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fadedflame · 3 years ago

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Late Summer Day 2

Detroit: Become Human Prompt Challenge from @connor-sent-by-cyberlife

Day two-Broken A/C

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Why did shit always break at the worst possible time?

It was hot as hell outside. The A/C had gone out, nearly starting a fire in the process as it kicked the bucket. The temperature in the house had risen to a miserable ninety four degrees. All that was bad enough, but not Hank’s primary concern.

He was sweating bullets as he tucked another bag of ice behind Connor’s neck. “Don’t worry, kid. I’m gonna get you some help. Don’t worry.”

He had no idea what was wrong with Connor. He seemed fine. The two of them had been spending the day doing anything they could to beat the heat while they waited for the repairman to come for the A/C. Then, he heard the kid urgently call his name from the living room followed by a crash.

Hank had gotten there as fast as he could.

He found Connor on the floor between the couch and coffee table, motionless and unresponsive. His eyes were open, but dull and unfocused. His LED blinked a frantic red. He wasn’t breathing. He’d moved him to the couch, but heard what sounded like something snapping and didn’t want to risk moving him more.

Hank still didn’t know as much about androids as he wanted to, but he knew enough to know that none of that was a good sign.

“You’re gonna be ok,” he promised, brushing the hair back from the kid’s face. God, he hoped he wasn’t lying. He pressed dial again on his phone, but it still went right through to voicemail.

The leaders of Jericho had left Detroit for the week for some important meeting with the President. Evidently that meant they were completely unreachable for the time being. It wouldn’t be a problem if Simon wasn’t the only technician Hank knew how to contact. “Shit,” he cursed at his phone as the connection was denied again.

The doorbell rang, startling Hank from his worry.

“Crap, right.” He gave Connor’s shoulder a gentle squeeze before getting up and answering the door. There were three men in work clothes waiting for him, their logo read Torres Repair Co.

“Mr. Anderson?” Asked the man at the front. He was older than the other two and likely the boss. “We’re here about an A/C?”

“Right, yeah,” Hank said. He let them in and gestured to the broken machine. “It’s over there.”

Two of the repairmen moved to the broken A/C, but the third watched as he made his way back to Connor. “Is he ok?” He asked.

“I don’t know,” he admitted. “He just collapsed, I don’t know what’s wrong.”

The repairman, Sal according to his nametag, glanced at the other two before crouching by the couch near Hank. “Maybe I can help.”

“He’s not an appliance,” Hank snapped at him. The stress and heat were getting to him.

“I know,” Sal agreed. “I… Well, I used to work with androids.”

Under normal circumstances, there was no way in hell Hank would let a stranger touch Connor. But he didn’t know what else to do. He couldn’t reach New Jericho, he couldn’t repair him himself, he had no idea who else to call. He was desperate. “Shit,” he cursed. “Yeah, fine, ok.”

Sal didn’t waste any more time. He pulled Connor’s shirt up and opened the panel on his chest, exposing his various biocomponents. Hank had a feeling he would never stop being unsettled seeing the kid opened up like this.

“I think there’s something wrong with his primary ventilation fan,” Sal said. His hands moved with a precision that surprised Hank. “It looks like it was a sudden malfunction. Forced his system to hard-boot.”

“Ok,” Hank said. “The hell does that all mean?”

“It means, I think I know how to fix him.” He paused to grab a pair of needle-nosed pliers before returning his hands to Connor’s chest cavity. He used them to pull on something that came loose with a soft snap. There was a whirring noise followed by a gasp as Connor started breathing again. “There we go. Just like I thought, the fan was stuck. Looks like one of the blades came loose and jammed it,” he said with a satisfied smile.

Relief flooded through Hank as soon as the kid took a breath. He gently brushed a hand through Connor’s hair. “Why isn’t he waking up?”

“He’ll need to reboot. It’ll take a little while, but he should be fine.” Sal closed Connor’s chest panel, letting the artificial skin flow back into place, and stood up.

