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[ooc; for reference, previous phone post available here.]

THIS SPACE FOR:

☞ AM I DOIN IT WRONG? Am I doing it right? Please use this post for any concerns/complaints/random thoughts &c about how I play Tommy.

☞ THIS COMPLETELY VIOLATES CONTINUITY. ngl guys, I am trying but comic book canon at large is so vast and complicated that it's terrified me for twenty years, to the point where I've avoided them entirely until recently. I'm trying to stay informed but if I do something unpardonably stupid or say the wrong person is dead/resurrected/evil/whatever for the time, please feel free to point it out. Politely, preferably. I will try to make amends.

☞ DO YOU WANT TO PLAY WITH ME. PLZ? If you'd like to plot with me that is a-okay too, just leave a message! Or hit me up on AIM or via e-mail or something, idek, smoke signals, whatever! ilu. ♥

☞ ICONS. Unless otherwise noted all icons used in this journal are made by me. You are more than welcome to use them if you'd like! I would appreciate a credit at

team_sociopath but, moreso, if you're going to borrow them I would really love it if you'd leave a note here and let me know. ;) But of course, not mandatory, because hah it's not like I drew them.

☞ STANDARD DISCLAIMER: I am so far from actually being Tommy in any respect that it's positively ludicrous. It should go without saying that I'm not involved with Marvel, or involved with people involved with Marvel, and probably not really involved with people involved with people involved with Marvel. Hell, I barely understand any of it, but I'm doing my best. This journal is a work of fiction, I make no money, I just amuse myself 'cause I'm odd like that. Plz don't sue me. ♥

Wait, how is it Monday?!

Creepy time warp? Or did I forget something?

...And how messed up is it that creepy time warp is the answer that worries me less?

[ooc; backdated to earlier today! 'Fatigue Day' all weekend 8)]

[Community Post]

[VOICE]

This morning it was kind of cute.

Now, I'm pretty sure my window's blown out. And I can't get the door shut. Annnnd... I'm just gonna stay on the couch until they go away.

[He's mostly only annoyed that he can't be properly annoyed.]

[Community Post]

[VIDEO]

[Enter one young and confident superhero, who's noticed that daleks aren't exactly the most maneuverable of enemies, so he's not even breaking a sweat, staying out of the way and picking people out of the line of fire.]

Sodoesanyone--

[And before he can finish his rushed sentence--]

EXTERMINATE!

[He turns on it and drops the device, the video catching a flash of the big heap of metal advancing on him as it falls. It bounces and rights itself with a burst of static.

When the picture refocuses, Tommy has his hands up before him. There's an odd swirl and blur, then--

BOOM!

Tommy's face comes back into the frame as the dust clears and he picks the camera up.]

I was saying, anyone need a lift?

[ooc; action out on the streets welcome, or requests for assistance! <3]

[Community Post]

I never, ever want to see sand again. Never.

Did everyone else get like, kicked out of the desert place and end up here? And did everyone find everyone they were looking for?

Because if so I'm gonna sleep for a week.

[Community Post]

][ AUDIO | Glass City

[Starts with a strange sound, a crackle or a tear maybe, masked by a burst of static.]

Heywaitwhere--

[Running over sand isn't very easy-- the unsteady surface giving way slows him down as much as anyone else. Running over glass, going is a little easier, but stopping...]

Whathappenedtoallthe--

There's a loud, resounding crash and shatter, the tinkle of shards spraying all over the place as he doesn't quite vault a park bench in time, followed by a heavy thud and much closer crack of plastic as he (and the device in his pocket) hits the ground.]

--sand?

[ooc; broke the speed limit, now laying somewhere on his bruised and confused butt. Open to action if one person would like to find him, network otherwise <3]

[Community Post]

][ VIDEO

[Tommy looks tired, maybe just a little bit sooty.]

It's never a good sign when the sun doesn't come up.

[And well, tired he is.]

Don't get me wrong, it was a great show until it like, exploded. [His brow furrows slightly.] Anyway I wanted to say... if anyone needs a lift to the hospital or whatever, after all that... lemme know.

[ooc; i do actually have a thread up on the open log if you want to play stuff out, OORRRR feel free to just assume a rescue / chance meeting / whatevs. also please pretend this was a tad earlier, DW was being sluggishhh]

[Community Post]

I remember this kind of thing happening.

Still have yet to have anyone bring a pizza as a universe-warming gift, though. Which is kind of a disappointment.

I'm just saying, it'd be polite.

