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Topaz fights crime
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The kid grins at her.

"I know how you feel. I'm Kid Flash, by the way, since you're not from around here."

He sticks out a hand.

"Have you got a nom héroïque?"

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She nabs that power and reflexively reaches out her hand to shake his.

...Would it be okay? 

"Not yet! I just got this power, but if you're looking for something to call me... 'Topaz' is a name I've always been fond of the thought of bearing." 

It's a little endearing how enthusiatic he is, even if he's a bit much. 

 

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A second spark blooms to life inside her, and with it comes the impression that she's half-full. The two sparks don't seem to like each other much, and settle in a wide orbit around each other.

... and yes, she's suddenly pretty sure that Kid Flash wouldn't have a negative reaction if her appearance started to change.

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"Topaz ... Oh, like the color of your beams?" Kid Flash — who, despite his excellent chemistry grades, has somehow come to the conclusion that topazes are all blue, through no fault of the American educational system — asks.

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She chuckles faintly. 

"You would think! But no, I've... always aspired to be a magical girl." 

She grins soft and shy, and plops in the 'born with androgen insensitivity illusion' power. She'll get something better figured out later - she's got so many ideas for how she's supposed to look - all leggy, tall and elegant, with cerulean blue hair and bombshell curves, or a body that's a little more modest and genki girly and a few embarrassing flickering little thoughts about what she'd want to do with her genitals, but... this should get the message across. Could she get a power that makes her body shift towards the body the illusion is showing, or something else she has in mind? 

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When this spark blooms, it ends up orbiting closely with the previous power, and she gets the feeling that she could push them and make them snap together.

And yes! She can get a slow regeneration power that shapes her body toward a particular mental image. It would have to be pretty slow to avoid being too 'big', though.

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"Oh!"

Kid Flash's eyes widen, and then he gets a look of understanding.

"Shapeshifter — gotcha! That's why you don't have a ..."

He makes a vague gesture at his own mask.

"Well, I guess you're just all around pretty, then, not just pretty on top of things, yeah?"

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A little chortle spills out from her lips at that, her hand slipping up to cover her lips. He's so clumsy but it's kind of adorable and it just makes her ears glow pink with pride at being flirted clumsily as a girl. As a girl! 

Her lips curl up into a faintly giddy smile. 

"I don't think I'll need one, no. But I think you misunderstood - I just... randomly appeared here, got some pick your poison superpowers, and bam! There you were, fighting the" presumably "good fight!" 

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"Wait, really? Justaminute—"

He blurs away and then reappears a few seconds later with The Flash in tow.

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He holds out a hand, apparently not self-conscious in the least about greeting people while wearing a skin-tight red suit with weird little lightning-helmet-antenna things.

"Hi, Topaz. It's good to meet you. Kid Flash was telling me you just appeared here — do you remember where you were before this?"

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Oh and she nabs the idealized mental image regeneration power, slotting in the less ambitious genki bluenette look to work on the background. Can't forget that! 

She reaches out her hand to shake his. He's presumably the guy in charge of Kid Flash and the metahuman response, here, so no reason not to be polite and accomodating.

"It's good to meet you too!"

"I remember where I was - I was in my bedroom at home, in a whole other universe where I'm pretty sure none of this" she glances around a bit timidly, gazing pointedly at the two of them. "could normally have happened. So unfortunately, that's probably not too helpful for you?" 

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This power likes the most recent two, and they end up twirling in a tight dance, the ice-melting power forming a distant counterweight. She also gets a feeling something like fullness, and something like her mysterious partner relaxing into the background.

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The Flash slumps a little.

"Ah, shoot. Those ones are always tricky."

He glances over at Captain Cold to check that he's still bound.

"We have to wait for the police for a few minutes, but after that I can take you to a friend of mine with good scanning equipment, and he can see whether there's any hints as to how you got here, if you'd like."

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She hums, and pokes at the sense of the power discarding function. Is there anything she needs to worry about, there? 

"That's probably a good idea, at least for thoroughness sake."  

She glances down a little. 

"Do you have any advice for how I can stay on top of things, if there isn't an obvious resolution to all this after the scans? I've got a powerset that'll probably take a good bit of explaining that I'm sure can be put to plenty of use, but it's not like I have immigration papers, given how I ended up here." 

 

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There is a nuance to it, but it's not one that affects her right now. She can push any of these four powers away if she wants to.

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"The government technically has a special visa for superpowered individuals, but, uh, it's probably better to establish a separate civilian identity," Flash advises. "Batman can help with that, too."

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The man in the parka manages to get a hand free, somehow.

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"Ah, shoot. Kid Flash, can you fill her in on stuff while I—"

And then he's gone again, bearing parka-man back to the ground.

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Kid Flash thinks for a moment.

"So, like, are you a Junior? Senior? Batman will probably want you to finish High School in your cover identity or test for a GED, since he's all serious like that."

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Okay, let's get rid of the anti-ice power and... sure might as well keep the transformation information one, since it's networked in, somehow?  She's really got to sit down and figure out what this power does, sometime.

"Oh - I've been through high school already? I was about to go into university, back home."

She shakes her head lightly, then hums lightly. 

"I guess things probably aren't too different, given that we're speaking the same language, somehow? But I have to imagine superpowers have changed things a good deal. That alone will be plenty for me to study, really." 

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The spark pops free, drifting away and out of her awareness.

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He rubs the back of his head.

"Whaw. I guess they'll probably want you to do a GED, then — even if you've already graduated, it's easier to slip in a test record than it is to slip in an issued diploma, Robin says. Something about how diplomas are cross-referenced by the State department ..."

"Oh! Robin is Batman's partner, like I'm the Flash's partner. He's like a hackery-acrobaty sort of fighter."

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She nods along. They sound like they're sort of... extraterroritorial paramilitary people, but also sort of half government-entwined people? It sounds like it's going to be a headachey to figure out, at any rate. 

"Interesting! Is there some sort of superhero guild that you're doing your apprenticeships under, or is it some other arrangement?" 

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Kid Flash looks thoughtful.

"I hadn't really thought of it like that, but I guess the Justice League is sort of like a guild. Although I tend to just work with Flash, and sometimes Robin and Batman. I think I've met Superman, like, once. During this big tornado thing. It's all pretty informal, honestly."

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She blinks a little, before nodding along. 

"So it's just that there's more senior people in the league who happen to be your personal mentors, then? I suppose powers means that things are a lot less universal there than they'd be otherwise." 

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