Saving Lives a Mile High [open to all]

[applesaucemod]

Welcome to another ordinary day in Manhattan. This barely even qualifies as a dream at all, it's so like waking life. The dreamers will find that they're their own perfectly normal selves going about their perfectly normal business and thwarting perfectly normal crimes in their perfectly normal spandex outfits.




What's that? No, of course it's normal to wear spandex (or leather, for the more chic among you) and go around beating up muggers and thwarting your villainous counterparts, don't be silly. What else would you do with your afternoon, not use your superpowers to better the world? That's grossly irresponsible of you; don't you know that with great power comes great responsibility?

So get out there and make the world a better place -- and be sure not to let that disguise slip if you do make it in to work today. Wouldn't want anyone to learn your secret identity, after all.


[OOC: Characters will find themselves thrust into the role of superhero...or at least, super-powered human. Whether they'd use those powers for good or evil (or use them at all), they'll think they've always been this way (or maybe just since that time they fell in toxic waste and developed cancer telekinesis). Usual dream party rules apply: all players and characters welcome regardless of membership status. Characters will remember or forget the events of the dream at players' discretion.]

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[theoldgirl]

She certainly takes in his posing, though with something rather more like amusement than appreciation, and his suggestion only earns him a raised eyebrow. She's never so easily persuaded to change her appearance, just ask the Doctor.

"Superheroes?" she asks with a slight frown at his explanation, finding the term mostly in a particular kind of fiction in her databanks. "What an odd delusion. They don't need properties uncharacteristic to their species in order to be brave or helpful to others."

[has_a_horn]

"It's not about...okay so maybe it's about being braver or more helpful, but mostly it's the fantasy. To be brave on an entirely different scale, for your drab little human life to be more interesting."

He smiles and lets his cape blow in the wind a little. "And it's fun."

[theoldgirl]

Well, humans do have such small lives and hardly ever seem to realize their own significance in the eternal, intricate progression of cause and effect. So maybe having a subjectively more ostentatious effect is enjoyable to them, but what is it supposed to mean to Gabriel, or her? And what does it have to do with colorful clothing?

"I'm afraid you will have to show me what is fun about this," she points out, quite sure he'll find some way of entertaining her.