Quirks are genetically provable and observable. Even if I can't use mine right now.
[HE'S AWARE THAT SOUNDS BAD, OKAY. THAT'S PART OF WHAT BOTHERS HIM SO MUCH ABOUT THIS.]
[anyways, about the breaker ghost]
And a rattling door doesn't mean a ghost exists. When you hear a noise alone in your house, do you assume it's ghost? There's probably a logical and rational explanation.
[... with that loaded statement, let's examine it.]
[Thank you for examining the super not haunted breaker box.
It looks perfectly normal! It is a breaker box with a keyhole built into the bottom. Its door is shut tight, and it remains locked; now that they're examining it, it doesn't rattle again.
Genetics, huh... We've been calling those meta-genes. [ this is just an interesting factoid. ] True, it could be some kind of mechanism built in to make it shake when we do something... [ since it stopped-- ] ooor it's a spooky scary ghost. Let's see what we can find.
[ welp. since it's stopped rattling. dick's gonna just touch the door and try to feel for the keyhole. maybe his stupid needle would fit in this one. he hasn't checked. ]
... It's commonly called the "quirk factor." It manifests in children at around four years old... but we don't have a solid way of predicting if it will manifest at all.
[What, is this urgent? He can give some exposition. Unless ghosts hate exposition.]
[It's fine, ghosts don't seem to hate exposition. Nothing happens, again.
When Dick finds the keyhole he's feeling around for, he'll find that it looks too small for the needle to properly get in there, since it looks like they're a little thick going off google images? But the tip might be thin enough to wedge into the door seam.]
[ please don't ask me like i know what trussing needles are actually like.
let's superhero exposition while dick tries to wedge this door open, then!!! ]
Huh. Similar, but not quite. From what we understand, meta-genes are a genetic marker found in certain humans that allows them to endure catastrophic physical trauma by developing new abilities. [ he frowns a bit ] Scientists only started observing and studying it recently, though superpowered human individuals have been around for at least... what, seventy years publicly? People who are related to a meta are more likely to also have the meta-gene, as well as develop it early.
[ he mentions humans a lot because. theres a lot of. non-humans in young justice. it's fine. anyway here's some fuckin science ]
[he recites the information, like remembering some old history textbook]
"The Luminescent Baby in Qing Qing City, China was the first recorded individual with a quirk. From then, they started showing up around the world." When I was in school, we'd recently hit 70%... Nowadays I think the number is closer to 80% of individuals with some level of quirk.
[u need any help there, bud? is it budging? man, imagine if we had four people crammed in here doing a whole lot of nothing]
... I'd assumed you were the same. So much for familiarity.
[not that it's bad, just... it's nice to feel like someone else is working from the same rulebook]
[ yeah dick doesn't get to answer with EIGHTY FUCKING PERCENT???????? like he wants to because he's too busy yelping at being electrocuted. it's fine! it's not his first time!
but he is shaking his hand in the dark. thank god he wasn't in civvies, that would've hurt a lot more!!!! that it already fuckin did!!! ]
Ow. That's gonna be fun to look at later. [ a beat, and then: ] It's pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. [ he's muttering this to himself as he closes and opens his fist, wincing a little. eh. he's mostly fine. ] Looks like we're on pause for the superhero comparison talk. Can you-- [ he uses his other hand to hand over the blowtorch to aizawa. or, well. try to hand it over to him when he can't see. ] Point this up in the air, try and make some light? It's the blowtorch.
[There's the brief surprise at the reaction, Aizawa's hand naturally goes to his capture weapon again- ... but it's not needed.]
[He reaches out that same hand to feel and- no, that's a shoulder. no, no that's a tiddy. There we go, there's the blowtorch. There's a bit more blind groping to orient it before,]
Alright.
[Once he's confident, he'll point it up and turn it on.]
We'll have to ask the others, later, if that affected anywhere else.
But once Aizawa is done touching Dick and has the blowtorch on, the inside of the box is visible! It's full of switches, each with a label handwritten on white tape. Nothing from the inaccessible basement levels, so they're out of luck there, but there's a switch for each individual room on the hotel levels as well as one for the Panthouse. There are labels for the rooms they're less familiar with, as well: three of the switches are for SUBSIDIARY ELECTRICAL ROOM, GIFT SHOP, and GRAND BALLROOM.
[ dick's tiddies have been touched. he stood there and stared straight at an invisible camera in the darkness.
well then. ]
Thanks. [ for the groping? clearly? ] The good news is, we've found what the other locked rooms are. Escha's gonna love that map update. [ the bad news is ......... should they switch all of those on. hm. welp! dick starts them off by switching the breaker for the room they're in to on. to like. test. and also. for there to be light. ] Let's hope this doesn't electrocute me again.
