My bunny slippers just ran for cover

[will_you_still]

Morgan doesn't strictly need to sleep. Even if she didn't want to put up with the annoyance of constantly having a caffeine buzz and having to ask for coffee on almost every summon, there are naps. Naps can keep a daeva going for quite a long time.

But there's something unutterably pleasant about curling up in a proper bed in pajamas and just sleeping. And then waking up and getting breakfast in those pajamas. So she does that, because immortality's a long unpleasant time if you don't enjoy the little things every now and then. Like adorable bunny slippers and soft pajamas and sleeping in.

She's midway through a fruity salad thing that counts as the standard fairy breakfast when she feels the summon. Showing up to a summon in pajamas? Eh. If they're proper summoners she bets they've seen worse, and she doesn't particularly care if they think she's unprofessional.

She puts her spoon down and accepts the summon.

Comments

[will_you_still]

"I haven't told anyone, and I'm not using it as blackmail."

[mxglam]

"What are you using it for, then."

[will_you_still]

"I wasn't actually sure it worked like I thought it worked until I tested that. So. There's that. I want to have an argument you can't just dismiss with 'You don't understand how my power works.' But I'm not going to strongarm you with it."

[mxglam]

"Well, you probably don't understand it anywhere near as much as I do, or you wouldn't have suggested moving to Europe as a solution to my problems!"

[will_you_still]

"So explain it to me? Maybe I can help."

[mxglam]

"Can you give me a really good reason? 'Cause, like, right now you got me halfway convinced to go to Europe just so you won't absolutely ruin everything ever."

[will_you_still]

She purses her lips and thinks of how to tackle this.

"I apologize for potentially ruining absolutely everything ever. I am trying not to, thus why I am asking for more information - I don't want anything ruined, except perhaps the Endbringers, the Slaughterhouse Nine, and the idiot warlords in Africa that think people are expendable. I am trying to think of a way to get you safely in a situation where you have the power you have accumulated, potential allies, and room to grow, but not the issue with the Protectorate wanting to arrest you."

[mxglam]

They think about it.

"Okay."

[will_you_still]

"To put into perspective how blasé I am about typical rules people follow, the next thing I'm planning to do in my mission to save the world is conquer a large part of - well I haven't decided the exact country I'll start with, but it'll end up being most of Africa - to be warlord of," says Morgan. "So we can definitely go with some atypical solutions."

[mxglam]

"...I like you," they decide. Then sigh. "Okay, so, my power... Well, glamour, it creates solid illusions, but a better way to put it may be that I channel, direct, and magnify people's beliefs and expectations through those illusions. Like you showed just now, that also works against me. The only reason it worked, though, is 'cause you and I are the only ones here. Other people don't just expect stuff to disappear if I don't will it, so they'd have kept it there as long as I wanted it there."

[will_you_still]

Nod.

"Do the people need to be observing the not-quite-illusions?"

[mxglam]

"Observing is not quite the word. But there needs to be a... way-the-world-is and a way-the-world-is-not and a way for them to tell those apart immediately. They don't need to be seeing the elephant in the room to notice the lack of its shadow if it disappears, and that keeps it from disappearing."

[will_you_still]

Nod. "Do you work through cameras?"

[mxglam]

"Yeah. Anything that will reliably tell if my power is or is not active can do."

[will_you_still]

"And can other people similarly affect what you do through cameras?"

[mxglam]

"Yep."

[will_you_still]

"Does the several second delay live video have prevent most cameras from affecting things, or does it go through anyway?"

[mxglam]

"What do you mean?"

[will_you_still]

"On traditional live video, there's a few seconds of delay between what's actually happening and when people see it. They still see action as action is happening, but it's action that happened four seconds ago or something. Does that work too?"

[mxglam]

"Oh, right. Well I can't actually affect the past so there's a delay, I can only expect things to happen in the present slash near future, but I think my power has slight clairvoyance about that."

[will_you_still]

Nod. "That's useful. Dangerous if you screw up on live television, but useful."

[mxglam]

"Mmhm. As for the Europe thing, I do need a good reputation, some tinfoil hats are already comparing me to Eidolon, and the only people in the world anyone will believe are capable of actually outright killing an Endbringer are him and Scion, so."

[will_you_still]

Morgan doesn't correct them and say, 'And me,' because that just seems petty.

"People that think of parahumans as boogeymen wouldn't be bad, either, though you'd have to be extra careful about not looking deadly, otherwise that will run away from you real fast."

[mxglam]

"...that's against the law, you know. That thing you're thinking right now."

[will_you_still]

"You're going to have to clarify what I'm thinking about," says Morgan dryly. "I'm aware that getting you out of the country's illegal, if that's it."