audience: nico di angelo

[becomemod]

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[becomemod]

Yeah. It really is.

[ If they could plan for everything, they wouldn't be stuck here. ]

It's impossible to plan for everything, but you can get used to working with people. That's pretty much always going to be part of any coordinated response. It's good to know each other's strengths, y'know?

[resumed]

Yeah. I can work with people just fine. It's what we have to do where I'm from, too. But usually back there we've had years and years of training with our powers and access to our weapons. It kind of feels like we have a curveball now.

[ but... ]

Do you and the other leaders work well together then?

[becomemod]

I feel that. [ A small sigh. ]

Yeah. We've been working together for months now. We'd be in serious trouble if we couldn't.

[resumed]

The city probably wouldn't still be here at all otherwise? [ hah. but he pauses to think. ]

...I also wanted to ask about something I read in the news. About how there used to be twelve original heroes.

[becomemod]

I don't want to think about that alternate universe.

[ Please they're trying to keep this city from blowing up again.

Their expression seems to fall, even with the mask. ]

... Yeah, that's true. They arrived here with us.

[resumed]

[ he can read a room, but also, he figures if goat doesn't want to actually answer they won't. ]

Can I ask what happened to them?

[becomemod]

[ ... ]

They died in attack a month ago.

[resumed]

[ ....terrible, thanks. ]

Oh. [ ... ] I was afraid that was the case. I assume they were helping you fight?

[ it's rude to ask if they were at least able to retrieve the bodies for proper burial, but he's thinking it. ]

[becomemod]

[ Sometimes the answers are bad. ]

They were, and they were all great in a fight too.

[resumed]

Am I allowed to ask what they were like?

[becomemod]

[ There's a moment when it seems like they're struggling with themselves. ]

Sorry, it's still fresh.

[resumed]

[ he shakes his head. ]

Don't apologize. I shouldn't have asked. [ literally he's busy yelling about his power elsewhere because it reminds him of dead people, he has no leg to stand on here. ] I was trying to find anything about the history of Oceanside or what happened thinking it might help us understand what to do next but...I get it. It's...hard when you're the people left behind.

[becomemod]

[ A month isn't much time, and they didn't really get time to grieve with all the fallout.

They give a nod of thanks and acknowledgement. ]

... Yeah. We have to keep going, and the city needs the help. [ That doesn't make any part of this easy. ]

[resumed]

Places always need help, and there will always be heroes. [ ... ] Were you doing anything similar to this before you came to Oceanside?

[ let's not talk about dead friends anymore rn. ]

[becomemod]

[ They seem grateful for the out. ]

Not even a little bit. It was an adjustment getting used to everything.

[resumed]

Sounds pretty rough. [ there is a tinge of sympathy to that. ] At least some of us are used to fighting, but the adjustment period's always a little harder. Especially if you've never had powers before or anything.

[becomemod]

No powers and no real fighting at home either. I know some guys who are used to it, but this isn't the same thing as a street brawl.

[resumed]

[ yeah that's not quite the same thing as suddenly being thrown into whatever this is, so oof x2. ]

Besides the street fights then...it sounds like you were from somewhere that was mostly peaceful. Throwing a few punches isn't really the same.

[becomemod]

Yeah. It's really peaceful back home.

[resumed]

...similar to this? Location, I mean. [ a city with technology and the like. ]

[becomemod]

Kinda? I mean, it is a city. But not nearly as much of everything else.

[resumed]

Sounds more like a small town then instead.

[becomemod]

I meant less crime and powers. That's the kinda thing you'd see on TV or stage somewhere.

[resumed]

[ hm. he mentally assigns goat as a normie mortal and leaves it alone. ]

You're not wrong. There's a reason the whole hero genre is really popular on Earth, I think. Most people have never experienced anything like that, so it looks much cooler than it would be to really experience it first-hand.

[becomemod]

I get it in terms of story structure and plot, but actually living through it is a completely different thing. I'm doing the best I can with what I've got here.