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In which Z-Team (and the SDN office in general) notices that the new dispatcher looks like someone took him apart with a box cutter and put him back together at some point. They have follow-up questions. AKA: Robert’s scars get the team talking about the high cost of being a hero and what it means to be one.
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- Part 7 of Dispatching, Depression, & Donuts
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In which there are stares, speculation, and a conversation.
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>..."And if it gives ‘em any kinda scope for the thankless fuckin’ work this can be—” he pauses— “Sorry, lass. That’s my raincloud to manage. Don’t mean to disparage.”
>“I take no offense,” Terror says blithely, “After my creation, as it was, superheroing was my only path for dignity and freedom in society. While I am grateful to have it, I do resent the road for its singularity. I hope that, upon completion of the Phoenix Program, you find yourself with more options than I ever did.” She says, more directly, “I hope you do not do this work at all.”
>Punch Up, startled at this declaration, turns to look at her. “I’m… surprised to hear ya say so.”
>Terror doesn’t have the facial features to emote, so she pushes a laugh through the vocalizer. “Not all heroes are like Blazer or Starry Night or—” she casts about— “that Mecha Man fellow and his dead family. Such an honor, they say, to bleed for the world that will turn on you when there is no more blood to get from that stone.”
>Punch Up is staring now.
>Terrordactyl tilts her head. “But, as you said, the rain clouds we manage and such.”