Whine like a baby, now with 500% more drama!

[GasBandit]

Some more gems from last night as they occur to me, while I wait for people to get ready -

Before dinner, the Mom called me over in the presence of the Elder brother and his wife and said something to the effect of "You were so talkative yesterday, and today you've been so quiet! I hope we can help you feel welcome here" etc etc and of course I laid on thick how I felt so welcomed and at home in this emotional abattoir of awkwardness, and she doesn't even let me finish before she formally introduces me to her eldest son and his wife. His wife at least, puts in the effort to be genial but Eldest himself is clearly only posturing for Mom's sake. Once the exchange is over, he goes back to pretending I don't exist. Which is probably the best I could hope for.

At Dinner, the Mom had us all go around and say something we were thankful for, as well as say something that we were specifically thankful for about the person to our left. It was at that moment that it crystallized before my eyes how much nobody wanted to be here. The insincerity and dissembling was so thick you'd think it was fresh off the whale carcass. Nobody wants to get attached to Eldest's wife or new son because, as I explained before, they expect they will be out of their lives by the end of April, if his pattern holds. At least all of the younger brother's family was sitting together so they got some genuine moments out of it.

Another surreal development - the Mom is absolutely riveted by watching Turkish telenovellas (with subtitles of course). Nothing wrong with that, but it's just so out of left field. She says they offer all the melodrama of the mexican ones, but their conservative nature means they're safe to have on with kids around.

 

[HCGLNS]

DC it's Batman.
Marvel, well Taskmaster is okay, but a lot of the ancient marital artists would due well. The gods would struggle adapting for a bit. I think Puck would be an interesting choice, take away his curse and he gets stronger.

 

[Tress]

DC it's Batman.
Marvel, well Taskmaster is okay, but a lot of the ancient marital artists would due well. The gods would struggle adapting for a bit. I think Puck would be an interesting choice, take away his curse and he gets stronger.

To piggyback off of what you’ve said, wouldn’t Shang-Chi be the hands down favorite to win any fight without powers or tech?

 

[Sparhawk]

To piggyback off of what you’ve said, wouldn’t Shang-Chi be the hands down favorite to win any fight without powers or tech?

I think it would be a close fight between him and Iron Fist.

 

[Bubble181]

ancient marital artists

It's that like @Dave ?
Though, I mean, I don't want to insult mrs. Dave, so ik'm not sure just how ancient his marital skills are

 

[mikerc]

DC it's Batman.

DC it's Karate Kid. Batman's good yeah but he's not put a Silver Age Kryptonian in a headlock good, prep time or no prep time.

Also, they've fought twice, 1st time KK won fair & square (although Bats did try & claim a rematch would be different), 2nd time while Batman did win he needed Black Lightning's help to do so (& KK was clearly winning that fight and not taking Bats seriously before BL interfered).