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Oliver Queen does not wear tights (dl_greenarrow) wrote in marinanova,
@ 2013-10-16 19:40:00

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aradia megido, artemis crock, bart allen, kitty pryde (aoa), oliver queen, piter de vries, tear grants, wally west, zatanna zatara

Day 241 -- Video
[Well this is new. Not that he didn't deserve to be in prison considering the amount of crimes he's committed over the years, even if they'd been in the name of pursuing truth and justice. Illegal was illegal, right?]

[He's not sure what to do right now, but he needs to figure it out, so he takes a deep breath and turns on the camera. An image of an attractive, late twenty-something year old man with light blonde hair and brown eyes appears. He's not smiling, and mostly he just looks very tired. There's a long red gash across his right cheek that looks fresh.]

Hey. I'm new here. [Now he hesitates. He doesn't know what to expect, or what to say next. A first for him, really. He always seemed to say whatever people wanted to hear. Or needed to hear.]

I'm Oliver Queen.

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	the fact that you have that as an icon amuses me to no end notbabymagic 2013-10-17 09:15 pm UTC (link)
	[Eh, secret identities were overrated.] You'd be surprised how often that tends to happen around this place. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	I love love love Zatanna :D dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 09:17 pm UTC (link)
	[He'll probably come to the same conclusion in time. Right now it kind of freaks him out.] Yeah, I guess I am. Also people I've never met knowing me...it's a little strange. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Would never have guessed notbabymagic 2013-10-17 09:21 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, tell me about it. The worst part is when you start getting in trouble for things you technically never even did. If I'm going to get grounded for life, the last thing I need is to hear I missed out on all the fun. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	XD dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 09:25 pm UTC (link)
	So I guess this kind of thing happens a lot about here? [He scratches the back of his head, still trying to figure things out.] Do you get into trouble for things you've never done often? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 09:31 pm UTC (link)
	Always. Nobody ever believes me when I tell them I'm innocent. [Quite possibly because she rarely is.] The Wardens here are even worse than my dad. [...that part was true.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 09:33 pm UTC (link)
	[Considering how young she looks, he has a hard time believing she could be that much trouble. Granted, at her age, he had been a handful.] Yeah? Your dad's pretty tough on you about stuff? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 09:37 pm UTC (link)
	You have no idea. You'd think Giovanni Zatara, of all people, would be a little more understand when it comes to saving the world. But no, I went on a mission without his permission. He screamed even louder than Black Canary. [Yes, she is admitting all of this out on the open over a public network.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	[Okay, well that name certainly rings a bell. And so does the name Black Canary. He stares at the screen in front of him, realizing that's why she looks so familiar. Because they'd met before, when she was older. And this place really just got much weirder than he first thought.] You're Zatanna. You're...young. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	[...why does a young Oliver Queen know an older her?] You've...heard of me? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 10:16 pm UTC (link)
	[He knows her when she's his age-ish. This is all too weird.] Yeah, you could say that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 10:18 pm UTC (link)
	[You'd think she would be used to weird by now. And then new surprises are thrown her way. Or shot.] But how? The Oliver Queen I know is, like, forty. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	...I'm definitely not forty. I'm not even thirty yet. [And he might sound just a tad defensive about that. But just a tad.] I guess in your future? You were about my age. At least I think you were. [He was a little busy being chained to a pole by her magic to stop and ask how old she was, really.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, I might not be as good at Math as Robin is, but that doesn't even make-- [And that's when it hits her.] [She groans. Loudly.] ...you're from Bart's world, aren't you? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	[He has no clue who this 'Robin' that people keep mentioning is, but he's starting to get curious. When she figures it out, he smirks faintly, then freezes.] ...you know Bart? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 10:35 pm UTC (link)
	Why are people always surprised about that fact? Yes, I know him. He's a pretty cool guy. [...who gets her ice cream. It's a pun. Get it? No, of course you don't. But she does, which might explain the sudden smirk tugging at her lips.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	I...have no idea? Just, to my knowledge you and Bart have never met where I'm from. [And he's completely clueless why she's smirking, and he looks a little wary now.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	[Oops?] I guess this is the part where I state the obvious and point out that none of us are actually from around here. Here, being prison. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-17 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	Well, yeah. I know that much. It just caught me off guard, I guess. I mean, you're...I don't even know how old, but closer to Bart's age than mine and... [Yeah he's rambling now and he rubs a hand over his face tiredly.] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	notbabymagic 2013-10-17 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Fourteen. Since you didn't ask. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	dl_greenarrow 2013-10-20 01:04 pm UTC (link)
	[Fourteen? She's way too young to be in prison. This is just crazy.] The version of you I know back home is a little younger than me, but not much. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

notbabymagic
2013-10-20 01:22 pm UTC (link)

[You would think that, wouldn't you?]

[And yet, here she was, with a rap list longer than her arm. That was how the expression went, right? Of course, most of those incidents were the result of vigilante work at its finest, and one would think arson shouldn't count when it was in self-defense....]

So I've heard.

I don't suppose this means it's too late to make a better second first impression?

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dl_greenarrow
2013-10-20 01:43 pm UTC (link)

[He's definitely not pleased at the number of young people that are trapped in this place.]

[But considering it's an underwater prison, he's not convinced there's anything that can be done about it, either. It's just the latest of weird things in his life he isn't sure what to do about. But at her question, a tiny smile touches his mouth, almost involuntarily.]

As long as you promise not to chain me up to any poles, I think we'll be fine.

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	notbabymagic 2013-10-20 02:01 pm UTC (link)
	[...wtf, older self?] That definitely won't be a problem. I'm not really into that sort of thing. Too dominatrix. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

dl_greenarrow
2013-10-20 02:29 pm UTC (link)

[It's not quite like it sounds and he probably should have phrased it better? He's just glad he wasn't eating or drinking anything when she says the word 'dominatrix' because she is fourteen and fourteen year olds shouldn't even know the meaning of that word. He is inwardly kicking himself for not phrasing it differently to give her context.]

It wasn't like that at all, but I'm glad to hear it. I don't hold it against you. [Frankly he was over it with the other version of her, too. He really has no right to hold things against people considering some of the things he's done.]

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	notbabymagic 2013-10-20 02:30 pm UTC (link)
	[The internet circa 2010 was a terrifying, horrible place.] Whew. That's a relief. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

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