riverview | video; un: bewitchy

[ 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?

Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

[ 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?

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.

[ 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.

[ Sure. Jon is totally buying that. ]

That doesn't sound too bad. I think it would be nice, being normal. Why should it be painful?

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.

Oh yeah. I've already had enough excitement in my life.

[ pointed look. ]

Not all kids are deviants.

[ unless you're a demigod, then you get ruled one by every teacher you'll ever have. ]

I don't know, I think I'd go insane if it was just the same old nothing every single day, for yeaaaars.

But if that's your final answer...

Even normal people don't do the same thing all the time. They're not robots.

[ Chase seems to perk up with interest. ] Yeah? Sounds like there's a story there.

[ He huffs a little. ] I know, man. It was a joke. And anyway, if that's your answer, you've gotta give me a set of options now.

[ a shrug. ] When your father is Hades, life isn't normal.

[ just kinda drops it like he's talking about the weather. ]

If you're old enough, there's always the clubs. I'm the head of security at Trixie, run by Loki, so there's that.

Tell that to my parents. It was just work work work until they died. [ Wellll... until he killed them. ] I don't think they even had any hobbies.

I'd rather have a short life full of action.

Sure, but wouldn't you be alone with all the . . . action?

[ Even in the superhero life, there were teams. Comrades. ]

You don't have to be. But in my experience, it's not so bad.

[ Hahahaha yeah, Chase, keep telling yourself that. ]

Anyway! Your turn.

Edited 2017-11-29 03:08 (UTC)

Hades?! For real?

[ OH NO, TOO EXCITED. The god of the underworld has to be the coolest dad ever.

Way better than a decrepit old husk of a witch. ]

I'll have to stop by there sometime.

[ Jon frowns. ]

My turn? Uh. Probably being, like, normal. I'd like it, I think. Being able to do sports 'n stuff.

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.

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?

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

Average, uneventful life, situation depending.

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

What would you choose?

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.

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.]

Yeah. Didn't find out until I was eleven, but Hades is my dad.

[ raises a hand around which shadows swirl. he plays with them a little before shaking his hand and sending them away. ]

Cool. But don't cause trouble. Otherwise my skeletal soldiers will see to it you don't get to come again.

No, like-- the game. You give me two things to choo--

[ Wait. ]

Why can't you play sports?

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.

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

Page 1 of 9

video; un: bewitchy

[ video | un: jkent ]

video; un: ghostking

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

Video @the.boneless

( text; ) un: shigeru miyata

text: un scavenger.rey

video; → actualwizard666

» voice, un: stormborn

[video | un: edward.elric]

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject