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: 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.

[shoplifter]

[Oh, in that case.]

There's nothing painful about a normal life.

Superpowers is the painful option.

[A normal life isn't someone testing your pain tolerance, or firing radiation into your bones, or grafting metal onto your bones, in your limbs. So, you know. Her view is a bit skewed toward normalcy.]

[bastardofipswich]

Yeah? [ He actually does get it-- sort of-- to a much much lesser extent. His powers have brought their own share of pain, though nothing akin to brutal torture. ]

I wouldn't trade the pain for anything if the alternative was nothing.

[shoplifter]

Then you haven't been hurt badly enough yet.

[There's a crunch noise -- the clearcut sound of munching on potato chips.

Excuse me.]

[bastardofipswich]

Well... [ HMM. ] I did get thrown into a fireball in a recent magic-related incident...

[ Which is STILL NOT AS BAD AS IT COULD'VE BEEN, CHASE. ]

[shoplifter]

[She shrugs.]

Did it kill you?

[omfg laura dont be so casual about it]

[bastardofipswich]

[ HEY NO, he likes how casual she is about it. A kid after his own heart! Chase shrugs. ]

It's debatable. Maybe? I woke up here right after.

[shoplifter]

Do you heal from fireballs?

[if you don't she's going to assume you bit the dust but...]

[bastardofipswich]

Uh... I haven't... actually tested...

[ HE PROBABLY DOESN'T. Sob. ]

[shoplifter]

It doesn't sound promising.

[You sound pretty screwed, new face.]

... But you should not light yourself on fire here.

[bastardofipswich]

[ WOW, LAURA. Chase pulls his mouth into a line and deadpans: ]

Thanks for the advice, kid.

[shoplifter]

De nada. And not kid -- Laura, me llamo laura