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Ramsey Farm open mingle

WHO: Etrayans!
WHEN: Post-mission.
WHERE: Ramsey Farm.
WHAT: An open mingle log for people to hang out and do stuff at Ramsey Farm. See Accelerator's network post for details.
NOTES\WARNINGS: None, please put any CWs in subjects.

An idyllic, well loved little farm house that looks like it has been transported right from the fields of Kansas. The garden in the front has flowers and the back garden is chock full of vegetables. There is a chicken coop and a bale of hay is strung up from a tree like a tire swing for a little goat's enrichment. There is also a shed in the back, designed to look like a small version of the farm house, with a summer outdoor couch set up shoved against the back wall, piled with all weather cushions, and various lawn and small gardening equipment hung on the front wall. Towards the edge of the grounds, in a patch of large wildflowers, sits a large stone acting as a grave marker. Instead of names, it has been engraved with "#1 - #10 031."

The farm is being used as a safe space for children by Accelerator. Kids under 15 are allowed to use it as they wish. Kids over 15 are allowed to use the space if they help with upkeep. Adults who have been vetted by a kid are allowed on the ground to do work. A security system has been added to the farm house that sends messages to Accelerator's ear piece depending on the threat level.

The goat's name is Mena.

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[This isn't the conversation he expected to have today. It's been a while since Damian had told him about Superman, and he isn't even sure if the Damian here is the same one that had made that original request. That it's all coming back is strange, but in order to protect the kids here he's willing to put some effort into information-gathering. He supposes that means he's lucky that she's willing to talk to him about all of this stuff. Especially so when she isn't being condescending about it.

Accelerator gives her a short nod, listening. Yeah, it's pretty much a given that (a) Superman, her and Jon are all connected.]

Yeah, sure. I don't need to know what his powers are. [Since she's willing to tell him he may as well be open.] A while ago someone here told me what kind of shit a Superman can do, since he wanted me to be a contingency plan for that guy and someone else. It wasn't anyone named Lex Luthor, if that's what you're wondering.

Was it anyone named Batman?

( Is her somewhat laconic question, meant as rhetorical. There has been an unusually high amount of linkage between Superman and Batman for a guy that is only rumored to exist over in Gotham back home. Much more than rumors here.

Not because he's metahuman, either. Just grinds her gears to know so little and in turn feeling a little too known herself through Clark's uniformed side of work. )

Superman stepped into the public eye three years ago. He was up front about being from another planet, sent to Earth as a child and raised here. He claimed, rightfully so, to be the strongest metahuman currently known on Earth. Not a boast, he was humble and factual about it. Then he started... doing good. He was kind. He helped save people in our city and elsewhere around the world. If lives were in danger, he'd be there trying to save them all. Sometimes with the Justice Gang, sometimes on his own. He has a no kill policy that for the most part hasn't needed testing. When our government wanted him arrested for bogus reasons, he turned himself in. He hadn't done any of what he was being accused of, and he wasn't about to start doing it, but that was the right thing in his mind, so he did it. And he thought it might help him find a missing dog too.

( She glances down for a moment. Full assessment? Looks back up to Accelerator. Lois cared a lot about what Superman had been up to long before she knew who he was. Also cared for Clark Kent before she knew who he also was. Two very different vectors to end up having cross. )

He's taken families with kids who're dying from incurable diseases to see places those kids always wished they could see. He saves squirrels. Cats up trees. Ant farms. He does what he can to prevent collateral damage when powerful people or beings come into conflict. He cries for the ones he can't save. He cares about everyone, and he looks for the best in them, however deeply buried. He's... Superman.

[Technically no, just someone associated with Batman, so Accelerator shakes his head as an answer and quietly listen. And wow. Fuck.

This sounds like the kind of hero he wished existed back home when he was a little kid. The kind you see in movies or manga, but is way too wholesome to actually be a real person. A character that's pure escapism, because they haven't been beaten down by the crushing misery of reality. All this reminds him a little bit of a certain Level 0, except Kamijou Touma's morality is... complicated.

