[on social media, after Dave's Legionnaire Legacies goes up]

[the_real_sir_prize]

[Victor's social media accounts all update simultaneously, so he's evidently figured out how to make the "schedule post" function work. The microblog updates are links to a picture-sharing account with the hashtags #legionnairelegacies and #idonotconsent. The picture sharing accounts update to share the same picture: Victor, wearing a serious expression and his Sir Prize uniform and against a blank wall of a background, holding a sign with the date and the words "I do not consent to appear on Legionnaire Legacies" written on it. He's even gone through the effort to make sure the Interlac symbols are clear and distinct.]

[There's a caption below the image, also in Interlac. For the forensic linguists in the fandom, it's clearly written by a native speaker -- Victor had some help translating his thoughts into the lingua franca of the United Planets. It reads as follows:]

While I am pleased to serve you as a Legionnaire and more than happy to share my life with you through social media, I would like to make one thing very clear: I do not consent to footage of my life and my past being shared on Legionnaire Legacies. Legionnaire Legacies has demonstrated a clear disregard for the privacy and mental and emotional health of sentients who have chosen to take action to protect the worlds and sentients in a strange new reality. I am deeply disappointed that such invasive and callous behavior on the part of the media is being rewarded, and I urge those who share my concerns to contact Neutrino News and let them know that such behavior is unacceptable in the civilized galactic community.

[Link to the Neutrino News contact page]

To reiterate, any footage of me which appears on Legionnaire Legacies will have been obtained without my consent. Please stand with the Legion of Super Heroes in combating this crass degradation of sentient beings.



[Victor himself is currently in his skating rink on the Hab Deck, where he is available to chat with other Legionnaires both over omnicoms and in person. He fires off a message to the Legion network with a link to the picture]

If any of you want to borrow my sign, I can share a picture of you on my accounts as well.

Comments

[bachido]

[Kubo doesn't know the meaning of the word 'spam' so he doesn't understand why all his most recent messages to Neutrino News are coming back to him with that word as the reason why they're not being accepted.]

They aren't listening to my messages anymore!

[the_real_sir_prize]

Are you sending in audio- or text-based messages?

[bachido]

Text based. They didn't reply so I sent more messages. What's spam?

[thedreamisdead]

I don't understand. If it bothers you people this much, then why don't you just declare it an illegal invasion of privacy, seize the evidence, and bring in everyone involved until you find something worth cube time?

It's not that hard. You could also charge everyone else with viewing illegal material, vi-zines and snuff films should be against the law already. It's not easily enforceable, but it would scare the more gullible cits off of viewing more questionable material.

[the_real_sir_prize]

Why don't you run that by the Legion's legal department so they can explain to you why that's not how it works here?

[thedreamisdead]

Sure. Should I ask why their Constitution mentions a black ops team while I'm at it?

[littlecousin]

If it's anything like the laws back home, public figures have a lot less privacy protection. It's why we almost never bother to sue the tabloids.

[Also the not really caring part.]

[thedreamisdead]

I was going to mention protections for juveniles, but these people think that juves are adults, don't they?

Of all the idiotic...

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[whyarewehere]

does this actually work?

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[turntex]

nah but let them feel like theyre doing something useful
small comforts and all that

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[the_real_sir_prize]

I don't know, I'm new here!

But I've done something similar once or twice back home, and at the very least it reminds people that we're not okay with what they're doing. And it makes me feel better to say something than to seethe in private.

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[walkingballpit]

Aren't you worried that this is going to make them more determined to find out about you?

The press is going to paint this as you having something to hide.

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[the_real_sir_prize]

Probably, but I wouldn't stand by silently and let them do this to an adult I hated, much less a teenager who's risked his life to help people.

[jonesiseverywhere]

I don't get why they don't just ask if you wanna do it.

I'd give a freakin' interview if they wanted, you know?

[the_real_sir_prize]

I agree. It's utterly baffling.

[video;]

[vata]

Hey, I'm in. [Insert an attached photo of Azúcar, claws curled around a replicated version of his sign (though it only reads 'I do not consent', a stronger PR slogan now that the context has been laid out, she figures), expression one of utter misery and disappointment— you know the one: it's the kind you see on posters for adoption commercials or charity posters, animal shelters, even.

She grew up an orphan in Mexico after a war, you'd better believe she's got that act on lockdown. Poor sweet, distressed Azúcar. :'C ]

You need anything else from me let me know, está bien? It's horrible what they're doing to these kids— these people. Nobody deserves to have their lives invaded like this.

[Says the hacker that would absolutely use this technology in a heartbeat if she ever gets her claws on it.]

[video]

[the_real_sir_prize]

I'll start an album!

[He can do this alone, but it turns out that it's kind of nice to have other people joining in.]

And I will absolutely let you know if I think of anything.

[unrecovered]

Count me in.

[Attached is a photo. Wash's sign is pretty much a copy of Azucar's: 'I do not consent.' Wash himself is fully armored, with one difference: the helmet he's wearing isn't the replacement Brainy made him, but the wrecked, acid-scarred helmet that got damaged during the fight with the Joker. The visor is almost completely gone, leaving some of the inner workings of the helmet visible. Wash's nose and mouth are still covered by the helmet's inner structure; what's visible are his eyes, narrowed in a glare full of imperious, cool rage, one that promises consequences if that rage is ever pushed past its tipping point. His expressions have to be strong enough to convey even through a visor; without it, the glare is piercing. Which is the goddamn point.]

[the_real_sir_prize]

Oooh, scary face! I love it!

Voice

[goddamngrenades]

...It probably says something about me that I'm more or less resigned to my consent not being required or even thought of when it comes to this shit, huh?

[ The project was a fun time, honestly. ]

Voice

[the_real_sir_prize]

That you had fewer people looking out for your well-being than you should have had?

[Victor is...kind of blunt sometimes.]

Consent evidently isn't required, but this is really above and beyond what can reasonably be expected from us. I've traded privacy for celebrity before, but the paparazzi weren't allowed to break into my home and riffle through my choreography notes and music playlists, much less something like this.

[wherenoonegoes]

Sounds like fun. I'm in.

[There's a photo of Hiccup and Toothless holding up signs.]

[the_real_sir_prize]

Oooh! I'll add it to the album!

In Person

[ghost_bait]

[Miku happened to be in her own habdeck when the hullabaloo over Dave's LL began, only paying brief attention when the comments from it began to flood her omnicomm, followed by Victor's social media announcements.

She realizes that she should've put something warmer on, and shivers, watching Victor angrily skate.]

That was something, wasn't it?

In Person

[the_real_sir_prize]

[Victor's sole concession to the cold is a pair of black, wrist-length gloves. Otherwise, he's just wearing gray sweats and a black t-shirt as he whirls across the ice.]

[He spots Miku at the edge of the rink and glides over to her, chest heaving as he catches his breath.]

It was. What did you think of all of it?