warehouse_mods or maskormenace

[tattling]

I am so psyched you're letting me join a game again. I know I was real quiet for a while, but when you started writing that story again I knew I was gonna go crazy if I was just stuck in your head the whole time.

--wait, I'm ... I'm joining a weird artifact game and I'm second to a Jedi?

Come on! I could totally beat a Jedi in a fight! I mean, I know you don't want us to fight, but--

...um, if you have time for games again, maybe you could join that other game instead. Val's there. ... Obviously I don't care, I just think, maybe she needs her big brother -- hey, maybe you could send Future Franklin!

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[smarterthandad]

Future you is way cooler. Try not to mess up growing into him, okay?

[tattling]

I dunno, I might just keep shaving every day.

Once I start.

[smarterthandad]

That's ages away. Bet you change your mind.

he would still change his mind

[tattling]

It can be next month if I want it to be!

[smarterthandad]

Franklin, you turning into an adult ahead of schedule never goes well.

[tattling]

[opens mouth to argue

flashes of the seventies

mouth closes ]

...I could make you think I have a beard.

[smarterthandad]

Yeah, 'cause Mom loves it when you use your powers for stuff like that and totally wouldn't lecture you 'til you were old enough to grow a beard for real.

[tattling]

I think you might lecture me even longer than mom or dad would.

FINE. I won't use my powers to affect, uh, beard ... growth...

[smarterthandad]

The ontological implications of your existence [and consequently her own] keep me up nights, yet you just want to alter reality to win arguments.

[Yeah, she's a little jelly.]

[tattling]

--no! I mean, if I wanted to do that, wouldn't I, uh, have done it already?

[ he's still googling to check what "ontological" means" ]

[smarterthandad]

Well, duh. I know you're not unethical. You just have no clue what you're really capable of.

[Imagine her with Franklin's powers and shudder in horror.]

[tattling]

Sure I do! ... Anyway, that's what Mr Franklin's teaching me.

[val with franklin's powers is the worst ohgoddddd ... that's a fic idea.]

[smarterthandad]

At least one of you knows what he's doing.

[Because he has Future Val to do his thinking for him, obviously.]

[mygalactus]

[tattling]

SHUT UP, Mr Franklin--

[smarterthandad]

...You'd better know what you're doing.

mr franklin is actually a douchebag lbr

[mygalactus]

I know I like stroking my beard.

val likes him but we all know val's judgment is highly suspect

[smarterthandad]

[FRANKLIN]

Ugh. Two omnipotent brothers is even worse than the usual allotment.

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[mygalactus]

Technically, we still count as one brother. We're careful about that.

Also, we're-- what's the current word in your time? Oh, awesome, yes. We're awesome.

[smarterthandad]

Only in the original meaning.

[Insults are weird in the Richards family.]

[mygalactus]

[mygalactus]

[ Val wants awesome? She is suddenly seeing the galaxy from the point of Alpha Centauri!

--it's not real, and as soon as she moves, she'll be back where she was. But somewhere, somehow, a point was made. ]

[smarterthandad]

[Franklin, what the heck. Val's startled, yes, but frightened, no. She and Franklin might fight like, well, siblings, but she doesn't think for a second, even on some subconscious level her enormous intellect can't control, that Franklin would ever do anything to hurt her...besides maybe throw a block or a Matchbox car at her head, but this is Val we're talking about, so she'd probably have it coming.]

I already knew you could do stuff like that!

[Franklin, you realize you're arguing with a three year old, right? And that Val has a functionally infinite capacity for saying "nuh-uh!" with really big words?]

[tattling]

Stuff like what?

[ Mr Franklin is such a douche that he left in the same moment as the alternate view. Probably to go save the real universe or whatever. But still. At least he replaced himself with, er ... himself... ]

[smarterthandad]

I take it back. Your future self is just as big a pain as you are.

[The pot is calling the kettle black.]

[tattling]

Yeah...

[ beat ]

...wait, I'm not a pain! Mr Franklin just-- [ upwards sigh, blowing hair out of his eyes ] --um.

You're a pain!

[ yes. that's the smart response. ]

[bunny_battery]

Pretty sure I remember you wanting to be a Jedi at one point.

[tattling]

Well, duh, who wouldn't! But I don't want to be less important than a real Jedi, ya know?

[bunny_battery]

Like you could ever be anything less than important, Tattletale.

[snarkwithanaccent]

Don't Jedi shoot lightning from their hands?

[tattling]

[ Franklin is genuinely horrified. ]

No! That's the Sith. They're the bad guys.