[ video | un: honeybadger ]

[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!

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[honeybadgerer]

[ she rolls with it. ]

I bet you don't even have savings.

[madeupnames]

I do!

[He is so indignant! Sort of. Okay, it's faked indigence, he knows he looks like he can't hold money to save his life.]

... But it's for a rent deposit.

[honeybadgerer]

[ she peels herself away from the window to look at him. ]

You're getting your own place? On your own?

[madeupnames]

Well... Yeah!

[He blinks, straightening up.]

I just turned sixteen, figured if I'm old enough to be emancipated in some places and I can hold a job, I might as well handle myself here. Any screw-ups at this point's part of the experience, right?

[He may be pretty inexperienced in a lot of ways, but it helps being intimately familiar as of late with being broke as shit. Moving apartments, balancing bills, worrying about expiring car tags or bad brakes or shopping thrifty, that's just the usual.]

[honeybadgerer]

[ gabby looks skeptical. ]

You won't hate being alone?

[madeupnames]

I think I'm usually too busy to be alone there!

... Besides, despite all appearances, I can be kinda introverted. Sometimes the quiet is good for my head.

[Also he has so much input all the time, it's good to have a place with just him there?

It's weird to explain that he can hear all the heartbeats of his community housing roommates, if it's quiet at night.]

[honeybadgerer]

I guess.

It's kinda hard to picture.

[madeupnames]

[He blinks, wringing his hands a little.]

It is?

[honeybadgerer]

I've never been alone. I always had my sisters.

So being by myself — it isn't scary but it feels wrong.

[ even more so since she has survived, but the rest are dead. in the ways she can look into the mirror and not see herself, but all her sisters, reflected back at her. ]

[madeupnames]

Ah... That makes sense. I'm kind of used to it more — I'm an only child, and it's just me and my aunt back home... And she has to work, so I'm used to being alone 'til she gets back in. [He shrugs.] It's not a big deal for me, but I can get how it'd feel weird.

Luckily, there's plenty of people here who'll be happy to hang with you in community housing.

All my roommates were pretty nice.

[honeybadgerer]

Yeah . . .

[ gabby trails off. she likes making friends but it's not the same. ]

[madeupnames]

[Peter's overly nice mode, activated.

... He hates seeing people looking even remotely down on themselves, okay.]

... Well, hey! You're invited to come over whenever. Just hit me up any time you're feeling weird about being alone... We can play Monster Wars? It's a pretty fun battling card-game thing like Yu-Gi-Oh. Or we can, uh. Watch bad movies. If you're into bad movie watching.

[honeybadgerer]

[ she smiles. ]

Take it easy. Yeah, those sound good. I mean, I've never played a card game.

[ though deadpool promised to teach her blackjack. with hookers. ]

[madeupnames]

Never? Never-never? Then I can definitely help with that.

[He grins.]

And it's something I can absolutely afford. Along with plenty of 99 cent liquor store candy.

[honeybadgerer]

Never ever ever.

[ gabby's the luckiest of all the clones, but that . . . doesn't say much. ]

I mean, Wade was gonna show me how to win at poker but we didn't get that far.

[madeupnames]

[He cocks his head to the side, unfamiliar with the name.]

Wade? Is he someone from Riverview?

[honeybadgerer]

No, he's a . . . [ . . . hero??? sure. why not. ] . . . superhero back in my world. He has a healing factor like me.

His name is Deadpool.

[madeupnames]

Kind of a scary name, for a superhero...

[He blinks at her, though, eyes round with curiosity.]

Healing factor? Like — you can heal a broken bone in a few days? That kinda healing?

[I HAVE THAT FACTOR LET'S BE FRIENDS.]

[honeybadgerer]

[ is it really?? ]

Yeah. I can heal from pretty much anything. Plus, I don't feel pain.

[madeupnames]

... Crazy... I —

I've never met someone who can just regenerate like that.

But what happens if you touch something hot? Do you, like, have a delayed reaction?

[honeybadgerer]

[ gabby shakes her head. ]

No idea. I don't know what that feels like.

[madeupnames]

... Geez. You're hardcore.

[He's always surrounded by cool people, what the heck.]

Oh! Did you wanna — get going? Sorry, I've been distracting you with dogs...

[honeybadgerer]

Dogs are never a distraction.

So where to?

[madeupnames]

[Oh, right! Their mission! He claps his hands together, smiling.]

Convenience store, two blocks from here. Best cheap snacks in the city.

Operation Gross Snack Combinations is a-go.

[honeybadgerer]

[ gabby flashes a thumbs up. ]

We are gonna go for all the combos.