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" 'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day,/If your Snark be a Boojum! For then/You will softly and suddenly..." the Cheshire Cat recites, breaking off when it notices it has company. It's sunning itself, draped belly-up over a parapet of the castle, but with an unsettling upside down smile it vanishes and then reappears on the bridge, just to one side of where the transformation took place.

Katou lifts his head a little when he hears someone talking. He had thought death was going to be much quieter than this. He’s bandaged and his head’s bleeding, his leather clothes ripped pretty much to shreds, and his biomechanical arm is laying at his side, but it seems as though he has enough energy to look around a little.

"Well, h-hi there!" says a squeaky voice. Mickey, beaming, is coming up the bridge from the direction of the central plaza. "It's great to see you again! And isn't it a beautiful day!" He draws in a breath and seems to be a millisecond from zipadee-doo-dahing when the castle's portcullis rattles slightly and drops half an inch. He glances over his shoulder. "Cut it out, fellas! Just a minute..." He pats his newly appeared pockets.

Katou jumps a little when he hears Mickey’s voice, and then turns. There’s a memory tugging from the back of his mind, and then he realizes it’s Mickey mouse. “To see me again?” Katou asks. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you before.” He frowns a little, realizing that he can’t really remember much of anything. “Have I?”

"If you were a book," asks the Cheshire Cat, apparently apropos nothing, "what book would you be?"

Katou can’t help but laugh at that a little bit. “I don’t really read,” he answers. He looks at the cat, frowns a little trying to place it, and then shrugs. “Looks like Alice in Wonderland right now, don’t it?”

Mickey has extracted his notebook, and clears his throat. "'Boxers or briefs?'" he reads aloud, and promptly blushes redder than a fire truck.

“Nothing,” Katou says, raising his eyebrow. “Listen, I thought you was a child’s cartoon character. Is that really appropriate?”

"Here's another," says Mickey. "List three things you'd do if you ruled the world."

Katou closes his eyes and tilts his head back so it’s facing the sun. He didn’t think he’d ever see it again. He was given the choice of reincarnation, and he chose to pass it up. He remembers that, strangely enough, despite the fact that he doesn’t even remember his own name.

“I’d make everyone be happy,” he says, because that is Se-chan’s dream, and Katou’s only dream right now is to let Se-chan’s dreams come true. “And I’d make incest legal, I guess. I don’t really know what else. And I’d make it so I didn’t have to go to school no more, and I wouldn’t give Kira back his CD.”

The Cat's eyes seem to be wandering in opposite directions. It says, "Is reality best described as (a) an absolute, not reducible to the sum of its parts, (b) the material or phenomenal world, as presented to us through our experiences, (c) fundamentally unknowable, (d) all of the above - please elaborate - or (e) fish?"

Katou pauses for a moment, seriously considering the question. “I don’t’ know what none of that means,” he answers after a while. “And I’m sure it’s not just because of the head injury or the fact that I can’t remember nothing. So I’m gonna say fish.”

Mickey raises one white-gloved hand as though measuring his own height. "Are you tall enough to go on this ride?"

Katou looks up at Mickey’s hand, then snorts. “What ride? Whatever, it don’t matter. I’m sure if I could stand I would be.”


((Katou, this time from post series. Meaning he's somewhat different than how he was before, and he's not going to remember anything that had ever happened in the park.

The shape Katou's in right now is something like this, please excuse the text on there, I don't have a clean copy on me right now.

To see how his biomechanical arm attaches to the rest of his body, check out here

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Virgil was going to protest that Venom wasn't even close to the greatest comic book character of all time, but then Katou transformed, and Virgil started and stumbled backwards off his disc.

Still, he was laughing as he picked himself up and electrically recalled the disc and folded it.

"That's great! You didn't tell me you could do that, bro! You've been holding out!"

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Katou laughed, turning back into himself. "Yep," he said. "It's always best to show these things off when it gets the most surprise. Yeah, I'm a Spiderman fan."

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"Heh. Guess so. So where'd you get powers like that from, anyway?"

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"I was born with some of them," Katou said. "Er, the rest, it's kinda a long story."

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"Gotcha," Virgil said, not prying. "So what else can you do? I'm pretty much limited to electricity, but it covers a lot of ground, so it works pretty awesomely as a superpower."

