This has me curious as to Talia's opinion of OL nowadays. Does she still dislike the fact that he isn't giving her the respect she feels entitled to her for the simple fact that she's married to Batman?
I'm now trying to remember if she is blonde or not. Because I have an instant image of her acting like Malfoy, Do you know who my husband is?
Sadly, most people only eat low-quality ones, and don't experience the difference in effort. I suppose it shows when you taste something that's had real effort put into it. Such is modern cuisine, I guess.
Heh. many a rookie chef's first experience with clever cooking stuff comes form Internet recipes, I bet.
Prep level advanced, I see. The sort of thing that rich people would pay hundreds of dollars for in high-end restaurants...
Ah, they know him so well. I guess stress-cooking is a thing he does, then.
Yes, but it helped distract you from all the shit that's been happening today, so... Win?
Just a little. At least you didn't cook another giant cake over New York.
And that little pigeon came home to roost with company.
Never mind what else he did, if anything. That bio-modification chamber, for example...
I'm picturing a level between 'disappointed frown with grunt' and '>tt< noise'.
Still, compared to the entirety on Earth being slowly worn down by the Anti-Life...
We were so close to having something like 'Adam West' Batman, or 'Brave and the Bold' Batman...
Well, this got deep real fast.
And I doubt he paid much attention to Batman's state of mind early on in his career, back when he first joined him.
To be fair, she does consider a happy Batman to be a weak one. That one kinda-elseworlds that got sort-of canonised by Damien's birth had that Talia fake a miscarriage to get Bruce back in 'pissed off' mode.
Admittedly, given that he's a Lantern, he probably knows all their tricks. Both in terms of mobility and in how to hide things from them...
Giving they were slowly losing, it was necessary. Still hurts to have to say it, though, I bet.
I think you've helped Bats enough already, OL.
Well, that's better than just sticking his oar in and paddling at odds with everyone else.
Besides the fact that a preteen boy is now involved in the vigilante life?
I can see how that would gnaw at OL as he is now. With his obsession with 'correcting' wrongness. That's the sort of thing that could easily turn into 'Good is not nice' territory, too.
The fact he's able to say that at all just makes him more inhuman in some ways.
The genomorphs knew how to do it properly, not brute-forcing it.
Which means a measure of disconnection between knowing and understanding.
Like just about everything else about him, for instance. Emotions not running on the brain in his head, that sort of thing?
Unless he can channel that energy he was using to supercharge or simulate abilities, that doesn't sound too bad.
...Great. That means this will almost certainly be a major plot point sometime in the future.
So that's definitely going to happen then. Superhero comic book logic demands it.
As well you shouldn't given how badly you mind fucked yourself.
Thank you, corrected.
Rookie numbers.
No. The SI was thinkiung that about himself.
Paul has long since come to terms with the fact that by any normal human standard he is completely insane.As well you shouldn't given how badly you mind fucked yourself.
I can think of a great many things that would be worse. Such as a global Anti-life infestation. Or an invasion of time travelling bondage elves. Or the world being divided between adults and children. Or the embodiment of avarice fusing with an erratically altruistic nutter and using earth as a playground.
I'm going to say that it isn't functioning as a coherant whole. Most people exposed to the Anti-Life and then the Life Entity ended up reconsidering their life choices.
It might be blunted by his knowledge of the rest of existence not being Antilife'd.
Last time we saw her, she seemed to be acting as Heph's assistant and advisor, so she may still be doing that.
First, is 'Is he what, you-!' is that meant to be dialogue? I don't think so, but if it is it needs quotation marks.
Those were Paul's internal thoughts.
They have tennis?
They'll be the first kids to ride royalty.
Well. That is a surprise. I guess the horse-racing world does need a healthy measure of scientific study. I imagine dealing with a talking, reasoning equine is a new one for the doctors, though. I bet the analysis of her horn and wing attachments will fascinate them for years to come.
Maybe both. They're pulling out the gold standard stuff, after all.
Haha! I bet there's a lot of little girls out there with big grins right now. And more than a few big girls too.Such is the result of Humans bending nature to our will, and valuing things more than each other. Things we like get treated well, things we don't get to cease being things...
I wonder if he constantly sees aurora-like phenomena in the sky most of the time? When he can see past things like electromagnetic signals, anyway.
Excuse them, they're not used to the patient being so smart. Or talking.
I rather suspect it'd be like a modern human meeting one of the proto-Homo species, like the Australopithecus. With more than a little uncanny valley effect.
...Right, quite a long time ago.
Oh, she's not going to forget that anytime soon, Renegade.
She's about five hundred times more long-lived than any mere horse, I expect.
I always wonder, would sophont equines consider a hoof-care task like that to be like a manicure for a human?
Or if she does, she might consider it a medical necessity the poor fellow suffered. Testicular cancer or something like that.
Well, at least he didn't panic at the strange, horse-but-not-horse thing coming near him.
I mean, he was almost certainly extant in the world before they came along. Along with many other ancient beings.
Which I expect is the traditional homeland of the Equestrians.
Didn't the Renegade encounter a separate group of non-Equestrian ponies while browsing about for it at some point?I mean, such a pony would probably keep that to themselves. Then again, even if you gave it a fancy name like 'Professor of post-mortem communication', the sheer narrative energy of such a gift would result in a rather gloomy, gothic pony...
Maybe if you convince Luna to undergo it as well, and they compare the scans? Or have Princesses Cadance and Twilight do the same? certainly, they'd benefit from a larger sample size.
Heh. No real need to specialise in treating Alicorns unless you manage to swing the role of Princess Celestia's personal doctor... Until Cadance came along, anyway.
That would still probably get plenty of 'oohs', 'aahs' and excited selfies.
Plenty of space for her to give a demonstration of Pegasus flight skills.
Oh, she wants a private word, doesn't she?
Yup, there we go.
And now we see why he did all this. Collegiality, sure, but also wanting his
...Uncle? As in Drax, The Infinity Man himself? I suppose he plans to work out a way to free him from whatever dimensional trap he's in after taking down the big D himself.
Ooh, good point. I don't think the lady will be quite so willing to be that patient.
What, she's dropped the upper-class accent? Has she ever done that on the show, actually? I wonder what her 'natural' voice is like...
Tucked up nicely rather than half-spread, I take it? Huh, looking at it, she does tend to show them off most often when she's acting in her royal capacity.
Like keeping her wings outspread to remind people 'Yes, horn and wings, I'm special!' No doubt she needed to do that a lot back in the early days.
Good gravy. A drunk Celestia. Would she be a prankster or a.. 'romantic' kind of drunk?
That would be a fun chance to relax for her.
...Well, Mr Zoat, naturally.Remove 'the as'?
"Speaking as a veterinarian, knowing that no one knows...
"I wouldn't dream of disappointing foals of any species."
"When do you intend to get married?
She looks at me quizzically.
