Metatextual postmodern asshole incoming.

[sociospatial]

Now this is interesting.

You realize I'll know it's fictional. Coincidences, timed events, plot arcs - these things have noticeable characteristics, from the inside. Ordinarily, I would simply think that events are being manipulated by an unseen hand. It's what I do, after all. But after a while... no one can rule the whole world. No one can make all the puzzle pieces fit together. That's why reality, in all its messy chaos, is so beautiful. You can't have signal without noise.

But this place, this one... if you extract every single signal and add them together, what you get is noise again. Chaos. Randomness, even if it's a randomness of a particular color. I've never seen such a fascinating bunch of nonsensical rambling.

Let's talk about doctrinal creation. Superheroes, as you well know, necessitate an entirely new body of law. Civil and criminal. I have plenty of reason to create exceptions for our noble vigilantes who insist on hiding their identity. Imagine if that were legalized. A Registration Act - it's rational, yes, but the process of a two-dimensional mind. Anyone can see that would lead to a civil war. No, I would think... something else. Control the heroes by controlling the image. No - by controlling the villains.

Yes. That's perfect.

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[cacotopian]

And the image of the villains...?

[sociospatial]

[ A genuine smile.

Oh, all his smiles are genuine, for a certain value of reality. But he is glad to see her. ]

Crucial.

If I could get my hands on Loki...

[cacotopian]

[She only has two genuine smiles: the one she gives corpses, and the one she gives him.]

Say you could. Without losing them in the process. Then what?

[She likes listening to him plan.]

[sociospatial]

New York City transforms into a kicked anthill. Neighbors would kill neighbors over what I would do.

The adoration over the Avengers has gone on long enough, after all.

[deserve]

How does a figment of imagination perceive itself?

[sociospatial]

By knowing that the narratives we live are constructs. Mental versions of reality. Nothing wrong with that, but looking at the real world, now, that has chaos. Real chaos, the kind that we have to be trained to perceive.

If chaos isn't there, it means there was interference.

[deserve]

[She hunches over, chin sitting on the palm of her hand.]

Then you will always long for something you cannot have.

[forever_sonic]

[Sitting back and nomming popcorn.]

Go on...

[sociospatial]

About which part?

[forever_sonic]

The whole thing.

[Makes a vague handwave motion.]

Keep on and I may soon understand what th' bloodeh 'ell yer talkin' 'bout. [Beams.]

[debts]

[ To borrow a phrase— those would be fightin' words. ]

Registration act.

[sociospatial]

Like I said, the product of a two-dimensional mind.

[debts]

And your solution would be— rebranding?

[greymelee]

The flaw with that being villains aren't exactly the kind of people that like being controlled.

[sociospatial]

No one likes being controlled. But we all are. By a thousand factors, a thousand stimuli per second.

[greymelee]

Yeah, but they're more likely to shoot those factors and stimuli in the face with lasers. Lots and lots of lasers.

[urbanhero]

Have you honestly ever tried to get a villain to listen? You'd have better luck talking to a Rikti, honestly.

[greymelee]

You don't remember Argot'BurWot?

[sociospatial]

What do you think I'm going to do, sit down and persuade them to be reasonable?

[sempiternally]

So what, you're going to persuade some people to join your Brotherhood of Evil Supervillains, take over say a corporation or city, and then collaborate with others and go full on Axis of Evil?

Have you not read comic books? The villains almost always lose.

[sociospatial]

Believe me, I'm not interested in governing.

[sempiternally]

Okay sure, I believe you.
[Except not really.]

[delusionaldreams]

And if the villains have no mind to be controlled?

[sociospatial]

Ah! Loki. Pleasure to meet you.

Please. You have your buttons. Obviously.

[delusionaldreams]

You know me? I'm flattered.