voice; UN: red streak

[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...?

Comments

[sanicspeed]

Yeah but what about a meta-human.

[runningjoke]

Never heard of one.

[sanicspeed]

Humans with special non-human powers. How's that?

[runningjoke]

There's no such thing as a "human with non-human powers."

[sanicspeed]

If you said that sentence out loud to everyone here, you'd be called wrong pretty quickly.

[runningjoke]

Would I? Are you a betting man, Red Streak?

[sanicspeed]

It's Barry, please. And I'm not a betting man, I just know my science.

[runningjoke]

And are bad at words.

A human with "non-human" powers doesn't exist, because "powers" aren't defined by species that have them and don't. I can fly. Would I say I also have "non-human" powers?

[sanicspeed]

Well, they can be. Your example is perfectly fine. Genetically, humans aren't capable of flying. Therefore, a human who could fly unassisted by mechanical means would have non-human powers in his possession. Now I'm sure that in the future, humans will evolve beyond their normal realm but, for now, that's why we have terms like meta-human.

[runningjoke]

And how do "meta-humans" get these "non-human" powers, if not through mechanical means? Is it not genetic? Is it assisted through experimentation?

[sanicspeed]

That's a bit harder to explain because it might vary on each world. In mine, it was a science experiment gone wrong that brought out those types of abilities in people.

[runningjoke]

Or right. Making humans less of a pathetic species than what they started out as hardly seems like something gone wrong to me.

[sanicspeed]

You probably shouldn't look down on humans too much. Someone might think you're some type of evil villain.

[runningjoke]

I don't care. You're inferior beings.

[sanicspeed]

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

[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. ]

[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.]

[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.