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Isn't that what all the superhero-types do? I thought superpowers and magic were essentially the same thing at first, but they're really different. All those superheroes - they either outrun bullets or have them bounce harmlessly off. Or melt them with their brains. It's all QUITE gaudy.

Okay A: don't ever test that theory out on me because aside from not being a superhero I'm not bulletproof and if I get shot I'll bleed a lot and possibly die

[Not a total lie; if someone shoots him in the head while he's out of uniform, he's shit out of luck.]

But where I'm from a bunch of superheroes don't actually have superpowers. They're just regular people who decided to train a lot and put on masks and you know

Do their thing

Well, it's an AWFULLY good thing you've warned me about that, because as you well know I've an awful habit of just shooting my friends at random. Anyway, I'm obviously not counting the ones who are like that, am I, since we haven't got any of them here.

You don't know that! We might have a bunch of import superheroes that aren't immune to bullets. They might have gotten the power of I dunno

Shooting perfume out of their hands

Jaime, you know that this is the weirdest bloody thing to fight me on. Obviously not everyone can stop bullets, I was being facetious.

I'm positive people have fought you about weirder

[AT LEAST THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT HIM BEING A SUPERHERO ANYMORE]

Stupider, yeah, weirder, not really. I suppose it depends on what 'weird' means, exactly. Is it because you actually CAN stop bullets? Is this why you're stuck on it?

I already said I can't! It's just cause I mean

I'm from like one of three worlds that actually has superheroes? And people talk about them all the time without actually knowing how it goes in worlds like mine that's all

Ohhhhhhhh, so you're trying to EDUCATE me.

Hey, I can do it too you know.

What's that supposed to mean, 'too'? Do you mean you can do it in addition to your other skills?

No actually. I was talking about you.

? What, have I been educating you without being aware of it?

I'm pretty sure you try and educate EVERYONE

Wait, hold on. I was joking before, but...I try to educate them about WHAT?

Uhhh everything?

Kitty I mean this in a nice way but practically every time you talk to anyone it turns into why society sucks and how more people should fix it

Because that's TRUE. It IS rotten and more people SHOULD help.

See?

See what! All I'm doing is telling the truth.

And you don't think that that's what educating means?

No. I don't know! I don't know how I can be EDUCATING when I don't even feel like I know any bloody thing, most of the time.

[...could've tricked him, Kitty.]

Oh I don't know about that. You JUST told me that what you were saying was the truth and you seem pretty confident about that like ninety percent of the time. You don't have to know everything to educate someone

I mean I'm pretty sure a lot of my teachers have known zip but they still gave me a decent education about some things

Well, OK, I know how bloody awful it is to grow up poor and spat-on, I got a GOOD education in that. So yeah I know THAT part is the truth. With GREAT confidence. But the rest of everything, I'm just trying to feel my way towards something that might be right. And trying to feel my way there when I'm more in the dark than most of the people I'm 'educating.' I mean, I don't think there are many people who take a look at me and think, oh, yeah, right there, that's a girl who knows what she's on about. I think most of them just see some guttersnipe, don't they. YOU come across as respectable, YOU can get away with that sort of thing.

Edited 2015-07-17 05:27 (UTC)

Wait you think they'd listen to ME instead? I can't make half the speeches you can Kitty.

Look [...and he can't believe he's saying this.] I think you're underestimating how much someone who really cares about what they're talking about can convince people. You don't need to know everything to get other people to really listen and respect you. Who here's called you a guttersnipe anyway?

[ She chews her lip. And, after a moment, she admits: ]

No one. It just feels like they're thinking it.

[ Which...Writing that out makes her wonder if she's not just projecting. Because she really hasn't been treated badly - not for her background, anyway. And her assumption's always been that it's because she's always been decently good at acting like she's from some better background than she actually is, but what if it's really just because it doesn't matter? What if it really doesn't matter that she's unschooled? Would they just listen to her anyway if her ideas were good?

She doesn't know. Which frustrates her. Because Jaime seems so certain, and she feels so doubtful. And she hasn't got any reason to doubt. Which means she probably hasn't shaken off as much of her society's brainwashing as she thought she had. Still a commoner on the inside. ]

You're underestimating yourself, too, you know. People would listen to you. They already do, honestly. Your friends are RIDICULOUSLY loyal.

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