he, not knowing Eps at all, went out of his way to make sure she was alright. That's not something that people do at all, where she's from. So Jack gets an A+ for that. Still not 100% sure if she can see him, but given that Gavroche could, and the idea of 'Jack Frost' existed in the 1800s, so unless you can give me a good reason not to, I'm gonna go with yes she can. But he seems like a very sweet, caring man, ~~and they have sibling issues~~, I think they should hang out.

Okay, Bucky first. Is this guy really a Bucky? Wow. Look at him being all well-adjusted and not wrung through the wringer a billion times and torn up all to hell! Comparatively, of course. Like the other MCU gang, he thinks that Bucky seems young and pretty nice all things considered, which is a big step for people from his world. And that's without too much personal bias. It makes him think that maybe if they were more careful then things could have turned out better for them too. Or maybe not, but it's a passing thought of his. Maybe things can get better. He's not particularly close to Bucky, but he does find him interesting. Bucky is level-headed and seems to have a good sense of humor (oh my god what is this sorcery?) so he likes seeing what he'll say. He's not wholly invested yet, but he's keeping his eyes open for him.

Cassie? Cassie is a relief. It's horrible and selfish because he knows no one should have to be brought there and it holds horrible implications, but she's very nearly family (as much as he's got) and he's happy to see Scott reunited with her. That means as much to him as anything he could personally ask for. He doesn't know about her death and if he finds out it will be pretty devastating for him, considering he isn't very hopeful about what happens when people disappear. At the moment he's still just trying to make it up to Scott for just that reason, and he's already pretty fiercely defensive of them both on that one detail. Any more reason would make him super paranoid.

All that said, look at how she's grown! Big hero now! :3 She'll always kind of be the little girl he remembers, but he's glad to see her doing so well. He kind of fell off the map and didn't get to see her as much and now she's all on a team and doing hero stuff. He's so proud of her. He may not be real family but he still feels like it! And the fact she calls him Uncle Tony still just cements all of his wibbly feelings.

In some ways, Bianca is really particularly concerned about Gene more than many of the other kids here, even though there are plenty here that are much younger than he is.

His introduction on the network and his first thread with her really established that first and foremost, that he really is a hurt kid inside. The amount of damage he caused to his suite when he first showed up was visible even on the network, and how bitter and angry- even if the anger was mostly under the surface by that point- he was was honestly concerning.

Even with the sort of fright and confusion that has to with suddenly appearing on a giant turtle, the sort of thing that everyone deals with differently, reacting to it in a fit of rage before showing up on the network, and being so disaffected by the world and giving up on it when he's so young, these are the sort of things that are alarm bells for her. She's no counselor or social worker by any means, but she has children and younger extended family members to be aware what sort of behavior is normal, and has seen enough real problematic stuff while working shifts in the emergency room to know something's wrong, even if she's not going to directly ask him about it.

With Gene and Loki ending up as antagonistic friends, it's something that gives her a bit of relief- she's seen that both of them have trust issues, so the fact that they're developing some kind of bond is something she approves of.

While she has no problem with marching right up to Loki and demanding he come home with her, she's aware that that same tactic probably won't work quite as well with Gene- the level of angry he has under the surface makes things work differently. Just forcing help onto him probably won't help, so all she can really do is talk to him, defend him when she sees he needs it, and make it apparent that she's willing to be there for him without scaring him off into being defensive.

Arthur sees Jack as a well-meaning kid, albeit pushy about his very specific ideas of how the world ought to be - that kind of idealism has very little place in Arthur's worldview and he finds it a little annoying, actually!

Also, there's the whole "doesn't believe he's real and thus has never actually seen him" thing...

Booker, on the other hand, is perhaps tentatively optimistic about Jack? I'm saying he can see him because let's be real, believing in Jack Frost is probably not all that tough when you've had to accept things like a floating city, and reality-warping tears in the space-time continuum. He's wary, as he's wary of everyone because that's his nature, but he actually really appreciates being given a chance on nothing more than good faith, for once.

GEE WILLIKERS IT REALLY IS LIKE ONE OF THOSE HIGH SCHOOL ANIMES. ~~that's because it IS a high school anime~~

And hmm...if it ever comes out that "Gene" is short for "Temujin", Tony miiiight take a bit more notice. Maybe. I have no idea about how the wibbly wobbly timey wimey world of comics timelines works. WIKIPEDIA TELLS ME THAT'S 616!MANDARIN'S SON'S NAME OR SOMETHING IDK MAN I JUST WORK HERE.

