Brandon Sharpe [STRIKER] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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dear_mun2012-01-13 02:35 pm
blackandlight) wrote in dear_mun2012-01-13 02:35 pm
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Avengers Academy presents, homeless and looking!
Man, you act like being photogenic is a bad thing. Those icons aren't gonna make themselves.
Now here's the deal. You wanna drop me in a game? Sure, fine, whatever, have fun, can't be any worse than some places I've been. Two requirements. I want a generous timeshare in the limelight, and let's say-- six hot chicks to cater to my every whim. At least six. Harems are the new black.
Also - no Survivor. Just putting that out there.
Now here's the deal. You wanna drop me in a game? Sure, fine, whatever, have fun, can't be any worse than some places I've been. Two requirements. I want a generous timeshare in the limelight, and let's say-- six hot chicks to cater to my every whim. At least six. Harems are the new black.
Also - no Survivor. Just putting that out there.
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Hey, Finesse. You drop in so I could sweep you off your feet?
[success rates are only as good as the person doing the calculations -- wait.]
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Which isn't to say she's not happy to see him too. ]
My response hasn't changed from every other time you've attempted such ineffectual lines.
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[so cheerful.]
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Or maybe I'm not looking for a different reaction. Ever think of that?
[... testing the waters? testing the waters.]
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Such aggressively lewd behavior towards the opposite sex would be in keeping with psychological profiles of a person wishing to deny homosexual attraction to members of his or her own sex.
I'm surprised I didn't see the pattern before. [ Brb stealing all the Avengers' surveillance to replay every filmed interaction to see how she could have missed this. 8|||a ]
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Hey, that's so not what I said. Calm down.
[having his sexuality dissected like a frog in science class? NO THANK YOU. come on, finesse, he was trying to tell you, not jam himself further in the closet because of it.]
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No, you did not say so explicitly. But given your response here, your record of behavior, and your fervent denial at the suggestion all point to it.
And I'm perfectly calm. Why wouldn't I be? [ IT'S NO BIG DEAL, COME ON, WHY YOU FREAKING OUT. ]
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I'm not... denying it.
[notttt looking at her. at all. fwarg.]
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[ Frowning now because a) that is what a denial is, she knows that much why you gotta lie and say it's not and b) his body language shows extreme discomfort and why????? MUST INVESTIGATE. ]
Is there a reason your sexual orientation is of such concern? Studies show that such a thing is usually in flux in teenagers our age. It's not out of the norm.
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[he makes a sort of frustrated noise, and there's an unconscious arc of electricity between his hands as he raises them in irritation and drops them back to his side.]
Look, I get it, you're a stone-cold Vulcan bitch, blah blah emotions woof whatever, but I'm not exactly a fucking science project. Okay? God, would it kill you to show some humanity?
[THIS WAS A BAD IDEA AND. THINGS.]
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I'm sorry, Str- Brandon. That was not my intent. [ Paaaaaaaaaaaause. ] Nothing would change if you were. There are a number of high profile celebrities and superheroes who are homosexual. Certainly no one at the Academy would care.
[ After all, once you've bonded with other possible grade-A villain fodder, they don't much care which butts you check out. Which is to say that she is your friend and will support you no matter what. Unless you're dumb. Then she'll whap you with her baton. ]
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Yeah, right. I bet they'd just ~take it all in stride~.
[can you hear the finger quotes. and the sarcasm.
the funny thing is, he's pretty sure no one would care. But he's so used to putting his image first, before anything and everything else, that he's pretty sure he would.]
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I'm sure coming out as homosexual would increase your media presence. This is the sort of thing they latch onto, isn't it?
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[A LITTLE EXPLOSIVELY.]
Ugh, I never should have brought it up. Whatever. Forget it.
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...I was trying to point out the benefits.
[ YOU WANT TO BE A MEDIA GLORY HOG, STRIKER. THIS WOULD GET YOU ALL OVER TMZ. IS THIS NOT THE DESIRED GOAL. WHAT DID SHE DO WRONG. ]
trigger warnings for child abuse from this point on
[did he snap that? maybe a little.]
This is personal. It's nobody's business. I don't want to be 'the gay Avenger'. It's not my entire goddamn identity.
[because if he's 'the gay avenger', then eventually someone's going to do some digging, and some wondering, and it'll end up being 'the Avenger that was abused as a kid' and--
that. yeah. no.]
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[ Seriously hard thought is put into this before she speaks again. ]
I think the entire span of time spent at the Academy shows that one thing in a person's life does not have to overshadow everything else that person does. That we can be more.
[ ...holy crap was that actually SMART and TACTFUL???? WHAT IS THIS SORCERY ]
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he gives her a look that's. mildly grateful.]
Yeah. Yeah, you're right.
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[ c: ]
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