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[velocityraptor]

Type: Text
Sender ID: velocityraptor (Hawks)
To: General Public
Subject: Small PSA
Warnings: None


If you see the big not-quite-a-bird in the sky circling around please don't shoot.

I mean. You're not going to hit me, but it's kinda rude.

Also, I'm Hawks. If you need anything at all, just let me know.

Comments

[velocityraptor]

I guess, but because I work a lot someone else sets my schedule, there's nothing I can really do about it. I like the long patrols and getting to meet and help people so if I have to put up with some things that are less great then there's not really much to complain about.

I probably shouldn't complain at all. I do warn the little chickadees that this kind of thing comes with the job. No one thinks about it.

[telepathicignorance]

(The obedience bugs them. The way he tried to mask how annoyed he was when they grabbed his feathers now also bugs them, when they compare it to this.)

If you don't complain, you'll probably just get more and worse stuff piled on you.

[velocityraptor]

Complaining doesn't really do anything, there's not much I can do about it. Fortunately, I don't think they can add too much more, I was already working about twenty hours a day and under double surveillance so there wasn't much they could ask me to do right now.

[telepathicignorance]

(What the fuck? 20 hour shifts? Yeah there are corporations that do shit like that to their workers in Los Diablos, but this is extreme, and heroes are supposed to above that anyway.)

Does your quirk include not needing to sleep?

(This seems likely to kill the guy, or cause him to fuck up the job from exhaustion.

The surveillance, though... that's. Something's wrong here.)

[velocityraptor]

Of course not, I sleep. I just have little catnaps on my breaks.

Well not catnaps. Birdnaps? That's probably better.

I'm on a mission where I'm on call and they mostly operate at night. I won't deny it's exhausting, but sometimes that's how it is.

[telepathicignorance]

(This sounds more like a prison sentence than a job. They'd wonder if he was a reformed villain under surveillance to make sure he doesn't try anything, but that doesn't fit with what they've seen of him.

Is he being forced into this? What the fuck?)

Sounds like a good way to collapse in the middle of something important. You getting sleep here?

[velocityraptor]

I would never, I know better than that.

Yeah of course, I only do patrolling here for about twelve hours a day or so. I have a cool hammock in my room. Probably because a big enough bed wouldn't have fit.

[telepathicignorance]

It's not really a matter of knowing better...

You know, the Conservatory could probably use someone like you, if you'd be interested.

(They're pretty sure Turo and Red would push this guy to work a more reasonable amount of hours. 12 is still a lot.

A part of them wonders about how sleeping positions and sleeping in a hammock works given the wings, but... this guy already doesn't get any privacy, he doesn't need them asking invasive personal questions.)

[velocityraptor]

[ It might not be - but he would definitely be blamed if he was anything less than his best, all the time. ]

What's the Conservatory?

1/2

[telepathicignorance]

Cosmo Conservatory. It's a nature preserve and place for sheltering animals. Some of the stuff there is magical enough that there's a risk people might try to steal or poach the animals, so there's a security detail.

(Of course, a big time hero might not be all that into helping guard a nature preserve, but that brings them to next bit...)

2/2 (Private)

[telepathicignorance]

(Which is sent in a separate, private message.)

Also one of the co-owners, Professor Turo, sometimes finds really dangerous stuff during his research. At least one villain has tried to exploit his discoveries.

(They're worried he might be a target. Especially considering what they aren't telling Hawks, or anyone: that he's a highly advanced robot who produces powerful and highly useful magical crystals in response to pain and distress.)

Private

[velocityraptor]

[ They have nothing to worry about, animals are not too small scale for him to worry about, but he'll probably patrol from above. Some animals can't get over the fact he probably smells like a bird. Cats never liked him, after all. ]

Of course I would be happy to deal with any poachers that should happen to appear, or any villains for that matter. I'd love to help out.

Private

[telepathicignorance]

(There's a third reason they're doing this: if he's a fellow volunteer they can find out what hours he works and schedule any villainy they might need to do for times he's busy. If they're stealthy or fast enough to get done before news gets out and he's not in the immediate area...)

Alright. It's located at (They give the coordinates for the entrance.)

Private

[velocityraptor]

[ They are definitely welcome to try and get away with things when he's not paying attention, after all he can't possibly be everywhere at once, although as far as Hawks knows, Chris seems like a perfectly upstanding person. He has no suspicions at all. ]

Thanks a lot for the information, I'll swing by and see what I can help with!

Private

[telepathicignorance]

(OOC: By the way I sent you a friend request on Plurk.)

(Chris is a decent person who cares about others... but even as a hero they were a shady, deeply questionable shithead. Now they're that and deeply unhinged from traumas that people really aren't supposed to survive.)

It's a pretty great place.