MoM IC Contact

[khajidont]

Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...

"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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[khajidont]

So you've tried it?

Besides the type of insults I was thinking about aren't exactly the know your place kind

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[rathercommon]

Of COURSE I've tried it. That's how you SURVIVE where I'm from. Bad things happen to mouthy commoners. Not infrequently to non-mouthy ones, too.

Anyway, what were you thinking, then, 'you're stupid and smell bad'?

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[khajidont]

Something like that! I mean you could go meaner but I was thinking more about what you look like and how you act than what you are

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[rathercommon]

OK so your superpower is to have specific reactions to specific SORTS of insults.

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[khajidont]

I'll get back to you on that one. I need to do some more rigid testing. Maybe walk through a few dark alleys and see what kinds of responses I get

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[rathercommon]

UGH, please don't walk through dark alleys. I really feel like you aren't equipped for dark alleys. If you've got to do that, at LEAST wait for me to come back so I can watch your back.

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[khajidont]

[Oh! Oh, that's funny. It makes him smile.]

It was a joke!

Besides you're going to hurt my fragile ego. I can handle myself at least a LITTLE.

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[rathercommon]

Yeah I know you CAN. You're decently tough. But that doesn't mean you WILL. You're terribly gentle.

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[khajidont]

Oh. Well I don't really like hurting people if that's what you mean by gentle but if someone threw a punch at me I'd totally hit them back

[...and try talking to them during and/or after, but po-tay-to-, po-tah-to.]

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[rathercommon]

Uh huh. And then as soon as they were down, you'd apologise and try to convince them that they really don't want to fight you, don't you just want to go and get milkshakes together? And understand one another?

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[khajidont]

The important part is that they would be down first!

Besides I wouldn't ask someone out for milkshakes after beating them up. That'd just be silly

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[rathercommon]

More of a milk-and-cookies man, are you?

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[khajidont]

Oh ha ha

I just like to know why people have an issue with me when they do! That's not so weird. Unless it's the wanting my wallet sort of issue at which point something's gone kinda wrong with them

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[rathercommon]

Like, wrong with their life, or like, they're in the wrong?

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[khajidont]

Well I mean they're pretty in the wrong for trying to mug people but I meant the first one

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[rathercommon]

I guess I should have counted on you to have meant the first one.

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[khajidont]

True. But you're more gung ho than I am about that sort of thing. I bet you could pull out one heck of a lecture

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[rathercommon]

What, telling a mugger he oughtn't go out mugging?

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[khajidont]

Or something like that

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[rathercommon]

Oh, I don't know about that one. I can't say that I LOVE it when people fall into that sort of thing, but...I don't think I've necessarily got a right to judge, either.

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[khajidont]

I dunno if someone's literally mugging you I think you've got pretty good grounds for judgment

You don't have to have led a perfect life to see when someone else is screwing up

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[rathercommon]

Well, yeah...I don't know! The people who are doing the mugging typically aren't the absolutely most destitute of the poor, but they're very often not in a good position, are they. It's why I'm not very fond of the whole anti-crime crusade so many of us have got going on - crime very often comes from desperation, not wickedness.

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[khajidont]

Okay yeah but you're not about to be like oh no you're desperate, please, punch me in the face and take my wallet

If anything else it's better to talk to someone who DOES understand who can tell you to knock it off than someone who will just beat the crap out of you in return

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[rathercommon]

Yeah, that's true. GOD, sometimes that makes me so angry, honestly. The people who go around using their powers to stop locals' crimes. I mean, the ones who just try to talk them down, they're fine, but the people who DO beat them up...

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[khajidont]

They should follow the same rules as the cops. Or as the cops should follow. You step in if you think someone else is in danger but if they aren't then you go for talking. It's only after that that you actually need to take someone down

And I mean I think that people would be a lot more willing to accept advice from people who talk first yknow?

[She's going to learn the truth soon enough, and all those headlines about "Blue Beetle Talks Down Gang, Gang Joins Fanclub" and "Blue Beetle Suggests: "Have You Tried Talking?" will make a whole lot of sense.]