[Vanessa Star]

Shopping malls. So much fluff marketed to the droll civilians who've given up on being their own people. Vanessa was a rebel, a disruptor in the world of mind-controlled ignorance. They think it's bliss, but she thinks it's a matrix of make-believe that hides the suffering they really feel. They can't use their quirks? They can't beat down the creeps that whistle their way? Bullshit. So for a disruptor, why was she admiring the clothes she saw in the stores?

Even the fake-punk stores like Fire Thread, Steven's and Adventure's drew her eye. Her clothes needed a good cleaning...and laundromats were expensive. Wow, she needed money. Her stomach roared -- she must need food as well. No friends to frolic with, no job to spend money from; Vanessa was alone. There were upsides. No parents to tell her to be good. No boss to break her hand when she took too many cookies from the jar. Nobody to tell her that she was wrong when she wasn't.

All she needed now was a best friend. Someone to crowd surf with, make music on the streets with, do crime with. That would be nice. Not someone who was her superior, nor her underling because gross. Where would that best friend be? Who would she share the pleasure of breaking the glass on the jewelry stores be? As she walked the mall, she held a little trinket she found on the street. A toy that some kid must have dropped.

Unappreciated it was. Unwelcome she was, apparently, as someone loudly exclaimed how she smelled and should get out of the mall. Wow, rude. Tempted to chuck the trinket, she instead made the person flinch and walked off. "Bloody bastards..." Sitting at a bench with her head in her hand, she was sad.

Rui Matsui

[Rui Matsui]

Having witnessed the whole ordeal Rui grinned as she realized what she needed to do. The person who had been so rude to call Vanessa stinky was soon going to regret it. ''Hey there!'' She walked up to the person, waving and smiling like they knew each other as she pointed a gun at them. ''Come with me.'' She ordered, making the person walk in front of her as she guided them at gunpoint to face Vanessa.

Rui was much smaller than the person in question, but stepped out from behind them while still keeping the gun pointed at the civilian. ''Now say you're sorry.'' Rui gave Vanessa a quick smile and a wink, as if to reassure her that everything was going to be okay and more importantly, this was going to be great. ''I-I'm sorry...'' The person stuttered.

Pulling the trigger, Rui shot them in the leg, causing them to scream and lose balance. The civilian looked up in horror as Rui pressed her gun to their forehead. ''That didn't sound like you meant it.'' She taunted the civilian. ''Say it again.''

''I'm sorry! I'm sorry!!''

''See?'' Rui stopped pointing the gun at the civilian as she turned to face Vanessa fully. ''They said they're sorry.'' She didn't know who Vanessa was, but she saw the potential to mess with two people at once and maybe get to know the woman on the bench a little better too. Win-win if she was a good bestie. ''Do you forgive them?'' Vanessa's answer was going to determine the fate of the civilian.

Vanessa Star

[Vanessa Star]

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Being homeless SUCKED. Vanessa wouldn't ever apologize for burning bridges or because she hurt the ego of some man who decided to ship her off. Still, she couldn't deny that having nothing but the clothes on her back was not fun. It must be amazing for those with the power to take what they wanted, but she wasn't fooling herself in thinking she could do that now. The chaos in Vanessa was being catalyzed by the spite she felt with everyone making her feel like dirt.

The next person she sees she's going to pop in the mouth if they don't come correctly. The next person she saw, at least noticed first, was one of the people who called her dirty. A girl with a gun next. Maybe don't pop the gun-holder in the mouth, but what was this? Someone was going to apologize after all. The setup had many in the area turning and frozen in fear. Such a brazen hostage situation was so sudden, so erratic...

So COOL. Vanessa gave a cheeky grin to the gentleman as she awaited her apology. Hearing something with more cowardice than sincerity in it, this gun-toting stranger shot the man in the leg. Startled, Vanessa couldn't help but step back. "Oh-ho-ho! Now you're talkin' my language. See, back in the Queensland, we didn't have guns to talk for us..." As the apology came with a little more yelling and a tiny bit more sincerity, Vanessa grabbed some trash and balled it up.

Looking at her soon-to-be friend, the trash began to glow a neon-violet red. Stuffing it in the crying man's mouth, music began...humming from it.

Bombs and bullets...might do the trick...

"Aye, name's Starbomb." Pushing the stunned man over, the singular line would cut off as the trash exploded and tore apart the man's jaw. Between the bullet and the bomb, it certainly did the trick with making people all around scream. They were going to have some heat coming there way. "Friends, yeah?" Reaching for a handshake, Vanessa's eyes glittered with admiration for the freeing evil of who she would come to know as the pinnacle of besties, Rui.

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Rui Matsui

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