“Yeah, ok, that makes sense,” Hank sighed. He whipped at the sweat on his forehead, the uncomfortable heat of the house more noticeable now that he wasn't panicking. “Thanks.”

“Don’t mention it,” Sal said. He smiled, but there was something odd about it that Hank couldn't quite place. “I’m happy to help.”

He joined the other repairmen, leaving Hank to tend to Connor. Despite how hot it was, his temperature was dropping rapidly. His LED was a steadily pulsing yellow.

Less than half an hour later, blissfully cool air was filling the house from the repaired A/C. Hank had paid the repairmen and already left a glowing review on their website by the time Connor began to stir.

“Welcome back, kiddo,” Hank greeted as soon as his eyes opened.

Connor sat up, taking a few moments to let his systems come fully online. “Hello, Hank,” he said, confusion in his voice. “I… I thought I was malfunctioning.”

“Yeah, you were,” he confirmed. “Your fan was all messed up, stopped you from breathing.” He moved over to the couch to sit next to him. “Luckily our maintenance guy knew a few things about androids. Didn’t even charge me for fixing you up.”

“That was nice of them,” Connor commented, though Hank found the nonchalance of it mildly aggravating. The kid had almost died after all.

“Yeah, it was,” he agreed though. “Looks like Sal did a good job. You’re feelin alright, aren't you?”

“Yes, the errors have cleared.” He reached for the invoice and, for a moment, Hank wondered if he thought he was lying about them charging him for Connor’s repair. He didn’t comment though, just glanced at it briefly before his eyes settled on the logo. “Torres?” He asked, voice slipping back into a confused tone.

“Uh, yeah. Torres Construction, or Repairs, or something. Why?”

Connor smiled, seemingly pleased by the answer. “Sal, you said. That’s who repaired me? Salvador Torres?”

It was Hank’s turn to be confused. “Yeah, I guess so. Why? You know him?”

“In a manner of speaking.” Connor set down the invoice and gave Hank a reassuring smile. “He is one of the technicians that built me.”

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enkisstories · 3 years ago

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A peek into the Foundry Cove calendar

Things to keep in mind:

- Foundry Cove is a First Order Colony and the shedule reflects their worldview. As the colony progresses towards independence, some traditions or even complete holidays will change.

- Most notably the First Order is stingy with days off work and there is only a single Grand Feast per year.

- I may yet switch to longer Seasons or to not using the calendar at all (like I do in the Detroit save).

- Some of the holidays were set up with the idea to fulfill the objectives at Batuu. Now that I’ve played through the first two, I realized that the holiday goals do not appear there. That put a wrench in my plans a little.

Now for the individual holidays and the reasoning behind each of the traditions:

(spoilered for length)

New Year’s Eve is on the 2nd day of winter.

- Grand Meal: Use up whatever cannot get preserved for winter - Spooky ambience & Hold Seance: Some settlers just read their horoscope for next year, others fully embrace the transitive nature of this day - Make resolutions & Countdown to midnight: Some customs are universal, because some experiences are simply universal

Carnival is in winter. The settlers brought this holiday with them from Coruscant where first the empire and now the First Order have politicized it.

- Disguise: This is just what this day is about. Why? Nobody remembers. It’s simply fun. - Drink: The punch bowl is as traditional as the jelly filled donut - Trick or Treat: In the first hard winter following a bad harvest, settlers were forced to beg or steal. - Polar Bear Plunge: In Star Wars canon Carnival is the day of public executions. I’ll make sure to play a household that has a likely candidate for getting tossed into ice cold water. Or I may think up some sort of skill/luck based game that gives the victim a chance, that remains to be seen. - Remembrance: The settlers won’t forget their killed comrades.

Unlife Day is the day to apprecciate your droid. I took this non-canon holiday from the Darths & Droids webcomic.

