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[sanicspeed]

Wow this is....this is a bit difficult. Exciting, don't get me wrong but I feel like I'm reading my journal out loud to everyone.

What else are you supposed to say?

Right, right, I remember.

[Regrets and hesitation here. Why did he even say all that outside of being a loser?

Oh right, that explains everything.]

Look, I'm not one for public advertising but with all this excitement, I'd like to help a bit. So...

...ugh, I forgot to introduce myself. Barry Allen, that's my name. I'm a forensic scientist and I kind of own a place called S.T.A.R. Labs.

Which means if anyone has a crime they need to be solved, just give me a ring. Or hit me up if you need anything else. It's what I'm good at. Which was the whole point of this. I want to help out but don't really have a place to start. So if anyone wants to point fingers, point away. My mind is open to all comers.

[Short sentences and awkward. Yep, he was having a bit of an issue.]

That's all, I think. Good bye? Signing off? How do people do this...?

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[morsecodes]

Demigod, actually. [He said this absent mindedly as he finishes getting the final bit of flames out, but then he pauses, his attention going back to Barry.]

-- Like a codename? Dude, I've wanted codenames since day one, but Jason and Piper shot me down!

[Barry, what have you done.]

[sanicspeed]

Yeaaaaaaaah. That's the kind of talk that leads into killing and slavery and all that. Might want to tone that down.

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[sanicspeed]

Demigod? Uh...

...I should say I don't believe it but after everything I've seen...

[He shouldn't be surprised, really.]

That's what I mean, though I don't make them up. If you decide to start doing that, don't look at me if Cisco shows up and gets mad.

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[evenslimmer]

Yes. Hank was very excited about it.

[ When they came to the future and he learned someone had built one. Though with everything that got thrown at them it was maybe a short-lived excitement. ]

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[sanicspeed]

Let's just say the first one to run kind of spectacularly overloaded and exploded and the resulting wave of energy, well, created meta-humans. Maybe it unlocked some sort of genetic potential, I don't know. But that's what happened.

[runningjoke]

Oh, trust me, I won't be killing any humans here. But I'm not going to stop talking about it.

[sanicspeed]

That's a really slippery slope.

[runningjoke]

We aren't near any slopes whatsoever.

[ Seriously, does she even seem like a threat. ]

[1300yen]

That's the same no matter what world, it seems. My hometown, the capital of my country, has been plagued with crime for a number of years now.

[sanicspeed]

You've never heard of that idiom, huh.

[He knows how the lowest common denominator of people tend to act when they hear opinions similar to their own.]

[sanicspeed]

That's what happens. The best prevention is a good offense and an educated population.

[runningjoke]

What's an idiom.

[ Truly the face and questions of a killer. ]

[sanicspeed]

It's an expression that mostly has figurative meaning. Sometimes literal though.

[runningjoke]

So I am figuratively going down a slippery slope.

[sanicspeed]

It means you're hitting a point in your dialogue where it's hard to turn back and realize what you're doing is wrong.

[runningjoke]

Yeah, because I haven't said anything wrong. I'm stating facts. Gems are better than humans, in literally every way.

[sanicspeed]

I'm saying that's not true. We all have our good and bad points. People should be judged as individuals, not as a whole.

[runningjoke]

Yes, you humans and your individualism. I get it. Even most Gems have strengths and weaknesses. The only flawless Gems are the Diamonds.

But even all of the weaknesses a Gem has, we're still superior to humans. It's just simple fact. We're made to adjust to different climates and gravitational pulls, we don't need to sleep or consume, and we can regenerate our physical forms. Humans can't.

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[evenslimmer]

We have a guy like that. Or I think it would be more accurate to say, I know that's one common way of producing "meta-humans" in my universe. Research accidents.

[ Though he feels compelled to add: ]

Usually it's something more explicitly dangerous and radioactive. From what I understand.

[1300yen]

A good offense and an educated population... [mfw education for non-nobles is probably shit in ladylake OOPS. it sounds like a good idea though!!] I may try suggesting that when I return home.

[sanicspeed]

Minus the sleeping and eating, humans can do all that too.

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[sanicspeed]

A lot of people died so I'd say it's pretty dangerous and problematic. I doubt it's going to happen again.

[sanicspeed]

What, do you happen to have the ear of someone in your government?

[runningjoke]

So if I stabbed you through the chest, you'd be fine after?

[sanicspeed]

Me? I er...

[Don't blow it, Barry!]

...I plead the fifth.