( What Thomas planned to do today is anyone's guess, but it seems unlikely that he would have anticipated this situation. He feels like he's been walking for hours, though it's impossible to tell. The darkness is absolute, even if he had a timepiece with him, and stifling. The air is good but smells slightly stale.

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HOW TO BECOME A SUPERHERO
- THE THOMAS SHEPHERD TECHNIQUE -

1. Blow up your high school
2. Get arrested
3. Get transferred to morally questionable superjuvie
4. Get busted out by team of wannabe superheroes
5. Discover you look awesome in green
6. Stick around and flirt with the hot chick on the team

You can pace the room if you’d like, but it’s barely a cage; long enough to lay out on the floor in either direction, but not much bigger. At first it seems empty; but after a time the shallow sound of breathing is perceptible, coming from one of the walls. There’s a bed there, little more than a cot, with a supine body on it. Was that there ( Read more... )

i think billy stole my clotrhes

but i dont think i care

[ooc; wearing this because i needed only the barest excuse. probably a little drunk. <3]

So many things are not okay about the last few days.

So many.

I may never be dry again.

][video;

[Tommy's sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by a tangle of wires and lit only by computer monitors scattered here and there. Computer equipment looms in the dim light, and now and then he turns to check something on one machine or another. Actually, he seems to know what he's doing. Mostly.]

So--

[he begins, turning to ( Read more... )

][audio;

[Thud. Thump. CRASH. Pause, the faint creak of floorboards.]

owww...

CRASH.. Thud. Commence whining.]

He-eeey... what's going on..?

][audio;

[At first, there's just a rush of air over the mic. It stops short for a long moment, instead picking up only the normal background noise of the City. Then, softly and irritably,]

Oh, man...

[The rush picks up again-- in the other direction, not that you can really tell. It pauses again. Then picks up for a minute. Then pauses. ( Read more... )