][ooc; 1,000% backdating friendly forever. Tommy can generally handle most things so hit him with whatever you got 8) ][

[Community Post]

][ AUDIO

So this morning I woke up and looked in the mirror, and looked like Billy. And I was kinda pissed, because like, that creepy body-switching curse just happened last month to me and Euphie, so not fair that I pull it two months in a row.

But, nope. No blue glowy magic stuff. I look weird but I feel fine. Still speedy.

And Billy still looks like Billy. So now we both look like Billy.

I don't get it.

][ooc; 'Thomas' apparently means 'a twin.' Which, you know, he is, but I figured the curse could accentuate the fact. Using

unusuallywiccan to tag, for icons.]

][ ACTION

[Tommy has no actual reason to be out and about today, except that he's looked out the window and on the Network and seen the commotion, and this is the kind of curse that he has very few objections to.

So he's out, hanging around, conspicuously lurking around corners and waiting for the right person to cross his path.]

[ooc; feel free to scar him at will \o/ tags will be sadly delayed because l-lol final projects but ;__; i will get back to you i swear!]

][VOICE;

So. Hypothetically.

[This voice is a girl's voice, high pitched but with a flat and frustrated tone.]

Let's say due to curses, you're stuck in someone else's... well, life, and you need some stuff, but you don't want to go shopping because... well, you just don't.

I guess I'm asking, do clothing stores here deliver? I would really like pants.

[ooc; can't change the post icon to reflect it, but Tommy is body-swapped with

deadly_legacy. Responses from

shesallyouneed]

][ AUDIO

This is not what people mean by Trick or Treating.

Catch me if you can!

[ooc; action anywhere if you like, trying to eat him or flagging him down for a rescue~ Tommy's out trying to keep people from getting eaten. I am a slow logger but will backtag forever ;3 ALSO if you'd like feel free to assume he swooped your chars outta danger]

So who came to visit, and what'd you bring me?

[ooc; YEEEEAAAAAH FOURTH WALL, hit him with all you got. Uh, doubles scare me a little but Tommy can probably handle it, and really... I guess anything goes! ALSO this post, like all my posts, is 5000% backdating friendly!]

The day after a curse is kind of like having an awful hangover, except you've got the crappy luck to remember all the stupid stuff you did.

In related news... Anyone want these?

I don't think I can stand to look at them long enough to blow them up.

][ VIDEO

The lesson for today:

Pink hair on girls? Awesome.

Pink hair on guys? Not so much.

As usual, the first person to see me and say Billy what did you do to your hair? wins all the punching I can manage in five-minute interval. Which, if you didn't know, is kind of a lot.

[Tommy is out and about running errands today, because any day when people are randomly kissing people seems like a good day to be outside and conveniently near cute girls.

Besides, there are things that need doing! Groceries to buy! And Tommy's still looking for a job. Maybe he'll find one... and then, of course, he'll need to celebrate.]

[ooc; The more AWKWARD MOMENTS I can generate, the happier I will be. So anyone at all, feel free to come make up a pretense (or just comment and I'll make a pretense) to make out with Tommy :3]

What, really, City?

All right. I'll play. Who's up?

Okay, so today I learned something.

If you get stupid cursed and do something crazy, like basically take over a bar and buy everyone several rounds of drinks, because you think you can afford it and you tell the bartender to put it on your tab, you have to pay that tab. Even if you can prove you aren't whoever you said you were that day and the whole thing's just a crazy misunderstanding. Also, if you ~~blew up~~ broke a few chairs at some point in the evening, you have to pay for those too.

Even if it's totally not your fault.

So uh.

I need a job.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Tommy Shepherd. I'm really fast. Like, you wouldn't believe how fast. It'll take you longer to tell me where to bring something than it'll take me to get it there. Also, you know, I fight bad guys and save the world while looking awesome on a regular basis, but I'm not sure if that's a marketable skill here.

Also, if you spoke to me last weekend, basically ignore everything I said. I'm really not ~~that much of~~ a jerk.

City, I am bored. And as such I want your suggestions.

What's the best bar in the City for a party?

Cost, of course, is of no importance.

[ooc; City, meet Thomas Lenshserr, prince of the House of Magnus, the more debauched of the grandsons of Erik Magnus, ruler of Genosha, mutant supremacist royalty and all that good stuff. Being as Thomas is the irresponsible and openly hedonistic one, he's going to get himself in debt by buying a few rounds for everyone. 8D if there's interest I could throw up a log tomorrow? <3 Otherwise feel free to assume attendance of his party >3

tags might be delayed a bit! <3 wanted to get this up tho]

Dude, if you're all gonna come visit, you should at least bring take-out or something. The pizza places around here suck.