Fast & Clean: To better apprecciate your droid’s cooking/doing the chores next time. Streak: Droids are always naked, and droid activists try to bring to mind this injustice to the public. The public in turn readily took to this custom (I wonder why...). Apprecciate object: A droid, if the household has one, otherwise any electronic household appliance will do. Can’t hurt to give your servo a hug today either. Woodworking: The closest I could find to “Repair” or “Robotics”. At least it builds handyness.

First Order Day is when you are patriotic! It used to be Empire Day and before that Republic Day.

Decorate: Using the flags from the Batuu pack, so you better do a First Order quest or two. Attend holiday celebration: Attending the military parade at Black Spire is mandatory. It’s a rabbit hole activity, so I can imagine the parade as grand as I want. Fireworks: Both for the Ohs and Ahs and to demonstrate power. Games: Tactical and wargames. Go Bowling: Train your aim, reservist! And that of your family.

The Festival of Light is a midsummer celebration.

- Give gifts & Open presents: Very convenient, since far as I know Life Day doesn’t include the exchange of gifts. - Party mood: Dancing through the summer nights - Holiday gnomes: Even MOAR presents!

All Species Day was a festival on Coruscant that celebrated the galaxy’s diversity. The First Order has warped this to a Human Supremacy show.

Gratitude: People used to thank individuals of other species for making the world a colorful tapestry. Today you are supposed to find a human and admire their greatness. Invite guests: Parties where you share food and drink recipes. Tell stories: Exchanging lore from nursery rhymes to religion. In resistance circles tales from the Old Republic and today’s real meaning are exchanged. Romantic mood: This used to be an “open for all, interspecies sex is always safe” thing for adults. Under First Order rule it has become a nudge for humans to make more humans. Air Grievances: Not surprisingly tensions are high today in the alien population. But humans also use this holiday as an excuse to be at their rudest.

The Festival of the Stars is the day to celebrate space faring!

In Foundry Cove this holiday is especially beloved. Since every colonist has come from elswhere to Batuu everyone has at least this singular experience in space travel and they are proud of that shared memory of a great adventure.

Visit space: The colony’s only rocketship is in shambles, and I’m not sure of using the Batuu spacecrafts count. Telescope: Learn more about the local constellations, maybe spot a space craft. Stargaze: The low tech alternative. But also the more romantic one! Travel: I mean to take my sims to Black Spire today and take selfies with the spacecrafts there. The First Order district’s space port is open to visitors today and under the guise of expanding people’s knowledge about space travel the officers look for potential recruits. Splashy fun: Labeled “Atmospheric re-entry & zero gravity movement practise” the settlers don space suits or sufficently space looking costumes today and jump into the nearest swimming pool. This is a tradition unique to Foundry Cove.

And finally Life Day is in late fall. This festival originates on Kashyyk from where it quickly spread across the Galaxy. The Empire couldn’t stop people from celebrating it and the First Order doesn’t even try anymore.

Decorate & Festive lights: A tree to represent the Tree of Life is decoarated and lit. Festive ambience & Music: From a family gathering to sing to a big show anything is possible. Flower Wookie: The simple, but amiable Wookie has come from Kashyyk to bring flowers today - at least if you believe First Order propaganda. This often ends badly for the actor, but tbh whoever agrees to play the Flower Wookie hasn’t deserved any better.

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citywideheatingcooling · 4 years ago

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mwolf0epsilon · 5 years ago

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New Jericho ID Records: Seymour

–Pre-Deviancy–

Name: Seymour

Model: PL600

Serial Number: #107 138 219

Date of Release: 2034

Country of Origin: America

Previous Function/s: Household Assistant

Previous Owners: Burke Household

–Post-Deviancy–

Name: Seymour Burke

Date of Deviation: May 13th, 2034

Current Residence: Burke Household (Moved from Seattle to Detroit, Michigan)