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Katou shrugged. "I've got wings, so I guess I can fly, I can change my shape, and I can sense auras. Can't do anything cool like shoot beams of destructive light from my hands though, like in other anime." He frowned. "Though, I did break the Egg of Wormwood that let out a big light that destroyed the world, so I guess that counts."

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"Those are some awesome powers, bro," Virgil grinned. "...wait, destroyed the world? Um..."

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Katou blinks, and then realizes who he's talking to, and promptly facepalms. "No, I mean, God had fucked it up a lot. I mean, a lot. And you know, everyone was dying and if I didn't do something, there wouldn't be much hope, so I destroyed it so the Messiah could fix it. Kind of like when you break a CD player you take it apart."

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"...Yeah, your world's fucked up," Virgil said. "No offense or anything. But I'll take my fictional world any day. You know, less with the dying and evil God and universe destroying and more with the Justice League and thwarting evil and awesome Green Lantern action figures."

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Katou laughed. "It really is, there's no offence at all taken. I think I'd rather live in your world, as long as I got to be a superhero too." He blinked. "But, we do have Green Lantern action figures in mine, too."

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"Oh yeah? Cool. Still, you probably don't have the box autographed by Green Lantern!" he bragged, and then paused. "Well, I don't either but I bet could get him to autograph it if I wanted to."

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Katou laughed. "Why would you want to though? You're a superhero yourself! I think the coolness of being a superhero far outways the coolness of getting a Green Lantern action figure that's signatured by him."

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"I think you're seriously underestimating the coolness of Green Lantern," Virgil replied.

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Katou shrugged. "I was never that interested in the Green Lantern," said Katou. "Wolverine, now that was a real Superhero."

He grinned, and then blinked as he realized that Virgil probably knew Superman in real life. "So tell me," he said. "Is Superman really as fat as he is in the comics?"

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"GL has always been a favorite, probably because there aren't that many black superheroes out there. But I can't deny the badassness of Wolverine."

Virgil paused at the question. "Uh, no? Dude, he's Superman, he's not fat, he's like totally ripped." He coughed kind of awkwardly after saying that because um, it wasn't like he noticed whether or not Superman was in good shape it was just that he wore really tight spandex and it was hard not to-- yeah that didn't really make it better.

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"Really?" asked Katou about Superman, because he had to admit that he certainly couldn't think of many black superheroes. Because in the comics, he tends to look something like this (http://www.superdickery.com/stupor/2.html)." He didn't turn into an exact replica of Superman, because in order to change he had to concentrate of every little bit of him - every hair, every freckle - and he hadn't read or watched Superman in a long time. "Forgive my arm," he said, glancing at it. "I don't think I can change it. Batman was pretty fat too in his TV programme."

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"Nah," Virgil replied. "Superman is way better l-- in way better shape. Batman too. Maybe it's just a crappy way of showing that they have really big muscles? I only know one truly tubby superhero, and he isn't here to make fun of."

Virgil made a sadface at that.

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"Is it Fatman?" Katou asked, blinking, and turning back to himself. "And no, in the old Batman TV show, he had like, a pot belly. It was really disgusting."

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"Nooo, it's my partner. Long story. But nah, I can't picture Batman with a potbelly. I think the dude trains with like, ninjas or something. Plus, nothing to keep you in shape like fighting bad guys all the time."

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"Oh, the Gear guy? Huh." He nodded at that. "Yeah, Bruce Wayne trained with ninjas before he became Batman."

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"Cool," Virgil said, and then frowned. "I guess you probably know a lot about him I don't. Look, could you not tell me things? It's not that I'm not curious because I sure as hell am, but he's real in my world and it seems like he likes his secrets...I wouldn't want anyone finding out things about me like that."

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Katou nodded. "Yeah, no problem. I understand, I wouldn't want people finding out about my past either if I didn't know that they know. My lips are sealed." And then he drew his fingers across his lips as if zipping them up.

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"Thanks, man," Virgil said. "Try to-- I don't know how many people here are also from world where we're fictional, but would you mind just keeping this stuff to yourself? Last thing I want is to get anyone from where I'm from hurt."

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"Yeah, no problem," he said. "Our little secret."