Edited 2013-11-09 05:12 (UTC)

Bianca -> Korra. I know they don't have a lot of CR but I'm curious.

sup korra get in the box

MIIIIJOOOO.

Anyways.

Here on the turtle, there's definitely been some changes. For Bianca, it was much easier to set guidelines and rules to follow and keep everything moving back in El Paso- after all, at home it wasn't just her, but 'Berto, and the two of them talked when they could about what they should do, since when it comes to their family, they work as a team, and balance each other out. Of the two of them, I think 'Berto was more the one who set the rules, and Bianca's the enforcer.

For example, while Bianca'd've been concerned about Jaime keeping up his grades in school and not having to worry about working, that being as absolute as it was was definitely more on 'Berto's part. He was the one Jaime worked at, to try and work at the garage, not Bianca.

So here, she's totally unaccustomed to acting as a single mom. She's never had to do this before.

In canon, she's already realized that her son really is growing up, that he's more than capable of saving the world because he was raised right and is able to make the sort of choices that needs. She's gotten a dose of what his life as a superhero is like, because of the Reach attacking their home, and trying to go after her family.

That was months back, since by the time of her pull point to here, it's been enough for the house to be rebuilt, and things to settle back to normal.

And now here, she showed up, and found out that her son had been here for a couple months without her. Doing fine, even if he missed his family and his friends. Working. Waiting to help save the day with the other superheroes here.

This is more a final nail in the coffin of the idea that Jaime's still a kid, still really needs her or his father there constantly for him.

She might have given him a pep talk to help him feel better and remind him it's okay to be upset when he was upset because Traci disappeared, but at the same time she's aware that he's old enough now that he could've gotten told the same sort of thing by someone else he knows here and it would've helped too. While she was the one to talk to him about it, it didn't need to be her saying it.

It's the sort of thing that hurts but makes her very, very proud of him at the same time. She and 'Berto put so much into doing their best to raise their kids, even while sometimes second guessing whether what they were doing was the right choice because you can never be sure whether what you're doing to your kids is the best choice, spent a whole year missing their son because he just disappeared one day and gave him up for dead only for him to come back, and here, she's getting the chance to see that, when it comes to Jaime's future as a functional, independent adult, if his time in Keeliai before she got here is any indication, they did their job with their son, and it's going to be all the more telling in a couple years.

In short, this has translated to more than a few differences since her initial arrival.

While they might be living in the same suite, Jaime's under far fewer rules than he was in El Paso because she knows she can trust her son to be reasonable and act within limits, and because she has to. While he's still her son, and always will be, the circumstances here are so different from what they are at home that she can't force him to live under the same rules, especially when she's not as available to maintain them.

Because of this, she's working more at the clinic, even if it means getting home later than she did in El Paso, and sometimes leaving Jaime more to his own devices, when and if he doesn't join in at helping at the clinic.

She's trusting him to act maturely, not as just a teenager, but as a young adult, and more of an equal than a child that has to be protected. Here, while they're still mother and son, she's now aware that he's grown up enough that she doesn't need to be convinced into something as much as she was back home.

Basically, she was already proud of her son when they were in El Paso, she always has been, but now she's proud of the young man she raised who's looking like he's going to become a fantastic, and it's leading to him having more actual freedom and being treating as one, too.

Thiiis comment already hit well over 800 words so I'll get to Bianca on the Chew cast in another one.

Hey, Snowbro! Thoughts on the Greebro?

Snowbro! Jack is one of Victor's favorite people on the turtle. He's fun to talk to and spend time around and he even managed to get Vic out in the snow. Victor finds it easy to just relax, let his guard down, and not worry about a lot while he's spending time with Jack. Vic cares about him and is willing to fight for Jack if he needs to even if it's yelling at a Green Lantern. He's started to think of Jack as like a brother and he'd be pretty down if Jack ever got sent home.

Sob. Damian is actually still ... hurting, that even though this Dick is so close, it's not his Dick - and the Nightwing thing just pounds that down. He has two Graysons, and neither of them is. Well. The right one. I have no idea if that'll explode any way eventually, but it's there. And, while Damian's grown up enough to actually more or less accept what he can get, and be a little grateful, because his big brother is definitely there, he hates it a bit, too. But, you know, Damian and his anger issues. Or more like anger thing.

