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[fourstars]

So um... I've been thinking about this for a while. Ever since we left Harrub, actually...

[ He grimaced a bit, pausing for a couple of seconds. Glancing off to the side, before taking a breath, and addressing the camera again. ]

But um, after the whole Murderworld thing... it's kind of become clear that some of us aren't... handling things that well... [ He was thinking about Videl specifically, but the anon meme has also made it clear Videl wasn't the only one. ] I know we all took the oath for various reasons, and we probably all expected different things out of becoming a superhero. But um, some of us probably didn't expect this... so...

... With the whole "Legionnaire Legacies" thing coming around the corner, I think we should... [ Another pause, as he tries to figure out how to phrase this. ] ... um... I guess, share our lives with each other? To make sure we're prepared, in case... in case the news digs up stuff about us, and tries to drag us through the mud with it.

[ This is so weird and strange and against everything Gohan knows. He's usually the most secretive person in the world, but... he's kind of had to cope with having an open identity, so might as well go all in. ]

I guess um, I should go first? My name's Gohan, and... if you have any personal questions for me, I'll be happy to answer them...

Comments

[unrecovered]

Don't do that to yourself.

[Not that Wash wants this particular spotlight on him, but he'll be damned before he lets his teammates throw themselves under the bus to protect him.]

[iamresponding]

I don't know, it might not be a bad idea. Nobody should feel obligated, naturally, but some of us either have pasts we're not ashamed of, no matter how ugly the press might try to make them look, or have pasts that don't have much ammunition that can be used against them.

If some of us are handing them easy stories, it might keep them from digging into the background of the people that need their privacy for their own sanity.

[unrecovered]

You don't think they'll figure that out after a while? That we're giving them easy stories and that what they'd call the good stories are still being hidden?

You saw the anon meme. I don't trust them not to fight for everything they can get and tear us apart in the process.

[iamresponding]

After a while, sure, but what if that buys us enough time for Brainy to get it shut down?

[unrecovered]

[He hasn't even thought of that; he's been too worried about his secrets getting out.]

Can we strike a deal with the press - get them to stick with volunteers instead of going after anyone else? Or would that tip them off?

[Read: okay, he's convinced. Kind of.]

[littlecousin]

Jeez, Wash, I'm in the tabloids all the time back home. You know how many famous guys under the age of 30 they claim I've slept with? All of them.

[Wow, everyone is taking this way more seriously than she meant them to.]

You get used to it. Like, really. This is not me putting on a brave face. It's not gonna bug me what a bunch of strangers from another universe think about, I dunno, that time I beat a guy within an inch of his life.

[unrecovered]

[That's actually a surprise to him. Evidently superhero fame isn't unique to the Legion and the space future.]

I...didn't actually know that.

[He works with that for a moment. On the one hand, Nita is volunteering, and she has experience with media bullshit; either she doesn't have anything as horrific in her past as he has in his or he's made peace with it. On the other hand, he hates the idea of someone on his team taking the fall for him, and he is someone who'd need to be protected in this scenario. Dammit.]

[It takes him a few moments, but...]

...If you're okay with it, then...

[littlecousin]

[Well, it's also because she's rich, hot, mysterious foreign royalty who parties her way across New York and is related to one of the 20th century's biggest players.

But yes, also the superhero thing.]

Comes with being a public figure.

Listen, acting like you care is just blood in the water. I mean, yeah, it helps if you genuinely don't care, but otherwise, fake it. There are always gonna be people having their dumb opinions loudly in public. Doesn't mean you have to pay attention.

[unrecovered]

[Yeah, Wash doesn't know any of that. Let him have his delusions of normality.]

I don't care who people think I'm sleeping with - York and I spent half the anon meme making people think we had a past relationship and a terrible breakup. I couldn't care less. I'll have a much harder time not caring if they start broadcasting my personal trauma.

[There's a lot of it and it's ugly.]