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[totallynotaspaz]

Whom: Jaime and Danny. Or should I say, Super Roboman and Inviso-Bill.
Where: in town
When: eve of January 6th!
Summary: They are both Ordinary High School Students with superhero alter egos and badass families. This was required by divine law to happen. Seriously.
Warning: Really, really bad superhero aliases.

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[totallynotaspaz]

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That was about the best way to put Danny's thoughts into words. Both heads stared at the blue-armor guy (who am I? Who's he?) before one of them finally spoke. "Th-this isn't how it's supposed to be, I swear!" Then the other Danny-half: "I-I was just practicing! It...didn't really work."

Before he freaked this guy out anymore, he decided to try and go back to normal. He had no idea how, but hey, thinking about it was going to get him somewhere, right? After a few moments, he could tell he'd gone back to normal. And without anything particularly gross happening!

"Uh...sorry about that. I'm..." Oh. Wait. Danny didn't have a name for his ghost form! What was he supposed to say, he was Danny? Two Dannys on the island? But before he really started panicking, a name popped into his head. "...Inviso-Bill." Really? He was praying that people didn't actually call him that back in Amity Park. It was more embarrassing than being called Fenturd.

But there was a more important matter at hand right now... "Who are you?"

((OOC: 0.1% used on the name Inviso-Bill.))

[notaluchador]

Did anything in his life ever make sense? Staring at the ghost again, Jaime's eyes widened as he watched. Since when could--- was that even--- It was Memento Eden, he decided. If nature spirits could possess people and alien tech could wield themselves to people's spines, then ghosts who could give themselves two heads could exist. Right?

Oh. Right. He had a feeling he should at least try to act like a different person, so he made his voice deeper as he amusedly responded, "Inviso-Bill? Like... the word, or is there some wordplay I'm not getting?"

At the mention of his name, Jaime too blanked out. What was he supposed to say? He didn't remember the name for this armor either! What could he call himself?

"I'm... uh... Super Roboman."

Of all the names he could've come up with on the spot, he had to pick the one Takeru gave him.

[totallynotaspaz]

Oh, great. Not only did Danny just give himself a laughably stupid name, but now he had to explain it? He was embarrassed to have even remembered it. But upon hearing the other guy's name, he felt slightly comforted. At least he wasn't the only one with a stupid name around here.

"It's a pun," he explained. "It sounds like the word 'invisible', but then the name 'Bill' is in it, so then it's Inviso-Bill." He enunciated carefully to make sure this Super Roboman guy could tell the difference.

"So..." Danny crossed his arms, gazing at the blue guy floating in front of him. "I'm guessing you're a robot?"

[notaluchador]

In Jaime's defense, he was tired from delivering all those gifts with Yomiko.

"Now I feel stupid," Jaime admitted, rubbing the back of his neck as he laughed slightly.

Shrugging sheepishly, he then replied, "Actually, I'm not sure what I am, but I'm pretty sure I'm human. Super Roboman's a name a friend of mine gave me."

So... what now? Rubbing his shoulder (that bag was pretty heavy!), Jaime studied Danny more closely. "So... Inviso-Bill, how long've you been patrolling the area?"

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Danny couldn't help but grin at Jaime declaring he was stupid. Here they were, floating above the town at night with stupid names, and Jaime was calling himself stupid because he didn't get the pun behind a really lame name.

"Hey, you're not the one stuck calling yourself Inviso-Bill. I think Super Roboman's a little less embarrassing." Of course, that was how Danny felt now, so he too rubbed the back of his neck, averting his gaze slightly to avoid eye contact. "Even if it sounds like you're just a robot...and you don't really look human either." That last bit he meant to think to himself, but it accidentally slipped out as a murmur.

"Patrolling?" Danny looked confused. "I'm not really patrolling. I was just practicing some of my powers up here. Looks like I've still got work to do, too." He laughed sheepishly.

[notaluchador]

Trust Jaime to prioritize weird things. It was true that they both had lame superhero names, but at least they didn't lack common sense like other lame superheroes? (Not that he would know this! Most of what he knew about superheroes came from the comic books he was reading.)

"Yeah, I'm aware of that," Jaime laughed, circling around Danny again. "If I remember, I'll be sure to let you know."

Pausing, he blinked. "So you're not Memento's official superhero or anything? And here I was thinking we had one after all."

[totallynotaspaz]

If Jaime read comic books, he should've already known lame puns were a staple of superheroism.

