video; un: rita.farr — aka SUPERHERO CODENAME ASSIGNMENTS

[farr]

[ of course, rita sets up a visual because the starlet always wants to be seen (except when she doesn't). at the present time, she seems rather enthusiastic like she's fighting a proud grin, one that suggests she's ready to give herself a pat on the back at any moment. ]

Good evening, everyone! For those who don't know me, I am Rita Farr, your Team Morale Coordinator.

[ wait, who assigned her that position? ]

As you all well know, we have been joining mission after mission with the intention of collecting orbs to protect the world and save towns from devastation. In a way, you might say we're ... space-travelling superheroes!

And as any superhero would tell you, it's very important to have codenames for our mission. Obviously, we often obtain our very own undercover civilian names. But in the line of duty, when we're in the heat of the fight, we should just as well have assigned titles to continue preserving our identities.

As the Ximilia's Team Morale Coordinator — [ again, who voted her into that position? ] I took it upon myself to select carefully crafted codenames for each and every one of you.

[ she then holds up a sheet of paper, featuring a list of all of the orbers, each with another name printed beside them. ]

You will find this list posted in the Mess Hall. Please take a moment at your best convenience to study the list and memorize each of the names listed for future use. Though I worked very hard to select them — [ she clears her throat, brushing her hair back. ] I suppose that if you have any issue with the name chosen for you, we can discuss making possible changes. Though I don't see why anyone would want to.


XIMILIA'S SUPERHERO CODENAME CHECKLIST:

Clarke — VINCENT VAN GIRL Finn — BEAR BOY Kovacs — BLACK LUNG Dante — PIZZA HUT Rita — ELASTI-WOMAN Chuuta — BEATS Ziggy — STARDUST Dimitri — BREAD MAN Yuri — SIR SECRET Kazuma — SWASHBUCKLER Ryunosuke — SWORDMASTERSITTER Yujin — STACHE DADDY Alina — SUNSHINE Aleksander — SHADOW Mal — GUNSHOW Yzak — SIA Helen — BELLE Marta — LOTUS Joel — TIMESTOPPER Daisy — SHAKE SENORA Natasha — JANE FONDA Shaun — BANGLE BABE Yelena — NIGHT VISION

Gwen — DRUMSTICKS Itachi — PUZZLER DOGSHIT MCGIVENS Andy — ATHENA Joe — ADONIS Sabriel — MYSTIC MAGIC Joric — MR BEAD Newt — MONSTER MASH Felix — ARMORMAN Dr. McCoy — DR SPACE Cassian — INCOGNITO Jyn — CAUTIONETTE Steve — BOMBER KID Dean — KANSAS Lúthien — SIREN Minimus — ROBOFOX Rodimus — ROBOROD Nie Huaising — FAN MAN Wei Wuxian — MR FLUTE Rand — ROBIN HOOD Yennefer — VIOLET Zhao — CHEF BANDIT Viveca — VIXEN Degar — WONDERWALL

( please note that none of the above is to be taken seriously and is in good fun! though rita very much likes to believe she has team leader qualifications and is entirely in her right to make assignments. but she's very bad at selecting names so if some of it seems nonsensical, it's on brand. she went by what she knows or assumes or whatever she likes. )

Comments

[cruelyethuman]

Perfect, I suspect. Feisty. Headstrong and stubborn.

You don't always run, Alina. Or should I remind you in more detail of when you didn't?

[peasant]

anyone clever enough to know you're poison must be
it took her a bit too long, but she got there on her own

we both know i wasn't talking about myself
i was speaking of daisy
no need for the unwanted reminder. i'd rather keep my lunch down today

[cruelyethuman]

Practice your Small Science more, and you will have no problem keeping it down.

It was never unwanted, Alina. Every touch was something you asked me for, everything I have done, has been because you asked it of me. You wanted no words, only actions and I did it for you. You wanted all my nights and all my mornings, and I obliged.You wanted peace, and I gave it to you.

What more could you possibly want, that I haven't given you already?

And I have asked for nothing in return. But I am asking now, stop talking about me on the network.

[peasant]

all past tense, and for good reason

that you would try to use any of that to control what i say and who i say it to is so very typical of you
request officially acknowledged and denied
i have never, and will never, owe you anything

next time i'll be sure to do speak about you where you can't interrupt
or you can learn not to read it if you don't want to know i'm telling someone i won't associate my name with yours

[cruelyethuman]

And what good reason could that possibly be?

[peasant]

ask daisy
our answers to that question must be close enough

[cruelyethuman]

Her reason was you.

[peasant]

i doubt your murderous intentions failed to make the list

[cruelyethuman]

Newton might have made the list, but not alone.

[peasant]

"might have" give me a break
i suspect your impulses made the top of the list
the blame doesn't lie with me or newton
anyone can see the common factor in everything you ruin is YOU

[cruelyethuman]

Goodnight, Alina.

[peasant]

struck a nerve, i see
goodnight and good riddance

[cruelyethuman]

I can't keep defending myself against your accusations and I grow tired of trying to explain the complexities. I am doing my part to right wrongs that I made in Ravka, and I am sacrificing everything to do so.

But even that isn't enough for you, is it?

You have to humiliate me every chance you have, to drag my Small Science through the mud to distance yourself from the very thing that beats inside of you. You are the Sun Summoner, the light to my shadows.

[peasant]

the only thing tiring is your martyr complex.
you are not the one who suffers. it is everyone around you. you're a vortex for suffering, and you always have been.

"righting your wrongs"
like slaughtering a city filled with innocent women and children?
or selling off genya like a pawn?
perhaps enslaving women ranks on the list next?
don't make me laugh. we know don't feel an ounce of guit or shame about what you've done.
the only thing you ever feel in the wake of your cruelty is disappointment that your plans failed you.

i am the sun summoner, that's true. not your summoner.
you don't get to use the glory of my title for yourself. you don't get to steal or minimize my power.
i'm not your doll, or your trained hound, or your possession. i never will be.

so with all due respect, kindly fuck off.

[cruelyethuman]

They were all complicit in selling Grisha in to slavery for weapons, and they wanted to watch us all burn. They tried to murder you, Alina, and the only reason they failed is luck.

Should I have showed them mercy, when they had none for us?

But none of that will matter once I'm done here. There will be no Novokribirsk because there will be no Unsea!

You're the only one who belongs with me, it was your face that I saw in the Making and when history changes, I will never see you again.

Fuck off yourself, Starkov.

[peasant]

[ i watched it happen, she thinks, not quite loud enough for the thought to transmit. i don't have anything more to say to a murderer, or the day that i never see you again can't come soon enough.

she barks out a disbelieving laugh, instead, in the sanctity of her room. lets the silence speak for itself, instead, as though removing the attention from a child that thrives on it — negative or positive. and so, pettily: ]

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