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Science Fiction - Double Feature [CLOSED]
Who: Kon-El/Superboy & Roxy Lalonde
What: Scientific Research.
When: Yes.
Where: Sigyn.
Rating: Science.
[With all the emphasis on science in the school curriculum, Kon feels there is a sad lack of practical examples of using it. For example, the delicate rules involved in formulating a first date with someone with whom you were already friends. The date had to surpass hanging out ( hotness > fun ) but it couldn’t go too far into formal date territory (fancy dinner + flowers ÷ first date = weird).
In the end, he’d decided to favour fun over usual first date trappings, subtract mutual acquaintances, carried the hotness factor and came up with a burger place in Sigyn, near enough to the hospital to have got enough of its colour back that the 1950s style Americana that was one of the place’s main attractions stood out. Set down a back street, the place was out of the way enough to have escaped most Travellers notice so Kon was reasonably certain it would be a surprise to Roxy. Burgers were fun, but the slightly gourmet edge of the restaurant took them up a notch into date and the self-serve parfair bar should do the rest. A pretty good entrée to a night out, if Kon did say so himself (and he did).]
Metro Burger. They do an Aloha burger which might not mean much to you, but is impossible to find anywhere else in the city. Also, I have it on good authority that they’ll put cheese on anything.
What: Scientific Research.
When: Yes.
Where: Sigyn.
Rating: Science.
[With all the emphasis on science in the school curriculum, Kon feels there is a sad lack of practical examples of using it. For example, the delicate rules involved in formulating a first date with someone with whom you were already friends. The date had to surpass hanging out ( hotness > fun ) but it couldn’t go too far into formal date territory (fancy dinner + flowers ÷ first date = weird).
In the end, he’d decided to favour fun over usual first date trappings, subtract mutual acquaintances, carried the hotness factor and came up with a burger place in Sigyn, near enough to the hospital to have got enough of its colour back that the 1950s style Americana that was one of the place’s main attractions stood out. Set down a back street, the place was out of the way enough to have escaped most Travellers notice so Kon was reasonably certain it would be a surprise to Roxy. Burgers were fun, but the slightly gourmet edge of the restaurant took them up a notch into date and the self-serve parfair bar should do the rest. A pretty good entrée to a night out, if Kon did say so himself (and he did).]
Metro Burger. They do an Aloha burger which might not mean much to you, but is impossible to find anywhere else in the city. Also, I have it on good authority that they’ll put cheese on anything.
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[The burger place was more than adequate for Roxy. After all they've been friends and hung out a lot recently and it would have been weird to go eat at some place really formal. Besides, she'd never been to a 50's style diner before (or any diner, actually) so the evening was already gaining major plus points from her. Scientific points, of course.]
On anything? Aloha burger a la extra cheese it is then!
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Allegedly overdone and mainly invented to draw more of the tourist dollar, but I kind of like it anyway. You know how things go from cheesy beyond belief to ironically cool? It's that -- and it's got pineapple and bacon on it.
[Roxy just scored all the scientific points with her order.] I could not agree more.
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[Passing through the door- definitely earning some gentlemanly points there- she waits for them to go through the usual motions of being seated as she realizes what a top-notch decision it was to go along with some Aloha-style dinner.]
Pineapple and bacon? Magnum opus of burgers right there, damn. I'm trusting you with this decision so you'd better hope it's up to scratch! [She's pretty certain it will be, though.]
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[Hey, even the menus are appropriately themed. That can only bode awesome.]
Good thing I'm used to making tough calls in times of crisis, huh. Don't worry, Roxy, the fate of your meal is resting on very capable shoulders. What do you want to drink?
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You know those shitty murals Dave painted? Well adult him made comics and movies just like that, typo'd comic sans and all. He was like the biggest name in Hollywood, made billions off that shit. And adult me apparently liked to print out shitty .jpegs of wizards and get them re-sized and stick them in $50,000 solid gold frames? I saw one in a dream once, haha it was so amazing.
Oh, and Rose apparently gave the "Mom" me a vacuum cleaner as an ironic gift because I was always doing housework or something, so I had it bronzed and sat it on top of a marble pillar in the living room. I mean who even does something like that? An amazing person, that's who!
[Whoops- talking too much. Shutting up a moment to glance over the menu, she quickly shuts it again, already having made her decision.]
Just a soda. Coke, please!
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[Whole movies of Dave-art? That is -- well, Kon has to remind himself that the movies wouldn't necessarily be watching anyone sleep.] Seeing the adult them ... That's from a different session, right? Calliope was explaining them to me. I think I understood maybe 50% of it?
So that's two Aloha burgers with extra cheese, two colas and I am taking it for granted we want fries with that because seriously, who doesn't? [And Kon doesn't even have to remind himself not to look at the waitress's rack because she is so vague, grey and formless it's hard to tell if she even has one. Perfect!] Man, I love science.
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But yeah,in their session they used this ectobiology lab to create all of us. It has a machine that targets on certain people at a certain time! Click some buttons and ta-da~ it makes a paradox clone of them.
[Giving a quick nod at the fries comment because honestly, who doesn't want fries!]
..But you probs dunno what a paradox clone even is. We can talk about something else if you want before I start rambling about my weird family tree that is more like a box instead of a tree shape.
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Wow. I thought CADMUS had pretty much cornered the market in hands-free cloning, but that's pretty swish. I mean, I was pretty much state-of-the-art and it still took them a week to make me. Though I guess I was an experimental model. But yeah, just your regular hybrid clone over here.
-- does being kidnapped to another reality with 50 plus alternate yous count as a paradox or is that just weird?