Also, if anyone out there is me from another universe or whatever, we have to race. And I am going to kick your ass.

[ooc; Tommy can handle pretty much anything, please avoid spoilers on recent events for everyone's well-being. <3 Backdating friendly of course! Will be delayed til after I get familial stuff outta the way~]

Lot of lonely hearts out there today, huh?

I can help with that, ladies.

][ VIDEO

[At first it's hard to tell what's going on-- the screen's filled with a warm darkness, an indistinct shadowy shape moving restlessly in the background. Before a viewer has time to do more than wonder at it, a wide rectangle of bright light spreads over the screen, illuminating raw wood surfaces and piles of hay, and a large gray horse snuffling in the background.

A boy comes in through the now-open door with a bucket, which he hangs in the horse's stall. He absently pats the animal's nose, then turns to look at something off the edge of the screen.

The horse, apparently irked at not being the center of attention anymore, cranes its neck and leans over to bite the boy's shoulder.]

Merde!

[Scowling, he wheels around, and--

the video chooses that point to cut off. Oops.]

[ooc; Tommy is a stableboy and has forgotten he ever wasn't~ and yes, he bit it back.]

][video;

[The camera is obviously propped up on a bathroom counter, and it shows a girl in a baggy t-shirt with a raggedly-cut v-neck posing and preening in front of the mirror. She's got a cell phone in hand and occasionally snaps dramatic, Myspace-style photos of herself in the mirror. White-haired and skinny, she's pretty, if a little clumsy in her posing. Probably because she's a sixteen year old boy.]

So at first I thought this was like, the worst curse ever.

[He pauses and turns to flash the camera a winning grin, a little cocky.]

But then I realized, it could be kind of awesome.

[Smirking, Tommy twists his long hair up with his free hand and practices a flirty pout, before leaning over (flashing a little cleavage) to turn off the camera.]

[ooc; it combines his love of hot chicks with his love of himself. >3]

THOMAS SHEPHERD

He died as he lived; being
incredibly awesome, surrounded
by gorgeous, naked women.

[ooc; ...he WISHES.]

So in not-lame news, it's been almost a month and Godzilla hasn't destroyed our apartment or anything. I guess randomly burst into flames is a thing rabbits grow out of. You know, if they're the kind of rabbit who ever bursts into flames to begin with.

So even if he's not a super-rabbit, Godzilla's still pretty cool. And makes life slightly less mind-numbingly boring in between curses. Which is, actually, probably the lamest thing about this place-- there's nothing to do and nowhere to go, when nothing's happening.

Yep.

So, 'sup, City?

[ooc; YEEEEAAAAAH FOURTH WALL, hit him with all you got. Uh, doubles scare me a little but Tommy can probably handle it, and really... I guess anything goes! ALSO this post, like all my posts, is 5000% backdating friendly!]

Mood bored

How do people deal with this? Being so slooow? Oh my god, why isn't it midnight?

These curse weekends are so totally lame!

Waking up the day after a curse is like waking up with a hangover, except without the fun part.

Um.

Does anyone want some, like. Motivational posters?

And by some I mean a lot.

][ACCIDENTAL AUDIO;

Hnnngghhhhhhhhh....... urrrrrrrrrrrrkkkk......

[Quiet, rising from the depths, the moan of an eldritch horror waking from its nightmares, the wyrm who circles the earth chewing on its tail and groaning in its infinite solitude-- no, no. Just Tommy, moaning quietly in abject misery.]

whhyyyyyyyyy...... [it rises, its crescendo a sharp whine, interrupted by the scuffling and muffled rustle of blankets as he tosses and turns in bed.

After that there's a loud sneeze, followed by a prolonged coughing fit.]

not... faiiir...

[Another (rather pathetic) sneeze, and the recording ends.]

[Tommy's got this one figured out, and of course he's doing the logical thing: trying to position himself so he's in the mistletoe-laden path of approaching hot chicks. Oh yeah.

Of course, this doesn't work out nearly as well as he might hope, and half the time he doesn't notice who's coming up behind him...]

[ooc; openest action that ever opened. :D ]

Dude, when I said sometimes the City gets boring, I so did not mean I wanted to see it turn into a Times Square tourist trap at Christmas kinda mess.

Seriously. The Carousel is even lamer than the department store windows. Trust me on this.

