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[sir_vancelot]

[The video comes on and Vance is...red. Cheeks, face, neck. Even his ears are red. It takes a moment for him to clear his throat.]

Uh...

Right. I apparently needed a reminder to never Google myself. Or, you know, whatever the equivalent is in the future. But is this usually a thing these days?

I mean, maybe I should be more used to this from the Avengers. I know they did this sort of thing back home sometimes, but...yeah.

I also never want to see the fan art. I love you, Rich, but...no.

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[floraltranslator]

[ Program Tsubomi.exe has stopped responding. Would you like to restart? ]

W- w- w- w-what????

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[sir_vancelot]

I don't know. I don't get it. I...

I really don't get some of this. At all.

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[iamresponding]

[Rich picks a bad time to start recording because he breaks into another bout of laughter right as he starts and it takes a while for it to stop. It only ends in a small cough at the end, which is good. He's up and about and his lung is getting better.]

See, you didn't do the reality show with us. We had ourselves a whole fandom and you missed it.

My ship name with Thrash was Novanight and the shippers called themselves the Nova Knights. For me and Robbie, it was Novaball. Which sounded horrible. Me and Nita's was Novarita. That one was okay. And nobody shipped Zach with anyone, poor guy.

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[sir_vancelot]

Oh no. I didn't miss that. I mean, I did sort of. At first. But I saw some of it.

[What he doesn't say is that he saw it later. Mostly after Stamford.]

Novaball sounds like it should be a sport. And now I need to go find out if this world ever invented brain bleach because, one, the idea of you and Thrash together and, two, the idea of Zach having sex. You're a mean man, Richard Rider.

[iamresponding]

[More laughter.]

Honestly, with all the telepaths and the level of tech, I wouldn't be surprised if they had telepathic napalm. You could probably get one of the telepaths hanging around the ship to erase it for you. Just gotta turn on the ol' charm.

[He reads more on his omnicom.]

Or I mean, you could, if you had charm, but apparently you're a total blank slate.

[sir_vancelot]

Really? Because the last thing I saw is that Sam is our son.

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[floraltranslator]

[ Of course she was sort of used to the idea having fans. Goodness knows the Precure were well loves back home.

But this? This was..... yeah. ]

T- they're... very enthusiastic....!

[iamresponding]

Our tiny son, apparently.

[sir_vancelot]

You want to provide the popcorn for when Sam sees that or should I?

Also. Did I tell you what they set up for me on the Habitat Deck?

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[sir_vancelot]

They certainly are.

Are you okay, Tsubomi?

[iamresponding]

I'll get some.

And lemme guess... does its name rhyme with Flashrad?

[headinjuries]

Oh.

My.

Gooooooooooooooooooood.

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[floraltranslator]

Y- yes I'm fine!

[ That 'yes' might have started off as a squeak sound. ]

Just surprised! I didn't expect to see people talk about me.....

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[sir_vancelot]

[That gets a bit of a smile out of him.]

Yeah. I know what you mean in that respect.

[sir_vancelot]

Man, that's no fair. But yeah, it's the Crashpad. Which I'm grateful for because as much as I like the new base in the mountains, Crashpad was home, you know?

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[whyarewehere]

What the fuck am I looking at and what the fuck are they saying about me?

[ He thinks he understands and he really doesn't want to. ]

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[floraltranslator]

But that's a good thing, right? If they're talking about us, that means we're doing good and keeping people safe!

[sir_vancelot]

Ah. Hey, Sam. Sorry about this.

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[sir_vancelot]

Since I pretty much had the same sort of reaction, I'm figuring you know what they're saying.

[iamresponding]

Hey, tiny son. You're not allowed to read that meme until your homework is finished. Also, clean your room.

[sir_vancelot]

Maybe you should be telling Grif to clean his room. Since he's the one they're gossiping about

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[iamresponding]

You need to also clean your room apparently.

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[sir_vancelot]

For the most part, yeah. I mean, I'm not too fond of what they've posted about Brainiac, but the rest of it is...kinda tame.

[Except for the Galactus vore and the shipping wars around Rich. Which was just weird still.]

[iamresponding]

Damn right it was.

We ought to bring Sam by, since he's never been. Every New Warrior should get their chance to have a few slices of pizza at the Crashpad.

[sir_vancelot]

Even if that pizza has weird not-meat on it.