He has to wonder how Kamijou would react to meeting a person like this Superman, who sounds like the ultimate good role model. Someone people should be looking up to. Someone who is willing to use their power (their absurd power that makes them the strongest) for even the most insignificant thing as long as it's good.

He sits back when Lois finishes, thinking about all of this.]

Hmm.

[He really has to wonder about Kamijou, because hearing all of this is making him feel wretched. This Superman asshole is the opposite of himself. An actual, honest-to-God good person.

Accelerator frowns, looking away.]

If he's really that principled, then the probability is low that anyone is going to have to worry about him here.

[Barring external forces, specifically.]

( She watches him look away, tipping her head just slightly to the side. Trying to get a read on someone whose story she only knows in the smallest portions as told by what he's said, or what he hasn't, isn't much to go on. But he's looking away now, and something about it settles uneasily on his shoulders. )

Yeah. That's what I believe.

( The external forces aside. Those are things they're trying to take steps to help mitigate. As one does. )

[Thankfully for everyone, he isn't jealous. However, it's hard to avoid a comparison when you're talking about two people who have been labelled 'the strongest,' with one of them doing unequivocal good with that power, and the other one being little more than a horrible monster. It's his own baggage and he doesn't want to drag it out into the open when it won't help anyone. Doing so would be childish, like throwing a temper tantrum or something, so he clamps down on those feelings and focuses on why he was asking. This is an information exchange, so regardless of how it makes him feel it's useful to know.

He sighs heavily, reaching up to rub the bridge of his nose. Okay, okay, an extremely powerful person who, under normal circumstances, has a strong moral compass.]

I'm guessing he thinks he has a lot of fucking responsibilities. That's a lot of pressure on one person. He's never gotten stressed out about it?

( Lois considers his question, ultimately leaning back and shrugging her shoulders. )

He may. I don't know if it feels quite like we'd expect or not for him. I'd say he's the only one who can really tell you. Anything I say is speculation. I'm not inside his head, and I don't want to put words in his mouth that he hasn't said.

( Stressed out by it? She goes quiet for a moment. Eventually: )

He's someone who has to be really good at self regulation. In everything he does. I... don't know if we really ever understand what that has to mean for him.

( Lois has known this in a logical way. She hasn't broken it down to consider it from different angles. What, in the end, does it mean to be someone as inherently powerful as Clark Kent, as Superman, and yet unmistakably gentle with how he interacts with the whole of the world? )

[Does this mean he needs to talk to Superman, now? Because this is something he can relate. It's something he had to deal with ever since he was a child, and he still has to maintain control even when he uses his ability today. Self-regulation has been a huge part of his life for years.]

It's unlikely.

[Normal people don't have to worry about being able to kill someone just by touching them, and it isn't something you can understand without experiencing it firsthand.]

And it's all the more reason to have a contingency plan in place. Sometimes the difference between being in control and not is a thin line.

[His experience with that is why he had agreed in the first place.]

( Can't hurt to talk to Superman directly, Accelerator. For many reasons, he's the best source of information on himself. )

It is. We're working on our own contingencies.

( She says, which isn't saying anything about Accelerator's being asked historically, or her assumptions by now that it could indeed be universal. People see threats in possibilities. Even slim ones. She gets it. (She hates it, but she gets it.) )

But you're welcome to talk with him about it. Just like you may want to for how he handles stress.

[He gives a small nod. Good to hear they're being responsible adults!]

Yeah, maybe. [Likely! When he's feeling motivated and somewhat sociable.

At any rate, he moves to grab his crutch and stand.]

Oh, and the library might have the kind of printer you're looking for. Otherwise you'll probably have to ask Aurora for one.

( She shifts, moving to stand much as he does. No further comment on what Accelerator chooses to do with his time, but hey, no reason to be. It's not her ... business in any viable way that Lois would try justifying to herself.

Ergo, she nods her head to the suggestion. )

Thanks, I'll check out the library. If I don't run into anything there, I'll reach out to Aurora again.

( And gives him a little wave. )

Thanks for talking, Accelerator. See you around.

( Best to make sure she's following his cues on this, and this? Feels like a decent exit cue. )

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