"Deal," Danny said, watching the guy circle around him. "And I'll let you know when I actually figure out that duplication trick." You know...to make up for weirding Jaime out earlier!

Danny couldn't help but laugh sheepishly at Jaime's question, though. "Official superhero? No way, I couldn't pull that off." As far as Danny could remember, he only ever protected whatever was threatening him or his friends. The one time he could remember interfering with other ghost activity led to him being declared Public Ghost Enemy #1. Superhero, indeed.

[notaluchador]

Apparently he read a weird brand of superhero comics that didn't. He was missing out, huh?

"Sure thing!"

Oh, okay, so Memento didn't have superheroes. This was kind of weird, considering they were both people with lame superhero names... both with presumably interesting powers... and they weren't out to save the town? Granted, no one was being villainous, and there certainly wasn't much of a threat at the moment.

"Come on," Jaime teased. "I'm sure you - we - could if there was actually anything to save. It sounds like this place's been pretty peaceful so far."

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Then they are not superheroes. They are measly non-super heroes.

"Well, maybe," he said, giving Jaime another glance up and down. The guy would've actually scared Danny if he hadn't sounded like a 20-year-old. "But I've had pretty bad luck with saving much of anything." Like his parents' anniversary gift...which resulted in him being thrown into jail...

"Yeah, Memento Eden's been really quiet. It's a little weird, but definitely good." Danny was thinking of home, and nothing was ever really quiet back home. "I might know how to fly right now, but I don't think I could stop anything dangerous."

[notaluchador]

Danny, please introduce Jaime to the cool punny superheroes, okay? The poor boy's not getting the good stuff.

In Jaime's defense, the poor boy was just happy he found someone else like him! No, wait - the scarab had to interrupt his inner monologue with something about the boy being a Warder? Or some kind of half-ghost. Whatever! At least he had strange powers too.

"I don't know how to control my powers either," Jaime admitted, his faked voice slipping for a minute before he coughed and added, "Why don't we practice together? It beats being all by ourselves, don't you think?"

[totallynotaspaz]

How's about Spider-Man? Danny, the resident Pungeon Master, is based on him, after all!

"Practice together?" The idea seemed pretty ridiculous to Danny. He was a half-ghost, and this was a robot. He doubted they would have any powers in common--except maybe flight. And yet... "I guess we could. It'd be pretty cool to see what each of us can do." He didn't really pay any attention to Jaime's little voice slip-up except to think for a moment--is his voice cracking? Do robots have robot-puberty?

[notaluchador]

"Exactly," Jaime gleefully replied (someone fanboyed over way too many superheroes in his day). "No one else here seems to be in the same situation, and besides! It might do us some good to know how each other's powers work."

Nevermind that Jaime didn't actually know everything that the scarab could do, but he'd eventually force answers out of it anyway. Or something that didn't involve a mental argument between him and the scarab.

"... Do you normally practice here? Because I'd think it'd be easier for the residents to spot us here if we did in the future."

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"Yeah, actually, come to think of it, there isn't anyone else I know who doesn't know how to use their powers." He hadn't noticed it earlier, but it didn't mean he didn't appreciate meeting someone else in the same predicament!

"Oh, uh, no. I usually practice somewhere out in the forest...the landlord can't get you if you accidentally break something out there. I just felt like trying out something new up here." He shrugged, as if that would justify his reasoning more.

[notaluchador]

"See?" God, he was getting even happier! The smile was probably contagious too, but Jaime couldn't help it. He was happy to find someone else in the same boat.

"Wait a sec. The landlord actually punishes us for building damage?"

This was news to Jaime. He appreciated it, yeah, but that didn't mean that he was very confused about the whole situation.

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"You haven't heard yet?" Danny was almost shocked that this guy hadn't yet heard of the consequences of breaking the building. He felt as though he'd known all along about it (even though he learned it the hard way himself). "I don't know if it happens with any other buildings, but if you break anything in the apartments, you get cursed. Badly."

Danny couldn't help but shiver a little bit. Being blind for a week was pretty bad, but being a fairy was definitely a crowning moment of endless embarrassment.

[notaluchador]

"Nope," Jaime admitted, shaking his head. "If that's just for the Apartments, I'd hate to think of punishments for the other buildings."

He paused for a second, the idea finally clicking in his head, "... You must've learned about this the hard way, huh?"