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[honeybadgerer]

[ the feed opens up to a girl dressed in a bright tshirt and smiling broadly at her audience, waving her hand enthusiastically. there are prominent scar marks on her face. ]

Hi Riverview! My name's Gabby and I'm new here! I was in New York before. The one with the superheroes. And now I'm here! Unfortunately, I think I lost all my stuff? And my caseworker kind of freaked out when I gave her the list, so maybe you guys can help me!

I'm missing my MAC-10 machine pistols, nunchucks and knuckle busters. Anyone knows where to get those? Oh, and a proper bullet proof suit.

Thanks!

Comments

[11calls]

Oh yeah, of course! I didn't mean to imply it should be with some random stranger on the network!

Besides, Laura is pretty fantastic, so it's definitely something you should do together.

[honeybadgerer]

It's cool. Birthdays just sound like fun, that's all.

[11calls]

They definitely are and can be.

[honeybadgerer]

And I should get double presents for all the ones I've missed.

[11calls]

Are you going to go with double presents or a whole month like Laura's doing?

[honeybadgerer]

I wouldn't copy.

Besides, we can share our presents so I have to pick another month.

[11calls]

That makes a lot of sense. September maybe? Definitely don't want to get too close to Christmas.

[honeybadgerer]

Oh right, Christmas is a thing too.

[ normal people things are still a little wild, even if gabby adapts easily. ]

[11calls]

Yeah it is, and it ends up being kind of a big deal here too.

[honeybadgerer]

How come we celebrate Christmas in space?

Are we saying Santa was an alien?

[11calls]

Well, I think it's more that there's enough of us from Earth that it kinda becomes a default Christmas rather than a winter holiday.

I do have a friend back home who is entirely convinced that Santa is an alien though. So who knows!

[honeybadgerer]

[ hmm, now she has to find out. ]

It would make more sense.

[11calls]

Yeah it would, I mean clearly he needs to have some sort of magical ability to get around the world in that time. Or something like it.

[Back home, Alex does not believe in Santa Claus in the slightest. But here given all the magic and stuff she knows of? Why the hell not?]

[honeybadgerer]

Maybe he was the first mutant! The first person to get abilities.

[ or a clone. 95% chance of clones is inevitable. ]

[11calls]

Hey, that definitely could be it. Like a combination of both being super fast and super able to carry heavy things and super able to change his size in order to fit down all those chimneys.

[honeybadgerer]

[ she's into this. ]

I'll bet Santa was his superhero name too.

[11calls]

Well, it definitely would have to be in order to protect his identity. And let's be honest, the North Pole sounds like a badass place for a hero lair.

[honeybadgerer]

Yeah, no one would ever look for someone there.

[ she's never been there, come to think about it. gabby puts that on the list. ]

[11calls]

Also it's really really cold. And this is coming from a Canadian who knows cold.

[honeybadgerer]

Oh, right. That would bother people.

[11calls]

It doesn't bother you?

[honeybadgerer]

[ she shrugs. ]

I don't feel pain. So my senses are kinda numb.

[11calls]

Wow. That must be really scary.

[honeybadgerer]

It's hard to miss something you've never had.

[ gabby felt pain briefly once. it sucked but it didn't leave a lasting impression. she knows, deep down, that not having it robbed her of all the things that made her more . . . normal.

but normal's overrated. ]

[11calls]

I guess it is. And we adapt and learn different ways of knowing something's wrong, right?

[Cause pain is a glowing stop sign of something being wrong, which is why not having it would scare Alex.]