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[razorback]

So are there any "fictional" doctors here?

Just for reference, I'm not sick or anything but if anything happened I wouldn't wanna go to one of the natives.

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[stillpretty]

All of that leads to the big question "What do you do with a bunch of kidnapped superheroes once they've come to accept your way of thinking enough to let them go?"

[ That's what Buffy's worried about. The only time they're "released" according to what she's heard is when they decide that they're ready for society. So what does "ready" mean? If there are this many people with powers, then.. well, ready might be something not quite as innocent as capable of sustaining themselves. ]

[razorback]

I don't know if anyone's actually been let go, though. I mean, people get "released" but we don't know what that means and there's no warning. I mean, if you were gonna be released into society because you're fixed, you'd get advance notice, right?

[stillpretty]

Worst case scenario, released from life.

[razorback]

Not to sound too cheerful, but that's not the worst case scenario.

[stillpretty]

Other scenarios still have a tiny chance of change even if they suck beyond belief. Death's the one thing humans aren't meant to come back from. I'm counting it as worst-case.

[razorback]

... not from a warzone, huh?

[stillpretty]

Not your typical one, anyway.

[razorback]

There are non-typical war zones?

[stillpretty]

Something along those lines anyway.

[razorback]

So, underground kind of thing? People get to live their lives while a handful of unlucky people fight?

[stillpretty]

Something like that.

[ It's supposed to be one person. The handful of people is really a Buffy-specific trait. ]

[razorback]

At least humans aren't going extinct.

[stillpretty]

No but there's a lot of stuff that really really tries to make it that way.

[razorback]

Then it shouldn't be a secret.

[stillpretty]

Most people would get killed if they got their feet wet in it.

[razorback]

You're thinking small scale. I'm not saying get more people in on it, I'm saying get everyone. If whatever it is you're fighting is hiding in plain sight, the second knowledge becomes public they're screwed.

[stillpretty]

Believe me, if it were that simple it'd be over and done with. People don't want to talk about it and they don't believe a single word that someone says if they mention it. People who do know don't really go for the whole trying to understand what's happening thing either, they just go straight for the whole "faster pussycat, kill kill" bit no matter who they're talking about.

[razorback]

So you're the only not stupid person in the planet?

[stillpretty]

No. There are plenty others and I would be glad to go back to being "stupid" if I could.

[razorback]

And let someone else fight? Why don't you?

[stillpretty]

The last person who could've relieved me turned into a serial killer psychopath.

[razorback]

... so? We sort of got one of those, he's good at killing skitters.

[stillpretty]

She decided she'd rather help the other side at the time after trying to kill me and my friends. She's in a coma now.

[razorback]

Yeah, okay. That's messed up.

[stillpretty]

You're telling me.