[ ... oh, wow. Are they having a team-up? They are absolutely having a team-up, this is so cool! Doreen didn't have 'fight ghosts alongside a notorious supervillain whose alternate-universe counterpart is actually a pretty nice guy' on her bucket list, but she's happy to check it off! (She'll have to ask Otto what things are like in his universe, sometime - it'd be pretty weird if he was a chartered accountant or something instead of a mad scientist).
Doreen is about 5'3, so Otto would tower over her even if he weren't using the actuators as extendo-limbs, but she takes a couple of steps back so that she can crane her neck and try to make eye contact with him anyway. ]
Hey, listen - it's sweet of you to apologize, but you shouldn't have to! You must've been catching a lot of flak from people who recognize you from my universe, huh? [ Her included - those tentacles just kick people's fight/flight responses into high gear, but she remembers the look on his face when he realized she was staring at him. ] That's not fair, and I'm sorry. You're not responsible for what he did, and once people get a chance to know you, they'll realize that the other guy wouldn't have tried to apologize or make things right. It might take some time, but people will chill out eventually. Okay?
[ This whole pep talk is punctuated by Doreen dispatching ghosts with roundhouse kicks and various punches - at one point she just grabs a ghost and full-out yeets him off into the distance. Her eyes light up at the mention of magical nonsense, though. From the delighted look on her face, it's clear that Doreen would absolutely be down for exploring a haunted house. ]
Oh, yeah? Similar vibe, huh? Do they have good hotdogs? More importantly, good veggie hotdogs?
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Doreen is about 5'3, so Otto would tower over her even if he weren't using the actuators as extendo-limbs, but she takes a couple of steps back so that she can crane her neck and try to make eye contact with him anyway. ]
Hey, listen - it's sweet of you to apologize, but you shouldn't have to! You must've been catching a lot of flak from people who recognize you from my universe, huh? [ Her included - those tentacles just kick people's fight/flight responses into high gear, but she remembers the look on his face when he realized she was staring at him. ] That's not fair, and I'm sorry. You're not responsible for what he did, and once people get a chance to know you, they'll realize that the other guy wouldn't have tried to apologize or make things right. It might take some time, but people will chill out eventually. Okay?
[ This whole pep talk is punctuated by Doreen dispatching ghosts with roundhouse kicks and various punches - at one point she just grabs a ghost and full-out yeets him off into the distance. Her eyes light up at the mention of magical nonsense, though. From the delighted look on her face, it's clear that Doreen would absolutely be down for exploring a haunted house. ]
Oh, yeah? Similar vibe, huh? Do they have good hotdogs? More importantly, good veggie hotdogs?