[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]

[The Superman reference is amusing, especially since, well, the Legion is the Legion. Rich has been quietly sitting on the fact that he recognizes them, because last thing he wants to do is send anyone into any existential crises with "hey, you were comic books in my world." He's not sure they'd take it as well as himself finding out it's apparently the same with Donnie.]

That's the guy from the past the Legion's whole ideology is based on, right? Saw some history links on him when I was poking around. [Yeah, he'll go with that rather than letting on that he was in comics back home.] I'm gonna hate your guts if you make that nickname stick. Last thing I need is people in this world thinking I'm his second coming or something. My uniform's even blue.

[whyarewehere]

Wait, you're not serious.

Superman isn't real. He's Superman. That's why this joke is funny.

[Grif? Pay attention to anything, especially something as boring as learning about the history of a new world he's found himself in? He'll die first.]

obviously, Grif can canon puncture if you like

[iamresponding]

[Rich resists the urge to facepalm. GJ Grif. He sure hopes the Legionnaires aren't thrown by this.]

Look, everything is real somewhere. Many-Worlds Theory, right? That means that there are universes where fictional people are real and universes where writers coincidentally wrote fiction that matched real people's lives in other universes.

Me and Donnie already figured out I was fiction in his universe. On account of me mentioning Spider-Man was my friend and everything.

This must be a world where something that's fiction in your world is real. Just like I'm fiction in Donnie's world and real in mine. [A pause.] And also real here.

[whyarewehere]

That sounds made up.
Or from a bad movie.
Or both.

[Disregarding that the first is a requirement for the second, of course.]

[iamresponding]

And our situation of being pulled through a hole in spacetime to become superheroes doesn't sound like both?

[This whole thing seems like a bad sci fi movie or show, but that's life. At least for Rich.]

[whyarewehere]

...Point.

[Grif shrugs.]

But I kind of doubt anybody's out there reading comic books about me.

[iamresponding]

There's TV shows. Books. Webcomics.

I mean, it's hard to take you seriously. Maybe you're from a sitcom.