video; un: bewitchy

[bastardofipswich]

[ BEHOLD... a teen witch sitting on his bed. He seems way too energetic, considering he's indoors and doing nothing. (lbr he's nursing a magic-high right now, and it's got him feeling both restless and aimless at the same time.) ]

Hey, show of hands, who here's got too much free time right now? [ HE'LL START. Look at that hand go up. ] Come on, at least one of you watching raised your hand, too. So let's do something about it. Get drunk in public, find a corner to loiter on, a shop to vandalize, you know, normal kids' stuff.

[ He grins. ]

Kidding! [ With a shrug and a careless wave of his hand. ] I'd get up to way worse than that if I wanted to be a public menace. [ Still kidding? EH. ]

Anyway, I can't be the only one here with nothing better to do, so who wants to play a game of Would You Rather? Look, I can even start:

[ He claps his hands together and makes a show of thinking. ]

Would you rather... Have superpowers, but die young. Or be perfectly average, and live a long, painfully uneventful life?

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[ video | un: jkent ]

[supersweet]

[ He frowns. ]

Normal kids don't do that.

[ Says Jon, the least normal kid. ]

Isn't being alive with people you care about better than superpowers anyway?

[bastardofipswich]

[ Chase shrugs with a smirk. ]

It was just a joke. I wouldn't dream of doing stuff like that.

[ He taps his lips, consideriiiiing... ]

If that's your priority, sure. But remember the painfully uneventful catch with Option B.

video; un: ghostking

[deathkid]

Perfectly average, live a long and uneventful life. Definitely.

[ a pause during which nico closes his eyes and exhales. ]

And I don't think normal kids do that kind of stuff. As far as I know.

[bastardofipswich]

Decades and decades with nothing happening until you're old and pruney and dead? You're sure about that?

[ SHRUG. Chase grins. ]

Okay, yeah. You got me. It's abnormal, deviant behavior.

Video @the.boneless

[ragnarsson]

If you've got too much time on your hands, you need more to do in your life, you lazy layabout.

[Never let it be said that Ivar minces words.]

In response to that question, die young. It's always better to leave an impact than to leave this earth with nothing more to show for it than the dirt on your boots.

[bastardofipswich]

I'm just having an off night. [ Also it's hard to make plans when you've got NO FRIENDS-- seriously, work on that, Chase. ]

Finally! Somebody with a sensible answer. So many people are content to just live and die with nothing to show for it.

( text; ) un: shigeru miyata

[mysophobic]

I rather be average...sometimes. But other times I'm really grateful for my powers. So I guess both?

[ Sometimes Shigeru hates his powers more than ever. But without them many people would die as well. It's really hard to decide which he'd rather have. ]

You're...not actually planning on doing any of those things are you?

[bastardofipswich]

NOPE. gotta pick one! that's the rule of the game.

[ Also: ]

what are your powers, anyway?

no lmao. if i was, i wouldn't be talking about it in public

text: un scavenger.rey

[talentedscavenger]

Think I would rather find a better way to spend my time than playing games.

[bastardofipswich]

oh ok got any suggestions?

video; → actualwizard666

[wiccant]

Average, uneventful life, situation depending.

( but he's gotten an idea about chase and caleb's. . situation from caleb, so. )

What would you choose?

[bastardofipswich]

Seriously? [ WITH YOUR POWERS, BRO? He's genuinely surprised.

And he makes a bit of a face as he gives his own answer. ]

I'd rather have superpowers and a shorter life than overstay my welcome with the most boring existence imaginable.

» voice, un: stormborn

[jelmazmo]

If that's what children do in their free time in this world, then it sounds entirely boring. What a colossal waste of time.

( Seriously: all these technological marvels and loitering and getting drunk are the best kids can come up with? She sounds unimpressed because she actually is.

Maybe she feels just a fraction of disappointment, too. )

And the latter. Painfully uneventful would actually be a novelty for me.

[bastardofipswich]

[ SIIIIGH. ] It's really not what teenagers do here or where I'm from. Watching Brad Pitt movies and talking about boys is more accurate. [ And this time, he's not just being a shit. Those are two actual pastimes of his. ]

Oh yeah? I didn't think monotony would be so appealing to so many people.

[video | un: edward.elric]

[alchemyfreak]

Is that how kids have fun on your world?

[Vandalizing? Getting drunk in public? He doesn't really buy it, it's not that a world can't be like that - more that it's not so easy to see from the tone of this video. Being a cheeky liar and admitting to an entire network of people that you're a public menace? Yeah, that he might believe passes as a good time for this guy.]

[bastardofipswich]

No. It was a joke. Geez!

[ BINGO, Ed. Being a cheeky liar is much more Chase's idea of a good time. ]

What passes for fun in your world?

video; un: wingingit

[volitaunt]

[ Speaking as someone who almost set the Force tree in his back yard on fire by accident as a kid, Poe is not really in a position to judge Chase's chosen modes of entertainment.

...Much.

He's in the kitchen, trying to figure out how all this low-tech crap works. There may or may not be a familiar-looking droid rolling around in the background. ]

Depends. Dying for a good reason, dying because you've done something that makes a difference--not a bad way to go.

[bastardofipswich]

[ omg it's that little robot that hates him. CHASE IS GONNA WAVE AT IT. ]

Yeah! That's the right idea.

[bechdelpls]

[ Flopped on her back in bed, perusing the network, and lo. There's this asshole. ]

Gee, I wonder which one youd pick.

[bastardofipswich]

awwww you know me so well

why don't you give another set of options, then?

video. un: ilikehorses

[shoplifter]

I do not need to pick. I have both.

[She says it in such an unimpressed way, the little shit.]

Now you.

[bastardofipswich]

[ CHILD. THAT'S NOT HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. ]

It's a game, like pretend? You have to pick one!

Like me? I'd go short life with superpowers, hands down.

text ; @none

[eraze]

You won't get a real sample from asking people. The fact that they want to tell themselves they'd choose the second is functionally meaningless. Given the real choice, most would take the first, and likely do nothing with it.

The most dangerous are the ones with power whose lives are painfully uneventful anyway.

[bastardofipswich]

[ Now that's an interesting response. ]

where i'm from, everyone with power refuses to do anything with it. they've got no ambition

would you do something with it if you took the first option?

voice | shifter.raven

[crowgirl]

There's nothing wrong with living an average, peaceful life. [ Raven can definitely see the appeal, and yet- ] ...I'd take the powers.

[bastardofipswich]

[ Chase grins. ]

Yeah? Why isn't the average life for you?

video; un: sg.rogers

[livingsymbol]

Painfully uneventful? That's the technical term for the option?

[bastardofipswich]

It's totally technical! We're not talking tolerably uneventful here, if you go with Door #2.