#gemkinetic

[bothsidesofaquestion]

"Are people always this confrontational with you? Or is there a full moon or something?"

unprompted asks | always accepting

“I am a mutant. They’re not only confrontational but, they can be just plain hateful -sometimes.”

[positivelybeastly]

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"Whoop! Sorry there, didn't see you - what a night, right?"

Hank's pretty much barged right past her with the kind of shoulder charge only a high school quarterback or a superhero can have - and as it happens, he was both. Dressed in what looks to have been date attire, a rather swanky suit and pants (though no shoes, of course).

"Y'know, feels like I was sort of daring this to happen - you try and take a gal out to see Little Shop of Horrors, and, well."

He gestures at the massive plant creature that's savaging the city with a distinct air of 'figures.' This clearly isn't a new experience for him. He takes a moment to think things over, spotting an overturned truck on the other side of the street - past a veritable jungle of carnivorous, snapping plant mouths and violent, whipping tendrils - before snapping his fingers and shucking off his suit jacket, handing it to Skye.

"Hold on to that, would ya? A good friend of mine had that tailored for me, and I'd hate for Audrey II over here to get her nippers on it. Wish me luck!"

And with that, he dives in, bouncing, bounding, and practically ping ponging all over the place as he evades the plants, unable to stop talking the whole way through. Or, well.

Singing.

"Oh, da-doo~ I was walkin' in the wholesale flower district one day!"

"Shoop da-doo~! And I passed by this place where this - oh, yanno, we're just gonna skip that line."

"He sometimes sells me weird and exotic cuttings~ Snip da-doo!"

"Uh, because he knows, you see, that, that strange plants are my hobby~!"

"Da da da da da da-doo~! He didn't have anything unusual there that day!"

"Nope, da-doo~ So I was, ya know, just, just gonna walk on by!"

"Good for youuuuuu~!" He takes a moment in the midst of it all to snap his fingers, singing in the tone of almost a barbershop quartet (of one), before leaping away again.

"When suddenly and without warning, there was this, TO-TAL ECLIPSE OF THE - OOF!"

Hank let out a grunt when a tendril smacked him directly into a building, recovering enough to bounce right back into action. "Not a Little Shop fan, huh? Well, that's all right. I'm more a fan of one of the other songs, anyway."

"They say the meek shall inherit, you know the book doesn't lie, it's not a question of merit - da da da da daaaah, no way, forget it It's much too dangerous to keep that plant aliiiiiiive!"

With one last dive, Hank tumbled into the back of the truck he'd spotted, just missing the WHUMP of an oversized and very thorny, lethal looking limb that was just a hair away from turning him into a beastly pancake. He searched for a moment, the picture of controlled frantic, before finding a tank and grinning, cranking the top hard.

"No, no, you've got no alternative, Seymour, old boy, though it means you'll be broke again and unemployed, it's the only solution, it can't be avoided!"

"The vegetable must be destroyed!"

With an almighty pitch, the tank went sailing through the air and landed directly in the creature's mouth, taking just one pregnant moment to explode - in a shower of medical liquid nitrogen, causing it to shriek and spasm, right before Hank got to lobbing more and more tanks of nitrogen, freezing it into shocked hibernation, the almighty creature stuck in a beautiful icy tableau.

"Yanno, it's a shame we missed the winter season. Just a few weeks ago, they'da paid to keep you and move you to the Rockefeller Center. Heh!"

Whistling merrily as he made his way past the creature, Hank gave Skye a wink as he took his jacket back.

"You know what they say. Don't feed the plants!"

[noetic-noesis-noein]

@gemkinetic​ has entered the shop

   “OhmiGod, hi! I saw you at the robbery last week, you were literally amazing!” she squealed, floating off the ground, blonde curls high above her. “I’m Noetic, it’s so great to see other Supers out here!”

[phantosm]

@gemkinetic​ cont...

“Uh yeah, I’m a villain, sweetheart. It’s our schtick, yknow? I mess with you, you’re all ‘how dare you’ etcetera etc-fucking-cetera.” he scratched his head, “You new at this or something?”

[renisence-a]

@gemkinetic​ said:

"You want me to punch that guy for you?"

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“It’s fine.” Coraline mumbled, playing with her hands as she looked over at the adult. “I don’t even...Know what they’re talking about.” It was a lie, of course, but the young girl wasn’t keen on giving information on what she went through. When everyone but a select few dismissed it as a fantasy she’d made up for attention.

[leaderinmovingblog]

@gemkinetic​:

She points to her crystal-covered fist, as if asking if he wants her to take care of it.

He shakes his head. If only he wasn’t so blasted sore, he could use the sign language he taught Dopey! He shrugs one shoulder and uses his thumb and pointer to make a backwards c that goes from a larger c to a smaller c. He might be gesturing for a size. A possible translation could be “it’s only a small problem” or “that guy doesn’t have big enough diamonds”. Both may be valid.

[nether-twins]

@gemkinetic​ started following

“Is there anything you want to ask me or are you just gonna stand there and look at me for the rest of the day?”

[precognitiveignition]

@gemkinetic

“I’m not sure what kind of powers you have, but I’m not one of the ones who can regenerate. Death isn’t really something I can walk off, you know?”

“I mean, you hang around enough of the real bigshots and somebody’ll probably be able to pull you back from the dead.  Hell, might even happen a few times, y’never know."