savetheearth | [video] what can i say, his powers finally went to his head

[Time for a phone selfie video! I hope you like this kinda-shaky view of Danny from the shoulders up as he sits on his bed.]

Okay, so I got asked to check out the new mountain that popped up in Vegas--see if anything's in there that we ought to know about. Well...the answer's no.

[The camera shakes for a moment and when it stabilizes, Danny has a hand pressed up against the side of his head and grimacing as though he's got a bad headache.]

The place is totally empty. I didn't find anything--except for a couple of old bodies, which, uh, ew. Anyway, I don't know how much that helps, but...there you go, I guess. If that matters to--[the video shifts and looks up at where the wall and ceiling of Danny's bedroom meet.]

Hang on, I don't--why am I--Ahh!!

[There's a dull thud noise, and then silence for a few moments. Danny's hand passes over the video a few times, trying to grasp at the phone but failing. When he talks, his voice suddenly sounds very far away.]

Okay, uhhh. Change of plans. Can somebody come over here and help me find myself?

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Has Alan ever had to roll his head across a floor by the force of his smilechubbing?

A couple of times, sure.

You can't see it, but I'm trying to give you a really skeptical look.

We did a lot of weird things in Vegas, okay! Did you know that there is basically nothing that Vegasian hobos won't place bets on?

Oh my god, you--I really want to facepalm but I can't. How are you--what did you bet? Why were you betting with Vegas hobos in the first place?

Same reason we got married and had tattoos done with Wally! We're awesome.

And also we were majorly drunk I guess but the awesome thing is more important. And you can't judge, fuckstick! You are currently headless and hanging with dustbunnies. Your life. Your choices.

I didn't choose to have my head fall off and roll into a corner!

Maybe not directly, sure. But! Your choices led to the point where your head fell off and rolled into a corner. We are all responsible for keeping a firm hold on our own body parts, Danny!

No one else can lose their own body parts!

I didn't even know I could until just now.

Then you have learned something today! Something about yourself, and about life. You should be very proud.

Why would I be proud of this?

Because. Because you should take pride in everything you do. Duh.

Everything?

Even the bad stuff?

Obviously! It is all about being confident and sure of yourself. Which are qualities that all heroes should have! A true hero embraces all the bad shit as part of themselves because it is just a small part of the big wedge of junk that makes them who they are.

Duh.

....really?

I didn't think about it that way before.

I used to get hung up on that shit too! But then I remembered Vriska making this really cool speech about how you don't have to be a good person to be a hero and it all made hells of sense.

She did some super deplorable shit, but it was all to save multiple universes from Lord English! So that is kind of a super exaggerated version of what I mean. Embrace the bad shit! Own it.

[This is not a view Danny has ever considered himself. But he has to admit...being responsible for over 100 peoples' deaths, it is very appealing.

Still, he has trouble wrapping his head around it.

Which might be because his head is halfway across the room right now.]

So it's like...it's okay if you do bad stuff, so long as the good stuff at the end outweighs the bad?

Exactly! It is all about balance. Like I bet Hitler petted kittens and that didn't make him a good person! And the same goes for the other way around. Even heroes can do bad stuff once in a while!

Well...

I guess that makes sense. Especially with how crappy things seem to get for us sometimes.

[much as he doesn't want to trivialize anyone's deaths, it makes him feel a lot better about essentially being a murderer. Surely, by Tavia's logic, he's helped enough people as Cure Phantom to more than balance that out by now, right?

meanwhile, he is pondering morality while his head continues to gather dust in a corner of his bedroom.]

Of course it makes sense. I am the ultimate expert on this stuff! You are so welcome.

I'll keep it in mind next time something terrible happens.

[he's trying to be good-humored about it, but maybe it doesn't come across so well without his facial expression there to make it obvious.]

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