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[ursoreckless]

[ shou is back from his sudden disappearance. he is also looking a bit like he was chewing on something bitter and that he is also pretty tired. hello jet lag, he really doesn't need you to stick around right now. ]

This is starting to get ridiculous. First it's 'oh no, the police are going to kill us', then it was the thunderasses or whatever, and now it's the mob. And now people are all 'whine whine the normals are out to get us'... Well, yeah, that's one of the problems of coming out of the supernatural closet. C'mon, I can't be the only person who watches movies with similar plots, can I? Next, you'll be telling me that aliens don't come to earth to eat our brains.

I might be joking about that last bit.

Hey, here's something to think of from your uncle Shou - mebbe the mob are after us because they are doing something illegal and we're too much of a bunch of powered goodies getting in their way.

...Fuck, what a bad month it's been. I think I'm going to drown myself and mebbe get some sleep at the same time.

[ and have a salute before the feed goes dead. for anyone he talks to regularly, he had an emergency in the family and had jetted off to Japan. he might have messaged a couple people but when in a rush, it may not have gone through completely. feel free to yell at him about it. ]

Comments

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[youngestone]

[This face]

You're bad at letting people know when you're heading off, dude, and this is coming from me.

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[ursoreckless]

I didn't have that much time. I had to catch a flight ASAP.

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[youngestone]

Family issues or something?

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[charcoalfeather]

This month really hasn't been any good. I wonder if it'll get any worse.

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[ursoreckless]

It probably will. It isn't like we're normal even on the best days.

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[charcoalfeather]

Mmmmm....

[She does not like the sound of that.]

I was hoping things would get better, but with the mobs now, and everyone disappearing I just don't know.

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[scramasax]

[Fringed with an unhappy laugh.] Why would anyone -- think... anything else...? Why - else would the mob be after us, it's -- does anyone ac - actually think it's -- ...a sign it's wrong of us not - not to be... more... hidden...?

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[ursoreckless]

I think that coming out has more of a negative impact on our side than staying hidden. At least we weren't being gossiped about or worshiped or whatever.

[Video]

[scramasax]

-- But pe-people can't live like that, though -- not... -- for that long...

[Bad month, indeed, and for him it's apparently devolved into a month of babbling and word vomit, but good heavens, that huffs out husky, he did not realize how much he was hoping they could triumphantly charge on ahead into a change until things escalated the way they recently have.]

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[siesinddasessen]

So you've started to get more involved recently, from what I've heard.

[Not specifying with what, but it should be fairly obvious between the two of them.]

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[ursoreckless]

I've got that choice, yeah. It's coming naturally but I'm not sure how much I really want to get involved with. My other, I think he didn't care much for most of the Organizations but had to play nice anyways.

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[siesinddasessen]

And you'll follow in his footsteps just like that?

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[brotimaeus]

Hey, Shou.

[He returns the salute with a cocky half-smile that doesn't quite last as long as it should.]

Reckon I saw a movie like that once.

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[ursoreckless]

I'm hoping other people seen it too, otherwise I'd feel pretty dumb about it.

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[brotimaeus]

Only every action movie ever, I reckon.

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[gobybessie]

I was thinking the exact same thing. It was only a matter of time.

[Voice]

[ursoreckless]

Time's not one of the things we can get on our side either. We're gonna hafta start doing something a bit more proactive.

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[gobybessie]

Plenty have talked about making our voices known in the media. Not much has happened on that front.

It's hard to tell if it would do more harm than good, but I'd like to say it's better than being quiet.

[ Which is a little hypocritical of him since he doesn't want his face out there but. You know.

Shh. ]

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[chalicejoker]

Nice to see you're still alive.

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[ursoreckless]

It takes a little more than a couple threats to do anything to me.

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[chalicejoker]

Could have been something other than a threat; you could have taken the fight to those mob guys yourself without backup.

[Because if Shou does something crazy like that, the Lord of the Bugmen wants to come.]

[ghostly_heiress]

Welcome back.

It does seem weird that people are surprised that these sort of things are happening.

[ursoreckless]

Thanks.

It does, doesn't it? Haven't we've been told from the beginning that this will happen over and over again?

Voice.

[flamberge]

More than likely, regarding your assertion of the mafia. No self-respecting bad guy would quietly sit back and do nothing with superheroes running around.

[If only the mafia wasn't self-respecting. If only.]

Voice.

[ursoreckless]

Eh, they're just as much as a business as anything else in this world. They just don't beat around a bush when it comes to weeding out competition.