HQ: The 'Ready Lounge'

[Rhialto]

Maddy glances at her. "Wow. You've achieved the maximum effect--your codename sounds like a car model." She spreads her hands. "And now, from GM the 2007 Nimbus!" She chuckles and looks at her again. "Did you choose that one? Or did it get inflicted on you? 'Cause if it was, and you have any dreams of incredible vengeance, I'd be happy to help you out. Somewhere out there, there's a journalist with an amazing amount of pain in store for him. I have no problems with adding another one to my list."

[sblock=OOC]Please don't take any of this the wrong way. Madeline is a superhero largely because she really can't think of anything else to do. (At least, that pays as well.) Thus her attitude towards the business is--questionable. Add to that a bit of hubris from her powers, and a lifetime of bitterness, and the results are--unpleasant at times.

It's her! Not me! I like you all![/sblock]

 

[Nimbus]

She just sits there through Maddy's ridicule, that faint smile staying on her face through it. Once the girl is done, she replies "Actually, I picked it out myself. Some of us actually like what we do. But... I'm happy making fun of it makes you feel better." Normally, one would expect that last sentence to be dripping with sarcasm. Nimbus somehow manages remove any insincerity from it, as if she actually is happy to serve that function.

After all, it's just a name.

 

[Rhialto]

"Hey, I like the 'beating things up' part. It's the 'being called something stupid' part I mind." She frowns. "And the costumes. And the monologues. And the "getting hit by ray guns". That last bit's really annoying."

 

[Victor_Von]

Gus continues to smile. He thinks he likes this girl, full of bravado and sarcasm. She reminds him a little bit of someone.

"I am... not exactly human, Maddy. But you are right, is hard making friends."

"Strong and hard to hurt is good. You got good deal."

EDIT: Replaced "person" with "human." Gus is very aware of the difference between those two words.

 

[Rhialto]

Maddy glances at him, worried. "What do you mean by--not exactly...a human...?"

 

[Victor_Von]

Gus sits down, looking a little tired. It's obviously something he's explained before.

"Well, I am... bad dream. Former. Boogeyman is popular term. Was made to scare. I have young friend, though, who does not scare. She taught me that perhaps is better way. Better reason for scaring, worse people to scare."

"Is making sense?"

 

[Rhialto]

Maddy nods, eyes widening. "Um, yep. Perfect sense. Totally and completely get you, man. You're a boogeyman. Yep. Got it." Glancing at the other members, Maddy idly points at her temple and twirls her finger, while rolling her eyes around in her head.

 

[Victor_Von]

Gus grins. He seems happy to have someone questioning him.

"Is interesting problem. I can prove with... native abilities... but can be dismissed as super power, like everyone else's."

He gestures to the others in the room, then shrugs.

"Is not important. Perhaps you believe later, perhaps I am merely freak."

Then he frowns slightly, as though something has just occurred to him.

"If I was ugly human, though, your words might have hurt me. Should be careful, yes?"

 

[Velmont]

Patrick finish to work on his PDA and put it back in his pocket. "I agree, these costume looks like they have been taken out of one of those fifty comics I used to take in my old brother's collection. I prefer the old shirt and trenchcoat." he tells showing what he is wearing. "Sadly, when I go to mission, I must put that too."

The man stands up. His red and grey hairs and his visage let guess the man is in the late fifty. Giving his hand to Maddy "Sergeant Patrick O'Connor. If you want to stick to codename, call me Sergeant, but Patrick can do too."

After he has shaken his hand, he sits down and takes a sip of his glass of whiskey before he grab teh newspaper. "Oh, I can tell I am the only perfectly mundane human in this room." He then open the newspaper to the economic section. "Oh great, the last earthquake in Los Angeles have striken some business I had stock in. I'll need to talk with my financial advisor."

 

[Rhialto]

Maddy grins to Gus's comments--and suddenly starts to glow a dull purple. "Yeah, but like I said--I'm nearly impossible to hurt. So I can pretty much give my mouth free reign." She listens to Sergeant O'Connor's speech, and blinks. "Damn, you're just a norm, and you signed up for this?" She shudders. "Sucks to be you, I guess."