[ooc; ...honestly? bring out whoever you like, doubles freak me out a bit but Tommy can probably handle it. XD]

HOW TO BECOME A SUPERHERO
- THE THOMAS SHEPHERD TECHNIQUE -

1. Blow up your high school
2. Get arrested
3. Get transferred to morally questionable superjuvie
4. Get busted out by team of wannabe superheroes
5. Discover you look awesome in green
6. Stick around and flirt with the hot chick on the team

You can pace the room if you’d like, but it’s barely a cage; long enough to lay out on the floor in either direction, but not much bigger. At first it seems empty; but after a time the shallow sound of breathing is perceptible, coming from one of the walls. There’s a bed there, little more than a cot, with a supine body on it. Was that there before? Didn’t you walk along the edges of this cell, running a hand over the smooth walls?

It’s still too dark to make out his features, but if you reach out to touch him you’ll find he’s dressed in plain scrubs, bandages here and there on his limbs, and an IV hanging from the wall beside him. He’s totally unconscious.

If you’re anything more or other than human, whatever abilities you have don’t work here. There’s no way out. The walls, the plated door, are too heavy for any shouts to pass to the world outside. There’s no one with a key. No one who cares you’re here, even if they know-- and somehow that thought, when it occurs to you, is worse than anything else. You’ve been left here, and no one’s coming to get you.

You’re stuck.

Now what?

[ooc; open to all, will treat different threads as different ‘instances’ of the dream~ i will prob. be getting to tags in the morning and will backdate forever but I wanted to start gettin' these up~]

i think billy stole my clotrhes

but i dont think i care

[ooc; wearing this because i needed only the barest excuse. probably a little drunk. <3]

So many things are not okay about the last few days.

So many.

I may never be dry again.

][video;

[Tommy's sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by a tangle of wires and lit only by computer monitors scattered here and there. Computer equipment looms in the dim light, and now and then he turns to check something on one machine or another. Actually, he seems to know what he's doing. Mostly.]

So--

[he begins, turning to face the camera, moving to push his goggles up off his eyes, when suddenly something behind him explodes in a shower of sparks.]

Nonononono, not again!

[Whatever he was going to say is anyone's guess, as he fumbles to turn off the video feed and stop whatever is melting down from melting down.]

[ooc; duude, idek the first thing about the genre, really. ._. but hacker Tommy is here to... accidentally blow his shit up, more than anything else |D please imagine this was earlier (wednesdays suuuck) and it is massively backdating friendly!

also, he believes all this is untraceable and on secure channels, but it's just. not. <3]

][audio;

[Thud. Thump. CRASH. Pause, the faint creak of floorboards.]

owww...

CRASH.. Thud. Commence whining.]

He-eeey... what's going on..?

fasterthanu

ur twitterature sucks, guys
less than 5 seconds ago from Netdroyd

needs more @shitmydadsays
about 3 minutes ago from Netdroyd

lol i get it. cute, City
about 4 minutes ago from Netdroyd

WTF. dude, i think my network phone thing is broken or something. i didn't drop it or anything but it won't let me type without cutting me o
about 6 minutes ago from Netdroyd

[ooc; ...link OOC but for your amusement]

][text;

yesssss this totally works! what is that noise anyway? are we under attack or something?

][open action;

[Here and there, today, across the City and the park and wherever you might happen to be, you might encounter fairly small, greenish freak whirlwinds. It is in fact Tommy Shepherd, running in circles very, very quickly, because at a certain point the doppler effect shifts the vuvuzelas up to a pitch he can't quite hear, and though he can't keep it up indefinitely it helps a bit. At other points when he gets... okay, bored, moreso than tired... one might find him sprawled somewhere on a bench or a low wall or a patch of grass. He is not picky, okay?

BRRRRZZZRRRZZ.]

[ooc; if that doesn't make scientific sense please blame the physicist i keep on retainer ;D FEEL FREE to run into him (errrr preferably not literally!) out and about.]

][audio;

[At first, there's just a rush of air over the mic. It stops short for a long moment, instead picking up only the normal background noise of the City. Then, softly and irritably,]

Oh, man...

[The rush picks up again-- in the other direction, not that you can really tell. It pauses again. Then picks up for a minute. Then pauses. Starts again. Then, having traversed the City four times or so, Tommy stops and sits down on a convenient bench, not tired but certainly frustrated.]

Sooner or later one of the others will-- Hey, what's-

[BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP]

[ooc; open for action but please try to leave me a little wiggle room to maintain continuity? ;D also feel free to mistake him for Billy, now and forever and ever. <3]

( the green light flashes, the flags go up )

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