on being possessed for tushanshu plot

[wintershepherd]

For the record? This idea of yours is in no way cool or fun. In fact, it pretty much blows hot air.

[ Not your best pun, I've gotta say... ]

Also "but a bunch of your friends are also getting crazy electric ghosts taking over their brains" is not good incentive, it's like peer pressure gone horribly, horribly wrong.

[ I'm helping you make up for lost experiences? ]

You're using me to go after my friends and don't even get me started what you've got planned between Kyle and I after he, oh yeah, electrocutes me!

[ Only temporarily, Jack! You'll bounce right back. Mostly. Probably. ]

No wonder you and Pitch get along, you're both sadists.

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[invidere]

Such an ungrateful puppet you are, hm? You should be glad you're not a washout in your mun's eyes! Trust me on that. Collecting dust isn't nearly all it's cracked up to be.

[wintershepherd]

Well... maybe. But I'm really not sure that getting picked on for all the "lovely glorious angst" -- and I'm quoting her here -- is much better.

[invidere]

That's not very sporting of you. Every good story needs rising action the way every good protagonist needs a little...ah, motivation.

[wintershepherd]

Yeah, I'm gonna skip on the whole protagonist thing, thanks.

[ Jack honey, you kind of are one. ]

Pass.

[invidere]

Often heroes do. [Sigh.] So predictable.

Not that rebellion changes much of anything.

[Someone, er, may have learned that the hard way.]

In the end, you are what you are. That's probably why your mun has sunken her talons into you in the first place. It's no fun toying with throwaway pawns.

[wintershepherd]

You sound awfully knowledgeable about the way this works. Speaking from experience, huh?

[invidere]

Oh? Perhaps.

But I'm no hero, either. All I can really say is...I've danced this waltz before.

[wintershepherd]

Past tense though... and yet here you are?

[invidere]

Yes, well, the show cannot go on without its star.

[wintershepherd]

You sure about that?

[invidere]

It certainly wouldn't deserve to, at any rate.

[imaginate]

Mine stopped telling me things for exactly this reason.

[wintershepherd]

Can you train mine, please?

[imaginate]

Above my pay grade, buddy. Not to mention they're both kind of incorrigible.

[wintershepherd]

How come we're the ones they won't stop talking about and yet we get all the tough "love"? I think there's something messed up here.

[imaginate]

Uh, I'd be concerned if 'mundane' and 'messed-up' weren't in the same sentence.

[Awkward grin?]

[wintershepherd]

[ groooooooan ]

Are they bribeable? Because I'm not above bribing here. Really, I leave the altruistic stuff to people who're better at it than me.

[imaginate]

They're definitely bribeable, but I haven't figured out the rest of it yet.

[wintershepherd]

Then I think we should definitely work together on figuring this out, Kyle.

[imaginate]

[Awkward high-five, bro.]

[demon_brat]

Should I work harder on making mine finally getting around to that event? Because she is still dragging her heels.

[wintershepherd]

If you do, can I officially request the non-crazy version of me, please?

[demon_brat]

... Maybe... though that is one thing that I probably would not hold against you.

[wintershepherd]

Doesn't matter... it's something I'M going to hold against me.

[demon_brat]

Been there, done that. I could keep you from doing more damage than necessary, and point out to you that it wasn't you.

[wintershepherd]

Right, because both of our issues work on infallible logic.

[demon_brat]

If repeated frequently enough and persuasively enough, it starts to get through, eventually. Rayner knows.

[wintershepherd]

Kyle always seems to be the one to figure stuff out, doesn't he?

[demon_brat]

Tt. Unless he is the one who needs to have things pointed out to him. Which also happens.

[wintershepherd]

Yeah, like when I have to remind him not to try and boss Doctor Natu around.

[ Not quite in the same vein, but sure... ]

And don't look now, but they're plotting.

[ and he doesn't seem pleased about it ]

[demon_brat]

He does not have to try to, Frost. But he should not use his authority senselessly.

[Beat.]

... I have far less of a problem with that than you, you realize?

[wintershepherd]

I think that has to do more with which one of us is on the zapping end.

[demon_brat]

[... uh. When Damian was on the zapped end, his words were 'It's working! Do it again!' so... just. An arched eyebrow, Jack.]

[wintershepherd]

[ ... he seriously worries about you sometimes, lil bro. ]

[demon_brat]

[... when your mother is possessing you, well, controlling you, then gives over the control to Deathstroke, you'll be relieved to be fucking rid of it, too, okay!]

[wintershepherd]

[ Never meet Pitch, Damian. Pitch would have a field day with your brain. ]

[demon_brat]

[... he'll try. Oh, he'll try. Damian refuses to admit that 'fear' is a valid emotion.]

[rideofthefearlings]

[ CHALLENGE ACCEPTED ]

[demon_brat]

Tt.