The "Ask Characters Questions" Meme!

[prettycoolguy]

Okay guys, this is pretty simple but should be fun, and give us all something to do as we wait for things to happen as plot to progresses.

Post your character, and people can ask them things ICly or OOCly, as themselves or as their characters.

For example, "Hey Chief, what do you think of [x]?" or "Hey Zita, what does Chief think of [x]?"

Characters do not strictly have to answer honestly, but it's more fun (and more funny) if you make them!

Other than that, go nuts and have fun!

Comments

[imperious_lex]

Bullshit. And you know it.

I really don't see much of a difference between so called "superheroes" and "supervillains". Never have. You all just jackasses with superpowers who dress in outlandish costumes and do whatever the fuck you feel like doing, laws be damned. Only you heroes are far more pretentious about it.

All of you, all of your games, nothing but a massive Stand Alone Complex.

You don't give a rats ass what people what, or what they need. You just get a nice little high by being a savior or the person who dooms them.

I have singlehandedly lifted entire third world nations out of poverty. Has your Superman ever done that? I've caused crime rates to drop in half by opening up new plants and employing neighborhoods. What has Batman done lately?

You want to know why people build death rays? Because military application is where all the big money is. No one else can afford to do that kind of research. Saving lives is expensive; it's far harder to make something that's reasonably safe for everyone, hence why medical and commercial applications come later. But if you're denied that first step, because it disagrees with your sensibilities, then you derail the whole process.

If you had it your way, we would've never developed the nuclear bomb, and thus we wouldn't have invented the nuclear power plants that keep society up and running, we wouldn't have chemotherapy and radiation cancer treatments, and we wouldn't be on the verge of completely clean nuclear power like we are now.

Next time you destroy a death ray, think about all the people whose lives won't be better off twenty, thirty, or forty years from now.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

You're a fucking moron. You're a genius, but you're also a fucking moron.

People don't build deathrays to save lives. If they did, they wouldn't say "Give me fifty billion dollars so I can go buy my own private island near Tahiti or I'll blow up Metropolis."

What has Batman done lately? You wanna compare the crime rate in Gotham now and compare it to what it was before he showed up? What have we done lately? Made sure the world still exists because megalomaniacs don't care what happens to it or the people on it as long as they get what they want, and without us in the way, they'd just do it. Made sure the world wasn't enslaved by aliens, and that the sun wasn't extinguished. Something, Luthor, for all his genius, couldn't figure out how to do--it was something someone died to do.

I don't care about nuclear bombs if they're not being used on innocent people. I don't care about politics if people aren't massacring little kids for being the wrong ethnic group. I care about making people safe, because yeah, it does feel good, but it also hurts when they die, because even if I don't like people sometimes, it's RIGHT that they're not torched by some nutcase for being on the wrong street at the wrong time when some asshole tries to knock over a bank with a death beam.

As for pulling countries out of poverty, that's great. Really, that is. I wish I had more time to do that kinda stuff. But we're all a little too busy making sure the world still EXISTS at the end of every week.

The next time I destroy a death ray, what I'm going to think about is the fact that I'm five years old. I'm five freakin' years old. Because I'm gonna go back home and destroy the tower that's going to destroy whole worlds if it's not blown up, because a Luthor thinks everyone in whole worlds have no right to exist. A giant horrible world-eating death monster from beyond the edges of time ate up a bunch of worlds and a Luthor's decided he has the right to cause whole worlds to live and die to get the world he wants to live in, that people on worlds and worlds deserve to die when they weren't the ones that destroyed his world.

Somehow I'm five and I know it's wrong to destroy whole worlds.

That's what I'm going to think about the next time I destroy a death machine. Right before it kills me. And now I know I'm coming back, somehow, but if I hadn't gotten pulled here? I wouldn't have known and I'd have done it anyway, if it meant the world could go on. Even though dying even temporarily scares the crap out of me anyway.

But I guess I should be thinking, instead, about all the people whose lives won't be better of twenty, thirty, or forty years from now--oh wait, if I don't do it, they'll all be dead.

[imperious_lex]

And again, in all of that, you are missing the fucking point... but I suppose that's what I get for dealing with a five year old.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

No, you're missing the point.

We would LOVE to be able to not be needed. We would love to be able to give people the kinda tech they need to take out supervillains on their own.

But 1) Everytime that happens, the government uses it to hurt us when we're still in the middle of fighting the bad guys (I mean, the least they could do is use it on the villains FIRST, come on)

And 2) we're too busy fighting bad guys for our genius people to help the other non-hero genius people come up with all the fixes everyone needs.

And for all that people like you go on about how we make it so normal people have to wait on people in gaudy costumes to save them, why the hell then are the normal people creating people in gaudy costumes? The US government created me, moron. Normal, non-powered people created me. Another mook in tights.

My world's Lex Luthor created me.

The only thing you could actually say that'd make me not think you're an idiot, is that you wouldn't be stupid enough to "give humanity the tools to save themselves" by creating another superhuman.

[imperious_lex]

If we're being honest, you weren't created to be a "hero". You were created to be a biological weapon. A tool. Something to be used over and over and over again. No different than a gun or a tank, really.

And... do you even know what a Stand Alone Complex is?

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Except for the whole part where I'm a person.

Rob explained it to me once. It's like...when people copycat stuff. Sometimes when no one starts it.

In which case, bring it up with the supervillains, giving each other ideas, and they did start it.

[imperious_lex]

And you think you superheroes don't contribute to it?

All the drama, suspense, theatrics, and fame involved in the hero/villain fights. You think people don't want to be a part of that one way or another?

You should see the statistics for crimes involving costumed individuals in Gotham. It was non-existent before Batman, now it's a thirty-times a day regularity. Some want to be him, some want to be the guy who fights him.

Heroes breed villains breed heroes breed villains. It's all one big circle jerk. Blame one side all you want, but your life itself is proof of it.

No one would try to clone a superboy they could control if there was no uncontrollable, unaccountable, incredibly powerful superman running around, after all. Would they?

How many people have died just because the Joker specifically wanted to get Batman's attention? How many times have you heroes screwed up while trying to save the day and ended up creating your own nemesis? How many people have died trying to give themselves powers so they can be like you?

You assholes aren't the solution. Much like the villains out there, you're part of the problem.

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Because megalomaniac nutcases that hurt innocent people while trying to hurt us don't contribute to the problem at all. Don't pretend you're not a part of it. You keep the wheels spinning in place just as much as everyone else.

And yeah, we screw up, yeah, we sometimes make things worse, but do you wanna go take my place in saving the world?

Since I'm part of the problem and all, how about I step back and let you handle the insane Kryptonian from another dimension that isn't even affected by our dimension's k-rock OR magic, and the equally insane anti-matter-powered Luthor that built a giant apocalypse machine out of the corpse of an extra-dimensional being. I'm totally unecessary and part of the problem, right? So I'll go chill out at the beach while you take care of it, since my getting involved makes it worse.

I'm sure you can handle that just fine on your own, dad.