[Video: Thursday, Week 48] The most frightening of things

[bruiserprincess]

[There are few things more dangerous than a bored twelve year old. Unfortunately, that's what Verdana has right now.]

Okay, this is getting bad. So I'm just gonna ask.

Does anyone have a lot of heavy stuff they need moved around? I am seriously that bored.

Or bad guys to beat up. If you need bad guys beaten up Princess Powerful is all over that! Bad guys would be way better.

Comments

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Bruiser don't sound so bad to me, but then, I'm used to my agents and those boys love their goofy nicknames.

[bruiserprincess]

Princess Powerful is cooler.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Do your thing, kiddo. Considering I go by the Flying Squirrel...

Wash isn't MOlly

[bruiserprincess]

We have a Squirrel Girl at home. It's not a good idea to mess with her.

I was briefly confused, yes.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Sounds right to me, short stack.

Re: I was briefly confused, yes.

[bruiserprincess]

Short stack?

[Yeah, not a nickname she cares for]

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

[Kit is a constantly spewing fountain of nicknames. She can't help it.]

You know, like when you get two pancakes instead of three 'cus you're not that hungry? At least, I've heard this is a thing people do... And I'm five-six, so it's not like I get a lot of chances at short jokes.

[bruiserprincess]

I always get the three pancakes. 'Cause I'm growing.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Me, I get three because keepin' the world safe from evil all night is hungry work, and you never know when you'll get to break for a sandwich counter.

[bruiserprincess]

That too. They have a really bad habit of interrupting snacktime

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

And the looks you get if you try and take a snack break in costume... Though sometimes people just want autographs. The boss had to call me from a drugstore once, and people are still talkin' about it.

[bruiserprincess]

I keep trying to convince everyone else we need costumes, even if we'd get funny looks.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Costumes are great. More when people get used to you, though. I think the boss's first headline was "Masked lunatic foils bank robbery."

[bruiserprincess]

[MOlly giggles. That was all way before she was born in her world]

Costumes are cool! All the superhero teams wear them except mine.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Yeah, you really don't get the right vibe. With a mask and a silly hat, everyone knows you're here to fight injustice. Run in in, say, your chauffeur's uniform, and you'll get no respect. ...Or, y'know, anonymity.

[bruiserprincess]

Anonymity was shot pretty much from the start for us. Even before the stupid superhero registration act.

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Superhero regis--wow. I thought it was bad when the intelligence services started scraping up everyone's secret identities to recruit us.

[bruiserprincess]

They got rid of it eventually, but it was the worst idea from the start. Secret identities are important if you can get them!

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

I'll say. I didn't have to let my Ma in on the deal until after the kid was born and we needed to explain why all the babysitting was necessary.

[bruiserprincess]

Wow, you kept doing all that even after you had a kid?

[You didn't get much of that at home. Her parents had kept being supervillain but that was basically the exact opposite.]

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Retirement just hasn't been an option. We always figured we'd get out of the game before now, but they need every mask, even back on the homefront. ...Besides, if we had to be a spunky lady reporter and an idle millionaire again, we'd be too crabby for good parenting. So lucky Ma and the butler could help us out.

[bruiserprincess]

The bad guys really just... never stop, don't they?

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

Well, sometimes they retire, too, if it makes you feel better. I guess it is just the same old game, and new generations playin' it. I once met my great-great granddaughter from the future, and she's in the same line of work. So.

[bruiserprincess]

They've been fighting over New York for over a century. And it doesn't even have good burgers!

[girlinasquirrelsuit]

You know, I didn't think to get one any of the times I was there. Mostly lived on hotdogs. The hotdog cart folks don't even blink at the costume in that city, and we were usually in a hurry.