defenderofdesmoines: (annie - hesitate)
It had been tempting to try to sleep on the drive to Vermont, especially since MM had insisted on driving, but Annie had been way too full of nervous energy. She remembered the TNT Twins from TV growing up -- the TNT Smile-Time Hour had been on in reruns when she was little, and it had spawned the Vought Summertime Fun House spin-off that she, Supersonic and Gecko had all been a part of. But she'd never actually met the twins themselves.

She also hadn't wanted to sleep much after she'd asked MM a little more about what he'd said about Soldier Boy and his family, and MM had subsequently told her and Diego that the Supe they were after had casually thrown a Mercedes through MM's family's Harlem brownstone while deterring a pair of car thieves.

That brought a lot of stuff into focus about the guy they were looking for, yeah.

In any case, here they were now, outside an absolutely gorgeous house here in the woods.

"There's a lot of cars here," Annie observed idly as they headed up to knock on the door. Maybe the twins were having a party.

She had *no* idea )

Running into people you know at an orgy, normal things )

Hughie, what the fuck is wrong with you )

In which Annie makes an important decision, and an announcement )

[most of this is lifted pretty directly from, you guessed it, the cringily-notoriously-advertised episode 3.06, 'Herogasm.' NSFW, because this is an orgy, and while it is mostly comedy sex, it's still a lot of descriptions of a lot of sex (including some bestiality, I'm really sorry, but if it helps it is canonically consensual.) Anyway, preplayed with [personal profile] knife_bender, continued in the comments, and this one is VERY open for texts and calls -- particularly if you think your character follows Annie on social media and would have caught her broadcast. :)]
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - this is serious)
So hey, some loser who just joined the team might be dead from an 'overdose,' but the show had to go on, right? Annie had left Diego in the apartment again (still not ideal, to her mind, given that Alex's murderer had a key to that apartment) and made her way down to the conference room for a meeting that had just been called by their new, groundbreaking CEO, Ashley Barrett.

Annie's life really was a fucking nightmare these days.

Her temper was already pretty frayed, so it probably wasn't terribly surprising how she reacted when she saw A-Train in the hallway on the way to her meeting.

A quick tour around Vought Tower )

[lifted, remixed, Frankensteined together from 3.05, 'Last Time to Look on This World of Lies' and featuring [personal profile] knife_bender as Homelander once more. NFB, NFI, OOC welcome as usual!]
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - can you believe this guy?)
It had been a very long day.

Annie had gotten out of that tortuous rehearsal to discover that Diego had gone off somewhere -- which wasn't that big a deal, really, but it meant she didn't have any distractions to keep her mind off of how much she was regretting accepting this co-captainship.

Maybe this had been a mistake. Or...maybe she just needed to try harder.

In any case, she was pretty much tension personified as she leaned against a set backstage tonight, trying not to stare herself at how Homelander was just coldly staring off into the middle distance. Weird. Like a robot.

Of course, Alex was out on stage and demonstrating exactly why he didn't want to sing this song, so that wasn't helping either.

"Dangerous curves, she's my sweet sixteen,
Make my engine purr, you're my teenage queen,
Baby, baby, baby, got your license to drive,
Got your license to drive me crazy --
"

Like, yikes, they really should have gone with literally any of his other songs.

Happy Birthday, Homelander! )

[once more taken from 3.02, 'The Only Man in the Sky,' and I should probably just warn for Homelander for the rest of the season, because he's not only gross/offensive here, but he's also moving into Obvious Trump Parody territory as of this post (and is also being played with aplomb by [personal profile] knife_bender, still.) NFB, and to be continued in the comments! If you want to say you were watching the broadcast in Fandom for whatever reason and would like to call or text, that is totally fine too!]
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - dawn of the seven)
It had been over a year since Annie had joined The Seven, and while she was pretty used to being in the spotlight, this movie premiere was actually kind of unique for a few reasons.

First of all, it wasn't every day you got to watch yourself on a big screen, on a set you knew was mostly green screen, and cringe a little as your bodysuited self faced down a Stormfront played by the hopefully-controversy-free Charlize Theron.

Secondly, Annie had received an insane offer today, and it had been impossible to concentrate on the movie given that. She still didn't know what she was going to do. (She knew what she wanted to do, but -- it was just a really big decision.)

Thirdly, everyone was here. Not just her team, but she'd spotted Hughie and his boss from the FBSA, Victoria, earlier. Mr. Edgar was out at the front of the throng of reporters with Ashley, and Adam Bourke was giving interviews in which he kept cross-hatching his fingers and talking about releasing the Bourke cut.

And Annie, for the first time ever during her tenure on this team, had someone with her on the red carpet.

"Are you ready?" she asked Diego, slipping her hand into his. As soon as they actually left the theater and stepped out onto the red carpet, it was going to be all flashes and attention.

