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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 16 2011, 03:28:10 UTC
He's gone?

As in, he left the house, or left the city all together?

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 17 2011, 00:58:12 UTC
Born and raised. Could see the Hollywood sign from my roof on the yearly clear day.

[She'll see your wariness and raise you some indifference.] Something like that, yeah. My parents had some stuff that mentioned them, but not a lot of information on them. The name just stuck in my head. I doubt they ever actually met.

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[video; filtered] ex_julianhe August 17 2011, 01:03:47 UTC
Then you got a good memory. [ Shrug ] I don't see my parents much. Been a while since I met anyone who recognised that name.

Your parents, they in a similar line of work or something?

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 17 2011, 01:39:01 UTC
Depends. On the 'legitimate business practices' side, they were supposedly antique dealers. Did a lot of work with museums and private collectors.

On the 'psychotic ne'er-do-well' side, they were time-traveling supervillains from the 87th century who were part of a conspiracy to wipe out humanity and leave the world to me and my friends.

[Recounting this is getting old hat to her, judging by her flat expression.]

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[video; filtered] ex_julianhe August 17 2011, 01:57:06 UTC
[ Geez, and he thought he had daddy issues. ]

...Yeah, I can see how they'd have got along with my folks.

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 17 2011, 02:00:31 UTC
Oh? Birds of a feather?

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[video; filtered] ex_julianhe August 17 2011, 02:07:19 UTC
Not in the time-travelling supervillain way. More like in the asshole way.

Figuring you and your friends stopped their world domination bid?

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 17 2011, 02:13:05 UTC
Yep. It ended up getting all our parents killed in the process, but mostly because they were keeping us from getting eaten by their giant Biblical monster bosses. Either way, it worked.

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[video; filtered] ex_julianhe August 17 2011, 02:17:42 UTC
Did your team have a name?

[ It's freaking him out a little that he didn't know who you guys were, but you had Biblical monster bosses. ]

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 17 2011, 02:21:16 UTC
We... weren't really a team. We're just friends. Family. Whatever sappy terminology you want to apply, we're it. We're not superheroes or anything like that.

We just happened to be the kids of the Pride. That's what we keep getting called by other spandex-jockeys.

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Re: [video; filtered] ex_julianhe August 17 2011, 02:24:49 UTC
Sounds like a team. [ But he can't help smiling at the spandex part. ] I get why you want to get back to them. The Core ever bring any of them here?

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 17 2011, 02:48:12 UTC
Trust me, we're not a team. The closest we have to a battle cry is 'try not to die.'

Nope. Not a single magic stick or floppy pink hat to be seen.

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[video; filtered] ex_julianhe August 18 2011, 22:44:56 UTC
Yeah, well. I know the feeling. Got people waiting back home too. How long have you been stuck here?

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 19 2011, 02:24:28 UTC
About four months now.

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[video; filtered] ex_julianhe August 19 2011, 20:39:05 UTC
Do you ever get used to it?

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[video; filtered] nopride4parents August 20 2011, 22:37:35 UTC
It's not so bad at the moment. I was lucky, though; I got brought here with a piece of home that never lets me feel alone.

To be honest, though, with the way things were back in LA, this place isn't too bad. Not being hunted daily and having to worry about how much money we have to feed six people for a week, versus having to stay indoors at night? A trade I'm willing to make.

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