View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
To Glam's continued delight, more kissing sessions happen on the following days (when they're feeling like a boy). They haven't met her parents as her official boyfriend or girlfriend or whatever yet, and don't mind it too much.
News about Purity's escape surprises exactly no one, but the Protectorate's reputation suffers a blow because of the attack; after all, the heroes were beaten on their home turf. The PHO forums are abuzz, though rumors of Glam's death at the hands of Hookwolf (probably started by same) prove largely unfounded.
And Glam really should get to their webisodes and start building a steadier rep. And that's (one of the reasons) why they're in Lorica's workshop a few days later.
"So what should I do? I haven't posted anything since Purity, should probably make this more of a habit."
"Didn't you have a plan scheduled? Leviathan footage, there's Behemoth footage now, interspersed with more show-and-tell kind of stuff."
"Not a plan, more like a list of things? And I'm thinking those two should maybe be used so I could exemplify the gun I'm about to show them, and then I show them the gun and it shoots stuff. Oooh, aah, such an impressive, except it needs upgrades, yadda yadda, it gets stronger over time."
"Mmhm. Right. Can Legend's lasers disintegrate a fake boat wreck? Or, a single beam, perhaps if they fork he can."
"Right," they sigh. "It's mostly 'cause my laser wasn't doing significantly more damage than he was, against Behemoth, and I don't know what an equivalent amount of damage to a boat wreck would be."
"Just disintegrate it instantly, you can't get much better than that. Say it's new since the Behemoth fight."
"Won't that be too unbelievable, though? I mean, if people know that I can conjure giant boat wrecks it wouldn't be unthinkable of me to fake it for nefarious reasons."
"Hmmm. Okay. Cut the wreck neatly in half. Aim for laceration instead of drilling next time."
"Oooh, yes, laceration's fun. And if I make it a really neat thin-looking laser with appropriate noise effects... Hmm, by the way, how do we deal with that part of it? The no-one-pays-attention-during-Endbringer-f
"It's - not something you've got a lot of flex on. We're already flirting with official reprimand about chatter. I wonder if you could get civilian help? They're as good as capes expectation-wise - I'm assuming - and you've got more leeway to warn them about things like 'cover your ears' or 'don't look directly at the beam' or whatever cover you have that day."
"But most civilians are pretty busy trying to get to shelter or actually in a shelter, I'm not sure they'd spare any more attention than capes do."
"Yeah. And there's all kinds of restrictions about live feeds of Endbringer fights, they're considered demoralizing, and it's absolutely out of the question for Simurgh fights not that this matters for your purposes..."
"I mean, maybe the best way to do it is to actually become as notorious as Eidolon so that people actually do recognize me and do expect me to do incredible stuff."
Pause. "Famous? Uh, what's a word that means what I mean? Well-known for my ability to kick butt and take names?"
"Respected? I don't know if there's a single word that's exactly it."
"Well. Anyway, yeah, be that. I wonder if the best idea mightn't be actually staying in the Protectorate and working up the ranks."
"Mmhm. Well, the way to achieve such status would be actually doing status-worthy things. Helping catch Purity certainly didn't hurt, but she's too local. I'd need to do something really incredible, like taking out the Nine or something like that. That would definitely bring me up there in—we really need a word for that."
"Notorious isn't, because it means you're famously bad, but notoriety doesn't have that connotation."
