[video] With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif is in high spirits today. He seems to actually be in one of the training rooms for once, which makes that a lot weirder. ]

Hey guys. There are a bunch of weirdos running around and it's been a while since we talked about powers. So guess what we're going to do today?

[ 'We' because he expects participation, dammit! ]

And because I'm feeling generous, I'll start. Guess who learned a new thing?

[ He points at himself with both thumbs and backs up, revealing a line of targets. He steps back, lines up his shoulder with them, and winds up his arm like a softball pitcher. He doesn't stop. Grif's arm blurs as he speeds up, and finally the force of the moving air is enough to tip over the nearest target. But only the nearest one. He stops, gestures at it with definite pride, and continues. ]

So let's talk about your powers because we already know mine are pretty awesome.

[ Of course they are, Grif. ]

Has anybody else figured out anything cool? And if you're new: I'm Grif and this is basically my job around here. Tell me what you got, because I'm still way disappointed about the lack of eye lasers we got going on on this team. I could read profiles, but who has time for that crap?

If I know you already... I don't know. Injury status report? What did you have for lunch? I'm just bored, okay?

((( This is a free for all mingle post! Grif will reply to everyone who responds, but if you want to have a character jump into a conversation with anybody you are absolutely welcome and, in fact, encouraged. Feel free to have characters ignore the point, talk about other things, etc etc. Threads are assumed to be public unless you mark them otherwise. This is set after the Ambush of TTHS but the Investigation is still ongoing. )))

Comments

[headinjuries]

What, only one?

[ Look, if it was anyone else doing this, Grif would be that asshole, so someone has to do it here. ]

[whyarewehere]

How many do you have, smart guy?

[ Defensive? Maybe a little. ]

[prettycoolguy]

[ The Chief is, as ever, huge, terse, and in full armor. ]

I'm recovered.

[ Recovered enough, by his standards. His tone brooks no argument. ]

I'm also wondering what's taking up so much of your free time that you can't read a dossier.

[ Someone here has been doing investigatory work lately and someone else has not, and the former is suitably unimpressed with the latter. ]

[whyarewehere]

Chief, I have like a thousand years of TV to catch up on and I'm running a really grueling schedule on that.

Super important. You wouldn't understand.

[onei]

[ The picture on Ina's omnicom is zoomed in too close for comfort, like she's holding it right up to her face, and she's speaking a bit loudly. Are people really going to hear her through this thing? ]

Am I using this correctly?

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif winces a little. ]

I can hear you! You can back up off it, the mics on these things are pretty good!

[justicecoulduseanap]

[That's okay, she didn't need what's left of her sense of hearing at her age.]

Hold it a little bit further away, dear. It's fairly sensitive.

[As were her ears now.]

[blue_flame]

[Azula knows what this "Omnicom" is supposed to do but it is still strange to see it in action. She isn't sure yet if she likes it or not, though certainly she can see its uses.]

Are we supposed to be impressed that you created a little wind? Airbender children can do as much.

[Or so she assumed. There was a lack of airbender children around to prove or disprove the theory.]

[whyarewehere]

What's an airbender?

And that's not a little wind. Anybody can do a little wind.

[ He smirks because he thinks he's clever. Grif why. ]

[littlecousin]

Ooh, superspeed! That's a good one!

[Nita is a cheerful blond woman with Spock ears, who is not being sarcastic at all about complimenting him.]

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif brightens at being agreed with. Success! ]

I know! I mean, it's not super punching or invisibility, but it has a lot of practical applications.

What'd you get?

[ He's nosy, he just is. He doesn't comment on her ears for the moment, because compared to some of the sentients he's gotten used to lately they're pretty baseline. ]

[iamresponding]

[You'd think with the way he looks gutted that it's because she's the one who died and not vice versa, but they've already done that whole dance. Him getting hit in the face with it unexpectedly, him grieving, him not even taking enough time to grieve the way he needed to, because it was too painful to even touch.]

[Then him finding her again and pulling her out of time itself.]

[That's all done, so you'd think he'd be less emotional over dying himself, but he never thought he'd see her again. There'd been that moment where he'd felt himself dissolving into energy, and the world had gone black, and he thought that was it, that they'd only ever have one that one last kiss, that one last embrace, that one last "I love you."]

[That one last broken promise: "I will come back."]

[Even with getting revived like this, he doesn't know if it'll last. If he gets to stay. But of all people to be here, in case maybe he has to go back to the bright light and the quiet when all this is over, she's one of the ones he's wanted to see the most. Hell, with her here now, with meeting Sam and all the friends that have been brought to the Legion's universe, it's starting to feel a little "Rich Rider, This Is Your Life.]