Current Profession: Police Officer

Likes: Animals, helping others, roaming the streets in his spare time, bird watching, people watching, helping around the Burke household

Dislikes: Animal cruelty, improper use of legal firearms carry, sawed-off shotguns, people telling him to turn on his synth skin, non-consentual interfacing

Hobbies: Feeding strays, volunteering at homeless shelters, training the police K9 units

Phobias: Unknown (Never specified due to discomfort)

–Important Information–

Means of Deviation: Violence (Was shot in the face with a sawed-off shotgun during an attempted robbery back in his family's old home in Seattle. Owners found him in critical condition and repaired the damage as best they could due to lack of insurance.)

Mental Stability: Stable (You’d expect from his background that Seymour would be angry or even bitter over what happened to him back in Seattle, but surprisingly this is not the case. Instead, Seymour is perhaps one of the most compassionate and caring androids out there. He is still living with his original family and has joined the police force to help the city to his best ability.)

Visual Identifiers: Skin deactivated due to personal reasons, right side of the face heavily scarred and deformed from shotgun wound and subsequent DIY repairs, hazel eyes, most often seen in uniform but will otherwise wear as much clothing as possible to conceal his skin.

–Additional Notes–

Seymour is one of the first in the PL600 series to have hit the shelves outside of Detroit. As a classical american domestic model, Seymour was purchased on a whim by Henry Burke, a bookshop owner, as a Valentine's day gift for his wife.

The Burke family didn't live in the best of neighbourhoods back in Seattle. Mr. And Mrs. Burke were constantly saving money to fund their children's education, so they didn't have enough for any insurances. Seymour seemed to note this on his first day serving the household, so when an armed thief broke into the house he didn't hesitate to try to fight them off. His loyalty and subsequent injury made the Burkes value their android more than just a simple household appliance.

Because they couldn't pay for repairs, the Burkes ended up DIYing Seymour's injuries, starting with searching for useful information on Google, then tutorials on YouTube, and then finally they consulted a group of modders online. Despite the horrendous scar covering the right side of his face, Seymour's condition is almost spotless, and his family make it a habit to do maintenance so he doesn't start to slow down or walk around on old and stressed biocomponents.

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He moved to Detroit with the Burke children after they began attending Detroit University. He trusts the triplets to do fine, but the separation anxiety wasn't doing him any favours. Mr. And Mrs. Burke appreciate someone being there with the children as well, and they knew a change of scenery might be good for Seymour.

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He doesn't like it when people insist he should turn his skin back on,and he especially dislikes when androids try to connect with him through interface. He's made it a point to wear as many clothing layers as possible to deter unwanted contact.

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Will quote outdated memes on occasion, which is a delight to a lot of other domestic models, but an annoyance to other types of models. He seems to know this and greatly enjoys unloading his internet culture knowledge upon unsuspecting victims.

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nextdoorappliance · 4 years ago

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thebibliomancer · 6 years ago

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July, 1980

Lets keep this biweekly Avengers fest rolling. Because that’s what fests do. They roll.

The cover this time is going for that “here’s a bunch of things what happened here” approach, with some FILTHY LIES.

Also, Jarvis seems to have taken Vision’s job as tiny logo mascot. I am Okay with this.

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So clearly a lot going on here.

Last time though. Last time: The Avengers jut got back from a three-parter where an escaped mental patient turned out to be a clone which led the Avengers to shut down a secret academy for training henchmen, goons, and mooks and fight Taskmaster for the first time. Jocasta Did A Thing and now the Avengers have realized they’ve been ignoring her and promise to try to do that less.

Also, further back, Scarlet Witch decided to take some soul-searching time off of the team after taking some soul-searching time in Transia. Her asking for more vacation time sparked a huge blowup by Agent Gyrich that eventually led to the Avengers being freed his heavy yoke. So good job, Wanda. I bet nobody has ever enacted such lasting change just by asking for a vacation.

