[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. )))

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[captainbuzzkill]

Listen, Mr. Invincible. Some people aren't that in their home universes, okay?

Oh yeah, by the way, batten down the hatches. Like, whatever it is you do to stave off cooties, engage cootie avoidance protocols now.

[headinjuries]

Cooties? Come on, dude. I'm fifteen, not five.

[ He manages to sound surprisingly chill about it for someone who completely loses his ability to act smooth around Ms. Marvel. ]

[captainbuzzkill]

[Looks downthread.]

Annnnd there it is.

Hi future brother-in-law. We should do camping trips. That's what brother-in-laws do, right? Manly, brotherly, camping trips.

[headinjuries]

Is it? Mom was an only child and Dad...I think was an only child.

[ There's been a real lack of family reunions or even...family stories, from the Alexander side. But that's just the non-awkward thing, which is easier to talk about than the awkward one, because - ]

So this is...a thing? That happens a lot?

[captainbuzzkill]

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]

Wait, the ten dollar bill guy?!

[ h o w ]

[captainbuzzkill]

[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%.

[headinjuries]

I think you might be lowballing it.

[captainbuzzkill]

Well, it's kind of like when Chernobyl blew, and all the guys cleaning up thought it was safe because the geiger counters didn't actually go high enough for them to measure the radiation.

[There's no meter that goes high enough to measure Mabel's excitability accurately.]

Fortunately, her enthusiasm leaves way more survivors. Usually.

[headinjuries]

Comparisons usually work better when they're something the other person's actually heard about, dude.

[ He is slightly distracted pondering the amount of radiation that must've been now. And how he's probably flown through worse. Too bad the cleanup crew wasn't made of Novas. ]

[captainbuzzkill]

You don't know what Chernobyl is. Seriously?

[Come on, Sam.]

[headinjuries]

No, I mean the rest of it! The counters not going high enough and stuff.

[captainbuzzkill]

...When Chernobyl blew there were guys that cleaned it up but they didn't realize how high the radiation was because the geiger counters didn't measure high enough.

I thought it was pretty self-explanatory.

[headinjuries]

What's a geiger, though.

[captainbuzzkill]

Seriously? Aren't you, like, in high school?

[Sam, get your life together.]

[Or Dipper can stop doing that thing he does where he shows off that he knows a thing, look he knows the thing, do you know the thing? No, you don't know the thing, but he knows the thing.]

[headinjuries]

Yeah, I mean.

When I'm not suspended.

...or expelled but that only lasted for like a day.

[captainbuzzkill]

...oh.

[Now he feels like a jerk.]

Okay, so you know how in sci-fi movies where scientists are worried about radiation, they wave a little handheld thing that makes ticking sounds?

That's a geiger counter. They're used to measure radiation, and they're named after this scientist called Hans Geiger that helped develop the Geiger–Müller tube -- um, one of the components that's used in them.

[A pause.]

History-slash-science joke. I was going for -- yeah.

[headinjuries]

Ah. Okay, got it.

[ Welp, that got awkward. ]

[captainbuzzkill]

[Yeah. Awkward.]

Um. I know Legion World is generally a school-free zone, other than learning all the superhero stuff, but...

[A pause.]

I mean, it sounds like you've fallen behind for reasons that are totally not your fault, and --

[How does he ask this in a way that doesn't sound stupid?]

Like...if you wanted, maybe I could, I don't know, tutor you or something? [He adds quickly] Or if not me, I bet somebody else could help you. Time's frozen back home so you'd be able to catch up.

[headinjuries]

[ On one hand: yeah, he's kind of been enjoying the school-free zone.

But on the other, Sam really doesn't want to become a dropout. And he has definitely fallen behind. ]

That'd...be pretty good. If it's not too much trouble.

[captainbuzzkill]

It'd be fine. I have to help Mabel with her homework sometimes, too. Anything that you can use a glue stick for she does fine with, but sometimes she needs help with math and stuff.

I'm used to making it not-boring. Or at least as not-boring as it can get.

[Mabel's attention span is pretty short.]