I'm nearly human look at me

[unobtainableredemption]

Characters: Kaine and OPEN
Date: Sometime after the bottle event
Location: Various
Situation: Various
Warnings/Rating: PG-13 to be safe (for Kaine's mouth)


Option 1 - Fire Sector
[Kaine’s standing in front of a storefront, looking through the window at the mantle displayed on the other side and debating whether or not he wants to buy one. Not for the fashion, mind you, but for something he could temporarily wear to cover his face and conceal the giant shiner surrounding his left eye. It’s a cliché, but you should really see the other guy.]


Option 2 - Water Sector
[He had intended to go right home, but now that his face was concealed by the hood of his newly bought mantle, Kaine finds himself walking right past the door to his suite, eventually winding up in a park in the water sector. It's clear by the path of destruction as he enters that one of the baby turtles had been through recently--the rubble had not yet been pushed to the side. He found himself smiling despite himself. When were they going to learn that they couldn't destroy everything?

Kaine sits on one of the benches and pulls the hood low as to cover his black eye, and just stares out at the mess. He could head home some other time.]


Option 3 - Metal Sector (Wearing this costume, though he still has short hair)
[He had forgotten how heavy the outfit was. It was the complete opposite of his Scarlet Spider costume—bulky with ridges and angles that have angles. Then there was the cape. What was he thinking when he added a cape to this thing? There was no reason for it whatsoever. Not like the raised “veins” of the costume, which had once pressed upon the scars of his degeneration to slow its progress, but now just serve to remind him of where the scars used to be. It was perfect.

He couldn't be the Scarlet Spider anymore. Not after what had happened in the bottle. It only served to remind him just how different he was from the others, and just how far he had fallen from what he could have been. And then he found this, his old outfit that once kept him alive, the outfit he wore during the year he spent terrorizing both Reilly and Parker, as well as anyone they might have cared about… and if that wasn't divine intervention, he didn't know what was.

Kaine leaps to the next building, never losing a stride in his step. He’s trying to get used to the suit’s bulk by doing something he’d done hundreds of times in it before... but if he bothered to stop and think about it, he’d realize just how suspicious he looks dressed like that leaping across rooftops at a sprint.]

OOC: If you want to roll with something other than those, feel free to either PM me, reach out to me at redconfession, or just start a thread, your choice.

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[burnseternal]

[The look Saint Walker shoots Kaine is level, but deeply unimpressed.]

You mean to ask from where I hail? [He says delicately, then continues.] I, and others like me, are from the planet of Astonia. You would not have heard of it.

[unobtainableredemption]

[Okay, he might have been able to phrase that better.]

I... can't say I do. I'm not exactly sure what's "out there."

[burnseternal]

Even for those for which space travel is an everyday occurrence, we are considered to be... a bit out of the way, [he says, which is frankly putting it lightly. Few had deigned to so much as visit before their untimely destruction, and now that it was gone, few noticed their absence.] And Earth, as I understand it, has not yet developed the technology necessary to travel very far at all.

[unobtainableredemption]

Frankly, I have no idea. Space is [outside my realm of things I give a crap about.] not exactly something I know much about. But I'd say we gotta have something, given how many times the Avengers or the Fantastic Four or whoever have gone into space.

[burnseternal]

[Those names garner a blank stare from Saint Walker.] I have no idea who those... groups are, [he admits.] But I know precious little of Earth and its customs.

[...and their propensity for masks.]

[unobtainableredemption]

They're just teams of blowhard superheroes, you're not missing anything.

[burnseternal]

That is the second time you have mentioned superheroes, [he says, little more than an idle observation.] What exactly are these superheroes?

[unobtainableredemption]

They're idiots who dress up in colorful costumes and convince themselves they can save the world.

[burnseternal]

[He's not going to comment on the saving the world bit - or, in fact, the costumes or the idiot bits. There's something a little more surprising to him in that statement.]

And there are enough of them for Earth to create a name specifically for them and them alone?

[unobtainableredemption]

Yes. [You might not see it, but it's clear from his tone he's rolling his eyes. Not at the question, mind you, but at the thought of so many freaking superheroes out there.]