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Dexter Grif ([personal profile] whyarewehere) wrote in [community profile] thelegion2016-09-20 09:25 pm

[video] With Great Power Comes Great Irresponsibility

[ 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. )))
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[personal profile] bleventeen 2016-09-21 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
You've experienced heartbreak too...

WE HAVE SO MUCH IN COMMON, don't we?

[personal profile] justicecoulduseanap 2016-09-21 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know. It didn't complain nearly as much.
headinjuries: & the girl beside me didn't fill in any bubbles she just wrote in huge letters RETIRE across the whole sheet (i had to do a class evaluation today)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-09-21 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
I dunno if it was heartbreak? Maybe just kind of heart-minor-pain.
iamresponding: (bucketless - bite lip)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-09-21 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
[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.]
Edited 2016-09-21 05:53 (UTC)
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[personal profile] bleventeen 2016-09-21 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay to let it all out, Sam.

[ And only the tiniest of pauses before ]

I know what will cheer you up! Want to go gaze out at the moon chunks with me?

[ Even if it's in little pieces, it's still romantic, right? ]
headinjuries: was get my life in order. i feel like i wasted my time. (all i did this weekend)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-09-21 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Flying in space is better than watching it.

[ Said without thinking, because Sam has a lot of Feelings about space and how great space is. ]

[personal profile] justicecoulduseanap 2016-09-21 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Can I throw the whole package away? Where's the nearest dumpster? Or incinerator, I'm not picky.
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[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-09-21 06:00 am (UTC)(link)
She used to crush on the guy that's on the 10 dollar bill.

You're not hideous, you're a superhero, and you're vaguely near our age.

You're doomed.
headinjuries: we had 3 security guards running after us (in less than 3 minutes)

[personal profile] headinjuries 2016-09-21 06:02 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, the ten dollar bill guy?!

[ h o w ]
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[personal profile] bleventeen 2016-09-21 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
See? Bet you wished you thought of invisible baseballs first now, huh??

Oh! I was going to show you my super power!

[ Mabel's set up her camera to point at the couch she is now climbing onto. ]

Okay, watch! I've been practicing!

[ She jumps into the air, and as she does her pink energy bubble forms around her. It hits the floor, bounces off and flies into the kitchen with a loud crash. ]
iamresponding: (bucketless - amused)

[personal profile] iamresponding 2016-09-21 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Rich laughs because she's adorable]

Nah, what happened is Grif moved his arm so fast that the wind knocked it down.

Ultimate fakeout.

[The man that shows onscreen has a long scar down the right side of his face, but otherwise, he looks cheerful enough.]
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[personal profile] captainbuzzkill 2016-09-21 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Enough teasing at her and Sam's expense.]

She's just...kind of excitable. Like, all the time. About everything? So she gives even her crushing a respectable 110%.
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[personal profile] bleventeen 2016-09-21 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. Of course!

[ Except she hasn't really done that, so doesn't know if it's really an option. ]

What else is there to do in this place? Y'know, what does everyone do for fun?

[ "Yeah, talk about his interests, that's the way to reel him in. Good job, Mabel! Thanks, Mabel!" ]

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