happy birthday magicboss

[ridestherider]

[Whenever you come back to the lab, Natsumi has the place all decorated and nice -- string lights and little paper lanterns, with a few things moved to accommodate an (already set up) table and chairs and everything. She even went to some effort to look nice. Birthdays should be special, after all.]

Comments

[powerisyours]

Quite pleasant, if I recall. It's been a while.

[ridestherider]

You made friends with the Hulk.

Of course you did.

[powerisyours]

I wouldn't say friends. We only met maybe once.

[ridestherider]

Close enough, you didn't get bulldozed.

[powerisyours]

Well, perhaps his reputation precedes him.

[ridestherider]

Mm. A little bit, maybe.

[powerisyours]

People back home think I'm a cruel, heartless person who bears long grudges and makes sure anyone who sees me doesn't live to tell the tale. Among things.

[ridestherider]

You're probably the biggest-hearted person I know.

... well, next to Kotoha, but I think she's kind of an anomaly anyway.

[powerisyours]

You make a joke and ask your subordinates to gouge out their eyes as a sign of loyalty once and you're forever branded . . .

[ridestherider]

Not their sense of humor, I guess.

[powerisyours]

I guess to be fair, people thought that long before I met any of them.

[ridestherider]

They just have to get to know you like I have.

[Helping herself to a little more food before you polish it off.]

[powerisyours]

If they'd stop being so scared of me, first.

[ridestherider]

So find something that scares them more than you.

[powerisyours]

It's sort of my job to keep those things away from them, Natsumi.

[ridestherider]

Exactly.

It doesn't have to be a real threat, just something that can play along. Something intimidating.

[powerisyours]

That sort of feels like it'd be an abuse of power.

[ridestherider]

I'm the wrong person to ask, I don't really have any.

And what I do have I abuse to keep the people I live with from destroying everything in sight.

[powerisyours]

Ah, well. No use in worrying about it now~

[ridestherider]

I'm sure they'll get over it someday.

[powerisyours]

I suppose we'll just have to see.

[ nomming down the rest of his food and reaching for more . . . then pausing ]

Have you taken what you want?

[ridestherider]

Oh, I was way ahead of you there. The rest is yours.

[powerisyours]

Great! I want to see what the something extra is.

[ Might be losing his manners a little here and just reaching for the serving dishes so he can eat straight off of those ]

[ridestherider]

Don't get too excited; when I told you that you'd have to wait I meant it.

It might not even be here until after vacation, depending on how Camp chooses to do things.

[powerisyours]

Oho~? How so? Something that fantastic?