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[checkoutmyttk]

Arrival: For Korra

[Kon wakes up the second his body hits the water and it takes him entirely too long to process the fact that yes, he is now somehow submerged in a body of water, and no, he had not been flying over a body of water at all. This is what he gets for flying into swirly vortexes in the sky instead of calling for back up. It is not the first time he's woken up without a clue as to how he got somewhere and it won't be the last, but that doesn't make it any less disconcerting. Even more disconcerting however is that he is just realizing that he is not alone in the water. That is definitely an elbow pressing into his stomach and a knee digging into his side. He blinks stupidly for a second and attempts to disentangle himself from the person (girl???) he'd apparently run into when something else in the water catches his eye.

Something large and not at all man made and heading right towards them and—NO THANK YOU. Kon has seen this movie and he is out of the water and hovering in the air so fast he doesn't even have time to say hello to the (definitely a) girl in his arms who he takes with him without a thought. Chivalry is not leaving ladies behind to be eaten by giant...things.]

What'd, I fall asleep and crash into the set of Jaws 5?!


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-at is this, like some fancy gadget Robin would—oh hey, is it on? [A face leans into the camera giving everyone a very nice view of a teenage boy with one very stylish fadecut and (one) pierced ear looking like he just walked out of a nineties music video. He steps back when he's sure it's on, eyebrows furrowed for a second before his expression slips into a searching frown.]

Okay so, seeing as there are giant living moving tentacled rock monsters in the ocean, I'm guessing I'm not in Kansas anymore. [Kon's hilarious and would explain the joke to everyone if it wouldn't completely out Superman's identity. Clark ruins all of his fun.] Does anyone know exactly what planet we're on? And what's the deal with this Ursula chick because if she's anything like the one with the tentacles from the movie, I'm not really feeling the trusting her thing. Why does everything here have tentacles...?

I've got about a million questions about what the hell's going on here. Anyone care to fill me in?

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[checkoutmyttk]

[He takes all of that in with a frown, not liking any of it but not seeing a better alternative. If there were predators up on the land, that'd cause a lot of problems for people who couldn't defend themselves.] I think I'll take you up on that tour later.

[For now his thoughts are stalled elsewhere.]

I talked to a girl who said she was working on creating the island and doing some stuff with the base. Is that what you're talking about? [He doesn't know the details, he just knows she wanted to fix things with the design. His brain automatically filters out nerd talk.]

'Cause if hurricanes happen often, I'd definitely like to get on that whole reinforcing thing sooner rather than later. We're a bunch of sitting ducks here. Glass ducks even. [Oh yeah.] I'm Superboy. You can call me Kon.

[gnasher]

[ok we're gonna have to hold up for a minute on the plot talk]

-- Did you say Superboy? Is that your afterschool club nickname or something?

[checkoutmyttk]

[Kon's eyebrow twitches and he glares at the screen. This is going to get so old.]

No, it's my title. As in superhero name, because that's what I am. Don't any of you people have Superman in your world?

[gnasher]

Oi, don't give me that look. Just because I've been here longer doesn't mean I'm immune to weird shit.

[...]

And I don't think you're kidding, so this counts as weird shit. Superman's a comic book character in my world. We have, you know. Police and firemen and EMTs and people who wear more pants to emergency situations. [well, he should add] -- My world never had any alien interaction, which I'm finding out is rare.

[checkoutmyttk]

Superman wears pants! [That was the most important take away from this conversation. Kon's frown dulls into a grumpy sulk and the glare fades.]

Yeah well, the multiverse is full of weird shit like that. "Infinite universes" and all. [Kon pauses.]

Wait so let me get this straight. You actually know who he is, you just think he's fictional? [Rin is right. This is weird.]

[gnasher]

Yep. And to be fair, my country -- Japan -- does fictionalize a lot of real historical figures in media, like famous samurai or whatever, but Superman is definitely not one of those cases.

Mostly because of his laser vision and flying and... magic dog? I'm not that into comic books, I don't know, is there a dog?

[checkoutmyttk]

There is not a dog, there is a demon mutt. [There's totally a dog, Kon just has Very Strong Feelings about Krypto.]

Ugh you know about Krypto, of all the things. This is so weird. [Pause.] It's not laser vision, it's heat vision.

So you don't have any superheroes? Who fights the metahumans?

[gnasher]

No one, because I'm not sure what a metahuman is or if we have them. If it means "someone surpassing typical human skill and capability," we have Olympic athletes and weird people who get into the Guinness Book of World Records.

[as if it's just occurred to him]

-- I've never heard of a Superboy.

