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[thebestnose]

[Jane's on deck, looking somewhat annoyed. Which is pretty typical for her.] So, are we quite finished with all the selfish, Worship of the Me displays for the moment? It's so hard to focus when you are all panicked over some Previous dramatics.

She couldn't have even managed to be around her own flowers. She had to ruin ours.

[Not really the best introduction but...hey, there's more!]

Have any of you ever read this Rulebook? [She holds up George's Bible.]

If you do, you don't follow it very well, do you? Granted...I'm not too far into it because it doesn't seem like any language I've ever seen. Well, and most of it doesn't read like a Rulebook, but I did find some.

[She puts it back into her lap.] But I know it's not the only Rulebook out there. So what are the others?

And why don't you follow them?

[Pause.] This isn't a lecture, anyway. I don't care what Rules you do or don't follow. But I've broken plenty in my life. I've just never seen them broken collectively and with such...obvious disregard.

It's almost admirable.

Oh, and where does it talk about the invisible birds? Or butterflies. [Pause as she tries to find the word.] Souls.

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[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Well of course. Because a hero operates under the assumption that he, or she, works alone.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

[Luke chuckles a bit at that.]

Definitely not the assumption where I'm from, though most of us do tend to work alone, working together's nothing new. I know I've been a team player on more than one occasion.

Actually worked with a whole family while one of my friends was out for a while.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

[Watch her fake being impressed.] A whole family? So..maybe four people?

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

[The Oscar's in the mail, I swear.]

I was the fourth member actually. Kinda hard to have more than four people in a group called the Fantastic Four. Can be a little misleading.

The Avengers, on the other hand, there's usually at least six members there, but as many as nine or ten...not counting those on call.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

...of course you have names for your groups.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

It's easier than saying "Those guys over there."

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

But that's what you would do with any other group.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

Sure, if there was only one other group.

Besides, it's not just about telling one from another. Teams have their own way of doing things. Their own rules. Their own identities.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Of course they do. Their own little collectives.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

Is that what you usually call people who work together towards a common goal?

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

I suppose. But to have a group like that within an already established system seems inefficient.

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

Not when you're dealing with criminals that the established system's not capable of dealing with. And sometimes, you're going up against someone that you just can't take one-on-one.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Why aren't they capable of it?

[notiaraincluded.livejournal.com]

Because the people I take down aren't normal.