OPEN | prompt three | PAIN

[wrens]

prompt three | P A I N dressing-room style. start your own thread. tag others. wash, rinse, repeat. open to all.

 

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billy kaplan | young avengers

[zapfirst]

Because if there's one thing teenagers need, it's more reasons to complain loudly about things. Which, for the record, I say as a teenager.

[skrull]

Did you just start complaining about complaining? [ A beat, accompanied by a squinty face. ] Are we going to have to go deeper?

[zapfirst]

A complaint within a complaint. It's just a talent I was born with.

[skrull]

Just so long as there isn't any pushing me out of windows or into standing tubs of water, I think we're golden.

I've kind of already filled both those quotas this week.

[zapfirst]

You've been getting up to some weird things on your off-time, T.

[skrull]

How was I supposed to know the villain of the week had thing for bubble baths? That's not normal.

[ A beat, then more adamantly. ] That's not even nefarious.

[zapfirst]

It's kinda nefarious. From a "a little dirt is good for you" perspective.

[skrull]

[ Defensively! ]

That's not even a good tag line! It sounds like you're about to segway into an animation sequence involving scrubbing bubbles.

[zapfirst]

[ Now, also defensive! ]

Hey, give me a break. I don't have a lot of practice defending the life choices of supervillains!

[skrull]

[ Defense-off! ]

You've been getting up to some weird things on your off-time, B!

How's that for dramatic irony and not having to write my own lines!

[zapfirst]

[ Okay, Billy's going to drop the defensive thing because it's hard to be defensive and smug. ]

See, this is why you have to keep me around.

[skrull]

[ Teddy's eyes narrow. Dammit, Kaplan. ]

I see what you did there.

[zapfirst]

Just keeping you on your toes, et cetera, et cetera.

[skrull]

[ Muttering-face, gumbled under his breath: ]

I still stand behind what I said about the bubble baths.

[zapfirst]

How 'bout this: Because you've got a point, I'll promise not to push you into any for at least a month?