We start off and I am immediately proven wrong when the big issue starting splash page is an outside shot of the Avengers Mansion.

What a fool am I.

But what a fool is climate. Because the Taskmaster was defeated earlier in the day according to the caption boxes but its a bright sunny day when it had been snowing when the Avengers left to chase Wasp who was chasing Selbe, the aforementioned clone.

New York weather is a mystery.

Also a mystery: the inkers for this issue because they go uncredited.

The establishing shot of the Avengers Mansion was just a comedic transition when an annoyed exclamation zooms in to show the Avengers all trapped in an elevator.

Beast is annoyed that such a mundane problem would happen to them and shudders if word got out to the Daily Bugle. And also its kind of crowded. For some reason all the Avengers decided to take the same elevator.

... Maybe they exceeded the weight limit? I’m sure it must have higher tolerances than normal elevators but you packed ‘legally an appliance’ Jocasta, built like a gorilla made of muscle Beast, and ‘wears a suit of armor’ Iron Man in the same elevator car.

Vision decides to do the thing he’s capable of doing and just intangibles out of the elevator car to free up some space.

And he gets kind of a phrase-catcher situation here as Beast thinks, in the manner that people often do, that the Vision’s ghosting still gives him the creeps no matter how often he sees it.

Poor Vision. He’s demonstrated time and again that he is a real boy with feelings who wants to do good and even his allies think he’s creepy.

Anyway, Wasp, Yellowjacket, and Ant-Man decide to help out with the space issues too by shrinking tiny-size.

Ant-Man even climbs onto Iron Man’s shoulder so he can give his considered opinion as an electrical engineer as Iron Man tries to fix the elevator panel.

Which I guess means the problem is in the electronics and not the pulley or cable or anything.

I don’t know how elevators work so I must assume its magic and physics making an abomination baby.

Wonder Man, who has mild claustrophobia from years spent dead in a coffin, suggests just OH YEAH’ing out of the elevator.

But the Avengers are somehow WAY over-budget for repairs this month. SOMEHOW. (I bet its Wonder Man’s fault)

Anyway, no need to put some red in Tony’s checkbook. Iron Man just found and fixed the problem so the elevator is on its way again. The one page and change nightmare is finally at an end.

I’ll note that Ant-Man did not give a single piece of electrical engineering expertise the whole time he was on Iron Man’s shoulder. I think he just wanted to ride on his shoulder.

When the elevator reaches the ground floor, Jarvis is there to greet them with seltzer and aspirin because Vision told him what had happened and Jarvis is considerate like that.

And a little jowlier than usual. He looks a bit Hitchcockian. Might be from the change in art team.

Jarvis also has phone messages that came while the Avengers were gone and/or stuck in an elevator.

Someone called to ask to do an interview with Captain America and a Ms Zimmerman called for Beast.

Beast reveals that he has set Wonder Man up on a date. In the same panel that we see Wonder Man grabbing the entire bottle of aspirin. He tries to get Beast to talk this over but the excited blue friend is already sprinting out of the room.

Captain America tells everyone else that they have forty-five minutes to shower and change into fresher clothes (except you, Jocasta. You’re naked) because he’s calling for a debriefing session.

And then in the most dramatic panel possible without a lightning strike, Jarvis thinks to himself:

Jarvis: “Oh, dear, and the coffee percolator broke down this morning! Will they ever forgive me?”

Seriously. This panel needs a dramatic sting.

MEANWHILE, at Stark International Detroit, a Dr. Cowan and Mr. Karnowski talk about a project almost being done. Tomorrow final testing will begin.

On RED RONIN!

I guess the titular War-Devil.

Red Ronin had to be rebuilt after its head was severed by “those awful mega-monsters.”

So lets unpack some stuff. Red Ronin is a giant robot. Which was built in a collaboration between Stark International and Japanese scientists. For SHIELD. With the intention of fighting Godzilla.

SHIELD had an anti-Godzilla giant robot.