[but he's heard......... of Krypto..................]

[checkoutmyttk]

[Kon throws his arms up in the air and glares at the ceiling.]

Of course you haven't! [You know what Rin? Your world sucks!!! And also your hair is pink!!! What kind of comic book writer put in more about that damn mutt than him? What sort of terrible Earth do you come from, Rin?]

You said you weren't that into the comics anyway, right? Obviously you just didn't get to any of the good parts.

[gnasher]

What does it matter if you're a comic book character in my world or not? Quit making a scene...

[this is public... check yourself before you wreck yourself bro]

[checkoutmyttk]

[Sorry Rin, making scenes is basically his MO.]

It doesn't matter, why would it matter? All I'm saying is your world missed out. Obviously. [He grins and slides his shades down over his eyes. Look at this cool dude your world was deprived of.

There's a short pause and then—] So your world really doesn't have any metahumans. Huh. Weird.

[gnasher]

[what was with that weird sunglasses move? what is Rin supposed to feel about that? that was so weird and awkward and unnecessary, he feels embarrassed for both of them now. the bewildered look of consternation does not leave his face]

There's a lot weirder happening on this planet than guys in tights, honestly.

[checkoutmyttk]

[His smirk drops of his face and settles back into something a little more serious.]

Yeah, I'm beginning to see that. Besides the weather and unfriendly critters on the islands, what other sorts of threats are out here exactly?

[gnasher]

The unfriendly critters in the water, and the unfriendly stranded crew, and the unfriendly planet's consciousness. Or too friendly, we're not really sure. We just know it's alive and has an opinion.

The lines to use the showers are always really long, too.

[checkoutmyttk]

[Considering what the apparently friendly sea life looks like, he can't say that part surprises him.]

What stranded crew? Wait, hold on, did you say planet? Crazy animals and people I can fight, crazy planets? Not so much. [And why aren't there personal showers??? This day keeps getting worse and worse.]

[gnasher]

The crew that came after whoever built this base. Their ship was the Aurora, which is sunk a ways from here. We use it for salvage. The planet stuff -- it's hard to explain. The logbooks in the lab can tell you a lot more about that, but we're still piecing everything together, about the lost crews and what the hell is with this planet.

[pause]

How good are you at fighting crazy animals? "Super" good?

[yeah, you can hear the quotes]

[checkoutmyttk]

[Logbooks, of course. Kon frowns and makes a mental note to at least go and glance at them. There's an obnoxious voice in the back of his head (that sounds suspiciously like a certain masked teammate's) lecturing him on how important it is to find out as much as he can about his surroundings and Kon mentally groans. That sort of stuff? The detective "figure out the problem" solve the case stuff? Not really his forte. But he guesses if he's going to be stuck here a while, he might need to try and make it his thing now.]

Pretty good. [His lips pull up into a smirk at the totally appropriate pun.] How bad are these crazy animals you're talking about? I've got super strength and invulnerability to most stuff, but it helps a ton to know what I'm going up against.

[gnasher]

[Rin attaches a very truncated file attachment of the hostile animals local to the Floater and Mountain islands; it actually looks like he's been taking short notes on them each]

These kinds. There's books in the library about all this, you know.

[read u a book...........]

On a scale of 1-10, what's the general difficulty level for you?

[checkoutmyttk]

[Ugh reading. Ugh. He'll look over the files later though.]

I don't know, what would you rate a ten difficulty level?

[gnasher]

If you're invulnerable and have "meta-human" strength, we punch at different weight classes. What would be a ten for you normally?

[checkoutmyttk]

[Uhh??? Kon glances through the files, his face growing more and more horrified as he goes.]

What kind of island is this? It's like a terrible scifi...Horrorsloths? Aside from the fact that I don't know why anyone would want to ever set foot in these places, I could manage it, yeah. As long as I didn't let my TTK down. I'd say the red eyes and—who named these?—noodle swings might give me the most trouble. [What's TTK??? Ask it Rin. You know you want to know. Ask it.]

[gnasher]

[feels... compelled;]

TTK?

[checkoutmyttk]

[Kon absolutely preens.]

Oh that's just my patented 'tactile telekinesis' that lets me use telekinesis on anything that I can touch. It's basically how I can do pretty much anything. It's also what makes me invulnerable. [Kon that's. Probably not the sort of thing you should go around telling people...]

Pretty cool, right?

[gnasher]

Let me see.

[SOUNDS FAKE]

[checkoutmyttk]

Sure, where should I meet you? [He's way more excited than he should be. It's been months since anyone has wanted to see his TTK in action.]