{"id":10408,"date":"2014-05-12T21:08:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T21:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/12\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-27\/"},"modified":"2014-05-12T21:08:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T21:08:18","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/12\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-27\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iamthefirechild<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Summer wedges her feet into her sandals, talking half over her shoulder. \u201cI categorically object to anything that popular, on principle. Also, I tried it, and it took ages to \/get\/ anywhere. I object to that even more.\u201d She hitches Helios up a little higher on her hip and slings her bag over the other shoulder. \u201cI\u2019m not actually sure you would \/fit\/ into my car. You\u2019re kinda \u2026 tall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glancing back at him, she grins. \u201cHave you even tried other games? It\u2019s not like many of them differ from the mould much anymore.\u201d Summer gestures him to come along, herding him out the door and juggling the faintly-protesting cat with practised skill. Helios squirms around and wraps his paws around her neck, hugging her tightly. \u201cEasy there, boy,\u201d she soothes. With a green-eyed glance up at Stiles, she adds, \u201cI think you may be driving by default.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The sound Stiles makes is\u00a0mostly<\/em> amused, very wry around the edges. \u201cYou know, objecting to something just because it\u2019s popular is basically just as bad as liking something just because it\u2019s popular. You\u2019re still letting someone else make the decision for you. As for moving around, well. You can get your first mount at like level fifteen, plus flight paths\u2014once you can fly it isn\u2019t nearly that bad. Flight paths are pee breaks anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

He squints confusedly at the notice that he\u2019s \u2018kinda tall\u2019, but doesn\u2019t comment. Instead, he pulls his keys free of one pocket, twirling them around a finger before catching them against his palm again. \u201cGotcha. You don\u2019t put him in a carrier or anything, usually?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

“Bah, logic,” Summer says lightly. “You want me to actually think about \/reasons\/ for not liking it? You’re a heathen.” Hitching Helios up again, she goes on, “if I was doing this by myself he would be in the cage, but he’s happier if he can see out, and that’s hard with the cage. It’ll be fine; don’t worry.”<\/p>\n

After he unlocks the Jeep, she climbs in, easily managing the cat with one hand. It takes some switching of hands, and Helios attempts to get onto the dashboard, but she manages to buckle up and get them both settled before picking up the conversation again. “I’m instinctively put off by anything that’s defended that rabidly. I dunno, it just seems — it’s like the only reason it’s that popular, and the standard that everyone tries to meet, is because it was made by Blizzard. There’s so many other games out there that do things differently and they’re derided \/because\/ they do it differently.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: Summer wedges her feet into her sandals, talking half over her shoulder. \u201cI categorically object to anything that popular, on principle. Also, I tried it, and it took ages to \/get\/ anywhere. I object to that even more.\u201d She hitches Helios up a little higher on her hip and slings her bag over … Continue reading <\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,867,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}