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Add "of" before "hiding".
Add "to" after "need".
Yeah, she's very much not happy about all of this.I walk-.
"What-"
I wince-.
"-the-"
Raquel grabs me by the right arm and pulls me around.
"-fuck?!"
Okay, Rocket? Rocket. Contain the calamity that is your mammaries."There's no point whispering. She'll hear us perfectly well if she concentrates."
"What that fuck?"
Worst case, think of her as opposite-gender Kon."Her culture has engineered a visceral revulsion at the idea of underemployment, she wanted a job and-."
"A Nazi?!"
Someone hasn't been reading the briefing materials..."You know Canis is worse, right?"
She grimaces, shaking her head. "He's not a Nazi, he's just a.. weird.. art.. guy."
Big old blind spot, clearly."Did you..? Miss the bit where he mentioned leading Apokoliptian armies? You've read the files on Apokolips, what did you think they were doing?"
"Fighting a war?"
They're like interstellar Vikings, but without the redeeming qualities.I don't laugh, even though that statement is ridiculous.
"The area around Apokolips is called 'The Waste', because whenever anyone tries settling there Apokoliptian armies go out, kill everyone and destroy everything. Canis personally led at least one campaign of outright extermination and sees nothing wrong with having done so, so, compared to that, the activities of someone who has mostly done the same sort of work as us but in the service of a far less pleasant society is less evil."
Not what he was saying, Rocket. Focus."So she is evil."
"Well that's an interesting philosophical-."
It's weird seeing this from the other side."Paul."
"No, it is! Let's assume that as a fully indoctrinated National Socialist-"
"Nazi."
No, Africa is quite well populated..."-she sees absolutely nothing wrong with killing someone from one of their scapegoat groups. However, as a result of frantic genocidal purging before her birth she's never met one. Jews are extinct, gypsies are extinct-."
She raises her eyebrows. "Niggers are extinct."
Let him finish, girl."Actually, no, but I go the impression that Kaldur was the first black person she'd ever spoken to. The point is, though she would take part in a genocide if asked, she never has. Likewise, she hasn't ferreted disabled people out hiding to send them to the camps because there aren't any. She hasn't had the opportunity to do the evil she'd be willing to do. What she's actually done is crime fighting and disaster relief. So is she evil-"
"Yes."
She is just stuck on the whole Nazi thing, isn't she?"-or a good person working for an evil state?"
"Okay, kinda both. An evil person working for an evil state."
And taking her appearance at face value too..."You know she did dinner-" Raquel grimaces. "-tonight, right? Look… Why do we arrest people?"
"Yeah, I don't think Little Miss-"
"She's thirty nine."
Not really helping your point, OL."-Mz Nazi is gunna go join the Belle Reve Crew."
"Of course not. She hasn't committed a crime here yet."
Yeah, I wouldn't mention that, either to Rocket or to Overgirl.Um. Except arguably wearing that red 's' symbol in Germany, where a very similar symbol was banned as part of post-war denazificiation and hasn't been unbanned. But fortunately America has much more broadly-phrased free speech laws.
Because it's been working so well so far, OL?"But we perform arrests rather than summary executions-"
"Because we're not Nazis."
"-because we try to rehabilitate people, Miss Breaking-and-Entering. We support a system in which people who break the rules are placed in confinement and gradually re-socialised. That is what I would like us to do for Angelika."
Stop that, you're far to sassy to play 'housemaid'."I'm cool with confining the bitch."
"You… Ah, you.. mouthing off to her might be a bit of a hard test of her willingness to play along right now."
"Well excuse me, masser!"
I'd like to hear the chain of logic behind that... I'm sure it makes perfect sense to Mister Avarice Enlightenment...I frown. "Oh, don't even. I'm not asking you to calm down a little because you're black, I'm asking you to do it because, firstly, her seeing you as a rational person undermines what she's been taught about black people, and second, because it means that if I've horribly misjudged the situation she's less likely to kill you."
Different universe, different method."Oh, ah'm not going near her without a my kinetic barrier-."
"She has heat vision."
She frowns. "Superboy didn't have heat vision."
Really, this whole situation is a big old stress-fest."It's a different form of hybridisation. She can't match Superman's peak output but it'll still incinerate you."
