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[imanapexpredator]

sooo what kind of powers do you guys have? were you born with them or get them in some freak incident or what?

[He pauses as he types out the text, considering if he should be honest about his intentions or not. It's not like he had any sinister plans or anything. It's just a matter of being private. But he doesn't want to sound too weird or shady. This sounds shady doesn't it??

He types and deletes a bunch of times, unhappy with most of the reasons he tries to give for asking the question. This one makes him sound too weak, this one makes him sound too ignorant, this one just makes him sound stupid. Eventually he settles for...well, nothing. He just gives up and hits send.]

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[imanapexpredator]

[Kind of wants to ask what he is but he seems to be evading. Andrew knows all about evading. He lets it go for now.]

kinda. i move things with my mind. i guess you could call it telekinesis or whatever

[He also has problems with temper tantrums sorry in advance roomie]

[kickbancaboose]

[ his existence as an ai (and the fact that he's not a Real Boy) is an infinitely sore topic for him, yes. but holy shit, telekinesis. that's like an actual super power. ]

shit seriously? that's badass
can you move anything you want or is it just the small fry stuff

[imanapexpredator]

anything

[Quick to reply because he's totally strong and everyone has to know it EVERYONE.]

i mean, when i started i could barely lift a baseball but after lots of practice i got stronger.

[kickbancaboose]

how'd you even end up with it? or was it something that was always dormant inside of you but you had to tap into it?

[ tell him your superhero origin story andrew ]

[imanapexpredator]

well, okay like...there was this hole in the ground my cousin and my best friend found. they were obsessed with it because it was making all these weird sounds and shit? my friend steve just jumps right in and my cousin matt follows and i went right after them. it was weird because it was like this perfectly neat hole? its hard to explain. anyway there was this big glowing blue crystal and there was ringing in my ears and nosebleeds and i think my cousin got knocked back by something? anyway i just remember blacking out and we all found out later we could just move shit with our minds, you know?

i still dont really know exactly what happened that night

[kickbancaboose]

dude what the fuck did you get assaulted by blue kryptonite or something

[ he actually wasn't expecting a legit superhero origin story. that's awesome. ]

damn that's crazy
glad you're ok though because i can imagine that going wrong in about a hundred different ways

[imanapexpredator]

[It did go wrong. Everything went so wrong. But he doesn't say that, that'd be weird.]

not gonna lie it was really scary. but i mean now i can fly so i guess it all worked out in the end.

[He can pretend, at least.

Well, he can pretend to pretend.]

[kickbancaboose]

[ yeah, church is wondering how worked out everything really is, but he doesn't exactly know this kid very well, and that's definitely not his business. ]

glad to hear it
and i mean flying and moving things with your mind are pretty sweet powers so it's cool you got something out of it even if it sucked at first

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger etc etc

[imanapexpredator]

[Just wait until they're roomies for a little while longer and it'll start to become obvious how very not worked out it is.]

do you really believe that, or is that just something you're just saying?

[Andrew's actually not sure these days.]

[kickbancaboose]

well i mean i talk a lot of bullshit sometimes but no i actually do mean that

trust me
i've got first hand experience

[imanapexpredator]

oh, yeah. you probably would, wouldn't you?

[What with the whole not being able to die thing...]

i think you might be right.