[voice]

[deadthenred]

Alright, alright, I got one of those question thingamabobs:

What exactly makes a person dress up in a costume, call themselves something silly, and try and take on the world? Especially if you don't got powers, especially if you can just fall in with the rest of us folks.

I mean, I know why I did it, but I figure that was a special circumstance.

Comments

voice;

[enigmaestro]

Didn't we all consider ours to be special circumstance?

voice;

[deadthenred]

Yeah, alright, you got a point.

voice;

[enigmaestro]

My special reasons wouldn't be considered noble.

voice;

[deadthenred]

Neither'd mine.

That was why I was figuring they'd be special.

voice;

[enigmaestro]

Aren't we a pair? Well. Would you like to play 'I'll show you mine'?.

voice;

[deadthenred]

I'll even go first, it ain't that glamorous.

voice;

[enigmaestro]

By all means, be my guest.

voice;

[deadthenred]

I enlisted a couple months before I turned sixteen. A few months after, general calls me up, tells me this is my new assignment.

There's another version they came up for the papers that has me sneaking into other men's tents, but that one's a pack of lies.

voice;

[enigmaestro]

Oh, I don't know. One could call that dangerously honorable, I'd say, as far as a beginning goes.

Vicious tent rumors aside.

voice;

[deadthenred]

It's not wrong.

But wanting to go to war- it's not right either. There's a lotta people in the Army with no sense of honor. I joined up 'cause I couldn't think of anything else to do, not 'cause I was stuffed up with patriotism, and all that.

voice;

[enigmaestro]

Couldn't think of anything better, well, it's certainly one answer. But as an escape from boredom, or a need for purpose?

voice;

[deadthenred]

Both, I guess. Didn't think it'd give me purpose, but I guess it turned out that way. But I was fifteen, it was what my dad'd done, I was already living on base.

If I hadn't stolen that jeep, they might not've sent me off it, though.

voice;

[enigmaestro]

Well, boys will be boys. And what would a story be, without details like jeep theft?

Do you regret it? Getting involved with costumes?

voice;

[deadthenred]

Nah. I'd've wound up in about the same place two years later, anyhow. There would've been no escaping the service. And it was nice, sometimes, to feel like I mattered.

Might not have gotten here if I didn't do it, though.

voice;

[enigmaestro]

But then we wouldn't be having this charming conversation, and how could I bear such a thing? But, you do have a point: we tend to be significant in some worldly way, we the imPorts.

But we also chose to be significant.

voice;

[deadthenred]

Usually. I'm not sure there's such a thing as being big on accident. Maybe the people who were born with the cosmic goop bleeding out of their eyeballs, I dunno.