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[good_noise]

1)

[Earlier this morning, you were asked to show the new addition to the group around one of the bases. What you probably didn't expect was a small fourteen year old Asian girl with a distant expression and a tarantula the size of a fist clinging to her shoulder. If you've been following the teen magazines, the face will be undoubtedly familiar - this girl is a famous genmod idol with a lot of often rather creepy fans obsessing over her "aloof charm". The girl herself simply bows respectfully to you though.]

Hello. I'm Peni Parker. My aunt told me you would show me around.

2)


[Peni is sitting down with you for lunch at some secluded place: a rooftop, a bridge, an empty park... She's been gloomy and untalkative all day, and even now she's barely eating, only taking the occasional absentminded bite out of her sandwich while she stares off into space and Sp//dr skitters up and down her arm.]

Hey... do you think people can really be heroes?

3)

[There's some sort of emergency going on. A fire, a flood, the building's coming down... either way, there's a lot of innocent bystanders panicking around and crying for someone to do something.

And, surprisingly, after an instant of panic, notorious wallflower Peni Parker's expression hardens as she raises an arm slightly and her spider skitters to her hand and tenses. She starts shouting at people to follow her, but the panic is too great, so she turns to you]

We have to move quickly. He knows a way to safety. You have to help me get through to all these people, they won't listen!

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[empress_without_a_throne]

[It was always nice when the weather was accommodating for Mizuki, hence why she had decided to join Peni on this little outing. The girl certainly seemed to have something on her mind, the question had just been what it was and when she'd say it. And when she'd asked that-]

Of course I do. I wouldn't be with the Unity Group, with the Savior Team, if I didn't.

[good_noise]

Really?

[Peni sounds like her mind is very far away from here]

...what do you think you'd be doing, then? If you weren't in Unity group, I mean?

[empress_without_a_throne]

Well, I'd have a few choices to work with. A lot of them would still wind up being some version of "help people in danger". I don't know how far I'd get, but it wouldn't feel right doing anything else.

[good_noise]

So it's sort of what you "are", right? You just couldn't do anything else?

[empress_without_a_throne]

Depends on what you mean by "are". If you're talking about any kind of divine driving force that wanted me to be something... if that had gotten its way I would've wound up being a really terrible person.

But from what I've experienced in life, and what I've taken from those experiences gave me a lot of food for thought. So I took steps to help my extended family, to make sure we'd all still have a place in the world.

That and being an entity of pure darkness isn't easy in a world that caters to life born and sustained through the Sun.

[good_noise]

Being a what?

[The whole "entity of pure darkness" thing is sort of a sudden trainwreck to the teenager's mind. Peni is used to genmods, monsters, and such, but normally when something is "born of pure darkness" that usually means boss fight, not a chat]