006 ✪ [Video]

[notmyfirstrodeo]

[Video feed shows Coulson as normal: no mini skirt, no fancy poses. Just a fairly serious looking man in a black suit and tie.

He doesn't look terribly pleased. At all. He clears his throat.]

All right, let's get it out of the way. Yes. I ran around crime-fighting in a miniskirt. So if you'd like to have a laugh about it, or there's a joke you've been saving, please, let's hear it now. Get it out of our systems.

Obviously it was not my choice. The community and its viruses got me. My luck ran out.

Few things right off the bat: No I do not plan on ever wearing a skirt again. Yes, I do, in fact, have very nice legs. So I'm sure it's a waste. Tragedy. We'll all have to come to terms with it and move on with our lives.

Apologies all around for awkwardness. ...lots of apologies.

I... I'm going to go do paperwork. In the basement. For the rest of the year.

Comments

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Fairly extreme, yes. At least from where I'm standing.

And yeah, the community is a special place indeed.

[denies]

I don't know if it's slightly funny or somewhat disturbing that they even can brainwash grown men into thinking they're supposed to run around in miniskirts of all things.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

I'm leaning towards disturbing. Really disturbing. I bought it hook line and sinker at the time.

[denies]

Isn't there some place to complain about these sort of things happening to people? For the sake of everyone's sanity?

[notmyfirstrodeo]

This community ought to come with a complaints department or suggestions box, but I've yet to see one.

[denies]

Maybe if people all decide to dump their complaints into one post, the community overlord or whatever is exactly behind this place will see it?

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Maybe so. What it would do with that information is the other question. Address our concerns? Or lash out?

[denies]

It's not like it can get any worse like this, right? So all we can do is hope they might be like 'oh hey, we seriously went over the top on this one, let's not do that again'.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Whenever anyone says something can't worse, it usually does. I try to stay away from it. Just in case.

[denies]

.. What could possibly be worse than any of that? I'm pretty sure even someone with a creative imagination couldn't think of it, honestly.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

[Oh... she asked that question.]

A lot. These are nuisances in the scheme of things.

[denies]

Give me an example then, at least.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

They viruses could be lasting instead of temporary. Or significantly more lethal.

[denies]

.. Ugh, that seriously is the worst. [ she honestly hadn't thought of the former possibility yet.. ] If this community would permanently alter who we are..

[notmyfirstrodeo]

It would be extremely inconvenient. To say the least.

[denies]

It'd probably be both the worst and weirdest thing I experienced, and believe me when I say I have a lot of experience in both those areas.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

You and me both.

[denies]

Then all we can do is hope that never happens, huh? Ah, it's useless.. it's all useless.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

We can prepare ourselves as best we can. That's usually the way of things.

[denies]

It's difficult to prepare ourselves against something like that though, right? We already don't know how to defend ourselves against the regular viruses, let alone against something like that.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

A lot of life is difficult to prepare for, unfortunately. You're right though. We haven't figured out a way to block the viruses or even to shorten their duration.

[denies]

Even though some people have been around for years. That makes it sound pretty useless to even try to find a way, if they haven't done so yet. Unless they're just really incompetent themselves.

[notmyfirstrodeo]

Everything takes time. The only surefire way to make sure you never succeed in achieving something is to give up on it. New people show up from new worlds all the time. One of them or some combination of them could eventually provide the answer.

[denies]

So.. what? We're waiting for some 'chosen one' to show up like all of this is actually some sort of really corny movie?

[notmyfirstrodeo]

No, we realize that life doesn't always happen on the timeline that we want it to and everyday there's a chance to learn more. Accomplish more.