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Dite's Decadent Delights, Friday

Sparkle was in a pretty damn good mood today, yes. Why? No particular reason. It was just, sometimes you woke up with a ridiculously catchy song stuck in your head, and the next thing you knew, you were bouncing around the sex store singing about being one of three little maids from school. He wasn't exactly a maid, but he was from school, so he was going to consider that close enough.

He was going to consider that close enough while setting out all of the informational material and product on safe sex that he could find. Because there were new students on the island, and it seemed useful.

"Life is a joke that has just begun...!"

[OOC: Open! OCD-free, as always!]

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Well, he deserved it. Or something.

Karina opened her mouth, then shut it, not sure what to say to that.

Had he just said she was his best friend? Or had he been talking hypothetically?

"If it makes you feel better, I was here for that reunion thing," she said slowly, figuring that was a vaguely reassuring response. Also a safe one. That wasn't making... assumptions or anything.

Sparkle's list of friends was a small one, too. And he didn't think for an instant that Cade or Atton were going to make much effort to keep touch with him after grad. They'd have their own shit to go home to.

"Yeah. I was here, too. But... you know. Fandom teases. And just straight-up fucking lies. Better safe than," alone, "sorry."

"I guess," she said, feeling sort of... blahy at the very thought. Karina crossed her legs and sighed. "You ever think of going to someone else's world after grad?"

"Thought about it, I guess," Sparkle replied, shrugging. "It's not easy, figuring out if there's one where I'd actually belong. I'm kinda starting in all of them with the same thing, aren't I?"

Nothing in one reality, nothing in all of them. Even his youth record in his own Toronto would be wiped clean once he became a legal adult.

"Not really," she said, leaning back on her elbows. "I mean, in some worlds you'd be starting with a friend."

Not that she was suggesting anything. ... Much.

Okay, she totally was. Shut up.

Sparkle mulled that over for a bit before nodding faintly.

"I'd have to talk it over with Lewis first," he settled on. "I'm still on probation. He had to pull a lot of strings to get me this far. Just letting me leave for good, vanish to some other reality without a trace... that might get him in shit, and I--" cared too much about the man to do that to him. "-- Don't want to fuck him over that way."

She shrugged, sitting up straight. "Fine by me. It's not like you're packing up to go right this second whichever way you pick, you know?"

Karina glanced at him. "It's just, you know, you don't have to start at nothing. I thought maybe that'd be a good thing to bring up."

Sparkle was quiet for a moment, pondering that.

Maybe it would be a good thing to bring up. Maybe it was what he needed. A fresh start somewhere. Like, really fresh.

"I guess I have a bit of time to figure it out," he agreed. "Something to keep in mind, now that it's... you know. There. As an option."

"Definitely an option," she said, glad it wasn't a total bust even at the suggestion stage.

"And you know what that means?" Karina continued brightly. "That means you need to see my world. We can go shopping."

Sure, they could go shopping in this world, but her world had way better malls. (Karina was biased.)

"YOU know the magic word, you know."

Shopping! With malls! Yes please!

"And hey, even if I don't end up there, I wanna check it out. What kind of reality does it take to come up with a crazy girl like you?"

It was a compliment. You could tell by the fond note in his voice and the teasing grin.

She grinned back at him.

"Oh, please," she said, "it's pretty much a normal world."

It was sad that she said that seriously. Sternbild's construction no longer struck Karina as anything special.

"I mean, okay, we've got Heroes, but that's probably the biggest change."

And one day she was going to have to admit to him that she was one. Especially if he wandered over to her world to stay. Today was... not that day.

Hey, Sparkle would cope. It wasn't like he was going to scream and run the other way or anything, and it wasn't like he didn't have secrets, too.

"Heroes, huh? So it goes the other way, too? Good guys, bad guys, the whole human situation?"

He was seriously going to develop an inferiority complex, here.

Karina grimaced a bit.

"We're not as advanced as some worlds," she said, lifting her shoulders. "We've got... six Heroes in Sternbild and most of what they do is stop crimes against unpowered people by unpowered people. There's been a few criminal NEXT but most of the powers that people develop are pretty useless. Like excessive sweat or stretching your face sort of useless."

She chewed on her lower lip. "It's not like some worlds, you know? The Heroes are all pretty powerful but they're not, like, caped crusaders. They're... a reality show."

".... So, like, COPS but with people in tights?"

Sparkle needed a moment to digest this.

"Kinda?" Karina said, frowning. "Sort that and sorta like... Next Top Model, with crime fighting."

Think about that Sparkle. Just... think about that.

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"So, COPS but fabulous."

Yep. Yep, he was thinking about it.

".... Oh shit, Karina. I need this show in my life."

"I'll hook you up," she offered, grinning a bit. COPS but fabulous was a pretty good way to describe it. "It's a good time to get into it, the season finale's coming up in a few weeks. You'd be able to cheer on your favourite Hero."

"What if I don't have a favourite?" Sparkle leaned forward with a smirk, clearly teasing. "What if I spend the season finale cheering for the bad guy to get away?"

He was being an ass.

"I defy you to not have a favourite," she said, rolling her eyes. "Everyone does. Even people who don't watch the show."

"How do you have a favourite if you don't watch the show? I mean, it's not like I have a favourite hockey player, and I'm Canadian. I'm pretty sure it's law or something."

Maybe his favourite player was Tim Horton. That seemed extra Canadian.

It did rather seem that way, didn't it?

"Because the Heroes are, like, celebrities in their own rights," she said, trying to think of a way to explain it. "They do ads and talk shows and everyone knows that Fire Emblem runs their own business and that Blue Rose is also a popstar."

It was too weird to call herself a super popstar, even though that's what she was, while pretending to not be talking about herself.

"You can't get away from them," she said, "it's, like, you open a magazine, there's going to be something from at least one of the Heroes in there, you watch TV, you're going to see them in commercials, even if you don't watch the show. They're on the radio, they do charity gigs and everything."

Huh.

"So, more Paris Hilton than Wayne Gretzky," Sparkle theorized. "I guess that's something I'd have to see for myself to really get."

"Probably," she admitted. "It's kinda hard to explain."

"I have faith that you'll get it to all sink in eventually," Sparkle decided, nodding sagely. "In the meantime, I'll just keep on taking your word for it."

Because what else was there to do? Look it up himself? Pfff. He was too lazy for that.

And didn't she know it!

"God," she said, rolling her eyes but smiling. "Guess I'll just have to show you my world sooner rather than later."

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