<Snipped quote by Ermine>
I had a drawing of my image of it somewhere, I'll see about finding that/redrawing after class.

In which Grey makes shitty weeb sketches and can't draw extremities (big picture, according to my screen)

No idea what color her suit would be, but it's not like I had pens or pencils to color anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Grey

And I thought my suit was scary.

@Hyper Harlequin
"Lesbians? Is this another "hip" thing youth is all about these days?"

@Tengri
Can I call bullshit on this line of dialogue? o~o

@Hyper Harlequin
Yes. Yes, you can

@Tengri Me thinks faceless mask, knuckledusters, and leather jacket trump bug mask and a onesie hoodie.

@Grey And me thinks you can ask for an upgrade later.

<Snipped quote by Liliya>"What does this even mean? Like...I'm gay but not really? Or...I mean, I guess. I'm as gay as a daisy in may, but it's not a defining part of who I am? But really, what?"

I assume she's not closeted, and doesn't refrain from letting the team know that she is gay. Very casually as in not trying to keep it a secret from anyone.

"And here I am not even bothering with a costume at all and thinking you're all kinda silly. I mean, you have powers. Why are you hiding that? Do good with them and make a name for yourself. As yourself. Take credit for your own work."

@Liliya Gotcha. She probably hasn't even said anything to the team about it at all, actually. Like she said, it's not an important part of her.

@Tengri That is true, but the combat onesie is comfy and easy to wear

I'm in the process of doing an opening post for IC and that should be up shortly. In the mean time:

@Hyper Harlequin Outsider: We didn’t trust each other at first, but that changed. How? Why?

@Grey Janus: We saved the life of someone important, either to the city, or to us. Who was it? Why are they important?

@Ermine Doomed: We paid a high cost for victory. What was it?

These were discussed, but I don't think we had an official answer to them (either that, or I missed them while enjoying the fun little rp you all were having here).

I've updated the answers I did catch and received.

@Liliya, a PM is about to come your way.

@Ermine"Hey, my face isn't silly. And my awesome shsadow clothes are awesome!"

If people are curious what Demon-Ian looks like, check my CS, but as for what he's wearing, imagine a black and red version of the coat Dracula is wearing in Castlevania 2.

@Ermine
"This isn't a mask I wear. It's my face. The boring, ordinary guy that goes to school is my true mask. And besides, some of us have things they don't want to lose to a supervillain attack."

@Ermine
"But I like my school uniform! Besides, human clothes tend to rip when I shift too much."

@Ermine "No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."

@JoshieI mean...other than one of our peeps almost dying and another furthering a generational curse? I can only think of two people who really lost anything. I don't even know. I suppose we'll have to deal with the backlash from the people we didn't save. Like a few other young supers, who actually were our friends. That we knew, and had worked with before.

"I mean, I'm not one to talk about the negative stuff so casually. Sure, we saved so many people, and...that was my aunt we killed. Had to kill. Whatever. We killed her. And we lost friends in the battle. I'll be sure to add them to my memory archives the next time I can go to my sanctuary. Fourteen in all. We're not big damn heroes. We're the little guys. We didn't deserve to be there. We didn't earn our praise. We were sloppy. We were...and we had connections.

"'You can't save everyone.' That's what people say, like it means anything. Of course we can't. But we lost the heroes and survived out of dumb luck. There was no victory. We were just the last people standing after the real heroes did the hard work. Fourteen heroes, civvies still missing, probably vaporized. No. You can save the people who also save people. Then you're a hero.

So yeah, we paid a high cost. But not nearly as high as fifteen heroes - because my aunt-by-marriage is still a hero, even though we had to kill her - and countless civilians. Don't ask me about what we lost. Don't call us heroes. We all probably still have the dreams. I know I still watch my back, and jump when I hear unexpected noises."

@Grey"Now you are the apple of HCPD's eye. Progress."

@Ermine
This and a combination of the thing I'm going to adopt about Riley's people believing in asexual reproduction as a cycle of reincarnation, with sexual reproduction being the ultimate union of life, makes me believe that perhaps Riley's perception of death may be somewhat skewed. The 'they died so young' sympathy would still be there, since if a member of her species died before their reincarnation then their cycle would end, but I think she'd probably take this kind of thing differently than other humans. I mean, her species isn't inevitably fated to die! I'm just unsure if she'd react callously or overly sympathetically... Time to enter the contemplation chamber...

@JoshieI mean...other than one of our peeps almost dying and another furthering a generational curse? I can only think of two people who really lost anything. I don't even know. I suppose we'll have to deal with the backlash from the people we didn't save. Like a few other young supers, who actually were our friends. That we knew, and had worked with before.

"I mean, I'm not one to talk about the negative stuff so casually. Sure, we saved so many people, and...that was my aunt we killed. Had to kill. Whatever. We killed her. And we lost friends in the battle. I'll be sure to add them to my memory archives the next time I can go to my sanctuary. Fourteen in all. We're not big damn heroes. We're the little guys. We didn't deserve to be there. We didn't earn our praise. We were sloppy. We were...and we had connections.

"'You can't save everyone.' That's what people say, like it means anything. Of course we can't. But we lost the heroes and survived out of dumb luck. There was no victory. We were just the last people standing after the real heroes did the hard work. Fourteen heroes, civvies still missing, probably vaporized. No. You can save the people who also save people. Then you're a hero.

So yeah, we paid a high cost. But not nearly as high as fifteen heroes - because my aunt-by-marriage is still a hero, even though we had to kill her - and countless civilians. Don't ask me about what we lost. Don't call us heroes. We all probably still have the dreams. I know I still watch my back, and jump when I hear unexpected noises."

You know those moments when you thought you did something, but didn't and now you realize you didn't after you finally turned off your job brain and shifted into casual mode? -_-

I had a question I thought I asked and now looking through the thread again, realized I never did.

So question (to everyone here):

Was Dragoon's death covered up? Being dragged along the street, with your head crushed is a grusome way to go, and everyone was so focused on getting Alex medical attention, so who was behind the cover up? Does the city 'know' that Dragoon is dead? Do they know HOW she died?

IMO, even if the Guardians and the HCPD tried to cover up Dragoon's death, I think the truth would have gotten out. IIRC, Liliya mentioned a bit about a newspaper having caught a picture of Alex over the defeated Dragoon, so there's definitely the media that knows.

Also, kind of tinkering with the idea of having saved a sentient AI designed by the company Dragoon attacked as opposed to a regular person. I think my thought process was something like "Oh there has to be a good reason why Dragoon is trying to rob the place" and then to robots and then to yeah. Thoughts?