That said, as much as he can, he'll have Dick's back. The Nightwing thing, to him (hey, nobody said he's entirely sane) means that Dick's choice is to go do his thing alone, because Nightwing doesn't have a partner. Damian will respect that and mostly sulk when on his own. It makes him wonder, a bit - now that Dick is no longer Batman, will he show up, if Damian needs him, as he always did, before as Batman? What are the things that have changed, and what are the things that haven't?
Even so? He trusts Dick explicitly. And completely. It just makes him doubt his reason and his logic and his sanity a bit more. Which he's already doing all the time, so, business as usual, right? Sorta?

But, really. Dick was the first person to accept him as he was, the first person to be there for him when he didn't have to, the first person to learn to ignore Damian's insults when he's giving them, especially later on when they're coming out of habit and he doesn't even mean them. The first person to start addressing what he's really trying to say, not what's coming out of his mouth, to listen to his opinion, to respect him. Just... him. And Damian doesn't do things by parts. When he loves somebody (and, yes, he does love Dick), he does so completely, loyally, faithfully, and just. He'd give his life to protect Dick - and, even more, all his time on the turtle he's been trying to figure out what Dick would want him to do and trying to do that. Sometimes, it's backfired, but - Dick's the first person that Damian is actually afraid of disappointing. On the flip side, Dick's the person who sheltered him from Talia's disappointment, and Damian will never ever consider that choice of his wrong. Even if this Dick doesn't remember that.

So... while Dick hasn't been through a lot of this, yet? Just about everything he does or says is the right stuff, the stuff Damian's grown to miss almost painfully. And he'll take that, and protect him as much as he can and. Well, he doesn't do hope, but, try not to actually let him down.

Cassie IS SO GLAD to be spending more time with everybody, Billy included! She's wondering - probably will discuss with Teddy - about at least telling him that he and Tommy get their mom back, and she's okay, she was - controlled when she did those things they all know she did, and she's taking responsibility for them, as well as for Billy and Tommy, because she knows that he must still be wondering, unsure, and stuff to look forward to is good, right? Right?

That said, here, she'll let him and Teddy have time together, since Billy's been on his own for a while, but, after they all get acclimated to the place, she'll organize them hanging out and figuring how they can help. Among the three of them, they can do a lot, right? And Billy by now has some knowledge of how things are. She's... not up for going back to heroing just yet, but she's pretty sure they all know that's temporary, and, as in any city, there's a lot to do to help stuff, anyway.

Basically? She'll try to spend as much time around her friends, and it's so, so good to have Billy there.

PFFFFFT. For all that Damian is smart and trained and has had a way longer life than a kid his age should ever have, somewhere inside he still is a kid, and Scott is really good with those. Mostly, though, Scott isn't stupid, and that's something in Damian's book. :P

Oh my gods. *chinhands* I love wordvomiting, man.

Now, first of all? There is no way in the multiverse that Cassie will ever stop looking up to Scott. He's her daddy, he makes the sun rise in the morning, and she didn't get HOW things could just go on, after he was taken from her.

To Cassie, Scott was, and is, the best. She knows he's done bad/wrong things, but she knows he's paid for them, and has atoned for them, and is a good person, and anybody who ever tries to say otherwise will get a very angry blonde in their face, whether it's her mom or stepdad, or O'Grady, or the entire WORLD, if need be. And, well. Resenting her life is not exactly a thing. She was scared for a while (after she was taken over, back in Heroes for Hire), but it's... not knowing the things she knows, not having a chance to help, is far worse to her.

Sob, they will eventually talk about the 'can't last forever' bit, probably. She knows, but - well, whatever time she has, he's there, and some of her friends, and that's better than not having that time at all. WAY better.

But ahahah yeah, she's clingy, too. I'm pretty sure they have a ~~couple~~ few hours a day where she lets him do his work and gets to meet people, but for now she's strictly on a no-dangers-allowed regimen.

Zee

I know, right? Of course, that can change, if Dick and Jack decide they've had enough, but.

Midii

~~Probably, but he's not the one to talk.~~ Sob. They kind of work so well, but it might take a bit of time before ~~they're~~ he's ready to see that.

break out the teal deers!

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