{"id":10452,"date":"2014-05-11T02:02:55","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T02:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/11\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-30\/"},"modified":"2014-05-11T02:02:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T02:02:55","slug":"skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/05\/11\/skinnydefenselessheroism-iamthefirechild-30\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

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There\u2019s a yelp of some kind barely audible through the door, muffled words, and then a little louder, \u201cIt\u2019s open!\u201d When he comes in, Summer is all but crouched at the computer, hair untidy and wholly unbound down her back and practically to the floor. She\u2019s dressed, but that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

“Oh, hel\u2014\/shit\/. Shit shitshit<\/em>shit fuck get off me no \/ARGH\/! Who the hell puts level 49s in an area with level 40 quests, seriously, do these designers not \/talk\/ to each other!\u201d She taps the keys so fast the clicking is continuous, and on the screen a cat-eared, pixellated figure is completely surrounded by enemies.<\/p>\n

And dead. Summer throws her hands up in the air, clicks the respawn button, and groans. \u201cOf \/course\/ I was bound all the way across the fucking \/world\/, of course I was.\u201d She pushes herself up from the chair and turns to face Stiles, whereupon her eyes widen. \u201c\/Stiles\/. You didn\u2019t tell me it had bruised that badly.\u201d She reaches out as if to touch it. \u201cDoes it hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stiles shoulders the door open, and then creeps into the apartment, eyebrows raising silently when he finds himself confronted with the true length of Summer\u2019s hair.\u00a0That\u2019s a lot of hair<\/em>. He\u2019s too curious, however, and ends up picking his way closer, peering at the screen as if he\u2019s trying to figure out which game she\u2019s playing.<\/p>\n

But he\u2019s looking at a respawn prompt, and Stiles can\u2019t quite stop himself from snorting, the sound somehow slightly\u00a0sympathetic<\/em>. \u201cSometimes there\u2019s not enough defensive cooldowns in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

He blinks a second later, and then figures out that she\u2019s talking about his\u00a0face<\/em>, and he makes a dismissive sound with his lips, blowing air through them in a stereotypical-horse-noise. \u201cPffft, this is\u00a0nothing<\/em>, really, don\u2019t worry about it. Hardly know it\u2019s there. Gives me\u00a0street cred<\/em>, not a big deal.\u201d
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“Mages don’t get defensive cooldowns,” Summer replies, absently, still peering at his face. It’s so purple and blue-black, it \/must\/ hurt, and he got it on her behalf; she wipes out the pain from it on principle. It’s no being inside his mind, so it’s okay, she reasons. Helios appears from underneath the desk to rub his face against Stiles’ leg.<\/p>\n

“Do you play?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

skinnydefenselessheroism: iamthefirechild: There\u2019s a yelp of some kind barely audible through the door, muffled words, and then a little louder, \u201cIt\u2019s open!\u201d When he comes in, Summer is all but crouched at the computer, hair untidy and wholly unbound down her back and practically to the floor. She\u2019s dressed, but that\u2019s about it. “Oh, hel\u2014\/shit\/. … 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\/10452"}],"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=10452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}