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Who: Katie McCoy and her victims of choice.
What: Rapture, ravaging, and 'rithmetic. (Ow.)
When: Any time between 23rd September and 31st October.
Where: Any place.
Summary: Triggered by recent events, Katie's darker, more primal soul is in control and intent on sharing the love. Or the hate. Depends on your definition, really.
Rating: ...I honestly don't know. Let's make it a high PG just in case?

[First there came the wraith child,
Hands and silver hair,
Then there came the dark place,
All the hurt laid bare,
Now the soul is broken,
Torn beyond a care,
Shining now among you...

...I see you there.]

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I've read all about him. He has his own comic where I come from.

[...now this is interesting.]

Really? [...] Does your world have a city [or a city-state-country-something-or-other] named Sternbild, then?

It's in America, isn't it? [Superheroes are American >_>]

Yeah.

[Or maybe Sternbild is America, IDK IDK. You and your AUness, T&Bverse.]

Do you have a superhero costume?

Yup! I even have it here in Luceti, I found it in the shops last Halloween. I haven't really gotten a chance to wear it since then, though...

Halloween is coming up again. Perhaps you could wear it then.

Yeah, I could! Last year I handed out candy while I was in costume. That was fun!

What's your costume like?

Well, it's red, yellow, and green, and it has a dragon on it. And I have to wear a headpiece that shows off my sponsor logos. [She is the best at describing things.]

You have a dragon costume! [She smiles brightly.] That's the best kind. What's a sponsor logo?

[Oh. She's never had to explain what a sponsor logo is.]

Sponsor logos are the logos for the companies that sponsor me for being a Hero! [Obvs.] They're really important to have, because that's partly how I get paid. [More or less ~~or so I'm assuming~~.]

You get paid for being a Hero? Don't you do it just to be a Hero?

Of course I do! Me and the other Heroes save people because we want to! [Well, they do now.] But it's our job, too, so that's why we get paid.

Oooh. [She considers that. Getting money for it kind of feels like selling out. Buuut. It's not that different from being a policewoman, is it?]

I suppose you need the extra money for drycleaning.

[She laughs.]

I guess! Natasha takes care of that for me, but I think my company pays for it in the end.

Who's Natasha? Is she your butler?

Nah! [Though that thought is kind of funny. Especially since Pao-Lin's only vaguely aware of what a butler actually is and what their job is.] She's my caretaker. I live with her because my parents couldn't move to Sternbild with me.

[...she's starting to have second thoughts, you know. You seem like a pretty nice person. And lonely-ish, too.]

Do you miss your parents?

[Pao-Lin's gaze drops to the ground.]

...a little, I guess. I mean, I don't want them to be here, but...I wish I could at least tell them I'm okay.

[Even if technically, because of the way Luceti works, they wouldn't even notice that she's gone.]

[Katie takes that at face value, and just smiles a little.

...now or never, she thinks. She needs it.]

Show me what they look like?

Oh -- sure! But I'm not very good at drawing old people.

[Still, she'll untie the sketchbook enough to turn to a fresh page and begin sketching out her mother.]

Then why don't you draw them as if they were young?

[Pausing mid-sketch.]

Huh? I never thought about what they'd look like young...

Everyone's young on the inside.