rule 63!Superboy; heading to Multiversal

[phototroph]

Why don't we just admit this is going to end badly for everyone and you can step away from the keyboard? I know you're actually making progress with my app, but it feels like it's too soon for you to be playing two characters full time and you're probably going to end up feeling overwhelmed.

You can just keep bouncing me around in your head for a while, I won't have any hard feelings about it.

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[phototroph]

Aren't you guys supposed to be prepared for everything? I thought it was your mottot.

[notlikeanyone]

That's the Boy Scouts.

[phototroph]

God, I have such a kneejerk reaction to those words. One day I'm gonna get in trouble for punching a boy scout. [gd Kal]

[notlikeanyone]

... Is he that bad in your world?

[phototroph]

He got kinda shitty after I got expelled. We'd been good before that, now it's just... messy.

[notlikeanyone]

Ah. That's too bad - I hope he gets over it. He can definitely be too straight-laced for his own good, just speaking from my experience.

[phototroph]

It's been... seven years and things are still tense. I doubt it's gonna get better.

[notlikeanyone]

... Ouch. Sorry. [Deliberately putting himself within leaning/sprawling on distance.]

[phototroph]

Doesn't matter. It's not so bad if Lois or Karen are around to act as buffers between us.

[notlikeanyone]

That's good. ... It seems like your world isn't exactly a mirror-version of mine, just in some instances.

[phototroph]

Did you expect it to be? Me being a woman makes my life pretty damn different.

[notlikeanyone]

Well, no, alternate universes don't seem to have many definitive rules... I'm just trying to work out the differences. [For science.] Hm. I guess it would.

[phototroph]

If I didn't have x-ray vision, sometimes I'd doubt whether you're a real boy. [Tim you are a robot]

[notlikeanyone]

[Eyebrow raise.] Do you x-ray me often...?

[phototroph]

Only when I have to make sure you haven't broken any bones. Which happens worringly often.

[notlikeanyone]

[He's not bringing up the time Kon broke his arm, especially since he has no idea if Kena went through the same thing.] I think I'd notice breaking any bones. Radiation poisoning, on the other hand.

[phototroph]

[oh, she did, and then proceeded to sulk for a month or so] You say that, but I've caught you with broken ribs that you didn't know you had at least three times.

And anyway, I don't think my eyeballs really give off that much radiation.

[notlikeanyone]

[So Lex is dick universally, unsurprising.] ... Okay, so ribs are a little trickier.

Maybe not all at once.

[phototroph]

Just a bit, and you've gotten a few hairline fractures that you wouldn't have picked up without me.

If you were gonna get radiation poisoning from being x-rayed by a Kryptonian, Bruce would have it by now. Clark is even worse than I am.

[notlikeanyone]

Alright, so sometimes it's beneficial.

I'm really not surprised. Just because we're not metas doesn't mean we're going to break. ... Bruce is also strong enough to wear lead plates over his vital organs if he wants to.

[phototroph]

It's always beneficial, and I promise I never use my x-ray vision for perving purposes.

Bruce seems to think he's invulnerable.

[notlikeanyone]

... I wasn't worried about that before, but now I am.

I think he'd prefer it if everyone thought he was, too.

[phototroph]

Oh, come on, you knew me when I was young. You can't say the thought never crossed your mind.

Of course he would.

[notlikeanyone]

[Ahem, throat-clearing.] I'm relatively certain that Kon is only interested in girls. He was particularly vocal about... certain features I definitely don't possess when he was younger, too.

It just makes the rogues try harder, though.