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.

Comments

[pythbox]

Well, yeah, and I bet if she knew what we know she'd have said something else, that soooort of is what's funny? But whatever, Joker sense of humour is a mystery of the multiverse, we knew that one already. If Butterfly actually doesn't let Trouble help save his universe I feel kinda bad for him, though, all that— (wordless reiteration of the commonalities between Trouble's and Sue's respective decisions: a strong sense of it being time to get down to business, the deliberate choice to take it upon oneself to do things about things) —and nowhere to put it. We can probably find him something else to do if he still has the itch after the dust settles, I guess.

[autokinetic]

Jane said they did not have a great working relationship beforehand. I can't imagine it being bad enough that she wouldn't, say, take coins from him, but I don't know how bad it gets, so maybe even after her self-reconstruction project she will not want him involved?

[pythbox]

We'll think of something. He's not gonna argue with her if she says she doesn't want him doing anything. Might move out of the universe, though, depending - he's got a girlfriend he doesn't wanna leave behind.

[autokinetic]

Anybody we know?

[pythbox]

Probably an alt of Zeus, Trouble figures.

[autokinetic]

What's his side on why things got this unpleasant between him and Butterfly in the first place?

[pythbox]

Sue asks.

He was - he was a really early phase, he says. Of what seems like our most fragile cluster. And she's got whatever problems you get when you're a Bell whose planet is infested with mind-controlling alien brain parasites? And she scared him a little even before they found out about the brain parasites, and then it just... he couldn't handle stuff the way she wanted him to, and neither of them really knew how to handle each other, and it got to be kind of a mess.

[autokinetic]

She scared him?

[pythbox]

They had this conversation about what she'd do with hypothetical magic powers, way early on, and she said some things that came off like... I'm not sure how to put it into words.

But he doesn't have to: he shows her Trouble's memory of the conversation, Trouble's resigned hypothetical fear at his new friend's avowed willingness to rid the world of pain even if not everyone would be okay without it. (Trouble is used to being in love with people who would do terrible things to him if they had a reason that looked good to them; Trouble is also in love with Ethan.)

[autokinetic]

Mm. This looks like a mess.

[pythbox]

No shit, Sue agrees. I feel bad for both of 'em.

[autokinetic]

Maybe him jumping phases will help, but I'm sort of worried she's too put off at this point.

[pythbox]

Sucks for them. Well, more for him on this one, she's not gonna be heartbroken if she decides she can't stand him.

[autokinetic]

She'll look at those of us conspicuously attached to Jokers and sigh about it, but yeah, not heartbreak.

[pythbox]

You doing anything important or can I come be conspicuously attached to you?

[autokinetic]

If you mean 'lend me added consequence' come now, if you mean 'make out' wait sixty seconds.

[pythbox]

Sixty seconds it is.

[autokinetic]