Application: Brenda Amparo (Blue Beetle III comic)

[ibrokeaplanet]

"Mrs. Reyes, are you sure I can't help -"

A thin girl with carrot-red hair and freckles turns around, school uniform skirt swirling around as she does. She's startled to find a stone wall behind her rather than the kitchen door she was expecting.

"Oh brother. C'mon, I didn't even pick up a weird alien artifact this time or anything!" She walks

Comments

[grandmasteryoda]

"These CDs that you have. In comparison to Dio, how are they?"

[ibrokeaplanet]

Brenda blinked. Okay, aliens she could handle. Weird questions, she could handle. The combination of the two? Threatened brain-breakage.

"Um. Not really all that metal-y. That's what Paco meant by 'chick rock', that they're a little softer sounding." Dio? Good grief.

[grandmasteryoda]

Yoda studied her intently, then nodded. "A chance, I will give it. Looking for new beats to groove to, I am." Yoda's knowledge of current Earth musical terms was... shaky, at best, but he enjoyed using them, if only for the looks on peoples' faces. "What are they called?"

[ibrokeaplanet]

"Um...I've got Alanis Morrissette, Neko Case and Rilo Kiley left. Let's see - in descending order of metalocity, I'd say Alanis, Rilo Kiley and Neko in last."

She was a little distracted by images of what this - amphibian? - 'grooving' might look like.

[busty_robin]

"Sadly, the best looking member of the Order is taken," Steph said, smiling at the application. From the sound of things, George was really more of a junior member/cob-web-cleaner-upper, but a very handsome cob-web-cleaner-upper. "But he's got a twin."

Reading the rest of the application, she raised an eyebrow at the crossed out 'Jai'. Man. This girl was almost as bad with the identity-keeping as Steph. Almost. "The Blue Beetle, huh? I hear there's a new one?"

[ibrokeaplanet]

"Twinsville again. Cool. What is this Order, anyway?" She grinned.

"Yeah, the new guy showed up in El Paso not quite a year ago. Got this body armor, very cool stuff. Me and Paco were some of the first people he, ahh, met when he got there, so we're kind of on the team. It's us, a soldier of fortune guy - long story there - and a couple of hackers."

[busty_robin]

"Some sort of anti-what's-his-name group." No, seriously. What was the dude's name? Wizard version of Hitler? Really dry skin? Meh. He was popcorn now, so whatever. "All I really know is that there was a lot of cleaning involved." Outside of learning magic, Steph....didn't pay all that much attention to what went on in the Wizarding World.

"Guess that makes you from my world," Steph said, smiling. Which she already knew by the application, but saying so without a set-up would have outed that she knew who Jamie was, which might lead to Questions. "Around here, superheroes aren't really a common thing." She stuck out a hand. "Stephanie Brown. Nice to meet you."

[ibrokeaplanet]

"Brenda. Hi." She shook Steph's hand. "So you're in with the cape-wearing and crime-fighting set too? Whereabouts?"

[tomowildcat]

Tomo ran into the Sorting Room, looking particularly pleased with herself, which was never a good sign. Coupled with the fact that she seemed the tiniest bit singed, anyone who knew her would have good reason to worry.

She skimmed over the application briefly. "Spicy food, study freak - hey, just like Yomi! Except, you know, smart." She grinned. "Hiya, newbie!"

[ibrokeaplanet]

"Um. Hi there." Brenda forced down a cough. "Ahh, you got a little..." She waved a hand vaguely at the source of the thin threads of smoke.

[tomowildcat]

"Hm?" Tomo blinked, sniffing the air. It took her a second to realize that the singed ends of her hair were still smoking. "Oh, yeah! I'm good. Just the scars of experimentation! I need to go through a couple of trial runs first to perfect zombie incineration," she explained, as if that made perfect sense. "But I WILL persevere!"

Yes, it took nonexistent zombies and an idle comment at a Sorting to get Tomo to actually get a wand and try some spells. Hogwarts is doomed.

[ibrokeaplanet]

"...Zombies?" She frowned. Had the Reach been up to their old tricks again? Did Jaime know?

[ugly_old_hat]

"Did you say you can do book reports?" the Hat inquired brightly.

[ibrokeaplanet]

Brenda blinked. And blinked again. Yeah, she'd been told about the talking Hat, but she hadn't really pictured - this.

"Um. Yeah. Yessir. I've been at the top of my game with those since first grade."

[ugly_old_hat]

Delighting in its own unexpectedness, the Hat twirled about, suspended in mid-air. "What about magazine reports? Can you do magazine reports?"

[ibrokeaplanet]

"Um, sure. Easier than for books, probably. Are we talking 'New Yorker' type magazines, or 'Cosmo' type magazines?"

Gryffindor!

[ugly_old_hat]

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