[ im giving sarah full rights to whether we turn on all the breakers because I WANNA ]
[That's clearly one of the more illogical things here. Is it a famous hotel? Are they famous? Is this, like Haymitch had suggested, being televised? Is he going to have merch? A line of those kinds of absolutely disgusting thoughts goes through his mind. How absolutely vile.]
Go ahead and turn them all on.
[unless you get electrocuted. or maybe even if you do get electrocuted.]
And, it should go without saying, be ready in case this thing snaps shut.
[the door already proved he can't stop it if it starts]
[That does seem to make sense. So, now, in his head, this is definitely in America. There are probably hotels in America that look just like this. That makes more sense than ghosts.]
[ ....... dick flips them all again??? THEYRE LOCKED IN A ROOM WITH NO POWER AND ITS LIKE 6AM THIS WAS A MISTAKE ]
[ also. if flipping them a third time isn't the charm. he's gonna try to flip them to do the sos in Morse code. is he for real or is he shitposting? both. ]
[hey Aizawa do you have any chill? Asking for a friend. The friend is me.
Anyway, it's a valid question because actually? Flipping them continues to do nothing, and will continue to do nothing...
For the next 4 hours or so.
How far into that will they contemplate cannibalism for real? That's up to Aizawa, I guess, but they do have one more thing they'll be able to find in here while they're trapped together.]
[ well, after the sos flip doesn't work, dick sighs, moving away from the box a bit. after leaving them all in the on position just in case :/ they did Something. they Helped ]
Not sure. As long as the fuel lasts? I don't exactly use kitchen blow torches on a daily basis. [ it's. dry. he misses his gear so much. ] This clearly isn't working. Let's... try and find another way. There might be something we missed.
[ in the dark. in a small room. for four hours, not that he knows that ic yet!
[oh, wait, he already did that. listen, it's hard when your only light is a kitchen blowtorch. This is for creme brulee not creme brusee.]
Let's see if we can secure an exit. If there's any way further in, it should be opposite... let's start from the door and spread out.
[And, by starting at the door, they will clearly examine the door, a totally normal thing that both of these superheroes would definitely do without any outside prompting.]
If you want to hold this, I don't mind working blind.
[the blowtorch, that is. Unless of course, the front door just fucking works or something. or is haunted. or there's a scream-style villain who has been standing there patiently waiting for either of them to turn around.]
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[HE'S AWARE THAT SOUNDS BAD, OKAY. THAT'S PART OF WHAT BOTHERS HIM SO MUCH ABOUT THIS.]
[anyways, about the breaker ghost]
And a rattling door doesn't mean a ghost exists. When you hear a noise alone in your house, do you assume it's ghost? There's probably a logical and rational explanation.
[... with that loaded statement, let's examine it.]
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It looks perfectly normal! It is a breaker box with a keyhole built into the bottom. Its door is shut tight, and it remains locked; now that they're examining it, it doesn't rattle again.
What do they do.]
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[ welp. since it's stopped rattling. dick's gonna just touch the door and try to feel for the keyhole. maybe his stupid needle would fit in this one. he hasn't checked. ]
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[innuendo ahoy]
... It's commonly called the "quirk factor." It manifests in children at around four years old... but we don't have a solid way of predicting if it will manifest at all.
[What, is this urgent? He can give some exposition. Unless ghosts hate exposition.]
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When Dick finds the keyhole he's feeling around for, he'll find that it looks too small for the needle to properly get in there, since it looks like they're a little thick going off google images? But the tip might be thin enough to wedge into the door seam.]
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let's superhero exposition while dick tries to wedge this door open, then!!! ]
Huh. Similar, but not quite. From what we understand, meta-genes are a genetic marker found in certain humans that allows them to endure catastrophic physical trauma by developing new abilities. [ he frowns a bit ] Scientists only started observing and studying it recently, though superpowered human individuals have been around for at least... what, seventy years publicly? People who are related to a meta are more likely to also have the meta-gene, as well as develop it early.
[ he mentions humans a lot because. theres a lot of. non-humans in young justice. it's fine. anyway here's some fuckin science ]
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"The Luminescent Baby in Qing Qing City, China was the first recorded individual with a quirk. From then, they started showing up around the world." When I was in school, we'd recently hit 70%... Nowadays I think the number is closer to 80% of individuals with some level of quirk.
[u need any help there, bud? is it budging? man, imagine if we had four people crammed in here doing a whole lot of nothing]
... I'd assumed you were the same. So much for familiarity.
[not that it's bad, just... it's nice to feel like someone else is working from the same rulebook]
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While they're both dropping exposition, though, they're about to be rudely interrupted. Prying the box's door open works...
But Dick will get a nasty shock from it as it pops open, and all the lights in the room promptly go out.
The box is open! They just cannot see inside with no light.]
