defenderofdesmoines | Entries tagged with what: american hero

With Diego safely back at the apartment until the finale, Annie was left trying not to pace a hole in her trailer floor. She hadn't been able to track down Alex privately again, but it was more important than ever that he say no.

She wanted to text someone who would reassure her -- Summer, maybe, but then Summer would probably want to come help, and Annie had already put enough people in danger. The same went for all her other Fandom friends, and Diego's siblings. Her mother was a laughably obvious non-option.

She had to figure this out on her own, as much as she could.

( But she still had some loyal, dumb friends she could count on in this universe! )

( It was the American Hero finale! Broadcast live, and beaming into your living rooms exclusively on Vought+! )

[and this is the piece I was most nervous about adapting when these episodes premiered back in June, lol. Taken from The Boys 3.03, 'Barbary Coast,' still, and we're gonna keep warning for Homelander and Vought just being like...really insensitive and terrible. Preplayed with

knife_bender, and NFB due to distance but once more open for calls and texts and reactions if you want to say you were watching at home!]

So, hey, Homelander was losing his mind on live television, but that was apparently trending with white men between 18 and 45, so it was okay?

Cool. Cool, cool, cool.

Cool.

It was hard not to think about, in any case, as Annie resisted the urge to spin in her chair and reviewed American Hero footage with her team.

( Apparently all press is good press? )

( A conversation held under bad pop music )

[preplayed with myself and taken almost entirely straight from The Boys 3.03, 'Barbary Coast.' NFB and NFI, OOC is still welcome though!]

American Hero had wrapped fairly early tonight -- Annie had told yet another hero who did not actually have a cape to hang it up and go, anyway, met with her producers for a moment after the show, and been left with enough time to actually make it back to the tower before her portal.

And good thing, too, since there had been a package left for her. Annie was very used to receiving Starlight swag -- honestly, at this point, she was pretty sick of it -- but this was...unexpected. There might have been an actual, audible, "Eep," of shock when she'd opened the box. (Though, really -- she'd just recently learned that Vought made porn in her image. Should it really surprise her so much that they also made other things?)

Anyway. She'd shoved one of the Starlight-themed items into a closet to...probably never be used, but the other had somehow made it into her bag to take home to Fandom with her. (Maybe it just fell in there, okay. Annie wasn't admitting to anything.)

"I had to kick off the guy with the electric shock powers," Annie was saying as she let herself into the MHA building and headed for her own apartment. She'd been on the phone since she'd gotten out of her portal in Fandom. "Both kind of a shame and kind of a relief."

She figured the guy she was on the phone with -- who she was also smiling at, as soon as she got the door open -- could understand that position after last year.

Of course she and Diego were people who talked on the phone right up until the moment they actually saw each other. What did you expect?

[for the fiancé, and that link is NSFW because my canon, everyone, let me show it to you. (and the post itself is also definitely going NSFW sooner than later.)]

So, that hadn't gone half-bad at all, if you asked Annie. The very first episode of American Hero had just wrapped. She had spent roughly an hour watching contestants try to curry favor and demonstrate their value to a bunch of people who probably didn't really care, she'd sincerely wished them all luck -- they all actually seemed pretty decent, to her? -- and then at the end, she had told one hopeful fellow superhero to hang up her cape and go.

Still such a dumb line. But it could have gone worse.

She'd gotten out from under the lights as soon as they'd called cut, resisting the urge to pull off her cape just yet and instead taking the bottle of water a PA immediately thrust into her hand. She needed to find Diego, who she knew was around here backstage somewhere, and hopefully they could just scurry off to her trailer sooner than later. For all that it had only been an hour of standing around and smiling, mostly, Annie was pretty ready to be out of the spotlight -- literally and figuratively.

"You did great," she told Moonshadow and Supersonic as they wandered by, smiling as the latter stopped to take another proffered water bottle from that PA and waving at the former as she kept going to her own room. "I mean, I'm not supposed to show favoritism or whatever, but just to say."

"So we're just objectively great," Supersonic contributed, grinning at her. "Good to know. You also did great, just to say."

"It's such a cheesy line," Annie offered, checking that her mic was turned off before dropping her voice to an undertone and rolling her eyes. "Like, what a way to tell someone they've lost out on a life-changing opportunity. Ugh."

"And it's discriminatory," Supersonic pointed out. "Some of us don't even have capes."

"That," Annie decided, "is a good point." Maybe enough to get a rewrite? (No.)

[for the fiancé who is around here backstage somewhere, and nfb for distance!]

I'm a fighter

I'm gonna take that son of a bitch's head clean off his body.

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