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[ Give a teenager a video function and a captive audience and it's only so long before they abuse the privilege. ]

You know, this kind of transdimensional grab bag usually sets off a few alarm bells. Integrity of the space time continuum, multiples of the same person in the same space affecting Reality As We Know It, blah blah blah. This is pretty low key. Like hi, welcome to your new home, here's a really ugly uniform, a job and a room assignment. Don't mind the teenagers necking in your room, that's just a thing.

[ Who's bitter, not her. ]

One thing I do like? Crew roster. Nice, simple way to check to see if there's anyone familiar; archenemies, familiar code names, family members from different dimensions who might not know who you are, ex-boyfriends who need to get their teeth punched in... [ She was making a point here. ]

Some of you need to work on your code names, though. Like I get being part of a legacy, but we have like five different Snakes. Five. [ More like three, but she's not gonna let a silly thing like facts stop her. ] That's way too many snakes for this ship. Venom I get, it sounds like someone who probably runs around Gotham and changes their alignment every day of the week, but whatever, I guess if Catwoman can, you can too. Live the dream. The other two need to flip a coin or something.

Or, wild idea, but go with me on this: pick another animal, be your own hero and/or villain, break free of the legacy cycle! You know who never looks stressed out? Heroes who aren't part of a legacy.

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[Someone's wild exasperated flailing triggered their video function, so Sans gets the full experience of Kara flopping over (mid air) and groaning dramatically into her hands. ]

Ooooooooooooooh my gooooood.

[Oh, man. A human (or so he thinks). Well, that's not exactly surprising.]

hehehe

y'know, you turned your video on. not gonna lie, i love getting to see audience reactions in stereo, but you probably shouldn't be sharing a live feed with anons on the MID network. people can be creeps.

Edited 2016-03-05 09:43 (UTC)

[ Slight wait time while she rolls back over and reads that. ]

Says the anon leaving puns all over the MID network. So are you a creep?

nah, that's an affliction of the flesh. i'm pretty immune to those hehe

but i shouldn't be so cryptic

Okay, yeah, that one was actually a little creepy.

yeah, well...

[And, like a magician revealing his trick... the ultimate punchline.]

Doesn't it suit me?

[ If she could throw the MID, it probably be through the wall. As it is, there's some flailing and a solid thump as Kara hits the ceiling and then the floor. ]

Rao! Warn a person next time!! Jeez!

Eh, I like to see how people react. I give you a seven out of ten on the spooky skeleton scale. [Sans' perpetual grin grew two sizes.] You humans sure are weird about us, not gonna lie.

Maybe because usually skeletons are inside people. And I'm not a human.

[ She's grumpy enough about embarrassing herself she'll take issue with the assumption. ]

Eugh, don't remind me about that bit of body horror. 'Sides, you sure look like a human. [Like, way more than most of the many human-lookin'-non-humans.] What are you?

Literally nearly every living thing has a skeleton inside it, how does that freak you out. Bugs must be wild for you.

[ She shrugs aggressively. ]

Our evolution was really similar, but our cellular structure and genetic coding is pretty different. Plus I guess some organs and stuff too.

Heh, and yet you need a warning before seeing one? Don't throw stones in a glass house.

[Not that Sans looks particularly argumentative. If anything, he looks positively gleeful. Then again, maybe that's just his face.]

Neat. Good differences or bad ones?

Well yeah, because it's not normal.

[ Delivered with all of the confidence of a indignant teenager. ]

I don't know... Different differences? Kryptonians absorb yellow sun rays different than humans that affects us on a molecular level so there's some awesome side benefits there. We can digest the same food okay and atmospheres aren't really a problem.

Our entire planet blew up though, so. That sucks.

[Oh, kid. Sans cradles his jaw in his hand, looking positively delighted. It's been a while since he was on the receiving end of that sort of rhetoric. Feels nostalgic.]

Ah, yeah... that sounds like it would suck. [A beat.] But you managed to get away, that's something.

[He wants to ask if many others did too, but he doesn't. That's a little invasive for a first conversation.]

What was your planet like? Pre-kablooie, I mean.

[ She doesn't really know why she brought it up, except it's weird actually like... talking about being a Kryptonian while also being one of the last surviving Kryptonians. ]

Crazy? There was like a lot of political strife right before, lots of earthquakes and stuff putting people on edge. It was right around when they really started using the phantom zone to chuck people in whenever there was like a rise in crime. I don't really remember a lot of stuff before that.

[ She fucked up and now this conversation is depressing and everything sucks. ]

The buildings were really pretty though. We didn't have like a lot of plants and stuff that could be used for construction, so our main resource was crystals and rocks. Argo, the city I grew up in, was really pretty on sunny days.

[Depressing or not, Sans is still smiling. It is... not abundantly clear if he has any other facial expressions at his disposal, but nevertheless.

Luckily for him, Kara doesn't have that same problem. A video isn't a great way to read someone, but a few things are clear. Very pretty, very young, probably very confident in her world view the way all young people are to one degree or another.]

Sounds beautiful... sorry you lost it, kiddo, I mean that. And sorry for giving you a hard time before about the skeletons. Let's say it's a skull of mine to be a bit of a heel.

[Wink.]

You miss it? Outside the whole hurling people into a phantom jail thing.

[Oddly, it's the smile that keeps her talking, though the subject is straying into seriously dangerous territory. Like ultimate tragic backstory, secret weird crystal experiments territory. It occurs to her belatedly that Clark might be listening to this. ]

It's okay... I'm kind of being a jerk today anyway.

[She shrugs at his question. It's a little hard to tell, but she's practically radiating defensive body language. ]

Yeah? I mean, things were really messed up and everything sucked, [ Shit, right, Clark. ] but you know. Earth's not bad, but it's different.

You're fine. What are you, fifteen? Sixteen? [Sans waves a hand, as if physically brushing away her apology.] You're fine.

N' heh... Sounds familiar. [In its own way, anyway.] How 'bout Earth, what's that like? The surface parts of it, I mean.

Sixteen. You make it sound like I'm like five. How old are you, a million?

It's okay. [ This is obviously a different kind of okay from the Krypton okay. ] I mean, I've got my own place and money for food and stuff, so I guess I've got an edge on most people my age. Nice not having a curfew.

By your standards? Probably not far off, heh.

Sounds pretty nice. You hang out much with that yellow sun you mentioned? They sound like they have no chill. [Sans takes a second to chuckle at his own joke before pressing on.] I've never seen it, personally.

[ He gets such an eye roll, like dramatic high theater stuff, with a sigh and everything. ]

Why, because you're six feet under the weather?

[So much for his initial doubts. Sans burst into appreciative laughter. This one, this one he liked.]

Man, I hope you got assigned a job as lift technician, 'cuz that joke works on about six different levels. [He wiped unnecessarily at his dry eye socket, chuckles dying down.] You're not wrong, either.

Yeah, enjoy that, it's the only one you're getting.

So should I be asking what cemetery are you from or..?

Not dead, but close enough. [Sans shrugs, gesturing to himself.] I'm a monster. Humans and monsters don't get along too well. We've been living underground since before I was born.

Our punishment for losing the war, I guess. Y'know how it is.

Oh.

That sucks.

We've got like subterranean people, too, but we don't really see them unless one shows up and starts tearing the crap out of everything.

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