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[changelingdude]

What a beautiful morning.

I have to say, the digital world has kinda grown on me, pies grow on trees here, nice people give me money to find them boose, and best of all i've got a faithful animal companion just like in the manga's! Every manga needs a cute animal mascot and now I have plotmon so no doubt people will be writing a manga about me in no time.

Actually here's something I always found interesting back home...apparently people have been merchandising me! no really. You'd think they would have come up with it sooner but the titans have their own line of toys and clothes like Superman or Batman. See the thing is though seeing as no one ever asked us for the rights to our likenesses...well we're getting shafted! No cash what-so-ever.

I did some reading up on the subject, superman delt with the same thing by telling the companies to donate a chunk of their profits to charity, and I was thinking it would save us alot of trouble with TURF (Titans Urban Rebuilding Fund).

Wow...that actually sounds pretty smart Beastboy...you didn't really come up with it did you?

ehh...heh...ok so maybe Raven inspired it but you shoulda seen her face when I showed her a doll of her. She has no appreciation of imitation being the highest form of flattery!




Hey what's that?

It's a cloud.

No that spec there behind the cloud...

Probably nothing.

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Comments

[starbltsnmustrd.livejournal.com]

Beast Boy... if you are willing, I must speak with you.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Sure Star is something wrong?

[starbltsnmustrd.livejournal.com]

This concerns Terra, Beast Boy.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

...OK...

Are you OK Beastboy you look really tense.

Plotmon...go...do something...somewhere...away.

...rude...

What's going on Star.

[starbltsnmustrd.livejournal.com]

Terra... is here in this world. But she does not want you to drag her back to her old life, where she is forced to try and be the hero again.

Please, Beast Boy. Accept her as she is... and not what you may want her to be. She is willing to see you again, on those terms.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

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*Soft thump noise, sound of feet running away*

Beastboy! Where are you going!

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[scrapperzen.livejournal.com]

See, that's one of the things I just don't get about other universes that don't have a Citizens Crime Fighting Act.

Without some form of government recognition, with having to resort to only your own wits to keep a secret identity, you can't really do anything in the face of things like that. Action figures, T-Shirts, heck, even websites could just spring up and there'd really be no legal recourse if a court doesn't recognise your heroic identity.

[tamerwithamouth.livejournal.com]

Wow, you have one of those, too? How did yours get but into motion? Some nutcase blow up a city while a bunch of superheroes were trying to capture him on live TV?

[scrapperzen.livejournal.com]

What? That's horrible! I mean... there was a little backlash during the whole Faultline incident, but that was because the heroes involved didn't follow the law...

No, the Citizen Crime Fighting act was enacted in 1936, after a pair of Mafia thugs got off on a technicality, and then tried to sue Maiden Justice for injuring them in the process of apprehending them.

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

We've had some government influence in alot of our super heroics...I seem to recall our tower was built on government funds...and rebuilt...and rebuilt...Wayne enterprises donates alot of it but Robin and Cy have to fill out expense reports each month to justify why we go through T-cars like ketchup packets.

Then there was this big thing where the Government wanted the justice league to disband because they were afraid of how much power they had...honestly I'm surprised that a tower full of teenagers is given so much slack with how they treat you adults.

[scrapperzen.livejournal.com]

H..hey! I'm not that old..!