on meme shenanigans

[tactilekonesis]

So I was wrong: hell isn't other people... or Pleasantville IN SPACE!... or even that weird underworld Jaime and Zach---err, Blue and Zatara visited with me the other day. (Hey, we managed to get magically resurrected within 24 hours.)

It's an entire evening with Jaime's parents after he blabbed about us dragging him down to that "adult club" in Las Vegas. His mom made Darkseid look like Mother Teresa. And I never thought I'd say that. Ever.

For the record? If crap like that keeps happening to us, I'm not teaming up with them again. Even if you promise me with whatever passes for light-hearted stuff these days.

Comments

[escarabajo]

I didn't blab, she made the Scarab give her the coordinates of where we'd been! She's really persuasive, okay?

[And the fact that an otherwise unassuming Latina woman was able to persuade threaten an all-powerful alien superweapon into doing just that probably says more than anything about how scary Bianca Reyes is.]

[tactilekonesis]

Your mom got the Scarab to confess.

... I'm not sure I want to know how.

[escarabajo]

She has ways, man. I don't question them.

[tactilekonesis]

Yeah... I wish I'd known that before I dragged you all the way out there.

[demigoddess]

No talking your way out of this one? You could have told her going to an "adult club" is a right of passage. [ No probably not. And she's not helping. Sorry, Conner. ]

[tactilekonesis]

Believe me, I tried. She just gave me the silent treatment. And some food that I think was burnt on purpose. [It's okay, he'll somehow get over it. :( He appreciates her concern!]

[demigoddess]

Ouch.

Well, as long as she doesn't think you forced him against his will, right?

[tactilekonesis]

[The most nervous laugh. He kinda. Might have asked Zach to help him drag Jaime in...]

Y-yeah, because that's really not how I roll.

[demigoddess]

So then "Blue" didn't have a good time?

[tactilekonesis]

He was fine once we got there! It just took more convincing than usual.

... Well, I'm guessing he'd be fine. We kind of got side-tracked after we made it in. [Read: Kon and Zach are no longer allowed to enter said strip club.]

[demigoddess]

Side tracked from strippers? It must have been a matter of life and death.

[flunkingspanish]

Dude, Mrs. Reyes can put the fear of god into Green Lanterns.

I'm also shocked that you managed to get Jaime into an "adult club". Did you physically pick him up and carry him inside?

[tactilekonesis]

Picked him up, carried him, and restrained him when he was protesting too much. Thankfully, Zach was there to help whenever Jaime wasn't too busy being horrified.

.... Though in retrospect, I should've probably dragged you along too.

[flunkingspanish]

You definitely should have invited me. No dragging would have been necessary, and I can sometimes talk Jaime into doing things against his better judgment.

[tactilekonesis]

Yeah? Then you're definitely coming along next time.

As awesome as Jaime is, it's hard to get him to do things with us that aren't along the lines of "let's go save the world." [Maybe because they're also INAPPROPRIATE, Kon.]

[flunkingspanish]

Yes, because Jaime is a good, responsible, sensible boy who was raised by the woman who can make Green Lanterns back down and make sheepish excuses.

...He can be pretty easily talked into "let's go skeet shooting with your alien lasers and the trash we don't want to take out", but for anything else, you'd need someone with experience at talking him into things.