She stands there for a moment with a decidedly disgruntled expression on her face.
Just please don't go making Nazi Jokes to Overgirl, please..."Oh that's a great way to introduce her to the team."
"Not… What I wanted to lead with. But I don't need tell you not to make rude jokes about Darkseid in front of Canis despite the fact that-."
"Worse, yeah, I get it."
Not quite what OL is going for, I think..."If you want to see what true evil looks like I've got a few thousand hours worth of recordings from Vega you can go through. Mid-firefight cannibalism is a high point, and the Citadelian slave-cages match anything the Nazis managed. Or heck, you ever watched a cowboys versus Indians film?"
"Yeah, but I never cheered the cavalry. Spotted that one."
And how are you so sure? Have you been inside her head?"What tribes used to live where Dakota City is now? You live there, work there, and I don't see you calling for the city to be demolished."
"I wouldn'a invaded their land and killed them. She would."
Be nice, that's a compliment."Okay, look; you don't have to have anything to do with her. I'd appreciate it if you'd help, because at the moment you're one of two black people she's been introduced to and I think you disprove Nazi propaganda pretty hard."
"Gee, thanks."
That... Is a Very Good question. I mean, it's only been what, two or three days max, I'm sure he's taken a look over her case."You're welcome. But you don't have to, and she's probably only going to be here for a week or two anyway."
She sighs angrily.
"What's Superman sayin' about this, anyway?"
This could absolutely be a discussion real people have, even though the subject matter is entirely fictional of course.
Thank you, corrected.
Oh, don't worry; Peter's fine, just a bit confused.
Thank you, corrected.
Nazis are the evildoers in our culture.By the way, why Raquel makes such a big deal about nazi specifically? It's personal or just a hot topic for USA?
She might have hit him. She wouldn't have decked him, because 'decked' means 'hit so that they fall to the deck', and his environmental shield would have taken the hit easily.I think if it were a real discussion she would have decked him by the "is she really evil though?" part. But that doesn't really move things along in a way that is functional for the plot. This is the kind of shit real people would nope the fuck out on and just cease all interactions with Paul for. See Maxx Crowley's reaction for what would probably be more realistic to the circumstances.
For trying to change the beliefs of someone who was basically forced to believe the things she believes and hasn't actually done anything bad usually associated with those beliefs?This is the kind of shit real people would nope the fuck out on and just cease all interactions with Paul for.
For trying to change the beliefs of someone who was basically forced to believe the things she believes and hasn't actually done anything bad usually associated with those beliefs?
Probably the same nothing he said about Kon for months. YJ Supes doesn't seem to be the guy to ask the hard questions of himself, despite being an investigative reporter in his day job.She sighs angrily.
"What's Superman sayin' about this, anyway?"
Canis killed that T rating, killed its family, and razed the planet it was on to the ground for the glory of Darkseid a long while ago.I think that this is another case where Paul is endangering the team's T rating.
Was that her only robbery do you know of? Because if so then that is one hell of a bad mark to chose, and if not then I'm curious as to how she rationalizes that.
Hopefully, that made her wonder why she was friends with them (or at least with that one).Fortunately Icon is bulletproof, because otherwise she would have been guilty of felony murder when her friend annoyed Icon by shooting him repeatedly.
By the way, why Raquel makes such a big deal about nazi specifically? It's personal or just a hot topic for USA?
Yeah. Why didn't you tell big blue about his alt daughter?
that does sound like a good time. Hope zoat makes it happen.The really funny part, if you have a morbid sense of humor, is that an actual National Socialist party member would haaaate modern American Neo-Nazis.
Jesus, that could have gone much. Much worse for everyone involved if they hit his neighbors instead. It also leaves me with some rather complicated emotions regarding her, especially if nothing was done about her friend SHOOTING someone.
Because all he has is money, not a power ring, and he's doing some interesting things.Really? Why? Every time he is on screen I cringe at the national geographic / in prase of eros
prose.
Yeah, but I always like seeing more of him. Especially at the expense of nazi girl.
Aye, even if the Nipponese were objectively worse, the Germans looked like us, and had style, while being one of the worst things we ever produced. Culturally those two things seem inexcusable.
Should be: "What the fuck?"