|| video | @ciscodelamancha | feb 10 ||

[franciscoramon]

[ The video starts off shaky, clearly taken using the front-facing camera on a phone being wielded by a deeply intoxicated Cisco Ramon. He is pink-cheeked and bright-eyed and giggling so much he has difficulty speaking. ]

Heyooo Quarantine! Sup! Guess what?! It's my birthday today! That means I'm twenty fuckin' five, which means I'm totally old, and wise, and stuff. So I thought it'd be fun if y'all sent me, like, questions! For advice! You know, like Dear Abby, only instead it's Dear Cisco. I've been around a whole quarter of a century now so you best believe I've got plenty of knowledge I can drop on ya like that!

[ He lifts the hand not holding the phone, clearly meaning to snap, but realizes belatedly he's still holding a glass. He turns away from the screen, muttering a quick Babe, babe hold this for me- before handing off the drink to someone outside the shot. Then he looks at the camera once more and snaps, not loudly enough to be heard and late enough that it is unintentionally very comical. ]

It's cool if you send them anonymous or not, anything goes. Lemme help you make some good-ass choices in your life! Or if you're not feeling the advice game you could just like do some shout outs and holler at your loved ones.

Comments

[viatorius]

i actually have no idea.
she belongs to a group that kind of ... found me i guess, took me in.
and then she followed me to a moon planet so that must mean we're buds.

( Knowing shit about dogs is not really her thing. But she takes care of Zingo and that's all that matters. )

i'll have to ask if there were ever any cats around.
leave that with me.
but if she isn't i'll talk to her about it.

( Cisco's adorable. She likes him already. )

i'm new! so probably not.

[franciscoramon]

doesn't matter anyway idk shit about dogs
except i know a good girl when i see one
it's good you got each other for backup
even if she's a total blanket thief

cool!
i'm sure with hard work
we can achive peace talks between dogs and cats
and they can find a common ground

that's awesome! yay newbies!
i'm cisco!
wait i said that in the message
who're you?

[viatorius]

she is a good girl who makes tough decisions.
i get it. that's why we're bros.
sometimes you just have to steal a blanket.

( Or food. Whatever. )

clarice.
blink's kind of -- well, it just seemed to fit.
i'm a mutant. code names are kind of a thing but i'm not all that imaginative.

[franciscoramon]

hey listen:
back in my world i'm the codenames GUY
we've got metahumans not mutant sbut still
codenames are a thing
and i give them out most of the time

so trust me when i tell you
blink?
that's a DOPE name!
i don't even know what your powers are and i know that shit's great!
and i'm an expert sothere you go

[viatorius]

( He's very enthusiastic and it continues to charm her. )

what's the best codename you've ever given someone?

i portal.
if i know where i'm going and what direction it's in, then i can kind of ... rip open a hole in space to get people there.

( It's exhausting, but she knows it's useful. )

so you know, blinking.

[franciscoramon]

hmmmm
maybe weather wizard?
or captain cold
i like alliteration

that's AWESOME
that's such a cool power
is there a distance limit?
do you have to have been to the place before?
is it hard opening the portals?

we should get a coffee and talk about powers sometime
i can make you some dope tech to help with your powers maybe
probably
i do it for metas back home
should work for mutant powers too?
i mean i don't see why not

[ And then perhaps he could pick her brain a little about how she opened those portals. Since, after all, his own powers allow him to open portals, but he's never actually managed to do it... ]

[viatorius]

captain cold's pretty neat.

( Instead of answering all his questions - because she's not sure about revealing so much on the network just yet, she focuses on the last bit. )

a coffee sounds good.
i could probably give you more useful info in person.
i mean i could show you instead of trying to explain.

( She's not sure he could help, but there's no harm in trying to figure it out. )

so yeah we should definitely meet up sometime.

[franciscoramon]

[ Fortunately, Cisco's drunk enough that he forgets what questions he's asked about two seconds after he asks them. Probably better for them to have this conversation in person, sometime when he has a hope of remembering her answers. ]

hell yeah
coffee's a great idea
i love coffee
i will see you sometime with coffee

[ He is going to be so embarrassed, looking back at this conversation later, at how complete lack of eloquence. ]