thisavrou | 01- Video

[ 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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It's not okay, because I'm not cute. [He'll never accept it!]

Good thing I never went, then. Had to take a few classes when I was a kid, but nothing close to an actual school. I always preferred teaching myself things anyway. Give me a library and a good afternoon to myself over someone telling me how to learn any day.

Yeah, you're going to have to work on not being yourself if you want me to stop calling you cute.

After I spent all this time working on being myself? Bloody never.

[ ...Okay, that feels like she just crossed a line and nooot really the fun kind. ]

...So, what, I'm just supposed to call you Liquid then?

That is my name, yes. No one calls me Snake. Which is for the better, I suppose. Makes it easier to differentiate. I think my brother's got the monopoly on being called that anyway.

Fine.

[ YOU WIN THIS ROUND, FIEND. ]

Good, I'm not calling someone "Solid," like I'm drawing the line there.

Good.

[He certainly does love it when he actually wins something.]

I get you there. I think it might just be because he got there first, but that's probably got something to do with it too.

Does that make him like the older twin?

I'm not actually sure. He got his codename first, though.

I guess that means he's the oldest in like weird super soldier spy stuff.

I think it's a bit of a toss-up. I've been doing these sorts of things since I was a child. I've gone by other names in the past. Since then, this is the one that feels right.

Weird creepy reptilian legacy stuff?

[She can keep going. ]

I'm not exactly sure how it's creepy. It's just... there.

Not like "Needs to be punched through a wall" creepy, more like "Oh yeah, giant spy soldier whatevers but also weirdly cute sometimes" creepy. Like mutant puppies or something.

Okay, no, Snake explained it a little and it's the first kind of creepy, but that's mostly like a whoever decided this legacy should be a thing thing and not a you thing.

[ Follow all that, buddy. ]

Mutant... puppies. Right.

[That's the thing he gets out of it, of course.]

[Following that isn't really all that hard, so he just nods. ] It's... incredibly complicated in the long run. I suppose there could be a creepy element to it.

Big ones. With floppy ears. And I don't know, mounted cannons.

[ good, that's an important point.]

Most complicated things are creepy. Especially if it involves human weapon soldiers.

Are the cannons part of the mutation, or were they added later?

[Oh no, he's already putting thought into it.]

Well, when you put it that way... I guess you could call it creepy.

Depends on how tragic the backstory is, but you guys strike me as the "canon added later" types.

[ That's how she gets to you, man. Like a fungus. An adorable superpowerd fungus. ]

See.

I suppose if you take it as some sort of convoluted metaphor, it could work.

[Well, crap. It's like he's got the mushrooms growing on him already.]

Fine, fine. I see your point.

You guys sound like you specialize in convoluted, it works perfectly.

Well... you do have that right. Things can't not be complicated.

So when do I get my bloody cannon, right?

Talk to the science department, I'm only here to provide important life lessons and advice.

Oh, all this was meant to be important? What a shame, I've forgotten already.

It's okay, buddy, I know you've engraved it in your heart already. They are incredibly wise words.

You might have to write it down for me in the rare case I might need it later.

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