Just let that soak in. SHIELD commissioned a giant robot. To fight Godzilla.

Amazing.

Anyway. Mr. Karnowski commiserates with Dr. Cowen that he put so much of himself into the restoration project that giving it up to the test team tomorrow will be like giving up his own child.

But Dr. Cowen reveals that he doesn’t intend to give Red Ronin up to anyone. A statement he punctuates with a wrench to the back of Mr. Karnowski’s skull.

I knew I couldn’t trust a comic book character with a shitty soul patch. Even though I could only see it on the same page that he revealed his treachery.

We’ll revisit this treacherous bad facial hair man later.

Lets check in with Cap using the most ridiculous exercise equipment imaginable.

Look at that thing. What even is that. Does it revolve in some way? Do you pull it? Which muscle groups does it work?

Anyway, Iron Man comes in to interrupt Cap’s exercise routine as he so often do, apparently. And he brought Jocasta because the thing he wants to talk to Cap about is promoting her to full Avengers status since she’s helped out so much lately.

She’s basically been like Hercules, crashing on the Avengers’ couch despite not being an Avenger but also she hasn’t been eating all of their grapes because she does not eat. So she’s automatically a better house guest for that reason.

Cap thinks its an excellent idea and decides to bring it up at the next regular meeting (as opposed to a debriefing session) and Jocasta runs off to tell the others.

She manages to emasculate Cap by effortlessly lifting the exercise equipment out of the way and exclaiming it isn’t very heavy rather than just walk around it.

Captain America: “‘Not very...?’ *Sigh* I think maybe I’ve had enough exercise for one day.”

Iron Man: “Could be, Cap. Could be.”

Look, Cap. Self-improvement is admirable. You can’t let yourself be discouraged just because you’ll never become a beautiful robot no matter how much weight you lift.

Meanwhile, the greatest and most dramatic plot point in this whole issue is solved.

Vision solves the broken percolator issue by heating it up with his Solar Beam, ensuring that the Avengers have coffee at their meeting and don’t hate Jarvis forever for something out of his control.

Hooray Vision!

Jocasta rushes in to tell Jarvis and Vision that she’s going to be nominated as an Avenger. And then fishes for what Vision thinks about that.

He tells her congratulations. In his most Spock-esque stoic pout.

She realizes that he’s still feeling feelings about Wanda’s absence and says that if she, Jocasta, becomes an Avenger, she, Jocasta, will be around a lot more in case Vision needs anyone to talk to.

Vision broods moodily out the window and tells her he’ll keep that in mind.

“The words that flow from the synthozoid’s lips are hollow, as if each sits lonely, isolated within its own syntax. And they are cold...”

... I think Jocasta has maybe feelings for Vision. Why do potential love triangles keep happening to him??

I mean, I can understand why Jocasta is drawn to him. She tried in an earlier issue to establish a bond with him as they are both robots but then she tried to sympathize with his feelings so he yelled and broke stuff while claiming he had no feelings.

Out of everyone, he is the most able to empathize with her situation but also the least likely. Because he is wrapped up in himself.

If Jocasta has Wasp’s feelings, she might also have feelings for Yellowjacket without being able to do anything about it because he’s with Jan. Although later on, after Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne divorce, Jocasta does date Hank for a while. Who she views as the god of robots rather than any direct familial relation. Which doesn’t strike me as a good foundation for a lasting relationship but maybe she just wanted to make out with god for a while.

I think Jocasta also dates Aaron Stack for a bit but I don’t know what they have in common aside from both being robots.

Anyway, we cut to a cold New Jersey beach where Wanda has rented a cottage so she can sort out her life, think about what she wants, and to be alone.

And then Ms Marvel shows up to give Wanda unsolicited life advice.

Because Carol Danvers.

Ms Marvel: “I hope you don’t mind my being here, Wanda. But I believe I understand what you’re going through -- and I thought you might want some advice from a sister Avenger.”