[snrk] Mine probably looks like a petri-dish so no worries there. Trees are overrated. What do they do anyway, besides making oxygen and habitats and stuff? Nothing.
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The whole Ecto-cloning thing is pretty cool though. There was this underground lab by my house and I spent a lot of time down there cloning cats and experimenting with it. It's so unfair there's nothing like that here, I can't do half the stuff I could do at home, which is saying something seeing as the place sucked!
[Huh. The drinks arrive just in time, Roxy opting to quiten up and suck on her soda's straw for a minute. Wondering if he feels any resentment for the whol cloning thing, especially when she just said she did more or less the same thing for fun! Even if it were on cats and not people.]
Heck yes, clone-club is where it's at, move out of the way all you regular boring people and your natural births.
And yeah that's totally weird, and sounds like it probably sucks, but a paradox is a bit different.
[The drink is left alone for a moment. STORY TIME.]
Example, say you have John, our resident Ectiobiologist in this scenario. He uses his machine to lock onto some 21st century scientist babe. Because why the hell wouldn't you spy on some hottie in a sexy chic lab coat? The lab machines do their thing and clone her, or rather makes this green slime which is a copy of her DNA. It then squishes it all together and makes this baby appear, kind of like the teleporter thingy on Star Trek except no lycra uniforms.
Then blah blah blah, skipping boring parts, the games session zaps the baby away and puts her on a meteor, which is sent through a worm-hole which crashes on 21st Century Earth. She somehow survives this and grows up to be the cool science lady that the machine locked onto in the first place.
And that is why it's called a paradox. Because to exist, she was cloned from herself, then sent back in time to become the thing that was cloned in the first place. Get it?
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I'd settle for more people just knowing what a clone is. Like, getting compared to a golem was bad enough the one time, I don't want to end up with some sort of Andy Serkis complex.
[Kon's going to start on his own soda, thoughtful. You know, mission-briefing at CADMUS -- hell, even home schooling with Dubbilex never made this much sense.]
I'm pretty sure Impulse created one of those once. Robin made him put it back before it warped time or something. [Oh the happy days before Superboy Prime punched the time-stream.] Either they don't work like yours in ours, or your universe cornered the market in sexy science babes.
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[She had more to add to that, but Gollum....what.]
How did someone get Gollum from clone talk. Like... literally, what does he even have to do with anything related to cloning, ever....
[Some people are just W I E R D. But it at least gives her an idea for a new conversation topic, one of those sterotypical date questions.]
But lucky for you, she got snatched up and dropped here in Asgard. And she's already told you about how she spent her time at home doing cloning experiments and other cool sciency things, so what did you do in your free time, on Earth?
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Don't ask me. I'll just be in the corner, nursing my poor, battered ego and hoping the gods decide to get with the times and maybe modernize the place a little.
[Oh hey. Talking about himself? Kon does not mind if he does.] Actually, that's a good question. There wasn't a lot of free time in between saving the world, you know? What down time we had, I guess I played video games, hung out with Imp, Rob and the girls at our HQ, or even went to the beach when I was still in Hawaii. But this here, in Asgard? This is the most free time I've had in my life. Still not used to it to be honest.
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[And she doesn't mind listening! Perfect situation.]
If I wasn't doing science things I pretty much sat in my room playing video games. Or being drunk, but I don't do that anymore. Being here in Asgard is the first time I got to hang out with actual people so I love it, even if I think most of the gods are supreme assholes.
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I guess the civilian thing is pretty chill, but I can't get over how weird it is. You know it's been a month without anyone trying to kill me?
Okay, this is probably a weird question, but how old are you, Roxy? And how long have you been that age?
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[Never gonna give up on that grudge.]
I'm Sixteen! And I've been sixteen ever since I... turned sixteen. Which was half a year ago. Why?
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[Never give up! That is a grudge worth hanging on to.]
I just wondered since there's so much else we have in common. I'm sixteen, but I've been sixteen for three years now, so it's got to wear off soon.
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[One of these days she is going to pay for it. Again.]
So does that mean you're really nineteen, or do you feel sixteen? Some of my friends would argue that since our dream selves were awake as the normal us slept, that counted as extra years, but mine never woke up, so.
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[Oh, hey, burgers are here. Kon's going to consider Roxy's question as he helps himself to a fry.]
That's probably one of those in retrospect questions, but -- I think both. I know I've lived through more than most sixteen-year-olds in my world, but at the same time, there's a lot of stuff you just get by living it. You know when people say 'you'll get in when you're older?" I thought they were full of it -- implanted knowledge rocks, by the way -- and then I met Eridan, and woah. Clarity bomb.
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[And okay, that Eridan comment gets a laugh from her.]
Okay yeah, point there. But being his moirail, you know that's why I'm there to help him. It's a sort of romance to them, but it's basically the living embodiment of the phrase "Check yourself before you wreck yourself." And anyone else around you.
Are we talking implanted knowledge like in the Matrix?
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It's been a while since I saw the Matrix. But basically, everything I needed to know in life got fed to my brain while I was in the tank. They tried to sync up body and mind as much as possible, so I got everything through to about halfway through the second year of high school.
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That sounds pretty neat though. I mean, it didn't hurt or anything, right?
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Nah. It was all done telepathically. So no pain at all. High school on the other hand? Pure, unadulterated torture.
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Can't say I can comment on that. I guess there's an upside to your race being killed off? No school, baller.
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Oh, man. My cousin? Last surviving son of Krypton, and he willingly went to school anyway. The high school thing's his idea.
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