001: Group Introductions - TEXT

[tarnishedavenger]

[During a lull in the party, Armstrong taps out a quick message to the network. Not that private one, he doesn't trust it. They can answer whenever they like, so long as he gets an answer. The trick would be wording it.]

So, we're all in this for now. You've had your welcome cake, but you can't meet everyone in a party, no matter how hard you try. But, since we've all been encouraged to sign up with Jorgmund, I figured now would be a good time to get some introductions done. Talk about any specialties we might have.

Share information that we feel comfortable sharing. This isn't to pressure anyone or to force out any dark secrets.

[Not where watchful eyes can see, at least.]

Besides, I prefer doing this to making a cute information sharing game.

So, please, make your own threads within this post to keep everything organized.

Comments

[likeits1999]

sounds pretty rad. except the banning thing, but thanks for trying, bro.

[ The important things that Kevin needs to say here. ]

[googledox]

You're quite welcome.

[He looks away from the screen, like sincerity at close range with a stranger is a little difficult. (It's been a rough few years.)]

I find this situation...in such an open form of community, I'll just say it's discomfiting. [Heinous, villainous, unimaginably cruel.]. My natural assumption was that everyone else most likely wished to go home as much as I did.

You have my apologies, for my failure at enabling that.

[video]

[likeits1999]

[ Kevin pops on the camera because it just seems... more polite this way. His demeanor's relaxed, but definitely earnest. ]

Dude don't apologize to me, you already tried to do more than I can. Like, sure, I got some shit I need to get back to, but I'm not gonna go nuts on one dude for not being able to make that happen in five minutes.

You seem real smart and that's good to have around helping, so I'm alright. I mean. As alright as any of us is.

[googledox]

[Brainy is finally able to meet Kevin's eyes and he looks...almost confused. It's not an expression that passes over his face often.]

I've grown...unused to others interrogating my actions with good faith. I appreciate it.

[likeits1999]

Sorry to hear that, man.

[ And he means it, just all easy and honest. ]

Hey, weird question, but is Brainiac like, a nickname?

[ A smart guy who gets called Brainiac and is used to people being on the offensive is... not at all unfamiliar to some school memories. It's a weird coincidence, but he wonders. ]

[googledox]

It's a title, based off of the name of one of my ancestors. Those in the family line that exceed a certain level of intelligence receive it, and the numbers are based on how many generations removed we are. My mother was Brainiac 4, my grandfather was Brainiac 3, and so on.

It once had negative connotations due to the first Brainiac being infamous for his malevolent nature.

[He briefly raises both eyebrows.]

By using it as my superhero appellation, I have imbued it with a different meaning through my actions.

[Of course that sentiment with the UP public is apparently is as fickle as the direction of the wind.]

The only member of the family line that doesn't bear the title is my son. He was briefly called Brainiac 6 but I have insisted on others calling him by his name. If he chooses to adopt it when he gets older, perhaps to follow in my footsteps, for once it will be a choice.

[likeits1999]

Oh, cool. I just wondered cause it's like, a thing kids call other kids who are smart cause there was a Superman villain called Brainiac who was real smart.

It's... not very nice.

[googledox]

Ah, so you must be from my world or one with a similar history. Superman was indeed one of the archnemesis of my ancestor.

I am a descendant of Brainiac. Over the last one thousand years there have been six descendants who inherited his intellect and that title.

I am the fifth in that family line.

[likeits1999]

Oh! Um.

[ Kevin scratches the back of his neck. ]

This is gonna be mega weird probably, but Superman is like. A comic book dude where I'm from, man. People call nerds Brainiac because of the whole bad comic book guy thing?

...I probably shouldn't be surprised cause of this whole other world thing, I'm not sure if this is weird or rad.

[googledox]

Wonderful. That the appellation has been relegated to full scale widespread schoolyard insult fodder.

[Ugh.]

I'm not shocked at the idea of such a thing. My team once helped Superman fight an overpowered individual from a world where much of the events of ours were somehow in visual media.

Whether it was the result of that knowledge somehow being siphoned off to somewhere else in the multiverse, or random chance that people might conceive of stories that are real events in other dimensions, the multiverse is infinitely strange and occasionally inexplicable.

[likeits1999]

Okay cool, I'm glad this wasn't... I guess it could've been maybe pretty offensive in hindsight. Sorry about that anyway.

[ He winces at his own possible rudeness. ]

It's kinda cool if you ask me, it makes me wonder how many other comic book dudes are real things? Like Batman and Spider-Man and people.