[video] Show Me Your Moves

[whyarewehere]

[The camera bobs and judders as someone sets it up, catching flashes of a scruffy, unkempt face and pale arms and the sky for a moment.]

Okay so I've been thinking, we've got super powers here, right?

[The picture steadies pointing out at what appears to be a beach, but is more likely to just be a simulated section of beach on the Legion World. It falls over, and Grif swears as he rights it again.]

...Anyway. By super powers I mean amazing things you couldn't do before, because otherwise you're just from some world where you can do cool stuff most of us can't and that's not superpowers, that's just life being unfair to the rest of us.

[Satisfied that the comm is stable, Grif steps out in front of it as he continues.]

So, I want to see what you guys can do. And because I am all about being fair, I'm going first.

[He swings his arms a little, takes a couple breaths, then bolts to the waterline. He's nothing but a speed blur followed by a trail of thrashed sand. He stops at the surf and charges back just as quickly. At the end he's doubled over in front of the camera, hands on his knees, huffing and wheezing.]

Whoo!

[He laughs as he catches his breath, which makes it somewhat harder, and is grinning despite how much that tiny display of super speed seems to have taken out of him. In good shape, this guy is not.]

It's like... it feels like everything's normal speed to me when I do it and everything's all slowed down. It's crazy shit, man.

[Grif plunks down heavily in the sand and picks up the comm again, still visibly panting.]

So. That's me. Show me what you got.

((OOC: Feel free to threadhop each other and talk about powers if you like! Grif is encouraging sharing.))

Comments

[iamresponding]

I never said it's good to be ignorant. Just that while you're doing what you have to and getting the answers, you still spend a whole lot of time wishing you weren't sometimes.

[nerdninja]

That's pretty counterproductive.

[iamresponding]

It's how you stay sane when it comes to these big, reality-bendy, cosmic to-dos. Trust me, there's some things out there that even while you're doing what has to be done, you're learning things you never wanted to know -- sometimes things that nobody was meant to know.

And what keeps you sane is those things always staying insane. Never letting 'em become normal in your head. Because then you can still enjoy all the normal things without all that being a big ol' shadow they're trapped underneath.

[He spent a lot of his life Doing the Job and while he was doing the job he hated learning some things, hated being yanked around by big cosmic whatsits. He spent a lot of time wishing he could live a life in ignorance. And even though he couldn't, even though he had to face it all, it helped to never let go of that tiny bit of "wtf." He never wanted to look out on a life filled with nightmare terrors from beyond time and space and think all that was a normal thing to deal with. He always wanted it to be a thing he wished he didn't know about.]

[nerdninja]

I just want things to make sense.

[And he's used to the idea that that means he's going to have to make sense of them instead of counting on the things that already make sense to be the only ones he has to deal with, because everything, ugh.]

[iamresponding]

Never gonna happen.

[He doesn't want Donnie to feel overwhelmed by that, though, or want him to think it's all bad.]

Upside to that's you always see some stuff that don't make any sense that isn't horrible. And since it don't make any sense all you can really do is be glad you were alive to see it.

[It's a big, bad, weird, wonderful universe out there.]

[nerdninja]

Yeah, I guess so.

[Not that he's ever going to stop trying to make sense of the cool stuff, either.]