Subaltern PLEASE that premise sounds so hilarious and workplace sitcom vibes
Alys is many things to the supervillain Sana: lifelong best friend, right-hand woman, and hopelessly in unrequited love with her. Now it's time for Alys to step away from her job—but not before she finds a replacement worthy of being Sana's second-in-command. Unfortunately, villains these days really aren't up to her standards.
featuring: a shapeshifter protagonist who is the world's most unreasonable hiring manager; be gay do crime taken very seriously; the world would suck so badly if people had superpowers
here's the opening:
I’d had high hopes for this applicant after she passed the first screen with flying colors. She knew this space well. She had a good resume and promising experience. She’d mentioned she was going to Heytea after the interview, which was not important, but it was a good sign that she would be willing to wait thirty minutes in line to get Sana’s mango grapefruit sago if she’d already waited in that line before. Actually, maybe that was important. I made a mental note to add it to the “good-to-haves” in the job description. But now my hopes were being crushed into a fine little powder. The kind of powder I could only assume T. S. Eliot had meant when he said I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
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