Trouble (new Joker, previously known as Ophelia) skipped a phase on introducing his world's Bell to Glass. It felt like so; compare the feeling Sue and War had on deciding to step up to the Hegemony race, note similarities.
Trouble sent Robin (likely to be local Kingfisher) to check up on Butterfly and see how she was doing. Robin asked on Trouble's behalf if Butterfly wanted him to wait for her to emerge from her cocoon before commencing world-saving. Aether produced the sentence: 'If you let him go ahead without you my best guess is that you'll find whatever he comes up with to be stylistically displeasing, morally tolerable if more risk-tolerant than you'd like, and involve very little of you wearing a crown.'
Sue and War and the retirees and Harley all find this deeply hilarious - the other Jokers have dropped out of the link by now and haven't heard it yet. Trouble himself declined to share a reaction but the other linked Jokers suspect he is at least somewhat amused. The humour comes partly from phrasing, partly from wondering where Aether pulled this estimate out of, and partly from the dissonance between that image and how the central characteristic of Trouble's current phase seems to be its similarity to War's four years without Aegis. (The crown part fits, they do concede.)
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Trouble (new Joker, previously known as Ophelia) skipped a phase on introducing his world's Bell to Glass. It felt like so; compare the feeling Sue and War had on deciding to step up to the Hegemony race, note similarities.
Trouble sent Robin (likely to be local Kingfisher) to check up on Butterfly and see how she was doing. Robin asked on Trouble's behalf if Butterfly wanted him to wait for her to emerge from her cocoon before commencing world-saving. Aether produced the sentence: 'If you let him go ahead without you my best guess is that you'll find whatever he comes up with to be stylistically displeasing, morally tolerable if more risk-tolerant than you'd like, and involve very little of you wearing a crown.'
Sue and War and the retirees and Harley all find this deeply hilarious - the other Jokers have dropped out of the link by now and haven't heard it yet. Trouble himself declined to share a reaction but the other linked Jokers suspect he is at least somewhat amused. The humour comes partly from phrasing, partly from wondering where Aether pulled this estimate out of, and partly from the dissonance between that image and how the central characteristic of Trouble's current phase seems to be its similarity to War's four years without Aegis. (The crown part fits, they do concede.)