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THE Milliways Test Drive MEME

HOW TO PLAY:

* Tag into this post with a pup you're thinking of apping to the bar with a brief EP set within Milliways and/or its universe. You can be new to the game, or simply want to test out a fresh pup.

* If you already play at Milliways, feel free to tag in with your own characters and interact with the new pups. You can also post your own EPs for these new characters to thread with.

* Mingle, post, and have fun!

Comments

[raptorcanaria]

The weirdest world in the multiverse, Lois. And Dinah knows it.

She gives a sheepish grin. "The kind of world with aliens, metahumans, gods, magic and superheroes?"

[presspasskey]

"You have got to be kidding me."

Beat.

"...So what the hell do fishnets have to do with it?"

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah glances down at her legs, stretching one out to look at the torn hole at her thigh.

"My costume," she says.

[presspasskey]

"Yeah, I'd gathered they were your work clothes. Almost no one just wears fishnets--way too much trouble to deal with."

So says the Voice of Experience.

[raptorcanaria]

"You'd be surprised how sturdy they can be," Dinah says, although distracted, picking at the hole.

Oh well, another pair done.

"The trick is usually to not let anyone tag you."

[presspasskey]

"You'll have to tell me where you buy yours, then, because mine never seem to last."

After another moment, she adds with incorrigible curiosity, "But seriously, if you're going to be fighting aliens or flying monkeys or whatever, is that really the time for fashion statements?"

And she doesn't even know about the boys who wear tights and capes.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah raises her eyebrows. She tries to look offended, but doesn't fully succeed.

"My mother put this outfit together."

[presspasskey]

Lois doesn't buy the offended look, but she does look surprised all the same.

"Your mom sent you out in that? Damn." She shakes her head, though she still sounds a little approving. "Even the coolest mom I know wouldn't send her kid out in anything like that."

Except Lois happens to be dead wrong. She just doesn't know that yet.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah's look becomes a smirk.

"I didn't say she sent me out in it. It was hers before I stole it."

[presspasskey]

Lois approves. Strongly.

"Okay, I can't say anything for sure without seeing for myself, but I'd say your mom's second coolest on my list."

Her grin is all for the stealing, though.

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah, pleased with herself, shrugs.

"She's also the scariest Mom in the world. You try being raised by a costumed hero."

[presspasskey]

"Family business, huh?"

Lois veers away from the topic of being raised by a mom. After all, she wasn't, not really.

[raptorcanaria]

"Yes, it is," Dinah says, with a healthy dose of pride in her voice. "Mom, and all her friends had a hand in it."

[presspasskey]

"No joke?"

Lois actually looks suitably impressed and a little fascinated.

"...Do they all wear fishnets?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Just Mom," Dinah says. "The boys never could pull it off.

"Though why they think spandex is an appropriate substitute, I'll never know."

[presspasskey]

"...The... guys. Who go around fighting gangs of ninja trained flying monkeys."

She looks and sounds far beyond bemused and into simply full of absolute disbelief.

"They wear spandex."

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah shakes her head. "I know," she agrees. "At least I've got leather protecting the parts that count.

"Though," she adds with a frown. "I guess most of the men aren't too worried about that. They nearly all have superpowers."

Which make them more or less bulletproof.

[presspasskey]

Lois' eyes just go up even more.

"And all these men have superpowers that make them impervious to a baseball bat to the groin--and the fashion police?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Well, they all have the physique that looks good in spandex," Dinah offers. "All of them.

"To tell you the truth, it's distracting. I have to wear fishnets just to level the playing field."

[presspasskey]

Lois laughs. "One of the best uses of fishnets I've heard.

"But really?" Her tone is part incredulous, partly actually interested by now. "All of them, guys, and they can pull off tights? Is that the superpower, or do they actually have something else?"

[raptorcanaria]

"It might just be the exercise," Dinah offers. "It's physically grueling work, fighting night after night."

She knows, after all.

"And y'know, the shapeshifter can look how he likes."

[presspasskey]

"Damn." Lois looks noticeably appreciative at the thought. "That's got to be better than visits to the gym. Well, except the bruising--though I guess it's not a problem, if they're wearing spandex?"

And then she blinks.

"Shapeshifter? Seriously?"

[raptorcanaria]

"Martian," Dinah explains. "Apparently everyone can up there?"

[presspasskey]

"Martian?" she asks with absolute delight. "You weren't kidding about the aliens thing?"

[raptorcanaria]

Dinah shakes her head. "Never. We have one Martian, one Kryptonian, and a guy who's technically an Earther but spends a lot of his time as a member of the Space Police."