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but he is shaking his hand in the dark. thank god he wasn't in civvies, that would've hurt a lot more!!!! that it already fuckin did!!! ]
Ow. That's gonna be fun to look at later. [ a beat, and then: ] It's pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue. [ he's muttering this to himself as he closes and opens his fist, wincing a little. eh. he's mostly fine. ] Looks like we're on pause for the superhero comparison talk. Can you-- [ he uses his other hand to hand over the blowtorch to aizawa. or, well. try to hand it over to him when he can't see. ] Point this up in the air, try and make some light? It's the blowtorch.
[ he has a booboo help him out :( ]
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[There's the brief surprise at the reaction, Aizawa's hand naturally goes to his capture weapon again- ... but it's not needed.]
[He reaches out that same hand to feel and- no, that's a shoulder. no, no that's a tiddy. There we go, there's the blowtorch. There's a bit more blind groping to orient it before,]
Alright.
[Once he's confident, he'll point it up and turn it on.]
We'll have to ask the others, later, if that affected anywhere else.
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But once Aizawa is done touching Dick and has the blowtorch on, the inside of the box is visible! It's full of switches, each with a label handwritten on white tape. Nothing from the inaccessible basement levels, so they're out of luck there, but there's a switch for each individual room on the hotel levels as well as one for the Panthouse. There are labels for the rooms they're less familiar with, as well: three of the switches are for SUBSIDIARY ELECTRICAL ROOM, GIFT SHOP, and GRAND BALLROOM.
The breakers are all currently switched to OFF.]
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well then. ]
Thanks. [ for the groping? clearly? ] The good news is, we've found what the other locked rooms are. Escha's gonna love that map update. [ the bad news is ......... should they switch all of those on. hm. welp! dick starts them off by switching the breaker for the room they're in to on. to like. test. and also. for there to be light. ] Let's hope this doesn't electrocute me again.
[ im giving sarah full rights to whether we turn on all the breakers because I WANNA ]
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[That's clearly one of the more illogical things here. Is it a famous hotel? Are they famous? Is this, like Haymitch had suggested, being televised? Is he going to have merch? A line of those kinds of absolutely disgusting thoughts goes through his mind. How absolutely vile.]
Go ahead and turn them all on.
[unless you get electrocuted. or maybe even if you do get electrocuted.]
And, it should go without saying, be ready in case this thing snaps shut.
[the door already proved he can't stop it if it starts]
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But also, nothing really happens. There's a clicking sound as the switch is flipped, but no dice on the light.]
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[ which he knows because he's the adopted son of a billionaire, don't question me.
anyway time to die! FLIPS THEM ALL TO ON AND HOPES FOR THE BEST ]
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[That does seem to make sense. So, now, in his head, this is definitely in America. There are probably hotels in America that look just like this. That makes more sense than ghosts.]
[anyways IT'S ON TIME, BABY]
It'd be nice to see some reaction, at least.
[famous last words???]
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But nothing happens.]
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Great. If we blew the entire power to this place, we are never gonna hear the end of it.
[ ...
flips them all back off. while still quipping: ]
No one will be seated during the thrilling "switch-flipping" portion of the retelling of this room break-in.
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... Is there anything we can do to reset the whole box?
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Flipping them on a second time also doesn't work.]
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[ ....... dick flips them all again??? THEYRE LOCKED IN A ROOM WITH NO POWER AND ITS LIKE 6AM THIS WAS A MISTAKE ]
[ also. if flipping them a third time isn't the charm. he's gonna try to flip them to do the sos in Morse code. is he for real or is he shitposting? both. ]
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... so, how long should this blowtorch last?
[should they start worrying about cannibalism, now]
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Anyway, it's a valid question because actually? Flipping them continues to do nothing, and will continue to do nothing...
For the next 4 hours or so.
How far into that will they contemplate cannibalism for real? That's up to Aizawa, I guess, but they do have one more thing they'll be able to find in here while they're trapped together.]
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Not sure. As long as the fuel lasts? I don't exactly use kitchen blow torches on a daily basis. [ it's. dry. he misses his gear so much. ] This clearly isn't working. Let's... try and find another way. There might be something we missed.
[ in the dark. in a small room. for four hours, not that he knows that ic yet!
this'll be fun. ]
this is fine ]
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[oh, wait, he already did that. listen, it's hard when your only light is a kitchen blowtorch. This is for creme brulee not creme brusee.]
Let's see if we can secure an exit. If there's any way further in, it should be opposite... let's start from the door and spread out.
[And, by starting at the door, they will clearly examine the door, a totally normal thing that both of these superheroes would definitely do without any outside prompting.]
If you want to hold this, I don't mind working blind.
[the blowtorch, that is. Unless of course, the front door just fucking works or something. or is haunted. or there's a scream-style villain who has been standing there patiently waiting for either of them to turn around.]
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