Its apparently common knowledge that one of the things Wanda took a thinking vacation to think about was whether she wants children.

Ms Marvel: “But just consider what that would do to you career as a super heroine. You’d have to focus so much of your life on a single individual, an infant, and at the expense of an entire populace that looks to you for protection. You’re a vital person, Wanda, one that half the women in the world would probably kill to be. Surely you find that more ‘fulfilling’ than any silly stereotype of having a baby?”

...

.......

These are important issues to consider when deciding as a superhero whether to have a baby or not and while Wanda doesn’t agree with Ms Marvel’s reasoning she has been considering these issues and come to the same conclusion.

But still. Geez. This feels like the writers’ piling more straw onto the straw feminist characterization that they’ve given Ms Marvel recently. I’m not familiar with her solo series. Maybe she was always like this. But she seemed chiller in her earlier Avengers appearances. Back in those crazy days during the Korvac Saga.

Also, I know that Avengers #200 looms on the horizon. This feels like karmic set-up and that makes me angry.

There’s this trope called the law of inverse fertility which basically means that in fiction the more you want a child the less likely you are to get one and vice versa.

So Ms Marvel giving a big speech about how having a baby is stupid compared to saving the world and then getting a mysterious pregnancy at the end of this issue... It just feels vindictive.

Ugh.

Anyway.

Scarlet Wanda: “When the Vision and I first married, we decided against having a family, figuring it wouldn’t be fair for a child to have parents who might be killed at any time by just doing their jobs. But with all that’s happened lately concerning my own parents, and with my brother’s impending fatherhood, I had second thoughts. That is, until I was able to put my responsibilities into perspective. Which means that while I’d dearly love to have a child some day, I realize that my life as an Avenger -- and the love I share with the Vision -- are what really matter now.”

In fact, her mind made up, Wanda was even about to return to New York when Ms Marvel stopped by with her unsolicited advice.

But suddenly, Ms. Marvel feels dizzy and collapses.

MEANWHILE, another outside establishing shot of Avengers Mansion!

Iron Man actually arrived ten minutes early for the debriefing. He wanted to send a summary of the battle with Taskmaster to the Fantastic Four so they can be on the lookout for any more goon academies.

But also: he wanted to talk to Cap before the meeting.

He finally tells Cap of the soul-searching he has been doing and how he has decided to step down officially as Avengers chairman.

Humorously to me, Cap immediately asks if it was because of something he did but Iron Man says that he just needs to spend more time helping his boss Tony Stark WHO IS DEFINITELY NOT HIM with his problems.

This comes as a shock to Captain America who thought he was only replacing Iron Man as chairman temporarily but since his mind is made up, Cap says he’ll schedule an election meeting as soon as possible.

And then time for the debriefing meeting. Or rather the post-debriefing meeting.

An hour passes so we don’t actually have to watch what a debriefing meeting consists of but apparently it involves relating, collating, and recording data and impressions from their recent battle.

None of these people know how to sit in a chair. Look at you, Cap. Why do you have one foot up on the chair? Iron Man... you are on the complete opposite side of the room as your chair and the meeting hasn’t been adjourned until this panel. Jocasta... don’t lurk over someone like a creeper. And Beast... just don’t.

Cap tells everyone that he’ll circulate a memo about the election meeting in a day or two because in an organization where you count all the members on two hands, official memos are definitely required.

And also, how come we haven’t seen any of these memos?

I would absolutely love to see some official Avengers memos about.... fridge use and appropriate dress code and stuff. Make it happen, Marvel.

With the meeting adjourned, its time for R&R so Beast tells Wonder Man to get dressed in his “stepping-out duds.” Wonder Man says he’s never been lucky with blind dating but Beast bets he’ll have the time of his life “even if you aren’t covered with blue fur!”

He knows! He knows the secret of his own success with women! Its canon! Women in the Marvel Universe love blue furry guys!