[voice] / [action for the Shepherds if'n y'all want that]

[bitty_blue_brother]

Could anyone tell me about the comic books in their world? If your world has comic books, I mean. I want to hear about what kinds of stories they have, especially if they're about superheroes.

[Hubert loves the comics he got from the Christmas ship, but he can only re-read them so many times. And all he can find in the shops on Empieza are regular books. Which he's not necessarily upset about, because he likes books in general, but...they don't have superheroes. PLZ TO ENTERTAIN HIM WITH EPIC STORIES OF GOOD GUYS WITH COOL WEAPONS BEATING UP BAD GUYS.]

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[rikuheyriku]

Hmm... Well, I started to read this one series about a guy that was fighting to save his city from this giant, mutant shark-man...thing. I didn't really have time to get into it. Not long after mom bought them for me, I wound up with the Keyblade.

...And after that, it was nothing but fighting Heartless and Nobodies!

[Gives a bit of a laugh.]

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[bitty_blue_brother]

Heartless and Nobodies? Are those...monsters?

[That sounds a bit more interesting than the guy trying to save his city from Shark Man Dude.]

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[rikuheyriku]

Ah, well... Yeah. They're from my- ...universe. [Well, he can't say 'world', since they were kind of on many worlds.]

Put...simply...Heartless go around stealing people's hearts. And Nobodies are creatures that appear in the place of a person whose heart's stolen by the Heartless.

Both are bad news.

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[bitty_blue_brother]

That...that sounds awful! And you had to fight them? How?

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[rikuheyriku]

[Oh, Hubert...You don't even know the half of it.]

Well, it wasn't so bad. It definitely could've been worse. I had my friends with me the entire way... and I had the Keyblade.

[voice]

[maskedtyrant]

Do you know about Kafka Man? They've gotta have him where you're from, right?

[voice]

[bitty_blue_brother]

Kafka Man? No, I haven't heard of him before...

[What kind of name is "Kafka"?]

[voice]

[maskedtyrant]

What? You're kidding! [But Kafka Man was everywhere--his third movie was coming out in less than a week! Or, less than a week four months ago. Close enough.] You know--chunky bug suit, antennae, immortality shtick? You can't not know about Kafka Man.

[voice]

[bitty_blue_brother]

...he sounds like a villain.

[A bug man? Pls. Total villain material.]

[voice]

[maskedtyrant]

What?!

[TAKE IT BACK]

Kafka Man, paragon of justice and slapstick--evil? I don't know what world you're from, but it's gotta have some seriously messed up morals.

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[sacredashes]

[Rather than jumping out of the corner of the ship and scaring the snot out of this kid, Asch chooses to write out a response.]

There were a few books about a master of disguise on my world. I think the first one was Star of Ispania.

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[bitty_blue_brother]

[Good call on that one, Asch. Otherwise Hubert might've wet his pants in fright and that would've been super awk.

Anyway. Star of Ispania. Pretty impressive stuff.]

What was it about?

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[sacredashes]

[Wait until you see her costume.]

A legendary thief, a woman. She was skilled in all sorts of combat and espionage. She protected the poor and downtrodden, from what I remember. She would steal from greedy nobles with evil intentions, then share their wealth with those who needed it.

[Natalia chose that woman as her role model. And then she never shut up about it.]

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[bitty_blue_brother]

[If only Hubert could see the costume.]

That sounds amazing! Why was she called the Star of Ispania, though?

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[sacredashes]

Ispania was the name of the country she lived in. I believe the 'star' part was to designate her as a sort of hero, though I could be wrong. It's been a long time.

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[conntego]

Comics?

[yeah jaune had just overheard him. the young man walks over to hubert, smiling sheepishly.]

Yeah, I used to read tons of those! All about heroes 'n stuff. Nothing all that unique.

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[bitty_blue_brother]

[OH JESUS THAT I DON'T BELIEVE IN please don't scare Hubert like that, Jaune.

Okay, okay, it's cool. Hubert did not wet his pants at this. Everything's gravy. So to speak.]

D-did you have a favorite?

[Jaune must have at least one if he's read so many of them, right?]

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[conntego]

[WOW RELAX DUDE.]

Uhmmm.... not really, they all were kind of my faves.

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[bitty_blue_brother]

[WHAT IS THIS "RELAX" THING YOU SPEAK OF. HUBERT DOES NOT KNOW IT.]

They must have been really amazing stories, then.

[Hubert he just said they weren't all that unique -- ]

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[conntego]

They were! What about you, do you have any faves?

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[whiteas]

You could probably ask Jaune about that. He seems far more into those types of things.

[ He's all hero-this and hero-that, he has to be right? ]

voice;

[bitty_blue_brother]

Yeah! I talked with him earlier about them. He says he's read a lot.

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[whiteas]

It figures..

[ She doesn't sound like she's judging him too harshly on that, it just makes sense to her given some of the things he says. Oh well. ]

Why are you interested in them?

voice;

[bitty_blue_brother]

Well, they're really cool, I guess! The heroes all have amazing powers or weapons and they get to defeat bad guys and save innocent people from peril. It's a lot of fun to read!

[It's super escapist in general, but especially for someone like Hubert, who's a timid and sheltered little rich kid.]

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[whiteas]

Do you want to be a hero when you're older?