teddy kaplan-altman / king of space (teddyaltman) wrote in thedisplaced, @ 2017-06-01 17:38:00 |
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Okay, two things.
1) Billy's holding a meeting tonight to organize the first ever Pride for Tumbleweed, and it'd be great if people joined us! Either in the planning stages, or as support if things get hairy here about it, or on the day. We'll have more info later, but hopefully we'll see a bunch of you tonight.
2) After Daisy talked about how we should get to know each other better, and then Violet wrote about herself, I kept saying to myself, "Teddy, you should do that too, because you've seen what happens when someone is scared and doesn't understand something, and if you can help even just one person, you've done your job, and a lot of people here don't actually know you, either, so they should." So, hey. I'm Teddy Altman. I'm... not sure how old I am after all the time travel timey wimey stuff. I was raised on Earth, in New York City, and I'd consider that home even though I wasn't born there. My life was pretty normal? For a while. That's how the story always starts, right? Normal boy living a normal life, and then he wakes up one day and thinks he might be a mutant. (I'm not.) I was a huge dork (still am) in school, and used to use my shapeshifting to impress boys (ugh), and it worked, but I didn't want to keep doing that anymore. Eventually I met Billy, and Kate, and we started doing the superhero thing. I called myself Hulkling because I could turn big and green like him, and because I'm a shapeshifter - you know, kind of a changeling. Turns out, my parents were kinda famous, only I didn't have any idea.
My dad was Kree and an Avenger, and my mom was a Skrull princess, so that made me royalty, and I only found out when both sides wanted me for themselves. They kind of hate each other, so there aren't many of hybrids like me around. Most of you aren't going to know about all of their history - I don't even know, really - but the Skrulls were really terrible to humans, so that's... you know, that's something that weighs on me a lot. Some of them wanted me to take my rightful place as heir, and others wanted to kill me, and I'm stuck in the middle. I'm not bad like some of them are, or have been. I've become an Avenger since then, and saved the world a bunch of times. When my people wanted me to go rule, I wanted to stay with Earth and keep protecting it. The other hybrids didn't think I'd be a good long if I abandoned my responsibilities, so they gave me more time, but I know I'll have to face that eventually. I don't know if I'll ever be ready to rule anything.
Geez, this is long. Okay. I'm a huge nerd. I love science fiction and fantasy, I love reading, I love Pokemon, I love Star Wars, I love Lord of the Rings. Chances are I know who many of you are. I'm trying to be chill. I can grow wings, I can turn myself into a pegasus or a centaur, or even look just like another person, I can hide my brain other places besides my head, and along with that comes super strength and durability and healing. I have a magical sword that I pulled from a stone (lol) called Excelsior, and I guess that makes me king of space. Billy and I got married 2ish? years ago, and he makes me a better me. I work with Ororo at her shop, and I'm a little tempted to go to college since that's something we haven't gotten a chance to do, what with all the saving the world stuff.
Sooooo... any questions???