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Dec 21, 2010 09:36

Well, that's that.

Guess my future's riding on a letter in the mail now.

[ Dryly, over the light tapping of a pencil: ]

If I pass, I'll go to college. If I fail, I guess I'll have to reconsider being a supervillain to pay the bills.

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[ voice; ] bedeviledspider December 21 2010, 16:55:55 UTC

Heroing only pays if you keep people from snatching up your likeness.

Whatever you do, don't become a lawyer, the pay's awful.

Seriously... good luck, man.

[ voice; ] iknowyourfear December 21 2010, 17:02:20 UTC

Pretty sure I'd make the world's worst lawyer.

[ voice; FORWARD DATED TO SOMETIME AFTER THE PARTY BECAUSE I'M STUPID ] bedeviledspider December 21 2010, 17:26:22 UTC

Yeah, that makes two of us.

Just thought I'd offer what little career advice I can, oh potential scholar.

[ voice; YOU ARE NOT STUPID JUST TOO AWESOME FOR TIMELINES ] iknowyourfear December 22 2010, 00:45:32 UTC

Not to be anymore of a hater than I usually am, but law school makes me question your sanity. Were you bored?

[ voice; YOU ARE TOO KIND ] bedeviledspider December 22 2010, 02:53:11 UTC

No. I was good at it.

Besides, I wanted to be to help people like-- help people who needed it.

[ voice; ] iknowyourfear December 22 2010, 03:43:56 UTC

Without having to put on tights and a mask, you mean?

[ voice; ] bedeviledspider December 22 2010, 03:46:32 UTC

Exactly.

What about you, man? Any idea what you want to be, if you don't have to resort to tights, masks and villany?

[ voice; ] iknowyourfear December 22 2010, 03:47:25 UTC

A counselor or something, I guess. Apparently the future me is a great shrink. [ His tone is wry though, like he doesn't quite buy it. ]

[ voice; ] bedeviledspider December 22 2010, 03:51:48 UTC

A shrink, huh. [ He sounds like he can't quite buy it, either. ] Takes a disturbed mind to know one?

[ voice; ] iknowyourfear December 22 2010, 03:54:27 UTC

Well, apparently, my control gets so fine-tuned in a few years that I can show people their fears in small doses. Help them get over it and stuff. [ In that same somewhat sarcastic tone: ] Wish the future me would give the present me a couple tips.

[ voice; ] bedeviledspider December 22 2010, 04:29:41 UTC

It'd be nice, wouldn't it? Minus the headache of time travel, of course.

[ Scoffs, then pauses, and responds a bit more thoughtfully. ] That's a not bad idea. That's what they say about phobias, isn't it, that the best way to face your fear is to confront it?

[ voice; ] iknowyourfear December 22 2010, 06:13:03 UTC

Yeah. If you survive facing your fear. Not everybody does.

[ voice; ] bedeviledspider December 22 2010, 06:15:57 UTC

Speaking from experience?

[ voice; ] iknowyourfear December 22 2010, 06:17:01 UTC

[ A tense beat. Then, maybe uncomfortably: ]

I'm just saying. It breaks some people.

[ voice; ] bedeviledspider December 22 2010, 06:20:13 UTC

[ A beat. Hesitatingly... ]

Yeah. I guess it would be hard to take.

[ voice; ] iknowyourfear December 22 2010, 06:45:43 UTC

I wouldn't know. Not personally.

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