SOPHIE Alright, what’s this about?
BREANNA: Okay, I know this is going to sound weird, but there’s a group of people, kinda like us, who are trying to help people, only they do it via this concept of ‘transformative works.’
(The screens flash with screenshots of various canons and fanworks.)
BREANNA: The biggest thing is fanfiction, which is people writing their own versions of things they like. It started with Star Trek like a hundred years ago.
ELIOT: Nerd stuff again?!
PARKER: Oo, Hardison told me about fanfiction once. Something about re-inventing the original Star Wars universe to be steampunk, but I kinda stopped listening.
BREANNA: That’s a good example, yeah.
HARRY: Huh, wonder if my daughter knows about this stuff.
BREANNA: Uh… Probably a good idea not to ask.
BREANNA: It can get a little – Well, let’s just say that most of them are romances and leave it at that. You remember how I said Star Trek was the first? (reconsiders) Well, an argument can be made that the original Sherlock Holmes fans wrote the first fanfiction, but with the advent of radio and then television, channels of communication broadened the scope of the--
ELIOT: Breanna. Geek spiral.
BREANNA: Right. Well. There’s a charity auction for dope organizations every year, and the stuff up for auction is fanfiction, fanart, that sort of thing.
HARRY: But not commissions.
BREANNA: Nope, all goes to charity.
SOPHIE: Well, you know I can’t resist a romance. And neither can Eliot.
ELIOT: That’s not-- I have no idea what you’re talking about.
PARKER: But I’m noticing a distinct lack of stealing.
BREANNA: I mean, yeah, that’s kinda the point. It’s for charity.
PARKER: Fine. I guess Hardison would love it.
BREANNA: Yeah. So… Think we can rustle up something?
SOPHIE: Oh, I think we can contribute quite nicely.
BREANNA: Sweet! Man, let’s go steal an auction!