no, seriously, fuck those guys

[deconnate]

[The video opens on a girl, high-school age, sitting at a desk. She's looking down into the camera, almost as if to make herself look taller, or perhaps simply because this is the only position she could angle it without the communicator falling over mid-broadcast. She's no one you'd recognize, and neither is the communicator number. (Alas, it is

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[disillusionists]

Classy.

[deconnate]

Yeeeeep.

[disillusionists]

You seem rather upset over this.

[deconnate]

Congratulations. You have the ability of determining emotional states in strangers. What are you going to do now?

Don't say Disney World. Everyone says Disney World.

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[notquiteidol]

[Just. Icon.]

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[deconnate]

[Oh, okay. The girl mimics the double-finger flip off, and promptly uses them as bunny ears.]

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[lolverine]

[Filed under people who should not be talking to teenagers, but angry sarcasm never fails to catch his attention.]

Lots of people will buy it, and lots of them will want that upgrade, as you put it.

[deconnate]

How utterly unpredictable.

[lolverine]

That's humanity. You're in this majesty thing, yes?

[deconnate]

I'm not a superhero.

[deconnate]

Same way you are. Something old, something new.

You already know the why, if you've seen what they're doing.

[deconnate]

None of you were. So what do you want to do?

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[fishnets]

Is this all show or do you have anything that can be used against them?

[deconnate]

It is a work in progress.

[fishnets]

yeah? better than nothing, I guess. if you have any... useful information, I'd be very interested in hearing it.

[deconnate]

I know a lot of useful information, but I'm pretty sure you're not interested in the fascinating process of growing appendages to more than a thousand percent the size of the mature version from which the former received its genetic code.

But I could be wrong.