The Hostel, Malibu, Friday Morning

[ultron_junior]

As they stepped out of the portal and started the walk to the beach house where the team lived, Victor was feeling good about bringing Olive to meet his friends. Sure, there had been a couple snarky comments about redheads, and some genuine concern about bringing somebody without powers to the house even for a day, but ... he was home and it was a beautiful Malibu Friday. It was hard to worry too much.

He grinned at Olive as he reached for the doorknob. "Ready for the inquisition?"

[OOC: Just for Olive, and NFB due to distance. Parts will be taken from Runaways vol. 3 #10. ]

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Re: The Inquisition

[ultron_junior]

"They're good cookies, too," Victor finally put in, to a general murmur of agreement. He'd been hanging back to see how things would go. It seemed like they were actually okay, and that thawed him out enough to speak.

Nico hummed to herself, tilted her head at Olive thoughtfully. "Do you freak out about stuff around superpowers a lot?" she asked. "I'd think you'd be all bored with it, between Victor and everybody else at your school."

Re: The Inquisition

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"Nooo, not bored. Never bored," Olive said, shaking her head. "I mean, dude, the coolest thing I can do is sew my own prom dress. So yeah, it's never really going to get old for me."

She looked a little more uncertain, but decided to stamp on in the name of honesty. "It's sometimes a little freaky, though. No one has powers or anything where I'm from -- we don't have those Avenger people or anything -- so sometimes it takes a minute for me to wrap my mind around something, but...for the most part, it's gotten to be sort of a new form of normal, you know?"

Re: The Inquisition

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"I know. It's not like most of us spent that much time thinking about the Avengers before we got roped into this," Nico said, sighing a bit because she knew what a fanboy Victor could be about it. "Seriously, they're about as interesting as the Kardashians and more overexposed."

It might have been hard to tell, but she was starting to decide she ... kind of liked Olive. Maybe.

"Also, props for sewing. I make like half of what I wear."

Re: The Inquisition

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Olive smirked, arching a brow. "But do the Avengers have their own nail polish colors? Because I know I was beating people out of the way at Target when I saw I could make my nails just like Kim and Kourtney's."

Because seriously, Kardashians. Are you for real? Are you?

Re: The Inquisition

[triesnot-todie.livejournal.com]

"They don't, and now I want Iron Man burgundy and gold," Nico said. (And actually kind of meant it; even if he was a dick, Iron Man's suit would look awesome in nail polish form.)

"But the Avengers have action figures and Kim and Kourtney don't," Chase contributed. "So they kind of win."

Re: The Inquisition

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

"They might have Barbie dolls," Olive said, and then winced and added, "I'm both ashamed of myself for knowing that, and of, you know, the world for making that possible."

"On the bright side, if there's Avengers action figures, I know what I'm getting you for your birthday," she added, shooting a teasing smile at Victor.

Re: The Inquisition

[ultron_junior]

"Which were the ones you had back at your mom's?" Chase asked Victor loudly. "Scarlet Witch and Hulk and a couple others, right?"

"The Thing," Victor said, ears scarlet. "Shut up, that was a really long time ago."

Like, eighteen entire months!