[Video | Filtered to Legionnaires Only] Technically, Parody Is Fair Use

[unrecovered]

[Wash looks a bit better than he did a week ago; turns out a successful mission and a plan for the future really do help.]

We've all seen the Legionnaire Legacies, and I'm pretty sure we're all tired of them. Well, Mirage is a genius, and she had an idea: we'll make fake ones. Use our Anywhere Machine to pull real footage, create fake footage to supplement it, write our own narratives, and broadcast them. It'll discredit the press, and it might keep them off our backs, because there's no reason to broadcast someone's past if it's already been done by someone else.

So. Who's in?

Comments

[kingtyrantranger]

Weren't they responsible for that charity calendar?

[rokketmann]

[ The mild embarrassed look on his face is entirely due to looking up said charity calendar. ]

That does look like one of their ideas.

[ He also seems relieved, and is - because he wasn't here for that. ]

Videl, I think there's a number of Legionnaires who have gotten used to taking things into their own hands. I know that's true for the longer-serving members.

[saltsweet]

Seriously?

[ Videl looks straight up baffled at the idea that it's typical for Legionnaires to handle their own PR. ]

I mean, sure, I've always handled my own PR, but I've never been somewhere that that's the norm.

[rokketmann]

Not all the time, but we're lucky enough to have confident, strong-willed teammates. I don't like making anyone give a statement that I'm not willing to give myself.

[saltsweet]

That's a pretty egalitarian standpoint for a celebrity.

[rokketmann]

[ Cos' shoulders rise in a half-shrug as he speaks. ]

I don't really think of myself as a celebrity?

[ He knows that he is, but Rokk wouldn't put 'celebrity' in the top ten list of words he wants to be described as. ]

The U.P. is a fairly egalitarian society, and I admit I subscribe to one of the more challenging moral philosophies. I don't force that on anyone else either.

[saltsweet]

[ Videl had been preparing to give Cos grief about not seeing himself as a celebrity (is it denial, ignorance, or humility driving that decision?), but the mention of "challenging moral philosophies" wholly captures her attention. ]

[ One eyebrow arches up. ] I hope you're at least willing to share with the class.

[rokketmann]

I don't mind, if you're interested.

[ After a moment to decide where the best starting point is. ]

Do you know who Superman was?

[saltsweet]

[ Videl offered an apologetic shrug. ] Not really. I just know he was a pretty big deal.

[rokketmann]

The teachings of the Spirit of the Last Son challenge its followers to hold themselves to his standard. There's never been anyone else quite like him.

[ Rokk sends her a digital copy of a solid biography on the hero. It's not the most comprehensive or personal, but it's well-rounded without making crazy inferences or being overly long. ]

If you're curious about Superman, that's a good read. Don't worry - this isn't a conversion attempt. It's not that sort of belief system.