the problems with a smart muse and a dumb player

[leangreenmachine]

So... let me see if I got this right. You want to play me - the smartest and most technologically savvy turtle out of the bunch - despite the fact that you know absolutely nothing about technology.

And you're going to do this by putting me in games where basic technology is not available or just nonexistent. I think the scientific term for that is "being lazy."

Comments

[mnt_mike]

I dunno about that, Donnie. Seems like kind of a brilliant solution to a common problem to me.

Plus! Now you can totally be the Professor from Gilligan's Island and make a phone out of coconuts or something!

[leangreenmachine]

The Professor never got off the island, Mikey.

[mnt_mike]

Uh uh, I'm pretty sure they did at some point, but chose to go back. I think it was in a tv movie or something.

[leangreenmachine]

Actually there have been several revivals, including a cartoon show where they went into space and a reality show where they brought the original cast together. There was going to be a film adaptation set for 2012, but -

[Pause.]

... Great. I have a mun who has to take lessons on how to use Excel, but knows TV trivia right off the bat. This will serve me well.

[mnt_mike]

[Mike.
Just.
Grins.]

[leangreenmachine]

She should have channeled you for a muse. You know everything about pointless stuff. She would have been perfect for you.

I bet the only reason she chose me at all is because of Ap-

[WHOA WAIT A SECOND let's not give him new teasing material.]

Ap... Ap... Applying for characters is really hard so she chose the first oen she thought of!

[Smooth.]

[mnt_mike]

[Up go Mikey's brow-ridges. Yeah, he caught that.]

You know, I'm not really your brother right? I mean, I'm Michaelangelo, but not the one you grew up with. I'm from a world called Turtle-Prime, and well...one of the big differences between your world and mine is that I'm not an idiot.

[leangreenmachine]

Yes, but you're still my brother.

And brothers tease. Mock. Make fun.

Are you telling me for a fact that if you had the chance to make fun of me, you wouldn't even try?

[Cause he is side-eyeing the hell out of that idea.]

[mnt_mike]

[Mike's smile starts out in a Raph-like smirk.]

That all depends, now doesn't it?

[leangreenmachine]

[How reassuring.]

Yeaaah. I'm definitely not telling you anything.

[mnt_mike]

Aww coooome oooon, Donnie? Not even the littlest, slightest, incy-weency hint about maaaybe why your mun may have chosen you?

You know what? You don't even need to say anything out loud. I'll just guess. And so as to make this guessing all systematic, I'll guess things in alphabetical order. Starting...

With

A.

[leangreenmachine]

You know what else is universal about all of you Mikey's? Being universally annoying.

[Groooan.]

All right, so, don't say anything, but... Well... My mun mun has a weakness for...

[Throat clearing and mumbling and ohgeez.]

... romance.

[mnt_mike]

[Mike's eyes go wide. He looks left. He looks right. He leans in close, and whispers.]

am i supposed to be scandalized by that?

[leangreenmachine]

Considering the three of you never shut up about it back home, I'd say yes.

Not that I'm saying we have a romance or anything.

Because that's be silly.

My mun is just. Yeah. Silly. Like that.

She likes imagining things that aren't real, which makes sense given that she enjoys both role playing and cartoons, and...

[Donny honey you're rambling.]

[mnt_mike]

[Mike just up and puts his hand right over Don's mouth, hopefully silencing him in the process.]

Dude, my mun? Specializes in bad fanfiction tropes. She plays them for laughs, and has for a long time. This here?

[He makes a vague gesture about the room.]

Is a safe space. The only people who get judged here are the muns, by us. It's cool, man. Trust me.