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Tweak says, "Hmm... I dunno."

Matt Murdock (ninjaattorney) wrote in somerealityrpg,
@ 2021-01-28 14:27:00

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Who: Matt Murdock & OTA
What: Sometimes you wake up in Goodland and you can't read floating Entity Greetings and you need an assist
When: Thursday afternoon
Where: Not too far from the Villas
Warnings: ...just go watch Daredevil

It almost felt too good. Matt couldn't quite make himself relax. So many lives lost. While he knew he had done the right thing in not taking a life, plenty had been killed for him and because of him. Karen and Foggy had done their best to convince him that things were alright. Fisk was back behind bars, Matt's greatest secret was safe, and somehow despite everything, so were Foggy and Karen both.

That didn't keep his heart from racing or his stomach from churning.

It might be a bit before he was able to relax again.

He could tell the moment something changed, but he couldn't quite grasp what it was. Things felt different. It still sounded like the city he knew and loved. Traffic, constant chatter, the ringing of nearby cash registers, someone yelling at a man for cheating on them. But the air weighed differently. The smells weren't the same. It was like he had walked through a door, only he knew he hadn't.

Matt froze, trying to adjust to his surroundings. He wasn't that far from his friends, if he tuned in, he should still be able to hear Foggy laughing or Karen's giggle. But he heard neither. He didn't hear the elderly man in the Bodega on the corner scolding his son for whatever stupid choice he'd made that day.

The panic didn't set in immediately. All of his senses were still working as normal. Or as normally as his ever did. It didn't feel like a medical emergency. Just not...right. It was disconcerting and he made his way to the nearest bench, probably quicker than he should have, in an effort to sit and think this through.

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aracelypenalba
2021-01-29 02:15 am UTC (link)

His musings about the seeming banality about the people around them unknowingly mirrored the thoughts that repeatedly made ccurred to Aracely; sometimes she wondered if she thought about it so much because it would be easy for her to find out more, if she listened closer. She knew how people felt about that, though, how simple it was for her to know what they were thinking and the things they didn't want anyone else to know, and so it was better if she kept practicing not doing it - that way she wouldn't slip. It might not matter if the people weren't really real, but then maybe they were. Maybe when the building turned into places like camp they went to different camps, and that was why they didn't seem to be around when everyone from their building went somewhere new. No one else seemed to be too interested in the whole thing anyway apart from occasional throwaway comments.

She shrugged easily at the question he actually asked out loud. "Well there's Frigga, and Ernie. They supervise us. We used to have different people but most of them left and Black Widow went to live with Hawkeye. Before here I just lived with Kaine and he's not good at supervising anyway. They make me go to school here and he didn't. He's a good champion though even when he's grumpy. One time he turned into spiders and ate a werewolf. It should say on there what apartment you're in! I think it's a number and a letter, what does it say?" She leaned closer to watch him open it, wondering who he'd end up with. She wasnt really sure how the Entity decided that - sometimes it seemed entirely random, and sometimes people ended up with their friends. How did it even know that stuff? Unless it spied on them before they came here, maybe.

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ninjaattorney
2021-01-29 09:58 am UTC (link)

Still. A group home type situation. He knew he shouldn’t feel badly, he didn't know her life or how well adjusted she was. But she was also fairly young and wandering the city by herself, drinking some sort of...smoothie? Maybe a milkshake. It was definitely icy and fruity. It just always hurt a little when he realized there were kids not being watched over.

Black Widow and Hawkeye were names he knew. And he wasn't fond. He forced his features to remain neutral but he didn't exactly enjoy it. Of course he'd find some sort of pocket universe and still end up with the likes of them.

But the important part of what she was saying made him laugh. "This greater power wasn't exactly looking out for me here. I can't exactly read it." The young woman hadn't noticed his disability yet, which was not the worst or even most socially awkward thing to happen to him. "They don't offer these in braille, I guess." He wondered if his phone would still work. He had so many modifications on it that would be more than a little annoying to redo.

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aracelypenalba
2021-01-29 10:34 am UTC (link)

Not listening in on thoughts or not, it was pretty easy to notice the man's sudden shift in mood, though it was hard to tell what it was he was reacting to; she wasn't even sure she could remember exactly what she'd even said, not all of it at least. She blinked at him curiously, then brightened when he explained the problem with the piece of paper. "I didn't even know you were blind! That's so cool! I've been working really really hard on not reading people's minds all the time but I didn't know I was that good!"

Blithely she snatched the letter out of his hands, scanning all the boring stuff until she found the bit she wanted. "It says 2-K. I don't think I know who lives there. I didn't even think the letters went that high but maybe it got bigger again. If it was just making the floors bigger probably only the people who lived there would notice. I think you can make the network read stuff out so you can hear it, people post by talking to it instead of talking sometimes if they come from places that don't have phones and computers and the internet and things."

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ninjaattorney
2021-01-29 10:57 am UTC (link)

His eyebrows lifted over his dark glasses, but not at her not noticing his blindness. She could read thoughts? Creepy. But at this point in Matt's "career", it almost seemed par for the course. "Well, looks like you nailed it, then."

Well. Now he had a place to live, at least. He just had to figure out the rest of the life in front of him. Maybe the magic sky thing knew he needed a vacation? "Most phones and computers have screen readers. I wouldn't have made it through law school without them. And voice to text, though refining those so they don't give really strange options takes some work."

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aracelypenalba
2021-01-29 11:17 am UTC (link)

Law school? She wrinkled her nose, trying to think if they'd had any lawyers before. Maybe a blind lawyer was another one of those people that didn't fit the idea that the Entity picked them for how useful they'd be. Or maybe he had a secret identity! It briefly occurred to her to see if she could check, but she let the idea slide past, too pleased with her accomplishment still to really consider it. "I don't know if we have the same laws here," she told him, sliding down a little in her seat. "I'm not sure what all the laws in real New York are either though. Or in Houston! Mostly we just did whatever we wanted and people were happy because we stopped the city from blowing up and being robbed by Santas and kept beating up the traffickers and taking their money away. People have been police before though so I guess there must be some laws or they wouldn't have anything to do either, and there's not lots of gangs running around. Oh, and there's parking wardens! So I guess there must be rules. You could probably still be a lawyer person if you wanted."

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ninjaattorney
2021-01-30 12:05 am UTC (link)

It was probably ridiculous, but Matt actually sighed with relief at her comment about there not being gangs running around. Parking laws he could do. He didn't know if he was quite ready for another sound of Corrupt Cops and Mob Bosses. Like cowboys and Indians, only even worse and slightly less racist?

"Well, if I'm here for the long haul, I'm going to have to find something, I guess. Whether lawyer person or not. But I'm honestly not sure what other beneficial skills I have." So. She wasn't from anywhere normal then. "I've learned that even letting people who just stop the city from blowing up do whatever they want isn't always the smart thing to do."

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aracelypenalba
2021-01-30 03:33 am UTC (link)

"That's probably true," she admitted without reluctance or hesitation. "Annabelle and Wally say Kaine makes bad life choices. He's not always very good at being a hero but he likes it even if he pretends he doesn't and sometimes yells at people for being stupid. Maybe that's why the Entity hasn't brought him here yet. I haven't seen him in forever." She sighed, realising that by now she'd probably spent more time without him than she had with him. It was a weird feeling - with the connection that let her feel his presence in the city around her she'd almost never felt alone. Reading minds or picking up people's emotions just wasn't the same.

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