if i were yours

[floofcoaster]

Behold the wolf in his unnatural habitat, eating the foods of his people in traditional quantities, his typical companion away in the distant land of The Bathroom.

That is to say, Zeus is in Milliways with one and a half heavily topped pizzas, waiting for Harley and Andrea to come back.

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[floofcoaster]

"Could be a sister, they're only all boys so far," adds Zeus. "Some templates can be either but I think most of them are usually one or the other."

[apprivoise_moi]

"If I've got any little siblings whose childhoods are as shitty as my childhood was, I wanna know about it. And do some magic to it."

[floofcoaster]

"Yeah. Man, I wish Harley had left Andrea, I dunno how long this is gonna take. I guess we could go to the Belltower? Probably nobody will sneer at me for being presumptuous about going to the Belltower and that is my imagination just because Bells wear crowns. But then you'll have Bells all over the place."

[apprivoise_moi]

"I'm getting hilarious mental images that I'm pretty sure are not what you meant. 'Bells'?"

[floofcoaster]

"Oh, you're - you're probably a - Joker, the empress is a Bell."

[apprivoise_moi]

"And is having Bells all over the place a bad thing?"

[floofcoaster]

"Nah, not really, they make pretty good empresses, they'll swoop in and fix whatever ails your world and whatnot. I find them intimidating though."

[apprivoise_moi]

"What if there hypothetically wasn't anything wrong with my world a couple of magic cakes couldn't fix?"

[floofcoaster]

"Then they want to figure out what makes it tick and import it, probably, but you and them might have different standards of 'wrong with'."

[apprivoise_moi]

"Yeah, I bet we do."

[floofcoaster]

"Do you have one? The Bells will all be very excited if you have one."

[apprivoise_moi]

"Well, how would I know?"

[floofcoaster]

"Her name will have a 'bel' in it. And she will be the sort of person who would take over the world and then run it very nicely."

[apprivoise_moi]

"Mm," she says. "Well, if I ask nicely, will these Bells of yours give me magic to play with?"

[floofcoaster]

"I think that's standard procedure with Jokers, yeah. That and introduce you to all the other ones."

[apprivoise_moi]

"Now that sounds like fun."

[floofcoaster]

"Oh yeah, they have big piles, they're fun."

[apprivoise_moi]

"I want a Joker pile!"

[floofcoaster]

"With Harley taking forever in the bathroom the fastest way to get one is the Belltower, you want?"

[apprivoise_moi]

"Sure," she declares.

[floofcoaster]

Zeus eats another slice of pizza first.

Then he says, "Wait, I'm an idiot, I forgot I'm telepathic, I've gotten used to Andrea being on my shoulder or whatever all the time and forgot about the brainphone. Hang on."

[Harleeeey found a maybe-Joker in the bar.]

[apprivoise_moi]

[Ooh,] says Harley, and he appears next to them while Ophelia is still just beginning to giggle. Andrea, currently a ferret, leaps from his shoulder to Zeus's.

"Hiiii," says Harley.

"Hi!" says Ophelia. "I want magic. And then I wanna fuck every single one of you."

Harley cracks up. "Yeah, I'll bet you're a Joker."

[floofcoaster]

Zeus smiles and scritches Andrea.

[apprivoise_moi]

"Seriously though: magic," says Ophelia.

"All right, all right," laughs Harley, "one sec, I'm gonna check you're actually one of me."

He leaves Andrea with Zeus and freecasts to the Enchanted Forest.

[Hey, Glass! There's a new Joker in Milliways, can you come look at her and make sure she actually is a Joker before I mint her? I'm pretty damn sure, but she's a new face.]

[thaumobabble]

[Coming.]

Jane drops Glass in the Belltower and Glass lets herself into the main bar.

"That's a Joker all right," she confirms. "Felicity and Corona's cluster, first phase. What do we call you?" she asks.