So I think this is supposed to be the part where you kill me, but I feel like I should get out of it on a technicality, 'cause you said -- you specifically said -- "If you come back dead, I'll kill you" and even though I'm doing the coming back part, I'm not doing the dead part. You were very specific.

[God, she's going to kill him, but he could say anything and she'd kill him at this point. That's okay.]

[sir_vancelot]

[He's not sure why this surprises him so much. Maybe it's just that it's coming right on the heels of Robbie arriving. After all, Rich had been here for months before him and he'd been here for a few months before Robbie got here.]

[But he hadn't expected...]

[The face that comes on the screen is probably older than Nita remembers. The uniform is still predominantly white and blue, but the top of the hood had been cut off for a headband sort of thing connected to the rest of the uniform. But there's an earnestness in those blue eyes that's unmistakable.]

Nita?

[walkingballpit]

[ Robbie doesn't have much of his composure, but he has a cat draped all over him that he's hugging hard. This will do. This is great. He's recovered from the Rich shock, so the shock of Namorita should only take a second.

Nope, he still feels like the cat claws are strangling his lungs, instead of clinging to his fluorescent salmon jumpsuit. He has to keep focused on now instead of the then that made this happen. This sucker punch of temporary time travel resurrection, and she's going to ask him what happened with the season premiere.

No. It doesn't matter. He doesn't have the right to be upset about that. He never did.

Robbie manages to produce his voice without squeaking - or tearing up. ]

Nita! Hey girl.

[ Four syllables! That was a mouthful. He feels like he can manage this though.

The ghastly clothing hides the pale greenness nicely. ]

[jonesiseverywhere]

Sweet! Check this out!

[He twists his fingers and a small glowing orb flashes in his fingers. He tosses it behind him and after a few seconds it explodes in a flurry of papers. Were they important? Trash? Who cares.

He's totally watching to see who's impressed.]

[unrecovered]

[Someone is less concerned with the explosion and more concerned with the collateral damage.]

Where are you?

[nerdninja]

[ The investigation being ongoing, Donnie's got a few programs running behind him looking for inconsistencies in the incriminating footage. And those programs being running might be why he's got the time to take a break and shitpost here. ]

You think you're bored.

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif squints at his screen, trying to puzzle out what's going on in the background on Donnie's end. ]

What are you doing that's so boring?

[unrecovered]

I'm alive, but you already knew that.

[He's also 100% healed, because having a healing factor is extremely convenient.]

Though if you're voluntarily training, I might actually have a heart attack.

[whyarewehere]

It's not training. It's figuring out cool shit. That's different!

[ Oh god, if he were actually training... Grif shudders at the thought. ]

[justicecoulduseanap]

That will be great if the air conditioning ever breaks down and we need a new fan.

[She's impressed. Really.]

[whyarewehere]

I notice nobody is taking my suggestions for alternate topics.

I mean, except Master Chief, but I don't expect creativity out of that guy anyway.

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[mylawn]

Eye lasers.

[whyarewehere]

You already told me you don't have eye lasers.

It's okay dude, you're old enough to start forgetting things. I get it.

[ Because now he's seen 76 in person and classed him as ancient. ]

[wherenoonegoes]

You sure that was you and not a random breeze?

[whyarewehere]

You wanna come down here and feel it firsthand? Maybe get real close?

[notthatjason]

Hello Grif. I'm Jason.

[He's still getting used to the tech around here, but he at least has it figured out enough that his face is on the screen and he looks genuinely interested, but also mildly confused.]

So...what's your job here exactly? Power tutorials or something?

[wherenoonegoes]

Basically? His job is putting up a post like this every couple months, and then doing nothing else the rest of the time unless somebody makes him.

[glazedonutholes]

Wow! That's amazing, Grif!

Do it again!

[whyarewehere]

[ Grif bows, lines himself up with the other target, and proceeds to blow it over too. It's just as (un)impressive this time. ]

[bleventeen]

Hi Grif! I'm Mabel! You learned where to find invisible baseballs?!

[ Yep. That's what she got from the video. She's pretty excited about the idea too. ]

I'll show you my super power if you tell me where to get them! Just don't tell Dipper!

[ Since this power demonstration will absolutely take place inside Dipper's "no-fun zone" in their quarters when it happens. ]

[headinjuries]

Oh, hey, you're Dipper's sister, right?

[walkingballpit]

[ Robbie had intended to swirl around in his chair to reveal him petting his orange tabby cat like a movie villain. Unfortunately, he's having a problem keeping Niels from tapping his toe beans on the omnicom.

Tiny energy bubbles drift around the edges of the screen. ]

Grif, huh? I'm gonna go ahead and call you Grief.

[whyarewehere]

Too late, that Reaper guy already beat me to having the edgiest name.

Where'd you find the cat?