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piper902021-03-24 07:41 pm
beetlebutt) wrote in piper902021-03-24 07:41 pm
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[ooc: This is set just slightly before people return from the plot, so that people on the rig can see it before everyone returns and people in the plot can see it after they return.]
[Jaime is definitely thrown by finding himself here and he already earned himself a few shocks trying to fight his way out. Fortunately, they were only the short zappy kind, not Violations. Eventually he simmered down and thought about what Ted had taught him, about keeping his cool and playing the long game. But even now after getting the talk about where he is, he's feeling suspicious.]
[What if this is some weird game the Regime is playing? What if they're doing...something that they think will help coerce him to work with them long term? Ted had made it clear to him how manipulative and controlling they could. What if this is some kind of set up to try to convince him to join them?]
[That had always been Ted's fear. That Jaime would be strong-armed or manipulated into working for the bad guys - possibly even with threats to his family - or that Batman would recruit him because his people were dropping like flies. So he's feeling slightly suspicious when he gets on the comms, and his frown is pretty cranky.]
[He figured out that encryption pretty fast, enough with the Scarab poking around the comms. He's already told the Scarab to stay quiet and keep his head down.]
Okay, so apparently if you're kidnapped by people from another dimension, you get a free smartphone. Cool.
[It's not cool.]
[He drags a hand down his face.]
My name is Jaime. Just Jaime, that's all you get.
[He might have to use the suit, so he doesn't want his name associated with it. There are plenty of black-haired teenagers named Jaime out there.]
How many other people are in this place? And did anyone get powers or get changes in their powers?
[A squint.]
Also, that slideshow, does anyone know who made that? Because it was either parody meant to insult us or the person who made it was like super old. Like "uses internet explorer" old.
[Jaime is definitely thrown by finding himself here and he already earned himself a few shocks trying to fight his way out. Fortunately, they were only the short zappy kind, not Violations. Eventually he simmered down and thought about what Ted had taught him, about keeping his cool and playing the long game. But even now after getting the talk about where he is, he's feeling suspicious.]
[What if this is some weird game the Regime is playing? What if they're doing...something that they think will help coerce him to work with them long term? Ted had made it clear to him how manipulative and controlling they could. What if this is some kind of set up to try to convince him to join them?]
[That had always been Ted's fear. That Jaime would be strong-armed or manipulated into working for the bad guys - possibly even with threats to his family - or that Batman would recruit him because his people were dropping like flies. So he's feeling slightly suspicious when he gets on the comms, and his frown is pretty cranky.]
[He figured out that encryption pretty fast, enough with the Scarab poking around the comms. He's already told the Scarab to stay quiet and keep his head down.]
Okay, so apparently if you're kidnapped by people from another dimension, you get a free smartphone. Cool.
[It's not cool.]
[He drags a hand down his face.]
My name is Jaime. Just Jaime, that's all you get.
[He might have to use the suit, so he doesn't want his name associated with it. There are plenty of black-haired teenagers named Jaime out there.]
How many other people are in this place? And did anyone get powers or get changes in their powers?
[A squint.]
Also, that slideshow, does anyone know who made that? Because it was either parody meant to insult us or the person who made it was like super old. Like "uses internet explorer" old.
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I was thirteen, too. When Metropolis got nuked and Superman went off the rails.
[It was a sucky age to see the start of it. He'd been old enough to understand what was going on, so he couldn't just live in blissful ignorance, but young enough to feel scared and completely helpless.]
I'm glad you're able to fight back. People tried back home but it wasn't easy.
[He gets curious as to whether she's struggling with the new power thing, too.]
Do you have powers to use when fighting against your evil overlords or are just stuck fighting with guns?
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[ There’s a flash of surprise in return. God, what an age to end up seeing the world fall apart around you. ]
Hell of a way to spend your first year as a teenager, isn’t it?
[ Her ears both tilt to one side. She almost says ‘just guns’, but gen:LOCK is... weird. It’s no superpower, but it’s not exactly normal military tech, either; Yaz has lasers coming out of her holon’s eyes, Val can turn invisible, they can share their minds. ]
...something kinda in-between? No superpowers where I come from, unless you count having a super unique brain that can be run on like, a giant, glorified hard-drive. Which I do.
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Explain, please. Because that sounds like it's potentially something very cool.
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[ Cammie bounces slightly on the balls of her feet and flashes a grin. ]
Oh, it’s definitely cool.
[ Thank god for the cameras all being busted. ]
See, the doc invented this new technology that lets ye digitise a human mind. Run it, temporarily anyhow, as code. But it only works with certain people's brains, like... the doc explained it as havin’ to do with neuroplasticity and our brain’s ability to adapt, change, and still snap back. Stuff like that.
He only found six of us when he scanned everyone the Polity had medical records for— well, seven, but Leon... [ she frowns, looks sad for a second ] he uh, he was too old.
Anyway. [ don't think about that ] When you’re compatible, yer mind can be uploaded into an electronic brain—like I said, a giant, glorified hard-drive— [ Doc Weller would probably turn in his grave hearing her call it that, whoops ] and the brain’s stuffed into a giant, multi-story tall mecha. That we control. Like it’s our own body.
You’re still you, just, y’know... code and electronics and metal, instead of fleshy bits.
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That.
Is the coolest thing I've ever heard and also what my friend Paco probably wishes was his entire life.
Not the war part, just the getting to be a giant robot part.
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Doc apparently wanted it to be a thing even outside of the war, soooo...
[ Grin. ]
It’s super cool. If ma Ether connection worked here I could show ye what ma Holon looks like, but I cannae even access my old schematics and shite like that without it.
I helped ma team customise our frames and gear. Two of them can fly, Val can go invisible, Kazu... well he mostly just hits super hard and has a big sword, he’s easy to please. I’m extra springy, like... in a rabbit-y way.
[ She wiggles her ears. ]
You get haptic feedback and everythin’, you really just are the mecha.
But what makes what we can do extra special though is the like... telepathic network between us when we’re uploaded, an’ mindshare. Which is like... both super easy to explain, it’s kinda what it says on the tin, and yet hard to describe?
[ It feels like a unique experience that’s hard to get across just how it feels. ]
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[Yes, sharing your brain is very hard to describe.]
Probably feels super weird sometimes.
[YOU'RE WEIRD.]
[Hush.]
[YOU HUSH.]
I can do a robot thing but it's a techno-organic suit of alien armor.
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It’s super weird. Especially cuz it can be all five of us at once if we want? We can like... we sort of become somethin’ in-between the sum of the people sharin’ at the time, when we go all in.
I have memories from all of ‘em, little ones. They kinda come with the experience.
[ She does not, at all, seem to read too far into what Jaime just said, instead just bouncing lightly again. ]
Okay, that also sounds super cool. Yer world has superpowers and aliens, huh?