Hi just want to say your story about the superhero was incredible. It broke my heart and I loved it
AN ASK ABOUT AN ORIGINAL THING I WROTE? đ„ș
I wrote two superhero stories but only one has been getting likes in my activity feed recently so I think you mean my construction superhero short story. (checks the post) oh uh wow thatâs getting more traction than I realized. Shit. So thatâs why a bunch of people followed me recently.
Anyway, I donât know if you are still watching my blog anon but since you liked my story have another snippet I whipped up just for you.
Excerpt from an interview with prisoner #4598, also known by the code names âConstructor,â âDestructor,â and âthe Architect.â Transcript incomplete due to being salvaged after the attack on the prison records. Interview conducted by Mitchell Newman.
MN: Okay, well, since our memory experts canât see anything in your head but muck and have established weâre not going to get any information out of you, anywayâŠ
4598: Lethe is very good at memory stuff.
MN: Right, yes, of course she is. So since youâve forgotten all useful information and I have to visit you at least for two hours a week just so this doesnât count as solitary confinement--
4598: Could I talk to Sandy?
MN: Ms. White hasnât asked to speak to you.
MN: Anyway as I was saying, since I have to be here anyway why donât you just tell me about yourself? Give me the whole manifesto.
MN: Right. Well. Let me just continue then and you can answer if you feel like it. Sound good? Good. So, here is my question. What do you think about what people call you now? The first time you got arrested, you didnât escape for months. Why?
MN: Everyone thought it was because you needed to know the makeup of the material in order to shape it. When you stayed put they thought theyâd gotten you with their Akonite walls. But it turns out you never needed to know that and you were just⊠sitting in there anyway.
MN: What stopped you from escaping?
MN: Did you think that youâd be let out if you played along, since you had good PR then?
MN: Okay. Was it that you still believed in the justice of the system?
MN: Second thoughts about trying to stop the construction of that stadium?
MN: Is it related to your apparently still-developing powerset? Are you hiding some ability or--
4598: Everyone I had looked up to wanted me in jail. I thought no one would agree with me, so there was no point.
4598: Uh, thatâs something Sandy taught me. It doesnât really matter what powers you have. If you want to get things done--big things, like building cities--you need lots of people. The things Iâve done, rebuilding⊠It's always because people have helped me. Cleared away poisons so I could go in the area. Gave me materials. Helped me learn.
MN: And without those people, you decided you couldnât do anything?
MN: So what changed your mind and made you decide to enact the largest villain breakout in history?
4598: I had to try. It wouldnât be right to just give up immediately. I couldnât do it alone so I decided to find people who could help.
MN: And those villains--many of them serial killers and terrorists--these people shared your altruistic goals?
MN: Right, sorry. That was a bit blunt on my part. I just mean it must have been a difficult group to work with.
MN: Youâre pretty famous for not killing anyone yourself, even now. I really believe you donât want people to die if they donât have to. How do you reconcile that with working with, oh, Inferno. You know, the one that burnt innocent congressmen alive?
MN: Some of the villains who escaped that day went on to kill innocent people, even if the ones you became friends with didnât. Do you have any regrets?
4598: ...Skinner killed three children before we caught him. Toxica got⊠one, but made 48 people very sick for a while. Um, the others--I counted it all up. The amount of people who died due to the actions of villains that escaped because of me was 28.
4598: The attacks your heroes do on other countries have casualties that number in the hundreds. Thousands sometimes.
MN: We were tracking down a highly dangerous villain with a power that could--
4598: That could not do half of that damage. They never can. The serial killers and terrorists--theyâre hideous people. But there has never been one with the power to do what American âheroesâ do every year.
MN: Thatâs because we kill them first.
4598: And then there is the damage afterwards. The sickness. People who die in the rubble. People who have their entire homes destroyed only to be turned away as undesirables when they try to find a home somewhere else.
4598: You asked me if I have regrets. Yeah, I do.
4598: I regret every single fucking base I built for all of you.
The rest of the transcript is unsalvageable. Prisoner #4598 escaped shortly after, as containment measures on the subject once again failed. Future heroes are advised to use lethal force on sight, as containment has proven impossible and these transcripts indicate de-radicalization is unlikely.
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