ic contact

[motherofnemesis]

"This is Max, leave a name and number and tell me what you want.
I may or may not get back to you."

[ leave a message, call her, come drop by her apartment. ]

Comments

[bumbles]

None of us are fine and you're an empath.

( Seriously, Max. Even if she was fine, being an empath in this situation would make you un-fine so fast. )

Maybe. I don't know. It seems sort of pointless.
There's more important things to deal with.

( Than his identity crisis, than his being a stupid child, than indulging his stupid pointless identity. )

[motherofnemesis]

i've done this before. not pleasant, not unbearable either.

[ fairly close to unbearable. but if you pretend something isn't a problem, then it isn't a problem, right? ]

up to you. there's always important things to deal with. how are you holding up?

[bumbles]

Liar.

( It's not meant maliciously, and it's a far cry from the boy she spoke to about romanticism and the guy who took down airships and scrambled over hospital rooftops with her under a mask. It's just... bullshit. Everything feels like constant layers of bullshit. )

is that a bad joke about my alias

( Atlas, after all. Sure isn't just evading the question, no ma'am. )

[motherofnemesis]

i've spent 18 months in prison. here's better than that.

[ She's tired, and he's tired, and does it actually matter if anyone knows what she used to do? Not really. ]

it's a terrible joke about your alias, and also a question that you haven't answered

[bumbles]

Sorry.

( If only he could sass back at that. Alas, he is still Donny. )

it was awful, it's really weighing on me

( ha ha ha answering that's cute )

[motherofnemesis]

it doesn't matter.

still not answering.

[ She's a very stubborn person and highly unlikely to let it slide. She forgot to be worried about other people temporarily, but now she's remembering that there are others caught up in this mess and she wants to make sure they're taken care of. ]

[bumbles]

of course it matters.

I don't really know how to answer.

[motherofnemesis]

i took the risks.

you can always try buzzwords. upset, angry, okay, etc.

[bumbles]

sometimes you have to take a risk to get anywhere. That doesn't mean you deserved that.

( That's part one, which he doesn't send until he's managed to tackle part two, which takes a long, long time. )

Scared. Lost. I screwed up Atlas. Stupid. Angry. Relieved my friend is here and that is so screwed up. So selfish, too.

( He can keep going, if she likes. )

[motherofnemesis]

maybe not. life isn't particularly fair though.

the happy a friend is here guilty that you're happy song and dance is something most people here feel. you're not stupid at all. what do you mean you screwed up Atlas?

[bumbles]

No. It's not.

I wanted to be Atlas all the time, and I'm not that guy. People know he's me. The mask doesn't mean anything any more.

[motherofnemesis]

the mask is just that - a mask. we're always the same person. you're a hero out of it just as much as in it.

[bumbles]

You're really smart, but you're wrong.

[motherofnemesis]

i was a vigilante for three years, tech support for two years before that. got to know a lot of people in the community. none of them ever managed to prove me wrong on that.

[bumbles]

I'm only brave with the mask.

[motherofnemesis]

i'm sure you believe that, but i don't think it's true. you don't stop being something because you take something off. it might be buried, but it's still there.

do you want to get out of here for a bit

[bumbles]

( NO )

what do you have in mind?

[motherofnemesis]

[ yes though ]

they need supplies, we're a good team. some time hopscotch seems like it could be useful.

1/2?

[bumbles]

( listen it's not like she can read people's emotions and figure this stuff out






god )

I should check with Max. My Max.

( oh god he didn't mean to send that help )

1/3 i lied

[bumbles]

My friend Max.

oh god that should have been 2/3 oh well IT'S DONE NOW

[bumbles]

My other friend Max from home. She was one of the people that the UE took, I don't really want to leave her alone.

donny it's ok

[motherofnemesis]

you can call me something else if it gets too confusing. and yeah only if she'll be okay. or she can come too and we can all go somewhere peaceful and do nothing more important than carry supplies.

IT'S NEVER OKAY

[bumbles]

just don't tell her I called her my Max.

I'll ask. I think maybe we should have a coordinated plan for running supplies though, so we don't end up with a bunch of one thing and nothing of something else. And long term planning. Like a schedule for accumulation?

I don't know.

no it will be ok promise

[motherofnemesis]

deal.

it makes sense. i haven't been thinking very long term, but maybe we could ask the network what's desperately needed and put up a list somewhere of things we always need and things we need some of that people can cross off when they get something.

:C

[bumbles]

thank you.


That's a good idea. A guy did a post before about figuring stuff out.
If we can stabilise stuff up here and get things operating smoothly, it'll make it easier to fix what happened in Exsilium.