In truth, they say, they think that the unaffilated are fucking it up for the rest of them. There used to be balance, right? Like good guys signed on with the Guild and got taught that it's fucked up to put a guy's head through a wall if all he's doing is robbing a bank, and bad guys got taught not to kill good guys or kickstart apocalypses. There was a code, and ann understanding on how to engage with it. And things were more contained. The public kinda treated supervillains and superheroes as like, wrestling matches? Like it's fake, but it wasn't. They felt steady, safe.
And now that's all gone to shit. It's like it was before.
Johnny pauses mid rant, looking disconcerted. They say they hope that it doesn't get that bad ever again.
And Johnny amends that it's not the new metas fault. It's confluences. Shit, the meta pop used to be so small that most of them knew each other. And now it's huge. You can't control what's huge. And you can't kill new metas just because they're metas, right? Right. They'd just be fucking monsters then.
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In truth, they say, they think that the unaffilated are fucking it up for the rest of them. There used to be balance, right? Like good guys signed on with the Guild and got taught that it's fucked up to put a guy's head through a wall if all he's doing is robbing a bank, and bad guys got taught not to kill good guys or kickstart apocalypses. There was a code, and ann understanding on how to engage with it. And things were more contained. The public kinda treated supervillains and superheroes as like, wrestling matches? Like it's fake, but it wasn't. They felt steady, safe.
And now that's all gone to shit. It's like it was before.
Johnny pauses mid rant, looking disconcerted. They say they hope that it doesn't get that bad ever again.
And Johnny amends that it's not the new metas fault. It's confluences. Shit, the meta pop used to be so small that most of them knew each other. And now it's huge. You can't control what's huge. And you can't kill new metas just because they're metas, right? Right. They'd just be fucking monsters then.