Red carpet reunions under here )

[borrowed and remixed a little from The Boys 3.01, 'Payback.' Preplayed with [personal profile] knife_bender. NFB, NFI, but OOC welcome!]
defenderofdesmoines: like Queen Maeve (annie - not taking any shit)
So, Butcher's big plan had been to get this Dr. Vogelbaum guy to testify at the hearing -- and before that, his big plan had been to get Lamplighter to testify, and thus far, they were oh for two.

And while Annie had volunteered to testify herself, she was actually an escaped convict at this point, so that wasn't going to work. But she did know one other person who she knew didn't think any of this was right, and who she knew had been screwed by Vought, and...maybe she'd help.

So Annie had gotten a set of keys from MM and tossed them to Diego -- her mom wasn't the only one who was nervous about driving in the city -- and sent a text on their way.

Now, as they were buzzed in by a discreet doorman and took an elevator up, Annie let herself relax for a moment as she looked over at Diego. "Ready for this?" she asked with a tiny, wry smile. "I'm not really sure what to expect, here."

She wasn't really worried about how this'd go. She was more just, like, tired of all of this. But part of her still thought it was kind of a big deal to be going to visit Queen Maeve. She'd saved Annie twice now, after all.

How bad could it be? (Pretty not great, really) )

[NFB/NFI/OOC welcome! Preplayed with [personal profile] knife_bender and taken from The Boys 2.08, 'What I Know,' with a little rearranging and remixing.]
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - hero stance)
"Agent Pearson, sir!" Ruby called, pulling Queen Maeve over to him by the hand.

Agent Bill Pearson coughed dramatically, staggering over to the two women. "You're a sight for sore eyes. Agent Cruz, I thought we'd lost you."

"I got by with a little help from a friend," Ruby said, exchanging a fond look with Queen Maeve.

"So," Pearson prompted. "Good news or bad?"

Ruby leaned down and pulled out a small, V-shaped object and held it out to him, smiling.

"And now," called Bourke, the director, "the CG mutants approach!"

"And there's the bad news," Pearson -- who was really an actor named Greg Grunberg -- intoned, frowning over at several figures in green leotards, waving similarly lime green rods. "There's no way we can restore the grid if we don't get that flash drive to the Tower."

Ruby handed the drive off to Queen Maeve, looking doubtful. "But how are you gonna get through all of them?"

"Don't worry," Starlight said as she walked up and hooked her thumbs into her belt.

Beside her, Stormfront placed her hands on her hips, and assured both agents: "Girls get it done."

And cut on rehearsal )

[taken from The Boys 2.05, 'We Gotta Go Now,' with a few tweaks. Warning for shitty racist people, totally open for calls or texts!]
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - you serious?)
She shouldn't be here. But she also had to be.

She shouldn't have used her clearances to find out where this was. But she'd had to.

And Starlight certainly shouldn't have snuck quietly into the back door and taken out four different black ops guys. But she'd had to.

Stupid fucking Hughie Campbell. Stupid fucking superheroing.

This all just sucked, like, so much )

[preplayed with myself, warning for violence and language, taken from The Boys 1.08, 'You Found Me,' and that's a wrap on season 1! can be open for calls/texts if you have a reason to be calling or texting Annie in the middle of the night. *eyes*]
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - what the fuck am i seeing)
Homelander had called a meeting, and Starlight might have been new but she knew perfectly well that when Homelander called a meeting you showed up.

So she'd arrived bright and early, though by now she knew better than to try to make small talk with anyone. Maeve seemed like she might already have had a few, Black Noir didn't talk at all, Translucent was still missing, The Deep had been sent to Sandusky...and A-Train was late.

Not good, A-Train. Even Starlight knew that. She watched, trying not to feel anxious, as Homelander paced and waited for the late arrival, and quietly prayed -- hoped -- that this meeting was about how A-Train had clearly been acting like a total weirdo lately and not anything that actually concerned her.

In which there is a meeting of The Seven -- down to The Five -- and Homelander has some surprises! )

[adapted from The Boys 1.07, "The Self-Preservation Society," with some tweaks! Warning for language, per usual, and preplayed with myself! NFB and NFI since Annie's ignoring her phone, but OOC remains welcome]
defenderofdesmoines: (starlight - flattered)
This...was bullshit.

Starlight was trying so hard to stay positive through all of this -- through the new...outfit, through the autographs, through pretending she cared at all who won in this whole A-Train vs. Shockwave RACE OF THE CENTURY!!! thing, but she was exhausted.

She'd been in New York, on the team, for two full weeks, and the only person she'd saved was an unauthorized victim, and it had nearly tanked her career. And now she'd been sitting here all day while her ass went numb and Queen Maeve was down on the field talking about putting Supes in the armed forces (which was something Starlight had some very mixed feelings about!), and -- there was the sonic boom that let her know that Homelander had arrived, too.

She tried not to let her tiredness show on her face as she smiled at her latest fan, looping the G in Starlight in a long, swerving tail under the rest of her name. "Thank you for coming. It was so nice to meet you."

...but this latest fan might make things a little better )

[adapted from The Boys 1.03, "Get Some." Warning for language and a little gross sexual cat-calling. NFB|NFI|OOC welcome!]

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